Dick Eastman's TRUTHBAZOOKA -- Good-bye 9-11 Cover-up!

[Dick Eastman]

1. Energy Task force was and illegal secret industry price-fixing
arrangement fostered by corrupt government that should have been enforcing
anti-trust legislation

2. Broken US troops face bigger enemy at home

3. Mercenaries working for blood money, having no opportunity for
productive work in U.S., Britain, South Africa -- mercenaries, the most
hated and resented enemy of the American Revolution -- is the symbol of
what all Americans who know what America used to stand for detest and oppose
with every fiber of their being.

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Judge Orders Release of Energy Documents (washingtonpost.com)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42170-2004Apr1.html
washingtonpost.com > Nation > Wires

Judge Orders Release of Energy Documents
By ANNE GEARAN
The Associated Press
Thursday, April 1, 2004; 1:19 PM

WASHINGTON - A federal judge told the government to release more documents
related to a White House task force that met behind closed doors to develop
a national energy policy.

Judicial Watch, a government watchdog group, and the environmental group the
Sierra Club want the records as part of an inquiry into whether energy
executives and lobbyists helped draft a policy friendly to their industries
early in President Bush's first year in office.

The administration maintains that only government employees were members of
the task force, which disbanded in 2001.

Judicial Watch has alleged that former Enron chairman Ken Lay and lobbyists
Mark Racicot, Haley Barbour and Thomas Kuhn may have participated.

The order Wednesday from U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman covers material
that the Energy Department, Interior Department and other federal agencies
had refused to produce since a similar federal court ruling two years ago.

The latest order could cover some material that is the subject of a separate
lawsuit now before the Supreme Court. That case also involves documents
about the inner workings of the energy task force headed by Vice President
Dick Cheney and housed in his office.

Cheney was also ordered to produce some documents, and appealed that part of
the dispute to the high court, which will hear arguments next month.

The Cheney case was the subject of recent headlines because of a hunting
trip that Cheney took with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia weeks after
the court had agreed to hear Cheney's appeal. Scalia rebuffed a request that
he step aside, saying he had no conflict of interest.

Friedman's order deals with agencies that are subject to the federal Freedom
of Information Act. Federal agencies must turn over more documents by June 1
or explain to the judge why they cannot, Friedman said.

The Energy Department and other agencies have turned over some 40,000
documents since another federal judge ordered them to do so in 2002, but
have withheld an estimated 100,000 additional documents that may be relevant
to the Judicial Watch-Sierra Club lawsuit, Judicial Watch President Tom
Fitton said Thursday.

It is not clear how many of those documents might be covered by Friedman's
order. He agreed with agency lawyers that in some instances certain
documents were exempt from the FOIA request or may not exist at all.

The judge disagreed, however, with their contention that records of
communication between federal agencies and the task force are automatically
exempt. He also ordered release of records from the task force's director,
then a civil servant on loan to the task force from another government job.

Those records will probably prove revealing, Fitton said.

"This is a brushback to the government," Fitton said. "I read it to mean we
will finally get documents from the heart of the energy task force."

On the Net:

Opinion and order from U.S. District
Court:http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/01-981c.pdf

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Broken US troops face bigger enemy at home

A stretched Pentagon is sending unfit soldiers back to Iraq long before
they are ready to serve again

Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Saturday April 3, 2004
The Guardian

All Jason Gunn ever wanted was to be a soldier. He put on the uniform
three days after high school graduation, and served six years with
distinction. But in the last real conversation he had with his mother he
swore he would never go back to Iraq.

The army specialist came within inches of death last November 15, when the
Humvee he was driving hit a roadside bomb, killing his sergeant. The entire
left side of Gunn's body was splattered with shrapnel, his elbow was
shattered and, as he lay in the US military hospital bed in Germany, he was
tortured by nightmares.

Late on March 23, Gunn told his mother, Pat, that his commanders were
putting pressure on him to return to Iraq, but there was no way he was
getting on that plane. A few hours later, he was airborne. This week, Gunn's
distraught mother, who is herself a navy veteran, received a first official
response to her demands to know why a soldier, who was being treated by
military doctors for combat stress, was sent back to the war.

The note, which acknowledged Gunn suffered post-traumatic stress, said:
"After discussion of his case it was determined ... this may be in his best
interest mentally to overcome his fear by facing it. Therefore, he has been
cleared for redeployment."

Gunn is not the only broken soldier being sent to battle. The Guardian has
uncovered more than a dozen instances in which ill or injured soldiers were
sent to war by a US military whose resources have been stretched near to
breaking point by the simultaneous fronts in Afghanistan and Iraq. In its
investigation, the Guardian learned of soldiers who were deployed with
almost wilful disregard to their medical histories, and with the most
cursory physical examinations. Soldiers went to war with chronic illnesses
such as coronary disease, mental illness, arthritis, diabetes and the
nervous condition, Tourette's syndrome, or after undergoing recent surgery.

One sergeant major was shipped out two months after neck surgery, despite
orders from his military doctor for six months' rest. "The nurse told me to
put my hands above my head and said you are good to go," he told the
Guardian. A female supply sergeant said she was sent to Kuwait under medical
advice not to walk more than half a mile at a time, or carry more than 50lb.
Both had to be medically evacuated within weeks; the sergeant major required
surgery on his return.

In some cases, the wounded were recycled with alarming speed. A mechanic,
who suffered brain damage last June when his vehicle was hit by a suicide
bus, was sent back to Iraq in October despite reported blurred vision and
memory loss. He returned with his unit last month, and medical evaluations
showed he had continued bleeding from the original head injury.

In Gunn's case, the determination to return him to battle is puzzling. His
unit, the 1-37 Armoured Division, is due to return from Iraq in May. "They
are sending an injured soldier back there for seven weeks. I can't for the
life of me imagine why," says Ms Gunn. "They say they want him to go back
and face his fears, but I just keep thinking what this whole thing will do
to a person. What are they going to send home to us? Someone who is going
to be on disability for the rest of their lives?"

All of the injured or ill soldiers knew of other unfit troops who were sent
to Iraq last year, or have recently been redeployed. Some, who like Gunn
suffered combat stress after sustaining serious injury, came under enormous
pressure from their commanders to return to Iraq. Equally disturbing, a
number of returning soldiers declared unfit for service told the Guardian
the military had tried to force through their
discharge to take them off the benefit rolls.

Such soldiers are almost never seen or heard from in a war now entering its
second year, but their numbers are growing. The Pentagon's senior health
official told Congress this week that the military had carried out 18,000
evacuations from Iraq of wounded or ill soldiers.

Disability claims

Meanwhile, 15,000 soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan have filed for
disability claims. Some 12,000 have sought medical treatment from facilities
run by the department of veterans affairs. About 4,600 have sought
psychological counselling. That demand threatens to overwhelm a veterans'
healthcare system that has received no new funding since the Iraq war began.

The drain on combat-ready soldiers - and the costs of carrying those damaged
by this war - are becoming logistical nightmares for military
planners. The Pentagon has already been forced to extraordinary measures.
Last year, it locked up the service contracts of National
Guard members and army reservists, preventing them from leaving the military
when their time is up.

Gunn's commanders seem adamant on keeping him. On Wednesday, Ms Gunn was
forwarded a statement from her son. "It is my wish to be redeployed with my
unit to finish my tour of duty with my unit here in Iraq," the statement
said. "I feel that I am able to complete my mission here as well as any
other duties assigned to me while on current deployment." It also said he
had discontinued his prescription. Ms Gunn is convinced the statement was
coerced.

Veterans' advocates say Gunn's saga reflects a pattern in the Pentagon's
dealings with casualties of the war: send them back to battle fast or get
them off the military's books before their ailments drive costs up. "This
is a particularly stressful time for the military because they have been
committed far far beyond their capability, and that is the reason there is
such pressure," says Stan Goff, a veterans' activist and writer. "The
numbers are becoming more and more important. They have got to keep more
bodies in theatre."

Battle readiness barely registers. Veronica Torres, a supply sergeant with
27 years service, was sent to Kuwait four months after toe surgery, and with
previous injuries that restricted her movement. "Could I run? No. Could I
jump in and out of trucks? No. Could I march a mile or two? No," she says.

She was there less than a week before reporting to sick bay. After being
medically evacuated last July, she was diagnosed with diabetes and
fibromyalgia.

Others who were evacuated for injury or illness say their real war started
on their return - with the military bureaucracy.

Gerry Mosley, 49, a first sergeant in a transportation unit, was injured
jumping off a truck that came under fire. By the time he was medically
retired on March 17, he was taking 56 pills a day for shoulder, back and
spinal conditions, post-traumatic stress disorder, and Parkinson's which was
not diagnosed when he was shipped out.

Mosley also developed an abiding anger against an institution he served for
31 years, accusing the army of trying to shirk responsibility for his
condition now he was surplus to requirements.

"I went to Iraq and fought the enemy, not knowing I was going to come back
to the United States and fight a bigger enemy," he says.

Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
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The USA has never ever acknowledged with Sincerity the sacrifice soldiers
make for the evil pursuits of their Government's Foreign Policies!! Just
Human fodder!!
Having spent time at home with their families, these soldiers who have been
exposed to the DU's in Iraq are successfully passing their contaminations to
their own family members and their unborn children.

Mercenaries working for blood money, having no opportunity for productive
work in U.S., Britain, South Africa -- mercenaries, the most hated and
resented enemy of the American Revolution -- is the symbol of what all
Americans who know what America used to stand for detest and oppose with
every fiber of their being.

U.S. Mercenaries are typical of the mind-set of global privatization of
tyranny that must be destroyed by united humanity world opinion and
in-their-face Gandhi mass opposition.

PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST DO NOT WELCOME MERCENARIES WHO ARE WORKING FOR
BLOOD MONEY!! THEIR VERY PRESENCE IS AN INVITATION TO VIOLENCE -- their
ideal is the Gurkha, ingnorant people selected for the cherished capacity to
kill without remorse and be killed out of shear stupidity and resignation to
the notion that life is not worth living anyway except to please whomever
happens to be above them and passing out medals and providing warm rations
and indulgence in the professional mercenaries cheap vice. Great at
sneaking up and cutting throats -- of keeping on killing until enough of
them is blown away until they are dead -- that is what globalism wants
your sons and daughters to be -- and that is what they will have when they
perfect their mass-psychology behavioral-control techniques.

Subject: Britian's Secret Army in Iraq + merceniaries from Australia, S
Africa

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=505826

Britain's secret army in Iraq: thousands of armed security men who answer
to nobody

By Robert Fisk in Baghdad
Severin Carrell in London
28 March 2004
So many British security firms are cashing in on the violence in Iraq that
armed private security men now outnumber most of the national army
contingents in the country.

Thousands of former soldiers and police officers from Britain, the US,
Australia and South Africa are earning wages as high as £600 a day to
protect Western officials, oil company executives andconstruction firmbosses
in Iraq. The SAS is said to be suffering an unprecedented loss of personnel
as its highly trained soldiers are lured by lucrative private security work.

With business of around £1bn, British companies are estimated to have the
biggest share of private security contracts in Iraq. According to experts,
between 1,200 and 1,500 former British soldiers and police officers,
including former SAS, Marines, paratroopers and RUC officers, are workingin
Iraq. Some privately estimate that the total number of foreigners working
for
private security companies now exceeds the 8,700 British troops there.

Apart from the major US and British companies, dozens of small firms have
set up shop in Iraq. Former British and American special forces membersspeak
of their concern that smaller firms are hiring personnel with
littleexperience with firearms and have no interest in setting out the
circumstances in which their employees may use their weapons.

The presence of thousands of armed Westerners and others, including Gurkhas
and Fijians, says much about America's fear of military casualties.
Securityfirms are escorting convoys. Armed men from an Americancompany are
guardingUS troops at night inside the former presidential palace where Paul
Bremer, the American proconsul, has his headquarters. When a US helicopter
crashed near Fallujah last year, an American security firm took control of
the area and began rescue operations.

Details of the number of companies here - there may be as many as 400 - are
further complicated by the number of security firms that are subcontracted
by larger companies on a daily or weekly basis. Larger companies such as
Control Risks complain that many are unregistered and uninsured.

Much of the money being earned by British companies is coming from the
British taxpayer. The Independent on Sunday has learnt that the Foreign
Office and Department for International Development have spent nearly £25m
on hiring private bodyguards, armed escorts and security advisers to
protect their civil servants. That figure is set to increase sharply in
July when
sovereignty is handed over to an Iraqi administration.

The largest contract is with Control Risks, which has earned £23.5m. It
employs about 120 staff to protect about 150 British officials and
contractors.
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HUNDREDS OF MOSSAD AGENTS RUNNING WILD IN AMERICA!

We talked at length about the five Israeli "movers", i.e. Mossad agents, who
were arrested and placed in solitary confinement after they were caught
celebrating the 9-11 horror show. We also reviewed how the Israeli owner of
Urban Moving Systems - Dominick Suter - then suddenly abandoned his "moving
company" and fled for Israel on 9-14. But there were still more Israeli
"movers" in America whose actions raise serious suspicions.

In October of 2001, three more Israeli "movers" were stopped in Plymouth, PA
because of their suspicious behavior. These "movers" were seen dumping
furniture near a restaurant dumpster! When the restaurant manager approached
the driver, a "Middle Eastern" man later identified as Moshe Elmakias fled
the scene. (151) The manager made note of the truck's sign which read
"Moving Systems Incorporated" and called the police. When the police spotted
the truck, two other Israelis - Ayelet Reisler and Ron Katar began acting
suspiciously. (152) The Plymouth police searched the truck and found a
video. The Israelis were taken into custody and the video tape was played at
the police station. The video revealed footage of Chicago with zoomed in
shots of the Sears Tower. (153) The police quickly alerted the FBI and it
was also discovered that the Israelis had falsified travel logs and phony
paperwork on them. (154) They were also unable to provide a name and
telephone number for the customer that they claimed to have been working
for. These Israelis were up to some sort of dirty business, and you can be
sure it had nothing to do with moving furniture.

On October 10, 2001, CNN made a brief mention of a foiled terrorist bomb
plot in the Mexican Parliament building. They promised to bring any further
developments of this story to their viewers, but the incident was never
heard of again in America. But the story appeared in bold headlines on the
front page of the major Mexican newspapers (155) and was also posted on the
official website of the Mexican Justice Department. (156) Two terrorist
suspects were apprehended in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies. Caught
red-handed, they had in their possession a high powered gun, nine hand
grenades, and C-4 plastic explosives (great stuff for demolishing
buildings!) (157) Within days, this blockbuster story not only disappeared
from the Mexican press, but the terrorists were released and deported! The
two terrorists were Salvador Gerson Sunke and Sar ben Zui. Can you guess
what their ethnicity was? Grson Sunke was a Mexican jew and Zui was a
colonel with the Israeli special forces. (158) Can you say "Mossad?" The
story in El Diario de Mexico went on to reveal that the Zionist terrorists
had fake Pakistani passports on them. (159) Can you say "false flag
operation?" The probable motive of this particular botched terrorist
operation was to involve oil rich Mexico in the "War on Terrorism". (The War
on Israel's enemies would be a more accurate description). Mexico is no
military power, but the psychological trauma of an "Arab" attack on Mexico
would surely have induced Mexico to provide unlimited cheap oil to her
American "protector". With cheap oil flowing to America at rock bottom
prices from Mexico, the US could better afford to break off relations with
the oil rich Arabs in general and Saudi Arabia in particular. That's why the
conspiracy chose so many Saudi identities to steal for the 9-11 operation..

In November of 2001, 6 more suspicious Israelis were detained in an
unspecified mid-eastern state. They had in their possession box cutters, oil
pipeline plans, and nuclear power plant plans. (160) The local police called
in the Feds and Immigration officials took over the scene and released the
men without calling the FBI. The Jerusalem Post, (161) the Miami Herald,
(162) and the Times of London (163) all carried this amazing story and all
revealed how furious FBI officials were that these suspects with nuclear
power plant plans were allowed to go free. Of course, the corruption riddled
FBI would only have caved into Zionist pressure from the Justice Department'
s Criminal Division boss, Michael Chertoff, and also from the ADL's
"partner", FBI boss Robert Mueller - who would no doubt have found a way to
release those Israeli terror suspects too.

In December, 2001, the Los Angeles Times published the story of how two
jewish terrorists were arrested by the FBI for plotting to blow up the
office of US Congressman of Arab descent - Darrell Issa (R-CA), and a
California mosque. (164) Irv Rubin and Earl Kruger of the Jewish Defense
League (JDL) were charged with conspiracy to destroy a building by means of
explosives. This story got brief national coverage but quickly disappeared
too. These Zionists sure love blowing up buildings and killing innocent
people don't they?

In May of 2002, yet another moving van was pulled over in Oak Harbor,
Washington near the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station. Fox News reported that
the van was pulled over for speeding shortly after midnight. The passengers
told the police they were delivering furniture, but because it was so late
at night, the police weren't buying the story. A bomb sniffing dog was
brought in and the dog detected the presence of TNT and RDX plastic
explosives in the truck (great stuff for demolishing buildings!) Both Fox
News (165) and the Ha'aretz newspaper of Israel (166) reported that the two
"movers" were Israelis.

According to FOX news, throughout late 2000 and 2001, a total of 200 Israeli
spies were arrested. (167) It was the largest spy ring to be uncovered in
the history of the US. The Washington Post also reported that some of these
Israelis were arrested in connection with the 9-11 investigation. It was the
largest spy ring to be uncovered in the history of the US. The Washington
Post also reported that some of these Israelis were arrested in connection
with the 9-11 investigation. (168) US. Carl Cameron of FOX News Channel did
a excellent four part, nationally televised, series of investigations into
this blockbuster scandal. But FOX pulled the investigative series after
Zionist groups complained to FOX executives. FOX even went so far as to
remove the written transcripts of the series from its website! In it's place
was posted a chilling, Orwellian message which reads: "This story no longer
exists." (169) Fortunately for the sake of history, the FOX transcripts were
copied onto to many other websites and all four parts are available for
your review. (see footnotes.)

The FOX series and other mainstream news media sources revealed that many of
these Israelis were army veterans with electronics and explosives expertise.
Many of them failed lie detector tests. FBI agents told FOX that some of
their past investigations were compromised because suspects had been tipped
off by Israeli wiretapping specialists. It was discovered that Israeli
companies such as Comverse and Amdocs have the capability to tap American
telephones (great for blackmailing all those wife-cheating politicians!) FBI
agents also told FOX they believed the Israelis had advance knowledge of the
9-11 attacks. (which certainly would explain why no Israelis died in the
WTC) Still another US official informed FOX that some of the detained
Israelis actually had links to 9-11, but he refused to describe the nature
of those links. The FBI official told FOX's Carl Cameron:

"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you
about the evidence that has been gathered. It is classified information."
(170)

Then there was that small army of Israeli "art students" who were arrested
for trying to sneak into secured US Federal buildings and staking out 36
Department of Defense sites. Some of these suspicious "art students" even
showed up at the homes of Federal employees. (171) Ron Hatchett, a
Department of Defense analyst, told Channel 11, KHOU news in Houston that he
believed that the "art students" were gathering intelligence for future
attacks. Here's an excerpt from the October 1, 2001 KHOU investigative
report by Anna Werner:

"Could federal buildings in Houston and other cities be under surveillance
by foreign groups? That's what some experts are asking after federal law
enforcement and security officials - nationally and in Houston - described
for the 11 News Defenders a curious pattern of behavior by a group of people
claiming to be Israeli art students."

"Hatchett says they could be doing what he would be doing if he were a
terrorist, sizing up the situation: "We need to know what are the entrances
to this particular building. We need to know what are the surveillance
cameras that are operating. We need to know how many guards are at this
operation, when do they take breaks?" Says Hatchett: This is not a bunch of
kids selling artwork."

"A former Defense Department analyst, Hatchett believes groups may be
gathering intelligence for possible future attacks. "Some organization,
thinking in terms of a potential retaliation against the U.S. government
could be scouting out potential targets and . looking for targets that would
be vulnerable."

And a source tells the Defenders of another federal memo, stating that
besides Houston and Dallas, the same thing has happened at sites in New
York, Florida, and six other states, and even more worrisome, at 36
sensitive Department of Defense sites. "One defense site you can explain,"
says Hatchett, "well that was just a serendipitous, .... Thirty-six? That's
a pattern." (172)

A Federal memo stated that these art students may have had ties to an
"Islamic terror group". (173) Remember the bombing of the King David Hotel
in 1946, and how the "Arab terrorists" were actually Irgun terrorists?
Remember the Zionist terrorists caught in Mexico with Arab passports?
remember the official motto of the Mossad - By Way of Deception Thou Shalt
Do War. Are you getting the picture? Can you say "false flag operations."?

Before his excellent work was silenced, FOX's Cameron reported this amazing
bit of information:

"Investigators within the DEA, INS, and FBI have all told FOX News that to
pursue or even suggest Israeli spying is considered career suicide." (174)

(emphasis added)

Did you catch that? If an investigator dares to mention Israeli spying, he
has committed career suicide! And if a journalist like FOX's Cameron dares
to bring this scandal to light, he is told to shut his mouth. If they
persist, they may even be called "anti-Semitic" - a label which has served
as the kiss of death for many a career. This means that Zionist Mafia can do
whatever it wants, whenever it wants, and however it wants - including
orchestrating, financing, executing, and covering up the true story of
events in the Middle East, the 9-11 massacre, and the ensuing "War on
Terrorism" (war on Israel's enemies).

Now do you remember the Mossad's "warning" about the 200 "Al-Qaeda
terrorists" said to have been preparing major attacks in the US? (175) At
the time of this writing, we are one year into the largest investigation in
American history, and not one of these 200 "terrorists" has yet to be
uncovered. (176) But 200 Israeli spies were uncovered, among them many
military members, electronics experts, wiretapping and phone tapping
specialists, and explosives experts with the skill to bring down tall
buildings. (177) Logic and common sense leads to the conclusion that the
"200 Al Qaeda terrorists" were in reality, 200 Zionist terrorists sent to
frame the Arabs for terrorist attacks and drag America into a war. History
repeats itself. But who will teach this history to the American people when
the Zionists control the information industry? The Zionist Mafia and their
ass-kissing careerist henchmen in media, government, academia, and business
have all of the bases covered.

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"The Cause of Israel is the Cause of America"
By SEN. JOHN KERRY
http://www.counterpunch.org/kerry02172004.html

Editors' Note: We offer this unfettered pledge of fealty to Israel by John
Kerry as yet more evidence that there's scarcely a dime's worth of
difference between the major political candidates of both parties on the
life-and-death issues of our time. AC/JSC
My first trip to Israel made real for me all I'd believed about Israel.

I was allowed to fly an air force jet from the Ovda Airbase. It was then
that Israeli insecurity about narrow borders became very real to me. In a
matter of minutes, I came close to violating the airspace of Egypt, Jordan,
and Syria. From that moment on, I felt as Israelis do: The promise of peace
must be secure before the Promised Land is secure on a thin margin of land.

Back on the ground on that first trip, I toured the country from Kibbutz
Mizgav Am to Masada to the Golan. I stood in the very shelter in a kibbutz
in the north where children were attacked and I looked at launching sites
and impact zones for Katousha rockets. I was enthralled by Tel Aviv, moved
by Jerusalem and inspired by standing above Capernaum, looking out over the
Sea of Galilee, where I read aloud the Sermon on The Mount. I met people of
stunning commitment, who honestly and vigorously debated the issues as I
watched and listened intently. I went as a friend by conviction; I returned
a friend at the deepest personal level.

As the only true democracy in the Middle East, Israel has both the burden
and the glory of a vigorous public square. We as Americans must be the
truest and best kind of ally --- forthright enough to say what we think ---
and steadfast enough to stay the course in hard passages as well as easy
days.

Herzl's famous words --- "If you will it, it is no dream" --- signify the
promise and the greatest power of Israel --- and the hope that a fair and
secure peace can be achieved. We must be committed to support Israel in the
exacting, essential search for that dream.

I will never forget a moment on top of Masada, when I stood on that great
plateau where the oath of new soldiers used to be sworn against the desert
backdrop and the test of history. I had spent several hours with Yadin Roman
debating whether or not Josephus Flavius was correct in his account of the
siege --- whether these really were the last Jews fighting for survival ---
whether they had escaped since no remains were ever found. After our journey
through history --- which we resolved with a vote in favor of history as
recorded --- we stood as a group at the end of the cliff and altogether we
shouted across the chasm --- across the desert --- Am Yisrael Chai. And
across the silence we listened as voices came back --- faintly we heard the
echo of the souls of those who perished --- Am Yisrael Chai. The State of
Israel lives. The people of Israel live.

In this difficult time we must again reaffirm we are enlisted for the
duration --- and reaffirm our belief that the cause of Israel must be the
cause of America --- and the cause of people of conscience everywhere.

John Kerry is a Massachusetts Senator and a Democratic Candidate for the
Presidency of the United States. Article is originally appeared in the Brown
Students for Israel publication "Perspectives: An Israel Review"

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Kucinich is right on target! Democracy wants in on the Democratic
y -- if the DNC and Kerry don't mind -- and also if they do

> I am very thankful that Kucinich is leading the democratic party by
staying
> in the race. If Kerry doesn't change his tune; there is NO way that he can
> beat Bush. Kerry voted with Bush on all the important issues in this race.
> He voted for the war, for the Patriot Act, and he supports NAFTA which has
> eliminated millions of jobs in America. Kucinich is bringing people into
> the party that hasn't been active in the Democratic Party before. If the
> Democratic National Committee and John Kerry are smart, they will embrace
> Kucinich and what he stands for. The problem here is not that Kucinich is
> trying to cause disunity, the problem is that the Democratic Party is no
> longer the party of the people. It has become the party of the
> corporations. Millions of people just plain don't vote because of the fact
> that politicans don't do anything for them. If the Democrats are going to
> win the White House this year, they need to embrace the ideas of Kucinich.
> The corporate media labeled him unelectable. But Kucinich is right on
target
> with the direction that this country needs. Dennis Kucinich is a man of
> honor and he would be a fanastic president, but since our media has chosen
> Kerry by brain-washing Americans, I hope that Kerry and the DNC are smart
> enough to get back to the roots of the democratic party. Kerry only has
> speeches and promises, Kucinich has taken action on positive ideas for
this
> county. Kucnich is trying to get the party back on track; I admire him for
> his efforts;and I will continue to work hard to spread his message of
HOPE!
> I hope that Kerry embraces Kucinich before it is too late to win.
>

A Look at The 'Powerful Jewish Lobby'
by Mark Weber

For decades Israel has violated well established precepts of international
law and defied numerous United Nations resolutions in its occupation of
conquered lands, in extra-judicial killings, and in its repeated acts of
military aggression.

Most of the world regards Israel's policies, and especially its oppression
of Palestinians, as outrageous and criminal. This international consensus is
reflected, for example, in numerous UN resolutions condemning Israel, which
have been approved with overwhelming majorities.

"The whole world," United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan recently
said, "is demanding that Israel withdraw [from occupied Palestinian
territories]. I don't think the whole world ... can be wrong."[note 1]

Only in the United States do politicians and the media still fervently
support Israel and its policies. For decades the US has provided Israel with
crucial military, diplomatic and financial backing, including more than $3
billion each year in aid.

Why is the U.S. the only remaining bastion of support for Israel?

Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, who was awarded the 1984 Nobel Peace
Prize, has candidly identified the reason: "The Israeli government is placed
on a pedestal [in the US], and to criticize it is to be immediately dubbed
anti-Semitic," he said. "People are scared in this country, to say wrong is
wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful -- very powerful."[note 2]

Bishop Tutu spoke the truth. Although Jews make up only about three percent
of the US population, they wield immense power and influence -- vastly more
than any other ethnic or religious group.

As Jewish author and political science professor Benjamin Ginsberg has
pointed out:[note 3]

Since the 1960s, Jews have come to wield considerable influence in American
economic, cultural, intellectual and political life. Jews played a central
role in American finance during the 1980s, and they were among the chief
beneficiaries of that decade's corporate mergers and reorganizations. Today,
though barely two percent of the nation's population is Jewish, close to
half its billionaires are Jews. The chief executive officers of the three
major television networks and the four largest film studios are Jews, as are
the owners of the nation's largest newspaper chain and the most influential
single newspaper, the New York Times ... The role and influence of Jews in
American politics is equally marked ...

Jews are only three percent of the nation's population and comprise eleven
percent of what this study defines as the nation's elite. However, Jews
constitute more than 25 percent of the elite journalists and publishers,
more than 17 percent of the leaders of important voluntary and public
interest organizations, and more than 15 percent of the top ranking civil
servants.

Stephen Steinlight, former Director of National Affairs of the American
Jewish Committee, similarly notes the "disproportionate political power" of
Jews, which is "pound for pound the greatest of any ethnic/cultural group in
America." He goes on to explain that "Jewish economic influence and power
are disproportionately concentrated in Hollywood, television, and in the
news industry."[note 4]

Two well-known Jewish writers, Seymour Lipset and Earl Raab, pointed out in
their 1995 book, Jews and the New American Scene:[note 5]

During the last three decades Jews [in the United States] have made up 50
percent of the top two hundred intellectuals ... 20 percent of professors at
the leading universities ... 40 percent of partners in the leading law firms
in New York and Washington ... 59 percent of the directors, writers, and
producers of the 50 top-grossing motion pictures from 1965 to 1982, and 58
percent of directors, writers, and producers in two or more primetime
television series.

The influence of American Jewry in Washington, notes the Israeli daily
Jerusalem Post, is "far disproportionate to the size of the community,
Jewish leaders and U.S. official acknowledge. But so is the amount of money
they contribute to [election] campaigns." One member of the influential
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations "estimated
Jews alone had contributed 50 percent of the funds for [President Bill]
Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign."[note 6]

"It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and
prominence in popular culture," acknowledges Michael Medved, a well-known
Jewish author and film critic. "Any list of the most influential production
executives at each of the major movie studios will produce a heavy majority
of recognizably Jewish names."[note 7]

One person who has carefully studied this subject is Jonathan J. Goldberg,
now editor of the influential Jewish community weekly Forward. In his 1996
book, Jewish Power, he wrote:[note 8]

In a few key sectors of the media, notably among Hollywood studio
executives, Jews are so numerically dominant that calling these businesses
Jewish-controlled is little more than a statistical observation ...

Hollywood at the end of the twentieth century is still an industry with a
pronounced ethnic tinge. Virtually all the senior executives at the major
studios are Jews. Writers, producers, and to a lesser degree directors are
disproportionately Jewish -- one recent study showed the figure as high as
59 percent among top-grossing films.

The combined weight of so many Jews in one of America's most lucrative and
important industries gives the Jews of Hollywood a great deal of political
power. They are a major source of money for Democratic candidates.

