ooo you big clever clogs you come on then tell us some more.

abstract teachings....bin a bit further....


--- In lsd_testing@yahoogroups.com, "roberibus111" <Roberibus111@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In lsd_testing@yahoogroups.com, "martyn" <dunskinnin@> wrote:
> >
> > Do you like waiting> I do. I like waiting for everything to gel in my
> > mind, crystallize sort off.
> >
> > abstract teachings.....do it yourself or don't do it at all.
>
>
> there is no 'you' to wait for anything.
>
>
> all is one.
>
>
> all is now.
>
>
> any question 'you' have is lived into an answer.
>
>
> without a 'you' to think about it.
>
>
> don't wait....see!
>

--- In lsd_testing@yahoogroups.com, "martyn" <dunskinnin@...> wrote:
>
> Do you like waiting> I do. I like waiting for everything to gel in my
> mind, crystallize sort off.
>
> abstract teachings.....do it yourself or don't do it at all.


there is no 'you' to wait for anything.


all is one.


all is now.


any question 'you' have is lived into an answer.


without a 'you' to think about it.


don't wait....see!

Do you like waiting> I do. I like waiting for everything to gel in my
mind, crystallize sort off.

abstract teachings.....do it yourself or don't do it at all.

Free 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' bumper stickers annoy drivers

by Skews Me at TheSpoof.com

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i16468

In a wave of vandalism stretching across dozens of states, "Bong Hits
4 Jesus" stickers have begun to appear on cars and other personal
property.

"Security cameras show that it's groups of young adults committing
these crimes," said Britty Cole, spokeswoman for the Juneau, Alaska
police department, the city being focal point of the recent student
freedom of speech controversay.

"In a well-coordinated attack, they pick 4:20 in the afternoon to
sweep high-density parking lots affixing the stickers to automobiles."

"Police in local districts have received numerous complaints clogging
the switchboards," said Cole. "Victims are worried they'll be treated
unfairly at traffic stops before they have the chance to remove the
stickers."

"What these potheads are doing is destructive and I'll bust heads if
I catch them," grumbled a Humvee owner at an Illinois Fallmart whose
vehicle was pasted with numerous stickers including some reading "Gas
is the blood of Satan."

School districts have been put on alert for this new form of
activism. Disciplinary action may be brought against students who are
committing the vandalism.

---
The story above is a satire or parody. It is entirely fictitious.

Ok mate try this. A perception is the visual information provided by
the anlyse of sense data. This perception can be affected by the
speeds at which the three brains anlyse the given data. At very high
speeds ones perception can be totally different to others. In the main
we work at relativly low speeds which means most of the time we stay
in touch with eachother. Sometimes one may reach a high speed so fast
one can actually see a perception forming, but most people would call
that an hallusination.

Purple haze your in my brain....Jimi.


abstract teachings......

http://media.www.smithsophian.com/media/storage/paper587/news/2007/03/
08/News/Smith.Researchers.Clone.Rare.Wildflower-2765418.shtml
Smith researchers clone rare wildflower

Anna Newman
Issue date: 3/8/07 Section: News
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Media Credit: Smith College

A Smith professor and graduate student recently cloned the Pink
Profusion wildflower.


Thanks to a Smith professor and graduate student, a rare native
wildflower will now be available to the local public to plant in
their gardens. Using a technique known as micropropagation, Professor
Michael Marcotrigiano and graduate student Arianna Bruno '05
multiplied the Pink Profusion Porteranthus.

According to the Mount Cuba Center, this pink version of a normally
off-white wildflower was found in the wild by Paul James and sent to
the center in 1987. Although native to the area, the pink wildflower
is slow to multiply and thus has not been grown successfully.

Marcotrigiano collaborated with the director of the Mount Cuba Center
to propagate the Pink Profusion. Since the wildflower was more
attractive, they hoped it would also be more marketable. "It is …
part of educating the public to appreciate native flora,"
Marcotrigiano said.

Marcotrigiano and Bruno used a technique called micropropagation, a
subfield of plant tissue culture. "It involves putting small plant
pieces on synthetic media in sterile conditions and tricking the
plant into multiplying very fast by dosing it up with plant
hormones," said Marcotrigiano.

This technique is now used commercially, including by the local
Nourse Farms in Whately. The Nourse Farms, which produce strawberry
and raspberry plants in this way, are able to create thousands of
plants in their labs where they have a lower chance of catching a
virus or disease.

The project represents a larger problem in the gardening world. Flora
from other parts of the world tends to be more appealing to gardeners
than species of local flowers. However, some of the non-natives can
threaten local species by taking their sunlight, nutrients and
space. "It is important to get more native ornamentals into the trade
since a small fraction of non-natives are invasive and displace
native flora," said Marcotrigiano.

The Mount Cuba Center, which is located in Delaware, addresses this
problem by trying to foster an appreciation for native wildflowers.
They do research working with underused or difficult-to-propagate
plants. According to their Web site, their goals are "to develop a
better understanding of the factors that influence successful
propagation, growth and development and to subsequently use that
information for both horticultural and conservation purposes."

Marcotrigiano and Bruno's work was published in the journal Plant
Cell Tissue and Organ Culture. The Pink Profusion will now be
multiplied by a company and supplied to garden centers.

Hmm...what's in those green petri dishes?

Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:56:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Skews Me <skewsme@...>
Subject: Fwd: Supreme Court Could Silence Student Speech on Drug Policy
To: skews_me@...



Students for Sensible Drug Policy <ssdp@...> wrote:

Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:05:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Students for Sensible Drug Policy <ssdp@...>
To: skewsme@...
Subject: Supreme Court Could Silence Student Speech on Drug Policy

Read SSDP's Supreme Court Brief (PDF) Friends: On Wednesday Students for Sensible Drug Policy officially took action to defend students' rights in a brief filed in the most important Supreme Court case ever to deal with student free speech about drugs and drug policy. SSDP filed an Amicus Curiae (Friend of the Court) brief in the Supreme Court case of Morse v Frederick, better known as the "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case. Read the brief at http://www.ssdp.org/ssdp-scotus-bh4j.pdf This case has made national news, sparking discussion about whether students have the right to express opinions contrary to school policy. High school student Joseph Frederick, 18 at the time, held up a banner reading "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" at a school-sanctioned, off-campus event (the viewing of an Olympic Torch parade). He sued his principal and school board after receiving a 10-day suspension. Losing the case in federal district court, Frederick won his appeal to the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. When his school board appealed that ruling, the Supreme Court accepted the case. While this case started out with a student being punished for displaying an absurd banner, the potential consequences of the Supreme Court's decision are far from a laughing matter. The school district, represented pro bono by Whitewater special prosecutor Ken Starr, is arguing for a blanket prohibition on any student speech about drugs. They argue that schools should be able to ban speech that is "inconsistent with the mission of the school to promote healthy lifestyles (including at every turn to combat substance abuse)." If the Supreme Court adopts this standard, principals could legally prevent students from forming SSDP chapters at their high schools! This restrictive standard would also mean that students could be punished for openly debating their school's random drug testing policies, challenging the effectiveness of D.A.R.E., or speaking out against random locker searches. Whatever you think of the effectiveness of these programs, it is essential that students have the right to debate the merits of policies that directly impact their lives. The school district also argues that schools should have the right to punish student speech that an administrator could "reasonably glean … exposes a positive sentiment" about drugs. Under this standard, students could be punished for supporting a decriminalization voter initiative, advocating for medical marijuana laws, or even talking about how marijuana has helped a relative suffering from cancer. SSDP filed a brief because this case because we know that the ability of students to discuss drug policy issues is vitally important. However, filing a Supreme Court brief is expensive for a small non-profit such as ours. Our printing and filing fees for this brief will cost up to $1,500. We are willing to take this money out of our budget because of the importance of this case, but are asking our supporters to help offset the cost by making a generous contribution to SSDP today at http://www.ssdp.org/donate/ I hope you will take the time to read SSDP's amicus brief in this important Supreme Court case. Thank you for your enduring support. Sincerely, Kris Krane Executive Director SSDP P. S. Join the SSDP group on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204718067 If you no longer wish to receive e-mails from SSDP, visit http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/ssdp/unsubscribe.jsp?remove

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070129_hallucinogen.htm

How drugs cause hallucinations

Jan. 31, 2007
Special to World Science

Sci­en­tists say they have part­ly ex­plained what causes the mind-
bending ef­fects of hal­lu­cino­gens—drugs, such as LSD, mes­ca­line, and
psil­o­cy­bin, that trig­ger states akin to dream­ing or mad­ness.

The re­search­ers said their dis­co­very may il­lu­m­in­ate more than just
the work­ings of these drugs, which be­came pop­u­lar in West­ern cul­ture
in the 1960s though some had been used for mil­len­nia.

The find­ings al­so of­fer a path to un­der­stand­ing the func­tion of drugs
used to treat brain dis­or­ders, some­times with no clear un­der­stand­ing
of how they work, the re­search­ers said.

The scientists, with the Mount Si­nai School of Med­i­cine and Co­lum­bia
Uni­ver­si­ty in New York, de­tailed the find­ings in the Feb. 1 is­sue of
the re­search jour­nal Neu­ron.

Hal­lu­cino­gens—some­times taken rit­u­al­ly to in­duce what users feel are
mys­ti­cal ex­pe­ri­ences—are known to act on brain mo­le­cules called 5-
HT2A re­cep­tors. These sit on the sur­faces of brain cells and act
as "key­holes" that can be "un­locked" by one of the sig­nal­ing chem­i­
cals that nat­u­ral­ly flow through the brain.

The re­cep­tor, nor­mal­ly "un­locked" by the brain chem­i­cal ser­o­to­nin,
then causes chem­i­cal and elec­tri­cal changes in the cell, which may
con­se­quent­ly re­lay sig­nals to neigh­bor­ing cells. This is all part of
a com­plex elec­tri­cal cir­cuit­ry that un­der­lies men­tal ac­tiv­i­ty.

Yet hal­lu­cino­gens, al­so called psych­e­de­l­ics, pre­s­ent a puz­zle.
They "un­lock" the same re­cep­tors as ser­o­to­nin, or si­m­i­lar non-
hallucinogenic chem­i­cals. So why do they cause such dif­fer­ent ef­fects?

The re­search­ers com­pared dif­fer­ences be­tween the ef­fects of LSD and a
non-hal­lu­c­in­o­genic chem­i­cal that al­so ac­ti­vates the re­cep­tors in
mice. Since the ro­dents could­n't re­port the mind-altering ex­pe­ri­ences
that drugged peo­ple re­late, the re­search­ers gauged these ef­fects by
meas­ur­ing a head twitch the mice char­ac­ter­is­ti­cally showed when un­der
hal­lu­cino­gens, but not the other com­pounds.

The sci­en­tists fo­cused on the cor­tex, an ad­vanced part of the brain
in mam­mals that is re­spon­si­ble for much of thought, per­cep­tion, mem­o­
ry, ad­vanced mo­tor func­tion, so­cial abil­i­ties, lan­guage and prob­lem
solv­ing. The re­search­ers found that LSD pro­duced an ar­ray of elec­tri­
cal and cell sig­nal­ing re­sponses in the cor­tex very dif­fer­ent from
those in­duced by the non­hal­lu­ci­nogen.

The ap­par­ent key to the dif­fer­ence was that LSD ac­ti­vat­ed the re­cep­
tor in a sub­tly dif­fer­ent way from nat­u­ral chem­i­cals, said Mount Si­
nai's Stu­art C. Seal­fon, a co-author of the pa­per. The re­cep­tor seems
to be "like a switch that can go on in more than one di­rec­tion," he
ex­plained.

When the mind-bending drug ac­ti­vat­ed the re­cep­tor, it not on­ly trig­
gered the typ­i­cal changes in the cell, it caused ad­di­tion­al cell re­s­
pon­ses, he said. The ev­i­dence for this, the group re­ported, was that
the LSD seemed to cause a char­ac­ter­is­tic chain re­ac­tion of brain chem­
is­try in­volv­ing a class of mo­le­cules called G pro­teins, which are of­
ten in­volved in nor­mal sig­nal­ing pro­cesses.

G pro­teins can be linked to sig­nal­ing re­cep­tors, such as HT2A. When a
sig­nal ar­rives, the pro­teins can change the cell in ways that, for ex­
am­ple, make ei­ther it more or less prone to pass on si­m­i­lar sig­nals
in the fu­ture. The al­ter­ations can last for pe­ri­ods rang­ing from a
few min­utes to a life­time; they're key to the way our men­tal world
changes over time, for in­stance with learn­ing and mem­o­ry for­ma­tion.

In the experiments, one type of G pro­tein was ac­ti­vat­ed by both non-
hal­lu­cino­gens and hal­lu­cino­gens; but on­ly the lat­ter al­so switched on
a sec­ond type, called Gi/o, Seal­fon said.

The sig­nif­i­cance of the dif­fer­ence is un­known. But it was par­tic­u­
larly no­tice­able in a spe­cial lay­er of cells in the cor­tex, called
Lay­er 5, Seal­fon said. This is often de­s­cribed as the "out­put" lay­er
of the cor­tex: it es­sen­tial­ly gath­ers up de­ci­sions made in that struc­
t­ure and re­lays them on to oth­er brain re­gions, in­clud­ing cen­ters
that ex­e­cute phys­i­cal move­ments.

Lay­er 5 al­so has ex­ten­sive in­ter­con­nec­tions to oth­er parts of the cor­
tex, Seal­fon said. It's al­so hy­poth­e­sized to con­trib­ute to a cer­tain
fil­ter­ing func­tion, in which it helps squelch un­im­por­tant infor­ma­tion
so that this does­n't overwhelm oth­er brain ar­eas that don't need it.
Hal­lu­cino­gens may thus dis­rupt this fil­ter­ing, Seal­fon spec­u­lat­
ed. "You have a sen­so­ry overload, a less fil­tered ex­pe­ri­ence of your
sen­so­ry in­put."

while in the air it is impossible to on the ground

The last thing you do is the thing you have done everything else for.

Abstract teachings........telling it the way it is.........

Trip out and discover your mind........................

Everything we know is known through the mind. Everything we feel is
felt through the mind. Every experience, every remembered experience
every memory all imagination is known through the mind. To know mind
is to know self to know self is to know mind. Sensations feelings
pain all these are known through the mind. Our perceptions our
concepts these are known through the mind. Everything we know about
ourselfs everything we know about others everything we know about
life everything is known through mind. Mind determines everything.
You are given an injection mind is put to sleep you know nothing of
what is happening to you. You awaken there is a pain in the body you
know the pain is there because you know it with mind. You want to
know 'who am i' you want to know this through the mind. You
discover 'who am i' you discover this through the mind. Mind
controls everything. As a baby you learn to walk to speak this is
learnt through the mind. As a child you learn to count to write to
play this is learnt through mind. As an adult you learn to do things
for yourself you work you have sex you make more children all this
is done through the mind.
And now the crux of it all, YOU think you know your mind you think
you know yourself, you think and you think you know what you are
thinking yet this is wrong because it is mind that thinks not you.
Ask yourself do you really think thoughts or are you only aware of
thoughts after they are thought. The answer is mind thinks the
thoughts and mind makes you aware of the thoughts. Everything begins
and ends in the mind.

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=5509048&nav=9qrx

Local marijuana dispensary back open after FBI raid

By Arnell DiMaandal
NewsChannel 3

A local medical marijuana dispensary is open again. Federal agents
and local police raided the place on Wednesday.

Palm Canyon Caregivers was back in business today. They tell us a
federal investigation is still ongoing. But this has nothing to with
the business they're running.

"We've just been trying to do whatever we can. So we can open today
at 11, which we did and we've been non-stop since then."

It's business as usual at Palm Canyon Caregivers and those who run
this medical marijuana dispensary want to keep it that way. Unlike
Wednesday, when federal agents and Palm Springs Police raided the
place unexpectedly.

"We asked a lot of questions. We didn't get a lot of answers."

The DEA says employee Josh Aleck left marijuana edibles as a tip for
one of the workers at Spa Resort and Casino.

"They didn't tell you what they were looking for? No. They said
they're here to seize everything. That's it."

Authorities say what Aleck did was illegal distribution of narcotics.
Caregivers manager says, Aleck doesn't work here.

"He was a relative of the owner and he is not employed here and we
cannot discuss an ongoing investigation."

Wednesdays surprise raid over at Caregivers was such a concern for a
lot of people that even the nearby dispensary, Capps, closed down

The people there wouldn't come on camera. But they tell us, they did
it as a precaution.

Californians voted for medical marijuana in 1996 but the federal
government still considers all cannabis illegal. Those who operate
dispensaries say, they're going by the book, making sure everything's
on the up and up.

"We operate legally and under the guidelines."

Palm Springs' medical marijuana task force met with local
dispensaries and, its supporters to discuss Wednesday's incident.

Meanwhile, neither caregivers nor the DEA would comment on the on-
going investigation of Josh Aleck.

--- In skews_me@yahoogroups.com, mark marks <newcluepage@...> wrote:

Secret LSD tests now being compensated
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2006/02/secret_lsd_tests_now.html
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What are they thinking?

Pink Floyd's Barrett dies aged 60



Syd Barrett released two solo albums after leaving Pink Floyd
Syd Barrett, one of the original members of legendary rock group Pink
Floyd, has died at the age of 60 from complications arising from
diabetes.

The guitarist was the band's first creative force and an influential
songwriter, penning their early hits.

He joined Pink Floyd in 1965 but left three years later after one
album. He went on to live as a recluse, with his mental deterioration
blamed on drugs.

"He died very peacefully a couple of days ago," the band's
spokeswoman said.

"There will be a private family funeral."

       He was the first guy I'd heard to sing pop or rock with a
British accent - his impact on my thinking was enormous

       David Bowie
A statement from Pink Floyd said: "The band are naturally very upset
and sad to learn of Syd Barrett's death.

"Syd was the guiding light of the early band line-up and leaves a
legacy which continues to inspire."

David Bowie described Barrett as a "major inspiration", saying: "I
can't tell you how sad I feel.

"The few times I saw him perform in London at UFO and the Marquee
clubs during the '60s will forever be etched in my mind.

"He was so charismatic and such a startlingly original songwriter.
Also, along with Anthony Newley, he was the first guy I'd heard to
sing pop or rock with a British accent.


       Barrett (third from left) struggled with drugs and fame in the
1960s
"His impact on my thinking was enormous. A major regret is that I
never got to know him. A diamond indeed."

Born Roger Barrett in Cambridge, he composed songs including See
Emily Play and Arnold Layne, both from 1967.

He also wrote most of their album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. But
he struggled to cope with fame and drugs.

Dave Gilmour was brought in to the band in February 1968 and Barrett
left that April, releasing two solo albums soon after.

The band's biggest-selling releases, Dark Side of the Moon and The
Wall, emerged in the post-Barrett era, with the band selling an
estimated 200 million albums worldwide.

Just as Pink Floyd were about to achieve global success, Barrett
retreated from public life and returned to Cambridge.

Little was known about his whereabouts for 20 years until he was
tracked down living with his mother.


       Barrett became one of rock's most reclusive characters
But his influence remained, with younger fans and artists discovering
his music.

Former Blur guitarist Graham Coxon released a statement saying: "Lost
him again... for bang on 20 years Syd led me to better places."

"From my agape 17-year-old first listen to Bike to, just the other
day, Jugband Blues.

"Languished in his noise... dreamt in his night... stared at his eyes
for answers..."

Barrett's biographer Tim Willis said the guitarist's music left a
lasting legacy.

"I don't think we would have the David Bowie we have today if it
wasn't for Syd," he told BBC Radio Five Live.

"Bowie was very much a kind of clone of Syd in the early years. His
influence is still going.

"New bands discover him all the time. There's always a Syd revival
going on - if it wasn't the punks, it was REM, and I'm sure that
Arnold Layne and Emily Play as pop songs will live forever."



SYD BARRETT 1946-2006

   Shaping the '60s
Early Pink Floyd producer on working with Syd Barrett


Pink Floyd's Barrett dies aged 60
Obituary: Syd Barrett
BACKGROUND
Pink Floyd's ups and downs
Floyd 'true to Barrett's legacy'
Making the sound of the '60s
Medical notes: Diabetes



HAVE YOUR SAY
'In one album he defined the Sixties'
Syd Barrett: Your comments

RELATED BBC LINKS
Syd Barrett profile
Pink Floyd profile

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Pink Floyd official website

FROM OTHER NEWS SITES
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5169344.stm

http://www.mpp.org/NV/news/12234.mpp

Editorial: It's Time to Enact New State Marijuana Policy

Lahontan Valley News; June 20, 2006


Nevada voters will once again take up a marijuana ballot initiative
this fall, an issue muddied in rhetoric from both sides. The
Regulation of Marijuana Initiative will appear on ballots in
November. It would allow those 21 years old and older to legally
possess, use and transfer one ounce or less of marijuana. Penalties
are also stiffened for those who drive under the influence of
marijuana or sell it to minors. Use in public would be prohibited.

For a $1,000 annual license fee, state-licensed retailers would be
able to sell marijuana. An excise tax of $45 per ounce would be
collected by the state from wholesalers. Sales tax would be the same
as other products. Half of the profits from related licensing fees
and taxes would be used for substance abuse treatment and education.

It's time to pass this multi-pronged approach to marijuana regulation
and end years of speculation and fruitless debates.

What the initiative offers is a chance for voters to change a decades-
long war on marijuana that has failed to curb its prevalence among
Nevadans of all ages. Long compared to the country's failed
prohibition of alcohol in the 1930s, current marijuana laws foster an
illegal market. Nevadans who use marijuana legally for medicinal
purposes are forced to grow their own or obtain it through illicit
sources.

Detractors of the initiative argue that marijuana is a gateway drug
that leads to use of more dangerous substances. But the same could be
said of caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, gambling, sex or any other
activity that stimulates the brain's pleasure zones.

Some of the above mentioned activities are legal and regulated in
Nevada. In fact, the state's most powerful industry caters to those
same visceral pleasures.

In a state where prostitution is legal in certain counties, bars are
not required to close and children can legally possess and use
tobacco, objections to marijuana legalization on a moral basis seem
hypocritical. Education and parental involvement affect a person's
decisions more profoundly than state policy.

The initiative would give law enforcement and the judicial system
more resources to aggressively pursue a far more destructive and
insidious substance: Methamphetamine. State-licensed marijuana
retailers will reduce marijuana's value in the criminal market.

Those who view marijuana as a blight on society have yet to offer an
effective solution of how to stop its spread through society or
better fund law enforcement. Continuation of the ill-funded, half-
hearted campaigns of the past is little more than veiled acceptance
of its current widespread and illegal use.

If governments won't embrace efforts to successfully eliminate
marijuana use and distribution, then regulate it, tax it and transfer
the money from drug dealers' pockets to worthwhile endeavors. Vote
yes for the Regulation of Marijuana Initiative Nov. 7.

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of us to know the truth about Medical Marijuana. If this is not for
you please vote, anyway, in July to pass the amendment for people who
need Medical MJ and pass this email onto others who need to know
about Medical MJ. Thank You.
                                                         Love and
Light,      Jeffrey(Drake)

   Dear Friend:

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--- In cia_tradecraft@yahoogroups.com, Bruce Tanner <brtanner@...>
wrote:

James Casbolt (former MI6 agent) -- drug trade is run by MI6,
Mossad, CIA

Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 15:20:56 -0700 From: "Dick Eastman"
<olfriend@...>

James Casbolt has risked his life to bring you this information.

MI6 Are The Lords Of The Global Drug Trade

By James Casbolt Former MI6 Agent

c. 2006 James Casbolt

http://z13.invisionfree.com/THE_UNHIVED_MIND/index.php?s=96b2c8027d16-
4e9d25b4bbd6b6a52973&showtopic=9854&view=getnewpost

5-20-6

It may be a revelation to many people that the global drug trade is
controlled and run by the intelligence agencies. In this global drug
trade British intelligence reigns supreme.

As intelligence insiders know MI5 and MI6 control many of the other
intelligence agencies in the world (CIA, MOSSAD etc) in a vast web of
intrigue and corruption that has its global power base in the city of
London, the square mile.

My name is James Casbolt and I worked for MI6 in 'black ops' cocaine
trafficking with the IRA and MOSSAD in London and Brighton between
1995
and 1999. My father Peter Casbolt was also MI6 and worked with the CIA
and mafia in Rome, trafficking cocaine into Britain.

My experience was that the distinctions of all these groups became
blurred until in the end we were all one international group working
together for the same goals. We were puppets who had our strings
pulled
by global puppet masters based in the city of London..

Most levels of the intelligence agencies are not loyal to the people
of
the country they are based in and see themselves as 'super national'.
It had been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the CIA has been
bringing in most of the drugs into America for the last fifty years
(see ex LAPD officer Michael Rupert's 'From the wilderness' website
for
proof).

The CIA operates under orders from British intelligence and was
created
by British intelligence in 1947. The CIA today is still loyal to the
international bankers based in the city of London and the global elite
aristocratic families like the Rothchilds and the Windsor's.

Since it was first started, MI6 has always brought drugs into Britain.
They do not bring 'some' of the drugs into Britain but I would
estimate
MI6 bring in around ninety percent of the drugs in. They do this by
pulling the strings of many organised crime and terrorist groups and
these groups like the IRA are full of MI6 agents.

MI6 bring in heroin from the middle east, cocaine from south America
and cannabis from morocco as well as other places. British
intelligence
also designed and created the drug LSD in the 1950's through places
like the Tavistock Institute in London. By the 1960's MI5, MI6 and the
CIA were using LSD as a weapon against the angry protestors of the
sixties and turned them into 'flower children' who were too tripped
out
to organise a revolution.

Dr Timothy Leary the LSD guru of the sixties was a CIA puppet. Funds
and drugs for Leary's research came from the CIA and Leary says that
Cord Meyer, the CIA agent in charge of funding the sixties LSD counter
culture has"helped me to understand my political cultural role more
clearly".

In 1998, I was sent 3000 LSD doses on blotting paper by MI5 with
pictures of the European union flag on them. The MI5 man who sent them
told my father this was a government 'signature' and this LSD was
called 'Europa'.

This global drugs trade controlled by British intelligence is worth at
least £500 billion a year. This is more than the global oil trade and
the economy in Britain and America is totally dependent on this drug
money.

Mafia crime boss John Gotti exposed the situation when asked in court
if he was involved in drug trafficking. He replied"No we can't compete
with the government". I believe this was only a half truth because the
mafia and the CIA are the same group at the upper levels.

In Britain, the MI6 drug money is laundered through the Bank of
England, Barclays Bank and other household name companies. The drug
money is passed from account to account until its origins are lost in
a
huge web of transactions. The drug money comes out 'cleaner' but not
totally clean.

Diamonds are then bought with this money from the corrupt diamond
business families like the Oppenheimers. These diamonds are then sold
and the drug money is clean. MI6 and the CIA are also responsible for
the crack cocaine epidemic in Britain and America.

In 1978, MI6 and the CIA were in south America researching the effects
of the natives smoking 'basuco' cocaine paste. This has the same
effect
as crack cocaine. They saw that the strength and addiction potential
was far greater than ordinary cocaine and created crack cocaine from
the basuco formula. MI6 and the CIA then flooded Britain and America
with crack. Two years later, in 1980, Britain and America were
starting
to see the first signs of the crack cocaine epidemic on the streets.

On august 23, 1987, in a rural community south of Little Rock in
America, two teenage boys named Kevin Ives and Don Henry were murdered
and dismembered after witnessing a CIA cocaine drop that was part of a
CIA drug trafficking operation based at a small airport in Mena,
Arkansas. Bill Clinton was the governor of Arkansas at the time.

Bill Clinton was involved with the CIA at this time and $100 million
worth of cocaine was coming through the Mena, Arkansas airport each
month. For proof see the books 'Compromise' and 'Dope Inc'.

On my father's international MI6 drug runs, whatever fell off the back
of the lorry so to speak he would keep and we would sell it in
Britain.
As long as my father was meeting the speedboats from Morocco in the
Costa del Sol and then moving the lorry loads of cannabis through
their

MI6, IRA lorry business into Britain every month, British intelligence
were happy. As long as my father was moving shipments of cocaine out
of
Rome every month, MI5 and MI6 were happy. If my father kept a bit to
sell himself no one cared because there was enough drugs and money to
go round in this £500 billion a year global drugs trade.

The ones who were really paying were the people addicted. Who were
paying with suffering. But karma always catches up and both myself and
my father became addicted to heroin in later years and my father died
addicted, and poor in prison under very strange circumstances. Today,
I
am clean and drug-free and wish to help stop the untold suffering this
global drugs trade causes.

The intelligence agencies have always used addictive drugs as a weapon
against the masses to bring in their long term plan for a one world
government, a one world police force designed to be NATO and a micro
chipped population known as the New World Order. As the population is
in a drug or alcohol-induced trance watching 'Coronation Street', the
new world order is being crept in behind them.

To properly expose this global intelligence run drugs trade we need to
expose the key players in this area

1- Tibor Rosenbaum, a MOSSAD agent and head of the Geneva based Banque
du Credit international. This bank was the forerunner to the notorious
Bank of Credit and Commerce international (BCCI) which is a major
intelligence drug money laundering bank.

'Life' magazine exposed Rosenbaum's bank as a money launderer for the
Meyer Lanksky American organised crime family and Tibor Rosenbaum
funded and supported 'Permindex' the MI6 assassination unit which was
at the heart of the John F. Kennedy assassination.

2- Robert Vesco, sponsored by the Swiss branch of the Rothchilds and
part of the American connection to the Medellin drug cartel in
Columbia.

3- Sir Francis de Guingand, former head of British intelligence, now
living in south Africa (and every head of MI5 and MI6 has been
involved
in the drug world before and after him).

4- Henry Keswick, chairman of Jardine Matheson which is one of the
biggest drug trafficking operations in the world. His brother John
Keswick is chairman of the bank of England.

5- Sir Martin Wakefield Jacomb, Bank of England director from 1987 to
1995, Barclays Bank Deputy Chairman in 1985, Telegraph newspapers
director in 1986 ( This is the reason why this can of worms doesn't
get
out in the mainstream media. The people who are perpetrating these
crimes control most of the mainstream media. In America former
director
of the CIA William Casey is head of the council of the media network
ABC. Many insiders refer to ABC as 'The CIA network.)

6- George Bush, Snr, former President and former head of the CIA and
America's leading drug baron who has fronted more wars on drugs than
any other president. Which in reality is just a method to eliminate
competition. A whole book could be written on George Bush's
involvement
in the global drug trade but it is well-covered in the book 'Dark
Alliance' by investigative journalist Gary Webb. Gary Webb was found
dead with two gunshot wounds to the back of his head with a revolver.
The case was declared a 'suicide'. You figure that out.

Gary Webb as well as myself and other investigators, found that much
of
this 'black ops' drug money is being used to fund projects classified
above top secret. These projects include the building and maintaining
of deep level underground bases in Dulce in New Mexico, Pine gap in
Australia, Snowy mountains in Australia, The Nyala range in Africa,
west of Kindu in Africa, next to the Libyan border in Egypt, Mount
Blanc in Switzerland, Narvik in Scandinavia, Gottland island in Sweden
and many other places around the world (more about these underground
bases in my next issue).

The information on this global drugs trade run by the intelligence
agencies desperately needs to get out on a large scale. Any
information, comments or feedback to help me with my work would be
greatly welcomed.

James Casbolt- St Ives, Cornwall-19/5/06

E-mail-jamescasbolt@...

--- End forwarded message ---

From MPP's newsletter:


Last Friday, 24 members of Congress demanded that the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) account for its disingenuous April 20 statement
claiming that "no sound scientific studies" support the medical use
of marijuana.

In a letter co-authored by U.S. Reps. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Ron
Paul (R-TX) and signed by 22 other members of Congress, the
legislators accuse the FDA of basing its statement on politics, not
science.

The FDA's claim, of course, is patently false. Numerous credible
scientific studies document marijuana's medical benefits, most
notably a 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report commissioned by the
White House drug czar's office. The IOM concluded, "Nausea, appetite
loss, pain and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting, and all can be
mitigated by marijuana." But as Dr. John Benson, one of the three
authors of the IOM report, told The New York Times on April 21, the
federal government "loves to ignore our report. ... They would rather
it never happened."

The FDA's statement — which was issued in response to pressure from
notorious prohibitionist U.S. Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN), who has
demanded that the FDA's acting commissioner denounce medical
marijuana — contained no mention of new research or analysis that led
to the agency's pronouncement. Rather, the statement was simply a
rehash of the federal government's long-standing position.

But in a sign that MPP and our allies' work to educate the public and
the media is paying off, the nakedly political document has been
nearly universally derided in the media. Even Congressman Souder's
hometown paper printed an editorial criticizing Souder and the FDA,
calling the statement "just the latest disgraceful effort to maintain
an unconvincing position that has long been rejected by most
Americans."

MPP staffers were quoted in stories in The New York Times, The
Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times, as well as
in Associated Press, Reuters, and Scripps Howard News Service stories
that were reprinted in hundreds of local newspapers. In addition, MPP
staffers appeared on CNBC, NBC's "The Today Show," and dozens of
local TV news broadcasts ... and co-authored an op-ed in The San
Diego Union-Tribune.

Are you a political activist

If you are not one yet perhaps it is time that you became one.
Your political activism can take many forms. It can involve you
in supporting or opposing candidates for office. You can run for
office yourself. You can join or oppose a political party.
You can demonstrate for or against candidates for office.

One member of Congress in the news lately is a pal of Senator Byrd
of West Virgina. He is Congress person Alan Mollohan of West
Virginia.

"Mollohan is a member of the powerful House Appropriations
Committee. It
determines the funding for thousands of government programs,
totaling roughly
one-third of the federal budget (most of the rest is mandatory
spending on
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid).

Joining Senator Byrd at the Harrison-MarionRegional Airport runway
extension
ceremony(Photo courtesy Fairmont Times West Virginian)
The Appropriations Committee consists of 10 subcommittees. Mollohan
serves on
two of them.
He is "Ranking Minority Member"—the top Democrat—on the Subcommittee
on Science,
State, Justice, Commerce and Related Agencies. The subcommittee
funds the
departments of State, Justice and Commerce, as well as the National
Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation
(NSF) and the
U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), among others.
Mollohan also is a member of the Subcommittee on Interior,
Environment and
Related Agencies.
In addition to his work on the Appropriations Committee, Mollohan
serves on the
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, commonly known as the
ethics
committee. He is the panel's ranking Democrat.
source: http://www.house.gov/mollohan/bio.htm

Excerpted from yet another rabidly anti-Israel piece by Shirl
McArthur:
"House Passes Resolution Criticizing Iran's Nuclear Program
As expected, the House passed H.Con.Res. 398, which was introduced
by HIRC Chairman Henry Hyde (R-IL) on March 25. It expresses "the
concern of Congress over Iran's development of the means to produce
nuclear weapons," and was passed under "suspension of the rules" on
May 6 (see the previous issue of this magazine for a full
description of the resolution). Lantos demanded a roll call vote, no
doubt so that AIPAC could take names, and the final tally was 376
for the resolution, three against, 14 answering "present," and 40
not voting. Those voting no were Reps. John Conyers (D-MI), Dennis
Kucinich (D-OH), and Ron Paul (R-TX). Those answering "present" were
Reps. Michael Capuano (D-MA), Bob Filner (D-CA), Maurice Hinchey (D-
NY), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Jim McDermott (D-WA), George Miller (D-CA),
Alan Mollohan (D-WV), Nick Rahall (D-WV), Jose Serrano (D-NY), Pete
Stark (D-CA), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Diane Watson (D-CA), and Lynn
Woolsey (D-CA)."
source: http://www.wrmea.com/archives/July_Aug_2004/0407024.html
Let's defeat every single one of the congress people listed as
voting no and those listed as answering "present"  in  the excerpt
from Shirl McArthur's rabidly anti-Israel piece above.