Reflecting their role in the American media, Jews are routinely portrayed as
high-minded, altruistic, trustworthy, compassionate, and deserving of
sympathy and support. While millions of Americans readily accept such
stereotyped imagery, not everyone is impressed. "I am very angry with some
of the Jews," complained actor Marlon Brando during a 1996 interview. "They
know perfectly well what their responsibilities are ... Hollywood is run by
Jews. It's owned by Jews, and they should have a greater sensitivity about
the issue of people who are suffering."[note 9]

A Well-Entrenched Factor
The intimidating power of the "Jewish lobby" is not a new phenomenon, but
has long been an important factor in American life.

In 1941 Charles Lindbergh spoke about the danger of Jewish power in the
media and government. The shy 39-year-old -- known around the world for his
epic 1927 New York to Paris flight, the first solo trans-Atlantic
crossing -- was addressing 7,000 people in Des Moines, Iowa, on September
11, 1941, about the dangers of US involvement in the war then raging in
Europe. The three most important groups pressing America into war, he
explained, were the British, the Jews, and the Roosevelt administration.

Of the Jews, he said: "Their greatest danger to this country lies in their
large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio,
and our government." Lindbergh went on:

... For reasons which are understandable from their viewpoint as they are
inadvisable from ours, for reasons which are not American, [they] wish to
involve us in the war. We cannot blame them for looking out for what they
believe to be their own interests, but we must also look out for ours. We
cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead
our country to destruction.

In 1978, Jewish American scholar Alfred M. Lilienthal wrote in his detailed
study, The Zionist Connection:[note 10]

How has the Zionist will been imposed on the American people?... It is the
Jewish connection, the tribal solidarity among themselves and the amazing
pull on non-Jews, that has molded this unprecedented power ... In the larger
metropolitan areas, the Jewish-Zionist connection thoroughly pervades
affluent financial, commercial, social, entertainment, and art circles.

As a result of the Jewish grip on the media, wrote Lilienthal, news coverage
of the Israel-Palestine conflict in American television, newspapers and
magazines is relentlessly sympathetic to Israel. This is manifest, for
example, in the misleading portrayal of Palestinian "terrorism." As
Lilienthal put it: "One-sided reportage on terrorism, in which cause is
never related to effect, was assured because the most effective component of
the Jewish connection is probably that of media control."

One-Sided 'Holocaust' History
The Jewish hold on cultural and academic life has had a profound impact on
how Americans look at the past. Nowhere is the well entrenched Judeocentric
view of history more obvious than in the "Holocaust" media campaign, which
focuses on the fate of Jews in Europe during World War II.

Israeli Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer, a professor at Hebrew University
in Jerusalem, has remarked:[note 11]

Whether presented authentically or inauthentically, in accordance with the
historical facts or in contradiction to them, with empathy and understanding
or as monumental kitsch, the Holocaust has become a ruling symbol of our
culture ... Hardly a month goes by without a new TV production, a new film,
a new drama, new books, prose or poetry, dealing with the subject, and the
flood is increasing rather than abating.

Non-Jewish suffering simply does not merit comparable attention.
Overshadowed in the focus on Jewish victimization are, for example, the tens
of millions of victims of America's World War II ally, Stalinist Russia,
along with the tens of millions of victims of China's Maoist regime, as well
as the 12 to 14 million Germans, victims of the flight and expulsion of
1944-1949, of whom some two million lost their lives.

The well-financed Holocaust media and "educational" campaign is crucially
important to the interests of Israel. Paula Hyman, a professor of modern
Jewish history at Yale University, has observed: "With regard to Israel, the
Holocaust may be used to forestall political criticism and suppress debate;
it reinforces the sense of Jews as an eternally beleaguered people who can
rely for their defense only upon themselves. The invocation of the suffering
endured by the Jews under the Nazis often takes the place of rational
argument, and is expected to convince doubters of the legitimacy of current
Israeli government policy."[note 12]

Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish scholar who has taught political science at
City University of New York (Hunter College), says in his book, The
Holocaust Industry, that "invoking The Holocaust" is "a ploy to delegitimize
all criticism of Jews."[note 13] "By conferring total blamelessness on Jews,
the Holocaust dogma immunizes Israel and American Jewry from legitimate
censure ... Organized Jewry has exploited the Nazi holocaust to deflect
criticism of Israel's and its own morally indefensible policies." He writes
of the brazen "shakedown" of Germany, Switzerland and other countries by
Israel and organized Jewry "to extort billions of dollars." "The Holocaust,"
Finkelstein predicts, "may yet turn out to be the 'greatest robbery in the
history of mankind'."

Jews in Israel feel free to act brutally against Arabs, writes Israeli
journalist Ari Shavit, "believing with absolute certitude that now, with the
White House, the Senate and much of the American media in our hands, the
lives of others do not count as much as our own."[note 14]

Admiral Thomas Moorer, former Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has
spoken with blunt exasperation about the Jewish-Israeli hold on the United
States:[note 15]

I've never seen a President -- I don't care who he is -- stand up to them
[the Israelis]. It just boggles the mind. They always get what they want.
The Israelis know what is going on all the time. I got to the point where I
wasn't writing anything down. If the American people understood what a grip
those people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms. Our
citizens certainly don't have any idea what goes on.

Today the danger is greater than ever. Israel and Jewish organizations, in
collaboration with this country's pro-Zionist "amen corner," are prodding
the United States -- the world's foremost military and economic power --
into new wars against Israel's enemies. As the French ambassador in London
recently acknowledged, Israel -- which he called "that shitty little
country" -- is a threat to world peace. "Why should the world be in danger
of World War III because of those people?," he said.[note 16]

To sum up: Jews wield immense power and influence in the United States. The
"Jewish lobby" is a decisive factor in US support for Israel. Jewish-Zionist
interests are not identical to American interests. In fact, they often
conflict.

As long as the "very powerful" Jewish lobby remains entrenched, there will
be no end to the systematic Jewish distortion of current affairs and
history, the Jewish-Zionist domination of the U.S. political system, Zionist
oppression of Palestinians, the bloody conflict between Jews and non-Jews in
the Middle East, and the Israeli threat to peace.

Notes
1. Quoted in Forward (New York City), April 19, 2002, p. 11.
2. D. Tutu, "Apartheid in the Holy Land," The Guardian (Britain), April 29,
2002.
3. Benjamin Ginsberg, The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State (University of
Chicago, 1993), pp. 1, 103.
4. S. Steinlight, "The Jewish Stake in America's Changing Demography:
Reconsidering a Misguided Immigration Policy," Center for Immigration
Studies, Nov. 2001. http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/back1301.html
5. Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, Jews and the New American Scene
(Harvard Univ. Press, 1995), pp. 26-27.
6. Janine Zacharia, "The Unofficial Ambassadors of the Jewish State," The
Jerusalem Post (Israel), April 2, 2000. Reprinted in "Other Voices," June
2000, p. OV-4, a supplement to The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
7. M. Medved, "Is Hollywood Too Jewish?," Moment, Vol. 21, No. 4 (1996), p.
37.
8. Jonathan Jeremy Goldberg, Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish
Establishment (Addison-Wesley, 1996), pp. 280, 287-288. See also pp. 39-40,
290-291.
9. Interview with Larry King, CNN network, April 5, 1996. "Brando Remarks,"
Los Angeles Times, April 8, 1996, p. F4 (OC). A short time later, Brando was
obliged to apologize for his remarks.
10. A. Lilienthal, The Zionist Connection (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1978), pp.
206, 218, 219, 229.
11. From a 1992 lecture, published in: David Cesarani, ed., The Final
Solution: Origins and Implementation (London and New York: Routledge, 1994),
pp. 305, 306.
12. Paula E. Hyman, "New Debate on the Holocaust," The New York Times
Magazine, Sept. 14, 1980, p. 79.
13. Norman G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry (London, New York: Verso,
2000), pp. 130, 138, 139, 149.
14. The New York Times, May 27, 1996. Shavit is identified as a columnist
for Ha'aretz, a Hebrew-language Israeli daily newspaper, "from which this
article is adapted."
15. Interview with Moorer, Aug. 24, 1983. Quoted in: Paul Findley, They Dare
to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby (Lawrence
Hill, 1984 and 1985), p. 161.
16. D. Davis, "French Envoy to UK: Israel Threatens World Peace," Jerusalem
Post, Dec. 20, 2001. The French ambassador is Daniel Bernard.

[Dick Eastman]

WAR-PROFIT BONESMAN WON'T MAKE IT THROUGH THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION -- be
prepared
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUTHBAZOOKA/message/26

Hold on tight -- rough fun riding ahead

[Dick Eastman]

Did you forget??? Willie Brown, mayor of San Francisco, said that he was
warned not to fly by Condolezza Rice -- warned not to fly on September 11th.

"911 was a Reichstag Fire, the CIA's Operation Northwoods realized, staged
by the US military and the CIA, using planes on automatic pilots to hit the
twin towers, using construction explosives to bring down the twin towers and
building 7 in New York and using a guided missile to hit the Pentagon.
Condolezza Rice admitted on CNN that it was she who called Willie Brown to
warn him 8 hours before this staged event not to fly, proving that it was
certainly an inside job."

If the 9-11 Commission doesn't publically ask Condolezza why she warned
Willie Brown not to fly on September 11th they all must face charges of
obstruction of justice in the worst case of treason, mass-murder, crimes
against humanity by American officials since Pearl Harbor.

Condolezza Rice 3/00 "slip" announces power elite willingness to use
fraud-disinformation of "threat" to unit people behind globalist foreign
policy

Look at this letter to me from a journalist, which I, in turn, put out
Saturday, October 06, 2001 reporting statements made by Condolezza Rice in
March, 2000 that give away the whole game. When I first forwarded it I
remember thinking that this letter would be the downfall of the perpetrators
of 9-11. I am still waiting.

From: "Dick Eastman" <eas...@wolfenet.com>
Newsgroups:
alt.radio.uk.talk-radio,alt.internet.talk.radio,alt.internet.talk.shows,alt.
radio.international,alt.radio.talk
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 12:13 PM
Subject: verifiable: Condolezza Rice 3/00 "slip" announces power elite
willingness to use fraud-disinformation of "threat" to unit people behind
globalist foreign policy

Verifiable: Condolezza Rice 3/00 "slip" announces power elite willingness
to use fraud-disinformation of "common threat" to unit people behind
globalization foreign policy
==============================

Two letters recieved this morning from someone unknown to me:

Letter #1, what Condolezza Rice said in March of 2000:
----

I very much enjoy and appreciate your posts.

I cannot exercise my Freedom of Speech at this time. So I am very happy to
see someone else giving voice to the exact same thoughts, analysis, and
sentiments that I have.

Here is some information you will find interesting;

Condolezza Rice, Bush's National Security Advisor, was in Houston to give a
speech in March of 2000. This was prior to Bush assuming the Presidency and
her assuming her new position in his administration. She had worked under
Bush Senior as head of Russian and East European Affairs. Her words were
most prophetic. She said, and these are exact quotes:

"We need a common enemy to unite us."

"We need a new threat as a marker to where we will lead."

"Seperation of powers is a problem for foreign policy."

These statements were not in response to questions but were in the body of
her speech.

Afterwards XXX asked about about American losing it's moral authority which,
I believe, was the greatest contributing factor in our victory in the Cold
War. This led to the destruction of the Soviet Union which our military
might could not do. She was visibly angered and disturbed by XXX comments
and simply retorted. "We have other means of asserting our authority".
Meaning, of course, military might and deception.

It is clear to me that the September 11 crashbombing fit perfectly into her
idea of what "we need", what Bush wants. Bush has, to date, been the
greatest benefactor of the events of September 11 and for the foreseeable
future will continue to be.

(end excerpt of excerpt)

=======================
Letter #2, on following the money even if they won't:
----
Remember what Deep Throat said "Follow the Money". It brought down the Nixon
Administration.

The best lead on who was behind this was the puts purchased (stock option
contracts betting the price will fall). On one of the cable shows on finance
a analysist said the number of puts in United Airlines, American Airlines
(only in the airlines used by the hijackers) and businesses in the WTC that
were going to be substantially impacted, was 90 times the number of puts
purchase on a daily average THE DAY BEFORE THE ATTACK and this was WORLDWIDE
purchases. He gave some examples of a put purchased for $375,000 that was
worth $2.4 million the day after the attack. Who would gamble that much
without insider knowledge? The numbers of puts purchased, in addition to the
size of the investments, indicate that an extremely large number of people,
possibly thousands, knew the exact day of the attack, the exact target, and
the exact means.

The "money trail" was a big story for a day and then very suddenly no
further mention has been made of it. It was used just long enough to secure
the seizure of money from targeted groups and additions to the
anti-terrorist legislation.

I look forward to seeing the information I am providing you included in your
posts

One more thing I picked up on the news. Some bigwig in the military, I don't
remember his name, was being interviewed on the 17th day following the
attack. He was asked "when can we expect some action in Afganistan". His
reply "The buildup there has been going on for several weeks so it could be
very soon." 17 days is a little short of "several weeks". The quick response
indicates the buildup was beginning even before the attack took place.

A thought I had - If you know, or suspect, you are going to be attacked, it
might be strategic to stage an attack on yourself so you can be ready with
the response. Thus catching your enemy off-guard and unprepared. When
comparing this operation with the attack on WTC in 1993 it appears far too
sophisticated and effective for the type of group it is being blamed on. It
would seem that Some intellegence would have been picked up on an operation
of this size. It could be that some in the intellegence community allowed,
or even assisted, in it happening for the strategic purposes of those they
answer to.

If not guilty for the actual attack there are those in the US governmnet
that are guilty of knowing about it and letting, if not aiding and abetting,
in making it happen. It is interesting to note how little criticizm there
has been of the CIA, FBI, or the intellegence community for letting this
happen. Rather they have been rewarded with bigger budgets and more power.

What people need to continue to ask themselves is not just "who had motive"
but WHO BENEFITED THE MOST.
(end of letter)
=============

Is there a real investigative journalist in the house?

Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington
Every man is responsible to every other man.

============================================
http://www.infowars.com/print/Sept11/found_standown.htm

Found: The 911 "Stand Down Order"?
Jim Hoffman has discovered a document which I believe may be very
important to the 911 skeptic movement. This document superseded earlier DOD
procedures for dealing with hijacked aircraft, and it requires that
Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld is personally responsible for issuing
intercept orders.
Commanders in the field are stripped of all authority to act. This
amazing order came from S.A. Fry (Vice Admiral, US Navy and Director, Joint
Staff) so it appears to me that responsibility for the US armed forces
"Failure to Respond" rests directly with Fry for issuing this instruction,
as well as with Donald Rumsfeld for failing to execute his responsibility to
issue orders in a timely fashion.
The relevant documents are on the Web at:

http://911research.wtc7.net/planes/analysis/norad/docs/intercept_proc.pdf

http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/d302515_021897/d302515p.pdf

Jerry Russell
www.911-strike.com

=================

http://www.unansweredquestions.org/headlines.php

Conspiracy Theory?
9/11 International Inquiry - Phase One
By Gregor Holland

conspiracy theory n. A theory seeking to explain a disputed
case or matter as a plot by a secret group or alliance rather
than an individual or isolated act.

Mainstream media pundits, government officials and well-intentioned
patriots have been quick to point a finger at skeptics of the
official White House 9/11 story and brand them 'conspiracy theorists'.
The flaw in this approach, however, is the failure to recognize
that the official White House story about the events of 9/11
is itself a conspiracy theory. The theory that fanatic Muslim
terrorists organized by the secretive Al Qaeda network and led
by Osama Bin Laden hijacked four airliners ramming two into the
World Trade Center, leveling them, one into the Pentagon, and
one to the ground in Pennsylvania, is a theory of conspiracy.

The pressing issue it would therefore seem is not whether one
is a conspiracy theorist, but rather in which conspiracy theory
does one believe? And what is the evidence to support that belief?
To make any inquiry into the events of 9/11 requires that one
become a conspiracy theorist.

The common sense and reasonable expectation is that the official
9/11 Commission would thoroughly investigate, analyze, interview,
and pick apart all available data to determine what happened,
and what didn't, on that day, and the days leading up to it,
to allow the spectacular success of the conspiracy to terrorize
America. The purpose of a meticulous investigation is, of course,
to ensure that the proper actions are taken to prevent and thwart
the success of future terrorist conspiracies. The official 9/11
Commission is, therefore, a commission created for the express
purpose of investigating a conspiracy theory.

According to a growing group of skeptics who have been tracking
the investigations and doing their own research the commission
is not living up to the job. Indeed some have gone so far as
to call it a whitewash. They are beginning to organize an independent
investigation of their own. A gathering of hundreds of 9/11 activists
met for two and a half days this past weekend at the "International
Inquiry Into 9/11 - Phase One" at the Veterans War Memorial Herbst
Theatre in San Francisco. Participants presented research, screened
films, shared information, and strategized methods for informing
a public which is only now beginning to become aware of the complex
and largely unreported issues and unanswered questions surrounding
the events of 9/11.

Presenters included well-known authors, scholars, career activists,
as well as amateur researchers who presented detailed examinations
into many of the unanswered mysteries surrounding the events
of 9/11. A few of these include: the failure to scramble jets
to intercept the hijacked airliners, the unprecedented WTC collapse
of Building 7 as well as virtual disintegration of the North
and South towers, the incredulous appearance of Mohammed Atta's
passport on the pile of WTC rubble after an explosion that disintegrated
everything else, the strange behavior of George Bush and his
secret service on that day, including a failure to assume that
Bush was in danger during an attack on the nation, the apparent
failure of the events to catch the attention of top brass military
leaders including the Secretary of Defense and the acting Head
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the failure to investigate anomalous
spikes in 'put' options on American, United and several other
stocks in the days before the attacks, the odd meeting between
the money-man of the hijackers Mahmoud Ahmed of the Pakistani
Intelligence Services and several Washington leaders the morning
of 9/11 in Washington, connections between the CIA, the Pakistan
Intelligence Service, and the funding of the Taliban and al Quaeda,
statements from top officials including Condoleeza Rice immediately
after 9/11 that no one ever imagined terrorists would use commercial
airliners as missiles, the disappearance of the fuselage, wings,
indeed the entire physical body of Flight 77 after striking the
Pentagon, the existence prior to 9/11 of plans to invade Afghanistan,
and many, many others. At a lunch break on Saturday, participants
converged on San Francisco City Hall to hand deliver a letter
to Mayor Daly requesting that he investigate statements made
by former Mayor Brown that he was warned not to fly on the morning
of 9/11.

Included among the presenters were Ellen Mariani, a 9/11 widow
who has filed a RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations
Act] lawsuit against President Bush and other high level members
of his administration based upon prior knowledge of 911, along
with her attorney Phil Berg, Nafeez Ahmed, author of "The War
on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked", Michel Chossudovsky,
author of "War and Globalization: The Truth Behind September
11", Mike Ruppert, publisher of From The Wilderness, Daniel Hopsicker,
author of "Welcome to Terrorland", the only detailed investigation
into Mohammed Atta and the Venice airfields where Atta and other
hijackers trained, Jim Marrs, author of New York Times Bestsellers
"Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy" (part of the basis
of the Oliver Stone film 'JFK'), and "Rule by Secrecy".

Fortunately for the activists, while the mainstream media has
failed in its role of Fourth Estate to challenge or question
the Bush administration in any of its policies, tactics, or agenda,
the rest of the world is not so complicit. The book "Against
All Enemies" by former Counter Terrorism Czar Richard Clarke
has finally blasted the lid off the Pandora's Box of 9/11 issues.
Clarke's authoritative and credible claim that Bush was not interested
in counterterrorism and al Quaeda prior to 9/11 has switched
the spotlight on. In addition, the controversy over National
Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice's refusal to testify in public
before the 9/11 commission has increased suspicion that the White
House has something to hide. "The New Pearl Harbor", a brilliant
and dispassionate analysis of key unanswered questions surrounding
9/11 by theologian David Ray Griffin, is steadily climbing the
charts. Surely this is only the beginning.

In her CBS "60 Minutes" interview with Ed Bradley this past Sunday,
Condoleeza Rice aptly, though most likely unintentionally, summed
up the core issue. Rice said that the official commission was
rightly not focused on the events of 'that day', but rather,
on policy. This would prohibit her from testifying, as a Security
Advisor to the President does not testify to Congress about policy.
Later in the interview, gaining her composure in promoting the
war on terrorism and warning of the inevitability of future events,
Rice emphasized how important it is to stay focused on the events
of 'that day'. Herein lies the anomaly, it is impossible to stay
focused on the events of that day without fully investigating
and understanding them. Though Rice has since changed her mind
and decided to testify, the stunning incongruity of her remarks
serve to ignite the mission of the 9/11 activists and their burning
desire to know the truth. Whether the White House is willing
participant or not, it is unlikely that the 9/11 activists, and
the public at large, will settle for anything less. The activists
agreed to converge peacefully and steadfastly on the streets,
in homes and meeting places, and at websites worldwide including
http://www.septembereleventh.org, the Ellen Mariani website
at http://www.911forthetruth.com, and the website of International
Inquiry organizer Carol Brouillet at http://www.deceptiondollar.com,
among many, many others. They resolved to compensate for the
silence of a complicit press by 'becoming the press'. The Inquiry
continues with Phase II in Toronto in June ( http://www.911inquiry.org)
and Phase III under discussion. March 30, 2004.

*************

- Gregor Holland is a writer, producer, and conspiracy theorist
living in Los Angeles. g...@earthlink.net.
===========================

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=P7514

02 April 2004

'I saw papers that show US knew al-Qa'ida would attack cities with
airplanes'

Whistleblower the White House wants to silence speaks to The Independent
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington

A former translator for the FBI with top-secret security clearance says she
has provided information to the panel investigating the 11 September attacks
which proves senior officials knew of al-Qa'ida's plans to attack the US
with aircraft months before the strikes happened. She said the claim by
the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, that there was no such
information was "an outrageous lie". Sibel Edmonds said she spent more than
three hours in a closed session with the commission's investigators
providing information that was circulating within the FBI in the spring and
summer of 2001 suggesting that an attack using aircraft was just months
away and the terrorists were in place. The Bush administration, meanwhile,
has sought to silence her and has obtained a gagging order from a court by
citing the rarely used "state secrets privilege". She told The Independent
yesterday: "I gave [the commission] details of specific investigation
files, the specific dates, specific target information, specific managers
in charge of the investigation. I gave them everything so that they could
go back and follow up. This is not hearsay. These are things that are
documented. These things can be established very easily." She added:
"There was general information about the time-frame, about methods to be
used ­ but not specifically about how they would be used ­ and about people
being in place and who was ordering these sorts of terror attacks. There
were other cities that were mentioned. Major cities ­ with skyscrapers."
The accusations from Mrs Edmonds, 33, a Turkish-American who speaks
Azerbaijani, Farsi, Turkish and English, will reignite the controversy over
whether the administration ignored warnings about al-Qa'ida. That
controversy was sparked most recently by Richard Clarke, a former
counter-terrorism official, who has accused the administration of ignoring
his warnings. The issue ­ what the administration knew and when ­ is
central to the investigation by the 9/11 Commission, which has been hearing
testimony in public and private from government officials, intelligence
officials and secret sources. Earlier this week, the White House made a
U-turn when it said that Ms Rice would appear in public before the
commission to answer questions. Mr Bush and his deputy, Dick Cheney, will
also be questioned in a closed-door session.
Mrs Edmonds, 33, says she gave her evidence to the commission in a specially
constructed "secure" room at its offices in Washington on 11 February. She
was hired as a translator for the FBI's Washington field office on 13
September 2001, just two days after the al-Qa'ida attacks. Her job was to
translate documents and recordings from FBI wire-taps. She said said it
was clear there was sufficient information during the spring and summer of
2001 to indicate terrorists were planning an attack. "Most of what I told
the commission ­ 90 per cent of it ­ related to the investigations that I
was involved in or just from working in the department. Two hundred
translators side by side, you get to see and hear a lot of other things as
well." "President Bush said they had no specific information about 11
September and that is accurate but only because he said 11 September," she
said. There was, however, general information about the use of airplanes
and that an attack was just months away.
To try to refute Mr Clarke's accusations, Ms Rice said the administration
did take steps to counter al-Qa'ida. But in an opinion piece in The
Washington Post on 22 March, Ms Rice wrote: "Despite what some have
suggested, we received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to
attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles, though some analysts
speculated that terrorists might hijack planes to try and free US-held
terrorists." Mrs Edmonds said that by using the word "we", Ms Rice told an
"outrageous lie". She said: "Rice says 'we' not 'I'. That would include all
people from the FBI, the CIA and DIA [Defence Intelligence Agency]. I am
saying that is
impossible." It is impossible at this stage to verify Mrs Edmonds' claims.
However, some senior US senators testified to her credibility in 2002 when
she went public with separate allegations relating to alleged incompetence
and corruption within the FBI's translation department. 2 April 2004 12:53

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Mar 29, 2004

Israel's Isolation - and America's

By Patrick J. Buchanan

http://www.defencetalk.com/news/publish/article_1479.shtml

"Israel has a right to defend itself," said President Bush. And against whom
was Israel defending itself at dawn on Monday?

A half blind and deaf paraplegic being wheeled out of a mosque after
prayers, Sheik Ahmed Yassin was struck by missiles that blew him to pieces.
In carrying out the assassination of the founder and spiritual leader of
Hamas, Ariel Sharon used a U.S. Apache helicopter gunship. Thus, in Islamic
eyes, we are passive accomplices in the killing.

Instantly, protests erupted in Mosul and Basra. Ayatollah al-Sistani, the
Shi'ite leader on whom we depend for a peaceful transfer of power in Iraq,
was enraged: "(T)his morning, the occupying Zionist entity committed an ugly
crime against the Palestinian people by killing one of their heroes,
scholar-martyr Ahmed Yassin."

Sharon's defenders say the sheik had sanctioned terror attacks on innocent
Israelis. But why did Israel not then seize him, expose his complicity in
murder, and put him in prison, as Israel had before? Why convert this
crippled old sheik into a martyr-saint? Why enhance the prestige of Hamas?

Has the killing made Israel more secure? If so, why were Israeli buses
deserted all week? Has it made us more secure? Why then were the travel
advisories issued to Americans in the Middle East? Why are U.S. embassies
shutting down? How does inflaming the Islamic world against us advance the
president's goal of persuading the world that Islam is not America's enemy?

President Bush must begin to realize that his blind solidarity with Sharon,
who has shown himself contemptuous of America's interests in the larger
region, is among the greatest crosses we have to bear in the war on terror.

A year after the fall of Baghdad, Bush's men are boasting of his triumphs -
the overthrow of the Taliban, the liberation of Iraq, not one act of terror
on U.S. soil in two years. But consider the war from bin Laden's vantage
point.

The murderous strike of 9-11 electrified America-haters, but produced
blowback and near total disaster for bin Laden. In weeks, Bush had united a
great coalition, smashed the Taliban and almost finished Osama himself at
Tora Bora. Then came Iraq.

Here Bush played straight into bin Laden's hand. By attacking a prostrate
Arab nation that played no role in 9-11, we united Arab and Islamic peoples
in hatred of America. We shattered alliances and ignited a guerrilla war.

According to a Pew poll, U.S. prestige in the Muslim world has never been
lower. Bush is widely detested. In Pakistan, 65 percent of the people hold
Osama in high regard, while 8 percent are positive on Bush. We are losing
the hearts and minds of the Islamic young, creating a spawning pool out of
which future terrorists will emerge.

Now, an attack in Madrid has left 200 dead and blown a hole in our
coalition. A socialist has come to power who intends to pull Spanish troops
out of Iraq. Poland, too, has begun to waver

As Bush wins battles, Osama advances toward his strategic goals:
Demonization of America as the enemy of Islam, isolation of America as an
imperialist aggressor against Arab nations and the enabler of Sharon,
and unification of Islam's young behind bin Laden's ultimate war aim: the
expulsion of America from all Muslim lands.

The legendary Col. John Boyd described strategy as appending to oneself as
many centers of power as possible, while isolating one's enemy from as many
centers of power as possible.

Bush I did this brilliantly in the Gulf War, isolating Saddam. Bush II did
it brilliantly in the Afghan war, isolating the Taliban. Now Bush has fallen
into the trap his father avoided. He is letting Ariel Sharon create the
perception that America's war and Israel's war are one and the same.

In the Middle East, Sharon has no friends. He does not care whom he
alienates. But we are a world power with friend, allies and interests in 22
Arab and 57 Muslim countries.

To protect our interests, to win our war on Al Qaeda, it is imperative that
we not let ourselves become as isolated as Israel is today.

Between America and Israel there are thus common interests and a collision
of interests. Sharon does not want us to confine our war on terror to those
who attacked us on 9-11. He wants us to expand our list of enemies to
include his list of enemies: Arafat, Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, Iran, Saudi
Arabia. He wants us to escalate "the firemen's war" into an American war on
Israel's enemies, so, together, we can establish joint hegemony in the
Middle East.

If Sharon and his acolytes in the Bush administration succeed in conflating
Sharon's war with America's war, we could lose our war. Why cannot the
president see what is going on?

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www.globalresearch.ca

5 April 2004

Centre for Research on Globalisation
Washington's Hidden Agenda: Restore the Drug Trade

The Spoils of War: Afghanistan's Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade

by Michel Chossudovsky

The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO404A.html

Since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, the Golden
Crescent opium trade has soared. According to the US media, this lucrative
contraband is protected by Osama, the Taliban, not to mention, of course,
the regional warlords, in defiance of the "international community".

The heroin business is said to be "filling the coffers of the Taliban". In
the words of the US State Department:

"Opium is a source of literally billions of dollars to extremist and
criminal groups... [C]utting down the opium supply is central to
establishing a secure and stable democracy, as well as winning the global
war on terrorism," (Statement of Assistant Secretary of State Robert
Charles. Congressional Hearing, 1 April 2004)

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), opium
production in Afghanistan in 2003 is estimated at 3,600 tons, with an
estimated area under cultivation of the order of 80,000 hectares. (UNODC at
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/index.html ). An even larger bumper harvest is
predicted for 2004.

The State Department suggests that up to 120,000 hectares were under
cultivation in 2004. (Congressional Hearing, op cit):

"We could be on a path for a significant surge. Some observers indicate
perhaps as much as 50 percent to 100 percent growth in the 2004 crop over
the already troubling figures from last year." (Ibid)

"Operation Containment"

In response to the post-Taliban surge in opium production, the Bush
administration has boosted its counter-terrorism activities, while
allocating substantial amounts of public money to the Drug Enforcement
Administration's West Asia initiative, dubbed "Operation Containment."

The various reports and official statements are, of course, blended in with
the usual "balanced" self-critique that "the international community is not
doing enough", and that what we need is "transparency".

The headlines are "Drugs, warlords and insecurity overshadow Afghanistan's
path to democracy". In chorus, the US media is accusing the defunct
"hard-line Islamic regime", without even acknowledging that the
aliban --in collaboration with the United Nations-- had imposed a
successful ban on poppy cultivation in 2000. Opium production declined by
more than 90 per cent in 2001. In fact the surge in opium cultivation
production coincided with the onslaught of the US-led military operation and
the downfall of the Taliban regime. From October through December 2001,
farmers started to replant poppy on an extensive basis.

The success of Afghanistan's 2000 drug eradication program under the
Taliban had been acknowledged at the October 2001 session of the UN General
Assembly (which took place barely a few days after the beginning of the
bombing raids). No other UNODC member country was able to implement a
comparable program:

"Turning first to drug control, I had expected to concentrate my remarks on
the implications of the Taliban's ban on opium poppy cultivation in areas
under their control... We now have the results of our annual ground survey
of poppy cultivation in Afghanistan. This year's production [2001] is around
185 tons. This is down from the 3300 tons last year [2000], a decrease of
over 94 per cent. Compared to the record harvest of 4700 tons two years ago,
the decrease is well over 97 per cent.

Any decrease in illicit cultivation is welcomed, especially in cases like
this when no displacement, locally or in other countries, took place to
weaken the achievement" (Remarks on behalf of UNODC Executive Director at
the UN General Assembly, Oct 2001,
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/speech_2001-10-12_1.html )

United Nations' Cover-Up

In the wake of the US invasion, a shift in rhetoric. UNODC is now acting as
if the 2000 opium ban had never happened:

"the battle against narcotics cultivation has been fought and won in other
countries and it [is] possible to do so here [in Afghanistan], with strong,
democratic governance, international assistance and improved security and
integrity." ( Statement of the UNODC Representative in Afghanistan at the
:February 2004 International Counter Narcotics Conference,
http://www.unodc.org/pdf/afg/afg_intl_counter_narcotics_conf_2004.pdf , p.
5).

In fact, both Washington and the UNODC now claim that the objective of the
Taliban in 2000 was not really "drug eradication" but a devious scheme to
trigger "an artificial shortfall in supply", which would drive up World
prices of heroin.

Ironically, this twisted logic, which now forms part of a new "UN
consensus", is refuted by a report of the UNODC office in Pakistan, which
confirmed, at the time, that there was no evidence of stockpiling by the
Taliban. (Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah. 5 October 2003)

Washington's Hidden Agenda: Restore the Drug Trade

In the wake of the 2001 US bombing of Afghanistan, the British government of
Tony Blair was entrusted by the G-8 Group of leading industrial nations to
carry out a drug-eradication program, which would, in theory, allow Afghan
farmers to switch out of poppy cultivation into alternative crops. The
British were working out of Kabul in close liaison with the US DEA's
"Operation Containment".

The UK-sponsored crop eradication program is an obvious smokescreen. Since
October 2001, opium poppy cultivation has skyrocketed. The presence of
occupation forces in Afghanistan did not result in the eradication of poppy
cultivation. Quite the opposite.

The Taliban prohibition had indeed caused "the beginning of a heroin
shortage in Europe by the end of 2001", as acknowledged by the UNODC. Heroin
is a multibillion-dollar business supported by powerful interests. One of
the "hidden" objectives of the war was precisely to restore the
CIA-sponsored drug trade to its historical levels and exert direct control
over the drug routes. Immediately following the October 2001 invasion, opium
markets were restored. Opium prices spiraled. By early 2002, the opium price
(in dollars/kg) was almost 10 times higher than in 2000.

In 2001, under the Taliban opiate production stood at 185 tons, increasing
to 3400 tons in 2002 under the US-sponsored puppet regime of President Hamid
Karzai.

While highlighting Karzai's patriotic struggle against the Taliban, the
media fails to mention that Karzai collaborated with the Taliban. He had
also been on the payroll of a major US oil company, UNOCAL. In fact, since
the mid-1990s, Hamid Karzai had acted as a consultant and lobbyist for
UNOCAL in negotiations with the Taliban. According to the Saudi newspaper
Al-Watan:

"Karzai has been a Central Intelligence Agency covert operator since the
1980s. He collaborated with the CIA in funneling U.S. aid to the Taliban as
of 1994 when the Americans had secretly and through the Pakistanis
[specifically the ISI] supported the Taliban's assumption of power." (quoted
in Karen Talbot, U.S. Energy Giant Unocal Appoints Interim Government in
Kabul, Global Outlook, No. 1, Spring 2002. p. 70. See also BBC Monitoring
Service, 15 December 2001)

History of the Golden Crescent Drug Trade

It is worth recalling the history of the Golden Crescent drug trade, which
is intimately related to the CIA's covert operations in the region since the
onslaught of the Soviet-Afghan war and its aftermath.

FOR THE FINAL TWO THIRDS OF THIS ARTICLE BY DR. CHOSSUDOVSKY GO HERE:
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO404A.html

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The American People, having learned the truth about 9-11 call on all FBI
agents, Federal Marshalls, NSA, CIA, White House, DoD, Justice and Treasury
personel to choose at once whether you will side with the People and
Consititution of this land or with the treason and mass-murder crimes of the
Money interests. Many lives can be saved if you all will drop the pretence
of not knowing what is really going on -- take your principled stand for
your country and countrymen -- and not continue your yes-man prostitution
and betrayal for these ill-gottenly filthy rich dastards.

Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington
Every man is responsible to every other man.

[Dick Eastman]

"There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the
law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity-the law of nature
and of nations." --Edmond Burke

The Pronouncement Heard

Around the World

http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=3068

The Mossad and the CIA infiltrated "Islamic combatant groups" in Afghanistan
and were the forces behind the attack on Sept. 11 in New York and
Washington, D.C., Imam Mohamed al-Asi said at York University last week.
The "Israeli Zionists" and the "neo-cons in Washington, D.C.," are to blame
for leading the CIA into protecting Israeli interests and undermining
Islamic self determination, al-Asi told an evening program in Founders
Assembly Hall attended by more than 200 people, who received him warmly.

The host introduced al-Asi as the imam who was expelled from the Islamic
Centre in Washington, D.C., due to the fiery nature of his sermons. For the
past 20 years, al-Asi has been delivering his speeches from the sidewalk in
front of the centre.

"The Jewish lobby in the United States, and I say Jewish lobby, preferring
to say Zionist lobby, but the fact of the matter is that the Jews themselves
refer to it as the Jewish lobby. was very disturbed that Muslims were
beginning to stand up and their voice was beginning to be heard. Something
had to be done about this," al-Asi said at York.

"If they can't criminalize the Muslim community, there must be some major
cataclysmic type of criminal activity. so they need something that would
jolt public opinion into perceiving everything that is Islamic as terrorist.
Without Sept. 11, they wouldn't have been able to do that," he said.

"Sept. 11 was used by the Israeli Zionists, who by now had their
representatives in those sectors of people called neo-conservatives [who
were] all steering American policy to protect Israeli Zionist interests."

Al-Asi was part of an event titled "From Ground Zero to Islamophobia: Who
Are the Victims?" that was hosted by seven different campus organizations,
including the Muslim Action Network, the Muslim Student Association, the
Middle Eastern Student Association, the Pakistani Student Association and
the Pakistani Student Federation.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, al-Asi has also accused Israel of
carrying out the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center after the United
States refused Israel's request to have the Americans suppress the
Palestinian intifadah.

In an article that appears on the Muslim Student Association website (last
updated in November 2003) at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, about
Salman Rushdie, al-Asi defends the fatwa issued against the British author.

"Any Muslim who renounces Islam has, in Allah's judgement, forfeited his
right to live," al-Asi said.

"In due time, sooner or later, Rushdie will surface and a Muslim around at
the time and place will fulfill his duty. But at this point in time, there
are history-breaking events and earth-shaking developments which shall never
be overshadowed.

"The Israeli Zionist [sic] are the true and legitimate object of
liquidation. A new generation of death-defying youth are motivated by Islam,
and Islam alone, to challenge and destroy the racism and nationalism of Tel
Aviv's politicians. Israel is running out of time and all the politicians
know it."

In his own promotional material for his lectures and CDs, al-Asi describes
himself as "sharing with us [the late Iranian leader] Imam Khomeini's
insights and understandings from the real world."

Canadian Jewish Congress and Hillel of Greater Toronto have sent letters of
complaint to York University, but they had not received a response as of The
CJN's deadline.

In its complaint, Hillel said that "the spread of such falsehoods" and
"hateful words" is "harmful to York's academic environment," and it urged
the university to monitor such events in the future and "publicly condemn
the hateful speech. that instead of increasing tolerance and understanding
of a serious issue, promoted intolerance and hostility towards a targeted
group on campus."

"From Ground Zero to Islamophobia: Who are the Victims?" was promoted via
e-mail as "an effort to raise awareness of and combat unfair discrimination
and harassment, anti-Muslim prejudice and racism through constructive and
proactive educational means and represent unity in diversity."

The evening began with a slide show of military personnel oppressing Muslim
civilians around the world while a song played in the background that
included the chorus "Why do we stand by spectating while our brothers cry
jihad? We are bound by one conviction. We believe in Allah."

The other main speaker of the evening, Zafar Bangash, director of the
Toronto-based Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought, also spoke about
9/11. The institute is described on its website as "an intellectual centre
of the global Islamic movement."

"There was Osama bin Laden sitting in a cave plotting these fantastic events
and no one in the United States knew about this?" Bangash asked.

He also challenged the audience to consider whether bin Laden disabled the
entire U.S. Air Force.

"It is standard policy that as soon as a plane goes off a flight path, the
air force is mobilized to intercept the plane. Where was the U.S. Air
Force?"

Bangash spoke about several conspiracy theories, including allegations that
Canadian corporations defrauded Canadian taxpayers out of $2.5 billion in
order to make banks Y2K compliant.

"Now this happened in Canada. You can imagine what goes on in the United
States," he said.

Bangash also complained about the lack of leadership in the Muslim community
in Toronto.

"Any screwball can get up. [and] give their two-bit opinion about Islam."

Referring to television appearances by Irshad Manji, the Toronto author of
the best-selling book The Trouble with Islam, he said, "Even [a lesbian]
claims to be a spokesperson for the Muslims," adding later that she doesn't
belong in the Muslim community.

In a statement, York University said it "is committed to free speech and the
right of individuals to express controversial opinions, provided statements
made are within the laws of Canada, specifically criminal anti-hate law."

The school said it "is confirming the nature of comments made by a visiting
U.S speaker at a student event at York. We understand that comments were
made which were deeply offensive to members of the Jewish community. In
response, the university will convey these concerns to event organizers and
reiterate to our students that while free speech is a democratic right,
mutual respect of others and conduct that rejects hatred is a fundamental
responsibility of all York students."

Event organizers could not be reached for comment by The CJN's deadline.

- - -

We have come to a point where only unadulterated truth that is "Deeply
Offensive to the Jewish Community" can save humanity now. Like it or not,
Imam Mohamed al-Asi has spoken the truth. In fact, it is time to liberate
Jewish Americans from this hateful and murderous thinking, from their
erroneous cultural identification with a non-representative monster
controlled by maybe fifty or a hundred sociopathic super-rich Zionist Jews
fraudulently called "The Jewish Community." Zionism is not Judaism.
Zionism is not your genetic and cultural bond with other Jews. Zionism is
most certainly not thinking and saying and doing what is best for Israel
and Jews around the world. If the guys with this warped sociopathic
viewpoint weren't billionaires you wouldn't give a fig for Zionism -- BUT
THAT SHOULD MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE NOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT ZIONISM IS DEATH AND
HATE AND ALWAYS AND ONLY LEADS TO ENDLESS MISERY FOR JEWS AND GENTILES
ALIKE. You don't have to be enslaved by that programmed
hostile-to-everyone-who-is-"other" us-against-them maladaptive traditional
thinking any more.

They exposed their moral bankruptcy with 9-11 -- don't support them to
please the mother of your Kosher childhood -- mass-murdering of innocents
for war profits was never part of the deal.

-- Dick Eastman

If you see the full text of this Imam's speech, please forward to
de1...@nwinfo.net

========

CNN Reports US soldiers are breaking Geneva Convention by killing wounded
Iraqi's while they are down.
What the law says about the recent killings in Iraq
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/05/carter.iraq/

Once it became obvious that at least four passenger jets had been
hijacked--at one point that Tuesday morning, Clarke says the FAA thought it
had as many as "eleven aircraft off course or out of communications"--why
didn't our government intercept them? ...there was actually two hours in
which something could have been done.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/040504E.shtml

A Different View Of The War On Terror Are You Frightened Yet? All wars are
really secret attacks on humanity by the world financial elite. The "War on
Terror" is no exception. War is used to transform society. Both World Wars
resulted in increased power for government and cartels, which the bankers
run by proxy. Both World Wars resulted in calls for their "world
government."
http://www.rense.com/general51/wann.htm

Professor Finkelstein, on Friday [Nov. 15] a senior Israeli military
official declared that the army's recent siege of Hebron had "succeeded to
clean these streets of terrorists" - only hours later Islamic Jihad attacked
settlers and soldiers in Hebron, killing 12 people including the commander
of Israeli forces in Hebron. Judging by this definition of success, can
there be a military solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict? ..Norman
Finkelstein: Well, there can only be one kind of military solution to the
conflict: that is to wipe out all the Palestinians. It is quite clear at
this point that short of either expelling or exterminating the Palestinians
the problem will persist.
http://www.fromoccupiedpalestine.org/node.php?id=31&PHPSESSID=cfe252d379fdb7e5aa500b6654100c79

Fisk: Gun battles in Sadr City overnight had cost the lives of up to 40
Iraqis and at least eight Americans, but in the sewage-damp streets
yesterday, they were handing out letters, allegedly written by the Sunni
townspeople of
Fallujah, newly surrounded by 1,200 marines. "We support you, our brothers,
in your struggle," the letters said. If they are authentic, it should be
enough to make the US proconsul, Paul Bremer, wonder if he can ever
extricate Washington from Iraq. The British took three years to turn both
the Sunnis and the Shias into their enemies in 1920. The Americans are
achieving it in just under a year.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/

Memories to bring home to the wife and kids: The Army is investigating an
allegation that U.S. troops killed an Iraqi detainee when they forced him
and another man to jump from a bridge into the Tigris River, and a battalion
commander has been disciplined for impeding the probe, officers familiar
with the investigation said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A50227-2004Apr4

In a series of interviews to mark Passover the prime minister, Ariel Sharon,
reiterated his threats to Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestinian
Authority, and militant leaders, saying that Israel's promise to the US not
to harm Mr Arafat is no longer valid.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1186407,00.html

If only the American people still had balls like this. Iraqi sources have
revealed that cleric Muqtada Sadr's Mahdi Army militia have seized the
television broadcast building in the central town of Kut and started to
broadcast pre-recorded messages from the young Shia now wanted by U.S.
forces.
http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1847

In defense of America's freedoms against those who envy our "R" rated
movies, debt slavery and easy abortions "U.S. Apache helicopters
attacked Monday, April5 , different areas in Baghdad, killing five people
and wounding dozens in an unprecedented move since the end of the U.S.-led
war to occupy the oil-rich country one year ago, as another 4 U.S. soldiers
were killed, raising to 11 the number killed since Sunday." You can be
proud of those boys, who will come back ready for big responsibilities in a
good-paying service job now that they know a trade -- the Mafia is always
looking for talent like this and billionaires for 'badder' bodyguards.
On the attack see:
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2004-04/05/article08.shtml

The battle the US wants to provoke
Bremer is deliberately pushing Iraq's Shia south into all-out chaos. On
Sunday, Iraqi soldiers, trained and controlled by coalition forces, opened
fire on a demonstration here. As the protesters returned to their homes in
the poor neighbourhood of Sadr City, the US army followed with tanks,
helicopters and planes, firing at random on homes, shops, streets, even
ambulances. According to local hospitals, 47 people were killed and many
more injured. In Najaf, the day was also bloody: 20 demonstrators dead, more
than 150 injured. In Sadr City yesterday, funeral marches passed by US
military tanks and the hospitals were overflowing with the injured. By
afternoon, clashes had resumed.
Make no mistake: this is not the "civil war" that Washington has
been predicting will break out between Sunnis, Shias and Kurds. Rather, it
is a war provoked by the US occupation authority and waged by its forces
against the growing number of Shia who support Moqtada al-Sadr.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1186566,00.html

[In war] the notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have no
place. Where there is no common power, there is no law: where no law, no
injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
(Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679; from The Leviathan)

Every symbol created by man gradually becomes the possession of a particular
private group, and eventually men are found fighting over something of which
they basically know nothing.
(Yehudi Menuhin, violinist)

L'une des plus grandes sagesses en l'art militaire, c'est de ne pousser son
ennemi au désespoir
(Michel de Montaigne, 1533-92) [One of the wisest rules of military art is
never to drive your enemy into despair.]

War puts the highest technology at the service of the lowest impulses.
Lance Morrow

If there is any crime in war, it lies surely in waging war at all.
Criminality cannot be only on the side of the vanquished.
Malcolm Muggeridge, (1903-1990)

A soldier is a man whose business it is to kill those who never offended
him, and who are the innocent martyrs of other men's iniquities.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822)

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
(Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-74)

the above forwarded by

Dick Eastman
Yakima

Only unadulterated truth that is "Deeply Offensive to the Jewish
Community" can save humanity now.

[Dick Eastman]

Note: important news articles quoted and linked below following comment

Rice Before the Committee Tomorrow? Don't even bother!
by Dick Eastman

On Thrusday you will watch a scripted show in which Condoleezza Rice before
a handpicked cast of softball playing obstruction of justice accomplices, in
a morality play in which the national security adviser assure the committee
that the Bush Administration was competently alert in the days before the
Bush Administration perpetrated -- she will not say this -- the 9-11
mass-murder frameup devised by the Neo-Khan Pentagon. That will take all of
fifteen minutes. Rice will fill the rest of the two and a half hours
engaged in mock conflict response to the groundwork and stage setting of
with co-conspirator RIchard Clarke, the "limited hangout" spin agent whose
successfully executed job has been to define the hearings in the public mind
as an inquiry into whether 9-11 "could have been prevented," and away from
the much more potentially precipitating topic of "what went wrong"," or, the
topic that could lead the entire bi-partisan ruling oligarchy into free fall
to the center of the earth, "what actually happened on September 11, 2001?"
Remember, Al Falzenberg has directed all information directed by citizen
investigators working from the photographic evidence to "black-hole"
oblivion -- for example, the Pentagon pictures showing too-small a plane,
distinctive trail of missile smoke followed by a hugh white-hot explosion
characteristic only of military explosives of the type packed in missile
warheads; of damage to the Pentagon wall inconsistent with the crash of a
two- engine 757 jetliner; of a path of downed lampposts that is not the
approach path that witnesses saw the Boeing take, and much much more that
Condoleezza Rice will not have to take questions on -- nor will anyone else
in the administration take quesitons on this so-obvious and so-conclusive
evidence -- it simply proof of guilt that by tacit consent will not be
admitted by consideration by criminal investigators of a criminal
adminstration guilty of the most horrible and profitable murder crime in
American history.

And what of the unfortunate Sibel Edmonds? An FBI translator who saw
documents specifically warning of airplanes used as weapons in acts of
terror against skyscrapers and government buildings in New York and
Washington D.C. and observed an administration brushing aside the
information, Edmonds naming names, as if, I conclude, it might interfer
with other things they had going on -- a real risk, which if diligently
guarded against would have interfered with the real frameup in the works --
Edmonds remarks are going to be given the last 15 minutes and they will be
put by a questioner who will make more statements puffing the committee than
actually asking pointed questions -- Rice will say she did not know about
it and she will infer that untracable human error led to her not being
informed and then the bell will ring and by signed agreement Condoleezza
will be free for the rest of her life from any further questioning by
Congress on the topic of 9-11.

And yes, the entire Commission report will be censored line by line by the
White House -- not that that is necessary with a commission headed by Thomas
Kean and Lee Hamilton and the sleezy crooked and perverse characters cast in
this charade directed by Al Falzenberg who actually controlled the input so
that there will be very little output that the Whitehouse will have to vet.

The Adminstrations guilt has been proven by citizen investigators working
with the ample photo evidence and witness accounts already in the pubic
domaine -- the Committee is merely your tax dollars spent to keep you from
bothering to look at the easily comprehended conclusive evidence
presented, for example, here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUTHBAZOOKA/message/5

and here:

http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911/Eastman/m18h05.html

========

Meeting fierce resistance from Iraqi fighters, U.S. occupation forces
bombarded late Tuesday, April6 , the western city of Fallujah with tanks and
warplanes, killing scores of Iraqi citizens. At least ten Iraqis died when
American forces shelled the Golan neighborhood, reported the Doha-based
Aljazeera television. Hospital doctors said another 15 civilians had been
killed and dozens injured in the American offensive over the past 48 hours.
The U.S. army reported six Iraqis killed in fighting Monday, though
residents said five of them were killed when helicopters hit a residential
area.
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2004-04/06/article01.shtml

Supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ringed the Polish-led
military force's headquarters south of Baghdad for several hours Tuesday
before withdrawing peacefully, Polish media reported. Some 150 cars
surrounded Camp Bablyon, the headquarters of the 9,500-strong force and
remained there. No shots were exchanged, Polish news reports said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3948241,00.html

Fighting has erupted between Italian troops and Iraqi gunmen in the southern
city of Nasiriyah (nah-sih-REE'-uh). A coalition spokeswoman tells Italian
media that at least 15 Iraqis were killed. She says insurgents used
civilians as human shields, and two children and a woman are among the dead.
(Human shields don't mean much to Italian soldiers, apparently -- or did a
coalition order come from the top?)
http://www.arkansasnbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=1765394

The American dream to bridge ancient Iraqi sectarian rivalries turned
nightmarish Tuesday as Shiite and Sunni religious and tribal figures put
aside their differences and publicly aligned against the occupation, vowing
to rid Iraq of the American-led invaders.
In the past 72 hours over 18 U.S. soldiers and well over 100 Iraqis have
died in vicious fighting across Iraq. U.S. aligned coalition forces also
took significant casualties of an unconfirmed number in fighting in four
southern cities. Before last week the primary forces resisting the U.S.
occupation were a combination of former Baath Party members and Sunni
religious figures, but after fighting broke out between the coalition and a
militia led by a young radical Shiite cleric, much of Iraq turned to
complete chaos.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040406-035654-

Paul Wolfowitz: "There 's not going to be any difference in our military
posture on July 1st from what it is on June 30th, except that we will be
there then at the invitation of a sovereign Iraqi government, which I am
quite sure will want us to stay there until killers like the ones who
perpetrated these atrocities in Fallujah are brought under control. Thank
you."
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2004/tr20040402-depsecdef0577.html

On the streets of Baghdad neighborhoods long defined by differences of faith
and politics, signs are emerging that resistance to the U.S. occupation may
be growing from a sporadic, underground effort to a broader insurrection by
militiamen who claim to be fighting in the name of their common faith,
Islam. On Monday, residents of Adhamiya, a largely Sunni section of
northern Baghdad, marched with followers of Moqtada Sadr, the militant
Shiite cleric whose call for armed resistance was answered by local Sunnis
the same afternoon, residents said. As protesters chanted anti-occupation
slogans in Abu Hanifa Square, militants were seen hustling toward the site
carrying AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, residents said. The
guerrillas opened fire on the U.S. armor deployed near the demonstration,
attacking from positions in a neighborhood where militants appear to be not
just tolerated but encouraged.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A56091-

Almost a year ago, the Shiites of Sadr City threw flowers at the American
tanks that rumbled into Baghdad and ended the rule of their oppressor,
Saddam Hussein. This week, however, many Iraqis were filling plain wooden
coffins with the corpses of their kin, killed in a firefight with the U.S.
forces that now patrol their impoverished neighborhood.
"After American forces ended the regime, we wanted to welcome them," Mohsin
Ghassab, a 42-year-old unemployed resident of the district, said Monday.
"But now there is no stability. They have to withdraw."
Eight U.S. soldiers and about two dozen Iraqis died in the firefight that
erupted on Sunday in the teeming district of Sadr City, which lies on
Baghdad's northeastern rim and is home to more than two million Shiites.
http://www.iht.com/articles/513577.html

Armed followers of the firebrand Shi'ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr took full
control of the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala yesterday as the radical
cleric sought to broaden support for his uprising among fellow Muslim
leaders. With Sadr's supporters demanding the withdrawal of all foreign
forces from the country, coalition troops remained outside the cities to
avoid provoking clashes, while Iraqi police withdrew in fear of his
well-organised and heavily armed fighters. Last night they took over all
government buildings in Najaf.
"Sadr demands the withdrawal of all coalition forces from Iraq - or face
destruction," said Sheikh Qasi al-Khazali, Sadr's representative in the
city.
http://tinyurl.com/36e3n

The word went out on Tuesday at noon, with the blast of the call to prayer:
American soldiers had raided an office of Moktada al-Sadr, the radical
Shiite cleric, and torn up a poster of his father, one of Iraq's most
revered martyrs. The Khadamiya bazaar exploded in a frenzy. Shopkeepers
reached beneath stacks of sandals for Kalashnikov rifles. Boys wrapped their
faces in black cloth. Men raced through the streets, kicking over crates and
setting up barriers. Some handed out grenades. Within minutes this entire
Shiite neighborhood in central Baghdad had mobilized for war. "We're going
to attack a tank!" yelled Majid Hamid, 32, waving an assault rifle.
http://tinyurl.com/2fg88

Shiite radical cleric Moqtada Sadr, wanted by coalition forces in Iraq,
ended his sit-in at a mosque in Kufa and travelled to the holy city of Najaf
"to prevent more bloodshed".
"I have taken it upon myself to prevent more bloodshed," he said in a
statement, expressing concern the "sacred site of the mosque not be violated
... by people who do not back down from anything" out of respect for holy
places.
Sadr said his decision to "observe a peaceful sit-in" at the mosque was
taken to protest against "the aggressions committed by the infidel occupier
against civilians".
http://tinyurl.com/2v79w

Iraqi forces were in full control Wednesday of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, a
day after 12 US marines were killed and two dozen wounded in fighting with
anti-coaliton insurgents, a marine statement said. In Washington Tuesday, a
Defense Department official who requested anonymity said: "We had about 12
dead and a couple dozen wounded at the governor's palace in Ar Ramadi," some
50 miles (80 kilometers) west of the Iraqi capital.
http://www.spacewar.com/2004/040407074754.s4rj7lzg.html

Iraq is worse off now, after the U.S.-led invasion, than it was under Saddam
Hussein, Hans Blix told a Danish newspaper Tuesday.
http://tinyurl.com/377hf

Since the US invaded Iraq, the US Congress has approved about $US100 billion
to pay for military operations, as well as $US23 billion for Iraqi
reconstruction. Centre for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments defence
analyst Steven Kosiak said the war had already cost far more than the 1991
Gulf War - which cost about $US84 billion and was paid for largely by US
allies.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/06/1081222465066.html

-------------

China, Iran, the United States and Vietnam were the world's top users of the
death penalty in 2003, accounting for 84 percent of known executions, human
rights body Amnesty International said Tuesday.

More than half of known executions were in China, where the true toll could
be more than 10 times higher, according to the British-based Amnesty's
annual report.

But during the year, six countries either abolished capital punishment or
suspended it, bringing the total who have halted executions to 117 out of a
total of 195, the report said.

"This year's figures show that the majority of countries follow an
abolitionist path, while others choose to remain on the wrong side of the
justice divide," spokeswoman Judit Arenas Licea told a news briefing.

The report said the number of known executions world-wide last year had
dropped to 1,146 in a total of 28 countries from 1,526 in 31 countries in
2002. China was known to have executed at least 726, Iran 108, the United
States 65 and Vietnam 64, according to the group.

But Amnesty cautioned that its numbers -- based largely on official figures,
media monitoring and private reports -- might be showing only the tip of an
iceberg, especially in countries where the statistics were a closely-guarded
secret.

The report quoted an unidentified senior Chinese parliamentarian as saying
last month that his country executed nearly 10,000 people annually.

Arenas told the news briefing, called during the annual six-week session of
the United Nations Human Rights Commission, that Amnesty was especially
concerned at the introduction of "mobile units" to speed up executions in
China.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0406-10.htm

============

War Crimes

A few years after the genocide in Rwanda, Daniel Pipes writing in the
National Post (7/18/2001), recommended that the Israeli government
intensify the brutality of the occupation. His specific recipe for new
forms of collective punishment against the residents of the West Bank and
Gaza was to accelerate the pace of economic warfare against the population
and "permit no transportation of people or goods beyond basic necessities.
Shut off utilities to the PA. Raze the PA's illegal offices in Jerusalem,
its security infrastructure, and villages from which attacks are launched."
Read that again and notice that he was advocating 'razing villages' a la
Lidice.

Not to be outdone by Daniel Pipes, Cal Thomas recommended the mass
expulsion of Palestinians. "It should now be clear that Israel cannot
tolerate a huge Arab population within its borders, so a political decision
must be made. Most Arabs and Palestinians appear to be nonviolent but it
can be difficult to tell the difference...Israel should declare its
intention to transfer large numbers of its Palestinian residents to Arab
nations...Eviction is a better avenue to stability. Will it happen?
Probably not. Should it? Yes." (June 6, 2001, Jewish World Review).

In 1946, Julius Streicher, the Editor of Der Sturmer, an anti- Semitic
paper, was sentenced to hang by the Nuremberg International Military
Tribunal for Nazi War Crimes. In sentencing him, the tribunal gave as cause
the evidence that "with knowledge of the extermination of the Jews in the
Occupied Eastern Territory, this defendant continued to write and publish
his propaganda of death." Streicher was convicted of conspiracy to commit
crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. His partner in media
crimes, Joseph Goebbels, managed to avoid a similar sentence by committing
suicide after first killing his wife and children.

Half a century later, the Streicher case was cited as a precedent for
convicting three Hutus of using the media to incite genocide against
Tutsis. The three judges presiding over the International Criminal Tribunal
for Rwanda set another precedent by declaring that "those who control the
media are accountable for its consequences". According to the BBC, the
chief prosecutor, Hassan Bubacar Jallow, said that "The tribunal has
established an international precedent that those who use media to target a
racial or ethnic group for destruction will face justice." He also stated
that "the verdict would serve as a warning for journalists and editors in
other conflicts".

The Nuremberg Tribunal sent Streicher to the hangman's noose, even though
it found that "there is no evidence that he was ever within Hitler's inner
circle of advisers, nor during his career was he closely connected with the
formulation of policies that led to war." One of the Hutus convicted by the
Rwanda Tribunal was Hassan Ngeze, the editor of Kangura, an extremist
magazine. He was convicted based on articles that were written several
years prior to the onset of the Rwanda genocide. The court found that he
had participated in creating a psychological environment that made the
genocide possible.