"Top Democrat on Ethics Panel Vows to Stay
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 8, 2006
Filed at 12:03 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The senior Democrat on the House ethics committee
said Friday
he won't step down from his post, contending there's no truth to
allegations by
a conservative group that he violated financial disclosure laws.
Rep. Alan Mollohan of West Virginia accused Republicans of
orchestrating the
complaint by the congressional watchdog group and then using it to
call for him
to leave the ethics committee.
The National Legal and Policy Center said Friday it filed a
complaint in
February with federal prosecutors, alleging that Mollohan
consistently
undervalued assets on congressional financial reports and also
omitted assets.
Mollohan denied any wrongdoing.
Channing Phillips, principal assistant U.S. attorney in Washington,
said Friday
that he could not confirm receipt of the complaint or comment on any
pending
criminal investigation.
The chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee,
Rep. Tom
Reynolds, R-N.Y., said the allegations should lead Mollohan to
resign from the
ethics committee.
… Republicans have blamed Democrats for partisan battles that have
kept the
evenly divided ethics committee from opening any major
investigations since the
current Congress convened in January 2005.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said Democratic leader Nancy
Pelosi of
California must decide whether Mollohan should step down but
indicated she
should take that course. …"There's a precedent for it," Hastert
said. "I was
wondering why (the ethics committee members) ere dragging their feet
on this
whole ethics thing. I don't know if that has anything to do with it
or not.
We'll see."
Pelosi said she would not ask Mollohan to step down.
…
"No, I'm not going to resign because of this spurious attack. The
attack is
unethical on it's face," Mollohan said. "I have not heard from any
prosecutor."
Kenneth Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center,
said he has
been contacted by federal prosecutors about his complaint.
Boehm refused to release what he said was a 500-page complaint
because some of
the information it contains has not been thoroughly verified.
However, he said the center did verify that between 1996 and 2004
Mollohan
repeatedly failed to disclose real estate and financial assets and
loans. The
center has deeds and other records to prove its allegations, Boehm
said.
The center began investigating Mollohan's assets after his financial
disclosure
reports showed a significant jump in his net worth between 2000 and
2004, Boehm
said. The center had been looking at all the disclosure reports of
members of
the House Appropriations Committee.
Mollohan's 2000 report indicated he had assets worth between
$170,012 to
$562,000 and liabilities of $170,000 to $465,000. The disclosure
reports allow
congressmen to report their finances within broad ranges.
Mollohan's 2004 report showed he had assets of $6.3 million to $24.9
million and
assets of $3.66 million to $13.5 million.
"The question remains, so where did his greatly improved financial
holdings come
from?" Boehm said.
The Wall Street Journal, in Friday's editions, first reported on
Mollohan's
finances."
source:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Mollohan-Ethics.html?
_r=1&oref=slogin
April 8, 2006
"Congressman's Special Projects Bring Complaints
April 8, 2006
By JODI RUDOREN
As lawmakers have increasingly slipped pet projects into federal
spending bills
over the past decade, one lawmaker has used his powerful perch on
the House
Appropriations Committee to funnel $250 million into five nonprofit
organizations that he set up.
Those actions have prompted a complaint to federal prosecutors that
questions
whether any of that taxpayer money helped fuel a parallel growth in
his personal
fortune.
The most ambitious effort by the congressman, Alan B. Mollohan, is a
glistening
glass-and-steel structure with a swimming pool, sauna and spa rising
in a former
cow pasture in Fairmont, W.Va., thanks to $103 million of taxpayer
money he
garnered through special spending allocations known as earmarks.
The headquarters building is likely to sit largely empty upon
completion this
summer, because the Mollohan-created organization that it was built
for, the
Institute for Scientific Research, is in disarray, its chief
executive having
resigned under a cloud of criticism over his $500,000 annual
compensation, also
paid by earmarked federal money.
The five organizations have diverse missions but form a cozy, cross-
pollinated
network in the forlorn former coal capitals of north-central West
Virginia. Mr.
Mollohan has recruited many of their top employees and board
members, including
longtime friends or former aides, who in turn provide him with
steady campaign
contributions and positive publicity in their newsletters.
The conservative National Legal and Policy Center in Falls Church,
Va., filed a
500-page complaint with the United States attorney for the District
of Columbia
on Feb. 28 challenging the accuracy of Mr. Mollohan's financial
disclosure
forms. The forms show a sharp spike in assets and income from rental
properties
from 2000 to 2004.
Federal authorities said yesterday that they were reviewing the
complaint, which
was reported in The Wall Street Journal.
The case has led several Republican leaders to call for Mr.
Mollohan's removal
from the House ethics committee, where he is the senior Democrat.
In a statement yesterday, he said, "These groups were not created to
benefit me
in any way, and they never have."
Mr. Mollohan noted that the National Legal and Policy Center had
attacked other
Democrats and their union supporters and that it began its inquiry
last May
after he had voted against Republican efforts to water down House
ethics rules.
"Obviously, I am in the crosshairs of the National Republican Party
and
like-minded entities," said Mr. Mollohan, who faces a serious
electoral
challenge in November. Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to
headline a
fund-raiser on April 21 for the Republican whom the White House
recruited to run
against Mr. Mollohan.
"They are angry at me, and I fully expect that from now until
November they will
continue to make baseless charges against me, my record and my
family," the
statement said. "I will vigorously defend my service and not be
intimidated by
their heavy-handed tactics."
In previous interviews, Mr. Mollohan acknowledged that he had failed
to pay 2004
taxes on income from rental properties in Washington and North
Carolina,
resulting in a state lien of $8,948.28 being filed on Dec. 1. He
said the case
was resolved by final payments of all taxes, interest and penalties
by January.
"Obviously it's totally my fault," he said. "I just neglected this,
and it was
paid late, and I regret that."
In the last three years, Mr. Mollohan, a Democrat first elected in
1982 to a
seat long held by his father, has bought $2 million worth of
property on Bald
Head Island, N.C., with… a former employee who now runs one of the
organizations
and is on the boards of two others.
He was unapologetic about his earmarks, saying that local lawmakers
knew their
constituents' needs best, and that he was hardly alone in mainlining
money back
home. "The amount of money in the transportation bill spent in
Illinois in
earmarked projects is astronomical," he said. "It puts $100 million
on the
I.S.R. building in real perspective."
The earmarking occurred as an abundance of local projects was added
to spending
bills outside the normal budget review, from $32.9 billion in 2000
to $64
billion in 2006, the Congressional Research Service said. Although
it is
impossible to trace individual earmarks for certain, an analysis by
Citizens
Against Government Waste, a Washington watchdog, found $480 million
added in the
House or in conference committees, most likely by Mr. Mollohan, for
his district
since 1995. That sum helped West Virginia rank fourth on the
watchdog list —
$131.58 for each of the 1.8 million West Virginians this year.
Although Mr. Mollohan's mentor, Senator Robert C. Byrd, has long
blanketed the
state in bacon in the form of large public works projects and
federal complexes,
Mr. Mollohan has directed more than half his earmarks to his five
organizations
of his design.
Several people involved in the appropriations process said no other
lawmaker
employed that strategy to the same extent.
The first and largest is the West Virginia High Technology Consortium
Foundation, which is absorbing the troubled Institute for Scientific
Research.
Another, the Canaan Valley Institute, works on stream restoration
and wastewater
treatment. The Vandalia Heritage Foundation redevelops dilapidated
buildings,
and the MountainMade Foundation helps artisans market wares.
"He's basically judge, jury and executioner for all this money,"
said Keith
Ashdown, vice president of the Taxpayers for Common Sense in
Washington.
Of the empty building in Mr. Mollohan's hometown, Fairmont, Mr.
Ashdown added,
"This is sort of Mollohan's field of dreams, but in his case, he's
building it,
and it doesn't look like they're going to come."
Kenneth F. Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center,
said the
bulk of his complaint to the federal prosecutors was made up of
public documents
that showed 260 instances of omitted or undervalued assets on the
financial
disclosure forms that Mr. Mollohan filed with the ethics committee
from 1996 to
2004.
Those forms show a jump in Mr. Mollohan's portfolio from less than
$500,000 in
assets generating less than $80,000 in income in 2000 to at least
$6.3 million
in assets earning $200,000 to $1.2 million in 2004, along with large
mortgage
debts.
…
The complaint also looks at whether Mr. Mollohan properly reported 27
condominiums in the Remington, near Foggy Bottom in Washington. He
and his wife
own the building with a cousin… whose business once received money
from a
federal contract in Mr. Mollohan's district.
"The $64,000 question that's all over this thing is during the
period of time
all these earmarks went to very closely associated nonprofits run by
people who
were very close to him, did any of the money go from Point A to
Point B?" Mr.
Boehm asked in an interview. "Did any of his newfound wealth result
from, in any
way, shape or form, individuals who had benefited from his official
actions?"
Lifeblood for a Weak Economy
About 75 miles southeast of Fairmont along windy roads in Thomas
(pop. 473) sits
the Buxton & Landstreet Building, whose lifeblood is Mr. Mollohan's
largess. The
Vandalia Heritage Foundation used $1.2 million in earmarks from the
Department
of Housing and Urban Development to help transform the yellow-brick
behemoth,
built in 1901 as the coal company store, from broken down to
bustling.
The first floor is a vibrant gallery where the MountainMade
Foundation, relying
on its own earmarks from the Small Business Administration to pay
Vandalia its
$5,166.67 in monthly rent, sells items like Mr. Byrd's thick
autobiography for
$35 and a maple desk for $5,250.
Upstairs, 41 people work on stream restoration and wastewater
treatment in the
Canaan Valley office, whose $5,100 rent to Vandalia is covered by
earmarks from
the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic
Atmospheric
Administration.
"What else are you going to do to reinvent this economy?" asked… Mr.
Mollohan's
former aide who runs Vandalia and is the co-owner of the North
Carolina beach
property with the congressman. "A lot of what we do would not get
done
otherwise."
Created in 2000 to help artisans market their creations over the
Internet — Mr.
Mollohan favors the earthenware pottery — MountainMade also runs
glassblowing,
spinning and felt-making workshops in another downtown building that
Vandalia
renovated.
The Canaan Valley Institute, which grew out of an effort to create a
wildlife
refuge near property that Mr. Mollohan owns, is building a $33
million
headquarters with classrooms and laboratories on 3,208 acres that it
bought with
earmarks he secured.
Vandalia owns more than a score of properties throughout Mr.
Mollohan's district
like the Baltimore & Ohio station in Grafton that it is turning into
a museum
and office space and lots in Fairmont, where it plans to build
houses. Earmarks
from HUD bought the mothballed Waldo Hotel in Clarksburg ($230,000
in 2000) and
1,129 acres in Canaan Valley ($2.4 million in 2004).
Mr. Mollohan and the organizations' managers said their goal was to
wean from
earmarks and be self-sustaining. But Canaan Valley, the oldest,
continues to
rely on earmarks for 97 percent of its money. Last year,
MountainMade received
$1,085,308 from the S.B.A., nearly twice its $553,000 in sales.
MountainMade
also had a $124,000 state grant.
As for Vandalia, 92 percent of its $31.5 million in grants since
1999 arrived
through federal earmarks. Separately, the 2004 tax return for the
organization
shows that 96 percent of its $8.5 million revenue was from
government grants.
None of the three groups have dues-paying members, like many such
organizations,
or run regular fund-raisers. They worry about the crackdown on
earmarks. The
Vandalia pipeline has begun to dry up since Mr. Mollohan left the
subcommittee
that appropriates HUD money. The organizations said success in
finding other
sources had been sporadic.
The Quid Pro Quos
"The congressman gave us money" for this or that is how the groups'
leaders
frequently explain their programs. And they generally return the
favor at
fund-raisers.
A review of campaign finance records by The New York Times shows
that from 1997
through February 2006, top-paid employees, board members and
contractors of the
five organizations gave at least $397,122 to Mr. Mollohan's campaign
and
political action committees.
Thirty-eight individuals with leadership roles, including all five
chief
executives — all but one of whose 2004 salaries outpaced the $98,456
national
average among nonprofit leaders — contributed, often giving the
maximum allowed.
At the same time, workers at companies that do business with the
federally
financed groups were among Mr. Mollohan's leading contributors.
Employees of TMC
Technologies, which had a $50,000 contract with Vandalia in 2003,
have given
$63,450 since 1998. Workers at Electronic Warfare Associates and Man
Tech
International, military contractors that rent space from the
technology
consortium and whose chief executives are on the board of the
Institute for
Scientific Research, combined to give $86,750.
….
Asked whether contributions were required or expected, Kevin
Niewoehner, the
departed chief executive of the Institute for Scientific Research,
said: "
`Required' is such a strong term. The political environment and the
access that
goes along with it has a number of expectations that involves what is
appropriate and what isn't appropriate." He added that the first
hint that he
was falling out of favor occurred in October, when a $250 check he
wrote to the
campaign was returned uncashed.
"I received invitations to those events on a regular basis," he
said. "I was
invited to participate, and I participated."
`Teaming to Win'
Mr. Mollohan scoffed at the suggestion that the overlap among the
groups that he
supports and his supporters meant anything more than a meeting of
the minds.
"I like to think I'm supported because I work hard," he
said. "Because I bring a
collaborative, a `teaming to win,' if you will, approach to solving
the really
difficult challenges facing West Virginia."
The team includes overlapping rosters among the five organizations.
In addition
to Ms. …multiple roles, Jack Carpenter, an old friend of the
congressman, is
vice president of the consortium and chairman of the MountainMade
board. The
board once included Mr. Mollohan's wife, Barbara.
Raymond A. Oliverio, executive vice president of the consortium, is
also
treasurer of the Robert H. Mollohan Foundation, named for the
congressman's late
father. Gina Fantasia, Vandalia's legal counsel, moved over last
year from the
Institute for Scientific Research. Her brother Nick, mayor of
Fairmont, is
chairman of the Vandalia Redevelopment Corporation, a heritage
foundation
sister.
"He effectively referred to it as a family," said a person involved
in the
Mollohan network, likening the operation to keiretsu, the Japanese
concept of
intermeshed corporate boards.
Down the hill from the steel structure here is the more pedestrian
$14 million
Alan B. Mollohan Innovation Center, built with $3.5 million in
earmarks. It is
the home of the high-tech consortium, which began in 1990 as six
small companies
hoping to seed a new economic area. The center has 200 affiliates
throughout the
state. Earmarks are its engine, underwriting high-tech projects like
AmberView,
which seeks to create a national database of three-dimensional school
photographs to help find missing children.
The consortium has had better luck following earmarks with
competitive grants.
Its Information Research Corporation was spun off as a for-profit
subsidiary
after obtaining a $10 million Navy contract to build 2,500 BomBots,
robotlike
tractors that remotely deliver explosives .
"The congressman has enabled programs and entities to get started,"
said Tom
Witt, director of the West Virginia University Bureau of Business
and Economic
Research. "But at some point, they're going to have to make the
transition or
they'll die."
The big test will be the $134 million Institute for Scientific
Research
building, three-quarters paid by NASA and HUD earmarks. The 57-
member staff is
barely large enough to fill a corner of the 600-plus capacity of the
building.
David Johnston and Aron Pilhofer contributed reporting for this
article.
source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/08/washington/08earmarks.html?
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"Alan Mollohan
AKA Alan Bowlby Mollohan
Born: 14-May-1943
Birthplace: Fairmont, WV
Gender: Male
Religion: Baptist
Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Politician
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Congressman, West Virginia 1st
Father: Robert Homer Mollohan
Mother: Helen Holt Mollohan
High School: Greenbrier Military School, Lewisburg, WV (1962)
U.S. Congressman, West Virginia 1st
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We view Mr. Mollohan as an enemy of Israel. We would like to see him
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(CAIR's Draft Letter)
The Honorable (Name)
I am writing to thank you for not supporting HR392.
HR 392, as so many resolutions before it, is an extremely harmful and
counterproductive effort to exonerate Israel of any responsibility
for the
present conflict, and to scapegoat Palestinians for all the violence
in the
region.  Not only does this resolution tell Israel that it can
disregard
international standards for the conduct of armed conflict, it tells
Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims around the world that the US will
support Israel
no matter what it does.  HR 392 is yet another high profile example
of the
double standard the US employs in its foreign policy towards the
Middle East.
The source of this conflict is Israel's occupation of Palestinian
territories.
Palestinians are not besieging Israel.  Palestinians are fighting to
live free
in an independent state.
Thank you again for taking this strong stand for justice and peace
in the Middle
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Sincerely,
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Dana Rohrabacher's Troubling Friends
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 26, 2004
Top Jewish Republicans who have supported Congressman Dana
Rohrabacher (R-CA)
for decades said in interviews that they have "serious concerns"
with the
California Republican's ties to radical Muslim groups and their
foreign backers,
and his outspoken efforts to champion their cause in Congress.

"Before 9-11, Dana's views seemed idiosyncratic," said Arnold
Steinberg, a
political consultant whose ties to Rohrabacher go back to Youth for
Goldwater in
1964. "We rationalized that he wasn't fully informed or had a blind
spot" to the
Islamists, who were contributing to his re-election campaigns,
hanging around
his office, and sponsoring trips by Rohrabacher and his staff to the
Arab Middle
East.

Rohrabacher seemingly paid back those contributors by an "even-
handed" approach
toward the Israeli-Arab conflict, a key demand of influential Muslim
backers.
"Even-handed" is a code-word used by radical Muslim groups, such as
the American
Muslim Council (AMC) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR), to
signify support for the Palestinian cause, including Hamas, and angry
condemnation of Israel as a terrorist state.

After 9-11, Rohrabacher's views and public actions took on a more
sinister
appearance, as radical Muslim groups began to count on him
increasingly as
support for their positions dwindled in Congress.

In a heated May 2, 2002 exchange with conservative talk show host
Alan Keyes,
for instance, Rohrabacher insisted that "[Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel] Sharon
and [Palestinian Authority President Yasser] Arafat are cut out of
the same
cloth" and claimed that "there's been acts of terrorism committed
against the
Palestinian people as well," statements that made Keyes audibly gasp.

When challenged, Rohrabacher claimed that targeting civilians "was
standard
operating procedure of the Israeli army for years of occupation,"
when in fact
the Israelis have consistently sought to spare civilians even at the
price of
the lives of their own soldiers, as was the case during the April
2002 battle of
Jenin. Challenged a second time by Keyes, who called his
comments "outrageously
objectionable," Rohrabacher reiterated his belief that "both sides
have
committed terrorism."

Rohrabacher was one of four Republicans and seventeen Democrats who
voted no to
a May 2, 2002 Congressional resolution (HR 392) that expressed
support for
Israel as it faced a wave of terrorist attacks that killed more than
600
civilians. The resolution, which radical American Muslim groups
lobbied against
unsuccessfully, also stated that "the United States and Israel are
now engaged
in a common struggle against terrorism."

Voting with Rohrabacher against the resolution were Democrats such
as Cynthia
McKinney, Jesse Jackson, Jr. (Ill), Barbara Lee (CA), Peter Defazio
(Or), and
Michigan Representatives John Conyers, David Bonior, and John
Dingell, all of
whom have taken campaign cash from donors who have publicly
supported Hamas and
other terrorist organizations. "Dana has allied himself with the
anti-American
left-wing thugs that we always opposed," said Steinberg.

Some of Rohbacher's Muslim donors are currently in federal prison
awaiting trial
on terrorism-related charges.

Steinberg is just one of a closely-knit group of Rohrbacher friends
and
supporters who have been trying over the past eighteen months to get
the
California libertarian to open himself up to other viewpoints. For
years, these
supporters - many of whom asked not to be cited by name for this
article - have
urged Rohrabacher to travel to Israel. When he complained that no
one would
sponsor the trip, they offered to pay his travel expenses, but again
he refused.

"He was a journalist for years, he was in the White House, he was a
member of
congress since 1988," one donor said. "Somehow, he never went to
Israel, despite
trips all over the world, and especially to Arab countries."
Rohrabacher finally
traveled to Israel and the Palestinian territories as part of a
three-day
Congressional delegation in 2003.

"Dana has a very antagonist attitude toward Ariel Sharon," says long-
time
supporter Howard Klein, a member of the influential Lincoln Club of
Orange
county Republicans. "But it goes much deeper than that. He doesn't
understand
the strategic or moral imperatives in the U.S. alliance with Israel
and the
forces that want to drive Israel to extinction."

Rohrabacher refused to answer questions for this article, on the
grounds that
the publisher of Frontpagemag.com, David Horowitz, has
been "actively involved
in trying to recruit someone to run against him in the Republican
primary," a
spokesman said. But an aid who accompanied him on the trip to Israel
insisted
that Rohrabacher "spoke the same language" to Israeli and
Palestinian leaders,
infuriating them both.

"In Ramallah, he told [Palestinian security chief] Mohammad Dahlan
that the
Palestinians had to give up the right of return," the aid said,
referring to a
long-held PLO position that insists on including Palestinian
refugees from the
1948 war in a final settlement by allowing them to return to the
properties they
abandoned more than fifty years ago. "In Israel, he told the Foreign
Minister
that Israel would have to give up the settlements."

Rohrabacher aids insisted that the American-Israeli Public Affairs
Committee
(AIPAC), which regularly sponsors congressional fact-finding
missions to Israel,
never offered to take Rohrabacher along.

But an official at AIPAC's legislative affairs department gave a
more nuanced
account. "We've offered repeatedly to take Rohrabacher to Israel,
but he always
had a scheduling conflict." The one time Rohrabacher asked AIPAC to
sponsor him
was to make a trip during the Easter recess. "That happens to fall
during the
Jewish Passover, when nobody is around you can talk to," the AIPAC
official
said. "We don't do Israel trips over Passover."

"Dana thinks Israel is a rogue state," another supporter
complained. "To our
regret, he is turning into the Paul Findley of our times and has
become a
mouthpiece for extremist views." Former Illinois Congressman Findley
has been
lionized by radical Muslim groups for denouncing AIPAC lobbying
efforts in
Congress.

Shawn Steele, a recent chairman of the California Republican Party,
counts
himself as a long-time Rohrabacher supporter. "Dana is my best
friend, and I'm
deeply involved with his re-election campaign, but I have been
unhappy with some
of his utterances."

While he was serving as state Republican Party chairman, Steele
proudly opened
the Party to local Muslims. Recently, however, he ran afoul of the
Council on
American Islamic Relations (CAIR) when he told a "support the
troops" rally
sponsored by the University of Southern California chapter of College
Republicans that the Muslim community "has a cancer growing within
it, which
hates Jews, hates freedom, and hates Western society."

Following that speech, Steele says he was barraged with hate mail
from CAIR
supporters, and was ultimately sued by a top CAIR official in
California. The
official's suit was dismissed by Orange County Superior Court last
December.

Steele believes that Rohrabacher is "in the process of changing his
views," and
has been "dismayed with the lack of support for the U.S. mission in
Iraq among
his Muslim friends."

Foremost among those friends is Khaled Saffuri, a former government
affairs
director of the American Muslim Council who has coordinated
contributions to
Rohrabacher's re-election campaigns from Muslim donors, some of whom
today are
in federal prison on terrorism-related charges.

While at AMC, Saffuri worked under AMC Executive Director
Abdulrahman Alamoudi,
who was jailed last October on charges of illegally laundering money
from the
Libyan government. At a September 2000 rally in Lafayette Park in
front of the
White House, Alamoudi led followers in chanting their support for
Hamas and
Lebanon's Hezbollah, both of which are considered as international
terrorist
organizations by the U.S. government.

As AMC's chief Washington lobbyist from 1995-1998, Saffuri worked to
organize
AMC members and contributors into an effective political force.
Besides $10,400
in direct contributions he made to Rohrabacher's re-election
campaigns, he
helped raise another $24,000 for in direct contributions to
Rohrabacher's
campaign war chest from AMC members and sympathizers, according to
publicly-available Federal Election Commission records compiled for
this
article.

Born to Palestinian parents, Saffuri has made a career in
Washington, DC of
putting a moderate face onto radical Islamic causes while mixing
with a
Wahhabi-inspired network of donors who include Alamoudi and former
University of
South Florida teacher Sami Al-Arian, who was jailed on Feb. 20, 2003
for his
alleged involvement in the leadership of Palestinian Islamic Jihad,
an outlawed
terrorist group.

Even more disturbing are Saffuri's ties to Jamal Barzinji, the head
of a group
of Muslim charities that has been targeted by a joint U.S.
government task force
investigating terrorist-related fund-raising in the United States,
revealed here
for the first time.

The charities, which include the Safa Group, SAAR, and Barzinji's
Marjac group
of investment companies, are sometimes referred to by federal
prosecutors as
"555 Grove street," the address they shared in suburban Herndon,
Virginia.

Organizations tied to Safa Group that were raided by the Greenquest
task force
on March 20, 2002 include the International Islamic Relief
Organization (IIRO),
the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), and al-Haramain, all of
which have
been linked by prosecutors to al-Qaeda.

A lawyer representing the Safa Group, Nancy Luqué, insists that her
clients have
not been charged with any crime. But a previously-sealed affidavit
that lays out
the government's motives for the massive raid alleges that Barjinzi
and the Safa
Group companies were "suspected of providing material support to
terrorists,
money laundering, and tax evasion through the use of a variety of
for-profit
companies and ostensible charitable entities under their control,
most of which
are located at 555 Grove Street, Herndon, Virginia."

Saffuri collected contributions from Barjinzi and thirteen other
individuals who
listed their occupation as officers or employees of Safa Group
companies for a
political action committee he established in April 1993, known as
National
Muslims for a Better America (NMBA).

For the five years of its official existence, which overlapped
Saffuri's stint
as Government Affairs director for the AMC, NMBA shared offices with
the AMC at
1212 New York Avenue, Suite 400. That was the same address listed by
Abdulrahman
Alamoudi in his contributions to NMBA.

Among the contributors to Saffuri's AMC-sponsored PAC:

   Hisham Al-Talib, who lists his employer alternately as the SAAR
Foundation and
Marjac Investment Group, the private company controlled by Barzinji.

   Muhammad Ashraf, "an officer and/or director of Safa Group
companies including
Sterling Investment Group, Sterling Charitable Gift Fund, and York
Foundation,"
according to the government's affidavit. Ashraf's residence at 12528
Rock Ridge
Road in Herndon was one of the locations searched during the March
2002 raid.

Mohammad Jaglit, a SAAR Foundation director consided by federal
investigators
as a key figure in the terror-support networks whose residence was
also raided.
The affidavit cites Jaglit as "an active supporter of [Sami] Al-
Arian and
[Palestinian Islamic Jihad], both ideologically and financially,"
and notes that
letters accompanying checks he sent Al-Arian from the SAAR
Foundation instructed
Al-Arian "not to disclose the contribution publicly or to the media."

Yaquib Mirza, a Pakistani national considered to be the financial
wizard of
the Safa/SAAR network.

   Basheer Nafi, identified as the "US agent of [Palestinian Islamic
Jihad] in
the affidavit

   Iqbal Unus, a director of Safa Group companies "including Child
Development
Foundation," whose Herndon, Va residence was raided.

During the entire period the AMC's PAC operated, from 1993-1998,
Saffuri was
listed as its Treasurer. Altogether, he raised just over $28,000 for
the
AMC-sponsored PAC and distributed it to members of Congress including
Rohrabacher and Democrats Cynthia McKinney, David Bonior, John
Conyers, Bill
Richardson, James Traficant, Peter Defazio, and Nick Rahall.

Saffuri dissolved NMBA in May 1998. Since leaving the AMC, he has
severed public
ties with his former friends and colleagues, joining forces instead
with
conservative activist Grover Norquist, president of Americans for
Tax Reform.

Together with Norquist, he established the Islamic Institute in 1998
with seed
money provided in part by donors in Saudi Arabia and by the
Government of Qatar.

During the 2000 election campaign, Saffuri became the head of Muslim
Outreach
for the Bush-Cheney campaign, and orchestrated a meeting between
Governor George
W. Bush and Al-Arian during a campaign stopover in south Florida.

Since then, Saffuri and Norquist have helped set up meetings in the
Oval Office
with the president for AMC and CAIR leaders. White House officials
have
acknowledged that Alamoudi attended at least one of these sessions
with the
president.

Saffuri and Norquist have also set up meetings for leaders of
radical Muslim
groups with FBI Director Robert Mueller and with Attorney General
John Ashcroft,
to urge the Bush administration to abandon the USA Patriot Act.
Government
records disclosed in affidavits supporting the arrests of Al-Arian
and Alamoudi
show that the Justice Department has long sought to dismantle alleged
terrorist-support networks operating in the United States, but
lacked the legal
tools for successful prosecution until the USA Patriot Act became
law in 2002.

Rohrabacher voted for the USA Patriot Act in its original form in
2002, but also
voted for amendments putting restrictions of government
investigative powers
that passed Congress overwhelmingly last year.

Rohrabacher friends and colleagues believe that Norquist initially
introduced
Rohrabacher to Saffuri. They point to the Congressman's long-
standing ties to
Norquist, which go back at least as early as the mid-1980s, when
they worked
together to build support for anti-Communist insurgencies in
Afghanistan,
Angola, Cambodia and Nicaragua.

"Grover has led a lot of people astray in recent years," one
Rohrabacher
colleague said. "Saffuri would always call Dana's office whenever he
was doing
an event, just as any lobbyist would do. He was well-schooled by
Grover on how
to be a politician's buddy."

Rohrabacher friends and backers in California discounted the campaign
contributions from radical Muslim groups and their supporters
documented here -
$34,450 over a ten year period - as insignificant. "Dana can't be
bought," one
long-time friend confided. "What you are seeing here is a
commonality of
interest, not someone who has been bought. Dana is a lazy fund-
raiser who has
gotten used to running in a safe district."

But Frank Gaffney, whose 11,000 word expose of Norquist's ties to
radical
Islamic groups was published by frontpagemag.com in December,
believes the
apparently small amounts of money contributed by Saffuri and the
Safa Group
donors to Rohrabacher is misleading. "We tend to underestimate how
much
influence $2,000 can buy you. It means you are a maximum-level
donor, so you get
on the guy's radar screen. I worry that Dana's poor judgment has
given rise to
openings to people who shouldn't have access to members of
Congress," Gaffney
said.

He was not the only source who warned of a "classic influence
operation."

Key to understanding Rohrabacher's ties to radical Islamic groups
and the causes
they espouse are several trips Rohrabacher has made to Qatar, paid
for by the
Islamic Institute and the Government of Qatar, according to
Rohrabacher's
financial disclosure forms.

Coordinated in part with the Heritage Foundation, the conferences
ostensibly
focused on promoting free market economics in the Arab and Muslim
world.

During the April 2001 trip, however – just months before the 9-11
attacks -
Rohrabacher met privately with Taliban Foreign Minister Mullah Wakil
Ahmed
Muttawakil. Wakil on the fringes of the conference, which Norquist
and Saffuri
also attended.

Wakil reportedly asked Rohrabacher to lobby the Bush administration
for an
increase in foreign aid to Afghanistan, apparently in exchange for a
Taliban
pledge to allow U.S. oil company UNOCAL to build a pipeline to bring
oil from
land-locked Central Asia to Pakistan and India. The pipeline
project, as well as
political support for the Taliban, were earlier championed by the
Clinton
administration.

Secretary of State Madeline Albright met with top Taliban leaders
during a visit
to Pakistan in November 1997, and U.S. ambassador to the United
Nations Bill
Richardson went to Kabul in April 1998, just three months before Bin
Laden
operatives blew up U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing
more than 200
civilians.

According to an AFP account of the Rohrabacher-Taliban meeting,
Saffuri told an
Al Jazeera reporter that "The position of the Taliban was flexible
on most of
the issues and the Afghan delegation showed itself to be ready for
dialogue."

The Taliban later announced in Kabul that it had rejected what it
considered
were unreasonable demands by the U.S. side. Rohrabacher's staff
would not answer
questions about the Taliban talks.

Norquist tried to downplay Rohrabacher's meeting with the Taliban
when asked
about it by liberal columnist Josh Michael. ""Dana ran into some guy
who was a
representative of the Afghan government, and since he [Rohrabacher]
had worked
in Afghanistan he sat down and talked to the guy.  They literally
met in the
hallway.  I just remembered Dana mentioning that he ran into these
guys ... and
he yelled at them about blowing up the Buddhist statues."

Rohrabacher's Democratic opponent in 2002, Gerry Schipske, tried to
make a
political issue of the meeting by accusing Rohrabacher of
meeting "secretly"
with the Taliban in violation of the Logan act, which prohibits
private
individuals from conducting foreign policy in the name of the United
States.

But Rohrabacher never concealed the meeting, and indeed, told wire
service
reporters who were present in Doha at the time that he had discussed
a "peace
plan" with the Taliban.

Rohrabacher was quoted in the November/December 1996 issue of the
Washington
Report on Middle East Affairs, a pro-Muslim broadsheet, as calling
the Taliban
"devout traditionalists – not terrorists or revolutionaries."

While Rohrabacher's judgment on the Taliban – which he has since
reversed –
coincided with the policies of the Clinton administration at the
time, it also
fit nicely with the views of the Qatari and Saudi governments, who
along with
Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates were the sole international
supporters of
the Taliban.

"Dana was more naïve and more loyal than he should have been" when
he agreed to
April 2001 meeting, a former colleague said. "He listened to Saffuri
and he
shouldn't have. Qatar is the influence-peddling center of the Middle
East, and
Dana fell right into the trap they set for him."

Kenneth Timmerman is author of Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War
on America
and a senior writer for Insight Magazine.

Kenneth R. Timmerman is the author of Countdown to Crisis: the
Coming Nuclear
Showdown with Iran (Crown Forum, New York), and Executive Director
of the
Foundation for Democracy in Iran."

"Congress Passes Resolution Expressing Solidarity with Israel The
House of Representatives and Senate passed a resolution today
expressing America's solidarity with Israel, reaffirming Israel's
right to self-defense, supporting additional defense assistance to
the
Jewish state and condemning Palestinian terror. House Majority Whip
Tom DeLay (R-TX) and the ranking member of the House International
Relations Committee Tom Lantos (D-CA) have introduced the resolution
in the House, while Sens. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Gordon Smith
(R-OR) have introduced a similar resolution in the Senate
http://www.aipac.org/newthisweek.html The U.S. Congress must stand in
solidarity with Israel at a time when it is engaged in a battle for
its own survival. The Solidarity with Israel resolution (S. Res. 247)
introduced by Sens. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and Gordon Smith (R-OR), and
H. Res. 392, introduced by Reps. Tom DeLay (R-TX) and Tom Lantos
(D-CA) was passed on May 2 in both the Senate and the House. The
resolution expresses solidarity with Israel, reaffirms Israel's right
to self-defense, supports additional defense assistance for Israel
and
condemns Palestinian terror. Please thank you members of Congress for
voting for this resolution. http://www.aipac.org/Action1.cfm
May 3, 2002 CONGRESS House and Senate Support Israel in Strong
Resolutions
By ALISON MITCHELL WASHINGTON, May 2 - The House and Senate voted
overwhelmingly today in rapid succession to express strongly worded
support for Israel in its recent military operations, The two
Congressional
resolutions were non-binding, but they put the legislative branch of
government on record as backing the military actions of Prime
Minister
Ariel Sharon of Israel,*** The Senate voted 94 to 2 in favor of its
resolution, which also calls on the Palestinian Authority to act
against terrorism, as Mr. Bush has also done. The House voted 352 to
21 for a tougher-worded measure stating concern that the actions of
Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, "are not those of a viable
partner for peace." Twenty-nine House members voted present*** In
emotional debate, House members and Senate members, from the left and
from the right, repeatedly branded Mr. Arafat a "terrorist" and a
"despot." *** Senators Ernest F. Hollings, Democrat of South
Carolina,
and Robert C. Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia, were the only senators
who voted against the resolution. " On the eve of
the vote, the House majority leader, Dick Armey of Texas, (said) "I'm
content to have Israel grab the entire West Bank, he said in an
appearance on MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews." (note we are
looking for the exact transcript, we think that Armey is being
paraphrased in the article being quoted, if anyone has the exact
transcript please post it, thanks, as the proper terminology would be
Judea and Samaria to describe the so-called "West Bank" we believe
that everything West of the Jordan River all the way to the
Mediterranean Sea belongs to Israel, good fences make good neighbors,
we believe the border should be the Jordan River with everything east
of it being Jordan and everything west of it being Israel, including
Judea and Samaria, and of course the Golan Heights and the Gaza
Strip.) " He added under questioning, "I happen to believe that the
Palestinians should leave." (note, not part of article being quoted.
Dick Armey was right when he said that to Matthews, you should have
seen Matthews jaw drop! We recall Matthews as the character doing all
the talk show appearances he can to oppose the move to liberate Iraq
from the evil Saddam Hussein International Terrorist. We recall
Matthews as being pro-arafat and anti-Israel. but what can you
expect from NBC which is owned, after all by General
Electric, a company Nelson Rockefeller
admitted was one heavily invested in, to put it mildly, by
Rockefeller
interests in his Congressional confirmation hearings to be Gerald
Ford's Vice President. What can you expect from Microsoft- MSNBC
http://www.microsoft.com/catalog/display.asp?subid=22&site=645
which also hosts the rabidly anti-Israel Ashleigh Banfield
NBC is owned by General Electric, a firm with major Rockefeller
family
ties according to testimony given during the confirmation hearings
for then Vice Presidential nominee Nelson A. Rockefeller.

Wednesday, 20 June, 2001, 21:40 GMT 22:40 UK
US Senators lash out at EU A US Senator has said the US may
retaliate against the European Union (EU) if it fails to approve the
merger of General Electric and Honeywell International. In a letter
to European Commission (EC) vice president Loyola de Palacio,
Senator John Rockefeller, a Democrat from West Virginia, said, "If
it appears that the European Commission is unfairly blocking mergers
between US companies principally to protect the position of European
competitors, then the subcommittee will need to re-examine the open
market the US has maintained for [aerospace] acquisitions." In his
letter, Senator Rockefeller said the EC's review of the merger "will
raise serious concerns among Americans about whether this review has
been conducted with fairness and neutrality."

Mr Rockefeller also wrote that US officials will "explore what might
be the most effective US response if the fairness and openness we
have historically extended to the European aerospace firms is not
being reciprocated."
Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1399719.stm

Source for material quoted below:
Trading with the Enemy: The
Nazi-American Money Plot, 1933-1949 Charles Higham Format: Hardcover,
277pp. ISBN: 0760700095 Publisher: Barnes and Noble Books
Pub. Date: November 1995 "W.S.S. Rodgers "linked up with the
Rockefeller empire by going into Partnership with Harry D. Collier,
cheerful chairman of Standard Oil Of California and the former Jersey
Standard employee Jimmy Moffett. Rodgers formed Caltex, which jointly
bought up millions of dollars worth of oil from the arabian sea. The
banker was James S. Forrestal of the board of the Nazi General
Aniline and Film,who was about to become Under Secretary of the
Navy. Saudi
Arabia had intricate economic and political links with Hitler. On
June 8th,1939, Khalid Al0-Hud Al Qarqani, royal counselor of Ibn
Saud, was
received by Ribbentrop in Berlin. Ribbentrop expounded to Khalid his
general sympathy toward the arab world and pointed out that Germany
and the arabs were linked by a common foe in the shape of the Jews.
Khalid answered that Ibn Saud attached the greatest importance to
entering into Relations with Germany.Khalid…stressed that the King
hated the British, who Hemmed him in. By contrast, Khalid stated, Ibn
Saud was sympathetic toward Mussolini. The conversation ended with
salaams and Heil Hitlers. At 3:15 p.m. on June 17th,1939, Hitler
received Khalid Al-Hud at the Berghof. The reception was given
worldwide attention. As a result of it Emil Puhl and Walther Funk's
Reichsbank gave Ibn Saud a credit of one and a half million
Reichsmarks from Hitler's personal treasury for the purchase of 8,000
rifles, 8 million rounds of ammunition, light anti-aircraft guns,
armored cars, a special Merecedes for the king and The building for a
munitions factory. Soon after ard Emil Phul arranged a further loan
of 6 million marks that was paid in installments for the rest of the
war. " "On November 28th,1941...the Grand Mufti of Jeruslaem, among
the
bitterest enemies of the Jews, met with the Fuhrer in Berlin. The
Grand Mufti, with the authorization of the Arab world, expressed his
admiration of Hitler and named the same enemies: the English, the
Jews and the communists. He promised to guarantee assistance in war
by
acts of sabotage and revolution. He offered to raise the Arab Legion
from
all available Moslem men of military age"

Senator Rockefeller has become a harsh critic of the liberation of
Iraq.
He joins NBC assets Chris Matthews, Andrea Mitchell, Phil
Donahue,and many
many other NBC assets, in that harsh criticism of the liberation of
Iraq.

Here is Rockefeller being quouted in
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030531/2003053114.html

"Sen. Rockefeller: no mass destruction weapons in Iraq
Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/31/2003 Senator Jay Rockefeller of West
Virginia, a member at the US intelligence committee doubted the
American allegation that there are mass destruction weapons in Iraq,
saying should these weapons exist, they would have been found.

Rockefeller added that if the US believed these weapons are hidden
and are difficult to find it, the thinking was that more time should
have been given to the UN inspectors before deciding to launch the
war against Iraq.

He said that the intelligence committee will press intelligence
officials for answers about the false allegations that were used
against Iraq."
Source:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030531/2003053114.html

Whether it is Moran's home state of Virginia or neighboring West
Virginia
the "good old boys" from that part of the country seem not to have
faded away after all. When Democrats controlled the US Senate
Robert Byrd. a `former' Ku Klux Klansman,  was an even bigger threat
than he is today. "AS ELECTED PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE UNITED
STATES SENATE, ROBERT
BYRD IS THIRD IN LINE TO SUCCEED THE PRESIDENT, FEW PEOPLE REALIZE
HOW
POWERFUL HE IS" read one of the many internet postings about Byrd.
Byrd's fellow West Virginia Senator is Jay Rockefeller, of the vast
Rockefeller family. Those 2 West Virginia Democrats are really good
examples of the need to make sure that Democrats do not regain
control of the US Senate. Nor would we want Byrd or Rockefeller to
become committee chairs, which they just well might if Democrats
regained control of the US Senate.
The name: "Mrs. Mohammad (Mona Byrd) Fatemi" may not be familiar to
many people. If you go to
http://byrd.senate.gov/biography/story/story.html
you will find that Mrs. Mohammad (Mona Byrd) Fatemi (of McLean,
Virginia), is a daughter of U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, Democrat of
West Virginia
As it turns out Mohammad Fatemi "is a physicist at the Naval
Research Laboratory in Washington".
Source:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?
resž01E5D81E31F937A35756C0A961958260
Then of course there is one "Fariborz Fatemi Former staff member
Senate foreign relations committee McLean, Virginia, USA" source:
www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,1028842,00.html
Here is a bit of what you will find If you look a bit at the rabidly
anti-Israel Congresswoman
"Rep. Marcy Kaptur
(OH-09)
2104 Rayburn HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
T: 202-225-4146
F: 202-225-7711
Contact- Fariborz Fatemi"
Fariborz Fatemi was listed as the contact for her office.
Fariborz Fatemi, McLean, Virginia, USA, is also listed as a " Former
staff member of the U.S. Senate foreign relations committee.
Fatemi is also a donor to anti-Israel politicians, for example:
"FATEMI, FAIRBORZMC LEAN,VA 22101 (occupation) CONSULTANT
date of campaign contribution: 5/31/2002 amount of
campaign contribution:$1,000 recipient of campaign
contribution:Torricelli, Robert G
source: http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?
NumOfThou=0&txtNameútemi&txtState=VA&txtZip=&txtEmploy=&txtCand=&tx
t2006=Y&txt2004=Y&txt2002=Y&Order=N
FATEMI, FARIBORZ SMCLEAN,VA 22209 (occupation)REP MARCY KAPTUR
date of campaigncontribution 12/19/1997 amount of campaign
contribution $250 recipient of campaigncontribution Pascrell,
William J Jr
source: http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?
NumOfThou=0&txtNameútemi&txtState=VA&txtZip=&txtEmploy=&txtCand=&tx
t2000=Y&txt1998=Y&Order=N
FATEMI, FARIBORZ SMCLEAN,VA 22181 (occupation)US HOUSE date
of campaign contribution 10/7/1996 amount of campaign
contribution $250 recipient of campaign contributionPascrell,
William J Jr
source:
http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?
NumOfThou=0&txtNameútemi&txtState=VA&txtZip=&txtEmploy=&txtCand=&tx
t1994=Y&txt1996=Y&Order=N

"October 3, 2002 Robert C. Byrd was the
only Senator in the 100-member chamber to vote against opening debate
on the Iraq question. The Senate has opened debate on Joint
Resolution
46, a resolution authorizing the President to use whatever force he
deems necessary in Iraq or elsewhere. Byrd was first elected to the
Senate in 1958 and has now served for 44 years." Of course Byrd has a
long record in such matters.
Ultra-right-wing extremst and notorious anti-Israel CNN Crossfire
co-host Robert Novak, interviewing Colin Powell, of all people,
quoted
his fellow anti-Israel lunatic Senator Robert Byrd:
"MR. NOVAK: Mr. Secretary, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the
president pro tem of the Senate, often speaks his mind. He did this
week, and we'll put it up on the screen. He said, "If we expect to
kill every terrorist in the world, that's going to keep us going
beyond doomsday. How long can we afford this?"
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2002/8624.htm
How long could the terrorists afford to continue to be wiped out by
the US government we wonder? Well I guess that question never
occurred
to Byrd or to the online Egyptian newspaper AL-AHRAM which used the
same quote from Byrd. Clearly Byrd hates the idea of wiping out arab
terrorists.
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/576/re74.htm
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Al-Ahram Weekly
Online 7 - 13 March 2002 Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia: "If we
expect to kill every terrorist in the world, that's going to keep us
going beyond doomsday," he said. "How long can we afford this?" The
thing is, though clearly Byrd, Novak, and Al Ahram aren't interested,
is that we cannot afford not to continue to go after terrorists like
arafat and bin Laden and their master Saddam Hussein. All of whom we
guess must be among Byrd's and Novak's biggest fans. THIS FROM AN
ANTI-ISRAEL SOURCE: "only Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) had a perfect
record of zero compliance with recommendations of the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Israel's principal Washington, DC
lobby." Quite a turn of phrase there, in case it slipped by you, the
anti-Israel source quoted immediately above used the
word "compliance"
, a buzz-word among classical anti-Semites in their "vast Jewish
conspiracy" theories.
THIS FROM a very different sort of source entirely: "Friends, if ever
there was a definitive list of the anti-Israel members of Congress,
we
have it now. It's the 23 members-two in the Senate and 21 in the
House-who voted against yesterday's House and Senate resolutions of
support for Israel. If you are a U.S. citizen and contribute to
political campaigns in the U.S., you may want to contribute to the
opponents of the members below, regardless of party, so long as these
incumbents' opponents are pro-Israel. If you don't or can't
contribute
to campaigns, please feel free to forward this list to anyone who
might. No other issue and no U.S. political party allegiance is more
important in these times than the safety and security of Eretz
Yisrael. (the land of Israel) The New York Times, Friday, May 3, 2002
Following is a list of legislators who voted "No" on yesterday's
resolutions of support for Israel:
SENATORS VOTING "NO" (2)
Robert Byrd, Dem., W.Va. ,
Ernest Hollings, Dem.S.C.
HOUSE MEMBERS VOTING "NO" (21)
Neil Abercrombie, Dem., Hawaii,
David E. Bonior, Dem., Mich.,
Rick Boucher, Dem., Va.,
Gary A. Condit, Dem., Calif.,
John Conyers Jr.,Dem., Mich.,
Peter A. DeFazio, Dem., Ore.,
John D. Dingell, Dem., Mich.,
Earl F. Hilliard, Dem., Ala.,
Jay Inslee, Dem., Wash.,
Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Dem., Ill.
(Please note this is Jesse Jacksons son),
Gerald D.Kleczka, Dem., Wisc.,
Barbara Lee, Dem., Calif.,
Cynthia A. McKinney,Dem., Ga.,
George Miller, Dem., Calif.,
David R. Obey, Dem., Wisc.,
Ron Paul, Rep., Tex.,
Thomas E. Petri, Rep., Wisc.,
Nick J. Rahall II, Dem.,W.Va.,
Dana Rohrabacher, Rep., Calif.,
Nick Smith, Rep., Mich.,
Fortney Pete Stark, Dem., Calif.,
Here yet another internet posting tracks the terrorists' best friend
on
Capitol Hill, Robert Byrd: "Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2002 Sen. Byrd Gripes
About War on Terror Senator Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., the famous former
Ku
Klux Klansman, complained today, "There's no end in sight in our
mission in Afghanistan." The remarks "were among the harshest in
Congress yet about the anti-terrorism campaign," the Associated Press
noted today. Long ago saddled with the nickname Senator Pork for his
notoriously wasteful squandering of taxpayer dollars, Byrd controls
spending legislation as chairman of the Senate Appropriations
Committee. Though he loves bringing boondoggle make-work projects
home
to West Virginia, he has begun expressing reluctance about footing
the bill for ending terrorism." Byrd's obstructionism to fighting
terrorists like arafat and bin Laden and their master: Saddam
Hussein,
seems to have no bounds, "Thursday, October 10, 2002 By a 66-31 vote,
the Senate rejected an amendment by Sen. Robert Byrd D-W.Va. - the
most outspoken Senate opponent of the war resolution - that would
have ended the authorization for him to use force against Iraq after
two years." Fortunately a number of people on and off the net have
been keeping track of the terrorists' best friend on Capitol Hill, US
Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, for instance: "WHY AM I NOT
SURPRISED? Finally, Congress has somewhat meekly voiced its support
for Israel. The Senate version of the bill was symbolic and largely
omitted language from the House which placed blame on Arafat. Despite
the watering down in the Senate, two members voted against it: "The
two most senior Democrats, Sens. Robert Byrd of West Virginia and
Ernest "Fritz" Hollings of South Carolina, still opposed it, however
Byrd is a former Klansman. " http://opinionated.blogspot.com/
"This ex-Klansman wasn't just a passive member of the nation's most
notorious hate group. According to news accounts and biographical
information, Sen. Byrd was a "Kleagle"-an official recruiter who
signed up members for $10 a head. He said he joined because it
"offered excitement" and because the Klan was an "effective force" in
"promoting traditional American values." Nothing like the thrill of
gathering `round a midnight bonfire, , tying nooses, and promoting
white supremacy with a bunch of your hooded friends. The ex-Klansman
allegedly ended his ties with the group in 1943. He may have stopped
paying dues, but he continued to pay homage to the KKK. (someone) in
West Virginia discovered a letter Sen. Byrd had written to the
Imperial Wizard of the KKK three years after he says he abandoned the
group.  He wrote: "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am
anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia" and "in every state
in the Union." The ex-Klansman later filibustered the landmark 1964
Civil Rights Act-for more than 14 hours. He also opposed the
nominations of the Supreme Court's two black justices, liberal
Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas. Meanwhile, author
Graham Smith recently discovered another letter Sen. Byrd wrote after
he quit the KKK, this time attacking desegregation of the armed
forces. The ex-Klansman vowed never to fight "with a Negro by my
side.
Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in
the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours
become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest
specimen from the wilds."
http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/2001/march/mm_byrd_kkk.htm
"One of the most influential Nazi spies in the U.S. was Dr.  Walter
Becher, an anti-Communist "refugee leader" from the Hitler regime.
Becher joined the Nazi Party in December, 1931, and became an editor
of Die Zeit, a Nazi propaganda sheet in 1937. He was a Brown-Shirt
for
a spell and a member of the National Socialist Student Bund. He
editorialized for the purge of all Jews from state-owned radio in
Prague. During the war, Becher worked in the Goebbels Propaganda
Ministry and for the Wehrmacht as a war correspondent. Soon after the
war, he founded a newspaper in Germany that agitated for the
restoration of National Socialism. Becher had his advocates in
Washington, D.C. In 1957, Congressman Usher Burdick inserted one of
Dr. Becher's propaganda pieces in the Congressional Record, and in
August 1959, seven more appeared in the pages of the Record. When he
junketed to the States, conferences were arranged for him by the
State
Department. His geopolitical opinions were trumpeted by scores of
newspapers and the Mutual Broadcasting Network's 600 affiliates.
Dr. Becher's early contacts in Washington were McCarthy and William
Jenner in the Senate, and a handful of congressmen in the House. T.H.
Tetens in The New Germany and the Old Nazis, was awed by the Nazi's
camaraderie with Beltway politicians, and tracked his movements
through the District of Columbia: "During the early fifties, when he
first came to Washington, he began to build for himself a formidable
political machine. His scheme was very simple. If he could obtain the
support of leading politicians in the United States, his prestige and
stature would grow enormously at home.... With the help of the
McCarthy faction in the United States, he could establish a
nationwide
reputation as the foremost leader of the anti-Communist crusade."
Among the senators who sent personal letters of support to Dr. Becher
in Munich in the 1950s:…Robert Byrd.". Below excerpted from
Committee contributions - BYRD, ROBERT C
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[]"Senate Asks Clinton to Oppose
Palestinian Declaration
12 March, 1999
JERUSALEM (CNS) - The U.S. Senate
Thursday overwhelmingly approved a
resolution asking President Bill
Clinton to oppose a unilateral
declaration of an independent
Palestinian state.
"The president should unequivocally
assert United States' opposition
to the unilateral declaration of a
Palestinian
state ... and that a declared state
would not be recognized by the
United States," the resolution said.
Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) was the
only dissenter in the 98-1 vote."
"Senator Robert Byrd former Ku Klux Klan Grand Kleagle"
"When Congress recently passed a
resolution in support of Israel and our "common struggle against
terrorism," the only two
dissenting votes in the Senate were Democrats - Senators Robert Byrd
of West Virginia and
Ernest Hollings of South Carolina. Later, Hollings, seemingly just to
remind us that he is just as
anti-Israel as Byrd has always been,"
"Senate Expressing Solidarity with Israel in its
Fight Against Terrorism
5/2/2002
On the Amendment 05/02/2002
Senate Roll Call No. 102
107th Congress, 2nd Session
By 94 yeas to 2 nays (Vote No. 102), Reid (for Lieberman) Amendment
No. 3389 (to Amendment No. 3387), to express solidarity with Israel
in
its fight against terrorism.
The two senators who voted against
solidarity with Israel:
Ernest Hollings (D-SC) and Robert Byrd (D-WV)"
"From: Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor@...>
Subject: Arutz-7 News Brief: Friday, March 12, 1999

Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.a7.org>
Friday, Mar. 12, 1999 / Adar 25, 5759
SENATE AGAINST UNILATERAL ARAFAT DECLARATION The American Senate
voted
almost unanimously last night to oppose a unilateral declaration of
independence by Yasser Arafat and the PLO. "The president should
unequivocally assert United States opposition to the unilateral
declaration of a Palestinian state... and that a declared state would
not be recognized by the United States," read the resolution. Only
one
Senator - Robert Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia - voted against,
while 98 voted in favor."  The following is excerpted from a
virulently anti-Israel website calling itself: "Washington Report on
Middle East Affairs" which ran a typically virulent anti-Israel
piece excerpted from below, which lauded Murtha and his anti-Israel
colleagues in Congress in December of 2000 c.e.
"House of Representatives Condemns and Threatens Palestinians
By Shirl McArthur
Of the several bills introduced in the House and the Senate by
Israel's sycophants threatening to cut off aid to a unilaterally
declared Palestinian state, one, introduced by Gilman, was passed by
the House on Sept. 26 by a roll-call vote of 385-27, with four
voting "present." Like the resolution described above condemning the
Palestinians, this bill was only symbolic because it has not been
passed by the Senate. The 31 who either voted against the bill or
abstained were, voting no: Reps. Bonior, Julia Carson (D-IN), Clay,
Clayton, Conyers, Pat Danner (D-MO), Dingell, Hilliard, Jesse
Jackson Jr., Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), Lee, Jim McDermott (D-
WA), McKinney, George Miller (D-CA), Moran, John Murtha (D-PA),
David Obey (D-WI), Payne, Rahall, Martin Sabo (D-MN), Serrano,
Stark, Sununu, Jim Traficant (D-OH), Waters, and Watt. Abstaining
were Reps. Michael Capuano (D-MA), DeFazio, Kucinich, and Rivers."
DECEMBER 2000
"Shirl McArthur, a retired foreign service officer, is a consultant
based in the Washington, DC area"
source: http://www.wrmea.com/archives/Dec_2000/0012017.html
Murtha has long been the darling of the hate Israel crowd. Here's
another
bit by Murtha on the old anti-Israel big lie about the USS Liberty,
a favorite big lie of the hate Israel gang the source of this APRIL
2000 item was  http://www.washington-
report.org/archives/April_2000/0004072.html
"Representative Murtha's Reply To Mr. Ackerman
To Mr. Robert L. Ackerman, New Alexandria, PA, Nov. 24, 1999.
Your postcard is very much appreciated, and I thank you for your
comments and observations on the USS Liberty.
Mr. Ackerman, I well remember this incident, though I didn't realize
there had never been a full investigation. I'll check with the
Defense Department on what records and information they maintain,
and I'll also ask the Library of Congress to track down for me any
information they can find on investigations done independently.
If there's something beneficial to learn from a reinvestigation of
this event, Mr. Ackerman, I'm glad to pursue it in the interests of
U.S. security policy. The strength and security of U.S. defense
policy and personnel are always my top priorities, Mr. Ackerman, and
I'm glad to try and help reach this goal.
Thank you again very much for contacting me, and all best wishes.
Representative John P. Murtha, House of Representatives, Washington,
DC"
source: APRIL 2000 http://www.washington-
report.org/archives/April_2000/0004072.html
Now for an excerpt from a piece dated January February 1998 source:
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0198/9801024.htm
from the same anti-Israel website praising Murtha among others for
voting against a bill which had sought to stop Iran from getting
missiles capable hitting Israel, and other targets of Iran, with
weapons of mass destruction. Murtha was actually able to overcome
his normal intense hostility to China, lots of Muirtha's top
contributors are either lobbyists for Taiwan, or arms manufacturers
who supply Taiwan with weapons, since in this instance China, (and
Russia), have been supplying arms to Iran, and since Israel is a
likely target of those weapons, Murtha and his pals in Congress were
happy to jump in on Iran's side against Israel.
Here's the excerpt:
"Congress Keeps Pressure on Iran
By Shirl McArthur
In early October, three separate anti-Iran resolutions that had been
languishing in committee since their introduction in early July were
resurrected. The first two, Senate Resolution 48 and House
Resolution 121, were identical and aimed at stopping alleged missile
technology exports from Russia to Iran. The resolutions urge Clinton
to "demand" that Russia take action to stop governmental and non-
governmental entities in Russia from providing missile technology
and technological advice to Iran, and, if Russia's response is
inadequate, to impose sanctions on the offending entities and
to "reassess cooperative activities with Russia." Sen. Jesse Helms's
Foreign Relations Committee considered S.R. 48 on Oct. 8, referred
it to the full Senate on Nov. 4, and the Senate passed it by voice
vote on Nov. 7.
Meanwhile, in the House, Gilman's International Relations Committee
brought up H.R. 121 on Oct. 9, and issued several press releases
denouncing both Russia and Iran. At about that same time, Gilman
resurrected his earlier resolution, H.R. 188, denouncing China for
providing Iran with C-802 cruise missiles, calling this
a "destabilizing" violation of the Iran-Iraq Arms Non-Proliferation
Act of 1992, and urging the Clinton administration to impose
sanctions under the act. Suddenly, however, Gilman got the idea of
combining the two resolutions. The operative portions of H.R. 121
were folded into H.R. 188 on Nov. 6, and it was passed the same day
by roll-call vote, 414-8, with 11 not voting. The eight congressmen
who voted against H.R. 188 were Reps. Lee Hamilton (D-IN), Amo
Houghton (R-NY), E.B. Johnson (D-TX), John LaFalce (D-NY), Jim Moran
(D-VA), John Murtha (D-PA), David Skaggs (D-CO), and Sidney Yates (D-
IL)."
Here's another example of Murtha, Moran and their pals, hard at work
against Israel.
From the October 1996 item titled:  "Special Report A Look at the
104th Congress by Shirl McArthur"
Here's the excerpt from the McArthur piece:
"In the interest of space the accompanying table lists only those
congressmen who, in our opinion, were on the side of justice and the
U.S. national interest by voting against moving the Embassy to
Jerusalem (A) or by supporting lifting the travel ban on Lebanon (B)
or by urging humanitarian aid for Lebanon.  Only 8
representatives (4 from Michigan) and 2 senators show up in all
three columns. About the same number of representatives (9) but
several more senators (11) appear in two columns." Murtha and Moran
are among those praised for their anti-Israel votes in the McArthur
piece at:
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/1096/9610035.htm
On other topics, Murtha said: China is "eating our lunch"
economically;
source: http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/s_417696.html
"Congressman's Son Held on Drug Charges (November 2, 1991)
The son of a powerful Congressman was arrested Thursday on charges
of possessing crack and selling the drug to an undercover police
officer, the authorities said today.
The suspect is John M. Murtha, 33-year-old son of Representative
John P. Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who heads the House
Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense.
The younger Mr. Murtha was arrested with eight other people in this
western Pennsylvania town, which is part of his father's district,
and is being held on $20,000 bond.
The drug sweep in which he was seized resulted from a six-month
investigation into crack dealing in the Greensburg area, said the
town's Police Chief, Ray Attenberger.
Mr. Murtha was convicted on burglary charges in 1978 and 1979 in the
Johnstown area. In a statement issued after his latest arrest, his
father said that "he's struggled with a lot of personal problems for
15 years" and that the Congressman and his wife, Joyce, "feel
terrible about it."
source: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?
res�0CE2DB1F38F931A35752C1A967958260&sec=&pagewanted=print


excerpted from:  THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
DATE: Thursday, August 4, 1994
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: By Frank Greve, Knight-Ridder News Service


…QUESTIONABLE GRANTS
John Murtha, who is not a rich man, gave his alma mater nearly $100
million last year.
His secret: The money was yours.
Murtha, an 11-term western Pennsylvania Democratic congressman,
quietly slipped his gifts into the huge defense appropriations bill
passed by the powerful House subcommittee he chairs.
"Academic pork" is the name of his game….
Sometimes it's hard to know just what America's political
philanthropists are up to. Leon Haley, top spokesman for the
University of Pittsburgh, Murtha's alma mater, says he knows "almost
nothing" about how the $99,600,000 in grants to the school included
in the 1994 appropriation are being spent.

"Nobody knew what the h—l to do with it," recalls Lawrence Korb, a
former top Pentagon official whose advice was sought by a friend,
the university's president, when Murtha first offered the money.
Most of the money actually is going to Concurrent Technologies
Corp., a subsidiary of the University of Pittsburgh Trust. Both are
nonprofit corporations used to fund academic research by faculty
members and others.

According to a CTC brochure, its research is focused on
metalworking, manufacturing software and anti-pollution systems. CTC
is based in Johnstown, Pa., Murtha's hometown, 80 miles east of the
university's main campus.

Generous senior House and Senate Appropriations Committee members
like Murtha are behind the successes of the universities and states
that have won the most academic pork since 1980.
Pennsylvania is far out in front with an estimated $377,238,000,
...The congressional handouts - called earmarks - are specific
spending orders
by Congress's most powerful figures. They involve outlays not called
for in the
president's budget and generally made without debate on the merits
of the
spending.

Pennsylvania dominates the earmark game because Joseph McDade of
Scranton, another Pennsylvanian enthusiastic about academic pork, is
the ranking Republican on the Defense Appropriations subcommittee
that Murtha chairs. Together, they can steer just about anything
through the House."
ACADEMIC PORK
Sources: Library of Congress, Chronicle of Higher Education
For copy of graphic, see microfilm
KEYWORDS: U.S. CONGRESS EDUCATION FUNDING
source: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-
Pilot/issues/1994/vp940804/08040543.htm


"University Times
VOLUME 27 NUMBER 5 OCTOBER 27, 1994
University of Pittsburgh


Connolly named chairperson-designate of Pitt trustees
J.W. Connolly, retired senior vice president of H.J. Heinz Co. and a
Pitt law
alumnus, was elected chairperson-designate of the Board of Trustees
at the
board's Oct. 21 meeting....
Connolly originally was elected to the Board of Trustees in May 1985
as one of
the board's first special trustees. After two terms as a special
trustee, he was
elected a term trustee in June 1991. He has served on several board
committees,
including the public affairs, audit, and budget
committees....Connolly currently
is a director of Presbyterian University Hospital and the University
of
Pittsburgh Medical Center System....* Concurrent Technologies Corp.
(CTC) of
Johnstown has severed its ties to the University of Pittsburgh
Trust,...
However, ... Pitt faculty and students, especially at the Johnstown
campus, will
continue to participate in CTC research.
...the boards of CTC and the University Trust agreed to the
separation mainly in
response to new federal government regulations that severely
restricted federal
funding to institutions such as CTC that are perceived to be
supervised or
operated by universities....
Pitt's reputation has suffered from the "erroneous perception that
the
University of Pittsburgh was directly receiving CTC's funding" from
the U.S.
Department of Defense...." a widely circulated bulletin stated that
Pitt was the
big winner in the pork barrel competition this year, receiving $70
million in
so-called earmarked federal funding. The University does not need
this type of
publicity...
-- Bruce Steele

Source:http://www.pitt.edu/utimes/issues/27/102794/24.html


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"We have a situation where our military is in such bad shape, it
couldn't deploy to a second front," Murtha said. "And the Iranians
know this. North Korea knows it. China knows it.  We're depleting
our resources in Iraq."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10774136/from/RSS/
Murtha: Give Dean DNC chair
By Hans Nichols
January 5, 2005 Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) is actively lobbying
Democratic National Committee (DNC) delegates to select former
Vermont Gov. Howard Dean as their next chairman.