Then you have the editors of the Los Angeles Times who, shortly after
Sharon's election, published an article by Edward Luttwak urging Sharon to
use his Sabra and Shatila 'talents.' "Sharon will now turn to his earlier
talents to direct the most effective uses of force, rather than confining
himself to the least provocative." (Los Angeles Times, 6/5/2001).

Three years on, we see the results of Sharon's latest war crime spree. What
we are witnessing in the West Bank and Gaza is another Sabra and Shatila
massacre on the installment plan. It appears that Sharon has resurrected
Unit 101, the notorious death squad that he commanded in the massacre at
Qibya in 1953. Hardly a day goes by, without a few unarmed Palestinians
getting shot by Israeli occupation soldiers. A suspicious percentage of the
casualties are shot in the back. Sharon knows that, at least for now, he
needs to keep his daily kill count in the single digits. Over the last
three years, his goon squads have killed 2,500 Palestinians and seriously
wounded thousands of others. He has razed enough homes to satisfy the
'Lidice' fantasies of Daniel Pipes and has systematically destroyed much of
the infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza. Now, collective punishment is
the daily lot of the Palestinians and Israel is using starvation as a
weapon of repression.

In a more just world, the unequivocal support given to Sharon by the lords
of the mass media should end up costing them their franchise. Ultimately,
it is publishers like Rupert Murdoch, Conrad Black, Arthur Sulzberger and
Donald Graham who should be held to account for giving free reign to
journalists who cheered Israeli war crimes. Granted, both the Nuremberg and
Rwanda tribunals had limited jurisdiction to only prosecute atrocities
committed by Hutus and Nazis. But international law is a ticking time bomb
for media moguls who allowed their properties to be used as weapons by
those who advocate repression, collective punishment, expulsion and other
war crimes against civilian populations. One precedent leads to another.
As the law evolves over the next decade or two, it might very well extend
the extra-territorial jurisdiction of international courts.

Even in the absence of extra-territorial jurisdiction, the domestic laws of
sovereign nations is moving in the direction set by Belgium. It should be
recalled that the war crime charges against Sharon were not dropped because
of his innocence, but because he wasn't resident in Belgium. At the very
least, Rupert Murdoch, Sulzberger and Graham can be driven from the Belgian
media markets. Current French, Canadian and German laws, if properly
applied, might result in a shut down of the International Herald Tribune, a
joint operation run by Sulzberger of the New York Times and Graham of the
Washington Post. The Yahoo precedent, involving the sale of Nazi
memorabilia, can be quite useful in tackling and neutralizing these war
mongering media outlets.

Israel's partisans, the media cabal that controls much of the corporate
press in America and the English speaking world, need to have their day in
court. We need to recognize that we live in a world where media controlled
states give journalist and publishers the power to instigate war and
applaud war crimes. Their ability to goad vicious serial war criminals like
Sharon to use their 'talents' can have horrible consequences. The
Israeli/Palestinian conflict might well have been resolved had it not been
for the Likudnik bigots who hold sway at FOX, CNN, The New York Times, The
Washington Post and the LA Times.

At the very minimum, the course to take at this time is to compile the body
of evidence that will be needed to conduct successful prosecution when
international laws evolve to the point where journalists and publishers can
be tried as war criminals. International and National Associations of
concerned journalists need to be encouraged to join the fray by conducting
mock trials of these culprits. The evidence against them is irrefutable and
their crimes against the Palestinians are easy enough to document. The
Internet makes their archives readily available for detailed studies of
their conduct. A vast body of literature from the alternative press and
mass media critics can be used to gather incriminating evidence. Even
without the jurisdiction of handing down enforceable sentences, the results
of such proceedings, if properly circulated through alternative media
outlets, will have the salutary effect of damaging their media monopoly
franchise. Perhaps concerned citizens could set up a 'Journalist Hall of
Shame' in Europe or Canada. Nominees for the dubious privilege of having
their names permanently enshrined as criminals or racists would be judged
by a panel of judges from countries that are certified as having a free
press.

If all this seems far-fetched, one needs only review the history of the
environmental movement. What started out as a fringe 'flower children'
enterprise a couple of decades ago has now become gospel even in developing
countries. Journalists and publishers can pollute our minds to the point
where ordinary people are driven to extraordinary bloodshed. In the case of
the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, a few media moguls have managed to create
an American constituency that actively incites murderous repression in the
Holy Land. We can bring a little justice to their victims by holding them
accountable for collaborating in the crimes of Ariel Sharon.

Ahmed Amr is the editor of NileMedia.com. This article can be published at
will.

http://www.nilemedia.com/Columnists/Ahmed/2004/January/The_Journalist.html

[Dick Eastman]

Warm greetings, Gary

This letter from you means a lot. It shows a man responding to the
information in the way I believe an intelligent citizen of good will who has
the facts would respond and must respond. In short, you are exactly the man
I have been working to inform, the type of man I have faith in and can
relate to.

If you have a list or a website please let me know.

With gratitude and admiration,

Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington

9-11 frameup proof:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUTHBAZOOKA/message/5
http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911/Eastman/m18h05.html

" Gary......" wrote:
Hi Dick,

I was reviewing this page and noticed someone has sabotaged some of the
pictures with insults to you:
http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911/Eastman/m7b3.html

Perhaps one day you will be lauded as the true and tireless patriot you are.
I, for one, extend my deep gratitude for your outstanding synthesis of the
evidence exposing the Pentagon scam, which to my mind is the primary
"smoking gun" of 9/11.

Since last September I have posted pictures of the Pentagon strike on my
office door under the heading "What actually hit the Pentagon on 9/11?" and
have been handing out the Don Paul/Jim Hoffman booklets (adding John
Kaminsky's recently) to all who will take them.

It seems the truth about 9/11 is just too terrible for many Americans to
consider. Even more troubling, perhaps, are the "left gatekeepers" who
refuse to breathe a word of the 9/11 scam on the alternative media. But as
the lies about our Iraq debacle continue to unfold, maybe more will begin to
open their minds and question this debauched government that makes war on
its own people.

With gratitude and respect,
Gary .....
(Virginia)

[Dick Eastman]

central to my understanding of everything economic and political is the
following distinction

corrective lens: discriminate true friend from foe in economics

note: this is a memo -- not polished prose -- but the ideas here are key
to our survival and I don't know the problem has been stated in this way
before -- and I think it is a good way to look at things because it
immediately suggests the kind of remedy needed. Please read it as such.
The memo is to spark your own thinking -- not to create a marketable essay,
but just a hint to activist reformers as to the functioning evil that should
behacked down and the good growth that should be left to flourish,
bettering the human condition. --Dick Eastman

corrective lens: discriminate friend from foe in economics.

I find the biggest problem in starting the needed reform is the inability of
people to discriminate from capitalists of the good type and capitalists of
the bad type.

The truth is that the communist is wrong that the conflict has been between
the capitalist and the proletarian. The real war is between the
international finance capitalist whose rule is plunder and contribution is
death on the one hand, and middle-class entrepreneurship which creates value
for life and whose "industrialists" are focused on the good of the people
(yes, such men have really existed in our history!).

The real war is between the industrialist and the financier-monopolist --
between Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller as archetypes.

I. Friends: Industrialist, Inventor, Single-branch state bank lending
officer, importers and exporters of goods and services

Goal: Profit from creating value to life -- labor saving, life improving,

Value: Serving mankind -- success in doing good.

Production: Goods and services to make goods that improve life. That sells
its goods and services abroad, but does not lend money abroad or attempt to
control foreign governments or their own government for their own gain etc.

Examples: Andrew Carnegie (built up steel, used his vast weath to put a
public libarary in every community); Henry Ford (his Model T car put the
automobile in every middle class household -- and he tried to stop World War
One with his own money, as Woodrow Wilson ( controlled by Bernard Baruch who
was an accomplice in the World War One world scam and who became economic
Tsar over the entire US economy and by Col. House) was definitely not
doing) ); Edison (light bulb, phonograph, etc.), Bell (telephone); Marconni,
Walt Disney (the man, not the the corporation his creations have become);
Gates (outlook express etc.)

II. Foes: Financier, Speculator, Monopolist Merchant Banker,

Goal: Cornering the market. Raising prices by cutting supply of
value-to-life production (monopoly control). Lending to governments for
wars, arms races, wars on terror.

Value: Maintaining class distinction -- superiority of the cunning and
aggressive as "natural rulers" over the "inferior"

Production, so-called: Financial services. Holding companies and other
arrangements to fix prices, destroy competitors by non-economic competition
(corrupt government for this purpose -- spotted owl preservation to shut
down lumber industry to raise the price of lumber and paper for example) --
DEFENSE INDUSTRY -- and creation of wars to speed along demand.

Examples: Rockefeller (monopolization of oil, monopoly finance), Harriman
(civil war profiteering and profiteering in all other wars - the Bush family
has traditionally served as agents of the Harrimans), Baruch (arranged WWI
war profiteering, arranged the great depression and centralization of
government over enterprise, invented the cold war in which keeping atomic
power was deployed for military purposes (A-bomb, H-bomb, atomic submarine
engines, atomic aircraft carrier engines) but not cheap power for mankind
that would eclipse the oil monopoly); Buffett (one of many who exploited
financial deregulaion for leveraged buyouts, "junk" investment of nation's
savings); Soros (one of those who currency control and international
investment control can bring boom and bust to entire nations making the
inflaiton and deflation his own personal seed-time and harvest at the
expense of millions of families livlihood, standard of living, quality of
life).
Turner -- the consummate produce nothing monopolist -- all those old movies,
the herigage of a generation, somehow he as "ownership" of the work of film
makers long dead -- as if copyright laws like this serve to increase
incentive for new production -- what a tragic joke -- while today Turner has
anti-war movies on moratorium -- just one example -- the original "CHeaper
by the Dozen" with actor Clifton Web where the father was an efficiency
expert and really gave a role model of fatherhood and living versus
prostitute clown Steve Martin movie of the "Daddy Day Care" genre etc. ---
but I digress -- who gave Turner the right to control this vast heritage of
our society???, to withhold films from the public, and to charge $19.95 for
a copy of a movie made in the 1930's, 40's, 50's -- THE PATENT AND
COPYRIGHT LAWS ARE MECHANISMS OF MONOPOLY AND NOT BY ANY STRETCH OF THE
IMAGINATION SYSTEMS FOR ENSURING THAT INVENTORS AND CREATORS WILL PROFIT
FROM THEIR INVENTIONS AND CREATIONS. Today if a man has a good invention
his patent will be held up for years until the minute he sells out to a
corporation (and even then the good idea may never be employed because it
would upset some monopoly arrangement, i.e., interfere with the
oil-dominated economy )

Note: The "Foes" are, as mentioned, self-anointed aristocracy, and their
ideology is the doctrine of Malthusianism.

They say that if you give the common man any more than bare minimum of
wealth (they only let American have wealth and knowledge after sputnik when
they were afraid that true communism (represented by Khruschev, before the
western bribery-induced coup, that put corrupt Brezhnev who also believed in
a "new class" aristocracy, the nomenclatura, (forgive me if I don't look up
spellings -- this is just a memo to get across a concept because we are
all in a hurry)

Malthus taught that if you give common people too much wealth they will just
use it to have more babies or else will spend the extra on alcohol and
ce -- but then the question must be asked, if people are really like this,
then who made them that way?????

Is the problem really unemployment and surplus population -- or is it
monopolists cutting the production of value that people are capable of
creating this strange thing "unemployment" where men go from corporation to
corporation seeking work (or to whatever small-businesses still exist when
there are left in town) -- how many potential Leonardo DaVincis are today
selling shoes or making spy satellites and death lasers -- only to be turned
away with the message that they are "worthless" and unwanted by the world of
work, that they have nothing to contribute to humanities needs and
betterment?

IS THERE REALLY NOTHING WORTHWHILE LEFT TO DO FOR SOCIETY THAT WE CAN AFFORD
TO HAVE PHDs DRIVNG TAXIS, MEN WITH DOUBLE MASTERS DEGREES CLEANING SHELVES
AT THE VIDEO STORES -- AND YES, DAMN IT, MEN SMARTER AND MORE VIRTUOUS THAN
EITHER OF THESE WHO NEVER WERE GIVEN REAL EDUCATION, BUT WERE BROKEN AND
DUMBED DOWN BY A SYSTEM DEVISED FOR BREAKING AND DUMBING DOWN -- AFFIRMING
THE INCOMPETENT, THE CORRUPT TO TAKE OVER THE INSITUTIONS OF SOCIETY.

The Malthusians insist that war, plague and famine are necessary in nature
to control breeding humanity and that giving them a share of the wealth
they, as beasts of burden, create would only add to their numbers and the
strain on the resources of the earth. Better, "our betters" say, to have an
elite keeping the resources and productive wealth in their own safe keeping,
letting them be lords of the global plantation -- creating wars, weather
disasters (weather has been controlable since the early 1990's), and
famines (through control of seed supplies, weather, commodities markets
etc.) since these remove the surplus population that spoils the earth etc.

Whereas the truth is that man is the best keeper of the garden, that if
permitted to, if allowed to develope intellectually and ethically as we did
in "early American history -- all men woujld become middle class and mindful
of the quality of life in their local habitat (neighborhood, community
etc.), creating, inventing, landscapiong, husbanding, managing,
onserving -- taking all costs and potential gains into account etc. --
because there is always work that can be done to improve things and the
existence of "unemployed" merely shows the extent of monopoly power in the
culture -- the restraint on production for betterment of life in order to
raise prices for wealth monopolization by the Malthusian elite.

Is the problem really too many unneeded men in the economy, or is it that
there is too much to be done, which doing is prevented by a criminally
insane moneyed aristocracy?

--------

The thinking I am suggesting to you is more in line with Jefferson and
Hamilton, Buckminster FUller, Lyndon Larouche -- in its trust of man as a
good and creative thing of great unrealized potential in the universe --
and not the views of the Marquis de Sade (who originally put forth the idea
that man helps nature by devising ways to destroy people), Malthus, and the
reigning Bilderberg-CFR-Trilateral Commission --WTO-World-Bank Club of
Rome -Globalization - Zero growth etc. thinking bankrolled by the people who
brought us the 9-11 mass-murder frame-up and the most recent genocidal wars
for profit and population control.

Dear reader, who has gotten this far -- you are my brother and I love you
and thank you for hearing me out.

Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington

[Dick Eastman]

Condoleezza Rice Statements Examined
by Dick Eastman

[This is my first reading of the Rice statements -- I comment from a
position of knowing from the Pentagon evidence that the Administration is
guilty and with the pre-conceived suspicion that Richard Clarke is a
confederate whose purpose in his pre-Condoleezza-testimony disclosures and
the release of his book written a year before was to anchor the committee on
the single presumptuous and off-target question of whether the Bush
Administration had sufficient prior warning of what, in fact, they
themselves perpetrated. --de]

RICE: Despite the fact that the vast majority of the threat information we
received was focused overseas, I was also concerned about possible threats
inside the United States.

[Her very first statement reinforces the anchoring on the bogus issue of
prior knowledge of possible attacks. Of course everyone understands that
with all the information in the world and with large organizations that
important information will be overlooked with serious consequences.
Condoleezza and the Commission are trying to pin the case that the
Administration were efficient but only human -- that while they were alert
and doing their best the system, which was decrepit because it is not
totalitarian enough and well-funded enough in the pre-homland security days,
let them down.]

On July 5, Chief of Staff Andy Card and I met with Dick Clarke, and I asked
Dick to make sure that domestic agencies were aware of the heightened threat
period and were taking appropriate steps to respond, even though we did not
have specific threats to the homeland.

[Establishes that anything good that Clarke did it was because Condoleezza
told him too and that she acted on the little information she had, i.e.,
non-specific notice of a heightened threat.]

Later that same day, Clarke convened a special meeting of his CSG, as well
as representatives from the FAA, the INS, Customs, and the Coast Guard. At
that meeting, these agencies were asked to take additional measures to
increase security and surveillance.
[She is boosting Clarke as efficient -- after all he is still part of the
perpetration/coverup team.]
RICE: There were no specifics, and, in fact, the country had already taken
steps through the FAA to warn of potential hijackings. The country had
already taken steps through the FBI to task their 56 field offices to
increase their activity. The country had taken the steps that it could given
that there was no threat reporting about what might happen inside the United
States.

[The coverup has given Rice a narrow irrelevant area of issues in which all
she has to do is bring up all the defense systems that were in place on 9-11
as proof of her competence except for the one alleged failure due to system
inadequacies that the Administration has repaired with the Homeland Security
and Patriot Acts and 50 to a 100 billion dollars. etc. NOTE THAT 9-11 IS
NOT BEING DISCUSSED, ONLY SYSTEMS IN PLACE BEFORE 9-11. I PREDICT I WILL
NOT SEE HER DISCUSS WHAT SHE DID OR WHAT THE PRESIDENT DID ON 9-11 -- THE
PRIOR ANCHORING ON "WHAT COULD HAVE PREVENTED" ALLOWS HER THIS ESCAPE FROM
THE FIRE OF REAL INTERROGATION ABOUT THE COMMITTING OF THE ACTUAL CRIME.]

GORTON: Would the program recommended on September 4th have prevented 9-11
had it been adopted in, say, February or March of 2001?

RICE: Commissioner, it would not have prevented September 11th if it had
been approved the day after we came to office.

[This statement pre-supposes a lot of knowledge of particulars about what
the Hijackers did and how they operated, doesn't it? The coverup made up
the hijacker scenario, so they can decide whether it was catchable or not,
right?]

KERREY: Let me ask you another question. Here's the problem that I have as
I -- again, it's hindsight. I appreciate that. But here's the problem that a
lot of people are having with this July 5th meeting.
["me," "I," "I," "I" --

You and Andy Card meet with Dick Clarke in the morning. You say you have a
meeting, he meets in the afternoon. It's July 5th. ... here's what Agent
Kenneth Williams said five days later. He said that the FBI should
investigate whether al Qaeda operatives are training at U.S. flight schools.
He posited that Osama bin Laden followers might be trying to infiltrate the
civil aviation system as pilots, security guards and other personnel. He
recommended a national program to track suspicious flight schools.

Now, one of the first things that I learned when I came into this town was
the FBI and the CIA don't talk. I mean, I don't need a catastrophic event to
know that the CIA and the FBI don't do a very good job of communicating.

And the problem we've got with this and the Moussaoui facts, which were
revealed on the 15th of August, all it had to do was to be put on Intelink.
All it had to do is go out on Intelink, and the game's over. It ends. This
conspiracy would have been rolled up.
[Kerry is staying within the rules. He is thickening the plot on the
already established red-herring question of whether alleged prior knowledge
of this never-happened Arab operation allegedly in the possession of some
people might have been handled better had there been a Kerry Administration
instead of a Bush Administration. Notice Kerry has forgotten is
pre-arranged plug for himself, referring only to "the Moussaoui facts"
instead of specifics (Senators are not in the habit of working too hard.
Still he gives Condoleezza more leave to spend the limited time on the
bogus issue that keeps us from the real issue of exactly what the suspects
did on the morning of 9-11, of exactly what happened, of exactly why the
event was handled in the odd way it was handled -- questions that would
likely catch her in the coverup.]

KERREY: And so I...

RICE: Commissioner, with all due respect, I don't agree that we know that we
had somehow a silver bullet here that was going to work.

[Not a direct answer to the elements raised. This merely answering by
repeating, in terms as general as before, her basic defense of admitting
that the system was flawed before the Bush Administration fixed it with the
Homeland Security Act and the Patriot Act.]

What we do know is that we did have a systemic problem, a structural problem
between the FBI and the CIA. It was a long time in coming into being. It was
there because there were legal impediments, as well as bureaucratic
impediments. Those needed to be overcome.

Obviously, the structure of the FBI that did not get information from the
field offices up to FBI Central, in a way that FBI Central could react to
the whole range of information reports, was a problem..

KERREY: But, Dr. Rice, everybody...

RICE: But the structure of the FBI, the restructuring of the FBI, was not
going to be done in the 233 days in which we were in office...

KERREY: Dr. Rice, everybody who does national security in this town knows
the FBI and the CIA don't talk. So if you have a meeting on the 5th of July,
where you're trying to make certain that your domestic agencies are
preparing a defense against a possible attack, you knew al Qaeda cells were
in the United States, you've got to follow up.
[No follow-up on getting reference to the three specifics he raised. The
Senator has let her off and goes on to discuss FBI and CIA culture -- more
wasted time.

And the question is, what was your follow-up? What's the paper trail that
shows that you and Andy Card followed up from this meeting, and...
[So Kerry then jumps to the next number on his index card prepared by his
staff -- I suspect letting Condo now draw a deep breath as she sees what a
piece of cake this interview will be.]
RICE: I followed...

KERREY: Actually it won't be a question.
[Instead of letting her speak so we have some data to evaluate, Kerry
chooses to grandstand by telling Condoleezza everything he knows -- there
will be no trapping of Condoleezza with any of this bate. A Senator running
for President at a Nationally Televised Public Hearing, and a Bonesman to
boot.]

In the spirit of further declassification, this is what the August 6th memo
said to the president: that the FBI indicates patterns of suspicious
activity in the United States consistent with preparations for hijacking.

That's the language of the memo that was briefed to the president on the 6th
of August.

RICE: And that was checked out and steps were taken through FAA circulars to
warn of hijackings.
[Here is where the question of air-interception response time would have to
be brought up if this was a legitimate investigation of 9-11. But instead
of asking why air defenses were not on a hair trigger and alertness to
protect New York and Washington and why 40 minutes after the first crash the
Pentagon was able to be crashed by a plane that they knew was headed towards
Washington-Arlington, she stays in the pre-9-11 period and on the
single-point argument of systemic weakness.]

But when you cannot tell people where a hijacking might occur, under what
circumstances -- I can tell you that I think the best antidote to what
happened in that regard would have been many years before to think about
what you could do for instance to harden cockpits.
[Hardened cockpits? What about jet fighters signalling FLight 77 headed for
Washington that if the plane does not land it will be shot down. Why no
jets? The anchoring on the problem of "What could we have done to prevent
etc." will not be departed from during this hearing.]
Rice:

But I think it is really quite unfair to suggest that something that was a
threat spike in June or July gave you the kind of opportunity to make the
changes in air security that could have been -- that needed to be made.
[Thinking in terms of new cocpit doors and proceedures for all planes,
yes -- but does that hold true for air-interception readiness, which was
the one obvious failing that was critical to 9-11 success -- in fact no
hijacker would really have attempted an attack on Washington D.C. so long
after the crashes at New York, would they. They would have timed the
attacks for the same moment, wouldn't they have? Rice has substituted the
issue of cockpit hardening for the bigger issue of why interception was so
late -- AND I KNOW WITHOUT READING FURTHER THAT THIS COMMISSION WILL NOT
ASK ABOUT THE LATTER -- JUST AS THEY HAVE REFUSED TO PROCESS ANY OF THE
INFORMATION ON THIS WHICH 9-11 CITIZEN INVESTIGATORS HAVE SENT TO THE
COMMISSION THROUGH AL FALZENBERG.]

LEHMAN: As a last question, tell us what you really recommend we should
address our attentions to to fix this as the highest priority. Not just
moving boxes around, but what can you tell us in public here that we could
do, since we are outside the legislature and outside the executive branch
and can bring the focus of attention for change? Tell us what you recommend
we do.
[Here is a former Secretary of the Navy skipping the opportunity to ask
Rice about the failure of air defense, instead asking her a softball
question consistent with the Commissions chartered purpose "to find out what
can be done to prevent Arab Fundamentalists from taking box cutters and
going after again." He is asking for her recommendations -- a piece of
cake -- a great time filler. ]

RICE: My greatest concern is that, as September 11th recedes from memory,
that we will begin to unlearn the lessons of what we've learned.
[In other words, she fears we will roll back Homeland Security and Patriot
Act --

RICE: Mr. Roemer, by definition, we didn't have enough information, we
didn't have enough protection, because the attack happened -- by definition.
And I think we've all asked ourselves, what more could have been done?

I will tell you if we had known that an attack was coming against the United
States, that an attack was coming against New York and Washington, we would
have moved heaven and earth to stop it.
[Yet surprisingly she does not even have a grasp of the prevention issue --
all she can do is revert to argument "A" yet again.]

But you heard the character of the threat report we were getting: something
very, very big is going to happen. How do you act on "something very, very
big is going to happen" beyond trying to put people on alert? Most of the
threat reporting was abroad.

[Her rhetorical , how do you react except by putting people "on alert" is a
distortion. Alerting people is not the same as putting people under your
command on alert. The Pentagon is not mentioned. Rumsfeld putting all air
interception under his direct command, even though he was in his own office
until after the Pentagon was hit and then went to make sure that victims
cleared to escape the building were the ones who allowed out the door,
before he showed up in the situation room. (See Carol Valentine's research
on this.) Clearly neither the Commission nor Rice want to go there.]

It appears that I do not have a full transcript after all.
Can someone tell me where the full transcript can be downloaded so I can
finish what I started here????

Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington
REMEMBER< THE REAL INVESTIGATION OF 9-11 HAS BEEN COMPLETED BY CITIZENS
WORKING WITH THE VIDEO AND PHOTO EVIDENCE AND WITH WITNESS STATEMENTS AND
WHEREAS NOTHING DEFINITE ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE OPERATION CAN BE LEARNED
FROM THE SUSPICIOUS EVENTS AT THE WTC (REGARDING EXPLOSIONS, THE CONTROLLED
COLLAPSE, AND THE FATE OF BUILDING NUMBER 7, A STATEMENT (SLIP) BY AN
OFFICIAL THAT FEMA ARRIVED THE NIGHT OF THE 10TH ETC.) -- YET IT IS THE
PENTAGON EVIDENCE THAT PROVES THAT 9-11 WAS A FRAMEUP -- THAT THE BOEING
757 OVERFLEW THE PENTAGON AND LANDED AT REAGAN AIRPORT ONLY ONE MILE BEYOND
THE CRASH, WHILE A JET FIGHTER OR OTHER SMALL JET PLATFORM CONDUCTED THE
ACTUAL ATTACK FIRING AT LEAST ONE MISSILE AHEAD OF ITS OWN CRASH INTO THE
FIRST FLOOR OF THE WEST WALL.
THE PROOF IS ASSEMBLED AND THE IMPLICATIONS ARE OBVIOUS THROUGH SIMPLE
DIRECT INSPECTION. SEE FOR YOURSELF:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUTHBAZOOKA/message/5

http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911/Eastman/m18h05.html

And this is the information that no commission member has ever discussed or
acknowledge seeing -- that Al Falzenberg says he processed to appropriate
people (i.e., to a black hole where it will never emerge.)

Note too that Kerry has played an active part in the coverup -- that the
bonesman was hand picked by the administration to sit on this investigation.
Clearly they knew what they were doing.

[Dick Eastman]

From: "Thomas Conlon" <------>
To: <penta...@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 12:14 PM
Subject: RE: [pentagon911] Rice -- some line-by-line comment

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Eastman [mailto:de1...@nwinfo.net]
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 12:20 PM
> To: Michel Chossudovsky; Hon. Cynthia McKinney McKinney;
> standf...@yahoogroups.com; Red_...@yahoogroups.com;
> penta...@yahoogroups.com; antiw...@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [pentagon911] Rice -- some line-by-line comment
> ..
>
> >It appears that I do not have a full transcript after all.
> >Can someone tell me where the full transcript can be downloaded so I
> can finish what I started here????
>

> http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing9/rice_statement.pdf
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61252-2004Apr8.html
>
> The Washington Post site has a nice little collection under
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/.
>
> ..

>
>
> >Note too that Kerry has played an active part in the coverup -- that
> the bonesman was hand picked by the >administration to sit on this
> investigation. Clearly they knew what they were doing.
>
>

> *Also, I feel obliged to point out I believe you have "John Kerry"
> confused with "Bob Kerrey" in your comments.
>
> http://www.9-11commission.gov/about/bio_kerrey.htm
>
> Thanks!
>
> PS So what do you think about the "Flight of the Bumblebee" theory that
> got ~rivero at whatreallyhappened.com so steamed?

Thomas,

I did have my Kerrys confused. Act in haste, repent at leisure.

I'm surprised, and grateful, that you would bother to help moronic me out
with the information I asked for. -- and you did it in such a charitably
polite way. Thank you for your help.

Think I'll go hide under a rock for a while..

About the bumble bee piece that first appeared on Carol Valentine's site --
it was one of the first articles on the subject -- I do not remember
finding anything wrong with it.

I was not aware that Mike Rivero had found fault with it. Rivero and I were
sharing information (he has been around much longer than I have and had been
a hero of sorts of mine on the newsgroujps) but soon after the Bosankoe
enlargement of the Pentagon security camera pictures he all-of-a-sudden
turned off to the idea that the Pentagon was not hit by the Boeing, accusing
me, two days after being friendly and collaborative, of being working for
the enemy to distract people from his findings regarding Israel. But he has
never given information to back his position -- he has never explained what
line of reasoning (if any exists) led him away from the conclusions we had
been converging on together.

Darn I feel like I botched it in my hasty analysis. My critique of the Rice
testimony is still valid -- I hope people will look at that part, rather
than rejecting all of it because I stupidly talk of John Kerry on the
committee.

With gratitude,

Dick

"There exists in this country a plot to enslave every man woman and child.
Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot." -
President John F. Kennedy - 7 days before he was assassinated.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary
depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair, 1906

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority.
It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the
people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who
mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good
masters, but they mean to be masters." - Daniel Webster

[Dick Eastman]

Dr. Rice's prepared statement fillsin more blanks for 9-11 investigators
than perhaps she intended

As Prepared for Delivery
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR DR. CONDOLEEZZA RICE
OPENING REMARKS

April 8, 2004

THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORIST ATTACKS
UPON THE UNITED STATES
Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC

[Rice takes up a large portion of her 2 1/2 hours with this statement,
none of which is relevant to the defenses of the US nor an explanation
of why defense took the inadequate form that it did on the morning
of 9-11-01. ]

I thank the Commission for arranging this special session.
Thank you for helping to find a way to meet the Nation's need to
learn all we can about the September 11th attacks, while
preserving important Constitutional principles.

[She is part of the administration that is withholding information,
yet speaks of "our" need as a Nation to learn all we can.]

This Commission, and those who appear before it, have a
vital charge. We owe it to those we lost, and to their loved
ones, and to our country, to learn all we can about that tragic
day, and the events that led to it. Many families of the
victims are here today, and I thank them for their contributions
to the Commission's work.

[Again identifying herself with those seeking to learn all they can -- no
wonder she was hugged by a victim family member.]