The endorsement...
signals a rehabilitation of Dean's image in the House and
greatly increases his prospects of leading the party, many
Democratic lawmakers and aides said.
Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) is writing letters in support of Howard
Dean.
At Dean's request, Murtha wrote to Pennsylvania's seven delegates to
the DNC last week explaining why he is endorsing..."(DEAN) "Murtha
said he contacted Dean to tell him of his
support."We're thrilled that Murtha has decided to endorse us....
Rep. Barney Frank is calling Massachusetts delegates on
behalf of his onetime House colleague, former Rep. Martin Frost (D-
Texas), who was defeated Nov. 2.In a late-breaking development,
former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk bowed out of the race yesterday evening
and endorsed former Frost.Frost also appears to have the respect of
many of his former colleagues in the House, if not the unvarnished
support. Many said that Frost's obvious command of politics on every
level and understanding of House Democrats' goals would serve him
will as DNC chairman.One Democratic lawmaker who admitted that he
and Frost had crossed swords in the past said that Frost "is just
too smart not to take seriously."Another lawmaker added, "Tom DeLay
wants to chip away at the Jewish vote, both in terms of voting and
fundraising, and Martin Frost" (who happens to be Jewish) "is not
going to let that happen."Meanwhile, many House lawmakers said they
thought that the
House minority leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was clearly
leaning in favor of former Rep. Tim Roemer (D-Ind.). While Pelosi
has shied away from an overt endorsement,lawmakers said that in
private conversations she is always pushing for Roemer."She's always
asking, `Well, what do you think about Roemer?'" one lawmaker said.
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/010505/m
urtha.html

"[ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 8/3/02 ]
"Some McKinney donors probed for terror ties By BILL TORPY
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer Rep. Cynthia McKinney is
backed by many Islamic individuals and groups. Rep. Cynthia
McKinney's re-election campaign has accepted contributions from
several people who have come under federal investigation for
suspected
links to Middle Eastern terrorists or have voiced support for
extremist groups. The outspoken DeKalb County Democrat, a frequent
critic of U.S. Middle East policy, has long drawn Arab and Muslim
financial support. Most of McKinney's individual donors listed on
disclosure reports in 2001 and this year have Arabic names and live
out of state. According to a review of federal campaign disclosure
records, they include:
Abdurahman Alamoudi, leader of a Muslim organization, who during a
2000 rally outside the White House expressed support for the violent
Palestinian group Hamas and for Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite party
linked to bombings. The controversy surrounding his comments caused
Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and George W. Bush's
presidential campaign to return his contributions. A professor who
was
jailed in 1998 on contempt charges for refusing to answer a grand
jury's questions about alleged money-laundering links to Hamas. Five
businessmen whose homes or businesses were searched in March during
an
FBI raid investigating financial links to terrorism. Another was an
officer in one of the groups under investigation, according to
Federal
Election Commission reports. Bill Banks, manager of McKinney's
re-election campaign, said this week that the congresswoman was not
aware that any of her donors might support terrorist activities, or
have ties to organizations involved with terrorism. The McKinney
campaign reported most of those contributions as having come Sept.
11,
the date of the terror attacks in New York and Washington. FEC
spokeswoman Kelly Huff said the date listed on disclosure reports is
supposed to be, by law, the date the campaign received the money. But
FEC officials said it was up to the campaign to document the proper
date. Banks said the campaign accepted contributors' money believing
"in good faith that they are law-abiding citizens. If you did an
investigation of everyone who gave money, people would stop giving."
McKinney is locked in what a poll released this week shows to be a
virtual dead heat against former DeKalb County State Court Judge
Denise Majette in the Aug. 20 Democratic primary. Majette declined to
comment Friday on McKinney's fund-raising. McKinney caused a tempest
earlier this year by suggesting President Bush knew the Sept. 11
attacks were coming but did nothing so his associates could make
money
in the ensuing war. And last October, she also caused controversy for
apologizing to a Saudi prince whose $10 million donation for terror
victims was rejected by New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The prince
had laid part of the blame for the Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. policy.
The following week, McKinney collected $32,150 in a fund-raiser, her
best fund-raising day in 2001.
McKinney's support for Arab causes is well known. The Council on
American-Islamic Relations, an Islamic advocacy group whose director
was named on the Sept. 11 listing as giving McKinney $500, recently
asked members to support her. "She is our strategic choice. Pro-
Muslim
candidate. Supporter of Palestinian state for over seven years.
Against secret evidence. Against aid to Israel."
Steven Emerson, who runs a private counterterrorist institute in
Washington, called McKinney's contributors "the A list of militant
Islamic front groups." Two years ago, Emerson warned a Senate
committee about increasing terrorist activity in America, sometimes
in
the name of charity. Alamoudi, the president of the American Muslim
Foundation who expressed support for Hamas and Hezbollah, gave the
maximum allowable contribution of $2,000.
Clinton, then a Democratic Senate candidate in New York, returned the
$1,000 Alamoudi gave her after her opponent called the
donation "blood
money." Her spokesman, explaining the decision to return the money,
said, "Hillary is a strong supporter of peace and security for
Israel." Reps. James Moran (D-Va.) and David Bonior (D-Mich.),
Republican Senate candidate John Sununu of New Hampshire and the Bush
presidential campaign all have returned Alamoudi's contributions
since
last fall.
Alamoudi did not return phone calls seeking comment. Another donor,
Abdelhaleem Ashqar, now a Howard University professor, who gave $250,
was jailed for six months in 1998 after refusing to testify before a
federal grand jury investigating money laundering in the United
States
by Hamas. Ashqar told the grand jury that he would not testify
because
the information would be "used against my friends, family and
colleagues in the Palestinian liberation movement." He was never
charged with a crime and did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Six of McKinney's donors were officers with companies and
organizations that are under investigation.
On March 20 and 21, Treasury agents served warrants on the Herndon
Va.-based Saar Foundation, Safa Trust, the International Institute of
Islamic Thought and 13 other locations. The groups are part of a
Saudi-based financial empire that U.S. investigators say has handled
$1.7 billion since the mid-1990s, allegedly sending some of it to
groups that authorities have linked to terrorists, The Washington
Post
reported. No charges have been filed in that investigation.
Listed as McKinney donors on Sept. 11 are M. Yaqub Mirza, Mohamed
Omeish and Ahmad Totonji.
Federal agents in March searched the offices of Mirza, who
contributed
$500. The former president of Saar, Mirza was the central figure in
the interlocking multinational corporations being investigated. He is
the president of Mar-Jac, which includes investment firms and a North
Georgia poultry plant, which also was searched in March. He did not
return phone calls seeking comment.
Omeish is president of Success Foundation, a refugee relief
organization whose office was searched in March. He is listed as
having given $500. Omeish said investigators returned computers taken
from his office. Totonji, founder of Saar and the IIIT, gave $1,000.
Federal agents carted away numerous computers from his offices in the
March raid. Two weeks later, on Sept. 26, Jamal Barzinji, Taha
Alalwani of Herndon, Va., and Hisham Al Talib of California all gave
$500 to McKinney's campaign, according to FEC records. Barzinji, a
business associate of Mirza's, is also president of Mar-Jac Poultry
in
Gainesville. Alalwani is a founder of the IIIT and Al Talib, was the
treasurer for Safa and the IIIT vice president."
Father of Ousted McKinney Spells Defeat `J-E-W-S'
By ELI KINTISCH
FORWARD STAFF
ATLANTA — The father of Rep. Cynthia McKinney is blaming Jews for
her defeat in Georgia's Democratic primary, but observers said that
Tuesday's outcome had less to do with dueling donations from pro-
Israel and pro-Palestinian activists than with high Republican
turnout in the open primary and tepid support from black voters and
congressmen.
The pro-Palestinian McKinney, a five-term incumbent, was upset by
Denise Majette in a race featuring two black candidates. The race's
much touted fund-raising fight mirrored a June election in which
longtime Rep. Earl Hilliard, backed by Arab donors from across the
country, lost Alabama's Democratic primary to Artur Davis, an
opponent heavily financed by Jewish donors nationwide. Majette
received more than $1 million in donations from supporters — many
Jewish — while Arab Americans also increased their historically
strong support of McKinney. But in the end, McKinney's polarizing
personality seemed the difference, as whites, Jews and Republicans
voted in droves, while African-American turnout was relatively tepid.
"It looks like the Republicans wanted to beat me more than the
Democrats wanted to keep me," McKinney said in a concession speech
around 12:45 a.m. Wednesday. Majette defeated McKinney 58% to 42%,
with all but one precinct accounted for.
But her father, civil-rights stalwart and DeKalb County community
leader Billy McKinney, pointed a finger at her pro-Israel critics.
When asked by a local television reporter what the election had
hinged on, he responded: "J-E-W-S."
In a press release, Anti-Defamation League southeast director
Deborah Lauter condemned Billy McKinney's remark, calling
it "classic antisemitism." He caused a similar stir in 1996 after
calling his daughter's opponent a "racist Jew," a comment Cynthia
McKinney repudiated.
Considered the most outspoken liberal in Congress, McKinney had
trounced white, black and women candidates in five previous
elections by relying on massive support in south DeKalb County, a
predominantly black area. But in Majette, McKinney found her
strongest challenger yet, a Democrat with nearly 20 years under her
belt as a local judge. One of the first black women to graduate from
Yale, Majette will face a Republican challenger in the fall with a
distinct advantage since the district's registered voters are
overwhelmingly Democratic.
Majette, who expressed her support of Israel during the campaign
when asked about the Middle East, generally avoided foreign policy
issues on the campaign trail, instead highlighting her own
credentials and questioning McKinney's ability to help the
district. "The issue I think for a lot of people was the 10-year
record of my opponent," Majette said. "The people in the district
are really focused on the schools, hospitals and jobs here in
DeKalb."
The race saw Georgia's 4th District, comprised almost entirely of
DeKalb County, bitterly divided, as white Republicans rushed to the
polls to oust McKinney. Republican voters also played a major role
in ousting Georgia's other controversial long-time congressman, Bob
Barr, a conservative lawmaker who led the push to impeach former
president Bill Clinton. In a Republican primary in which
redistricting forced a face-off between two incumbents , Barr was
easily defeated by Rep. John Linder.
In the days leading up to Georgia's Democratic primary Nation of
Islam leader Louis Farrakhan repeatedly blamed the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee for McKinney's troubles, though it was
unclear whether the result would harm relations between blacks and
Jews, two of the Democratic Party's key constituencies.
Several observers said it was likely that the reverberation would be
slight due to lopsided nature of McKinney's defeat and the
relatively low level of support that she received from her black
colleagues in Congress.
According to the political newsletter Hotline, while 31 members of
the Congressional Black Caucus gave donations to help Hilliard in
June, only 16 members supported McKinney in her primary fight.
Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, whose district includes
Harlem, wasn't ruling out aftershocks, but he was confident that
blacks and Jews wouldn't turn on one another. "I think we should
continue to talk about the things we agree on, rather than the
disagreements," Rangel said.

Despite relatively weak support from her congressional colleagues,
McKinney was joined on the campaign trail by several prominent black
leaders, including Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King III,
Al Sharpton and Walter Fauntroy, a legendary civil rights leader and
former head of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Among leaders of mainstream Jewish groups, McKinney was considered a
more controversial member of Congress than other black lawmakers on
the left. Along with her support of the Palestinian cause, McKinney
refused in 1994 to condemn a fiery speech by a Nation of Islam
spokesman, the late Khalid Muhammed. More recently, she also
infuriated otherwise indifferent Republicans in her district when
she suggested that President Bush might have known about September
11 before it happened, and possibly profited from it.
Last October, after New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani returned a $10
million gift to the city from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal after
the prince criticized Israel in published comments, McKinney issued
a public letter supporting the prince, asking that he donate the
money to black charities.
In May, along with Hilliard, McKinney was one of 5 of the 36 voting
members of the Congressional Black Caucus to oppose a pro-Israel
resolution that put the bulk of the blame for the conflict on the
Palestinians. McKinney said the measure would "undermine America's
vital role as peacemaker"...Democratic institutional support for
McKinney, who has been a solid member of the Democratic caucus in
the House, was weak. In the Hilliard race the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee took much heat for its financial
support of the five-term incumbent, with some asking why the
committee was using resources on a solidly Democratic district. In
this race, the committee, whose function is to help increase the
Democratic ranks in the House, stayed out.
The committee declined to comment on the McKinney race, but Rangel,
who donated $5,000 to her campaign, said: "Some Republicans and
Democrats support incumbents, and others don't." Rangel is board
chair of the committee.
Democratic House Whip Nancy Pelosi of California also donated $5,000
to McKinney's effort.
National Jewish Democratic Committee executive director Ira Forman
declined to comment on Pelosi's funding. But a Jewish Republican
activist slammed Democratic support of McKinney.
"For the Democrats and the NJDC and other groups to remain silent is
an abdication of their responsibility," the activist said. Pelosi's
office did not return a call for comment.
Several thousand of DeKalb County's Jews were transferred into
Democrat John Lewis's district in the 2000 redistricting after
complaining about McKinney to their state senator, but a few
thousand remained.... most Jewish residents and pro-Israel activists
rejected McKinney's rhetoric and condemned her recent backing from
Farrakhan. "I found Farrakhan's involvement as offensive as Michael
Lerner's," Schneier said.
McKinney was the ninth incumbent to be ousted in a House primary
this year. Weeks before the election, some McKinney supporters urged
the legislator to wage a write-in campaign leading up to the
November general election. But McKinney campaign officials reached
at press time said they haven't considered it."
http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.08.23/news2.html
"McKinney voted NO on Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China.
(May 2000)
McKinney voted NO MFN for China; (Nov 1999)"
http://www.issues2000.org/GA/Cynthia_McKinney.htm
We are sad to report that McKinney is back in Congress.
Her website is at:
http://www.house.gov/mckinney/

PM Sharon's Knesset Speech Against Anti-Semitism 26-Jan-2005
26/01/2005 17:13:04

For the second year, we mark the day commemorating the State of
Israel's
struggle against anti-Semitism. We chose to mark this day of struggle
against
anti-Semitism on the day of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau
death camp,
that horrible symbol of the Holocaust.

The allies knew of the annihilation of the Jews. They knew and did
nothing. On
April 19, 1943, the Bermuda Conference gathered, with the
participation of
representatives from Britain and the United States, in order to
discuss saving
the Jews of Europe. In fact, the participants did everything in their
power to
avoid dealing with the problem. All the suggestions for rescue
operations which
the Jewish organizations presented were rejected. They simply did not
want to
deal with it.

The Bermuda Conference was nothing more than a continuation of the
shocking
story of the "Ship of the Damned," the Saint Louis, which set sail
from Germany
in 1939 with 1,000 Jews who had succeeded in escaping from the Third
Reich on
board. The passengers knocked on the doors of Cuba and ports in the
eastern
United States, but were refused sanctuary and were forced to return
to the
shores of Europe. Most of them were murdered in the death camps.

The leadership of the British Mandate displayed the same obtuseness
and
insensitivity by locking the gates to Israel to Jewish refugees who
sought a
haven in the Land of Israel. Thus were rejected the requests of the
769
passengers of the ship Struma who escaped from Europe -- and all but
one found
their deaths at sea.

Throughout the war, nothing was done to stop the annihilation. When,
in the
summer of 1944, the mass deportations in Hungary were carried out,
the allies
did not bomb the train tracks which led to Auschwitz from Hungary,
nor the
murder facilities in Birkenau, and this was despite the fact that
they had the
ability to do so. Allied planes attacked targets near Auschwitz, but
they
refused to bomb the camp itself, in which 10,000 Jews were murdered
daily. Thus
were 618,000 Jews annihilated in a number of weeks -- the Jews of
Hungary.

Mr. Speaker, the sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared
that Jews were
being murdered.

"Do not put your trust in men in power," said the poet of the Psalms.
And
indeed, during the most terrible, critical hour, those in power and
the declared
friends did not lift a finger. This is the Jewish lesson of the
Holocaust and
this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us, the enchained people.

The State of Israel has learned this lesson, and since its
establishment it has
done its utmost to defend itself and its citizens, and provide a safe
haven for
any Jew, wherever he may be. We know that we can trust no one but
ourselves.

This phenomenon of Jews defending themselves and fighting back is
anathema to
the new anti-Semites. Legitimate steps of self-defense which Israel
takes in its
war against Palestinian terrorist -- actions which any sovereign
state is
obligated to undertake to ensure the security of its citizens -- are
presented
by those who hate Israel as aggressive, "Nazi-like" steps.

Many of the manifestations of anti-Semitism in the past years are no
longer
aimed only at Jews as individuals. Rather, they are aimed at the
embodiment of
all Jews: the State of Israel, the Jewish state. As early as 1967,
in "A Letter
to an Anti-Zionist Friend," Dr. Martin Luther King wrote that anti-
Zionism is no
less than disguised anti-Semitism.

I quote: "The times have made it unpopular, in the West, to proclaim
openly a
hatred of the Jews. This being the case, the anti-Semite must
constantly seek
new forms and forums for his poison. He does not hate the Jews, he is
just
"anti-Zionist"! My friend, when people criticize Zionism, they mean
Jews -- make
no mistake about it."

These days, the generation that was witness to the horrors is
disappearing, and
ignorance is increasing. Fewer people around the world have heard of
the
Holocaust or are aware of what happened in Auschwitz, and the
manifestations of
anti-Semitism are on the rise. Sixty years after the liberation of
Auschwitz,
the evil that gave rise to the horror still exists and still
threatens us.

Israel stands with governments, as well as Jewish and international
organizations around the world, that remember Auschwitz and are
determined to
fight this evil uncompromisingly and relentlessly.

We will continue to act tirelessly in order to ensure that the memory
of
Auschwitz and the lessons of the Holocaust will not be forgotten, so
that
Auschwitz will never again return.

Israel is a very small country, blessed with talented and courageous
people.
However, it must always be remembered that this is the only place in
the world
where we, the Jews, have the right and the capability to defend
ourselves, by
ourselves. And we will never relinquish this.

It is our historic responsibility. It is my personal historic
responsibility."
APRIL
Is an interesting month, it begins on April 1st, commonly known as
APRIL FOOL'S DAY
and ends on April 30th, also known as Walpurgisnacht . It includes
Hitler's Birthday on April 20th and Martin Luther King's
Assassination
Day on April 4th. Had Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy NOT been
assassinated Eugene McCarthy, who was 7 points ahead of Nixon in the
polls, would have been nominated by the Democratic Party as its
Presidential candidate in 1968 and gone on to win the White House.
Gene would have ended the Vietnam War promptly in 1969. Gene McCarthy
was a good personal friend of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. He
was a friend of Israel. Gene would probably have been re-elected in
1972. There probably would NOT have been an arab surprise attack on
Israel on October 6th, 1973 with Gene McCarthy in the White House and
the US NOT tied down in Indochina. Nor would MILLIONS of Vietnamese,
Laotians and Cambodians have been killed as the war dragged on and on
under Nixon. Gene would have tilted towards India rather than
Pakistan
during his administration, so there would have been no Bangladesh
massacre of East Pakistani Bengalis by West Pakistani Punjabis, a
slaughter that some estimate took THREE MILLION LIVES! In our view
ARAFAT ordered the assassinations of BOTH BOBBY KENNEDY AND DR.
MARTIN
LUTHER KING. The cost to the African-American community of the death
of the most Gandhi like leader it ever had is incalculable in terms
of
wasted human lives. Dr. King was also a friend to the Jewish
community. Imagine a world in which there never had been a split
between the Jewish community and the African American community.
Instead of  Jesse Jackson assuming the mantle of the slain Dr. King,
and going on to lead the charge against the Jewish community after
Jimmy Carter fired Andy Young for shaking hands with an arafat
observer at the UN, and going on to make his infamous "Hymietown"
remark, Martin Luther King would have led the African-American
community.
(JIMMY CARTER ALLEGEDLY GOT TEN MILLION DOLLARS FROM THE INFAMOUS
ARAB CIA DRUG BANK BCCI FOR THE CARTER LIBRARY, ANDY YOUNG ALLEGEDLY
GOT $100,000 FROM BCCI, JACKSON ALLEGEDLY  GOT $5 MILLION DOLLARS FOR
HIS OPERATION PUSH FROM IRAQ AND ALLEGEDLY GOT ANOTHER $5 MILLION
DOLLARS FROM LIBYA).  A united African-American and Jewish community
would NEVER have permitted the nomination of Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Nor
would the outgoing President McCarthy. Instead Martin Luther King
might well have been the Democratic nominee in 1976. After being
elected in 1976 Dr. King would have been re-elected in 1980. F.D.R.
died on
April 12th.  Abraham Lincoln's Assassination occurred
on April  14, 1865.
Martin Luther King, Jr. at sunset on April 4th,1968 Martin
Luther King, Jr. was
fatally shot while standing on the
balcony of the Lorraine Motel in
Memphis, Tennessee.
There were riots and disturbances in
130 American cities. There were
twenty thousand arrests.
King's funeral on April 19 was an
international event. By now Martin
Luther King would
Have served two terms as President of
the United States and would be a
US Senator. Before He Was Murdered Doctor King had endorsed the
Presidential
Candidacy of Eugene McCarthy, Democrat of Minnesota for the 1968
Democratic Presidential Nomination. Senator McCarthy, (not to be
confused with Republican Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin who was
Eugene McCarthy's opposite in more ways than one), campaigned on a
platform of opposition to the Vietnam War in 1968, a war that
McCarthy
called: Illegal, Immoral, and unconstitutional. When Dr. King
endorsed
Senator McCarthy's presidential candidacy He joined the noble causes
of Peace and Civil Rights together. Just as they should be joined.
Two
weeks Later Dr. King was murdered in Memphis. Had he lived he would
have gone on to campaign for McCarthy, who was 7 points ahead of
Nixon
in the polls. With Dr. King by his side McCarthy would have gone on
to
be nominated by the Democratic Party in 1968 and elected President in
November 1968. I have no doubt, as someone who worked in the McCarthy
campaign, that Dr. King would have been in President McCarthy's
Cabinet in 1969. Robert F. Kennedy would have ended his campaign and
joined with Gene McCarthy and Dr. King to end the war. Instead Dr.
King's murder caused disunity in the Democratic Party. Bobby Kennedy
sought the Democratic Presidential nomination, only to be murdered
himself on June 4th, 1968 2 months to the day after Dr. King was
murdered. June 4th,1968 was also the first anniversary of the Six-Day
War. As the US Senator from New York State, a state that McCarthy
would have carried handily in the June 1968 Democratic Primary Bobby
Kennedy would have to have obeyed the wishes of the people of his
state and dropped out of the Presidential race after that primary and
endorsed Gene McCarthy. But the primary came after Bobby Kennedy had
been killed. Beating a dead Bobby Kennedy was no victory. Not having
a
live Bobby Kennedy on hand to concede defeat and endorse Gene
McCarthy
meant that Hubert Humphrey, a supporter of the war in Vietnam, would
go on to become the Democratic Presidential nominee, only to lose to
Richard M. Nixon in November of 1968. Thus the war in Vietnam would
continue no matter who, Humphrey, or Nixon, won. With America tied
down in
Vietnam it had to have been thought in the
arab world that America would not be able to intervene to save Israel
when the inevitable arab attack on Israel came.RFK was killed on the
first anniversary of the Six Day War "
http://www.idf.il/english/history/sixday.stm the inevitable arab
attack came some years later with THE 1973 YOM KIPPUR WAR
http://www.adl.org/Israel/Record/yomkippur.html The same gang that
bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 murdered Anwar Sadat in 1981 on
the 8th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. That same gang killed the
Speaker of the Egyptian Parliament for Saddam Hussein when Egypt
broke
ranks with Iraq over the invasion of Kuwait.
"Who Shot Martin Luther King? The federal government, and Tennessee
authorities, aggressively pushed the lone-gunman theory-although this
explanation was rejected out of hand by millions of Americans. At
Ray's sentencing, as the state was telling the jury what the evidence
would have been at a trial, Ray interrupted the proceedings to say he
did not agree with the statement of Ramsey Clark, U.S. attorney
general, that there was no conspiracy. Three days later Ray tried to
withdraw his plea of guilty, even though that would subject him to a
possible death sentence. The court refused. From that day forward
there has been a tug-of-war between conspiracy believers and
lone-gunman advocates. In 1979 the House Select Committee on
Assassinations issued a report saying there probably was a
conspiracy."
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/08.07.97/mlkj-9732.html
Martin Luther King on anti-Zionism From
M.L. King Jr., "Letter to an
Anti-Zionist Friend," Saturday Review
XLVII (Aug. 1967), p. 76.
Reprinted in M.L. King Jr., "This I
Believe: Selections from the
Writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."
". . . You declare, my friend,
that you do not hate the Jews, you are
merely `anti-Zionist.' And I
say, let the truth ring forth from the
high mountain tops, let it echo
through the valleys of God's green
earth: When people criticize
Zionism, they mean Jews-this is God's
own truth. Anti-Semitism, the
hatred of the Jewish people, has been
and remains a blot on the soul
of mankind. In this we are in full agreement. So know also this:
anti-Zionist is inherently anti-Semitic, and ever will be so. Why is
this? You know that Zionism is nothing less than the dream and ideal
of the Jewish people returning to live in their own land. The Jewish
people, the Scriptures tell us, once enjoyed a flourishing
Commonwealth in the Holy Land. From this they were expelled by the
Roman tyrant, the same Romans who cruelly murdered Our Lord. Driven
from their homeland, their nation in ashes, forced to wander the
globe, the Jewish people time and again suffered the lash of
whichever
tyrant happened to rule over them. The Negro people, my friend, know
what it is to suffer the torment of tyranny under rulers not of our
choosing. Our brothers in Africa have begged, pleaded,
requested-DEMANDED-the recognition and realization of our inborn
right
to live in peace under our own sovereignty in our own country. How
easy it should be, for anyone who holds dear this inalienable right
of
all mankind, to understand and support the right of the Jewish People
to live in their ancient Land of Israel. All men of good will exult
in
the fulfillment of God's promise, that his People should return in
joy
to rebuild their plundered land. This is Zionism, nothing more,
nothing less. And what is anti-Zionist? It is the denial to the
Jewish
people of a fundamental right that we justly claim for the people of
Africa and freely accord all other nations of the Globe. It is
discrimination against Jews, my friend, because they are Jews. In
short, it is anti-Semitism. The anti-Semite rejoices at any
opportunity to vent his malice. The times have made it unpopular, in
the West, to proclaim openly a hatred of the Jews. This being the
case, the anti-Semite must constantly seek new forms and forums for
his poison. How he must revel in the new masquerade! He does not hate
the Jews, he is just `anti-Zionist'! My friend, I do not accuse you
of
deliberate anti-Semitism. I know you feel, as I do, a deep love of
truth and justice and a revulsion for racism, prejudice, and
discrimination. But I know you have been misled-as others have
been-into thinking you can be `anti-Zionist' and yet remain true to
these heartfelt principles that you and I share. Let my words echo in
the depths of your soul: When people criticize Zionism, they mean
Jews-make no mistake about it." http://www.likud.nl/ref27.html

"Here's a rundown from Daniel Pipes, a former Reagan administration
Middle East aide who now runs the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia
and the wonderfully informative Web site DanielPipes.org:
Mr. Pipes says: "CAIR is a particularly worrisome organization
because
it has succeeded in portraying itself as a public affairs
organization
promoting `interest and understanding among the general public with
regards to Islam and Muslims in North America.' In fact, this
organization is radical to the core; it seeks nothing less than the
imposition of Islamist mores on the United States."
Mr. Pipes notes that CAIR's record includes the following:
"Apologizing for such killers as Hamas (a group associated with the
murder of 7 Americans) and Usama bin Ladin (charged with the Tanzania
and Kenya embassy bombings a year ago). . . . Helping promote
terrorism: In the words of Steve Pomerantz, a former Chief of
Counterterrorism for the FBI, `CAIR, its leaders, and its activities,
effectively give aid to international terrorist groups.' . . .
Intimidation of patriotic Muslims who disagree with CAIR's chauvinist
agenda: In one case (Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani), the FBI is
looking into charges that he received death threats after renouncing
the chauvinists. . . Defense of even the most archaic and barbaric of
customs associated with Islam: When a prosecutor in Cleveland argued
that the bail of two young men being held for an `honor killing' of
their female cousin should be increased, CAIR replied by accusing him
of `ethnic and religious stereotyping' and called for a formal
investigation into the prosecutor's actions."
In addition, as anti-terrorism expert Steven Emerson has noted in
Congressional testimony, CAIR co-sponsored a May 24, 1998, all-day
program in the Walt Whitman Auditorium of Brooklyn College in
Brooklyn, New York. As Mr. Emerson testified, "In Arabic, Wagdi
Ghuniem, a militant Islamic cleric from Egypt, mesmerized his
audience, with his relentless tirade against the Jews, reminding them
of the Jews' `infidelity,' `stealth' and `deceit.' Known for his
folksy deliveries and exhortations to commit violence against the
Jews, Ghuniem did not disappoint his crowd, several of whom had come
just to hear him. The conflict with the Jews, he said, was not over
land but one of religion. `The problem of Palestine is not a problem
of belief. suppose the Jews said "Palestine-you [Muslims] can take
it." Would it then be ok? What would we tell them? No! The problem is
belief, it is not a problem of land.'"
Mr. Emerson continued: "Ghuniem then led his rapt audience, which
numbered as many as 500, in a special song, the audience responsively
repeating each refrain: `No to the Jews, Descendants of the Apes.'"
Says Mr. Pipes: "In short, CAIR represents not the great civilization
of Islam but a radical utopian movement originating in the Middle
East
that seeks to impose its ways on the United States. Americans should
consider themselves warned: a new danger exists in their midst." So
much for CAIR. But, according to the CAIR Web site, CAIR wasn't the
only radical, terrorist-sympathizing American Muslim group that
President Bush met with yesterday, less than a week after the worst
terrorist attack in American history. In fact, according to the CAIR
web site, the meeting yesterday also included "representatives from
the American Muslim Alliance" and the Muslim Public Affairs Council.
The Muslim Public Affairs Council is a group founded and headed by
Salam Al-Marayati. He's the man whose views on terrorism were so
problematic that, after an outcry, Rep. Richard Gephardt withdrew his
support for Mr. Al-Marayiti as a nominee to a federal anti-terrorism
commission. According to an article in the August 22, 1998, Los
Angeles Times, the Muslim Public Affairs Council called America's
1998
missile strikes on Osama Bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan
"illegal" and "immoral." Again, Daniel Pipes, in an article posted on
DanielPipes.org, is instructive. Mr. Pipes writes of Mr. Al-Marayati:
"Here are three elements of his radicalism: First, he wraps the
American flag around some of the least attractive features of Middle
Eastern life. In 1993, he memorably asserted that `When Patrick Henry
said, "Give me liberty or give me death," that statement epitomized
jihad [Islamic holy war].' In 1996, he made the silly and inaccurate
observation that `American freedom fighters hundreds of years ago
were
also regarded as terrorists by the British.' Mr. Al-Marayati's intent
here is obvious: to render jihad and terrorism acceptable to
Americans."
Mr. Pipes continued: "Second, Mr. Al-Marayati apologizes for the most
ghastly Middle Eastern regimes and draws moral equivalencies between
them and America. In his view, Iraq is no better or worse than
America:
`Saddam Hussein's behavior in and around Iraq has been characterized
as reckless. The same can be said about U.S. policy as a result of
its
reactionary mode.' . . .Third, Mr. Al-Marayati turns a blind eye to
terrorism if it is of a fundamentalist Muslim persuasion (not a great
credential for someone hoping to serve on a counterterrorism
commission). Take the February 1996 incident when a Palestinian named
Muhammad Hamida shouted the fundamentalist war cry, Allahu Akbar
(Allah is Great), as he drove his car intentionally into a crowded
bus
stop in Jerusalem, killing one Israeli and injuring 23 others. Before
he could escape or hurt anyone else, Hamida was shot dead. Commenting
on the affair, Mr. Al-Marayati said not a word about Hamida's
murderous rampage but instead focused on Hamida's death, which he
called `a provocative act,' and demanded the extradition of his
executors to America `to be tried in a U.S. court' on terrorism
charges."
Then there is the American Muslim Alliance, another group that CAIR
reports had a representative at the Bush event yesterday. That's the
group so extreme that even Hillary Rodham Clinton, no anti-Muslim
extremist, decided to return $50,000 it had raised for her senate
campaign. The American Muslim Alliance was also a sponsor of the "No
to the Jews, Descendants of the Apes" rally at Brooklyn College. And,
as Steven Emerson has reported on OpinionJournal.com, "AMA's head,
Agha Saeed, has openly sanctioned the use of `armed resistance'
against Israel and declared that the `Zionist occupiers of Palestine
can be beaten back.' At its 1997 annual convention, the AMA
distributed an article by S.A. Ahsani, head of the AMA's Texas
chapter, denying the existence of `Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek.'
At AMA national conferences in 1997, 1998 and 2000, numerous speakers
numerous speakers condemned the `Jewish and Zionist' lobbies and
their `control'
of the United States."
SOURCE: SmarterTimes.com
September 18, 2001

http://www.smartertimes.com/archive/2001/09/010918.html

Message From An Alternate Future Universe
(A fictional account of the day the world ends.)
It started tragically enough on what we might as well call Murtha's
World, you know, kind of a takeoff on Murphy's World, where what can
go wrong will go wrong.
President George W. Bush supported the creation of a so-
called `palestinian state', a big mistake. One should never reward
terrorists with a state. There are far too many terrorist states
already. One is too many. One more is that much more evil in the
world.
That support for a so-called `palestinian state' cost President Bush
and the Republican Party the support of Jewish and Christian
supporters of Israel in the United States.
On one of the Murtha's Worlds that support for a so-
called `palestinian state' coupled with the mistaken support for the
United Arab Emirates so-called "Dubai Deals", ended up tipping the
2006 mid-term House and Senate elections to the Democrats.
Conservative Republicans stayed home that year rather than come out
at the polls, convinced that President Bush had gone soft on
terrorism.
The result was the victory of Democrats in the Congressional
elections.
When the Democrats got together to organize their control of the
U.S. House of Representatives they tossed out the old Democrats and
new leaders took control.
The new Speaker of the House of Representatives was not Nancy Pelosi
of California it was  "John Patrick "Jack" Murtha, Jr. (born June
17, 1932),  an American politician. Murtha had been a Democratic
member of the United States House of Representatives since 1974…He
was born in New Martinsville, West Virginia, near the border with
Ohio, and grew up in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, southeast of
Pittsburgh…He left Washington and Jefferson College in 1952 to join
the Marines during the Korean War. There he earned the American
Spirit Honor Medal. He rose through the ranks to become a drill
instructor at Parris Island and was selected for Officer Candidate
School at Quantico, Virginia. He then was assigned to the Second
Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina."

After Murtha was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives tragedy
struck. You will have to forgive me as this message from an
Alternate Future
Universe is really being sent back to the past using a technology
unknown to
anyone in your day. In 007, or 2007 as you might call it, some
really James Bond
type technology became available to some of us. I was among those it
became
available to. It allowed messages to be sent at speeds faster than
light. It
broke the time barrier. It also went through several alternative
universes.
So the tragedy that struck after Murtha was elected Speaker of the
U.S. House of
Representatives was really a number of different tragedies,
occurring in
different alternative universes but coming together to create the
tragedy.
Suffice it to say that President Bush and Vice President Cheney were
gone. In
some universes they were gone from office through impeachment and
resignation.
In other universes they were gone from office through ill health, or
personal
reasons, or to spend more time with their families. The list goes
on. You can
imagine all of the possibilities.
But gone they were, and in accordance with the U.S. Constitution
first in line
to become President after the President is the Vice President, first
in line to
become President after the Vice President is the Speaker of the U.S.
House of
Representatives.
And the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in 007 was
Murtha.
Murhpy's World and Murtha's World had intersected. What could go
wrong had gone
wrong.
President Murtha! Say it! Think it!  Believe it! Murtha became
President of the
United States of America in 007, or as some call it 2007.
Our troubles were not over then. They had really just started.
We should have known from Murtha's blurting it out on Face the
Nation on CBS on
March 5th, 2006.
"The only people who want us in Iraq are Iran and al-Qaeda," Murtha
said on CBS's "Face the Nation" political talk show. "And I talked
to a
top-level commander the other day and he said China wants us there
also. Why?
Because we're depleting our resources ... our troop resources and
our fiscal
resources."
Source:
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?
type=domesticNews&storyid 06-03\
Murtha wanted war against China. As President Murtha could make that
war happen.


This tragic morning in 007, or 2007 as you might call it,
we awoke to the news that President Murtha had launched a unilateral
pre-emptive
military strike against China. The strike involved the use of many
many nuclear
weapons by the United States.  The force of the explosions shook the
earth.
Chinese retaliation is on its way towards the United States right
now. We should
have known this was coming.  Back in 006, or 2006 as you might call
it when
Murtha was still in Congress Murtha stated that he would like to see
US
forces in Iraq withdrawn to what he called the "periphery" of Iraq.
He included Okinawa,Japan in that periphery. "Murtha predicts an
Iraq pullout by year's end By David M. Brown
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, January 27, 2006
U.S. Rep. John Murtha predicted Thursday that U.S. military
involvement in the war in Iraq will wind down by the end of this
year.
"We're not cutting and running. We're giving the Iraqis incentive to
take over," the Johnstown Democrat and decorated Vietnam War veteran
said during a meeting with editors and reporters of the Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review.
Murtha reiterated his call for a "redeployment" of American troops,
including a sharp troop reduction and relocation of all American
forces to "periphery" areas such as Kuwait or possibly Okinawa,
Japan…."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/s_417696.html
Okinawa, Japan is not on the "periphery" of Iraq. Okinawa, Japan is
on
the periphery of China. As a young man Jack Murtha joined the
Marines during the Korean War. He also served in Vietnam. A very
large number
of Murtha's contributors when he was in Congress, were either
lobbyists for
Taiwan or firms that build weapons for Taiwan. All that was before
Murtha became
President of the United States in 007, or as you might call it 2007.
So we knew back in 006. We knew and we did nothing about it. one
such list for
JOHN P. MURTHA (D-PA) and added some background information
on some of the contribtuors to this post. 2 DRS Technologies $32,050
"PARSIPPANY, N.J., January 13, 2003.*** DRS's MPBE systems also are
used on ***
the Cobra helicopters of Taiwan,***." www.drs.com
3 Paul Magliocchetti Assoc $29,000
Magliocchetti, Paul J* Paul Magliocchetti Associates is also listed
at
http://www.opensecrets.org/pubs/global/global5.htm
from website at url above:in a post entitled:
"GLOBAL CONNECTIONS FOREIGN AGENTS, which also lists another Murtha
top contributor: Cassidy & Associates.
"The PMA Group: Paul Magliocchetti
Before starting PMA, Magliocchetti was a longtime staffer on the
House
Appropriations Committee, including a nine-year stint handling
defense issues.
Magliocchetti left the Hill in 1989 to start his firm, which has
become a power
in defense lobbying. In 2000, the firm had revenues of $6.5 million.
By last
year, that had grown to $9.2 million, according to
politicalmoneyline.com. In
addition to ex-Capitol Hill staffers, the firm's roster of talent
includes
military officers, which helps ensure that the money is "not only
appropriated,
but obligated" by the Pentagon, according
to one defense lobbyist.
http://www.hillnews.com/business/072104_league.aspx
see also:
http://www.thepmagroup.com/An_Elite_Team/Paul_Magliocchetti/paul_magl
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material below from website at
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Political_Corruption/LobbyingMercha
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"Send Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Lobbying and the Merchants of Death
from the book Washington on $10 million a Day
by Ken Silverstein
Common Courage Press, 1998
The Invisible Man
It's not only Pentagon retirees who moving through the revolving
door to work
for the defense industry. Countless former denizens of Capitol Hill
also make
the move, lured by the big bucks offered up by weapons makers. Paul
Magliocchetti left a job at the House Appropriations Committee in
1988 and now
heads a powerful lobby shop that caters to defense firms. In a 1996
report,
Legal Times called Magliocchetti "The Invisible Man," and detailed
how an
"obscure Hill aide...became a million dollar lobbyist."
Magliocchetti's specialty when he worked on the Hill was defense
appropriations.
Before that he worked at the General Accounting Office, where he
conducted
audits and investigations of the Pentagon. All this helped
Magliocchetti learn
the nuts and bolts of the defense industry and the budget process,
two skills
that proved vital when he decided to strike out on his own as a
lobbyist. Legal
Times quoted former Rep. Charles Wilson as saying, "The thing about
Paul is [he
and his lobbying aides] just always had such a wealth of knowledge,
and they
could really make their case...They just knew [in] what line of the
bill" they should place a special favor to their clients.
Magliocchetti incorporated his lobbying firm in October of 1988. He
was still
drawing a salary at the House until at least two months later.
Within months of
retiring he had signed up his first client, the Sikorsky Aircraft
Division of United Technologies.
Many of Magliocchetti's current aides previously worked at the
Pentagon,
including Thomas Veltri, who had served as the Air Force's liaison
with
Appropriations Committees in Congress. Magliocchetti's firm also
runs a generous
political action committee- it gave more than $75,000 during the
1996 election
cycle-and throws an annual Christmas party for members of Congress
and their
staffers at the Alpine restaurant in Arlington, just across the
Potomac from Washington.
All of this has paid off nicely. Magliocchetti, who was forced to
eke out a
modest living on his $65,200-a-year salary at House Appropriations,
now rakes in
big fees from dozens of firms. Legal Times says his company's
revenues topped $1
million during the first half of 1996, ranking it 42nd on the
newspaper's
ranking of top lobby shop money earners."
4 Planning Systems Inc (PSI)$25,850
" PSI *** research has supported the Departments of Defense,
Transportation,
Commerce, NASA, and the National Institute of Health (NIH)."
http://www.planningsystemsinc.com/

5 Advanced Acoustic Concepts (AAC) $25,000 "Defense Contractor Opens
Local Site
2005-04-02 *** Systems like those made by a local company have saved
the U.S.
government more than $500 million, according to U.S. Rep. John Murtha
(D-Johnstown
http://www.aactech.com/article.jsp?id=21
http://www.aactech.com/index2.jsp
News from Congressman Jack Murtha -Advanced Acoustic Concepts (AAC)
opens new
facility at the University Technology Park
March 1, 2005- Congressman John P. Murtha and Advanced Acoustic
Concepts (AAC)
are pleased to announce the grand opening of AAC's new facility at
the
University Technology Park in North Union Township, Fayette County.
Congressman
Murtha, U.S. Navy personnel, local elected officials, and several
hundred guests
were on hand for the Open House and Ribbon Cutting ceremony that was
held at the
building this morning. "It is a pleasure for me to walk through this
state-of-the-art facility and personally meet the young engineers
who work for
AAC in Fayette County," said Congressman Murtha. *** Don Cooper, who
serves as
general manager of AAC's Pennsylvania operation, described AAC's key
to success,
tating, "The Navy's Improved Performance Sonar (IPS) technologies
that are
integrated in this new state-of-the-art facility, represents a
quantum leap
forward in multi-community Undersea Warfare technologies that are
common across
Navy communities (AEGIS, LCS, DD(X) and NAVAIR). *** The company has
emerged as
a leading supplier of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) automated,
real time
processing systems and is a leading provider of tactical training
support to the
U.S.Navy. Headquartered in Long Island, NY with locations in eight
states, AAC
is a privately held company with annual sales of $35 million and
more than 180
employees.
http://www.house.gov/murtha/news/nw050401.htm
6 BAE Systems North America $20,000
"07-25-2005
BAE SYSTEMS RECEIVES $31 MILLION CONTRACT FOR C-130J AIRCRAFT
NASHUA, N.H.—BAE Systems recently received a $31 million production
contract
from the U.S. Air Force to provide 31 AN/ALR-56M radar warning
receiver systems
for a new fleet of Air Force and Marine Corps C-130J aircraft and
line
replaceable unit (LRU) spares for the Taiwan Air Force F-16 Fighting
Falcon aircraft.
http://www.na.baesystems.com/releasesDetail.cfm?a=339

"
"Virtual News Room
In The News - Archives

24 July 2002 BAE SYSTEMS SELECTED TO PROVIDE POWER PC-BASED FLIGHT
CONTROL
COMPUTER FOR TAIWAN FIGHTER AIRCRAFTThe Aerospace Industrial
Development Corp.
(AIDC) has awarded BAE Systems Controls a $7.1 million contract to
upgrade the
flight control computer on Taiwan's Indigenous Defensive Fighter
(IDF). The
contract includes engineering design, development, and delivery of
flight test hardware."
http://www.baesystems.com/newsroom/2002/jul/240702news2.htm
http://www.na.baesystems.com/board.cfm
For Immediate ReleaseAug. 1, 2005


Carnegie Mellon, BAE Systems to Hold First Public Demonstration of
Unmanned
Ground Vehicle Being Developed for U.S. Marine Corps
Pittsburgh, PA- Carnegie Mellon University and BAE Systems, which
recently
completed its acquisition of United Defense, will hold a public
demonstration of
Gladiator, the first tactical unmanned ground vehicle being
developed for the
U.S. Marine Corps. The demonstration will take place at 11 a.m.
Thursday,
Aug. 4, at the BAE Systems plant, located on U.S. Route 119 near
Connellsville,
Pa. U.S. Congressman John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) will be attending the
event along
with representatives from the U.S. Marines, the university, BAE
Systems and other industrial partners.
ABOUT BAE SYSTEMS:
BAE Systems is an international company engaged in the development,
delivery,
and support of advanced defense and aerospace systems in the air, on
land, at
sea, and in space. The company designs, manufactures, and supports
military
aircraft, combat vehicles, surface ships, submarines, radar,
avionics,
communications, electronics, and guided weapon systems. It is a
pioneer in
technology with a heritage stretching back hundreds of years and is
at the
forefront of innovation, working to develop the next generation of
intelligent
defense systems. BAE Systems has major operations across five
continents and
customers in some 130 countries. The company employs nearly 100,000
people and
generates annual sales of approximately $25 billion through its
wholly owned and
joint-venture operations."
7 Air Products & Chemicals Inc $18,000
is listed as Murtha's number 7 contributor. Did you know that
"L. Paul Bremer Former Presidential Envoy to Iraq
Before rejoining government, Ambassador Bremer had been a director
of Air
Products and Chemicals, Inc.,"
http://www.ashbrook.org/events/conferen/oxley/bremer.html
"U.S.: Reported Shift On Iraq Administrator May Indicate Powell
Influence By
Andrew F. Tully Some critics of the administration of U.S. President
George W.
Bush say the Defense Department, under Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, is
taking over
too many of the functions normally reserved for the State
Department. Now it
appears that a civilian—a career diplomat in the State Department—
will be put in
charge of administering Iraq, with seniority over even Jay Garner,
the retired
general who is now in charge. Some say that may be a sign that the
Secretary of
State Colin Powell is reasserting his influence, RFE/RL reports from
Washington.
Washington, 5 May 2003 (RFE/RL) -- U.S. President George W. Bush has
reportedly
decided to name a longtime State Department official in charge of the
transitional administration in Iraq.
L. Paul Bremer—who was a senior aide to six secretaries of state
during a
23-year career at the department—will rank above even Jay Garner,
the retired
U.S. Army general who has been in charge of civil administration
since the fall of Saddam Hussein's government.
Garner said today in Baghdad that he expects Bremer to arrive by
next week and
take charge of the political process in postwar Iraq. He said
a "dedicated
effort" is needed on the political side and that the appointment of
someone like
Bremer had been planned all along. Garner is expected to focus more
on reconstruction issues.
Many of Bush's critics have complained that the U.S. Defense
Department, which
is running Iraq for the time being, has put too much of a military
stamp on the
administration. They say Garner, who was a career Army officer,
epitomizes this.
Some say the appointment of Bremer, who has had a distinguished
civilian career,
is an effort to answer those critics. Others say his nomination is
evidence that
Secretary of State Colin Powell has successfully reasserted his
right to conduct
the country's foreign policy at a time when Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld
seemed to be challenging it. Ted Galen Carpenter, a foreign affairs
analyst at
the Cato Institute, a private policy research institute in
Washington, told
RFE/RL that Bremer's appointment shows that Powell might be the most
resilient official in the Bush administration.
Carpenter said Bremer's close association with the State Department
shows Powell's influence..."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2003/05/iraq-
030505-rfel-165\
058.htm

8 General Dynamics $17,500
is listed as Murtha's number 8 contributor,"News from Congressman
Jack Murtha
Murtha, General Dynamics Announce Spiritech Award
JOHNSTOWN, May 31, 2002 -- U.S. Rep. John Murtha and General
Dynamics Corp.
today announced the award of a $471,000 contract to Spiritech, Inc.,
of
Johnstown. Spiritech will produce machined titanium parts for tanks
that are being produced by General Dynamics.
*** the General Dynamics contract, along with the anticipated United
Defense
contract, will enable Spiritech to maintain its employment level at
16 and might
enable to company to add one or two jobs. General Dynamics provides
engineering
and system integration, combat system operating software, logistics
support
capability, and research, development and manufacturing of various
defense systems...."
http://veterans.house.gov/murtha/news/nw02053s.htm
"When it comes to campaign donations, the industry is known for its
tendency to
target its donations specifically to defense authorizers and
appropriators,
Noble said. For the past three years, Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), the
ranking
member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, has been the No. 1
beneficiary of defense campaign donations in the House and has not
fallen below
No. 3 for
Congress as a whole. In fact, for just the 2006 cycle, Murtha ranks
No. 1
overall, with $188,350 in donations from the defense industry. House
Armed
Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) follows with
$118,350. In
2004, Murtha ranked behind only President Bush and his Democratic
opponent, Sen.
John Kerry, in overall defense-industry contributions, with $284,750.
During the 2002 election cycle, when Murtha was forced to campaign
for his seat
because of state redistricting that pitted him against a fellow
congressman in
the primary, he again scored No. 1 in all Congress, pulling in
$309,299 in
political donations from defense companies. In 2000, Murtha slipped
behind
Hunter, who at that point was running for Armed Services chairman.
"Murtha walks on water. If you want anything done on the committee,
you go to
Murtha. Murtha is the reason why the [defense appropriations] bill
gets done
each year," said Ashdown about the veteran Congressman known to be a
dealmaker
who frequently reaches across the aisle. But Murtha also has raised
some
watchdogs' concerns because his brother Robert "Kit" Murtha runs KSA
Consulting,
a lobbying group that represents some 10 smaller defense companies.
In 2004,
Murtha's brother was able to secure $20 million in the defense-
spending bill for
his clients. Kit Murtha
repeatedly has denied working directly with his brother's office.
In comparison to Rep. Murtha, Rep. Bill Young (R-Fla.), who chairs
the Defense
Appropriations Subcommittee, receives far fewer political
contributions from the defense industry, as does Appropriations
Chairman Jerry
Lewis (R-Calif.), who previously chaired the Defense Appropriations
Subcommittee.
"The other reason you see Murtha get so much is because Young does
not ask for very much," Ashdown said.
http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/101805/
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"US Weapons Makers Vie for Taiwan Arms Deal While the sale of Aegis
Destroyers
to Taiwan has been temporarily postponed,weapons manufactures aren't
giving up.
General Dynamics, owner of Bath Iron
Works where the destroyers would be built, hired Cassidy and
Associates,"(note:
not part of article being quoted:Cassidy and Associates is listed as
Murtha's number 13 contributor)
"whose key player is former Reagan defense official Carl Ford, to
lobby for the
sale. Cassidy, which also has a $10 million contract with a Taiwan
think-tank
with close ties to the ruling party, conceived of and drafted a
letter sent to
President Clinton by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and two other
Republican
Senators. The letter implied that congressional approval of
permanent normal
trade relations with China was contingent upon the White House's
prompt approval
of the weapons sale.On the public relations front, jobs were made a
major issue.
The Aegis Industrial Alliance says that the destroyer contract
represents work
for 1,938 companies in 49 states that have stakes - including major
weapons
manufacturers Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon. Also on Taiwan's
wish
list are P-3C Orion submarine-hunting aircraft from Lockheed Martin,
and
advanced-medium-range air-to-air missiles, diesel submarines, and M1
tanks made by General Dynamics Corp.
This fact sheet was prepared by Michelle Ciarrocca of the Arms Trade
Resource Center of the World Policy Institute in New York.
Information was
obtained from the General Dynamics website (www.generaldynamics.com)
and various
news articles. For more information please consult our website at
www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms.
http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/corporate/dd/gd.html
9 Mts Technologies $17,500
"News from Congressman Jack Murtha Contract means local business
JOHNSTOWN, PA, Jan. 28, 2005 – Congressman John Murtha said today's
announcement that Lockheed Martin had won the "Marine One" contract
to build the
next presidential helicopter is good news for the Johnstown
region. "Several
local companies will get business as a result of this contract, so
we expect
this contract to mean jobs for our area," Murtha said. "This was a
tough
competition that required a qualified, cost-competitive team, and
several local
companies are part of that team while others will have opportunities
to bid on
subcontracts." Murtha said that DRS-Laurel Technologies is a
significant member
of what Lockheed Martin called Team US101. DRS-Laurel will be doing
engineering
work as well as making display components. MTS Technologies also is
a team
member and is expected to provide management, engineering and
technical
services. In addition, Concurrent Technologies Corporation will also
provide
engineering services, Murtha said. The congressman noted that
several other area
companies have had discussions with Lockheed Martin about the
program and will
be bidding for other aspects
of the work."

10 Boeing Co $16,000
Murtha's #14 contributor is a Boeing subcontractor L-3
Communications Holdings
and is mentioned in the material on
that contributor in this post.

11 US Steel $16,000 (Pro U.S. steel industry comments by"Honest?
John Murtha"
appear elsewhere in this post.)

12 General Atomics $13,750
"Clinton won't export planes to Taiwan
Fears advanced robot craft could spy on mainland China

By Charles Smith
2000 WorldNetDaily.com
The Clinton administration has turned down a Taiwanese request for an
advanced robot airplane, fearing it might be used to spy on mainland
China. Last
Month, San Diego-based General Atomics engaged in preliminary talks
with the
Taiwan military for the purchase of up to four Predator unmanned
aerial
vehicles, or UAVs. But State Department officials have denied
General Atomics
the export licenses required for the sale. As noted in Aviation Week
& Space
Technology ("Prospects Mixed For UAVs in Asia," March 6, p. 51),
State
Department officials refused the export because the robot plane was
seen as
having "too much range." General Atomics corporate officials noted
that Taiwan
has expressed interest in the smaller and less capable Prowler 2 and
I-Gnat
robot planes. Taiwan is also preparing to field its own robot spy
plane, the
Kestrel 2, as part of
an effort to build indigenous UAV production capability.
UAV robot aircraft such as the Predator perform a variety of
dangerous tasks on
the modern battlefield that formerly were accomplished by manned
aircraft, such
as aerial reconnaissance and communications interception. U.S.
military forces
currently deploy a wide variety of UAVs, including the Predator.
The Clinton administration has refused export of the General Atomics
`Predator' unmanned aerial vehicle to Taiwan. Photo by U.S. Navy
Photographers Mate 3rd Class Jeffrey S. Viano The General Atomics
robot plane
reportedly is equipped with state-of-the-art
surveillance and electronic snooping equipment. With radar
reportedly so
sensitive it can detect armed troops moving on the ground even under
the worst
weather conditions, several Predator robot planes were used by the
U.S. Air
Force and the CIA in Kosovo and Iraq. During the war in Kosovo, the
U.S.A.F.
used the robot planes to spy on Serbian forces in the region, and
Serbian air
defense forces did shoot down a Predator during the 1999 war. It is
reported
that the Serbs transferred the robot plane to the Russians for
examination,
along with the remains of a U.S.A.F. F-117A Stealth bomber also
downed. The
robot planes also played a critical role in some of the first-ever
information
warfare attacks during combat. According to the U.S. Air Force,
Predators were
used as platforms by information warfare soldiers to "hack" into
Serbian air
defense network computer systems and disable them during several pre-
planned
attacks. Norman Polmar, a defense analyst, noted author, and staff
member at the
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, urged caution over the
claims of
success by the U.S. Air Force hackers and UAV teams. "Be careful of
how you use
the term `network,'" said Polmar during a recent interview. "Third
World
countries do not have AD (Air Defense) networks in the Western sense—
except
Iraq. Indeed, the (Serbian) missile/gun system that downed the F-
117A was under
local control," stated Polmar. Defense analysts predict that Israel
will benefit
from the Clinton administration's decision not to sell the robot
planes to
Taiwan. Israel currently produces and exports a wide array of robot
aircraft for
combat. "(We are) open to any kind of cooperation in any country,"
stated Moshe
Carash, executive vice president for Israel's largest robot plane
builder Elbit.
According to Carash, Elbit is authorized to let industry partners
handle the
local manufacture and production of UAVs. In a related move, Taiwan
fired a
political shot back at Beijing. Republic of China (ROC) policy
officials issued
a blistering reply to the communist Chinese white paper titled, "The
One-China Principle and the Taiwan Issue."
According to Beijing's white paper, "Taiwan is in fact only a local
government on Chinese soil ... The Republic of China (Taiwan) has
terminated its
historical status." The communist Chinese political paper also
warned that if
there is no "settlement of cross-Straits reunification through
negotiations,
then the Chinese government will only be forced to adopt all drastic
measures
possible, including the use of force, to safeguard China's
sovereignty and
territorial integrity." In response, Taiwanese policy makers refuted
Beijing in
an internal policy paper of their own. A detailed translation of the
seven-page
policy paper, titled "Our Views on the PRC's White Paper," was
provided to
WorldNetDaily. "Beijing's statement in the `white paper' clearly
exposes its
aggressive nature and hegemonic mindset," wrote Su Chi, author of
the report and
chairman of the Taiwan Mainland Affairs Council. "We must solemnly
point out
that the ROC (Republic of China) government by no means agree with
the PRC's
unilateral definition of `one China.' The ROC
has always been an independent sovereign state. This fact will not be
changed by the issuing of a mere `white paper,'" said Su Chi in the
council
report. "Beijing has repeatedly escalated its military threat
targeted at Taiwan
during the critical moments when the ROC implements democracy. On
the one hand,
this shows Beijing's rejection and fear of democracy. On the other
hand, it is a
stark contrast between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait:
democracy and totalitarianism; peace and violence," wrote Su Chi.
"The government and people will never change their determination to
defend
democracy and sovereignty, to prohibit outside forces from
interfering with our
democratic election, and to seek peace and stability in the Taiwan
Strait," concluded Su Chi.
Charles Smith is a national security and defense reporter for
WorldNetDaily.
Visit his site, Softwar.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?
ARTICLE_ID 598
13 Cassidy & Assoc/Interpublic Group $13,500
http://www.opensecrets.org/pubs/global/global5.htm
from website at url above:
"GLOBAL CONNECTIONS FOREIGN AGENTS The Center has identified more
than $1.4
million in contributions by registered foreign agents during the
1995-96
election cycle to current members of congress. All of these
donations were
direct "hard money" contributions given by the individual agents to
congressional candidates. Gerald Cassidy of Cassidy & Associates was
the largest
contributor among registered foreign agents, as he combined with his
wife
Loretta to distribute more than $41,000 to winning candidates. When
contributions from other registered foreign agents at the firm are
included, the
total given by foreign agents at Cassidy & Associates rises to
greater than
$103,000. In 1995, Cassidy & Associates were registered to represent
foreign
clients from Brazil, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Saudi Arabia,
and Taiwan.
TOP FOREIGN AGENTS CONTRIBUTIONS
Cassidy, Gerald S* Cassidy & Associates"
(please also see the article
on "US Weapons Makers Vie for Taiwan Arms Deal" in this post).
14 L-3 Communications $13,400 L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc.
(NYSE: LLL) 600
3rd Ave. New York, NY 10016 Phone: 212-697-1111
Fax: 212-867-5249 Toll Free: 866-463-6555
http://www.l-3com.com L-3's good defense is its best commercial
offense. L-3
Communications Holdings makes secure and specialized systems for
satellite,
avionics, and marine communications. The US government (primarily
the military)
accounts for more than three-fourths of the company's business, but
L-3 is using
acquisitions to expand its commercial offerings. Commercial products
include
flight recorders (black boxes), display systems, and wireless
telecom gear. L-3
has added to its aircraft repair, overhaul, and technical services
with the
purchase of Spar Aerospace and what are now L-3 Communications
Integrated
Systems, L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace, and L-3 Communications
Cincinnati
Electronics. L-3 Communications Holdings As the military redoubles
its emphasis
on intelligence, L-3 is playing a bigger role than ever in the
defense business.
Spun off from Lockheed Martin eight years ago, the company has made
a name for
itself in night-vision gear, secure communications, and satellite
controls. And,
with its pending
deal to acquire Titan Corp. for $2.65 billion, it can tap the
growing demand for
intelligence software. All the while, the company continues to
manufacture the
black boxes that record airplane-flight data Company Info STOCK INFO
LLL
REVENUES* $7.3 BILLION Revenue Growth 33.6% RETURN ON EQUITY 10.3%
Total Return
11.8% PROFITS* $412.3 MILLION Industry COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT SEE
ALSO:
http://www.l-3com.com/
"L-3 Communications makes the high-tech components for the
communications gear
required by the modern battlefield. For example, the company's high
transmission
rate, jam-resistant communications components and systems are in use
on
battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Navy's Aegis-class
destroyers use L-3
Communications voice and data switching systems."
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P109135.asp
"L-3 Communications West is a subsidiary of L-3 Communications
Holdings Inc. in
NYC, NY, which is currently facing a criminal investigation over
quality issues
in the U.S military's CESL emergency radio systems."
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2005/05/12m-for-l3-to-improve-
dual-data-link\
\2-program/index.php
L-3 Subsidiary Under Criminal Investigation Over Radio Units
Posted 29-Apr-2005 Boeing subcontractor L-3 Communications Holdings
Inc. (L-3,
not to be confused with wholesale telecom provider Level 3
Communications) is
under federal criminal investigation after Interstate Electronics
Corp., one of
its subsidiaries, supplied defective parts used in CSEL emergency
radios to
locate downed military pilots"
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2005/04/l3-subsidiary-under-
criminal-investi\
\gation-over-radio-units/index.php
Tien Tan Advanced Combat System Ship [AEGIS]
Taiwan has sought to purchase the American AEGIS Advanced Combat
System in an
effort to boost sea defenses against the mainland, and has developed
plans to
buy as many as four Aegis destroyers. Taiwan regards the ACS system
on board the
Aegis-guided missile destroyer as a standard for the navy in the
21st century.
If approved, the ship will be known as the "ACS Ship" or Tien Tan
(Altar of
Heaven ) and would be commissioned in 2008 at the earliest.
The navy had intended to upgrade the eighth Cheng Kung-class missile
frigate the
Tien Tan, to Aegis-class by equipping it with Aegis-class weaponry
systems. The
Taiwan Navy PFG-2 Class frigates variant of the US Navy PERRY (FFG
7) Class
included incorporation of unique Taiwan weapons and ship systems
into the Class.
An upgrade of the Class was developed incorporating a Lockheed
Martin AN/SPY-1F
phased array radar, vertical launch system and other anti-air
warfare features,
as well as signature improvements. In 1992 the United States offered
this
scaled-back version of the Aegis system for
installation on Taiwan's Perry-class frigates. Taiwan had evaluated
the
possibility of building two more Chen Kung-class warships equipped
with a
"mini-AEGIS" systems, but the Chen Kung is too small for the system
and the
performance of the mini-AEGIS might prove sub-standard. The program
was finally
suspended due to the cost and technical risk involved. Navy Deputy
Chief-of-Staff expressed Taiwan's interest in Aegis to American
officials in
1998, and during his visit to US in late 1998, Chief-of-General
Staff Tang Fei
was advised of US willingness to transfer such technology. At
that point, it was contemplated that the United State might consider
selling the
requested warships to Taiwan after the current US construction
program is
completed in 2002. The construction period for an Aegis-class
warship is
approximately 4 years, so the first ordered warship could be
completed in 2006.
This, plus 2 years for training, means that the ordered warships
could be
commissioned in 2008 at the earliest. On the eve of the annual US-
Taiwan
defense procurement talks it appeared that an understanding has been
reached
whereby the United States would agree to transfer Aegis combat
system technology
to Taiwan. The ROC military submitted a formal request for the AEGIS
Advanced
Combat System (ACS) during the April 1999 meeting. American
officials indicated
that while export of the combat system can be further discussed,
sale of entire
Aegis warships to Taiwan would not be possible given possible
objections from
Beijing. Consequently, Taiwan may devise its own hull solution for
the Aegis
platform. Taiwan continued to look for countries with the capability
of building
the platform for the ACS system, which include Japan, Spain, Italy
and France.
The displacement of this vessel may be between 9,000 and 12,000 tons
and its
exterior will be designed with the stealth capability similar to the
Arleigh
Burke guided-missile destroyer and the Lafayette class frigate.
While Taiwan is
continuing to seek the sale of the whole Aegis warship, talks were
put on hold
because of the anti-US sentiment in China
resulting from NATO's 1999 bombing of the Chinese embassy in
Belgrade. Given
budgetary constraints, Taiwan must choose between the purchase of the
Aegis-guided missile destroyer or new submarines, although priority
is given to
the purchase of Aegis-guided missile destroyer. Due to the high cost
of Aegis
ships, the military has revised the requirement (downward) to between
two and four units, depending on budgetary resources. The ROC
General Staff has
expressed concerns about the Navy's ability to meet the ship's
manning
requirements, and about potential susceptibility of such high-value
naval
targets to PRC attacks. The Navy tentatively plans to deploy the
Aegis ships on
Taiwan's east coast, so as to reduce potential vulnerabilities.
Larry Wortzel,
director of Asia studies at the Heritage Foundation, has proposed
that the US
begin building four extra Arleigh Burke destroyers
without promising them to Taiwan. In 2005, when the destroyers would
be
complete, the US could either sell them to Taiwan or keep them for
US needs.
According to US Department of Defense estimates, it might take eight
to ten
years to define an Aegis system configuration for Taiwan's navy,
build the
ships, and integrate them into Taiwan's fleet. In early 2001 it
appeared that
President Bush's top aides had concluded that Taiwan did not yet
have the
capacity to incorporate the Aegis system into a network that could
protect
Taiwan against a missile attack. As of early 2001 China had about 300
short-range ballistic missiles aimed at Taiwan, and was adding to
the this force
at a rate of about 50 missiles each year. Each Aegis destroyer can
carry up to
96 interceptors, which is enough
to intercept perhaps 50 to 75 incoming missiles. By 2008, when the
Aegis-equipped ships might enter Taiwan's fleet, China might have
over 700
missiles within range of Taiwan. Thus, by 2008 Taiwan might require
at least ten
Aegis-class ships, were it to rely on this system alone for missile
defense
purposes. And apart from whatever anti-missile capabilities might be
provided by
other land-based systems, Taiwan might need to add an additional
Aegis-class
ship to its fleet every year thereafter to counter a continued
Chinese missile
buildup. In late 2002 the US government was discussing a program for
Taiwan to
acquire the Aegis combat system, if Taipei agreed to build the
platform to carry
it. The project would be based on South Korea's KDX-3 Aegis
destroyer programme.
An offer was expected to be made officially in 2003 or 2004. The
plan will help
China Shipbuilding Corp (CSBC), which would build the ships.
In August 2004 it was reported that the United States planned to
sell four Aegis
missile-defense warships to the island to help protect against an
estimated 500
ballistic missiles aimed at it by China. The $3.5 billion sale would
be
announced in 2005 with delivery to begin in 2011, if the Legislature
passes the
budget in 2007. But a defense source, said that Taiwan hadn't
submitted a Letter
Of Request, thus it would be impossible for the US to makes such an
announcement. When Taiwan's Navy submitted a Letter
of Request in 2002 to US authorities requesting AEGIS-equipped
warships, the
Bush Administration did not respond. Orders for additional AEGIS-
equipped ships
by the US Navy are scheduled to end around late 2006 or early 2007,
with the final Arleigh-Burke being delivered in 2011."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/taiwan/acs.htm
15 Lockheed Martin $13,000 is discussed in the article immediately
above this listing.
16 Prologic Inc $13,000
http://www.prologic-inc.com/Home/index.asp?id=5.5
News from Congressman Jack Murtha
Murtha joins ProLogic in ribbon cutting
UNIONTOWN, PA, Aug. 4, 2005 – Congressman John Murtha today joined
officials of ProLogic Inc. and the Fay-Penn Economic Development
Council to cut
the ribbon on the company's new office building in the University
Technology Park in North Union Township.
The 7,000-square-foot facility will house the company's rapidly
growing tactical
data link, medical information technology and sensor modeling
business
operations, which initially will include 26 full-time and five part-
time
employees. "Small, high-tech companies like ProLogic are developing
the
innovative products needed to sustain a 21st century fighting
force," said
Murtha, who
was instrumental in recruiting ProLogic to the area. ***Jay Reddy,
ProLogic
chief executive officer, said, "We are pleased to have
a permanent place to call our home in Uniontown. Our proximity to
the Penn State
campus, and to partners like Advanced Acoustic Concepts, makes this
an ideal place to grow our business."
ProLogic is an information technology provider and defense systems
integrator. The Fayette County office will support the U.S. Air Force
Electronic Systems Command in Bedford, Mass.; the U.S. Air Force
Surgeon
General's Office in Falls Church, Va.; and the U.S. Army's Battle
Command
Battlelab in Sierra Vista, Ariz.
http://www.house.gov/murtha/news/nw050804.htm
http://www.mjma.org/events/event050618.html
17 Blank Rome LLP $12,500 Murtha's number 17 contributor
is listed below as a sponsor of the "Taiwan-US Biotech Dinner
Seminar."
http://www.mjma.org/events/event050618.html
"at Mid Atlantic Taiwan-US Biotech Dinner Seminar on 6/18 1. Venue:
Philadelphia
Marriott Hotel (1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107) 2.
Organized by:
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Global Monte Jade Science &
Technology Association, and Taiwan Bio Industry Organization
3. Sponsored by: Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern
Pennsylvania
Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Industries Program Office, MOEA
Council of
Agriculture, Executive Yuan Blank Rome LLP
Department of Health, Executive Yuan Development Center of
Biotechnology
National Science Council National Health Research Institutes PECO-
Energy-An
Exelon Company Pennsylvania Academy of Science Pennsylvania Biotech
Association
Science & Technology Advisory Group, the Executive Yuan Taiwan
External Trade
Development Council Society of Chinese BioScientists in America-
Bio/Pharma
Division Academia Sinica TECRO-Investment and Trade Office TECRO-
Science
Division"

18 Raytheon Co $12,000 is mentioned in the article below
about Murtha's #19 contributor and in the article entitled
"US Weapons Makers Vie for Taiwan Arms Deal" on General Dynamics,
Murtha's #8 contributor.
19 Science Applications International Corp (SAIC)$12,000
"About SAIC CEO Profile for Ken Dahlberg
Ken Dahlberg was named the chief executive officer and president of
Science
Applications International Corporation (SAIC) on November 3, 2003
and chairman
of the board on July 16, 2004. Prior to joining SAIC, Dahlberg
served as
executive vice president of General Dynamics where he was
responsible for the
company's Information Systems and Technology Group. Dahlberg began
his career
with Hughes Aircraft in June 1967. He held various engineering,
program
management and leadership positions with Hughes. At Hughes, he
served as
president of the division that produced air traffic control
hardware, systems
and radar; then was president of the division that produced weapons
systems,
naval systems and
tank systems, and later was president of the Sensors and
Communications
division. When Raytheon acquired Hughes Aircraft in 1997, he became
president
and chief operating officer of Raytheon Systems Company and oversaw
operations
of the defense business units. Three years later, he assumed the
duties of
executive vice president for business development and president of
Raytheon
International. In this role, he was Raytheon's principal liaison
with its
defense customers and directed its international and domestic
business
development. *** He is a director of the National Defense Industrial
Association, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronic
Engineers, the Surface Navy Association, the Association of the
United States
Army, and a lifetime member of the United States Navy League."
http://www.saic.com/about/dahlberg-bio.html
http://www.saic.com/