The terrorist threat to our Nation did not emerge on
September 11th, 2001. Long before that day, radical, freedomhating
terrorists declared war on America and on the civilized
world. The attack on the Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983,
the hijacking of the Achille Lauro in 1985, the rise of al-Qaida
and the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, the attacks
on American installations in Saudi Arabia in 1995 and 1996, the
East Africa embassy bombings of 1998, the attack on the USS Cole
in 2000, these and other atrocities were part of a sustained,
systematic campaign to spread devastation and chaos and to
murder innocent Americans.

[Laying the presupposition that terrorists motivated by hatred of freedom
did 9-11.]

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The terrorists were at war with us, but we were not yet at
war with them. For more than 20 years, the terrorist threat
gathered, and America's response across several administrations
of both parties was insufficient. Historically, democratic
societies have been slow to react to gathering threats, tending
instead to wait to confront threats until they are too dangerous
to ignore or until it is too late. Despite the sinking of the
Lusitania in 1915 and continued German harassment of American
shipping, the United States did not enter the First World War
until two years later. Despite Nazi Germany's repeated
violations of the Versailles Treaty and its string of
provocations throughout the mid-1930s, the Western democracies
did not take action until 1939. The U.S. Government did not act
against the growing threat from Imperial Japan until the threat
became all too evident at Pearl Harbor. And, tragically, for
all the language of war spoken before September 11th, this
country simply was not on a war footing.

[Laying in all the great established lies of the past. The truth about
World War one and the Wilson administration is too involved for comment
here. Rice is giving out discredited establishmentarian history.]

Since then, America has been at war. And under President
Bush's leadership, we will remain at war until the terrorist
threat to our Nation is ended. The world has changed so much
that it is hard to remember what our lives were like before that
day.

[there is not terrorist threat -- 9-11 has been proven to be an inside-job
set-up]

But I do want to describe the actions this Administration
was taking to fight terrorism before September 11th, 2001.

[Note that she sets the stage set by Richard Clarke for talking about prior
clues to the alleged attack -- and not the much more important information
concerning the response to the attack after the first indication of a
hijacking.]

After President Bush was elected, we were briefed by the
Clinton Administration on many national security issues during
the transition. The President-elect and I were briefed by
George Tenet on terrorism and on the al-Qaida network. Members
of Sandy Berger's NSC staff briefed me, along with other members
of the new national security team, on counterterrorism and
al-Qaida. This briefing lasted about one hour, and it reviewed
the Clinton Administration's counterterrorism approach and the
various counterterrorism activities then underway. Sandy and I
personally discussed a variety of other topics, including North
Korea, Iraq, the Middle East, and the Balkans.
Because of these briefings and because we had watched the
rise of al-Qaida over the years, we understood that the network
posed a serious threat to the United States. We wanted to
ensure there was no respite in the fight against al-Qaida. On
an operational level, we decided immediately to continue
pursuing the Clinton Administration's covert action authorities
and other efforts to fight the network. President Bush retained
George Tenet as Director of Central Intelligence, and Louis
Freeh remained the Director of the FBI. I took the unusual step
of retaining Dick Clarke and the entire Clinton Administration's
counterterrorism team on the NSC staff.

[This is tantamount to tieing the Clinton administration to the
Bush administration in the perpetration of 9-11]

I knew Dick to be an expert in his field, as well as
an experienced crisis manager. Our goal was to
ensure continuity of operations while we
developed new and more aggressive policies.

[In other words the Bush team were busy on another
project and couldn't be bother with the routine stuff.
It was Democrats who dropped the ball, she is saying,
and if Democrats want to press the issue they will
turn responsibility back unto them. -- Interesting.
Has anyone else commented on this?]

At the beginning of the Administration, President Bush
revived the practice of meeting with the Director of Central
Intelligence almost every day in the Oval Office -- meetings
which I attended, along with the Vice President and the Chief of
Staff. At these meetings, the President received up-to-date
intelligence and asked questions of his most senior intelligence
officials. From January 20 through September 10, the President
received at these daily meetings more than 40 briefing items on
al-Qaida, and 13 of these were in response to questions he or
his top advisers had posed. In addition to seeing DCI Tenet
almost every morning, I generally spoke by telephone every
morning at 7:15 with Secretaries Powell and Rumsfeld. I also
met and spoke regularly with the DCI about al-Qaida and
terrorism.

[ So the Administration was planning more aggressive policies,
while meeting frequently with Tenet and Cheney almost every day.
The agenda of these talks is not mentioned -- certainly they were
not all there to familiarize Bush with the details of their jobs -- that
is what Rice was for. Yet none of the content of these meetings
has been shared -- does that mean that they were not discussing
means of prevention, but rather ways to be aggressive?]

Of course, we also had other responsibilities. President
Bush had set a broad foreign policy agenda. We were determined
to confront the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
We were improving America's relations with the world's great
powers. We had to change an Iraq policy that was making no
progress against a hostile regime which regularly shot at U.S.
planes enforcing U.N. Security Council Resolutions.

[She does not discuss what meansures they were considering
for "changing an Iraq policy" to make it so planes couldn't be
shot at any more. Was this also part of the more aggressive
measures that were being discussed each day with Cheney and
Tenet?

And we had
to deal with the occasional crisis, for instance, when the crew
of a Navy plane was detained in China for 11 days.

[Quite the distraction that -- and yet a month later CHina allows
the US to conquer one country on its eastern boarder and boast
of soon going after South Korea on its eastern boarder -- is that
how improvement in relations with the other super powers was
effected -- by taking out the Moslems of Afganistan so they could
not support the captive Moslem peoples of western China?]

We also moved to develop a new and comprehensive strategy
to eliminate the al-Qaida terrorist network. President Bush
understood the threat, and he understood its importance. He
made clear to us that he did not want to respond to al-Qaida one
attack at a time. He told me he was "tired of swatting flies."
This new strategy was developed over the Spring and Summer
of 2001, and was approved by the President's senior national
security officials on September 4. It was the very first major
national security policy directive of the Bush Administration --
not Russia, not missile defense, not Iraq, but the elimination
of al-Qaida.

[Condoleezza is admitting here at the outset what investigators
have discovered -- that detailed plans were being made for
the "war on terror" against the al Qa'eda before 9-11. Presumably
this would have been a topic in the "almost daily" talks with
Cheney and Tenet. Thus she escapes embarrassing admission
of this when questioned under oath.]

Although this National Security Presidential Directive was
originally a highly classified document, we arranged for
portions to be declassified to help the Commission in its work,
and I will describe some of those today. The strategy set as
its goal the elimination of the al-Qaida network. It ordered
the leadership of relevant U.S. departments and agencies to make
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the elimination of al-Qaida a high priority and to use all
aspects of our national power -- intelligence, financial,
diplomatic, and military -- to meet this goal. And it gave
Cabinet Secretaries and department heads specific
responsibilities. For instance:
· It directed the Secretary of State to work with other
countries to end all sanctuaries given to al-Qaida.
· It directed the Secretaries of the Treasury and State to
work with foreign governments to seize or freeze assets and
holdings of al-Qaida and its benefactors.
· It directed the Director of Central Intelligence to prepare
an aggressive program of covert activities to disrupt
al-Qaida and provide assistance to anti-Taliban groups
operating against al-Qaida in Afghanistan.
· It tasked the Director of OMB with ensuring that sufficient
funds were available in the budgets over the next five
years to meet the goals laid out in the strategy.
· And it directed the Secretary of Defense to -- and I quote
-- "ensure that the contingency planning process include
plans: against al-Qaida and associated terrorist
facilities in Afghanistan, including leadership, commandcontrol-
communications, training, and logistics facilities;
against Taliban targets in Afghanistan, including
leadership, command-control, air and air defense, ground
forces, and logistics; to eliminate weapons of mass
destruction which al-Qaida and associated terrorist groups
may acquire or manufacture, including those stored in
underground bunkers." This was a change from the prior
strategy -- Presidential Decision Directive 62, signed in
1998 -- which ordered the Secretary of Defense to provide
transportation to bring individual terrorists to the U.S.
for trial, to protect DOD forces overseas, and to be
prepared to respond to terrorist and weapons of mass
destruction incidents.

[Is she saying that the new directive made before 9-11
contained the decision to not bring accussed terrorists
to trial in the United States -- or is she saying that the
1990 directive contained that order?]

More importantly, we recognized that no counterterrorism
strategy could succeed in isolation. As you know from the
Pakistan and Afghanistan strategy documents that we made
available to the Commission, our counterterrorism strategy was
part of a broader package of strategies that addressed the
complexities of the region.

[In other words they had plans to alter the geopolitical
complexion of the region -- who could they have done
this but by projection of force?]

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Integrating our counterterrorism and regional strategies
was the most difficult and the most important aspect of the new
strategy to get right. Al-Qaida was both client of and patron
to the Taliban, which in turn was supported by Pakistan. Those
relationships provided al-Qaida with a powerful umbrella of
protection, and we had to sever them.

[Why separate Pakistan from the Taliban and al Qa'eda? Why
not spearate al Qa'eda from the Taliban and Pakistan? Remember,
Mohammed Omar offered to extradite bin Laden immediately as
soon as Bush provided evidence showing probable cause. There
was not need to go after the Taliban, unless there were other, unspoken
reasons afoot.]

This was not easy.
Not that we hadn't tried. Within a month of taking office,
President Bush sent a strong, private message to President
Musharraf urging him to use his influence with the Taliban to
bring Bin Laden to justice and to close down al-Qaida training
camps. Secretary Powell actively urged the Pakistanis,
including Musharraf himself, to abandon support for the Taliban.

[But again, there was not evidence that the bin Laden group
was involved in teh two embassy attacks or the attack on the
USS Cole. The world has the example of the Israeli false-flag
attack on the USS Liberty. And I think it was clear that bin Laden
could have sanctuary as long as he behaved himself and did
not bring the Americans on the heads of the Taliban. ]

I met with Pakistan's Foreign Minister in my office in June of
2001. I delivered a very tough message, which was met with a
rote, expressionless response.

[What does she want when she delivers a "very tough" message.
And what was the very tought threat that she presented?]

America's al-Qaida policy wasn't working because our
Afghanistan policy wasn't working. And our Afghanistan policy
wasn't working because our Pakistan policy wasn't working. We
recognized that America's counterterrorism policy had to be
connected to our regional strategies and to our overall foreign
policy.

[The failed in diplomacy -- didn't even try it -- and so proceeded
with the aggressive policy that Cheney and Tenet were working
on each morning -- when we all thought the concern for the country
was economics back in those innocent days prior to 9-11, right?"

To address these problems, I made sure to involve key
regional experts. I brought in Zalmay Khalilzad, an expert on
Afghanistan who, as a senior diplomat in the 1980s, had worked
closely with the Afghan Mujahedeen, helping them to turn back
the Soviet invasion. I also ensured the participation of the
NSC experts on South Asia, as well as the Secretary of State and
his regional specialists. Together, we developed a new
strategic approach to Afghanistan. Instead of the intense focus
on the Northern Alliance,

[Rice has just here told us that the US was focusing on the
Northern Alliance (opium drug lords) and not the Taliban,
and that they then decided to get tough with the Taliban --
and this at a time when the Taliban had that very year,
erradicated most of the opium production even in northern
regions -- hurting the flow of opium to China where it
is used to make the heroin which provided -- until the Taliban
stopped the flow -- $2 trillion per year laundered into
Wall Street and City of London banks where it has financed
Chinas industrialization -- we see very clearly from Rice's
statment what is really going on here!!!!]

we emphasized the importance of the
south -- the social and political heartland of the country. Our
new approach to Pakistan combined the use of carrots and sticks
to persuade Pakistan to drop its support for the Taliban. And
we began to change our approach to India, to preserve stability
on the subcontinent.

[Powell actually went to India and spoke of impending war
between the US and Afganistan and sought to enlist India's
cooperation. "Stability" is certainly a euphemism for
what was really a plan to use the US military for a drug hit
on the anti-drug regime of Mohammed Omar, the real target
of 9-11.]

While we were developing this new strategy to deal with
al-Qaida, we also made decisions on a number of specific antial-
Qaida initiatives that had been proposed by Dick Clarke.
Many of these ideas had been deferred by the last
Administration, and some had been on the table since 1998. We
increased counterterror assistance to Uzbekistan; we bolstered
the Treasury Department's activities to track and seize
terrorist assets; we increased funding for counterterrorism
activities across several agencies; and we moved quickly to arm

[In otherwords, knowing that the freedom of governments
to steal was coming with the advent of war -- they made
arrangements to seize assets and bolster the budgets of
Mr. Tenet's CIA (the same CIA that was caught shipping
cocaine through Mena Arkansas and into California etc.
free of all consequences.)
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Predator unmanned surveillance vehicles for action against
al-Qaida.
When threat reporting increased during the Spring and
Summer of 2001, we moved the U.S. Government at all levels to a
high state of alert and activity. Let me clear up any confusion
about the relationship between the development of our new
strategy and the many actions we took to respond to threats that
summer. Policy development and crisis management require
different approaches. Throughout this period, we did both
simultaneously.

[In other words there was more compartmentalization of
secrecy, allowing the plans for war and exploiting attendant
opportunities to go forward.]

For the essential crisis management task, we depended on
the Counterterrorism Security Group chaired by Dick Clarke to be
the interagency nerve center. The CSG consisted of senior
counterterrorism experts from CIA, the FBI, the Department of
Justice, the Defense Department (including the Joint Chiefs),
the State Department, and the Secret Service. The CSG had met
regularly for many years, and its members had worked through
numerous periods of heightened threat activity. As threat
information increased, the CSG met more frequently, sometimes
daily,

[So we have Tentet and CHeney meeting the president almost daily
(every morning, i.e., prime time, every day!) at the same time
this Counter Terrorism Security Group was meeting also almost
daily -- not to guard against current threats, but to plan the architecture
of this new "aggessive" pro-active plan that would replace the current
system.]

to review and analyze the threat reporting and to
coordinate actions in response.

[Assess the threat and coordinate actions in response?
But remember, Bush was tired of "swatting flies" and
Condoleezza was threatinging toughly Pakistan (the
Afganistan government of Mohammed Omar not
worth even a warning, but simply on the hit list, from
what Rice is saying here.]

CSG members also had ready
access to their Cabinet Secretaries and could raise any concerns
they had at the highest levels.

So in addition to Cheney and Tenet meeting with the President
on this, and the planners working on it, the planners also had
open access to Cheney and Tenet during the rest of the day.
Obviously this new focus that was to be more than swatting flies
and would take out the whole terrorist problem in one
major response -- was a lot of attention to devote when
no 9-11 had taken place and acts of terrorism had been so
minor (and possibly were Israeli balck-op false flag operations
and not Arab terrorism at all.]

The threat reporting that we received in the Spring and
Summer of 2001 was not specific as to time, nor place, nor
manner of attack. Almost all of the reports focused on al-Qaida
activities outside the United States, especially in the Middle
East and North Africa. In fact, the information that was
specific enough to be actionable referred to terrorist
operations overseas. More often, it was frustratingly vague.

["Frustratingly vague" means sketchy and unreliable.
She is saying that intelligence was not indicating the
US was to be the target -- how odd then that Wolfowitz
and others should call for invasion of Afganistan and
Iraq the very day of the attack? Why not blame
or anti-globalists -- or any nation that has been destroyed
by World Trade?]
and his anarchist buddies in Seattle?

Let me read you some of the actual chatter that we picked up
that Spring and Summer:
· "Unbelievable news in coming weeks"
· "Big event ... there will be a very, very, very, very big
uproar"
· "There will be attacks in the near future"

[Condoleezza does not tell the COmmission that all
of this field intelligence came from Israel, from
Mossad agents -- the US had not field agents in
Central Asia -- and Israel claimed that it had -- and
it claimed that its reports like this -- all so vague and
indefinite and suggestive of a threat without giveing
any specifics that would be of use in anticipating and
repelling the danger -- this is consistent with the
spy agency feeding information that should have been
supsected and checked, both as a possible impending
attack by Arabs as claimed but also as a possible new
Israeli false-flag terrorism frame-up.]

Troubling, yes. But they don't tell us when; they don't
tell us where; they don't tell us who; and they don't tell us
how.
In this context, I want to address in some detail one of
the briefing items we received, since its content has frequently
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been mischaracterized. On August 6, 2001, the President's
intelligence briefing included a response to questions he had
earlier raised about any al-Qaida intentions to strike our
homeland. The briefing item reviewed past intelligence
reporting, mostly dating from the 1990s, regarding possible
al-Qaida plans to attack inside the United States. It referred
to uncorroborated reporting from 1998 that terrorists might
attempt to hijack a U.S. aircraft in an attempt to blackmail the
government into releasing U.S.-held terrorists who had
participated in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

[And if there were any Arab terrorists involved they were
proably set up by Israel to think that this was the kind
of operation they were doing -- remember that it
appeared that some writings in diaries found in the van
afterwards indicated the hijacker expecting to do jail time
for his deed.]

This
briefing item was not prompted by any specific threat
information. And it did not raise the possibility that
terrorists might use airplanes as missiles.

Despite the fact that the vast majority of the threat
information we received was focused overseas, I was also

concerned about possible threats inside the United States. On

July 5, Chief of Staff Andy Card and I met with Dick Clarke, and
I asked Dick to make sure that domestic agencies were aware of
the heightened threat period and were taking appropriate steps
to respond, even though we did not have specific threats to the
homeland.

[Thus she takes credit for doing this and for anything
priaseworthy Clarke might have done as well. ALthough
Clarke is obviously part of the operation -- even his
testimoney prior to RIce testifying was intended to frame
the subject of Rice's testimony and the line of questioning:
"Was there sufficient prior warning to have justified steps
that could have prevented the crashbombings?" But,
earlier she said that Clinton's old crew was in charge of
right-now defenses as these planes for the "big-swat"
were being formulated by Cheney and Tenet and the
other CSG multi-agnecy task force.

Later that same day, Clarke convened a special
meeting of his CSG, as well as representatives from the FAA, the
INS, Customs, and the Coast Guard. At that meeting, these
agencies were asked to take additional measures to increase
security and surveillance.

[To increase efforts to keep people away from certain places and
information.]

Throughout this period of heightened threat information, we
worked hard on multiple fronts to detect, protect against, and
disrupt any terrorist plans or operations that might lead to an
attack. For instance:

· The Department of Defense issued at least five urgent
warnings to U.S. military forces that al-Qaida might be
planning a near-term attack, and placed our military forces
in certain regions on heightened alert.

[In "certain regions?" But not Washington D.C. apparently.
And who followed up on this point? No one.]

· The State Department issued at least four urgent security
advisories and public worldwide cautions on terrorist
threats, enhanced security measures at certain embassies,
and warned the Taliban that they would be held responsible
for any al-Qaida attack on U.S. interests.

[So they have threatened Pakistan, they have been planning
an "aggressive" response to the general problem of terrorism
that involves a once-and-for-all 'single-swat' answer to the
problem -- and a problem focused on dealing with Southern
Afganistan (the Taliban) without actually dealing with them
diplomatically with them -- and now they make their policy
committment so they will be able to invade Afganistan as
a "trip-wire" response as soon as any terrorist event occurs.]

· The FBI issued at least three nationwide warnings to
Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies, and
specifically stated that, although the vast majority of the
information indicated overseas targets, attacks against the
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homeland could not be ruled out. The FBI also tasked all
56 of its U.S. Field Offices to increase surveillance of
known or suspected terrorists and reach out to known
informants who might have information on terrorist
activities.

[This is a logical thing to do if you expect Arabs sympathetic
to Palestine and Iraq etc. might be inspired by the 9-11
false-flag attack to go off and do some free-lance
terrorism of their own in the moment of exhilaration.
This is a step that would have to be taken, before undertaking
the frame-up that elicits the "big swat."

· The FAA issued at least five Civil Aviation Security
Information Circulars to all U.S. airlines and airport
security personnel, including specific warnings about the
possibility of hijackings.

[Alerts, with no change of procedure -- as one could expect --
but who would deny seats to persons with Arab names etc.?
They must have known that their hijackers (if any) would not
raise suspicion -- and remember, no airport video of the actual
boarding of any of the crashed planes has ever been released --
only one of a "hijacker" but on another day at another airport.]

· The CIA worked round the clock to disrupt threats
worldwide. Agency officials launched a wide-ranging
disruption effort against al-Qaida in more than 20
countries.

[How do you disrupt what you can't locate or identify?]

· During this period, the Vice President, DCI Tenet, and the
NSC's Counterterrorism staff called senior foreign
officials requesting that they increase their intelligence
assistance and report to us any relevant threat
information.

[You mean that had not been doing this until then? Or do
they mean they had not been notifying the Vice President
direclty?]

This is a brief sample of our intense activity over the Summer
of 2001.

Yet, as your hearings have shown, there was no silver
bullet that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. In
hindsight, if anything might have helped stop 9/11, it would
have been better information about threats inside the United
States, something made difficult by structural and legal
impediments that prevented the collection and sharing of
information by our law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

[Rice is saying that no security would have been possible
without Homeland Security and the Patriot Act in place --
that there were laws and institutions that prevented the
Patriot Act and Homeland Security power necessary
to have done the job. In other words, she is telling the
Commission that without these powers the US would
be vulnerable to more attacks on skyscrapers etc.
But how does Homeland Security and the Patriot Act,
speed up the time it takes air defences to intercept
a jetliner headed for Washington or Manhattan?]

So the attacks came. A band of vicious terrorists tried to
decapitate our government, destroy our financial system, and
break the spirit of America.

[ Quit a girl, isn't she? Decapitate our government? On
what basis does she claim this -- she has already stated
how sketchy everything was. And how does she explain
the fact that the specific hijackers were identified in a matter
of hours and the Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld knew that
al Qa'eda and Afganistan and Iraq were all involved
and needed to be taken down?]

As an officer of government on
duty that day, I will never forget the sorrow and the anger I
felt. Nor will I forget the courage and resilience shown by the
American people and the leadership of the President that day.

[Rice here exhibits her value to the Oligarchy as a front.]

Now, we have an opportunity and an obligation to move
forward together. Bold and comprehensive changes are sometimes
only possible in the wake of catastrophic events -- events which
create a new consensus that allows us to transcend old ways of
thinking and acting.

[Except that both she, Henry Kissinger, and Zbignew Brzezinsk have
made similar statements before 9-11. This is the Machiavellian
club's way of moving their agendas ahead, by making the events
that they require to pursue the policies they determine.]

Just as World War II led to a fundamental
reorganization of our national defense structure and to the
creation of the National Security Council, so has September 11th
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made possible sweeping changes in the ways we protect our
homeland.

[A coup based on a mass-murder false-flag frame-up. And
Arab terrorism against the US has never existed and even
now, even after the provocation of Afganistan and Iraq, it
still does not exist. ANd of course, Pearl Harbor 12-07-41
has been under a cloud as well -- but we won't go into that here.]

President Bush is leading the country during this time of
crisis and change. He has unified and streamlined our efforts
to secure the American Homeland by creating the Department of
Homeland Security, established a new center to integrate and
analyze terrorist threat information, directed the
transformation of the FBI into an agency dedicated to fighting
terror, broken down the bureaucratic walls and legal barriers
that prevented the sharing of vital threat information between
our domestic law enforcement and our foreign intelligence
agencies, and, working with the Congress, given officials new
tools, such as the USA PATRIOT Act, to find and stop terrorists.
And he has done all of this in a way that is consistent with
protecting America's cherished civil liberties and with
preserving our character as a free and open society.

[In Russia during the Soviet dictatorship the governemnt
functionaries would talk about the freedoms Russians
enjoyed.]

But the President also recognizes that our work is far from
complete. More structural reform will likely be necessary. Our
intelligence gathering and analysis have improved dramatically
in the last two years, but they must be stronger still. The
President and all of us in his Administration welcome new ideas
and fresh thinking.

[Rice is asking for the Commission to suggest new invasions
of privacy -- more power to intimidate people from expressing
political views. New ideas and fresh thinking -- like the 9-11
mass-murder frame-up.]

We are eager to do whatever is necessary to
protect the American people. And we look forward to receiving
the recommendations of this Commission.

[Their goal is to protect the American people. Remember, they
said Afganistan had to be invaded to get bin Laden to protect
the American people. Iraq had to be invaded to get those
weapons of mass destruction that could be deployed in
45 minutes. Homeland security and the Patriot Act were
necessary to keep cells of al Qa'eda in the US from
killing more thousands. BUT MORE IS NECESSARY,
RICE SAYS, AND SHE WANTS THE COMMISSION TO GIVE
SANCTION TO THE NEXT ROUND OF PATRIOTIC
HOMELAND SECURITY MEASURES?]

We are at war and our security as a nation depends on
winning that war.

[Fighting whom? The perpetrators of the 9-11 black-op?
The people who shut down Congress with anthrax traced
to US military lab facilities?]

We must and we will do everything we can to
harden terrorist targets within the United States. Dedicated
law enforcement and security professionals continue to risk
their lives every day to make us all safer, and we owe them a
debt of gratitude.

[So, the next step is for every federal builidng to be turned
into a military pill box with concret barriers and guards with
machine guns -- so we can have real security to pursue the
kind of governance called for by a war on terror.]

And, let's remember, those charged with
protecting us from attack have to succeed 100 percent of the
time. To inflict devastation on a massive scale, the terrorists
only have to succeed once, and we know they are trying every
day.
[ And what does this mean? Have they thwarted any
new 9-11s? What has been tried? Was there no follow-up
on this question either?]

That is why we must address the source of the problem. We
must stay on offense, to find and defeat the terrorists wherever
they live, hide, and plot around the world.

[In other words, whenever international drug dealers are having
troulbe with some government, the United States will declare
that that government is harboring terrorists -- the drug lords
will arrange the terrorism frame-ups) and so Americans can
be dispatched to take out that government and replace it
with a new government more friendly to the drug trade,
currency manipulation, and privatization by sending out
sons and daughers to do the killing -- poor young dupes
who do not understand the language of good people
who will be trying to tell them what really has been going on.]

If we learned
anything on September 11th, 2001, it is that we cannot wait while
dangers gather.

[So here she says the global force of "anti-terrorism" will be used
pre-emptively -- attacking people who fit the profile of terror
(i.e. victims of globalization or Zionism or Drug Lords.) ]

After the September 11th attacks, our Nation faced hard
choices. We could fight a narrow war against al-Qaida and the
Taliban or we could fight a broad war against a global menace.
We could seek a narrow victory or we could work for a lasting
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peace and a better world.

[World War One was fought, said President Wilson, "to
make the world safe for Democracy" yet it was really
fought to grab the oil lands from the Turks, to overthrow
the genuinely liberal Czar, and to take down Germany
whose Kaiser had called himself the "protector of Islam.'
And Wilson was elected with World War One in mind.
Bernard Baruch, who helped control Wilson, became
the economic Czar of the entire US economy, and
money-lenders and war profiteers made billions.
Mrs. Rice's idealism of making a world safe from
terrorism is no different than this.]

President Bush chose the bolder
course.
He recognizes that the War on Terror is a broad war. Under
his leadership, the United States and our allies are disrupting
terrorist operations, cutting off their funding, and hunting
down terrorists one-by-one. Their world is getting smaller.
The terrorists have lost a home-base and training camps in
Afghanistan. The Governments of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia now
pursue them with energy and force.

[Rice is here making a campaign speech -- eating away
the 2 1/2 hours allowed for her testimony.]

We are confronting the nexus between terror and weapons of
mass destruction. We are working to stop the spread of deadly
weapons and prevent then from getting into the hands of
terrorists, seizing dangerous materials in transit, where
necessary. Because we acted in Iraq, Saddam Hussein will never
again use weapons of mass destruction against his people or his
neighbors. And we have convinced Libya to give up all its WMDrelated
programs and materials.
And as we attack the threat at its sources, we are also
addressing its roots. Thanks to the bravery and skill of our
men and women in uniform, we removed from power two of the
world's most brutal regimes -- sources of violence, and fear,
and instability in the region. Today, along with many allies,
we are helping the people of Iraq and Afghanistan to build free
societies. And we are working with the people of the Middle
East to spread the blessings of liberty and democracy as the
alternatives to instability, hatred, and terror. This work is
hard and dangerous, yet it is worthy of our effort and our
sacrifice. The defeat of terror and the success of freedom in
those nations will serve the interests of our Nation and inspire
hope and encourage reform throughout the greater Middle East.
In the aftermath of September 11th, those were the right
choices for America to make -- the only choices that can ensure
the safety of our Nation in the decades to come.
Thank you. Now I am happy to answer your questions.
# # #

[ Ten pages of text read, that could have simply been released
so as to allow the questioning the full time alotted. But no
one on the commission thought to suggest that.

And here statement anchored the subject matter away
from the events of 9-11 -- the system failure that she does not
even address.]

Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington

=====================

I still do not have the complete text of questioning -- is there some
source other than the Washington Post for this testimony during the
questioning period?

But enough is shared here to completely discredit this Commission as not
only incompetent in its questioning, but going out of their way to shiled
the witness.

(This segment is a revision of an earlier
posting today -- correcting my confounding
Bob Kerry of the Commission with John Kerry
the candidate for the Democratic nomination
for President.)

=====

RICE: Despite the fact that the vast majority
of the threat information we received was
focused overseas, I was also concerned about
possible threats inside the United States.

[Her very first statement reinforces the anchoring
on the bogus issue of prior knowledge of possible
attacks. Of course everyone understands that
with all the information in the world and with
large organizations that important information
will be overlooked with serious consequences.
Condoleezza and the Commission are trying to
pin the case that the Administration were efficient
but only human -- that while they were alert and
doing their best the system, which was decrepit
because it is not totalitarian enough and
well-funded enough in the pre-homland security
days, let them down.]

On July 5, Chief of Staff Andy Card and I met with
Dick Clarke, and I asked Dick to make sure that
domestic agencies were aware of the heightene

threat period and were taking appropriate step

to respond, even though we did not have specifi

threats to the homeland.

[Establishes that anything good that Clarke did it
was because Condoleezza told him too and that
she acted on the little information she had, i.e.,
non-specific notice of a heightened threat.]

Later that same day, Clarke convened a special
meeting of his CSG, as well as representatives
from the FAA, the INS, Customs, and the Coast Guard.
At that meeting, these agencies were asked to take
additional measures to increase security and
surveillance.
[She is boosting Clarke as efficient -- after all he is
still part of the perpetration/coverup team.]
RICE: There were no specifics, and, in fact, the
country had already taken steps through the FA

to warn of potential hijackings. The country had
already taken steps through the FBI to task their
56 field offices to increase their activity. The
country had taken the steps that it could given
that there was no threat reporting about what
might happen inside the United States.