20 Gensym Corp $11,500
http://www.gensym.com/ "Industries: Aerospace The growing loads and
complexity
for aerospace systems, such as those for satellite, spacecraft, or
aircraft
operations, is pushing owners to increase
productivities of control room operators and to increase the
reliability of
services. Gensym's G2 real-time rule engine platform and G2
Integrity product
are ideal for applications that support and automate mission-
critical decisions
for aerospace operations. G2 is ready for rules-driven command and
control and
for automating the detection, diagnosis, and recovery of system,
network, and
machinery problems. Who uses G2 for aerospace? Organizations like
EUMETSAT,
General Electric, NASA, Raytheon, the U.S. military, and more."
http://www.gensym.com/index.asp?p=aerospace
"Industries: Government - Military The complexity of today's military
operations has placed unprecedented challenges on commanders. In the
battlefield, sensor data, legacy systems and live data streams can
overwhelm the
commander and command and control systems. Force on force battle
strategies
involve highly dynamic, complex, and life and death decision making.
Successfully running one of the world's largest, most complex, and
fast-paced
supply chains and providing logistical support, food, ammunition,
water, etc. to
hundreds of thousands of military personnel requires completely
different kinds
of decision tools.For command and control, Gensym's G2 rule-engine
platform is
especially well suited for developing and deploying rule-driven,
time-critical
applications. These applications obtain live data from databases,
sensors,
simulators, network systems, human
operators, and other sources to provide real-time intelligence that
increase the
agility and minimize the risks of military operations.For force on
force battle
strategy, G2 models the operational architecture of a battle plan,
performs
time-based simulation, and generates operational orders. Rules of
engagement
automatically trigger when appropriate. Command staffs run
multiple scenarios in parallel to determine the best courses of
action. Once
complete, the models can go online for real-time battlefield
support. For supply
chain, logistics, and business process management, the G2 platform
and G2
products provide low-risk, nondisruptive means of testing and what-
if analyzing
policies and procedures through rule-driven modeling and simulation.
Once
complete, models can go online to support real-time operational
decisions.Who is
using G2 for military operations? Boeing, CSC,
Dyncorp, Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, U.S.
Central
Command, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Logistics Transformation
Agency, U.S.
National Simulation Center, intelligence agencies, and more."
http://www.gensym.com/index.asp?p=government
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?
CID=N00001408&cycle 06
WHILE THERE ARE SOME WHO BELIEVE THAT "HONEST? JOHN MURTHA" HAS ONLY
RECENTLY TURNED AGAINST THE EFFORT TO CREATE A DEMOCRATIC IRAQ THIS
EXCERPT FROM THE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th, 2004
issue of The New York Times covering the presidential campaign
indicated something else: "Edwards accused the administration of
concealing plans for a large call-up of National Guard and Reserve
troops after the election. Mr. Kerry had made the same charge on
Friday. Bush administration officials called the suggestion patently
false, but
Representative John P. Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat who is a
ranking member
of the House defense appropriations subcommittee, has said Pentagon
sources told him it was so."
While "Honest? John Murtha" appears to be singing Saddam's song
of "US out of Iraq!" on February 29th, 2000 "Congressman Murtha was
very strong in saying that China should be treated like the old
Soviet Union" . We wondered what would make "Honest? John Murtha so
sympathetic to Saddam and so unsympathetic to China.
"Top Recipients of Arms Exporters' PAC Money, U.S. House of
Representatives, 1995/96
Recipient Committee/Position Amount Received
Robert Livingston (R-LA) Chairman, Appropriations
$85,000
John Murtha (D-PA) Subcom., Appropriations Ranking Democrat,
Nat. Sec. $65,000" Cutting and running is evidently
something "Honest? John Murtha" has
no trouble
with.
Monday, November 21st, 2005 Rep. John Murtha Urged Somalia Pullout
in `93 After
terrorists attacked U.S. troops in Mogadishu, Somalia 12 years
ago,anti-Iraq war
Democrat, Rep. John Murtha urged then-President Clinton to begin a
complete
pullout of U.S. troops from the region. Clinton took the advice and
ordered the
withdrawal - a decision that Osama bin Laden would later credit with
emboldening
his terrorist fighters and encouraging him to mount further attacks
against the
U.S. "Our welcome has been worn out," Rep Murtha told NBC's "Today"
show in
Sept. 1993, a month after 4 U.S. Military Police had been killed in
Somalia by a remote-detonated land mine.
The Pennsylvania Democrat announced that President Clinton had been
"listening to our suggestions. And I think you'll see him move those
troops out
very quickly." Two weeks later, after 18 U.S. Rangers were killed in
the battle
of Mogadishu, Murtha visited U.S. forces in Somalia. Upon his return
he
proclaimed to the world that the Mogadishu defeat had a devastating
impact on the Rangers' morale.
"They're subdued compared to normal morale of elite forces," Murtha
said.
"Obviously, it was a very difficult battle. A lot of Somalis were
killed, but it
was a brutal battle." Murtha said the U.S. had to no choice but to
pull out now,
explaining,"There's no military solution. Some of them will tell you
[that] to
get [warlord Mohamed Farrah] Aidid is the solution. I don't agree
with that."
The comments were eerily similar to Murtha's assessment of U.S
involvement in
Iraq , when he declared, "the U.S. cannot accomplish anything further
militarily. It is time to bring [the troops] home."
Taking Murtha's advice back then, however, turned out to have deadly
consequences for U.S. security. In a 1998 interview with ABC's John
Miller,
Osama bin Laden said that America's withdrawal from Somalia had
emboldened his
burgeoning al Qaida force and encouraged him to plan new
attacks. "Our people
realize[d] more than before that the American soldier is a paper
tiger that
run[s] in defeat after a few blows," the terror chief
recalled. "America forgot
all about the hoopla and media propaganda and left dragging their
corpses and their shameful defeat."
http://www.newsmax.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?
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rchives/ic/2005/11/21/100353.shtml
Voted NO on Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China.
Vote to give permanent Normal Trade Relations [NTR] status to China.
Currently, NTR status for China is debated and voted on annually. The
measure contains provisions designed to protect the United States
from
Chinese import surges and the administration would have to report
annually
on China's compliance with the trade agreement. The bill establishes
a
commission to monitor human rights, labor standards and religious
freedom in China.
Reference: Bill sponsored by Archer, R-TX; Bill HR 4444 ; vote number
2000-228 on May 24, 2000
http://www.issues2000.org/PA/John_Murtha_China.htm
*EPF213 05/09/00
Transcript: Rep. Murtha Calls Administration's Trade Enforcement Weak
(Murtha asks how Administration will deal with China) (750)
The Clinton Administration made a promise of "zero tolerance" when
it came
to foreign exporters dumping steel into the U.S. market, but the
International Trade Commission (ITC) appears to have had a more
lenient
attitude, according to Representative John Murtha (Democrat of
Pennsylvania).
In an extension of remarks in Congress May 8, Murtha said this trend
bodes
ill for any plan to ensure that China abides by its trade agreements
with the United States.
"I can see far greater problems on the horizon—problems that quite
possibly
will accompany China's accession to the World Trade Organization
(WTO)," Murtha warned.
"Congress has been asked to accept that China's entry into the WTO
contains
meaningful protections against unfair trade practices by Chinese
companies," he noted.
"In light of the ITC's recent failure to correctly apply the U.S.
trade laws
and to effectively respond to massive foreign unfair trade, I am
losing
confidence in our ability to counter unfair trade from China and
other
countries," said Murtha, a leader of the Congressional Steel
Caucus.  Following is a transcript of Murtha's remarks from the
Congressional
Record:
(begin transcript)
CHINA AND THE ITC
HON. JOHN P. MURTHA
(Extension of Remarks - May 08, 2000)

HON. JOHN P. MURTHA
in the House of Representatives
MONDAY, MAY 8, 2000

Mr. MURTHA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to address a serious rash of
problems
revolving around the enforcement of our trade laws. This body, in
concurrence with the rules of the WTO, has enacted laws to ensure
fair and
equitable trade for American industry and its workers.
Unfortunately, our
own International Trade Commission appears to have decided to
disregard
these laws, as recently demonstrated in its decision regarding the
dumping
of cold-rolled steel into the United States and its seemingly rubber-
stamp
approach to Sunset determinations whereby foreign unfair traders can
have
the offsetting duties—which were applied only after they were found
to be
engaged in unfair trade—erased just by showing up at the ITC and
asking.
As troubling as the situation is now, I'm afraid I can see far
greater
problems on the horizon—problems that quite possibly will accompany
China's
accession to the WTO. Congress has been asked to accept that China's
entry
into the WTO contains meaningful protections against unfair trade
practices
by Chinese companies. In light of the ITC's recent failure to
correctly
apply the U.S. Trade laws and to effectively respond to massive
foreign
unfair trade, I am losing confidence in our ability to counter
unfair trade from China and other countries.
This matter is deeply troubling to me. The domestic steel industry
has
suffered through massive dumping of foreign steel in the U.S. market
over
the last two years. The Administration responded by declaring a
policy of
`zero tolerance' for unfair trade. The Congress provided the
necessary
funding to the Commerce Department to investigate this unfair trade
and
Commerce did its job. It found that, in the case of cold-rolled
steel for
example, that foreign producers were illegally dumping by as much as
80 percent.
The ITC, however, did not do its job. The ITC determined that dumped
steel
imports more than doubled during the period of investigation and
consistently undersold domestic steel. It also found that, during a
period
of record demand, the U.S. steel industry experienced significant
revenue
losses, with several major steel producers even forced into
bankruptcy.
Nevertheless, the ITC inexplicably determined that this massive
dumping of
cold-rolled steel was not even a cause of this injury to the domestic
industry. Without a determination of injury—which is irrefutable in
these
cases—U.S. industry and its workers have no form of relief and
nowhere to
turn. As legislators and appropriators, it is our responsibility to
reevaluate the ITC and whether it is properly managing its resources
and correctly adhering to Congressional intent.
Just last year the Administration committed to `zero tolerance' for
unfair
trade, yet this commitment apparently doesn't extend to the ITC. I'm
tired
of promises of `zero tolerance' and think it's time we insist on some
action. Before we allow the Administration to sell us an agreement
with
China that promises to benefit America, let's insist on some proof
that
promises are sometimes answered.
(end transcript)
(Distributed by the Office of International Information Programs,
U.S.
Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)
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http://usinfo.org/wf-archive/2000/000509/epf213.htm
News from Congressman Jack Murtha
Murtha Seeks Repeal of China's Favored Trade Status
WASHINGTON, April 5, 2001 -- U.S. Rep. John Murtha has introduced
legislation to repeal the Most Favored Nation (MFN) trade status of
China.
"China is not being a responsible member of the international
community in
its handling of the downed aircraft and its crew members," Murtha
said. "The
economy is the only thing that will move China, and repeal of their
favored trade status will get their attention."
Murtha said Congress should have kept the year-by-year review of
trade
status to keep pressure on China. He opposed the legislation that
passed last year granting China permanent MFN status.
"Given this latest incident, I have introduced this legislation to
make sure
China gets the message that their actions will be linked to their
economy,"
he said. "It is time for China to start acting responsibly and stop
this
posturing."
http://www.house.gov/murtha/news/nw010405.htm
The detailed look at some of Murtha's campaign contributors above
highlights a pattern of those same campaign contributors to Murtha
not only in the election cycle described above but in other election
cycles.
Hint! Look for repeat contributors!
JOHN P. MURTHA (D-PA)
Top Contributors 2004
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?
CID=N00001408&cycle 04
1 UPMC Health System $44,650
2 Paul Magliocchetti Assoc $41,000
3 Cassidy & Assoc/Interpublic Group $27,800
4 L-3 Communications $27,000
5 DRS Technologies $25,500
6 Conemaugh Health Systems $25,000
7 Planning Systems Inc $24,250
8 Progeny Systems $24,000
9 US Steel $22,500
10 Advanced Acoustic Concepts $21,000
11 General Atomics $20,999
12 Lockheed Martin $20,250
13 Boeing Co $20,000
14 General Dynamics $19,000
15 Mantech International $17,500
16 Concurrent Technologies $17,000
17 Day & Zimmerman $15,500
17 Kuchera Industries $15,500
17 PNC Financial Services $15,500
20 Blank Rome LLP $15,000

"Pedersen, George Mr. (ManTech Intl/Chairman of Board/CEO), (Zip
code: 22102) $2000 to MURTHA FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE on 05/19/03
Pedersen, Marilyn Mrs. (Housewife), (Zip code: 22102) $2000 to
MURTHA FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE on 05/19/03
Pedersen, George Mr. (ManTech Intl/Chairman of Board/CEO), (Zip
code: 22102) $1500 to MURTHA FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE on 03/08/04
PEDERSEN, GEORGE (MANTECH INTL), (Zip code: 22102) $1000 to LEAHY
FOR U.S. SENATOR COMMITTEE on 05/27/04
PEDERSEN, GEORGE (MANTECH INTL), (Zip code: 22102) $2000 to LEAHY
FOR U.S. SENATOR COMMITTEE on 05/27/04
PEDERSEN, GEORGE J. Mr. (MANTECH INTERNATIONAL CORP./PRESIDE), (Zip
code: 22102) $5000 to MANTECH INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION POLITICAL
ACTION COMMITTEE on 02/21/03
PEDERSEN, GEORGE J. Mr. (MANTECH INTERNATIONAL CORP./PRESIDE), (Zip
code: 22102) $5000 to MANTECH INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION POLITICAL
ACTION COMMITTEE on 02/10/04
Pedersen, George J. (Mantech International/Chairman of t), (Zip
code: 22102) $2000 to MORAN FOR CONGRESS on 03/28/03
Pedersen, Marilyn A. (Homemaker), (Zip code: 22102) $2000 to MORAN
FOR CONGRESS
on 03/28/03 source:
http://www.city-data.com/elec/elec-MCLEAN-VA.html
"EUGENE C. RENZI
President Defense Systems Group ManTech Telecommunications and
Information Systems Corporation Executive Vice President ManTech
International Corporation
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
ManTech International Corporation, Fairfax, VA (August 1993 -
Present) - In August 1993, Mr. Renzi joined ManTech International
Corporation as Vice President of Corporate Development and Senior
Vice President of ManTech Field Engineering Company. Mr. Renzi has
solid credentials in the Defense communications field. His duties
encompass corporate business development endeavors relating to
Defense communication activities. In this capacity, Mr. Renzi plays
a very key role in implementing and coordinating ManTech
International Corporation's strategic planning. He possesses unique
interpersonal skills and has an extensive background in all segments
of our Government business. In this capacity, he supports all
segments of ManTech International Corporation. In addition, Mr.
Renzi is the Director of Business Development in the Pacific Rim.
Our recent interest in establishing a strong business presence as a
major systems information company in areas such as Australia,
Taiwan….
Source:
http://www.afcea.org/about/renzi.asp
"ManTech Test Systems, Inc. is a subsidiary of ManTech International
with headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia. ManTech has approximately
5,000 employees and annual enterprise sales of $600 million. ManTech
provides Automatic Test Equipment to the Department of Defense and
commercial industry. ManTech's ATE products have become a standard
for the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, Brazilian Air
Force, Taiwan Navy, and Korean Army."
Source: http://www.highbeam.com/library/docfree.asp?
DOCID=1G1:58611853&ctrlInfo=Round18%3AMode18c%3ADocG%3AResult&ao=
Top Contributors
2002 RACE: PENNSYLVANIA DISTRICT 12

John P. Murtha (D)* http://www.opensecrets.org/races/contrib.asp?
ID=PA12&cycle 02&special=N
DRS Technologies $49,250
Lockheed Martin $41,550
UPMC Health System $33,700
Paul Magliocchetti Assoc $33,500
Boeing Co $27,349
Concurrent Technologies Corp $24,975
Lee Hospital $24,850
Mantech International $21,000
US Steel $20,000
General Dynamics $19,250
Information Manufacturing Corp $18,000
MTS Technologies $18,000
Science Applications International Corp $16,000
Conemaugh Health System $15,500
Day & Zimmerman $15,000
Memorial Medical Center $15,000
Analytical Graphics Inc $14,650
Air Products & Chemicals Inc $14,000
PNC Financial Services $13,000
Laborers Union $12,500
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1989
Egypt turns to North Korea for assistance in upgrading its arsenal of
Soviet-supplied Scud missiles, according to retired Israeli
Brigadier General
Aharon Levran, now an independent military analyst. The nature of
the assistance
is not known but may consist of providing spare parts or installing
improved
components, as well as providing guidance. Levran also says that
North Korea is
helping Iran develop ballistic missiles. [Note: It has been five
years since the
Egypt-North Korea deals of the early 1980s. It is unclear what
brought on the
five-year lapse in the relationship].
—Korea Times, 30 December 1989, p. 4, in "Missile Cooperation with
North Korea
Alleged," JPRS-TND-90-002, 17 January 1990, p. 12.
8 February 1989
US officials say the West German aerospace firm Messerschmidt-
Boelkow-Blohm
(MBB) has assisted the Argentine-Egyptian-Iraqi missile program
since the early
1980s. Officials also say that the subsidiary of the giant Italian
firm Fiat,
SNIA-BPD (National Industrial Applications Company-Defense Division)
has
assisted the missile program. Officials have said that there are
indications
that West German and Italian assistance continues for the Condor
II/Badr-2000
missile project.
—Robert Gillette, "3rd world missiles linked to German, Italian
firms," Los
Angeles Times, 8 February 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-
nexis.com>.
3 March 1989
Argentina successfully test launches the Condor II rocket, sending
it 504km in
Patagonia, according to a Pagina 12 newspaper report.
—"Argentina newspaper says Condor project with Egypt cancelled for
sake of
Israel deal," BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, 6 April 1989; in
Lexis-Nexis,
<http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
9 March 1989
The Times of London reports that APV Chemical Machinery Inc. of
Saginaw,
Michigan, a subsidiary of British company APV, sold parts that were
used in the
Condor I rocket. According to the report, APV sold vertical mixers
for
propellant compounds to SNIA-BPD (National Industrial Applications
Company-Defense Division), a subsidiary of Italian firm Fiat. SNIA
then sold the
equipment to Argentina between 1981 and 1985. The technology is now
being used
in development of the Condor II.
—Nicholas Beeston, "Argentine rocket aided by UK firm's equipment;
Missile
threat to the Falklands," The Times (London), 9 March 1989; in Lexis-
Nexis,
<http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
13 March 1989
According to Israeli experts, Egypt has the capability of putting
chemical
warheads on surface-to-surface missiles.
—Menachem Shalev and Kenneth Kaplan, "Foreign Ministry mum on
Egyptian chemical
weapons," Jerusalem Post, 13 March 1989; in Lexis-Nexis,
<http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
30 March 1989
The Jerusalem Post reports that the Badr-2000 missile, under
construction by
Iraq and Egypt and based on the Condor II missile, will have a range
of 1000km
and a payload of 1500kg.
—David Horovitz, "Jane's: Arab Missiles Threaten Israel," Jerusalem
Post, 30
March 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
30 March 1989
According to "well-placed Israeli sources," the Condor II missile's
high cost—$8
million—and payload of 1,100 pounds signify that it is probably
intended to
deliver non-conventional weapons. The missile is almost finished and
Iraq has a
crash program to make nuclear warheads to be used with the Condor
II, according
to the sources.
—Glenn Frankel, "Iraq said developing A-weapons; missile project
also under way,
Israelis say," Washington Post, 31 March 1989; in Lexis-Nexis,
<http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
30 March 1989
In a symposium, W. Seth Carus of the Washington Institute addresses
concerns
about the Condor II being used for delivering chemical weapons: "The
small size
of the payload of the missile lends some credence to this particular
possibility."
—"The danger of chemical and biological weapons in the Middle East,"
Federal
News Service, 30 March 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-
nexis.com>.
31 March 1989
Israeli military sources say that Iraq, Egypt, and Argentina have
been
developing the Condor II missile for five years.
—Ruth Sinai, "Bush won't give Iraq missile report credibility, State
Department
expresses `grave concern'," Associated Press, 31 March 1989; in
Lexis-Nexis,
<http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
31 March 1989
At the White House press briefing concerning the upcoming visit of
Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak, a reporter asks if the United States is
asking Egypt to
withdraw from the Condor II program. A "senior administration
official" responds
that "the Condor is an old story," and that "I think the Egyptians
are aware of
our position."
—"White House briefing on the visit to the United States of Egyptian
President
Mubarak by a senior administration official," Federal News Service,
31 March
1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
1 April 1989
The Associated Press reports that the range of the Badr-2000 missile
is 620
miles and it can deliver nuclear or chemical weapons.
—Ed Blanche, "Alarm over missile buildup in Mideast," Associated
Press, 1 April
1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
1 April 1989
The Independent reports that the range of the Condor II missile is
500 miles.
—Peter Pringle, "Israel accuses Iraq of developing nuclear
warheads," The
Independent, 1 April; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
2 April 1989
Maj. Gen Ehud Barak, deputy chief of staff for the Israeli armed
forces, says
Iraq is involved in the Condor II missile project. The range of the
Condor II
missile is between 500 and 620 miles (between 800 and 1000km).
—"Israeli general says Iraq may be rebuilding nuclear plant,"
Associated Press,
2 April 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
4 April 1989
Experts say the range of the "Condor-3" is 800km and that it should
be in
service by next year. [Note: The report may refer to the Condor II
missile.]
—Kenneth Kaplan, "Argentina still wants to purchase Kfirs," The
Jerusalem Post,
4 April 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
6 April 1989
Noticias Argentinas reports that Argentine Defense Minister Horacio
Jaunarena,
who is in Israel, says Argentina will end its cooperation with Egypt
on the
Condor II in exchange for Israel delivering to the Argentine Navy 12
A-4Q planes
that have been on hold since the Falklands War. The newspaper also
reports that
breaking the deal with Egypt will allow Israel to join the Condor II
project. In
return for the agreement, countries may lift their objections to
Argentina
receiving the A-4Q planes, the newspaper reports.
—"Argentina newspaper says Condor project with Egypt cancelled for
sake of
Israel deal," BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, 6 April 1989; in
Lexis-Nexis,
<http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
7 April 1989
Argentine military sources confirm that Israel pressed Argentine
Defense
Minister Horacio Jaunarena to end Argentina's collaboration with
Egypt and Iraq
on the Condor II missile. But one official said the Condor deal
is "too
difficult to get out of at this stage."
—"Argentina: Looking to Pretoria," Latin American Markets, 7 April
1989; in
Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
8-9 April 1989
West German investigators raid the offices of Transtechnica, a
subsidiary of
Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm (MBB), in connection with its
involvement with the
Condor II project. Major General Ehud Barak, deputy chief of staff
of the
Israeli armed forces, says MBB was in charge of directing the
project, while
others suggest that a division of MBB may have controlled the
project without
MBB's knowledge. [Note: Stern magazine previously reported that
Consen (Group)
may have been overseeing the project on behalf of MBB. See 25 August
1988. See
13 April 1989 for more explanation on Consen. See also 8 February
1989 for a
report on MBB's involvement.]
—Mark Urban, "German firm accused over `missile risk' to Falklands,"
The
Independent, 10 April 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-
nexis.com>.
10 April 1989
The Condor II project was developed in Argentina with Iraqi money
that was
transferred through Egypt. In return, Egypt and Iraq may produce the
missile
after it is developed.
—Mark Urban, "German firm accused over `missile risk' to Falklands,"
The
Independent, 10 April 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-
nexis.com>.
12 April 1989
West German Defense Minister Rupert Scholz promises an investigation
of the
alleged involvement of Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm (MBB) in the
Condor II
project. But he says the government "lacks sufficient information."
An Israeli
foreign ministry official says some German officials must have known
about the
involvement of Germany's largest aerospace firm.
—Menachem Shalev, "Minister: Bonn doesn't know `enough' about Condor
missile,"
The Jerusalem Post, 12 April 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-
nexis.com>.
13 April 1989
Aerospace Daily reports that the West German firm Transtechnica of
Munich, which
is under investigation for its involvement in the Condor II project,
is part of
the Consen Group, a group of 16 companies working on the Condor II.
Transtechnica is a subsidiary of Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm. MBB
has said it is
not involved with Condor II but was involved with Condor I. [Note:
Note: Stern
magazine previously reported that Consen may have been overseeing
the Condor II
project on behalf of MBB. See 25 August 1988. See also 8-9 April
1989.]
—"MBB subsidiary under investigation for possible export violation,"
Aerospace
Daily, 13 April 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
14 April 1989
Brigadier General Ernesto Crespo, Argentine Air Force chief of
staff, denies
that Argentina has agreed to forgo its missile cooperation with
Egypt and Iraq
in exchange for military equipment from Israel. [Note: See 6 and 7
April 1989.]
—"Other Argentine news," Facts on File World News Digest, 23 June
1989; in
Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
15 April 1989
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak removes and replaces Defense
Minister
Abdul-Halim Abu Ghazala amid allegations that he was involved in an
alleged
scheme to transfer restricted missile technology from the United
States. [Note:
See 20 August 1988 for the first allegations of his involvement. See
24 June
1988 for the first report of the alleged scheme.]
—Patrick E. Tyler, "Mubarak reassigns key depute; move said face-off
with
defense chief," Washington Post, 16 April 1989; in Lexis-Nexis,
<http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
17 April 1989
MidEast Markets reports that the Condor II missile has two stages, a
range of
1000km and payload of 700kg. [Note: See 2 April 1989.]
—"Condor II: an issue to test US-Egypt ties," MidEast Markets, 17
April 1989; in
Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
17 April 1989
MidEast Markets reports that IFAT Corporation, a company in the
Consen Group,
financed an attempt to buy restricted US missile technology in 1988
[Note: See
24 June 1988.] Desintec, another Consen company, tried in 1984 to
buy rocket
nozzles from a California company to be used for the Condor II.
Consen has used
West German rocket scientists to help with the project.
—"Condor II: an issue to test US-Egypt ties," MidEast Markets, 17
April 1989; in
Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
17 April 1989
MidEast Markets reports that Abdel Kader Helmy, the Egyptian-born US
citizen
awaiting trial for involvement in the alleged scheme to smuggle US
missile
technology to Egpyt, is a childhood friend of former Egyptian
Defense Minister
Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala. [Note: See 24 June and 20 August 1988.]
—"Condor II: an issue to test US-Egypt ties," MidEast Markets, 17
April 1989; in
Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
17 April 1989
MidEast Markets reports that Egypt is readying production facilities
for the
Condor II at Military Factory 90 in Abu Zabaal, near where Egypt
reportedly
makes chemical weapons.
—"Condor II: an issue to test US-Egypt ties," MidEast Markets, 17
April 1989; in
Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
21 April 1989
Latin American Markets reports that the Condor II was to be tested
in Argentina
last year but has still not flown. [Note: A 3 March 1989 report says
the missile
was tested.]
—"Argentina: Will Condor II fly?" Latin American Markets, 21 April
1989; in
Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
21 April 1989
Latin American Markets reports that work began on the Condor II in
1984; and it
will have a range of 1000km and a 700kg payload. The report says
that, according
to an April 1984 letter of intent between Consen Group company
Desintec and a US
company, the Argentine Air Force was to receive rocket nozzles for
the Condor
II. US authorities intervened to stop the contract, the report says.
—"Argentina: Will Condor II fly?" Latin American Markets, 21 April
1989; in
Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
23 April 1989
NBC reports that, according to US intelligence sources, Egypt got
money from
Iraq to fund the Condor II. Iraqi Lt. Gen. Amer Saadi,
undersecretary of the
ministry of industry and military industrialization, denies that
Iraq, Egypt,
and Argentina are cooperating on a surface-to-surface missile.
—"Iraq denies working on missile able to hit targets in Israel,"
Reuters, 23
April 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
28 April 1989
Husayn Kamil Hasan, Iraqi minister of industry and military
industrialization,
denies Iraq is cooperating with Egypt and Argentina to make missiles.
—"Development of Iraq's military industries minister's news
conferences,"
Al-Thawrah (Baghdad), 28 April 1989; in BBC Summary of World
Broadcasts, 3 May
1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
1 May 1989
MidEast Markets reports that Egypt is working on a sub-munition
warhead for its
version of the Condor II.
—"Sa'ad 16: Iraq's military `business park,'" MidEast Markets, 1 May
1989; in
Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
1 May 1989
MidEast Markets reports that representatives of a Swiss company
working on the
Condor II recently visited China.
—"Sa'ad 16: Iraq's military `business park,'" MidEast Markets, 1 May
1989; in
Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
1 May 1989
MidEast Markets reports that Israeli pressure on the United States
to halt
Egypt's weapons programs, including the Condor II, led to the
removal of Egypt's
defense minister, Field Marshal Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala. [Note: See
15 April
1989.]
—"Uncertainty in Egypt after removal of Abu Ghazala," MidEast
Markets, 1 May
1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
2 May 1989
Allen Holmes, US assistant secretary of state, tells a Senate
hearing that the
Condor II is "far behind schedule and we believe this can be traced
to problems
in acquiring technology." Another US official says the Condor II is
several
years from testing.
—Carl Hartman, "Increased threat from Third World missiles,"
Associated Press, 2
May 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
15 May 1989
According to a report by MidEast Markets, Egypt's Condor II project
is led by
Dr. Toufik of the Ministry of Defense. Col. Essam Ayoub runs the
program, which
suffers from "bad workmanship and skimping on materials." The fuel
is stored at
Abu Zabaal, northeast of Cairo, which will also be the testing area.
The missile
will be produced at Helwan, south of Cairo. The defense minister was
fired in
April because of problems with the program.
—"Iraq goes it alone on Condor II," MidEast Markets, 15 May 1989; in
Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
18 May 1989
US Undersecretary of State Reginald Bartholomew tells a Senate panel
that the
Condor II is behind schedule because of implementation of the
Missile Technology
Control Regime.
—David B. Ottaway, "Egypt drops out of missile project; State
Department
official offers no details on Iraqi program," Washington Post, 20
September
1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
27 May 1989
The Economist reports that Egypt has Frog-7 missiles, 70km range;
Sakr-80
missiles, 80km range; Scud-B, 300km range; and Badr-2000, 800km
range.
—"Third-world missiles; look what I found in my backyard," The
Economist, 27 May
1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
9 June 1989
In a plea bargain, Abdelkader Helmy pleads guilty to exporting
restricted
munitions in exchange for cooperating with the investigation of
Egypt's alleged
attempt to smuggle restricted missile technology from the United
States.
According to a court document, Helmy's smuggling ring exported
missile nose
cones made by Nucermet and Greenleaf Technical Ceramics, microwave
antennas from
Vega Precision Products Inc., and carbon-carbon from Kaiser
Aerotech. According
to charges, Helmy had James Huffman buy ablative carbon phenolic,
which is used
to make missile nozzles, nosecones, and reentry vehicles, from
Fiberite Corp. of
Winona, MN, then send it to Harmon, MD, where it was loaded onto an
Egyptian
plane before US customs agents intervened. [Note: See 24 June 1988.]
—Ken Hoover, "Scientist pleads guilty in Egyptian missile plot,"
United Press
International, 9 June 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-
nexis.com>.
12 June 1989
According to Western officials, a secret military agreement known as
Badr-2000
has collapsed because of disagreements over the Condor II missile.
Badr-2000 is
the codename for the military cooperation agreement between Iraq and
Egypt, and
is not the name for the Egyptian version of the Condor II missile,
which is
called Vector or Delta. Iraq was unhappy with financing the Egyptian
project and
felt it was paying twice for development of the missile. According
to an
engineer who worked at the Condor facilities in Iraq and Egypt, Iraq
felt the
Egyptian work and safety standards were much lower than Iraq's,
leading to the
danger of missile fuel exploding. Egypt is reexamining its long-
range missile
project, which is now under the oversight of General Mustafa, along
with Dr.
Toufik and Col. Essam Ayoub. The report adds that Western officials
do not know
what projects, besides the Condor II, come under the Badr-2000
agreement.
—"Secret Egypt-Iraq accord collapses," MidEast Markets, 12 June
1989; in
Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
23 June 1989
James Huffman pleads guilty to conspiring to illegally export
restricted
munitions. The plea agreement does not require Huffman to cooperate
with
investigators, as did the plea agreement for Abdelkader Helmy. Helmy
gave
Huffman the specifications for material to be shipped to Maryland.
Huffman
admits to shipping 430 pounds of ablative carbon phenolic fabric,
35,500 pounds
of military-grade hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene, which is used
in rocket
fuel, and two UHF-band parabolic antennas. [Note: See 24 June 1988
and 9 June
1989.]
—Ken Hoover, "Second defendant pleads guilty in Egyptian missile
case," United
Press International, 23 June 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-
nexis.com>.
27 June 1989
The Washington Post reports that the United States has supplied
Egyptian-made
Sakr missiles to the Afghan mujaheddin guerillas. [Note: See 4
September 1989]
—James Rupert, "Kabul residents blame U.S. for deaths from
mujaheddin missiles,"
Washington Post, 27 June 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-
nexis.com>.
July 1989
According to the CIA, international pressures, the Missile
Technology Control
Regime (MTCR), and technical difficulties bring the Condor II
program virtually
to a halt in Argentina and Egypt. In particular, technical setbacks
in guidance
and control have prevented Argentina from conducting an initial
flight test of
the missile. [Note: See September 1989.]
—US Central Intelligence Agency, Iraqi Ballistic Missile
Developments: An
Intelligence Assessment (Washington, DC: Directorate of
Intelligence, 30 June
1990), classified "Top Secret," declassified excerpts released 5
March 1998,
<http://www.foia.ucia.gov>, 23 August 2002. p. 9; Eduardo Barcelona
and Julio
Villalonga, Relaciones carnales: la verdadera historia de la
construcción y
destrucción del misil Cóndor II (Buenos Aires: Planeta, 1992), p.
130.
27 July 1989
US Representative Howard Berman says technology from the US Pershing
missile was
transferred to the Condor II project by scientists who worked on
both missiles.
—Melissa Healy, "Bill proposed to curb missile technology spread,"
Los Angeles
Times, 27 July 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
31 July 1989
The Financial Times reports that nine former employees of Fiat
subsidiary
SNIA-BPD (National Industrial Applications Company-Defense Division)
are under
investigation by Italian authorities for possibly working on the
Condor II
missile.
—John Wyles, "Fiat link suspected in Condor missile probe,"
Financial Times, 31
July 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
8 August 1989
At a press conference with US Defense Secretary Richard B. Cheney,
Egyptian
Yusuf abu Talib is asked about the Condor II missile. He
replies, "We are
against all mass destruction weapons—nuclear, chemical, long-range
missiles. We
are ready to discuss anything in the coming months."
—"U.S.-Egypt Coproduction programs on schedule," Aerospace Daily, 8
August 1989;
in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
14 August 1989
The Italian government brings charges against the nine former
employees of the
National Industrial Applications Company (SNIA), BPD (Defense
Division), for the
sale of medium-range ballistic missile components to Argentina,
Egypt, and Iraq.
Other individuals are charged as a result of the investigation, but
not taken
into custody.
—"Charges Filed in Missile Parts Sales to Argentina," L'Unita
(Milan), 30 June
1989, p. 6; cited in Nuclear Developments, 14 August 1989, p. 41.
17 August 1989
An explosion at a possible Iraqi missile facility at Al Hillah, 40
miles south
of Baghdad, kills 700. The casualties include Egyptian engineers who
may have
been working on Iraqi missile projects, including an enhanced Scud-B
and the
Badr-2000. The explosion may have been the result of an accident
involving a
technique developed by Egyptian and North Korean experts to take
apart the
warhead of the Condor II to adjust the explosive. [Note: See 6, 7, 8
and 18
September 1989.]
—Harvey Morris, Adel Darwish, Tim Kelsey, "Huge explosion at secret
Iraqi
missile plant: Egyptian technicians among about 700 killed in
disaster near
Baghdad," The Independent, 6 September 1989; in Lexis-Nexis,
<http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
28 August 1989
According to the 1988 annual report of the US Arms Control and
Disarmament
Agency report, Egypt has Soviet Frog-7 solid-fueled missiles with a
range of 40
miles, a payload of 1,000 pounds, and a CEP (circular error
probable) of 440
yards. Egypt also has standard Scud-B missiles. Egypt is developing
enhanced
Scud-B missiles, possibly with North Korea, with a payload of 2,200
pounds and
storable liquid fuel. Egypt is developing the two-stage solid-fueled
Sakr-80
missile, possibly with North Korea and Iraq, with a range of 50
miles and a
payload of 450 pounds. Egypt is developing the Vector solid-fuel
missile with
Argentina, with a range of 500 to 600 miles and an unknown CEP.
[Note: The
attributes reported for the Vector missile match those listed for
the Iraqi
Condor II missile, which is being developed jointly with Egypt and
Argentina.]
—"World weapons sales top $1 trillion, paced by South Asia market,"
Aviation
Week & Space Technology, 28 August 1989; in Lexis-Nexis,
<http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
September 1989
The Egyptian government terminates the Badr-2000 missile project and
ends its
involvement with the Condor.
—Daniel Santoro, Operación Cóndor II: la historia secreta del misil
que
desmanteló Menem (Buenos Aires: Ediciones Letra Buena, 1992), p. 42.
4 September 1989
The Independent reports that the United Status has provided the
Egyptian-made
Sakr-30 missile to the Afghan mujaheddin guerrillas. The Sakr-30,
according to
the report, is 122mm, has a range of 18 miles, and has a cluster
warhead of 35
bomblets.
—Ahmed Rashid, "Mujahedin expands killing zone," The Independent, 4
September
1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
6 September 1989
The Independent reports that Egyptian experts have been in Iraq for
two years to
help improve the range of Iraqi missiles, including the Scud-B
missile, by
adding a North Korean fuel tank and reducing the warhead. Egyptians
in Iraq have
also helped to increase the range of the Condor II beyond 500 miles
but it has
been very inaccurate, as much as 20 miles off target. An explosion
at a possible
Iraqi missile facility in mid-August may have been the result of an
accident
involving technique developed by Egyptian and North Korean experts
to take apart
the warhead of the Condor II to adjust the explosive. [Note: See 17
August; 7, 8
and 18 September 1989.]
—Harvey Morris, Adel Darwish, Tim Kelsey, "Huge explosion at secret
Iraqi
missile plant: Egyptian technicians among about 700 killed in
disaster near
Baghdad," The Independent, 6 September 1989; in Lexis-Nexis,
<http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
7 September 1989
An Egyptian military spokesman denies that Egyptians are working in
Iraq on
military projects. [Note: See 17 August; 6 and 8 September 1989.]
—Carol Berger, "Blast reveals joint military projects continue after
Gulf War,"
The Independent, 7 September 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-
nexis.com>.
8 September 1989
In response to reports of a huge explosion at a possible Iraqi
missile
production plant in mid-August, the Iraqi embassy in London says
that an
explosion at a petroleum products depot killed 19. The statement
says, "We would
like to confirm that there is no missile technology for Condore
[sic] version
being developed between Iraq and any other country including
Argentina. The
motives behind mentioning a link with Argentina in the report
published by the
Independent could be the paper's intention to create an anti-Iraq
public opinion
at a time when relations between Britain and Argentina remain so
tense." [Note:
See 17 August; 6 and 7 September 1989.]
—Harvey Morris, "Baghdad admits to blast at `oil depot'," The
Independent, 8
September 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
9 September 1989
Major General Khamis Ibn-Hamed bin Salim al-Kalbani, the commander
of Oman's
ground forces, along with the technicians accompanying him on a
visit to Cairo,
are briefed on a wide range of weapons systems produced by Egypt,
such as the
surface-to-surface missile Sakr-80, its launch system, and the
Swingfire
anti-tank missiles.
—Oman Looks at Egyptian Weapons," Middle East Defense News, 16
October 1989.
16 September 1989
The Times (London) reports that Egypt may be working with North
Korea on a
secret missile project.
—Christopher Walker, "Reports of missile launch heighten arms race
fears," The
Times (London), 16 September 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-
nexis.com>.
18 September 1989
MidEast Markets reports that the big explosion in Iraq in mid-August
occurred at
Latifiya, near Isfandiya. Iraq is building a facility there to make
the Condor
II rocket motor but there is also a munitions factory nearby, and
the explosion
was not directly related to the Condor II. [Note: See 17 August and
6-8
September 1989.]
—"Big explosion in Iraq, but was it important?" MidEast Markets, 18
September
1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
19 September 1989
A classified Defense Intelligence Agency document says US Customs
has been
investigating for more than a year an Egyptian-Iraqi plot to get
restricted
technology "to support the production of a ballistic missile."
—"Canadians helped supply weapons to Saddam Hussein; Federal
officials seemed
unaware of deals while other Western intelligence agencies increased
surveillance," Ottawa Citizen, 26 November 1992; in Lexis-Nexis,
<http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
19 September 1989
Assistant Secretary of State John H. Kelly tells a US House of
Representatives
panel that Egypt has terminated its cooperation with Iraq on the
Condor II, but
does not comment on why Egypt withdrew from the project.
—David B. Ottaway, "Egypt Drops Out of Missile Project; State
Department
Official Offers No Details on Iraqi Program," Washington Post, 20
September
1989, p. A32.
20 September 1989
The Jerusalem Post reports that Otto Skorzeny, the notorious Nazi
commando
leader, was hired by Mossad agents in 1963 to persuade former Nazis
to abandon
work on Egyptian missiles.
—"Ex-SS man worked for Mossad against Egyptian rocket project,"
Jerusalem Post,
20 September 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
20 September 1989
US Assistant Secretary of State John H. Kelly tells a Congressional
panel that
"my understanding is that Egypt has terminated its cooperation" with
Iraq and
Argentina on the Condor II. [Note: See 5 October 1989.]
—David B. Ottaway, "Egypt drops out of missile project; State
Department
official offers no details on Iraqi program," The Washington Post,
20 September
1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
October 1989
Five US senators formally request that the US Secretary of Defense
investigate
whether the German firm MBB (Messerschmidt-Boelkow-Blohm) provided
fuel-air
explosive (FAE) technology to Iraq in the course of its
participation in the
Egyptian-Iraqi Condor II project. In addition, they express concern
that FAE
technology may have been transferred to Iraq illegally from the
United States.
—"FAEs for Iraq," Jane's Defence Weekly, 20 October 1990, p. 739.
5 October 1989
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has confirmed that Egypt dropped
out of the
Condor II project in 1988. [Note: See 20 September 1989.]
—"Mubarak poses mystery over status of Argentina's Condor II
missile," Latin
American Weekly Report, 5 October 1989; in Lexis-Nexis,
<http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
21 November 1989
US and Israeli officials believe Iraq has a contract to sell 200
Condor II
missiles to Egypt for $8 million per missile.
—Alan Friedman, "The flight of the Condor," Financial Times, 21
November 1989;
in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
27 November 1989
Egypt's Vice Admiral Muhammed Sharif al-Sadiq said that Egypt's
submarines would
be equipped with a wide variety of advanced missiles, including US-
built
Harpoons.
—"Egypt's Barakat: More F-16s," Middle East Defense News, 27
November 1989.
December 1989
Experts report that the al-Abid, Iraq's three-stage, 48-ton
satellite-launch
missile, is not (as had been previously alleged) a Condor II
missile. According
to experts who viewed a videotape of the 7 December 1989 launch of
the al-Abid,
the faint smoke plume emanating from the rocket was indicative of a
liquid-fuel
motor, while the Condor II has a solid-fueled engine. Further, the
Condor has
only two stages, whereas three stages can be seen on the tape of the
al-Abid
launch. According to Gary Milhollin of the Wisconsin Project on
Nuclear Arms
Control, five motors can be seen in the first stage, which he
suggests are
either Scuds or elongated Scuds welded together. This would suggest
that the
al-Abid is not wholly indigenously produced, but rather an
adaptation of Soviet
missiles similar to the al-Abbas and al-Hussein missiles. Argentine
and Egyptian
engineers are reportedly present for the launch.
—"Iraq Heavy Missile Launch Definitely Not Cóndor II," Defense &
Foreign Affairs
Weekly, January 1990-4 February 1990, p. 1; US Department of
Defense, "IIR
[Excised] Condor II Missile," Intelligence report declassified and
partially
released, available through the Digital National Security Archive,
<http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com>, 23 August 2002.
6 December 1989
Adbelkader Helmy is sentenced to 46 months in prison for trying to
send
restricted US missile technology to Egypt. James Huffman is
sentenced to 41
months. [Note: See 24 June 1988.]
—John Howard, "Four year sentence for weapons tech plot to Egypt,
Iraq,"
Associated Press, 6 December 1989; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-
nexis.com>.
27 December 1989
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak denies that the United States has
intervened
regarding Egypt's cooperation with Argentina and Iraq in the field
of missile
manufacturing.
—"Mubarak Addresses Missiles in Interview With Qatari Papers," MENA
(Cairo), 27
December 1989.
29 December 1989
Yonhap reports that "Egypt requested North Korean help to improve
its Scuds."
—"North Korea Missile Aid Reportedly Sought," Yonhap News Agency
Seoul Domestic
Service, 29 December 1989.
29 December 1989
The Associated Press reports that Egypt and North Korea are
collaborating on
developing missiles based on the Scud. Military analyst Aharon
Levran says Egypt
asked North Korea's help last year to enhance its aging arsenal of
Scud
missiles.
—Nicolas B. Tatro, "North Korean missile help sought by Syria,
Egypt,"
Associated Press, 29 December 1989; in Lexis-Nexis,
<http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
Early 1990s
Egypt begins work on "Project-T" to develop a medium-range ballistic
missile, an
improved Scud-B, range 450km. The propulsion, guidance, and
targeting of the
Scud-B has been improved in the new missile. As of 1999, the missile
forms the
backbone of Egypt's missile deterrent.
—"A dangerous race in a multi-axial world: The missiles club in the
Middle East:
The century of mass destruction," Al-Wasat (London) 30 August 1999;
in FBIS
Document FTS19990903000290, 30 August 1999.
1990
China and Egypt agree to upgrade Egypt's Sakr plant to make new Scud-
B missiles
and three types of Egyptian surface-to-surface missiles.
—"Country reports: Egypt," Middle East Defense News, 5 April 1993; in
Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
1990-1991
North Korea assists Egypt in establishing a Scud-C production
facility near
Cairo. The facility belongs to the consortium Arab-British Dynamics
Co, owned by
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Britain.
—"The Postwar Scud Boom," Wall Street Journal, 10 July 1991.
19 January 1990
Middle East Defense News (Mednews) reports that the materials
confiscated by US
officials from an Egyptian smuggling ring in June 1988 were intended
for Iraq.
[Note: See 24 June and 5 September 1988.]
—"U.S. connection for Iraqi missiles?," Middle East Defense News, 19
January
1990, Vol. 3, No.7, 8; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
29 January 1990
Aviation Week & Space Technology reports that the Pentagon has
proposed giving
Egypt 29 Harpoon missiles worth $69 million, including training and
support.
—"The Pentagon has notified," Aviation Week & Space Technology, 29
January 1989;
in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
3 March 1990
The Independent reports that Iraq's ballistic missile program has
been hindered
by the withdrawal of Egyptian experts.
—Adel Darwish, "UK missile men aid Iraq," The Independent (London),
3 March
1990; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
7 March 1990
Flight International reports that Egypt will begin making the "Saker
80"
surface-to-surface rocket next year to replace the Frog-7. [Note:
Saker is more
often spelled Sakr or Saqr.] It will have a CEP of 1200m, high-
explosive and
cluster warheads, and a mobile launcher, the report says.
—"Saker 80s 1991 debut," Flight International, 7 March 1990; in
Lexis-Nexis,
<http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
25 March 1990
According to Al-Akhbar, Egypt tests its new missile, Amun-2, which
can
reportedly simultaneously engage more than one airborne target. The
system can
also distinguish between two targets and give precedence to the more
dangerous
one. The system was completely Egyptian-developed.
—"New Amun-2 Missile System Tested 25 March," Al-Akhbar (Cairo), 26
March 1990,
p.4; in FBIS Document FBIS-NES-90-060, 28 March 1990.
1 April 1990
According to a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Intelligence
Assessment, "[a]ll
the solid propellant missile production projects in Egypt,
Argentina, and Iraq
are highly dependent on the influx of Western technology obtained
from the
Consen Group. Similarly these Consen companies need these overseas
markets to
keep afloat financially. Because of the creation of the Missile
Techonology
Control Regime (MTCR) in April 1987, covert cooperation took on added
importance."
—US Defense Intelligence Agency, "The Grey Arms Market: Methods of
Maintaining
Covert Business Relationships," Intelligence Assessment declassified
and
partially released, available through the Digital National Security
Archive,
<http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com>, 23 August 2002.
26 April 1990
Nucleonics Week reports that Argentina has resumed joint cooperation
with Egypt
and Iraq to build the Condor II. Argentina curbed its participation
in the
project in 1989 because of pressure by the Bush administration.
[Note: See July
1989 for more on Argentina pulling out of the project.] The
Argentine government
has denied that construction of the Condor II with Egypt has begun.
The article
does not mention Iraq as a partner in the project.
—"Argentina Denies Reports of Nuclear Commerce with Iraq,"
Nucleonics Week, 26
April 1990, Vol.31, No.17, p.13; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-
nexis.com>.
May 1990
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak visits Pyongyang. He is believed to
have
visited the 125 Factory, where the Hwas&#335;ng-6 is assembled.
—Joseph S. Bermudez, Jr., "A History of Ballistic Missile
Development in the
DPRK," Occasional Paper No. 2, Center for Nonproliferation Studies,
November
1999, p. 19.
Early June 1990
Chinese Defense Minister Qin Jiwei meets Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak in
Cairo, perhaps to promote weapons sales, such as the DF-3 (CSS-2)
missile.
—Liat Collins, "China's `East Wind' missile blows through the Middle
East," The
Jerusalem Post, 13 June 1990; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-
nexis.com>.
14 June 1990
The Independent reports China will help Egypt upgrade its production
of
surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missiles in exchange for
payment
equivalent to millions of pounds sterling. The upgrade will focus on
Egypt's
Sakr factory to help it produce newer versions of Soviet anti-
aircraft missiles,
the surface-to-surface Scud-B and Silkworm, and the three types of
Egyptian Sakr
rockets. The Independent reports that after this upgrade, Egypt will
double the
production of the Silkworm DF-4 and increase its range to 90 miles;
the
missile's current range is 50 miles with a 1,000-pound warhead,.
Egypt is also
expected to start the production of Silkworm DF-5 with a range of
170 miles. In
addition, China will provide Egypt with frigates equipped with
French Ottomat
and Chinese Styx missiles, as well as Chinese-built Jainghu-class
frigates
equipped with the C801 Ying-ji, a Chinese version of the Exocet
missiles.
—Adel Darwish, "China to Update Chinese Egypt's Missiles," The
Independent
(London), 14 June 1990; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
30 June 1990
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) assesses Iraq's ballistic
missile
program efforts, including those based on the Condor program. At
this time, Iraq
is developing five distinct missile programs. Although the more
ambitious Condor
II will take longer to develop than the Iraqi-produced Al-Husayn and
Al-Abbas
missiles, it will be "easier to handle, require less preparation
time before
launch, offer more payload options, and provide better accuracy and
range." The
CIA estimates that the solid-fuel Condor II missile system will have
a range of
750-1,000km, carry a payload of approximately 500kg, and employ a
submunition
warhead design. When Iraq begins to produce the system, it will
likely modify
the warhead submunition design to enable it to deliver chemical
and/or
biological weapon agents.
Judging that it will be "difficult, if not impossible, to stop"
Iraqi ballistic
missile projects, the CIA estimates that with continued foreign
assistance, Iraq
will commence production of the Condor II by the early 1990s;
however, halting
external aid could delay production to the mid-to-late 1990s. Iraq
will likely
face technical challenges in "guidance and control, second-stage
configuration,
and flight-testing," which could be surmounted through external
assistance.
Through its work on the Condor, Iraq may gain experience applicable
to its other
missile programs, e.g., in such areas as stage separation.
Regardless of the
status of the Argentine and Egyptian Condor II projects, the CIA
anticipates
that Iraq will continue to seek technical assistance from both
countries with
its Condor project. While Egypt had been Iraq's main contact in the
past, the
CIA expects closer ties with Argentina in the future. The agency
reports, "Our
growing concern is that Argentina and Egypt —despite claims of
withdrawing from
the program —will continue development of the Condor II through
Iraq. Argentine
and Egyptian engineers may train at Iraqi production facilities,
which are
similar to these in Argentina and almost identical to ones in Egypt.
Argentina
and Egypt could begin indigenous production with little or no notice
shortly
after its [sic] engineers return from Iraq. We believe Iraq will be
the first of
the three to produce the Condor II."
This CIA assessment is based on information available as of 29 May
1990, and is
largely based on analysis of Iraqi foreign procurement efforts. The
CIA also
declares, "Although we have not identified a formal, coordinated
nuclear weapons
program, we believe Iraq's activities, especially its covert nuclear
procurement, strongly suggest a weapons program exists."
—US Central Intelligence Agency, Iraqi Ballistic Missile
Developments: An
Intelligence Assessment (Washington, DC: Directorate of
Intelligence, 30 June
1990), classified "Top Secret," declassified excerpts released 5
March 1998,
<http://www.foia.ucia.gov>, pp. 4-6, 10, 12, 20-21, 29, accessed 23
August 2002.
July 1990
According to diplomatic sources in Cairo, China has agreed to help
modernize
Egypt's Scud-B missiles.
—"China Agrees to modernize Egyptian Scud-Bs," Arms Control
Reporter, July 1990,
p. 706, B.36.
3 August 1990
The Independent reports that Iraq criticized Egypt during the Condor
II
collaboration for not meeting its commitments in developing the
missile.
—Carol Berger, "The invasion of Kuwait: Mediator Mubarak offers
little
consolation as ministers meet," The Independent (London), 3 August
1990; in
Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
3 September 1990
The BBC reports that Iraq received warhead and fuel-air explosives
(FAE)
technology tested by Germany's MBB (Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm)
because the
country was involved in a joint missile project with Egypt and West
Germany.
[Note: See "1984," October 1989, 3 September 1990, and 12 December
1990 entries
for more on fuel-air explosives.]
—"Saddam's `Secret' Arms Ring Reported," Panorama London BBC, 3
September 1990;
in Nuclear Developments, 14 September 1990, p.19-24.
October 1990
An unattributed report asserts that Project Betreuungs GmbH (PBG) of
Germany
assisted in arming Iraq. Senior Public Prosecutor Friedrich Bethke
states that
PBG conveyed sensitive technologies to Iraq via Argentina and Egypt.
PBG
allegedly delivered German firm Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm's (MBB)
blueprints
for fuel-air bombs to Iraq through Egypt, as well as parts of MBB's
Condor
missile system through Buenos Aires to Iraq. The German government
could not
confirm whether PBG had helped establish an R&D center for missile
construction
in Iraq. [Note: See 1984, October 1989, and October 1990 entries.]
—"Firm Probed for Sending Arms Technology to Iraq," Der Spiegel
(Hamburg), 22
October 1990, p. 15; cited in Nuclear Developments, 15 November
1990, p. 25.
5 November 1990
McDonnell Douglas Corp. receives a contract from Naval Air Systems
Command for
133 Harpoon missiles, two of which are designated for Egypt. [Note:
See 10 July
1991 and 30 August 1994 entries.]
—"McDonnell Douglas Corp," Aerospace Daily, 6 November 1990, Vol.
156, No. 26,
p. 237; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
4 November 1990
Flight International reports that the Consen Group of Switzerland,
which
coordinated development of the Condor II, is shrinking and that many
of its
companies are liquidating. The Consen company office in Zug has
liquidated, IFAT
(Institute for Advanced Technology) is liquidating, Delta Consult
and Delta
System have closed, and Tema in France has released most of its
staff, the
report says. Consen was created by missile experts who previously
worked for
Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm. [Note: The Consen Group disbands in
January 1991.]
—"Consen faces close-down as Iraq's Condor project falters," Flight
International, 14 November 1990; in Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-
nexis.com>.
6 December 1990
Hans Heino Kopietz, an analyst with the firm Control Risks, says it
is possible
that Argentina and Egypt have not really given up on the Condor II
project. He
says he recently saw Argentine engineers and technicians in Egypt.
—"How dead is the Condor II; hints surface of `freelance'
continuation," Latin
American Weekly Report, 6 December 1990; in Lexis-Nexis,
<http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
12 December 1990
Flight International reports that Honeywell has appointed an outside
law firm to
investigate its own actions in helping Egypt and Iraq develop fuel-
air
explosives (FAEs) for ballistic missiles. According to the report, a
British
subsidiary, Honeywell Control Systems, signed a contract with IFAT
(Institute
for Advanced Technology) of Switzerland in 1984 to produce a study
for the
Egyptian Ministry of Defense on developing FAEs for ballistic
missiles; the
study was completed in 1985. IFAT was already working with Egypt on
the Condor
II when the contract was signed. On 4 April 1984, a Honeywell
executive wrote a
memorandum affirming that the Egyptian missile was to have an
accuracy of 0.1
percent of its range and was "intended to attack high value, fixed
targets such
as cities, ports, oil refineries, and air bases." [Note: See "1984,"
October
1989, 3 September 1990, October 1990, and 26 December 1990 entries
for more on
FAEs.]
—"Honeywell implicated in FAE work," Flight International, 12
December 1990; in
Lexis-Nexis, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
26 December 1990
According to court records, the Egyptian Ministry of Defense tried
to buy 9,000
fuel-air explosives from the United States in 1984. The Egyptians
said they
wanted the bombs to clear minefields, but according to the Justice
Department
they were for the Condor II and the request was denied. [Note:
See "1984,"
October 1989, 3 September 1990, October 1990, and 12 December 1990
entries for
more on fuel-air explosives.]
—Douglas Frantz, "Honeywell factor in Iraq bomb," Los Angeles Times;
26 December
1990; in Lexis-Nexis,<http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.
26 December 1990
According to court records, IFAT (Institute for Advanced Technology)
Corporation
of Switzerland was created by the Egyptian Ministry of Defense to
procure
technology for the Condor II project. [Note: IFAT is or was part of
the Consen
Group. See 4 November 1989 and 12 December 1989 entries.]
—Douglas Frantz, "Honeywell factor in Iraq bomb," Los Angeles Times;
26 December
1990; in Lexis-Nexis,<http://www.lexis-nexis.com>.

Source:
http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Egypt/Missile/2362_2922.html

Headline: Firms Involved In Iraq Missile Production
Date: 10 April 1989
Bibliography: Nuclear Developments, 10 April 1989, pp. 33-34
Orig. Src.: Der Spiegel (Hamburg), 27 March 1989, pp. 170-173
Abstract: Dozens of German companies have delivered equipment and
technological know-how to Iraq for the "Technology Center" known as
the Sa'ad-16 project. The Sa'ad-16 project develops missiles and
chemical weapons. Work on missiles is a continuation of work done in
Argentina and Egypt on the Condor-1 and -2 projects, the goal of
which is the development of an extended intermediate-range missile
capable of hitting targets in the entire Middle East. Vienna
Consultco Ltd and the German firm Gildemeister Projecta Ltd,
headquartered in Bielefeld, share an office in Mosul, Iraq.
Messerschmidt-Boelkow-Blohm (MBB) is Gildemeister Projecta's main
supplier of technology. Other German firms involved in the Sa'ad 16
project include German BP, Carl Zeiss, Degussa, Tesa. Thirty eight
German companies are training Iraqi technicians to operate chemical
laboratories and electronic workshops, wind tunnels, and physical
test facilities. Karl Kolb Co is suspected of having delivered
poison gas facilities. Rhinemetall's subsidiary Aviatest is
providing two wind tunnels. According to Peter Resz Czynski of
Koerber AG (Hamburg), Blohm delivered no computer-controlled
grinding facilities which required export licenses. In 1985 and
1986, three standard grinding machines were ordered, type HFF 512
and Hanseat 11. The German Federal Economic Office told Gildemeister
Projecta that "according to current rules, machinery, electrical
equipment, regulation, measuring, and testing instruments for
research development, and training institute with eight main
sections, name: Project Sa'ad-16, do not need an export permission."
MBB spokesman Udo Philipp said testing center "for surface analysis"
and calibration labs were sent to Iraq and that "something like
this" can "also be used for military purposes."
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EDO CORPORATION COMPLETES PURCHASE
OF THE ASSETS OF CONDOR SYSTEMS, INC.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - July 29, 2002 - EDO Corporation (NYSE:EDO)
announced today that EDO Reconnaissance and Surveillance Systems
Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, has completed the previously
announced purchase of substantially all of the assets and businesses
of Condor Systems, Inc., a California corporation, and its domestic
subsidiary for approximately $61.9 million in cash and the
assumption of certain normal employee benefit obligations and a
certain number of trade and supplier payables required to support
operations going forward valued together at approximately $12
million. The transaction also includes the assumption of $28 million
of outstanding letters of credit normally associated with
international contracts of the type being assumed.
Condor Systems, Inc., founded in 1980, is a privately held defense
electronics firm and a manufacturer of signal intelligence and
electronic warfare systems and products with revenue for 2001 of
approximately $78 million.

James M. Smith, EDO's Chairman, President and CEO said, "Condor
meets all of our acquisition criteria. It considerably expands our
electronic warfare footprint as a supplier in the areas of
intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance systems. Condor is
platform-oriented with strategic positions on various airborne
platforms, as well as the Los Angeles and Virginia-class submarines.
Condor conducts substantial international business and has earned a
solid reputation with the major prime contractors. Condor's culture
is highly compatible with EDO's, and we have known and worked with
Condor's senior management for years."
Source: http://www.edocorp.com/pr2002/02r0729.htm
"Guilty plea by Condor about sale
False statements to federal officials
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 11, 2003
A former San Jose defense contracting firm pleaded guilty Monday to
lying to the U.S. government about its efforts to sell a tactical
electronic surveillance system to Sweden.
Condor Systems Inc. entered guilty pleas to two counts of making
false statements to federal officials. In San Jose, U.S. District
Judge Ronald Whyte sentenced the company to three years' probation
and ordered payment of a $1 million fine.
In 1995, Condor, along with the U.S. Navy, developed a signal
processor with the ability to identify specific radar emission
sources. Condor's contract with the Navy said technical information
about the processor was not to be released without the Navy's
approval.
In 1998, Condor sought U.S. government approval to sell the system
to Sweden after it had already entered into a contract to sell the
processor to that nation, federal prosecutors argued.
The company admitted making claims that the surveillance system
included "commercial off-the-shelf" consumer software despite the
fact it was developed exclusively for the U.S. Navy.
Condor also admitted that it falsely stated that the processor
marketed to Sweden was developed "in parallel and separately" from
the system it had developed for the U.S. Navy.
Condor, which declared bankruptcy in 2001, was purchased by another
company last year.
E-mail Henry K. Lee at hlee@....
Source:
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"Condor Systems Inc.—Developed antenna control software for tracking
multiple non-synchronous orbit satellites. Also created control
electronics and software for several communications systems."
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	     CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 99034272841
BARNUM, JOHN L LOS GATOS CA 95030 10/03/1997 1000.00
	     CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 98033350712
BILINSKI, MICHAEL SAN JOSE CA 95119 12/13/1998
	     1000.00 CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 99034272841
BILINSKI, MICHAEL SAN JOSE CA 95119 05/03/2000
	     1000.00 CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 20035853147
BILINSKI, MICHAEL SAN JOSE CA 95119 11/14/1997
	     1000.00 CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 98033350713
BILINSKI, MIKE J SAN JOSE CA 95119 05/03/2001
	     500.00 CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 21037210989
BRANNAN, RICHARD A SIMI VALLEY CA 93065 05/14/2002
	     1000.00 CESD 22037651863
CASS, STEPHEN C PORT HUENEME CA 93041 04/30/2001 1000.00 CESD
	     21037210991
CASS, STEPHEN C SIMI VALLEY CA 93065 05/14/2002 1000.00 CESD
	     22037651864
CASS, STEVEN C PORTE HUENEME CA 93041 03/15/2000 1000.00
	     CONDOR ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS DIVISIO 20035440359
CHANDLER, PHILLIP SIMI VALLEY CA 93065 06/11/2002
	     200.00 CESD 22037651864
DALE, VERNON CUPERTINO CA 95014 12/31/1998 1000.00
	     CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 99034272841
DALE, VERNON A CUPERTINO CA 95014 08/15/1997 1000.00
	     CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 98033350712
DAVIS, TIM A VALENCIA CA 91354 05/24/2001 1000.00 CESD
	     21037210989
DAVIS, TIMOTHY A SIMI VALLEY CA 93065 05/14/2002
	     1000.00 CESD 22037651862
DAVIS, TIMOTHY A VALENCIA CA 91355 03/12/1999
	     1000.00 CONDOR ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS DIVISION 99034653310
DAVIS, TIMOTHY A VALENCIA CA 91355 03/15/2000
	     1000.00 CONDOR ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS DIVISIO 20035440359
ERIXON, MICHAEL J SIMI VALLEY CA 93065 03/19/1999
	     1000.00 CONDOR ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS DIVISION 99034653310
ERIXON, MICHAEL J SIMI VALLEY CA 93065 01/27/1998
	     1000.00 CONDOR ELECTRONICS INC 98033350713
ERVIN, J W HILLS CA 91304 04/30/1999 300.00
	     CONDOR ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS DIVISIO 99034653311
ERVIN, JERRY SIMI VALLEY CA 93065 05/14/2002 500.00 CESD
	     22037651862
ERVIN, JERRY L WEST HILLS CA 91304 06/07/2001 500.00
	     CONDOR SYSTEMS ELEC SYS 21037210979
ERVIN, JERRY L WEST HILLS CA 91304 06/07/2001 500.00 CESD
	     21037210987
HICKS, RUSSELL R SIMI VALLEY CA 93065 06/07/2001
	     400.00 CONDOR SYSTEMS ELEC SYS 21037210979
HICKS, RUSSELL R SIMI VALLEY CA 93065 06/07/2001
	     400.00 CESD 21037210987
HUTCHINSON, KENT SAN JOSE CA 95138 04/25/2000
	     1000.00 CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 20035853147
HUTCHINSON, KENT E MORGAN HILL CA 95037 03/26/2002
	     1000.00 CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 22037552355
KLINGLER, DAVID J SARATOGA CA 95070 12/11/1998
	     500.00 CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 99034272841
KLINGLER, DAVID J SARATOGA CA 95070 08/15/1997
	     1000.00 CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 98033350712
LEBER, CHARLES H APTOS CA 95003 08/11/2000 1000.00
	     CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 20036164211
LEBER, CHARLES H APTOS CA 95003 05/02/2001 500.00
	     CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 21037210990
MCINTIRE, DAVID SAN JOSE CA 95136 05/02/2001 500.00
	     CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 21037210990
MCPHERSON, LEILI S SAN JOSE CA 95120 05/03/2001
	     500.00 CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 21037210989
MICHALSKI, THOMAS A SUNNYVALE CA 94087 12/04/1998
	     1000.00 CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 99034272841
MICHALSKI, THOMAS A SUNNYVALE CA 94087 08/15/1997
	     1000.00 CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 98033350712
MILLER, B JACK ARLINGTON VA 22202 03/12/1999 1000.00
	     CONDOR ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS DIVISION 99034653310
MILLER, B JACK ARLINGTON VA 22202 01/27/1998 1000.00
	     CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 98033350713
RAYMOND, MARIE SIMI VALLEY CA 93065 06/11/2002 500.00 CESD
	     22037651864
RAYMOND, MARIE E SAN DIEGO CA 92106 06/07/2001
	     500.00 CESD 21037210987
RAYMOND, MARIE E SAN DIEGO CA 92106 06/14/2001
	     500.00 CONDOR SYS ELEC DIV 21037210980
ROMAN, WALTER V CHATSWORTH CA 91311 03/31/2001 500.00 CESD
	     21037210992
ROMAN, WALTER V CHATSWORTH CA 91311 04/15/1999 500.00
	     CONDOR ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS DIVISIO 99034653310
ROMAN, WALTER V CHATSWORTH CA 91311 03/24/2000 500.00
	     CONDOR ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS DIVISION 20035853147
ROMAN, WALTER V SIMI VALLEY CA 93065 05/14/2002 500.00 CESD
	     22037651863
SCHAUB, DAVID L GLENDALE CA 91205 06/07/2001 250.00 CESD
	     21037210988
SCHAUB, DAVID L GLENDALE CA 91205 06/07/2001 250.00
	     CONDOR SYS ELEC DIV 21037210980
SCHMIDT, TERRANCE J LOS GATOS CA 95032 05/02/2001
	     500.00 CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 21037210990
STEIN, LOUIS SIMI VALLEY CA 93063 04/30/1999 200.00
	     CONDOR ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS DIVISIO 99034653311
STRAUSS, MONTE LOS ANGELES CA 90068 03/16/2000 1000.00
	     CONDOR ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS DIVISION 20035440359
TAFT, JOHN L SAN JOSE CA 95138 08/15/1998 1000.00
	     CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 98033350712
TAFT, JOHN L SAN JOSE CA 95138 12/31/1998 1000.00
	     CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 99034272841
TSO-ROBINSON, DELORES OXNARD CA 95030 05/01/2001 1000.00 CESD
	     21037210991
TSO-ROBINSON, DELORES SIMI VALLEY CA 93065 05/14/2002
	     1000.00 CESD 22037651862
TSO-ROBINSON, DELORES OXNARD CA 93033 03/15/2000 1000.00
	     CONDOR ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS DIVISION 20035440359
TSO-ROBINSON, DELORES R OXNARD CA 93033 03/19/1999 1000.00
	     CONDOR ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS DIVISION 99034653310
VILJOEN, GARY L MT VIEW CA 94040 08/15/1997 1000.00
	     CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 98033350712
VILJOEN, GARY M MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94040 12/31/1998 1000.00
	     CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 99034272841
WENNERSTROM, DONALD SIMI VALLEY CA 93065 03/15/1999
	     1000.00 CONDOR ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS DIVISION 99034653310
WENNERSTROM, DONALD SIMI VALLEY CA 93065 01/27/1998
	     1000.00 CONDOR ELECTRONICS INC 98033350713
YOUNG, ROBERT E II SARATOGA CA 95070 08/15/1997
	     1000.00 CONDOR SYSTEMS INC 98033350712
ZEBRACH, STANLEY SIMI VALLEY CA 93065 03/15/2000
	     1000.00 CONDOR ELECTRONICS SYSTEM DIVISION 20035440359
ZEBRACK, STANLEY L SIMI VALLEY CA 93065 03/19/1999
	     1000.00 CONDOR ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS DIVISIO 99034653310
ZEBRACK, STANLEY L SIMI VALLEY CA 93065 04/30/2001
	     1000.00 CESD 21037210991
ZEBRACK, STANLEY L SIMI VALLEY CA 93065 01/27/1998
	     1000.00 CONDOR ELECTRONICS INC 98033350713
Source: http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/com_ind/C00328914
We looked at  a page titled:
"Presented by the Federal Election Commission
Committees And Candidates Supported/Opposed
CONDOR SYSTEMS INC PAC

2133 SAMARITAN DRIVE
SAN JOSE, California 95124"
We found that among the politicians who were recipients of money
from CONDOR SYSTEMS INC PAC were:
CUNNINGHAM, RANDY DUKEVIA FRIENDS OF DUKE CUNNINGHAM 03/22/1999
	     500.00 99034653312

MURTHA, JOHN P MR.VIA MURTHA FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE 11/10/1997
	     1000.00 98033350714
MURTHA, JOHN P MR.VIA MURTHA FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE 09/15/1998
	     1000.00 98033764414
MURTHA, JOHN P MR.VIA MURTHA FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE 08/24/1999
	     1000.00 20035380979
MURTHA, JOHN P MR.VIA MURTHA FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE 03/30/2000
	     1000.00 20035440360
MURTHA, JOHN P MR.VIA MURTHA FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE 04/04/2001
	     1000.00 21037210993
MURTHA, JOHN P MR.VIA MURTHA FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE 04/03/2002
	     1000.00 22037651865
OBEY, DAVID RVIA LOT OF PEOPLE FOR DAVE OBEY 07/12/2002
	     1000.00 22037730975

Source: http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/com_supopp/C00328914/

"
Bassett, Frederic Mr.
4/27/2001 $500.00
Los Gatos, CA 95030
Condor Systems/Chief Financial Offi [Contribution]
Transaction itemized by: MURTHA FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE
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Hutchinson, Kent Mr.
4/27/2001 $1,000.00
Pebble Beach, CA 93953
Condor Systems Inc./President / CEO [Contribution]
Transaction itemized by: MURTHA FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE
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Hutchinson, Kent Mr.
4/25/2002 $1,000.00
Pebble Beach, CA 93953
Condor Systems Inc./President / CEO [Contribution]
Transaction itemized by: MURTHA FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE
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Klingler, David Mr.
4/27/2001 $1,000.00
Saratoga, CA 95070
Condor Systems Inc./Vice President [Contribution]
Transaction itemized by: MURTHA FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE
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Schmidt, Terry J.
4/25/2002 $1,000.00
Los Gatos, CA 95032
Condor Sys/VP - Operations [Contribution]
Transaction itemized by: MURTHA FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE
[View Image]
      Source:
http://cspan.politicalmoneyline.com/cgi-win/x_byst.exe?
DoFn=CAH6PA1203002
"This article is about the Argentine/Middle Eastern Condor missile,
for the US Navy's air-to-surface missile see AGM-53 Condor.
The Argentine Condor missile program started in the 1970s as a
multinational space research program with significant contract work
being performed by German company MBB (now a group within
DaimlerChrysler).
The original Condor had little military capability but was used to
build expertise that went into to the Alacrán program which was a
functional short range ballistic missile. After the 1982
Malvinas/Falklands War's problems with french missiles, the
Argentine government decided it was time have its own medium-range
missile, and started the Condor II program.
This program was driven in close collaboration with Egypt, and then
Iraq, but in the earlies 1990s Carlos Menem discontinued it because
of political preassure from the United States.
It is believed that Libya has assumed the Condor II project around
1995. Extensive shifts in the Middle East have obscured the exact
status of the Condor II program, but it was clearly the most
promising of the Libyan missile programs.
Reports of a Condor II program are extensive. The Condor III would
have an increased range to some 1,500 km (932 miles) with the same
payload as the Condor II. It was however likely that this program
ended with the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq.
[edit]
Specifications
· Length: 10.50 m
· Diameter: 0.80 m
· Weight: 5,200 kg
· Warhead: Single (HE or chemical), 450 kg
· Range: 900 km
· Propulsion: 2-stage solid/liquid
[edit]
External links
· Condor 1-AIII (Spanish)
· Space race in Latin America (Spanish)
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condor_missile"
Categories: Short-range ballistic missiles | Guided missiles of
Argentina | Guided missiles of Libya
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condor_missile






Top Contributors
1998 RACE: PENNSYLVANIA DISTRICT 12
http://www.opensecrets.org/1998elect/dist_contrib/98PA12contrib.htm
John P. Murtha (D) *
USX Corp  $10,500
American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees  $10,000
General Atomics  $10,000
Lockheed Martin  $10,000
Seafarers International Union  $10,000
Textron Inc  $10,000
Teamsters Union  $9,500
Science Applications International Corp  $8,000
United Auto Workers  $8,000
Assn of Trial Lawyers of America  $7,500
AT&T  $7,500
Laborers Union  $7,500
Boeing Co  $7,000
Penn Warehouse Inc  $7,000
Raytheon Co  $6,500
General Dynamics  $6,250
National Assn of Realtors  $6,000
Newport News Shipbuilding  $6,000
Reed, Smith et al  $6,000
Reid & Priest  $6,000
"Mr. Speaker, as someone who joined the Marine Corps during the
Korean War, I've always felt strongly about our allies in Turkey. As
we mark the 50-year anniversary of the start of the Korean War on
June 25th, the Turkish military's bravery deserves great praise. The
Turkish Brigade demonstrated superior combat capability and courage
from the moment it entered the battlefield in October 1950 through
the cease-fire agreement of July 1953.
Turkey provided the fifth largest contingent among United Nations
forces—5,453 soldiers at the peak of the war. The Turkish Brigade is
credited with saving the U.S. 8th Army and the IX Army Corps from
encirclement by communist enemies, and the 2nd Division from total
destruction during critical battles in November 1950.
The United Nations' Forces Commander in Chief General Douglas
MacArthur said: "Turks are the heroes of heroes. There is
no `impossibility' for the Turkish Brigade."
No enemy attack succeeded in penetrating the Turkish Brigade, while
British and American forces were forced to withdraw from defensive
lines.
Even though out of ammunition, the Turks affixed their bayonets and
attacked the enemy, eventually in hand-to-hand combat. The Turks
succeeded in withdrawing in continuous combat and carrying their
injured comrades from the battlefield on their backs.
Among the twenty U.N. members contributing military forces in Korea,
Time Magazine praised the Turkish Brigade for its courageous battles
and for `creating a favorable effect on the whole United Nations
Forces.' A US radio commentary in December 1950 thanked the Turkish
Brigade's heroism for giving hope for a demoralized American
nation.
Although the Korean War is often called `the Forgotten War,' partly
because it ended inconclusively with no real winner, the fierce
combat ability of the Turkish Brigade should never be forgotten. The
717 Turkish soldiers killed in action, and the 2,413 wounded in
action, represent the highest casualty rate of any U.N. element
engaged in the fighting. The simple white grave markers in a green
field in Pusan will eternally remind us of the heroic soldiers of a
heroic nation."
Murtha was quoted above at a website called tall armenian tale.
As far as we can determine that website is akin to a Holocaust
denial website as
it seeks to deny the Turkish genocide against the
Armenian people. Because of the odd nature of time and space we will
be able to
continue to send messages back to the past, back to 006, or as some
call it
2006, in the hope that action will be taken in time to prosecute
Murtha before
he can be elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. It us up
to you in
006, or 2006 as some call it, to act to get Murtha prosecuted before
he can
become Speaker of the House and then President of the United States
in 2007.