[The coverup has given Rice a narrow irrelevant
area of issues in which all she has to do is bring
up all the defense systems that were in place on
9-11 as proof of her competence except for the one
alleged failure due to system inadequacies that the
Administration has repaired with the Homeland
Security and Patriot Acts and 50 to a 100 billion dollars.
etc. NOTE THAT 9-11 IS NOT BEING DISCUSSED,
ONLY SYSTEMS IN PLACE BEFORE 9-11. I PREDIC

people might have been handled better. Notice Kerry does not fill in what
he is talking about , only referring to "the Moussaoui facts" instead of
specifics. He gives Condoleezza more leave to spend the limited time on

KERREY: And so I...

staff most likely, letting Condo now draw a deep breath as she sees what a

piece of cake this interview will be.]
RICE: I followed...

KERREY: Actually it won't be a question.
[Instead of letting her speak so we have some data to evaluate, Kerry
chooses to grandstand by telling Condoleezza everything he knows -- there

will be no trapping of Condoleezza with any of this bate..]

Can someone tell me where the full transcript can be downloaded so I can
finish what I started here????

[Dick Eastman]

Populist reply to a call to get all old cars and trucks off the road.

From: "Let's Make Change" <nasf_r...@yahoo.ca>
To: <wea...@yahoogroups.com>; <wethepeop...@yahoogroups.com>; ... etc.
Subject: [A-C] put the brakes on gas guzzlers--accelerate recovery

> http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/cafe2/xbx6dk4hjtd3xi
>
> Environmental Defense
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> Norman Mineta demanding higher mileage standards for all cars and
> light trucks.

Anyone with credentials in the activist community of Zepp Weasel is
wittingly or unwittingly serving the Trotskyite agenda as certainly as Perle
and Wolfowitz. I dare you "nasf_reachout", to post this reply to all those
crosspostings of the original message.

First of all, poor families with older less gas efficient cars are not
benefitted by having their car taxed until it must be abandoned -- our
infrastructure was made with the assumption that there is auto mobility. A
law to tax or outright outlaw the cars the poor drive would be yet more
crushing burden diminishing their lives, the dimensions of their
environment, their field of choices.

But that's just part of it.

The goal of Druglord-Banker Zionism is to destroy their mortal enemy the
middle class economically.

Raising transportation costs makes small-business enterprise harder to
sustain, it makes middle class life harder to for raising children with
educational experiences by constraining travel and constraining the
pocketbook -- I won' t take time to spell out all the ways this hurts.

First air travel has been put out of many peoples reach by the totally
unnessesary screeening for non-existent terrorists -- and you know that
9-11 was a frameup by internationalist ruling-class organized crime as well
as I do -- air travel has fallen to less than half of what it was

and now we have the government saying that they have reliable intelligence
that specifically trains and buses will be targets of "terrorists" and
therefore stay away

and now we have -- ahem! -- OPEC, which is really Anglo-American-Dutch
corporations who own Mideast US and Mexican and the Central Asian former
Soviet oil states (and are trying yet again to take over Venezuela by
whatever coup or revolution they can buy to do the job) -- yes, OPEC is the
same people that Cheney, Perle, Blair etc. are working for --AND IT IS THEY
WHO HAVE RAISED OIL PRICES, BLAMING IRAQ OF COURSE -- EVEN AS THEY PROMISED
THAT TAKING OVER IRAQ WOULD GIVE YOU CHEAPER GAS -- YOU SONSOBITCHES FOR
LISTEN AND BUYING INTO THAT --

and now they want to restrict middle class transportation -- when the super
rich can jet to any island paradise and work the ruin of nations from their
laptops while scuba diving with their kids, or visiting the new plantations
they have cared out of the Amazon or Indonesia -- for growing opium as well
as whatever crops will put the last few American small farmers and
orchardists out of their farms.

I can go on and on.

And remember, neither Easter nor your church have anything to do with Jesus
and his kingdom and you know it. You want ressurection to heaven? Then you
have to have heaven in you now, you have to sacrifice for your
brother you have to give justice -- you have to heed the prompting of a holy
spirit that has no part in hypocrisy but bids you use what strength the good
God has given you to serve life to give goodness, pleasure, enjoyment -- fix
what is broken and make right. Because if you don't live it you don't
believe it and don't have it. (And no, I don't have it either, but at least

I know it. Trotskyites like Zepp Weasel -- Jewish supremacist Zionist under
cloak of twisted socialist dogma -- that poison sold as a remedy -- pushed
on us as humanitarianism.

"Put the breaks on the gas guzzlers?" American life was mobility for people
that came from political freedom that made for true rational economic
freedom -- (limiting the centralization and accumulation of both power and
wealth) -- and now this group of "front" organizations wants to --in the
midst of government by war-profiteering drug syndicates who did 9-11 to
consolidate power over the entire earth -- these front organizations what
to stir you up so you will put pressure on whore Congressmen to place
prohibitive tax on older cars or outright order their destruction -- so
there will be no trace of the healthy and intelligent sel-respecting
self-suporting middle-class America that they have already destroyed -- and
of course in the new great economic depression the existence of which and
the devestation from which is not even acknowledged by the monopoly media.

Years ago I read a document left by executives who visited my undergraduate
college (Lake Forst) which said that in the future the US would become,
under the program outlined by the Club of Rome etc., a nation like Brazil in
terms of economic distribution and relative wealth in the world -- I
didn't take it seriously at the time, I just said to myself "what
craziness" they have no chance of pulling that off -- and so dismissed
--

but I ramble -- and the wife and girls will be done with church soon and I
am supposed to meet them at my folks house, my Dad, dying with bladder
cancer, its his brithday today. I've got 15 minutes to cheer up.

Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington
Every man is responsible to every other man.

p.s. Did I mention that global warming is merely an elaborate cover for the
devestating effects of weather modification technologies perfected and in
use since the early 1990's? They are creating the freakish weather
disasters. See:

letter to Alex Merklinger
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/weather_ops/message/22

Pentagon weaponized weather mod and their dire predictions of
all-of-a-sudden super "climate: catastrophes over the next 20 years!!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/weather_ops/message/24

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/weather_ops/message/25

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Now, the U.S. Department of Transportation is considering changes to federal
fuel economy standards, including closing some loopholes and regulating
large SUVs like the Hummer for the first time -- both critical steps to
reduce oil dependence and curb global warming. Unfortunately, they are also
considering changes that could increase oil use by encouraging the sale of
heavier, less fuel-efficient vehicles. Take action! Write President Bush
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[Dick Eastman]

Populist Film Review (Dick Eastman)
-------------

Second Hand Lions

Two grown men living together with a sub-teen boy.

Go to the Middle East to fight bad guys and come back with a barn full of
money.

When old folks aren't useful to anyone they should kill themselves.

Go to the Mideast and bring back a stunningly beautiful Moslem girl after
you rescue her from her religion and make a feminist out of her.

Joy for a man is in killing and beating up bad guys.

Respect of older men has to do with their past aquaintence with tanks, guns
and killing.

But Hollywood knows how to make you stand up and cheer, to cry, to feel the
tingle in your spine at this great movie where Robert Duvall and Michael
Cane played old guys like the old neglected guys of our society -- but with
this fairytale background, this catcher of the minds and emotions of boys
without fathers (because of divorce arranged by deviant elites behind the
drugs, the debt and lost jobs, the predatory milk-em-for-all-you-can-get
divorce lawyers and the radical feminist judges, and because of TV and
movies that model dysfuncitonal parenting and relationships and constant
commercialization of sex and seduction images and themes to induce
infidelity and disruption of bonding mechanisms.

In a few years they will make perfect soldiers in the war against terrorism,
which is really a war against Islam because Islam is opposed to drugs and
usury and after living a fifteen hundred years on barren desert while we
enjoyed life in the temperate zones, now must be deposed because valuable
oil below has been found below their feet.

Everyone likes Second Hand Lions. ANd so they rent the chance to run the
disk or tape in their VCR for 3.79 plus any late fees or buy it for $21.99.
After all its good for boys to see, right?

And with propaganda as smooth as that, what chance do we have, we who can't
reach any of those minds even though we sacrifice to give away the better
ways we know.

Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington

[Dick Eastman]

Mike Ruppert versus Dick Eastman October 20, 2001 -- one of many
FORGOTTEN INFO 9-11 posts archived

I AM POSTING EARLY MESSAGES FROM THE TIME OF 9-11 -- THERE IS MORE
INFORMATION HERE THAN I CAN REMEMBER OR THAT I CAN NOW REVIEW -- HERE IS AN
EXAMPLE

"The standard of living of the average American has
to decline...I don't think you can escape that.
--Paul Volker (Council on Foreign Relations,
Trilateral Commission, former Chairman of
the Federal Reserve)

"Economic ties will determine the strength or
weakness of many international linkages in this
new era, including security relations. At best,
economic interdependence can become a new glue."
Robert Zoellick (CFR)

"To restore a more equitable relationship between
government authority and popular control, {there
must be} contralized economic and social planning
..centralization of power within Congress ...
a program to lower the job expectations of those
who receive a college education..."
--Samuel Huntington (CFR), Michael Crozier, and
Joji Watanuki

Where did those come from? I am often asked for references to things I have
written which I have totally forgotten. I am making key articles available
for people to sift through and refer too -- as far as I know there is no
place where these articles are available except scattered around the Usenet
newsgroups.

I am posting some of the most important messages posted in the three month
period 8/01 - 10/01.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zionist-Op9-11/

This is an archive only -- moderator-only postings -- so don't join it as
an e-list -- it is there for researchers --

There is more that came out in these posts that I remember or that anyone
remembers -- I myself, early on deluged with good information settling upon
finding and pushing the MOST incriminating evidence and forgetting the
est -- which became the "small-plane" thesis I am known for now.

THIS IS A FORGOTTEN MINE OF INFORMATION -- I AM POSTING THESE AFTER SHORT
SKIMS -- CHANGING NOTHING -- I KNOW THERE ARE CAREFUL AND SCHOLARLY AND
ORDERLY MINDS THAT WILL MAKE USE OF THIS DATA --

For example:

Remember this one:

John O'Neill
Director of Security
WORLD TRADE CENTER.
John O'Neill was the lead expert on Arab Terrorism at the FBI over the last
10 years. He was totally fixated on tracking Osama Bin Laden after the WTC
bombing in 1993. He was the lead agent in bringing to justice Bin Ladens
lead terrorist in the U.S. - Abdullah Racman. O'Neil was vociferous with his
superiors that these individuals should be closely tracked in and outside
the U.S. and if possible arrested or eliminated. After the USS Cole assault,
O'Neill and his agents were on the trail of these terrorists that committed
the crime. He was in Yemen tracking the movements of these perpetrators when
the Clinton" appointed Ambassador had him and his agents removed from the
case and sent back to the States. Why? because he was a little too brusque
and not going through the proper channel's tracking these people. O'Neill
was devastated that the case was became a low priority and subsequently quit
the FBI. He became the director of security at the WTC 6 months ago and
ironically perished at the hands of the same criminals he was pursuing.
He leaves behind 4 children and his wife. ....

Before 9-11 activism wore me down to Mr. Zombie one-track-mind I was
getting out some very important information on the US economy and
globalization -- but also the first information I was getting and putting
out regarding 9-11.

Below, I have one of these articles that will be a curio of interest -- my
Response to Mike Ruppert arguing against my view expressed some days earlier
that opium was one of the motives for the 9-11 frameup.
(To this day Ruppert steers clear of the Pentagon evidence and me -- the
"small plane" thesis was still 5 months away when this exchange took place.)

I present it because provides important 9-11 investigation information that
has been forgotten -- and needs to be brought back on the table for
investigators and the public to once again take into account -- and also,
selfishly, because it establsihes that my interpretation of events and of
what is important holds up very well 2+ years later (the little worm
"ego" -- sorry!)

==============

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dick Eastman" <eas...@wolfenet.com>
Newsgroups:
alt.radio.uk.talk-radio,alt.internet.talk.radio,alt.internet.talk.shows,alt.
radio.international,alt.radio.talk

Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: WAR of ESTABLISHMENT on AMERICANS: Bin Laden, easy to hate,
FRAME-UP VICTIM

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of
truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and
murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the
end they always fall. Think of it ... always."
-- Mohatma Gandhi

(Thanks to Betsy Stang <beb...@aol.com> of the
Wittenberg Center for Alternative Resources)
========================================

Here is a man, Mike Ruppert, who strongly disagrees with the
frame-up analysis:

Mike Ruppert's views appear in "Lower-case letters""
Dick Eastman responds in "CAPITAL LETTERS"
================================

This is patently and demonstrably inaccurate information. I encourage any
who are spreading to stop it immediately. To suggest that the Mossad are
business partners with the Taliban is beyond stupid. It indicates the need
for psychiatric medication.

YOU HAVE IT WRONG, FRIEND. I SUGGEST THAT THE CIA AND MOSSAD HAVE AN
ALLIANCE WITH THE "NORTHERN aLLAINCE" DRUG LORDS, WHO SUPPLY OPIUM (YOU SAY
75 PERCENT, OTHER MAINSTREAM SOURCES, E.G., NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, BBC ETC.
SAY 80 OR 90
PERCENT -- THE DIFFERENCE IS INSIGNIFICANT -- EVEN AT 25 PERCENT THE
INCENTIVE IS MORE THAN ADEQUATE TO MOTIVATE MAJOR CRIMINALITY.

Afghanistan does not produce 80-90% of the world's heroin. At its peak in
2000, Afghanistan produced 75% of the world's opium. It produced almost none
last year. Almost Afghan heroin has been sold in Western Europe for the last
decade. Involving the Chinese would mean smuggling in the wrong direction;
send it east to get it west.

"China White" does not come from China. It is a generic name that refers to
the fourth stage of refinement. It can be made in Mexico or Colombia or
Thailand or Iran. As a former LAPD narcotics investigator who was trained
also by the DEA I know this to be a fact

YOU ARE QUITE A FORMER INVESTIGATOR INDEED TO
CLAIM TO KNOW EVERYTHING THE CHINA TRIADS
ARE NOT DOING.

AT ANY RATE, THE POSITIVE INFORMATION YOU GIVE
IS NO WAY INCONSISTENT WITH THE FRAME-UP
ANALYSIS YOU SEEK TO DISCREDIT-- HEROIN "CAN BE
MADE AND DEFINITELY IS MADE IN CENTRAL AND EAST
ASIA AS WELL - THE CRUCIAL
POINT IS THAT HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
WORTH OF WHAT IS MADE IS MADE FROM NORTHERN
ALLIANCE OPIUM. (i ALSO NOTE JANET RENO'S TENDENCY
TO INVESTIGATE AND BUST ONLY THE COMPETITIORS OF
THE CHINESE-AFFILIATED DISTRIBUTORS -- A TENDENCY
THAT IS CONTINUING TODAY UNDER ASHCROFT? THE
POINT IS THAT YOUR BACKGROUND HELPS, BUT IT IS
NOT CONCLUSIVE AUTHORITY -- AND IN FACT, GIVEN
THE OTHER INFORMATION, IT IS OUTRIGHT WRONG.)

I have never seen ANY credible information that the PLA distributes it.

THAT'S FUNNY NEITHER HAS MY AUNT MILDRED. WHAT A COINCIDENCE.

In fact, the cash flows through the Caucasus and the Balkans remove any
possibility of Chinese involvement.

WHY DO YOU CONSTRAIN YOUR COUNTER-ANALYSIS TO JUST THOSE TO AVENUES? THE
HEROIN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT GOES TO THE U.S.,
THROUGH THE PANAMA CANAL, TO THE LARGEST CONTAINER PORT IN THE WORLD IN THE
CARRIBIAN, OWNED BY THE P.L.A. AND COSCO.

60% of the U.S. heroin supply originates in Colombia.

YOU HAVE GREAT CERTITUDE HERE -- BUT THE F.A.R.C. ARE AFFILIATED WITH THE
CHINESE -- THEY ARE PART OF THE LONG-STANDING FOREIGN POLICY OF PROMOTING
WARS OF NATIONAL LIBERATION DEVELOPED BY ZHOU ENLAI -- DRUGS IS HOW THEY
GET THE MONEY TO LEVERAGE THEIR POWER. (LOTS MORE ON THIS IF YOU NEED IT,

There has never been any credible evidence that the Mossad is in business
with the Taliban or the Northern Alliance while there is an abundance of
evidence that the CIA has been for a long time.

WHAT I HAVE CLAIMED IS THAT THE MOSSAD HAS 'INFILTRATED' CENTRTAL ASIA WITH
AGENTS -- I DID
NOT SUGGEST THAT MOSSAD IS ALLIED WITH
TALIBAN -- IS THIS A PIECE OF DISINFORMATION
YOU HAVE INJECTED TO MAKE THE FRAME-UP
ANALYSIS APPEAR ABSURD TO THOSE WHO READ YOUR
REBUTTAL WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE ORIGINAL DICUMENT.

A documented, sourced and verified analysis of the Afghanistan heroin
situation has previously been posted to this list. It is also available on
my web site, www.copvcia.com. The server company pulled the site today
because we have been getting so much traffic that we blew their servers. We
will be up and running within 48 hours.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALING ABOUT HERE. I AM NOT FAMILIAR WITH YOUR
SITE. I HAVE NOT SEEN THIS ANALYSIS.
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOUR ANALYSIS. BECAUSE I HAVE SEEN
NEW TWISTED SPIN IN SOME NEWSPAPERS ATTEMPTING TO SAY THAT
THE TALIBAN IS PRO-OPIUM -- THE FACT IS THAT OPIUM WAS CUT DOWN BECAUSE
THE TALIBAN -- WHO OPPOSE DRUGS AND ALCOHOL -- ERRADICATED OPIUM (MY SOURCE
HERE WAS AN IN DEPTH REPORT
ON NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO'S ALL THINGS CONSIDERED -- AS WELL AS OTHER
MAINSTREAM SOURCES -- AS WELL AS INFORMED HONEST MEN
ON THE NET.
Whoever originated this b.s. story should be totally ashamed for their lack
of sourcing, lack of integrity, and utter disregard for the truth.

YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ME.

DICK EASTMAN
223 S. 64TH AVE.
YAKIMA, WASHINGTON
EVERY MAN IS RESPONSIBLE TO EVERY OTHER MAN

Mike Ruppert
"From The Wilderness"
www.copvcia.com
=======================

(end of round one)

Letters received recently:

Letter #1:

"1. WATCHMAN INTERNAT'L, PENSACOLA

It is now expected that within a few weeks, the Bush administration will go
ahead and announce to the UN's General Assembly America's full support for a
Palestinian State, with Jerusalem as the capital. The shift in Bush's Middle
East policy is primarily a result of strong pressure from Saudi Arabia.
Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia told Washington 10 days before the
September 11 terror attacks, that US policy towards the Arab-Israeli
conflict had become untenable, indicating that US bias towards Israel was
making it impossible for the Saudi leadership to follow policies that were
in both countries' interests. President Bush is said to have written back to
reassure the crown prince that the message had found a listening ear.

Originally America's plan to announce its support for a Palestinian state
was scheduled to take place in September, but because of the event on
September 11, the plans were postponed. What President Clinton was unable to
accomplish last summer at Camp David, experts believe that George W. Bush
and Tony Blair, with the help of the rest of the world, will now take the
opportunity to enforce on Sharon and Arafat.

At the moment, the Arab world is doing everything it can to shift the
present focus away from Islamic terrorism back on Israel. Blair said during
a press conference with Mubarak in Cairo, Egypt yesterday that it is
necessary to solve the Palestinian conflict in order to remove an excuse for
further terrorist attacks by people like Bin Laden. Blair made the comment
in response to a very strong statement from Mubarak that there will never be
peace on the planet until the Palestinian issue is solved. Last year during
the Camp David peace talks Mubarak warned Arafat that he had no right to
give up full control over Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. "

Regards
--------------------

Letter #2:
Please take me off your mail list. I don't have time to read the opinions of
everyone in the world.

Letter #3:
Have you ever thought of going to law school? You should! I suggest you
read F. Less Bailey's (another of my heroes) "The Defense NEVER Rests". A
must for anyone interested in becoming a "good" defense attorney. You think
just like Mr. Bailey (he is not guilty of what those bastards in Florida are
accusing him of)!

Letter #4:

This is not the first time that I told you to stay out of my mailboxes but
you continue to send me spam. Should you continue this practise, I shall
have no choice but to instruct my attorneys in the State of Washington to
file suit against you charging harassment.
Also I will instruct counsel to consider suing your providers for failing to
enforce their ToS.

Letter #5:

Eastman sounds against the U.S. Or just maybe just against certain aspects?
I hear "United We Stand" but I don't believe in "My country right or wrong"
anymore. Further, I don't know who to believe so I guess I am a serious
skeptic.

Letter #6:

Item: Jews don't commit suicide on missions.
Item: I've heard enough anti-Semitism to last me 20 lifetimes.
Item: GO to copvcia.com, EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!
Item: The CIA has been experimenting with mind control, and MK Ultra brings
about multiple personality disorder, and those compartmentalized
personalities can be and ARE programmed.
Item: Those hijackers were American---maybe faking mideastern accents, but
American. They were mind controlled. Follow the money trail, my friend.
GO to the aforementioned site.

And lend yourself a bit of credibility by EDITING your stuff.

Letter #7:
Please delete me from your mailing list.

Letter #8:
一個簡單搵錢方法
> > 為什麼各個網站都說能為你賺到很多錢呢？
> > 就連讀一封 E-mail 點幾回廣告欄都能掙到錢?
> > 難以置信，天下哪有免費的午餐？
(snip)

Letter #9:

This is crap.

We are targeting the correct person

Letter #10:
Quit sending me this shit. This is your last warning. One more of these,
and I will report you to Wolfenet.

Letter #11:
Please IMMEDIATELY REMOVE my name from your email contact list.

Letter #12:
Dick,
You're as bad as John Knight. The only question is are you John
Knight?
EVERY shred of evidence points to Bin Laden, who has admitted
to bombing US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania (and deserves to die
for that those acts). Four of the hijackers were trained by Bin
Laden's group. All the hijackers were Islamic and the FBI have video,
eyewitness and records to prove it.
The only option an anti-semitic kook like you has is to claim
all the reports from the government and the media are part of a mass
conspiracy that includes every aspect of law enforcement and every
possible media sources. The very notion would make you a kook since
such a conspiracy is not possible to any logical, clear-thinking
person. You would not only pass Rush Limbaugh's kook test, you'd get
an A+.
The attacks have benefited Islamic nations and harmed Israel
and that is exactly what the terrorists had in mind.
The idea that Sharon is a terrorist, but the Palestinines, who
train three-year olds as suicide bombers and errect terrorist
museums, aren't is an absurd idea
There is no bigger enemy to Christianity than Islam. Christians
are being persecuted and have no freedom in even moderate Muslim
countries. No real Christian would defend or make apologies for any
form of Islam. It's pure evil.

Letter #13:
PLEASE TAKE ME OFF YOUR MAILING LIST FOR I DISAGREE WITH YOU.

Letter #14:
Dear Reader:

Thank you for letting us hear from you. The editors appreciate the
interest that prompted you to write, and they have made attentive
note of your comments. We hope that you will continue to share your
thoughts with us.

Best wishes.

TIME Letters

Letter #15:

[Dick Eastman]

info roundup 1) British link Mossad to 9-11, 2) Forget elections unless
Greens or Libertarians field a candidate against bogus war on terror, Iraq
occupation, corporations ruling the world
========

There is no voice on the horizon ready to stop the war. What do you think
the nameless faceless Green Party bosses and Liberatarian Party bosses are
going to come up with as candidates? WHY IS NO ONE DISCUSSING THIS! If
there is no peace alternative, then I can already assure you who it will
turn out -- war, occupation, the police state, and world corporatization
and debt slavery will win, i.e., either Bush or Kerry, but in an election
with the lowest turnout in history, a fact the media will not emphasize.
And that will be that. All your words for nothing.

So, tell me -- can we put Kuchinich over at this late hour -- and if not,
who else is against these things and what other party can we rally too?
These are life and death questions.

==========

Forget elections unless Greens or Libertarians field a candidate against 1)
bogus war on terror, 2) Iraq occupation, 3) corporations ruling the world

John Kerry's new top foreign policy advisor, James P. Rubin, and all other
top advisors differentiate thesmelves from Cheney-Wolfowitz-Rumsfeld-Perle
not in forceful use soldiers and defense hardware around the world to fight
nebulous terrorism, but merely in "doing more" to retain the help of a
coalition of aggressors.

The difference between a Bush Administration and a Kerry Administration will
be not a change in the Neo-cons level of Zionist hawkishness, rather, says
Rubin, "I think the mantra of the Democratic thinkers [assembled by Kerry]
is 'together if possible, alone if absolutely necessary.' " In other words,
since Bonesman Kerry, a relative unknown to coalition nations, is not now
hated by the participating nations as much as is President Bush, President
Kerry will have, at least initially, a better chance of keeping coalition
nations from jumping ship.

The difference between Bush and Kerry is the difference between Wolfowitz
and Rubin. (Do you think Wolfowitz really disagrees with the Kerry doctrine
of 'together if possible, alone if absolutely necessary?")

==============

Witnesses say the M1A1 Abrams tank was hit and set on fire by a 10-year-old
boy who fired a grenade from a bridge on a highway west of Baghdad .

----------------

Until now, the US-led coalition plan for securing transitional Iraq had
hinged on training new Iraqi forces. The coalition says it has 70,000 Iraqi
police officers and 20,00 ... But reports are coming in from around the
country that Iraqi security forces are refusing to confront the new
challenges head on. Analysts now say the best military solution to the
rising tide of Sunni and Shiite attacks - and unexpected alliances - is a
major increase in US forces.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0408/p01s02-woiq.html

--------

-----------------

There can be no fighting murderous tyranny without an armed citizenry.
Street fighting erupted in Baghdad on Saturday as youths with rifles and
grenade launchers battled US Troops in a Sunni Muslim area, witnesses said.
Council and on the interim Iraqi government, fearful for their own lives at
the hands of the enraged citizenry, demanded an end to US military solutions
and the policy of collective punishment that has fallen on innocent
civilians in Falluja. The 25-member body demanded `"an immediate ceasefire
and the reliance on political solutions, with several members resigning or
threatening to do so unless the bloodshed stops. [Isn't an end to military
solutions and resort to diplomacy what sane people all over the world
want -- and what Bush and Kerry both oppose? --DE] More:
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=44845

--------------------------

Was the bottle thrown by a Bush supporter or a Kerry supporter? It could
have been either, right?

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on national
political and religious
leaders to repudiate Islamophobic rhetoric following another in a series of
attacks on American Muslim institutions, businesses and individuals. The
latest incident involved an assault on the wife of the Imam, or religious
leader, of the Islamic Society of Annapolis in Annapolis, Md. The woman,
who was wearing an Islamic head scarf, was hit by a bottle this morning as
she left the mosque. The assailant allegedly shouted something
unintelligible at the victim before fleeing into a nearby office.

-----------

Arson attacks on three local Muslim businesses in San Antonio.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2492010

--------

Until now, the only respectable reason for continuing the occupation of
Iraq has been the perceived risk that, if the American military withdrew, a
bloody civil war between Sunnis and Shiites might ensue. If, in fact,
Iraqis are united (against the United States), then there is no reason to
continue to sacrifice American lives and money -- and to inflict more death
and destruction on Iraqis -- other than saving face for George W. Bush and
his arrogant entourage of reality-resistant ideologues, who are clearly
incapable of ever admitting to have made a mistake.

--------------

The Moslem owner of a jewelry kiosk at a Tampa mall who also wears an
Islamic head scarf, says she was
verbally and physically assaulted by three people who told her to "get out
of (America)" and said her religion is "hateful and violent."
http://tampatrib.com/floridametronews/MGAZ2QADSSD.html

---------

BRITISH LINK MOSSAD TO 911
There was ruin and terror in Manhattan, but, over the Hudson River in New
Jersey, a handful of men were dancing. As the World Trade Centre burned and
crumpled, the five men celebrated and filmed the worst atrocity ever
committed on American soil as it played out before their eyes. Who do you
think they were? Palestinians? Saudis? Iraqis, even? Al-Qaeda, surely? Wrong
on all counts. They were Israelis? and at least two of them were Israeli
intelligence agents, working for Mossad, the equivalent of MI6 or the CIA.

Their discovery and arrest that morning is a matter of indisputable fact. To
those who have investigated just what the Israelis were up to that day, the
case raises one dreadful possibility: that Israeli intelligence had been
shadowing the al-Qaeda hijackers as they moved from the Middle East through
Europe and into America where they trained as pilots and prepared to
suicide-bomb the symbolic heart of the United States. And the motive? To
bind America in blood and mutual suffering to the Israeli cause.

After the attacks on New York and Washington, the former Israeli Prime
Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was asked what the terrorist strikes would
mean for USA-Israeli relations. He said: "It's very good." Then he corrected
himself, adding: "Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate
sympathy [for Israel from Americans]." If Israel's closest ally felt the
collective pain of mass civilian deaths at the hands of terrorists, then
Israel would have an unbreakable bond with the world's only hyperpower and
an effective free hand in dealing with the Palestinian terrorists who had
been murdering its innocent civilians as the second Intifada dragged on
throughout 2001.

It's not surprising that the New Jersey housewife who first spotted the five
Israelis and their white van wants to preserve her anonymity. She's insisted
that she only be identified as Maria. A neighbour in her
apartment building had called her just after the first strike on the Twin
Towers. Maria grabbed a pair of binoculars and, like millions across the
world, she watched the horror of the day unfold. As she gazed at the burning
towers, she noticed a group of men kneeling on the roof of a white van in
her parking lot. Here's her recollection: "They seemed to be taking a movie.
They were like happy, you know . they didn't look shocked to me. I thought
it was strange."

Maria jotted down the van's registration and called the police. The FBI was
alerted and soon there was a state-wide all points bulletin put out for the
apprehension of the van and its occupants. The cops traced the number,
establishing that it belonged to a company called Urban Moving. Police Chief
John Schmidig said: "We got an alert to be on the lookout for a white
Chevrolet van with New Jersey registration and writing on the side. Three
individuals were seen celebrating in Liberty State Park after the impact.
They said three people were jumping up and down."

By 4pm on the afternoon of September 11, the van was spotted near New Jersey
's Giants stadium. A squad car pulled it over and inside were five men in
their 20s. They were hustled out of the car with guns levelled at their
heads and handcuffed. In the car was $4700 in cash, a couple of foreign
passports and a pair of box cutters ? the concealed Stanley Knife-type
blades used by the 19 hijackers who'd flown jetliners into the World Trade
Centre and Pentagon just hours before. There were also fresh pictures of the
men standing with the smouldering wreckage of the Twin Towers in the
background. One image showed a hand flicking a lighter in front of the
devastated buildings, like a fan at a pop concert.

The driver of the van then told the arresting officers: "We are Israeli. We
are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are
the problem." His name was Sivan Kurzberg. The other four passengers were
Kurzberg's brother Paul, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari. The men
were dragged off to prison and transferred out of the custody of the FBI's
Criminal Division and into the hands of their Foreign Counterintelligence
Section ? the bureau's anti-espionage squad.

A warrant was issued for a search of the Urban Moving premises in Weehawken
in New Jersey. Boxes of papers and computers were removed. The FBI
questioned the firm's Israeli owner, Dominik Otto Suter, but when agents
returned to re-interview him a few days later, he was gone. An employee of
Urban Moving said his co-workers had laughed about the Manhattan attacks the
day they happened. "I was in tears," the man said. "These guys were joking
and that bothered me. These guys were like, 'Now America knows what we go
through.'"

Vince Cannistraro, former chief of operations for counter-terrorism with the
CIA, says the red flag went up among investigators when it was discovered
that some of the Israelis' names were found in a search of
the national intelligence database. Cannistraro says many in the USA
intelligence community believed that some of the Israelis were working for
Mossad and there was speculation over whether Urban Moving had been "set up
or exploited for the purpose of launching an intelligence operation against
radical Islamists". This makes it clear that there was no suggestion
whatsoever from within American intelligence that the Israelis were
colluding with the 9/11 hijackers ? simply that the possibility remains that
they knew the attacks were going to happen, but effectively did nothing to
help stop them.

After the owner vanished, the offices of Urban Moving looked as if they'd
been closed down in a big hurry. Mobile phones were littered about, the
office phones were still connected and the property of at
least a dozen clients were stacked up in the warehouse. The owner had
cleared out his family home in New Jersey and returned to Israel.

Two weeks after their arrest, the Israelis were still in detention, held on
immigration charges. Then a judge ruled that they should be deported. But
the CIA scuppered the deal and the five remained in custody for another two
months. Some went into solitary confinement, all underwent two polygraph
tests and at least one underwent up to seven lie detector sessions before
they were eventually deported at the end of November 2001. Paul Kurzberg
refused to take a lie detector test for 10 weeks, but then failed it. His
lawyer said he was reluctant to take the test as he had once worked for
Israeli intelligence in another country.

Nevertheless, their lawyer, Ram Horvitz, dismissed the allegations as
"stupid and ridiculous". Yet USA government sources still maintained that
the Israelis were collecting information on the fundraising activities of
groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Mark Regev, of the Israeli embassy in
Washington, would have none of that and he said the allegations were "simply
false". The men themselves claimed they'd read about the World Trade Centre
attacks on the internet, couldn't see it from their office and went to the
parking lot for a better view. Their lawyers and the embassy say their
ghoulish and sinister celebrations as the Twin Towers blazed and thousands
died were due to youthful foolishness.

Would friends of the USA jump for joy at the murder of thousands of its
citizens? [And more, would they have jumped for joy if they thought a lot
of Jews were in the building -- which, not-so-amazingly, there weren't.
(How did they know?) --DE]

The respected New York Jewish newspaper, The Forward, reported in March
2002, however, that it had received a briefing on the case of the five
Israelis from a USA official who was regularly updated by law enforcement
agencies. This is what he told The Forward: "The assessment was that Urban
Moving Systems was a front for the Mossad and operatives employed by it." He
added that "the conclusion of the FBI was that they were spying on local
Arabs", but the men were released because they "did not know anything about
9/11".

Back in Israel, several of the men discussed what happened on an Israeli
talk show. One of them made this remarkable comment: "The fact of the matter
is we are coming from a country that experiences terror daily. Our purpose
was to document the event." But how can you document an event unless you
know it is going to happen?

We are now deep in conspiracy theory territory. But there is more than a
little circumstantial evidence to show that Mossad ? whose motto is "By way
of deception, thou shalt do war" ? was spying on Arab extremists in
the USA and may have known that September 11 was in the offing, yet decided
to withhold vital information from their American counterparts which could
have prevented the terror attacks.

Following September 11, 2001, more than 60 Israelis were taken into custody
under the Patriot Act and immigration laws. One highly placed investigator
told Carl Cameron of Fox News that there were "tie-ins"
between the Israelis and September 11; the hint was clearly that they'd
gathered intelligence on the planned attacks but kept it to themselves. The
Fox News source refused to give details, saying: "Evidence linking these
Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has
been gathered. It's classified information." Fox News is not noted for its
condemnation of Israel; it's a ruggedly patriotic news channel owned by
Rupert Murdoch and was President Bush's main cheerleader in the war on
terror and the invasion of Iraq.

Another group of around 140 Israelis were detained prior to September 11,
2001, in the USA as part of a widespread investigation into a suspected
espionage ring run by Israel inside the USA. Government documents refer to
the spy ring as an "organised intelligence-gathering operation" designed to
"penetrate government facilities". Most of those arrested had served in the
Israeli armed forces ? but military service is compulsory in Israel.
Nevertheless, a number had an intelligence background.

The first glimmerings of an Israeli spying exercise in the USA came to light
in spring 2001, when the FBI sent a warning to other federal agencies
alerting them to be wary of visitors calling themselves "Israeli art
students" and attempting to bypass security at federal buildings in order to
sell paintings. A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) report suggested the
Israeli calls "may well be an organised intelligence-gathering activity".
Law enforcement documents say that the Israelis "targeted and penetrated
military bases" as well as the DEA, FBI and dozens of government facilities,
including secret offices and the unlisted private homes of law enforcement
and intelligence personnel.

A number of Israelis questioned by the authorities said they were students
from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, but Pnina Calpen, a spokeswoman for
the Israeli school, did not recognise the names of any Israelis mentioned as
studying there in the past 10 years. A federal report into the so-called art
students said many had served in intelligence and electronic signal
intercept units during their military service.

According to a 61-page report, drafted after an investigation by the DEA and
the USA immigration service, the Israelis were organised into cells of four
to six people. The significance of what the Israelis were doing didn't
emerge until after September 11, 2001, when a report by a French
intelligence agency noted "according to the FBI, Arab terrorists and
suspected terror cells lived in Phoenix, Arizona, as well as in Miami and
Hollywood, Florida, from December 2000 to April 2001 in direct proximity to
the Israeli spy cells".

The report contended that Mossad agents were spying on Mohammed Atta and
Marwan al-Shehi, two of leaders of the 9/11 hijack teams. The pair had
settled in Hollywood, Florida, along with three other hijackers, after
leaving Hamburg ? where another Mossad team was operating close by.

Hollywood in Florida is a town of just 25,000 souls. The French intelligence
report says the leader of the Mossad cell in Florida rented apartments
"right near the apartment of Atta and al-Shehi". More than a third of the
Israeli "art students" claimed residence in Florida. Two other Israelis
connected to the art ring showed up in Fort Lauderdale. At one time, eight
of the hijackers lived just north of the town.

Put together, the facts do appear to indicate that Israel knew that 9/11, or
at least a large-scale terror attack, was about to take place on American
soil, but did nothing to warn the USA. But that's not quite true. In August
2001, the Israelis handed over a list of terrorist suspects ? on it were the
names of four of the September 11 hijackers. Significantly, however, the
warning said the terrorists were planning an attack "outside the United
States".

The Israeli embassy in Washington has dismissed claims about the spying ring
as "simply untrue". The same denials have been issued repeatedly by the five
Israelis seen high-fiving each other as the World Trade Centre burned in
front of them. Their lawyer, Ram Horwitz, insisted his clients were not
intelligence officers. Irit Stoffer, the Israeli foreign minister, said the
allegations were "completely untrue". She said the men were arrested because
of "visa violations", adding: "The FBI investigated those cases because of
9/11."

Jim Margolin, an FBI spokesman in New York, implied that the public would
never know the truth, saying: "If we found evidence of unauthorised
intelligence operations that would be classified material." Yet, Israel has
long been known, according to USA administration sources, for "conducting
the most aggressive espionage operations against the USA of any USA ally".
Seventeen years ago, Jonathan Pollard, a civilian working for the American
Navy, was jailed for life for passing secrets to Israel. At first, Israel
claimed Pollard was part of a rogue operation, but the government later took
responsibility for his work.

It has always been a long-accepted agreement among allies ? such as Britain
and America or America and Israel ? that neither country will jail a
"friendly spy" nor shame the allied country for espionage. Chip Berlet, a
senior analyst at Boston's Political Research Associates and an expert in
intelligence, says: "It's a backdoor agreement between allies that says that
if one of your spies gets caught and didn't do too much harm, he goes home.
It goes on all the time. The official reason is always visa violation."

What we are left with, then, is fact sullied by innuendo. Certainly, it
seems, Israel was spying within the borders of the United States and it is
equally certain that the targets were Islamic extremists probably linked to
September 11. But did Israel know in advance that the Twin Towers would be
hit and the world plunged into a war without end; a war which would give
Israel the power to strike its enemies almost without limit? That's a
conspiracy theory too far, perhaps. But the unpleasant feeling that, in this
age of spin and secrets, we do not know the full and unadulterated truth won
't go away. Maybe we can guess, but it's for the history books to discover
and decide.

============

Corporations privatize US military aggression, prisons, forced occupation.

Americans assumed "US contractors" were in Iraq to help restore
infrastructure demolished by coalition troops
during the war. But in the bloody, churning streets of Iraq, "contractors"
aren't building or fixing things. The Washington Post now identifies them
as "security contractors," which still sounds ambiguous, implying their job
is to plug in the burglar alarms. But their job is to plug the enemy. They
are Triggermen. And their
derivative M-16s fire a NATO-compatible ammunition round so that they can
use ammunition wherever US and coalition forces are. ... The legal status
of Triggermen remains to be seen. Apparently they are unaccountable to
anyone except by a civil employment contract with the coalition. At the
recent siege on the coalition's Najaf headquarters there were no US
military personnel even present, and so no clear accounting for actions of
the Triggermen even though they fired thousands of ammunition rounds and
hundreds of 40 mm grenades.

------------

Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Israelis were "crossing our
fingers for the Americans" in Iraq, after they met fierce resistance from
both Sunni and Shiite Muslim rebels, in remarks published Friday. "If the
Americans manage to control the situation in Iraq, which Israel is convinced
they will, it will have a positive impact on the whole Middle East, (on) the
oil market and the international community's authority." Mofaz said he was
persuaded that "America is strong and will put a halt to any attempt to turn
Iraq into a terrorist state." "We are crossing our fingers for the Americans
in Iraq -- their success is vital for world peace," the hawkish former chief
of staff told the top-selling Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot.
Agence France Presse 9 April 2004

==============

When the 9/11 commission resumes its hearings Tuesday, it will be
fascinating to see whether it addresses the evacuation from the US of about
140 Saudis almost immediately after 9/11. Think about it: U.S. intelligence
knew that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi. Analysts also knew that Saudi
money was a major force behind Al Qaeda. And, of course, Osama bin Laden,
the perpetrator of the worst crime on American soil, was Saudi. It is
standard practice in murder investigations to interview friends and
relatives of the primary suspect. One of the highest U.S. security
priorities should have been the interrogation of Bin Laden's relatives and
other Saudis who, inadvertently or not, may have funded him.

====================

9 April ­19 December 2003
*Nationwide, excluding Baghdad, at least 135 Iraqi police and civil defence
force members killed
* 9 April Two killed in Baghdad
* Gunfire kills four near Baghdad airport.
* Aerial bombardment kills four in Fathlia, northern Iraq
* Cluster bombs kill 21 in Baghdad
* 10 April 30 killed at mosque in Baghdad
* 10-15 April 40 killed in Kirkuk
* 10-17 April Cluster bomb kills three in Nasiriyah
* 10-24 April Cluster bombs, landmines, unexploded ordnance kill 29 in Dibs
district and Kalar
* 11 April Home of tribal chief is bombarded, killing 18
* Two killed at US checkpoint, Nasiriyah
* 11 April Three killed at US checkpoint, Baghdad
* Two killed in Mosul
* Unexploded cluster bomblet (picked up by child) kills two in Baghdad
* Shopkeeper shot dead in Baghdad
* Gunfire kills five in Basra
* 14 April 17 killed in Baghdad
* 14 April-31 August At least 1,214 violent deaths recorded at Baghdad city
morgue, 60 per cent from gunshot wounds.
* 14-21 April Cluster bombs, landmines, and unexploded ordnance kill 52 in
Kirkuk
* 15 April Seven Mosul demonstrators killed
* 16 April Mosul crowds under fire, killing three
* 18 April M-42 cluster bomblet kills one, Baghdad
* 19 April Cluster bomb (disturbed by children) kills three, Baghdad
* M-42 cluster bomblet kills three, Baghdad
* 20 April-15 May Shootings kill 194, Baghdad
* 26 April Zafaraniya arms dump explosion kills 12
* Baghdad, cluster bomb kills two
* 28 April Fallujah demonstrators, including pre-teen children, come under
fire: 13 dead
* 30 April Two Fallujah demonstrators killed
* 30 April Amman airport, Jordan. Cluster bomblet "souvenir" kills one
* 3 May Basra: gun discharged by British soldier kills boy
* 6 May Tikrit child run over by US convoy
* 12 May Unexploded Iraqi rocket kills nine in Missan province.
* 13 May British Detention Centre, Basra, two killed.
* 21 May Tank rounds kill two, Fallujah
* 21 May Samarra wedding celebrants firing into air come under fire: four
shot dead.
* 21 May Two shot dead at US checkpoint, Samarra
* 23 May North of Tallil, one killed.
* 1 June Gunfire kills one, Baghdad
* 1 June-22 December 38 ex-Baath party members shot dead, Najaf
* 2 June Ramadi, gunfire kills two
* 8 June Fallujah gun-shop owner cleaning rifle mistaken for an assailant
shot dead
* Dhuluiya, one person shot dead during hunt for "Chemical" Ali Hassan
al-Majid. Two die in custody
* 9 June Ad Diwaniyah munitions dump explosion kills three.
* 12 June Tank and groundfire kills five near Balad
* 13 June Detainee shot dead at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad
* 16 June Baghdad explosion kills two
* 18 June US HQ Baghdad, two stone-throwing protesters shot dead
* 20 June Maqarr al-Dheeb, western Iraq. Shelling kills three
* 23-30 June Gunfire kills two at Iraq-Syria border
* 24 June Gunfire kills four at Majar Al-Kabir
* 26 June Grenades kill one on road between Baghdad airport and city
* 27 June Baghdad boy mistaken for sniper shot dead
* 28 June Ammunition depot explosion kills 25 at Haklamiyah, near Haditha
* Basra child run over by US convoy
* 29 June Baghdad civilian killed
* Collision with US armoured personnel carrier kills three near Fallujah;
rocket-propelled grenade kills one
* 30 June Al-Hassan mosque complex, Fallujah: explosion kills seven
* 1 July Two killed at US checkpoint in Baghdad
* Two "suspected insurgents" killed in Baghdad
* Rocket-propelled grenade kills one in Baghdad
* 3 July One shot dead in Baghdad
* 5 July One shot dead in Baghdad
* 6 July Ramadi: gunfire kills one
* 8 July Three shot dead at Baghdad police station
* 9 July Man shot dead in Baghdad
* 13 July Baqouba: two killed
* 16 July Grenade kills one, Baghdad
* 19 July Samarra: one dead
* 20 July One dead near Hillah
* 21 July Grenade and gunfire kills one, Baghdad
* Baghdad man shot dead during search for Saddam Hussein
* 21 July One killed near Hillah when Red Cross vehicle attacked
* 22 July Mosul protester killed
* 22 July Fourteen-year-old son of Qusay Hussein shot dead in Mosul
* 23 July Five killed during hunt for Saddam Hussein and family in Baghdad
* 26-27 July Two Karbala demonstrators shot dead
* 1 August One civilian killed
* 3 August One killed near Fallujah
* 8 August Six killed at unannounced US checkpoints in Baghdad
* Two arms-sellers shot dead in Tikrit marketplace
* 9 August Two Iraqi policemen killed, Baghdad
* 10 August Basra gunfire kills one
* 13 August Demonstrator killed in Sadr City, Baghdad
* 16 August Six killed at Abu Ghraib prison, Baghdad by mortars
* Two unarmed fishermen mistaken for looters shot dead
* 17 August Reuters cameraman killed outside Abu Ghraib prison, Baghdad
* Ammunition dump explosion kills seven in Tikrit
* One looter killed, Tikrit
* One killed at Baghdad checkpoint
* 27 August Baquba explosion meant for US soldiers kills one non-combatant
* 1 September At least 362 violent deaths recorded at Baghdad city morgue,
more than 55 per cent by gunfire
* Two killed by grenades and gunfire, Mahmudiya
* 2 September Car bomb kills one, Baghdad
* 3 September Baquba teenager struck as US troops fire at individual riding
a motorbike
* 4 September Rutbah ammunition dump explosion kills three
* 6 September Minibus driver shot dead at Polish checkpoint in south-central
Iraq
* 9 September Irbil suicide car bomb kills three non-combatants
* 10 September Iraqi policeman shot dead in Fallujah
* 11 September Two shot dead at US checkpoint, Fallujah
* 12 September Three-year-old hit by gunfire, Fallujah
* One killed by gunfire, Kirkuk
* Eight Iraqi security personnel, one policeman, one Jordanian hospital
guard and two civilian passers-by killed by automatic and large-calibre
weapons at hospital outside Fallujah
* 13 September Tikrit bystander caught in crossfire
* Nasiriyah demonstrator shot dead
* 13 September Near Baquba. Makeshift bomb kills one non-combatant
* 15 September One dead at Mikdadya, west of Baquba
* 17 September One dead in Fallujah
* Civilian detained in British custody at Camp Steven, southern Iraq, killed
* 18 September Iraqi interpreter shot dead on road between Mosul and Tikrit
("attempting to overtake US convoy")
* 23 September Attack meant for "unknown forces" kills three non-combatants
at Al-Jisr village
* 24 September Civilian bus hit by a roadside bomb apparently meant for a US
military patrol in Baghdad: one killed
* Two dead in Al-Jizani village
* 25 September Nine killed in market square in Baquba by mortar rounds
probably meant for US base less than 300 metres away
* Bomb kills Somali hotel worker in Baghdad
* 26 September One dead in Mansuriya
* Four killed in Fallujah
* 28 September Roadside bomb meant for US military patrol kills three at
Al-Jazeera Ghazwan
* 29 September Demonstrator in Hawija, near Kirkuk shot dead
* 4 October Basra security guard shot dead
* Ex-Iraqi army veterans waiting for back pay in Kirkuk come under fire: two
shot dead
* 6 October One dead in Al-Haswah
* 9 October Police station car bomb kills eight, Sadr City, Baghdad
* 12 October Car bomb kills six at Baghdad hotel
* 15 October Basra doctor shot dead
* 16 October Four killed at checkpoint on outskirts of Baghdad
* Four-year-old killed by roadside bomb outside army base in Tikrit
* Muslim cleric's armed guards and two Iraqi policemen come under gun fire
in Karbala. Two killed
* 18 October Explosive device in Dali Abbas kills one while being defused by
police
* 19 October Fallujah explosion kills one
* One dead in assassination attempt on Kirkuk police commander
* 20 October Syrian truck driver and Iraqi shot dead in Fallujah.
* 23 October Baghdad, one dead
* 23 October Two Iraqi Civil Defence Corp guards killed by roadside bomb
* 24 October Two young children hit by a grenade, Mosul
* Three killed in collision between family car and US armoured personnel
carrier fleeing an ambush near Baghdad
* Local police chief shot dead in Amara, southern Iraq
* 25 October Three civilians killed by roadside bomb or gunfire near
Habaniya
* 26 October Baghdad deputy mayor shot dead
* 27 October Car bomb kills 14 at Al-Baya'a police station, southern Baghdad
* Ten killed by car bomb, Baghdad
* Car bomb kills seven at Al-Sha'ab police station, northern Baghdad
* 27 October-19 November Nine civilians killed in Samarra
* Car bomb kills five at Al-Khadra police station, western Baghdad
* Six civilians killed by bomb during attack on US convoy in Fallujah
* 28 October Editor of independent weekly newspaper in Mosul shot dead
* Three killed when rocket-propelled grenades hit Mosul police station
* Car bomb in Fallujah kills five
* 31 October Two Baghdad protesters and one policeman killed
* Two killed by landmine at US base north of Baghdad
* Fallujah resident shot by police during protest
* Eleven-year-old Fallujah boy shot dead in crossfire
* 2 November Gunfire kills six near Balad
* Mortars kill one in Kirkuk
* Baghdad: chairperson of US-sponsored district council shot dead
* 3 November Najaf judge kidnapped and assassinated
* Kirkuk judge shot dead by US troops
* Karbala bomb kills two
* Baquba bomb kills one
* 4 November Mosul judge assassinated
* 5 November 10-year-old killed by hand grenade in Mosul
* Two Mosul civilians killed by rocket-propelled grenade meant for US convoy
* 6 November One killed by mortars, Moqdadiya
* 9 November US-backed mayor of Sadr City shot dead
* 10 November Oil executive's son killed in Mosul: seen to be co-operating
with Americans
* 11 November Fallujah chicken-farmer's truck under fire: five dead
* 12 November Bomb kills 12 at Italian military police HQ, Nasiriyah
* 13 November Khirnabaat policeman shot dead for co-operating with US forces
* 17 November Sadr City, Baghdad: 11-year-old killed by gunfire from passing
armoured vehicles
* Hungarian student volunteer shot dead at US checkpoint, Ramadi
* Diwaniyah director-general of education shot dead
* One dead at offices of Iraqi National Congress party in Baghdad
* 17 November Abducted Assyrian politician and city council member killed
* Cousin of Ramadi tribal chief and 9-year-old boy killed by a car bomb
* 20 November Iraqi police guard shot dead at Jordanian embassy, Baghdad
* Suicide car bomb kills four in Kirkuk
* 21 November Four killed by grenade in Baghdad
* 22 November Car bomb kills nine at Khan Bani Saad police station
* Mosul police colonel in charge of securing oil installations shot dead
* US-appointed police chief in Latifiyah shot dead.
* Iraqi contractor who worked with US forces shot dead in Latifiyah
* Baquba car bomb kills nine at police station
* 22 November Mosul boy shot dead in crossfire
* 27 November Mosul police sergeant shot dead
* One dead at US checkpoint in Kirkuk
* 29 November Japanese diplomats and Iraqi driver shot dead at Tikrit
* 30 November Six killed by tanks, gunfire at Samarra
* 5 December Three civilians killed as patrol of US Humvees targeted by
landmine in Baghdad
* Sadr City Shia cleric killed by tank fire
* 6 December Iraqi civil defence force officer killed at Samarra
* Major-General Khalaf al-Alousi, former director of secret police, shot
dead in Baghdad
* Mosul police graduate shot dead
* Boy, 12, killed by roadside bomb near Iskandiriyah
* 8 December Bomb disposal expert killed in Baquba
* 9 December Three killed at Ahbab al Mustafa Mosque, Baghdad
* 12 December Baghdad policeman killed by roadside bomb
* 14 December 23 killed by car bomb in Khaldiyah
* 15 December Two protesters shot dead in Ramadi
* Suicide car bomb kills eight at Al Hussainiya, Al Zuhour police station
* Four Baghdad demonstrators shot dead
* Samarra roadside vegetable-seller shot dead
* 16 December Mosul policeman shot dead
* 17 December Shia party official shot dead, Baghdad
* Ex-Baathist official lynched and shot in Najaf
* Prominent Shia official shot dead in Baghdad
* Mosul demonstrator shot dead
* 19 December Baghdad homeless shelter bombed, one dead
* Najaf Baath party official shot dead
* Roadside bomb near Abu Ghraib, two dead
* Three policemen shot dead in Sleiman Beg area
* 20 December Five-year-old son of Najaf Ba'ath party official killed
* 21 December Samarra resident, 70, dies of fright when US troops put bag
over his head while detaining him
* Raid on "suspected rebels" kills 60-year-old woman in Rawah
* 22 December translator killed by roadside bomb in Baghdad
* One killed when civilian vehicle fired on south of Tikrit
* Investigating judge assassinated in Mosul
* 23 December Mosul policeman shot dead
* 24 December Liquor-seller shot dead in Basra bazaar
* Four killed when interior ministry offices in Arbil attacked
* Roadside bomb kills one in Daudi, west of Baghdad
* 26 December Taxi driver killed in crossfire in Mosul
* Sunni tribal leader and his son shot dead in Mosul
* Two killed by roadside bomb near Baghdad airport
* 27 December Lawyer working with coalition shot dead in Mosul
* Looter killed by Dutch soldier in southern Iraq
* Roadside bomb kills one in Arkheta market, Karrada district, Baghdad
* Suicide car bomb, mortar rounds and machine-gun fire kill 12 in Karbala
* 28 December Kurdish official and two bodyguards shot dead in Arbil
* Two Iraqi children killed by a roadside bomb in Karada district, Baghdad
* Two Iraqi security guards shot dead near Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad
* 31 December Baghdad boy, 8, killed by roadside bomb
* Restaurant car bomb kills seven in Karrada district, Baghdad
* 1 January Former Baath party official assassinated in Mosul
* Roadside bomb between Kirkuk and Sulaymaniyah: one killed
* 3 January Taxi which tried to pass a US convoy comes under heavy fire;
child among the four killed
* Four killed in Haditha
* Firefight between US forces and insurgents in Hantush: bystander killed
* 5 January Two Iraqi men returning from a coffee house shot dead in Baquba
* 6 January Married couple killed by tank round in Fallujah
* Two stone-throwing ex-soldiers shot dead during protest in Basra
* Iraqi police vehicle in Kirkuk hit by rocket-propelled grenade: one dead
* 7 January Police checkpoint between Bayji and Hawija comes under gunfire:
two killed
* 9 January An explosive device in a Shia mosque in Baquba kills five
* Kurdish man walking in an Arab neighbourhood of Kirkuk shot dead
* Two Iraqi policemen shot dead by US troops in Kirkuk
* 12 January Driver and passenger aged 10 shot dead in Palestine Street,
Baghdad
* 13 January "Indiscriminate" return-fire on assailants in Fallujah using
"500lb laser-guided bombs" and Cobra attack helicopters kills two
* Protesters in Kut demanding jobs come under fire: one killed
* 14 January A suicide car bomb kills two at Baquba police station
* Taxi carrying four US missionaries near Mahmudia comes under gunfire: one
killed
* 15 January Three passengers are killed when bus hits landmine near Tikrit
* 16 January Fifteen-year-old boy killed by roadside bomb in central Baghdad
* 18 January Truck bomb exploded at the gateway to Saddam's former
Republican Palace complex, now the US headquarters: 30 die
* 19 January The political scientist and human rights advocate Abdul
al-Latif al-Mayah shot dead near Mustansiriyah University.
* 21 January A minibus on the road from Habbaniyah to Fallujah carrying five
laundry women to work at US base hit by 500lb laser-guided bombs
* 22 January A police checkpoint on the road to Ramadi comes under fire,
killing three
* A bomb at the Iraqi Communist Party office kills two in Jadida/Mashtal
district, Baghdad
* 24 January A truck bomb meant for a US patrol kills four in Samarra
* 28 January Two killed by car bomb outside the Shaheen hotel in Baghdad
* 1 February Suicide bombers kill 107 at the offices of PUK and KDP in Irbil
* Munitions depot explosions kill four, 180km southwest of Karbala
* 2 February Three killed when a police vehicle's petrol tank hit by gunfire
in Al-Wind, near Karbala
* 10 February Bomb targeting Iraqi police kills four in Baghdad
* Truck bomb at a police station in Iskandariyah kills 55
* 11 February Forty-seven Iraqi army recruits are killed by a suicide car
bomb at Muthana airport, Baghdad
* Baghdad trade ministry official shot dead in car
* 12 February Two civilians killed in crossfire in Iraqi security compound
in Fallujah
* 14 February Automatic weapons fire and rocket-propelled grenades kill 23
at the police headquarters in Fallujah
* 15 February Five alcohol vendors shot dead in Basra
* 16 February Explosion at the Asmaa Elementary School, Baghdad, kills one
* 17 February A former Baath Party official shot dead in Karbala
* A house in Tikrit mistakenly hit by mortar round, killing three, including
a 10-year-old
* 18 February Truck bombs at Polish military base in Hillah kill eight
* 19 February Roadside bomb kills one in Khaldiyah
* 21 February Sunni Muslim cleric killed in western Baghdad
* 21 February One person shot dead in Haswa, southwest of Baghdad
* 22 February Roadside bomb kills one near Mosul
* 23 February A woman video-seller shot dead in Basra
* Car bomb kills eight at Rahimawa police station, Kirkuk
* 24 February A former Baath party official shot and killed in Mosul
* 25 February Deputy police chief shot dead in Mosul
* 26 February Bomb targeting police vehicles in Al-Saray, Baquba, kills one
* 27 February At a checkpoint south of Mosul occupants of car come under
fire: two killed
* 29 February Police patrol comes under fire at Al-Qadissiyah, Kirkuk: one
killed
* Rumaythah gunfire kills one
* 2 March 121 pilgrims to Shia shrines in Karbala killed by suicide bombers
* 67 pilgrims to Shia shrines in Kazimiya, Baghdad, killed by suicide
bombers
* 3 March At the Al-Mahmun central telephone exchange, Baghdad, a rocket
kills one
* 4 March Car hit by rocket in Al-Aalam, south-west Baghdad: three dead
* 5 March Car carrying a translator and family comes under fire: three
killed
* 7 March Sunni Muslim cleric shot dead in Hay al-Shurta, Baghdad
* 8 March Three killed by stray bullets in Kirkuk
* One worshipper in Hajia Badria mosque, Talabia, Baghdad, killed by grenade
* One killed by mortar round in Ejba, near Mosul
* Local councillor killed by gunfire in Mosul
* 9 March Four policemen killed in Nasiriyah while rescuing civilians held
by militia
* Car carrying Americans and Iraqi translator in Abu Gharaq, near Karbala,
comes under fire: one killed
* 10 March Taxi carrying women laundry-workers comes under fire near Basra:
two killed
* 11 March Roadside bomb targeting a military convoy kills one in Fallujah
* Car carrying Sunni Muslim cleric and relatives comes under fire in
Baghdad: two killed.
* Security guard at Qubaysi mosque, Baghdad, killed by a grenade.
* 13 March Shop owner killed by a bomb in Inner Karada St, Baghdad
* 15 March Car carrying councillor and bodyguard in Kirkuk comes under fire:
two dead
* 16 March Vehicle carrying hydraulic engineers and policeman comes under
fire in Mussayab, near Hillah: two killed
* 18 March Bus carrying television journalists comes under fire in Kanaan,
near Baquba, killing three
* 21 March Interpreter killed by roadside bomb in Abu Ghraib, Baghdad
* 22 March Member of security forces killed in Mosul
* 23 March Car bomb outside Mirbad Hotel, Basra, possibly meant for a
military convoy, kills three
* Minibus carrying police and recruits to work fired on near Mussayab: nine
killed
* Three killed in gunfight following bomb in Fallujah
* Two killed at Iraqi army base in Mosul
* Two police killed in Kirkuk
* 24 March Translator killed in Baghdad
* Police chief killed in Musayyab
* 26 March Four ICDC members killed in Tikrit
* 28 March One British and one Canadian civilian shot dead in Mosul
* 31 March Four American security contractors killed in an ambush
* 6 April Bulgarian truck driver killed south of Nasiriyah.
* 7 April South African security contractor killed in Kut.
* 500lb US bomb kills 40 in Fallujah mosque.
* 8 April Director of Fallujah hospital says more than 280 Iraqis have been
killed since Monday

This list of civilian deaths attributed to military intervention in Iraq is
based on research by Iraqbodycount.net, which derives casualty figures from
a comprehensive survey of online media reports and eyewitness accounts.
Sufficient information is extracted to ensure that deaths are not
double-counted.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=509888

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Talks are under way with Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr, whose militiamen and
supporters have taken up arms against occupation forces in Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/2s72a

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Forces of a renegade adviser to President Hamid Karzai overran the capital
of a northern province on Thursday, creating a fresh security headache for
Afghanistan's Western-backed government. ... Presidential spokesman Jawed
Ludin said an emergency National Security Council meeting chaired by Karzai
had heard the city fell "to irresponsible armed individuals from neighboring
provinces and areas around Maimana."
http://tinyurl.com/2nfub

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Clashes have erupted in Falluja, Najaf, Ramadi and Baghdad's Sadr City after
the US-backed Iraqi army and later US troops fired on April 4 at
demonstrators protesting against the Provisional Coalition Authority. At
least 47 people were killed and many more injured in Baghdad. In Najaf, too,
use of force resulted in killing 20 demonstrators and nearly 150 injured.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_8-4-2004_pg3_1

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THOUSANDS of Sunni and Shiite Muslims forced their way through US military
checkpoints Thursday to ferry food and medical supplies to the besieged
Sunni bastion of Fallujah where US marines are trying to crush insurgents.
Troops in armoured vehicles tried to stop the convoy of cars and pedestrians
from reaching the town located 50 kilometers west of Baghdad. But US forces
were overwhelmed as residents of villages west of the capital came to the
convoy's assistance, hurling insults and stones at the beleaguered troops.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9231695%255E2,00.html

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The U.S. soldiers opened fire on aid convoys taking relief supplies to
Fallujah, sealed off by occupation forces for the fourth consecutive day,
eyewitnesses said. The convoys, carrying foodstuffs and medicine, were
forced to stop in Ramadi to the west of Baghdad, eyewitnesses told
IslamOnline.net.
http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/article.php?id=2640

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America's top commander in Iraq has warned Washington that he will not be
"the fall guy" if violence in the country worsens, it emerged yesterday, as
word leaked out that US generals are "outraged" by their lack of soldiers.
http://tinyurl.com/2wud4

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US has killed 280 in Fallujah this week, says hospital doctor
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=509890

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Robert Fisk: A War Founded On Lies And Illusions Has One Simple Truth

FISK: A war founded on illusions, lies and right-wing ideology was bound to
founder in blood and fire. Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. He was in
contact with al-Qa'ida, he was involved with the crimes against humanity of
11 September. The people of Iraq would greet us with flowers and music.
There would be a democracy.

Even the pulling-down of Saddam's statue was a fraud. An American military
vehicle tugged the wretched thing down while a crowd of only a few hundred
Iraqis watched. Where were the tens of thousands who should have pulled it
down themselves, who should have been celebrating their "liberation"?

...

In fact, freedom from Saddam's dictatorship in those early days and weeks
meant freedom to loot, freedom to burn, freedom to kidnap, freedom to
murder. The initial American and British blunder - to allow the mobs to take
over Baghdad and other cities - was followed by the arrival of the far more
sinister squads of arsonists who systematically destroyed every archive,
every government ministry (save for Oil and Interior which were, of course,
secured by US troops), Islamic manuscripts, national archives and
irreplaceable antiquities. The very cultural identity of Iraq was being
annihilated.

Yet still the Iraqis were supposed to rejoice in their "liberation". The
occupying power sneered at reports that women were being kidnapped and
violated - in fact, the abductions of men as well as women were at the rate
of 20 a day and may now be as high as 100 a day - and steadfastly refused to
calculate the numbers of Iraqi civilians killed each day by gunmen, thieves
and American troops.

Even this week, as the promises and lies and obfuscations fell apart, the
American military spokesman was still only able to give military
casualties - this when more than 200 Iraqis are reported to have been killed
in the US attack on Fallujah.

Over the months, the isolation of the occupation authorities from the Iraqi
people they were supposed to care so much about was only paralleled by the
vast distance in false hope and self-deceit between the occupying powers in
Baghdad and their masters back in Washington.

Paul Bremer, America's proconsul in Iraq, started off by calling the
resistance "party remnants", which is exactly what the Russians used to call
their Afghan opponents after they invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Then Mr
Bremer called them "diehards". Then he called them "dead-enders". And, as
the attacks against US forces increased around Fallujah and other Sunni
Muslim cities, we were told this area was the "Sunni triangle", even though
it is much larger than that implies and has no triangular shape.

So when President Bush made his notorious trip to the Abraham Lincoln to
announce the end of all "major military operations" - beneath a banner
claiming "Mission Accomplished" - and when attacks against US troops
continued to rise, it was time to rewrite the chapter on post-war Iraq.
"Foreign fighters" were now in the battle, according to the US Secretary of
State Donald Rumsfeld. The US media went along with this nonsense, even
though not a single al-Qa'ida operative has been arrested in Iraq and of the
8,500 "security detainees" in American hands, only 150 appear to be from
outside Iraq. Just 2 per cent.

Then as winter approached and Saddam was caught and the anti-American
resistance continued, the occupying powers and their favourite journalists
began to warn of civil war, something no Iraqi has ever indulged in and
which no Iraqi has ever been heard discussing. Iraq was now to be frightened
into submission. What would happen if the Americans and British left? Civil
war, of course. And we don't want civil war, do we?

The Shia remained quiescent, their leadership divided between the scholarly
and pro-Western Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani and the impetuous but intelligent
Muqtada Sadr. They opened their mass graves and mourned those thousands who
were tortured and executed by Saddam's butchery and then asked why we used
to support Saddam, why it took us 20 years to discover the need to stage our
humanitarian invasion.

If the occupation authorities had bothered to study the results of a
conference on Iraq held by the Centre for Arab Unity Studies in Beirut
recently, they might be forced to acknowledge what they cannot admit: that
their opponents are Iraqis and that this is an Iraqi insurgency.

An Iraqi academic, Sulieman Jumeili, who lives in the city of Fallujah, told
how he discovered that 80 per cent of all rebels killed were Iraqi Islamist
activists. Only 13 per cent of the dead men were primarily nationalists and
only 2 per cent had been Baathists.

But we cannot accept these statistics. Because if this is an Iraqi revolt
against us, how come they aren't grateful for their liberation? So, after
the atrocities in Fallujah just over a week ago when four US mercenaries
were killed, mutilated and dragged through the streets, General Ricardo
Sanchez, the US commander in Iraq, sanctioned what is preposterously called
"Operation Vigilant Resolve". And now that Sadr's thousands of Shia
militiamen had joined in the battle against the Americans, General Sanchez
had to change the narrative yet again.

No longer were his enemies Saddam "remnants" or even al-Qa'ida; they were
now "a small (sic) group of criminals and thugs". The Iraqi people would not
be allowed to fall under their sway, General Sanchez said. There was "no
place for a renegade militia".

So the marines smashed their way into Fallujah, killing more than 200
Iraqis, including women and children, while using tanks fire and helicopter
gunships against gunmen in the Baghdad slums of Sadr City. It took a day or
two to understand what new self-delusion had taken over the US military
command. They were not facing a country-wide insurgency. They were
liberating the Iraqis all over again! So, of course, this will mean a few
more "major military operations". Sadr goes on the wanted list for a murder
after an arrest warrant that no one told us about when it was mysteriously
issued months ago - supposedly by an Iraqi judge - and General Mark Kimmitt,
General Sanchez's number two, told us confidently that Sadr's militia will
be "destroyed".

And so the bloodbath spreads ever further across Iraq. Kut and Najaf are now
outside the control of the occupying powers. And with each new collapse, we
are told of new hope. Yesterday, General Sanchez was still talking about his
"total confidence" in his troops who were "clear in their purpose", how they
were making "progress" in Fallujah and how - these are his actual words, "a
new dawn is approaching".

Which is exactly what US commanders were saying exactly a year ago today -
when US troops drove into the Iraqi capital and when Washington boasted of
victory against the Beast of Baghdad.

With the Afghan resistance poised for a do-or-die spring offensive against
occupying forces in the country, already torn by instability, Asia Times
Online has learned that Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of the Hezb-i-Islami
Afghanistan (HIA) - the engine of the resistance in the east of the
country - has provisionally agreed to call a ceasefire in resistance
fighting in return for his party being allowed to contest September's
general elections.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/story.jsp

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While Senator Byrd is calling for an exit strategy, as well as Kucinich,
the majority in Congress and the controlled mass media insist upon
continuing the foreign oil-terror-producing war-occupation policies. The
second and third items delve into 9/11 inquiry. There is something really
wrong, and the official 9/11 probe is avoiding critical questions about
what happened that day. Where was the Air Force on 9/11? Ted Rall wrote:
"The notion of a hijacked passenger jet meandering over the northeastern
United States, unmolested for more than an hour before blasting away a
chunk of the Pentagon, should appall anyone whose taxes contributed to the
quarter of a trillion dollars spent on defense that year."
FlybyNews.com

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[As] far as the 9-11 Commission is concerned, and at least for the
moment,the White House got what it wanted. President George W Bush and Vice
President Dick Cheney will have a private conversation with the commission
as a tandem, not under oath, and behind closed doors. This testimony won't
be recorded. The commission will hardly have more than two or three hours to
ask crucial questions to both, when it could have at least double the time
to ask questions to each of them separately. The arrangement of course
prevents them from contradicting each other - a basic premise of any
criminal investigation. It makes sure that the all-powerful, all-seeing
Cheney is the Praetorian Guard capable of preventing any Bush rhetorical
disaster. Andrew Rice, chair of the 9-11 Commission Committee of the
September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows organization, is one among
millions of terribly frustrated Americans. He believes that as far as this
official 9-11 Commission is concerned, the "fix was in" from the beginning.
Beverly Eckert, whose husband died on September 11, adds: "We wanted
journalists, we wanted academics ... We did not want politicians."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FD07Aa01.html

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In early October 2001, Indian intelligence learned that Lieutenant-General
Mahmoud Ahmad, the director of the
Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had ordered flamboyant Saeed
Sheikh - the convicted mastermind of the kidnapping and killing of Wall
Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl - to wire US$100,000 from Dubai to one
of hijacker Mohamed Atta's two bank accounts in Florida. And Mahmoud,
Republican Congressman Porter Gross and Democratic Senator Bob Graham were
all in Washington together discussing Osama bin Laden over breakfast when
the attacks of September 11, 2001, happened.
http://atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FD08Aa01.html

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Thinking Unthinkable Thoughts --Theologian Charges White House Complicity
in 9/11 Attack --by Nick Welsh "According to [author of The New Pearl
Harbor, David Ray] Griffin, a case can be made that the Bush administration
arranged the attack, or allowed it to happen... NICK WELSH: Is there a
smoking gun that shows the Bush administration knew 9/11 was likely to
happen and did nothing about it? DAVID RAY GRIFFIN: I think there are four.
One is the fact that standard operating procedures for dealing with possibly
hijacked airplanes were not followed on 9/11. Those procedures call for
fighter jets to be sent out immediately upon any sign that a plane may have
been hijacked. These jets typically get to the plane within no later than 15
minutes anywhere in the United States. And on that day, there were four
airplanes that went for a half-hour or more after they were hijacked without
jets intercepting them... And the other smoking guns? The second strongest
piece of evidence I would say is the crash at the Pentagon. The physical
evidence contradicts so violently the official account, that the Pentagon
was hit by a Boeing 757 - Flight 77, that is. The physical evidence,
photographs, and eyewitness testimony say that the Pentagon was hit by
something that caused a hole no larger than 18 feet in diameter. The story
the Pentagon put out, and was published by the Washington Post, was that the
hole in the Pentagon was five stories high and 200 feet wide. If you look at
the photographs taken by Tom Horan of the Associated Press - that's just not
the size of the hole. But if the hole was only 18 feet wide, it had to have
been created by something other than a Boeing. Whatever went into the
Pentagon pierced six reinforced walls. This was the west wing, the part of
the Pentagon being refurbished and reinforced. These walls were extra
strong, and yet whatever it was went through six walls creating a hole about
seven feet in diameter in the sixth wall. This had to have been something
with a very powerful head on it. A Boeing 757 has a very fragile nose, and
would not have pierced through all those walls; it would have been crushed
by hitting the Pentagon. And given that it only penetrated these three
rings, the rest of the aircraft would have been sitting outside on the yard.
And yet the photographs taken just as the fire trucks got there - very
shortly after the crash - show no plane whatsoever. What do they show? They
show no aircraft whatsoever. And everyone agrees on this. The official story
is that the whole aircraft went inside the Pentagon. The problem with that -
the firefighters in there would have seen the airplane. They would have seen
the engines, they would have seen the aluminum fuselage, but they reported
nothing."
http://legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

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The U.S. Does Not Have Sovereignty Over Iraq to Transfer

-Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr whose militia followers have battled
coalition and Iraqi security forces across the country for days - accused
members of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council of being
"collaborators" and said "they do not represent the Iraqi people." The
cleric warned Wednesday Iraq will become another Vietnam-like conflict for
the U.S. unless it transfers power to "honest Iraqis."
http://tinyurl.com/2bfsp

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"I call upon the American people to stand beside their brethren, the Iraqi
people, who are suffering an injustice by your rulers and the occupying
army, to help them in the transfer of power to honest Iraqis," al-Sadr said
in a statement issued by his office in the southern city of Najaf.
"Otherwise, Iraq will be another Vietnam for America and the occupiers."
http://tinyurl.com/2bfsp

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The only man in the world convicted over the September 11 attacks on New
York and Washington walked free after more than two years in jail pending a
new trial ordered by a federal court. A smiling Mounir El Motassadeq, a
30-year-old Moroccan student, emerged from custody accompanied by his lawyer
and was welcomed by a group of friends who picked him up from prison in this
northern German city. Motassadeq was sentenced in Hamburg in February 2003
to 15 years in prison on charges of accessory to the murder of more than
3,000 people and of membership in a terrorist organization. But the same
court that convicted him ruled Wednesday that there was no longer "urgent
suspicion" against him on the charge of accessory to murder, leading it to
approve his release in a closed-doors hearing.
http://tinyurl.com/33jow

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The Iraqi uprising will drive home the forgotten lessons of empire Where
are they now, the cheerleaders for war on Iraq? Where are the US Republican
hawks who predicted the Anglo-American invasion would be a "cakewalk",
greeted by cheering Iraqis? Or the liberal apologists, who hailed a "new
dawn" for freedom and democracy in the Arab world as US marines swathed
Baghdad in the stars and stripes a year ago?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1188142,00.html

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>From Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies, page 24, quotes GW Bush saying,
"I don't care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some
ass."

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"Gee, Iraq worked good. Now let's get Iran!"

Moqtada al-Sadr: the Latest Neocon Excuse to Kill Iranians

http://www.kurtnimmo.com/

Somebody needs to tell Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen, and Reuel Marc Gerecht
to shut the hell up.

In fact, they need to be arrested and tried as traitors for their part in
the illegal and immoral invasion and occupation of Iraq. AEI needs to
prosecuted as a criminal organization and shuttered for good. So does JINSA
and the Hoover Institute and all of the other neocon criminal organizations.
If there was any justice in the world, Bush would be impeached and Dick
Cheney would be wearing an orange jumpsuit. Instead, these guys influence
and run US foreign policy, they are millionaires, they are allowed to
publish books and papers filled with criminal conspiracies against
international peace. The American people either don't know, don't care, or
are too busy watching television to do anything about it.

As Jim Lobe reports, the above mentioned are now "pushing for retribution
against Iran for, they say, sponsoring this week's Shiite uprising in Iraq
led by radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Despite the growing number of reports
that depict the fighting as a spontaneous and indigenous revolt against the
U.S.-led occupation, the influential neo-cons are calling on Bush to warn
Tehran to cease its alleged backing for al-Sadr and other Shia militias or
face retaliation, ranging from an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities to
covert action designed to overthrow the government."

Note the first option -- attacking Iran's nuclear facilities. It is a line
straight out of the Zionist script. On June 7, 1981, the Israelis attacked
Iraq's Osiraq nuclear facility with American-made F-16s, in direct violation
of international law. Now the Bush neocons want to do the same thing to
Iran.

"Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon urged US President George Bush to take
all steps possible to block Iran from developing nuclear arms [last July],"
al-Jazeerah reported. "Sharon also said Israel believed Iran is shipping
weapons to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah through Syria, and voiced
Israeli concerns about camps for training Palestinian 'terrorists' in
Syria."

Note nearly all of Sharon's enemies are mentioned: Iran, Syria, and
Hezbollah. These enemies are also on the neocon hit list and Bush's evil
axis roster.

Of course, most people in the world, when asked, don't believe Iran, Syria,
or Hezbollah are primary threats to world peace -- that distinction is
reserved for Israel. For instance, a poll conducted by Eurobarometer late
last year indicated nearly 60% of Europeans believe Israel "presents a
threat to peace, putting it ahead of Iran, North Korea and the US, each of
which polled 53%," the BBC reported.

As for nukes -- they are a pipe dream for Iran, but a reality for Israel.
"By the late 1990s the U.S. Intelligence Community estimated that Israel
possessed between 75-130 weapons, based on production estimates," writes
FAS. "The stockpile would certainly include warheads for mobile Jericho-1
and Jericho-2 missiles, as well as bombs for Israeli aircraft, and may
include other tactical nuclear weapons of various types. Some published
estimates even claimed that Israel might have as many as 400 nuclear weapons
by the late 1990s."

So maybe the US should attack Dimona, Israel's nuclear facility.

Sharon, the rabid Likudites, and the Bush neocons are racists who hate Arabs
and Iranians. They can't wait to start World War IV -- World War III,
according to the neocons, was the Cold War (these guys love back-to-back
wars and mass murder) -- and turn the Middle East into one huge killing
field in the name of Greater Israel. Remarkably, the American people have
allowed them to get away with lying about Iraq and WMD and killing 10,000
people, excluding the approximately 40,000 Iraqi conscripts they slaughtered
last year.

"Some neo-conservatives have seized on Sadr's uprising as a new opportunity
both to raise tensions against Iran and to divert attention from
Washington's bungling of relations with the Shia community in Iraq," writes
Lobe.

This is criminal behavior. It should not be tolerated. Unfortunately, it
will not only be tolerated, it will be encouraged by the likes of the War
Street Journal and Fox, especially after Bush takes the election in
November, either semi-legitimately or by hook, crook, and Diebold voting
machine.

It's war all the time from here on out.

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Why John Kaminski isn't voting for Kerry either.

>From John's "Easter Message:"

Imagine that you're not killed instantly, but your arms have been blown off.
Imagine that your daughter's head has been blown off and her body reduced to
spasming jelly. You can see her head, eyes wide but sightless, a few feet
away. That's how it is today ... in Fallujah, where flies feast on bodies
littering the streets.

Do you think this is too graphic? It's nothing compared to what is happening
today ... in Fallujah, where American troops prevent medics from tending to
the wounded and media from reporting the carnage.

And the reason? There is no reason. You know the reasons for our war against
the Iraqi people have been exposed as shallow lies. No weapons of mass
destruction. No connection to the terrorists. The dictator is deposed. Yet
the killing is rampant, as Iraqis fight for their freedom against the
American and Israeli terror-mongers.

In the pitch dark that is the satanic American future, we continue to kill.
In the name of democracy. In the name of Jesus. Our president talks to
Jesus. He is risen today. Our president says he talks to God every day. God
told him to bomb Afghanistan, he told us.

Jesus told him to blast innocent women and children in Fallujah today, and
to pile the dead and dying in the football stadium because he won't let
medical personnel get to them. Jesus told him to throw away the lives of
American adolescents in uniform. Happy Easter.

Praise the Lord! He is risen. Hallelujah! In Fallujah!

Imagine if an all-powerful foreign army invaded the United States of America
and began killing Americans at random, gunning down average families at
arbitrary checkpoints, spreading the sale of drugs and pornography
throughout the land, targeting college professors for assassination,
stealing our historic artifacts, making totally innocent people disappear
forever without telling their relatives what happened to them, torturing
teenagers in ways civilized societies have banned for decades, and spreading
an ineradicable radioactive poison across the landscape that guaranteed
death sentences to all inhabitants from fatal cancers many centuries into
the future.
Imagine if the invaders said the reason they came to obliterate our country
was because we had an unstable leader who had used weapons of mass
destruction against innocent people, and he had to be removed as a menace to
the whole world. (Well, at least that would be an honest assessment of the
present situation in the U.S.)
Imagine if this foreign power disregarded everything we held holy and
demanded we accept their religion, and declared all the ideas we grew up
with to be a terrorist threat. Imagine if they promised us genuine democracy
and then refused to let us hold elections and nominate candidates that were
not chosen by them. Imagine how you would feel if your entire family was
shot to death just for walking down the street to the grocery store.

What would you do? You'd start shooting back, that's what you'd do. You
would hate the invaders forever, and spend the rest of your life trying to
kill every single one of them. Count on this being a very real part of the
darkness of the American future.

This is the situation George W. Bush has produced for the United States, and
the situation that John F. Kerry would contentedly continue were he to win
the upcoming election. This, my friends, is an even darker part of the
American future.

Your vote doesn't count anymore, because of the electronic finagling by
fascist corporations.

But worse, both candidates, and every elected representative in Washington,
are leading us toward the darkness of the American future, simply by not
telling us the truth. And pretending American soldiers are fighting and
dying for freedom when they're really throwing their lives away for fatter
Halliburton contracts.

America wants war. America has always wanted war. And now we have it.
Welcome to the darkness. Imagine your daughter's eyes, gazing sightlessly
into the blazing, now-silent dust of that mosque in Fallujah. Hallelujah.
Anybody with a brain and not paid off has to realize that the U.S. invasion
of Iraq was not about removing Saddam Hussein. It was about beginning the
American invasion of the world, and takeover of all areas deemed to be
strategically important in terms of American profits.

U.S. troops have been slaughtering Iraqi civilians for a year, all the while
muttering insincere platitudes about democracy and free elections. The aim
was to send a message to all in the Arab world that this fate will befall
them if they impede U.S. plans to steal everyone's oil in that region.

Put yourself in their place, which all religions urge us to do. Walk a mile
in the other fellow's shoes.
What would you do? There is no choice but to conclude America, backed by its
behind-the-scenes ideological manipulator Israel, is the real danger to all
of humanity. Iraqis know it without a hint of a question; Americans are
beginning to learn. But too few. And probably too late. (end of excerpt)

John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report,"and "The Day
America Died: Why You Shouldn't Believe the Official Version of What
Happened on September 11, 2001,"
For information about both, go to http://www.johnkaminski.com/

John recommends:
April 9th - 1 Year of US invading Iraq
http://www.geocities.com/mossab442/1.html

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"Attacking mosques and carrying out aggressions on civilians stoke up
sentiments of hate and anger against this unjustified aggression."
"What America doesn't understand is that they cannot take over our mosques,
our institutions, our cities, and think that Iraqis will just sit by and
watch,"
"A war that was founded on lies and illusions has one simple truth: Iraqis
do not want us" Robert Fisk - Independent's award-winning Middle East
Correspondent
http://www.robert-fisk.com/articles393.htm

The leader for the democratic arm of the Democratic Party, Dennis Kucinich,
will be interviewed on Air America Radio on April 9. The interview will be
broadcast Friday on "Majority Report with Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder "
at some point during the 10:00 pm hour of the show, and will be streaming
online only during the 10:00 pm ET hour (7:00 pm PT).
http://www.airamericaradio.com

An American ambassador provoked a diplomatic row with Pakistan yesterday by
threatening to send US troops into the north of the country if Taliban
fighters and al-Qaida terrorists were not hunted down.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,2763,1187213,00.html

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Let me know if you have read this. It takes a lot of time to prepare these
roundups -- and I know most people never read or even skim long messages.

[Dick Eastman]

Let's be smarter than they are for a change.
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Yep, we know the Oligarchy was gunning for us as much as for Arabs when they
got us to do the fightn, cause everybody knows that when this country has
sought to overthrow any other country they have always done so by fomenting
conflicts of some kind between that country and some other country. But now
we know they are gunning for us, because instead of getting Iran to fight
Iraq or Afganistan to fight Russia or Serbia to fight Croatia this time they
pulled the 9-11 mass-murder frameup so's we middle-class folks would have to
do the killin' and payin'. ?

And now they think they got us over a barrel cause we are stuck with two
skull 'n Bones pirates, Kerry and Bush as the only candidates and they know
lack the brains or gumption to think for ourselves and not rely on our own
traditional habitual political parties to do our thinking and deciding for
us, right?

But hold on. I don't see where it is written in the Constitution that we
have to be stupid fools and fall for the same damn trick every damn time, do
you? In fact, it seems to me as we've got them over a barrel.

Think about it. Most of us don't want this killing of foreigners and
getting our sons and daughters killed, especially when there's no point to
it. Iraq never hurt America and neither did Afganistan, nor did any of the
other countries they're talking about taking over next, did they.
Especially since we now know from the those pictures taken by witnesses at
the Pentagon and by the security camera they had there that the whole stoary
of hateful Arabs taking box cutters and taking over those jetliners and
crashing them is all a hoax. Got the URLs that prove it right here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUTHBAZOOKA/message/5
http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911/Eastman/m18h05.html

Like I said, we've got them over a barrel and, in fact, they've painted
themselves into a corner to boot.

Here's what I mean. Only a select few people in this country really enjoy
the idea of killing Arabs time or tossing our sons and daughers into the
furnace of war or bankrupting the country or making the criminal bosses
running this country even more rich and powerful, right? And its becoming
more and more obvious that that's what we're doing, isn't it?

Now think about it. That small group of people who love getting innocent
people killed and bankrupting the country and setting up rich-kid Emperor's
with a taste for throwing people to the lions, those people are no going to
be dividing their votes between Bonesman pirate Bush and Bonesman pirate
Kerry, right? Which means that there is going to be a minority that's
divided in its vote between equally desirable-to-them but
rotten-to-the-rest-of-us candidates, right?

So how can we loose? Only one way. If they get you to think that Bush and
Kerry, Democrat and Republican, are the only possible choices that can be
made. But that is totally untrue, unless they can hoodwink us into thinking
it is true so that we give up without even trying to take what is really
plum ripe for the taking. Did you get that?

Now, I haven't heard a peep from the Libertarians, or the Prohibitionists,
or the Socialist, or the Taxpayer Party, or the Greens, or the Reform Pary,
or any of those other parties, have you? And I haven't seen any man against
these wars and this theft and corruption even looking like he is thinking
about getting up on a white horse and asking one of these parties if he can
be their champion and go up against the plundering pirates to get them off
our throats, have you? I suspect that there is a lot of big money and
favors and politicing going on in all those parties to either keep them from
fielding an anti-war anti-plutocracy candidate or else to field one who is
such a jackass and who is so fatally flawed in so many ways that he won't
have a chance of winning, someone the party will just go through the motions
of supporting, but not really intending that the candidate would win -- not
really fighting for the candidate. Remember Pat Buchanan running on the
Reform Party Ticket?

So that is what they are counting on to keep their two bloodthirsty bonesmen
from getting any competition from a candidate and a party that will provide
the country with what the country really desperately needs.

The question is can we beat that game and are you willing to try?

I think their game can be beaten if we use the internet to get the situation
explained to enough people and then offer them the only way out that makes
any sense.

In fact it make so much sense I don't even have to spell it out for you.

But I will make this suggestion -- don't get behind a third party or a
candidate unless they and he frankly acknowledge that the odd of them living
through the reforms they will have to initiate are going to be too slim for
any regular politician to want to throw in. Harry Brown is going to look
out for number one and stay free of bullets in an unfree world. Buchanan is
going to spend his campaign in the pub talking about the little people.
Nader is actually pro-war and pro-occupation too -- in fact he probaly
declared as a independent "me-too" because he was afraid the Greens might
pick him again and force him to offer himself as a target to another
disturbed Catcher in the Rye fan. Kucinich, of course, is prohibited by
new laws from running as a third party candidate after seeking a major party
candidacy. So who does that leave for a third pary candidate?

Actually any honest intelligent candidate would do if he (or she) had the
heroic character and a simple grasp of how the oligarchy works its scams.

And since it would be a coalition of third parties, there would have to be
patronage, giving each party its own segment of the government for promote
their ideas.

Secretary of the Treasury: Libertarian nationalist (not anarcho-capitalist)
Secretary of State: Buchananite
Secretary of Defense: Kucinich Democrat
Secretary of Interior: Naderite not beholden to lawyers
Attorney General: Populist willing to apply anti-trust where as it has
never been used before
Commerce: LaRouchian
Education: eliminate
etc.

Pooling all the best minds of each third party, plus the Kucinich and Dean
democrats and the paleoconservative Republicans to play rough and for
keeps with the old corruption -- who I think everyone will desert once they
are stripped of key power.

And I am sure we all have pet reforms we would like to put in to fix the
broken republic. Mine would be returning selection of Senators to the
respective state legislatures. Returning selection of the President to
locally elected electors who run as candidates in their own right tied to no
man or party -- but who convene in session until they agree on a President
and Vice President. That is the system the Founding Fathers gave us, and it
sure makes no sense to pretend that we support there principles when we have
let the criminals do away with the most important elements of the "checks
and balances" system, don't you think?

And of course I'd like to see international trade and the monetary system
re-regulated -- ending forever the practice of overseas investing, limiting
free trade to what it should be -- the trade in goods and in raw materials
and in tourism and nothing else.

So, tell me -- are you willing to foget about your past political party
habits and to get behind the first candidate of whatever third party who is
willing to end the war, end the occupation, and impose holy hell on the
corporations and the perverse corporation and financial system that made
these crimes inevitable.

They'll call him/her a dictator, like they did Huey Long, and they will
probably kill him or her like they did Huey too -- but that is what great
people do, isn't it? and we are about due for another crop of great people
arent we.

So let's watch the third parties and see which one has what it takes to
offer what it is going to take.