Hear No Evil See No Evil Speak No Evil The Modern Ministry of Truth
When Eric Blair, writing as "George Orwell" wrote "1984 in 1948 he
described the propaganda ministry of Oceania, one of the major
powers of his mythical world, as "The Ministry of Truth", whose
function was to create lies.
What if the Modern Ministry of Truth has the same function as that
foreseen by Blair, writing as Orwell?
The scene was Warsaw, the date October 17th, 2000, the speaker:
Bennett Freeman, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for
democracy, human rights and labor, the comments he made then ended
as follows:
"Let us commit ourselves to allow our citizens to express their
will, confident that it will be respected. Let us further ensure
that the political environment is open and fair, so as to ensure an
informed electorate that will choose wisely."
source: http://www.usembassy.it/file2000_10/alia/a0101913.htm
Clearly key American media outlets, both broadcast and cable, as
well as
print media, are parts of "U.S. infrastructure critical to national
security". Allowing such key assets to be influenced by persons or
nations or others hostile to America is unwise, to put it mildly.
Should they be so controlled how could there be an "informed
electorate"? An electorate lied to by the Modern Ministry of Truth
could not "choose wisely".
"US lawmaker plans foreign divestiture bill
By Susan Cornwell Thursday  March 2nd 2006
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. House of
Representatives Armed Services Committee said on Thursday he would
introduce legislation requiring foreign companies to divest any
holdings of U.S. infrastructure critical to national security.
Duncan Hunter, an influential Republican from California, also vowed
to "kill" with legislation a pending deal to allow a state-owned
Arab company to take over terminals in major U.S. ports.
He said infrastructure such as ports, electric grids and power
plants should not be owned by foreign companies. Under his
legislation, "Any foreign companies that own critical infrastructure
would be required to divest so it's owned by Americans," Hunter told
reporters.
Hunter's bill would direct the

Department of Defense and the Department of
Homeland Security to define and identify critical infrastructure, he
said.
Earlier on Thursday on the other side of the Capitol, there was
testimony from Bush administration officials that foreign companies
already dominate operations in many American ports. When he was
asked about this, Hunter said: "In this era of terrorism, we don't
think that's good."
As for state-owned Dubai Ports World's plan to buy P&O, acquiring
management of six U.S. ports, Hunter said the deal should not go
forward. But if it does, the acquisition should be "rolled back"
with legislation.
Hunter expressed confidence other Republicans would agree with him
once more facts were known.
"I think the Republican leadership in both houses will come to the
conclusion that these aren't the folks you want to operate your
ports," he said.
There is legislation already in both the House and the Senate to
review DP World's $6.85 billion deal and give Congress the right to
disapprove it.
Dubai Ports World officials told Hunter's Armed Services Committee
the deal should be completed as soon as next Monday or Tuesday,
pending the outcome of any court appeals in Britain.
The Bush administration in January approved the DP World deal, but
agreed over the weekend to give it a 45-day review after lawmakers
from both political parties said they were worried it could
undermine security.
Hunter was scathing about the DP World contract, saying United Arab
Emirates officials had been "instrumental" in the transshipment of
nuclear materials and weapons of mass destruction components.
"Dubai can't be trusted with our critical infrastructure," he added.
(Additional reporting by John Crawley) "
source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060302/ts_nm/security_ports_divestiture_
dc_2

Clearly control of American media cannot be entrusted to those
hostile to America. We were horrified to see important Fox News
people turn on a dime,
and go from exposing the Dubai Ports Deals, to supporting them.
What was behind the sudden turnaround at Fox? Was it support for
President Bush? Or, frighteningly, was it directed by something else
entirely?
How could Fox's Bill O'Reilly, for example, go from someone who had
been talking for show after show about border security, to someone
who endorsed the Dubai Ports Deals? What did that endorsement do to
O'Reilly's credibility? What sort of spin was that?
"Roger Eugene Ailes (born May 15, 1940) is Chairman of the
Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President, of FOX News… Ailes
met Richard Nixon when Nixon appeared as a guest on the Mike Douglas
Show." Ailes also served as: "media consultant for the George H. W.
Bush campaign,… Property Assistant, The Mike Douglas Show, 1962-1965
Producer, The Mike Douglas Show, 1965-1967
Executive Producer, The Mike Douglas Show, 1967-1968
Media adviser to Richard M. Nixon Presidential Campaign in
1968
Consultant in 1984 to President Ronald Reagan
Media Consultant for Vice President George H. W. Bush's 1988
Presidential campaign
Chief Executive Officer, Fox News Channel; 1996-present
Chairman, Fox Television Stations; 2005-present"
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ailes

(Mr. Roger Ailes Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Fox News 1211 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York, 10036)
It might seem from glancing at the situation that Ailes'
relationship to the Bush Family and the support of important Fox
people for President Bush motivated important Fox people to support
the Dubai Ports Deal. But what if it was something else entirely?
We are quite concerned about
the situation at Fox,  which sees the embattled Rupert
Murdoch fighting off what may be a takeover attempt by tycoon John
Malone
with the assistance, (at what price???), of Saudi Prince Alwaleed
bin Talal.
Fox is critical in a media dominated by appeasers of arab
terrorists. If Murdoch ends up paying the price of sacrificing Fox's
support for the war against terror, in order to keep Talal's
support, who will be left to bring the anti-appeasement message to
the American people?
"Saudi prince always ready to help Rupert
By Brian Sullivan and James Cordahi in Paris
November 8, 2005
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the world's fifth-richest man, has
declared he
is ready at any time to raise his stake in Rupert Murdoch's News
Corp to protect
existing management from any takeover attempt by Murdoch rival John
Malone.
Prince Alwaleed was commenting on his holdings in News Corp,
Citigroup and Time
Warner during an interview on Sunday at the Hotel George V in Paris"
(Note not
part of article being quoted
the hotel is owned by the prince.)

"On efforts by Mr Malone's Liberty Media to take control of News
Corp and Mr
Murdoch's controversial poison pill defence, he said: "Eventually
this thing
will just have to go away. It's not worth the fight with the
shareholders or the media. There's no need for it.
"If we need to raise our stake in News Corp, it's something we're
willing to do very swiftly.
"We are always fully mobilised to come to the defence of the existing
management. We'll spend whatever is needed to keep this company
independent.
"I am not anti-Malone. I am pro-Murdoch and pro-News Corp."
The prince owns 5.46 per cent of News Corp, which is controlled by
chairman
Rupert Murdoch, 74, and his family. Prince Alwaleed's stake is
valued at $US2.6 billion ($3.5 billion).
The prince made his last big bet on western companies in 2000 as the
internet
bubble began to deflate. That year he invested $US2 billion in 19 US
stocks,
including $US50 million each in internet companies Amazon,
DoubleClick and
Priceline. He also put $US200 million into WorldCom, which went
bankrupt in 2002.
Prince Alwaleed called the investments his "Millennium Bug" in his
authorised
biography, Alwaleed: Businessman, Billionaire, Prince, written by
former Cable
News Network host Riz Khan and published last month by William
Morrow.
On Citigroup's share price and performance he said: "Citigroup for
the last
three years has stagnated from a price point of view; clearly there
were so many clouds over what was going on at Citigroup.
"The performance of the company itself is incredible. The company
last quarter
flushed almost $US8 billion of profits. The company is doing good."
On the significance of his ventures with Deutsche Bank and HSBC
Holdings plc:
"My alliance with HSBC is very much Africa continent-based. With
Deutsche Bank,
it only covers Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.
"I go where my interests are. There's no doubt that HSBC helps us a
lot in the
African continent and Deutsche Bank will help us a lot in Saudi
Arabia and the Gulf region.
"But this will never, ever take away from my international alliance
and global link with Citigroup.
"Once we get involved in a major holding, as in Citigroup, the
likelihood of us
getting involved internationally and globally in another
international bank is remote."
On reports that he may start an investment fund with Citigroup
chairman Sandy Weill:
"Whatever Sandy gives me I will look at very seriously."
On the outlook for Apple Computer: "Our holding was around 5 per
cent. We are
keeping Apple as one of our core investments. We are not adding at
this stage.
"The benefit of the iPod and all that Steve Jobs has done have
already been put in the price."
Bloomberg"
Talal has been called "The Red Prince", he has long been groomed by
Syria to take over Lebanon.
"William Conway Jr., former chief financial officer of MCI
Communications, hooked up at New York's Carlyle hotel in 1987 to form
the company, the Carlyle Group spent two lost years investing in a
hodgepodge of companies. It wasn't until 1989, when the company
brought in Mr. Carlucci, fresh off his two-year stint as U.S.
secretary of defense, that Carlyle got serious in government. In 1991
the company made a name for itself by facilitating a $590 million
purchase of Citicorp stock for Prince Alwaleed bin Talal." "Last
October,after New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani returned a $10
million gift to
the city from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal after the prince
criticized Israel in published comments, McKinney issued a public
letter supporting the prince"
Alwaleed bin Talal reportedly believes AOL is the `anchor' of
the Internet. Billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said Thursday
that
he intends to double his investment in America Online (NYSE: AOL),
bringing his stake to a whopping $2.05 billion (US$)
According to Reuters, PLO spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi was advised of
the Disney
decision by Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, a
large
share holder in Paris-based Euro Disney. Walt Disney Co. is
controlling
shareholder of Euro Disney with a 39 percent stake. "There will be
no
reference or presentation at the exhibit that Jerusalem is the
capital of
Israel," Hanan Ashrawi told Reuters.

Tuesday, September 14, 1999 9:52

(IsraelWire-9/14) According to a report by the Reuters News Agency,
Saudi
billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal has been assured that the
planned
Jerusalem exhibit at the Millennium Village of Florida's Epcot Center
would not depict Jerusalem as the capital of Israel as originally
planned.
According to the report, the Disney officials assured Saudi
officials that
the planned exhibit which was to show the accomplishments of the
Jewish
State and the Jewish People was to depict Jerusalem as the capital of
Israel. The planned move was met with threats of an international
boycott
by the Arab League and officials in the United Arab Emirates.
The prince is a nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd and has a high-
profile
international portfolio of investments in banks, hotels,
broadcasting, airlines, computers, cars and real estate.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal reportedly believes AOL is the `anchor'
of the
Internet. Billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said Thursday that he
intends to double his investment in America Online (NYSE: AOL),
bringing his stake to a whopping $2.05 billion (US$)" The prince
decided to invest more heavily in AOL because he reportedly believes
the company is the "anchor of the industry" and will flourish even
though other high-tech companies are "collapsing and going under left
and right."
"America Online is the No. 1 Internet company in the world and has a
solid foundation and is making profit," the prince said in published
reports. "When the dust settles on the dot-com industry, America
Online will be around."
"SAUDI PRINCE ALWALEED WILL INVEST ANOTHER $1B IN AOL"
Charles Molineaux, Patricia Sabga
11/20/2000
CNNfn; Capital Ideas
CNN is owned by AOL Time Warner.
"ADL Praises Mayor Giuliani for Taking a Principled Stand Against
Saudi's
Remarks on Trade Center Disaster
New York, NY, October 12, 2001 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
today
commended New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for his unequivocal
rejection of
statements by Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal criticizing U.S.
policy in the
Middle East as a cause for the attacks on September 11. The mayor
also refused
to accept the prince's donation of funds to the relief effort.

"We commend Mayor Giuliani for standing up to Prince Alwaleed and
rejecting his
tainted and forced rationalizations on terrorism and U.S. foreign
policy," said
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "We thank the mayor for
sending a
strong message to those who continue to degrade the memory of the
victims of the
World Trade Center attack with inappropriate and opportunistic
comparisons to
suffering in other parts of the world. There can be no moral
equivalency for
terrorism, and Mayor Giuliani, in rejecting the prince's offer, has
made that
completely clear. The mayor's wise leadership in the aftermath of
the terrorist
attacks continues to provide reassurance to New Yorkers and all
Americans."
Prince Alwaleed, after agreeing to commit $10 million to a relief
fund for
relatives of the victims of the September 11 attacks, issued a
statement
criticizing U.S. policy in the Middle East, particularly toward
Israel. "Our
Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of
Israelis while
the world turns the other cheek," the statement said, in part.
Mayor Giuliani categorically rejected the statement and indicated
that the city
would not accept the donation. "The people who did it (the terrorist
attacks)
lost any right to ask for justification for it when they slaughtered
4,000 or
5,000 innocent people. And to suggest that there's a justification
for it only
invites this happening in the future. It is highly irresponsible and
very, very dangerous," the mayor said.
The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading
organization
fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract
hatred, prejudice and bigotry."

What no anthrax for the late Peter Jennings? Ever wonder why DISNEY'S
Peter Jennings was NOT sent anthrax?
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990929/wl/mideast_disney_2.html
speaking of Disney which owns ABC TV look at the profiles they
present
at
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/israel116_players.html
notably lacking in the profile of arafat's hench-woman, Hanan
Ashrawi, is any mention of her relationship with key Disney asset
Peter Jennings "Anchor and Senior Editor World News Tonight"
http://abcnews.go.com/onair/WorldNewsTonight/jennings_peter_bio.html
http://www.deja.com/[ST_cam=rate.alta.none.didit]/rate/item.xp?
CID=115
61andPDID159andQRY=jennings+AND+ashwari
http://www.fair.org/whats-new/mranchorman.html Ashrawi allegedly had
a romantic relationship with ABC anchorman Peter Jennings
http://www.mediaresearch.org/news/mediawatch/1992/mw19920101nbites.ht
m
("PETER'S PALESTINIAN PALS. How well Peter Jennings knows
Palestinian leaders might surprise you. According to the December
30/January 6 issue of U.S. News and World Report, Jennings dated
Palestinian leader Hanan Ashrawi in the early 1970s. He served as
ABC's Beirut bureau chief when she was a graduate student. Jennings
told U.S. News: "Anyone who has known Hanan as long as I have is not
surprised to see her emerge as a persuasive spokesperson for the
Palestinians." This might help explain ABC's Middle East reporting. A
new study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs found that World
News Tonight coverage in the eight months since the end of the Gulf
War had a distinctive, pro-Arab, anti-Israeli tilt. While all three
networks were highly critical of Israel, "opinions expressed on ABC
were seven to one negative compared with five to one negative at the
other networks....By contrast, nearly three out of five ABC
assessments (58%) supported the various Arab proposals, compared to a
minority (45%) at the other networks.")with vehemently anti-Israel
former Beirut correspondent ABC anchor person Peter Jennings who also
"covered" Ashrawi http://www.beloitdailynews.com/1299/pale2.htm
Reference may well be made to the film "Jerusalem Stories: Reported
by
Peter Jennings," ABC is a Disney holding.
"Revolt spurs Disney shake-up

Thursday 04 March 2004, 2:22 Makka Time, 23:22 GMT   …
Walt Disney Company has relieved Michael Eisner as its chairman…
Former US
senator George Mitchell has been elected by the board to succeed as
the new
chairman. …"
source:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8E0BD4B3-C6D5-480A-A731-
40C167DE9BDB.htm
"National Association of Arab Americans executive director Khalil
Jahshan and
political analyst Neil Lendenman met Nov. 15 with members of the
Washington, DC
press corps to discuss the significance to Arab Americans of 1994
congressional
elections results. Jahshan noted that NAAA had always had good
relations with
retiring Democratic Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, an Arab
American…"
source: http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0195/9501061.htm
item below is excerpted from:
CNN LARRY KING WEEKEND Aired April 14, 2002 - 21:00   ET
which included a conversation between Larry King, and former Senate
Majority
Leader George Mitchell, author of the so-called "Mitchell Plan"
and   Hasan
Abdel Rahman, the chief representative in the United States of
arafat's gang.
"LARRY KING: Mr. Rahman, we have George Mitchell right here. Does
Arafat like
the Mitchell Plan?
HASAN ABEL RAHMAN: We endorsed it and we accept it and we are
willing to
implement it…"
SOURCE: http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0204/14/lklw.00.html

below is excerpted from

"LOU DOBBS TONIGHT
Aired March 10, 2006 - 18:00   ET
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/10/ldt.01.html
Note- we corrected the spelling of  the word Carlyle in "The Carlyle
Group"  which appeared at the cnn transcript page and added a link
to the web site  of  The Carlyle Group"
http://www.thecarlylegroup.com/eng/index.html
DOBBS: And we should point out, as we reported on Istithmar, the
Emirates company, is also a 2 percent—excuse me, has a $2 billion
investment in the stock of Time Warner, the parent of CNN. A recent
investment. We're delighted to have them as stockholders, I'm sure.

It's fascinating. It looks like this is just absolutely the
beginning….ROMANS: You're welcome. DOBBS: For those who keep track
of Halliburton and The Carlyle Group"
http://www.thecarlylegroup.com/eng/index.html
" by the way, today "The Wall Street Journal" in its editorial pages
noted it would like to see Halliburton buy the U.S. port operations
from Dubai, a sense, if you will, of perverse humor.

The Carlyle Group," http://www.thecarlylegroup.com/eng/index.html

"by the way, today, if you do follow things like The Carlyle Group"
http://www.thecarlylegroup.com/eng/index.html
" and Halliburton, said it plans to raise a billion-dollar fund to
buy, guess what, U.S. infrastructure, including ports. Dubai has
already put some capital into Carlyle's previous $8 billion
investment fund…."
Speaking of The Carlyle Group:
Perhaps the following may explain how Saddam knew where former
President Bush might be spending the night of September 10th-11th
2001.:
"Like everyone else in the United States, the group stood transfixed
as the events of September 11 unfolded. Present were former secretary
of defense Frank Carlucci, former secretary of state James Baker III,
and representatives of the bin Laden family. This was not some
underground presidential bunker or Central Intelligence Agency
interrogation room. It was the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., the
plush setting for the annual investor conference of one of the most
powerful, well-connected, and secretive companies in the world: the
Carlyle Group. And since September 11, this little-known company has
become unexpectedly important. That the Carlyle Group had its
conference on America's darkest day was mere coincidence, but there
is nothing accidental about the cast of characters that this
private-equity powerhouse has assembled in the 14 years since its
founding. Among those associated with Carlyle are former U.S.
President George Bush Sr., former U.K. Prime Minister John Major, and
former President of the Philippines Fidel Ramos. And Carlyle has
counted, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud of Saudi
Arabia, and Osama bin Laden's family among its high-profile
clientele."
http://www.redherring.com/vc/2002/0111/947.html
"CNN LARRY KING LIVE America's New War: Laura Bush Discusses the
Impact of September 11 Aired October 2, 2001 - 21:00 LARRY KING: A
couple of other things:
Have you spoken to your father- in-law? (Not in transcript, but the
father in law in question is one George Herbert Walker Bush !!!)
LAURA
BUSH: I've spoken to my father-in-law. They were-they had actually
spent that Monday night here. (not in transcript but "here" means at
the White House !!!) LARRY KING: Really? LAURA BUSH: I had just seen
them off that morning when I got in the-got in the car and found out
about the first plane. LARRY KING: Didn't know that. LAURA BUSH: They
were-they were on their way to St. Paul, Minnesota to give a speech,
and they were in a private plane, and their plane was diverted to
Minneapolis." http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/02/lkl.00.html
"September 11th, 2001 - The White House is
evacuated. White House Sealed"
http://www.september11news.com/AAWhiteHouseEvacReuters.jpg
"try to avoid having the principal
travel by commercial airline on terrorist anniversaries" from "The
Art
of Executive Protection"
http://www.securitymanagement.com/library/000450.html "

Below Ari Fleischer, then White House Press Secretary to President
George W. Bush is quoted:
"MR. FLEISCHER: John, we have real and credible information that the
airplane that landed at the Pentagon was originally intended to hit
the White House.
Q Can you tell us about the nature of that evidence?
MR. FLEISCHER: No, of course I cannot. Any questions relating to how
we have obtained any of this information, sources and methods, I
will, of course, not answer.
Q—why it changed course, Ari? Why it went to the Pentagon and not
the White House?
MR. FLEISCHER: We really do not know the answer to that. But we are
aware of what we have."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010912-

"Last Updated: Friday, 10 March 2006, 11:53 GMT
Second Dubai firm in US port link
A Dubai-owned firm is already providing shipping services in the
United States, it has emerged.
Inchcape Shipping Services," note, not part of article being quoted,
we added the link to that firm:
http://www.iss-shipping.com/
and added a quote from that firm's website here:
"In January 2006 Istithmar PJSC, a major investment house based in
the UAE acquired Inchcape Shipping Services from Electra Investment
Trust Plc.  ISS is the worlds leading Marine Services provider
managing over 50,000 port calls each year through 2,300 staff
located in 210 ports in over 50 countries. With over 2,500 clients
across the oil, cruise, navy, container and commodity sectors we
have developed, in partnership with some of the world's leading
operators, an innovative menu of tailored services. These range from
local trouble shooting to our global voyage management package. The
day-to-day operations, sales and product development are managed by
a Group Executive."
now to return to article being quoted:

"Second Dubai firm in US port link …
whose clients include the US Navy, has been owned since January by
the United Arab Emirates investment firm Istithmar.
Fellow Dubai firm Dubai Ports World has agreed to cede control of US
ports acquired in its takeover of P&O to a "US entity" after a
political outcry.
The US Congress threatened to block the takeover on security
grounds.
`Rigorous security'
Republican and Democrat politicians both claimed that the deal would
make key US assets more vulnerable to terrorist attack.
However, as Dubai Ports World conceded the deal would not go ahead
as planned, it emerged that Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has had
extensive interests in the US for many years.
ISS arranges pilots, tugs and dock workers for shipping companies
and works with the US Customs to ensure the smooth arrival and
departure of vessels at ports such as New York, New Jersey and San
Francisco.
ISS was bought by Istithmar, an investment firm ultimately owned by
the Dubai royal family, for $285m in January.
Following the takeover, ISS maintained its global headquarters in
London, where the firm's management is based.
In a statement, ISS said all its staff working at US ports were
fully vetted and cleared before being employed.
"As a company, ISS has undergone rigorous external security checks,
as well as having comprehensive internal policies on security," it
said.
Dubai Ports World has not explicitly said it will sell the
subsidiaries responsible for US ports although the White House has
suggested that this will be the end result.
Despite this apparent concession, leading US politicians have called
for a comprehensive review of ownership of key transport assets…."
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4792788.stm

"Mideast Investment Up in U.S.
…Ports Deal … Just Part of Flood of Oil Wealth Spilling Ashore
By Paul Blustein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 7, 2006; Page A01
…
Spearheading the trend is Dubai's Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktum
(popularly known as "Sheik Mo"), ruler of the freewheeling city-
state, which is part of the United Arab Emirates. The ports deal is
just one of a series of recent purchases by companies he controls.
Other acquisitions include a $1 billion portfolio of 21,000
apartments in U.S. Sun Belt cities; a 2.2 percent stake in the
automotive giant Daimler Chrysler AG that cost another $1 billion;"
Note: Not part of article being quoted, but interesting, to say the
least:
"Chrysler was bought some years ago, it is now part of a
bigger, non-U.S. firm which describes itself as:
"A Truly Global Company…passenger car brands include Maybach,
Mercedes-Benz, Chrysler, Jeep  Dodge and smart. Commercial vehicle
brands include Mercedes-Benz, Freightliner, Sterling, Western Star,
Setra and Mitsubishi Fuso. It offers financial and other automotive
services through Daimler Chrysler Financial Services.
…
Daimler Chrysler has a global workforce and a global shareholder
base. With 384,723 employees, Daimler Chrysler achieved revenues of
EUR 142.1 billion (USD 192.3 billion) in 2004….
…The Corporate History/Corporate Archives department of
DaimlerChrysler AG has its origins in the historical archives
founded in 1936 by the former Daimler-Benz AG; it has one of the
largest industrial archives in Europe."
And it is quite a history, another source on that history states:
"It is no historical secret that all of Adolf Hitler's favorite cars
were manufactured by Mercedes-Benz. Germany's 23rd Chancellor and
Führer of the Nazi Party owned Mercedes-Benz cars long before he was
even well-known in Germany. Hitler was a personal friend of Jakob
Werlin, the Mercedes Benz representative in München (Munich),
Germany and one of the directors of Daimler-Benz in Stuttgart-
Untertürkenheim. When Hitler became Chancellor he purchased or
caused to be purchased, enormous quantities of Mercedes-Benz built
machinery. With Hitler's benevolence both Mercedes-Benz and his
friend Werlin prospered greatly. Mercedes-Benz in aller Welt"
begins with photos of Chancellor Hitler, Reichsmarschall Hermann
Göring, Werlin (in a SS uniform), Hühnlein and other Nazis examining
cars in the Daimler-Benz display at the Internationale Automobil und
Motorrad Ausstellung (International Car and Motorcycle Exhibition)
in Berlin in March of 1939."
"According to the article excerpted from below:
"Other Companies in which Saddam holds major stock in : Matra 10%
and Daimler Benz 15% to name a couple more."
"This article originally appeared in The Washington Times
on March 29, 1998 Targeting Saddam's personal fortune
by Frank Cilluffo and Michael Palaschak
…Saddam Hussein and his inner circle control and manipulate nearly
all economic activity in Iraq. The Iraqi leadership skims money from
oil sales permitted by the United Nations for the purchase of
humanitarian supplies and makes a healthy "commission" from both the
legitimate Iraqi economy and the ever-increasing black market of
smuggled goods…. Saddam Hussein has large cash reserves hidden in
the global
electronic financial network and invested in legitimate corporations
from which he can afford the luxury of maintaining a loyal military
and security apparatus and which he can use to continue developing
chemical, and biological weapons, along with the means to deliver
them. Much like other despots, these hidden reserves are also Saddam
Hussein's "golden parachute," …
Before the Gulf war, estimates of Saddam's personal wealth were as
high as $20 billion….
Following the Gulf war, Kuwait retained Kroll Associates (a
leading "white collar" private investigations firm) to track and
identify Saddam Hussein's financial infrastructure with the hope of
receiving compensation incurred during the Iraqi occupation.
The investigation determined that much of his fortune is hidden in
private numbered accounts in the Middle East and Europe. Kroll also
was able to identify and ultimately publicized Saddam's investments
in large European companies such as Hachette 10%, which owns such
publications as: American Photo, Boating, Car and Driver, Elle, Elle
Décor, Ellegirl, Flying, Home Magazine, Metropolitan Home, Woman's
Day plus many others to name a few. Also, Hachette owns several news
publishing features such as; Guardian Newspapers LTD., The Eagle, El
Diario, Le Bien Public to name a few. Other Companies in which
Saddam holds major stock in is: Matra 10% and Daimler Benz 15% to
name a couple more.
But since Kroll is a private organization and had little support
from the international community, it could only scratch at the
surface….
More from the Transnational Threats Resource
Center /tnt/threatsrc.ht CSIS
1800 K St., NW
Washington, DC 20006
ph: 202.887.0200
fax: 202.775.3199"
now to return to the article being quoted:

"Mideast Investment Up in U.S.
"and a Manhattan landmark building, 230 Park Ave. The emirate also
made major purchases in other countries over the past year, notably
a $1.5 billion takeover of Britain's Tussauds Group, which owns the
famous waxworks, along with theme parks, roller coasters and other
entertainment-oriented businesses.
On Thursday came news that yet another Dubai acquisition is drawing
Bush administration scrutiny because of the national security risks—
this time of plants in Georgia and Connecticut that make precision
components used in engines for military aircraft and tanks.
…Dubai Investment Group …acquired the Essex House hotel in Manhattan
and promised to sink $50 million into renovating it….
Already, the list of U.S. businesses owned by Arab investors—not
just from Dubai—includes some well-known names. Among them are
Caribou Coffee Co., the fast-growing rival to Starbucks Corp.;
Church's Chicken, a fast-food concern; Loehmann's, a specialty
retailer; TLC Health Care Services Inc., a provider of home nursing
and hospice care; and even several financial publications, including
the American Banker….Mideast Investment Up in U.S.
…worries about a drying-up of Arab investment are overblown,
according to others, including C. MacLaine Kenan, an executive in
the Atlanta office of Arcapita Inc., one of the biggest firms
serving as a conduit for foreign Arab investors in U.S. businesses.
Arcapita has raised billions of dollars from investors in the UAE,
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and neighboring countries and has invested the
majority of it in the United States, where it owns Caribou Coffee,
Church's Chicken and other companies, as well as real estate. The
investments have to conform with sharia, or Islamic law, which means
that they cannot involve businesses that traffic in alcohol, pork,
pornography or gambling and that they have to use special types of
financing to avoid violating Muslim rules against charging interest….
…German investors held $163 billion. …(E.On AG of Germany,  controls
much of the gas and electricity distribution in Kentucky)…."
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2006/03/06/AR2006030601817_2.html
"Posted on Thu, Mar. 02, 2006
Bush camp investigating a 2nd Dubai company
JONATHAN WEISMAN SUSAN SCHMIDT
Washington Post
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration, stung by the public outcry
over the Dubai port deal, has launched a national security
investigation of another Dubai-owned company that is set to take
over plants in Georgia and Connecticut that make precision
components used in engines for military aircraft and tanks.
The administration notified congressional committees this week that
its secretive Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States
is investigating the security implications of Dubai International
Capital's $1.2 billion acquisition of London-based Doncasters Group
Ltd., which has subsidiaries in the United States…. Dubai
International Capital's acquisition of Doncasters could present some
of the same political problems created by Dubai Ports World's
purchase of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co.
Once again, a state-controlled Dubai company with deep pockets is
purchasing a British firm with U.S. holdings. Doncasters has
operations in nine U.S. locations and manufactures precision parts
for defense contractors such as Boeing, Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney
and General Electric.
A spokesperson for Doncasters' corporate office in Connecticut said
the company had no comment on the security probe.
The CFIUS met last week and tentatively decided to subject the
Doncaster proposal to a 45-day investigation, and it finalized that
decision in a conference call late Monday. The decision came on the
final day of the regular 30-day review period…"

"Dubai Company to Transfer U.S. Ports to American Company
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
and CARL HULSE
Published: March 9, 2006
WASHINGTON, March 9 — DP World, the United Arab Emirates state-owned
company that had agreed to buy several port terminals in the United
States, said today that it will transfer those properties to an
American-owned company, bowing to a political groundswell against
the acquisition.
The decision came just hours after a delegation of Republican
leaders in Congress told President Bush in an Oval Office meeting
that Congress would act within days to block the company's
acquisition of the United States port terminals in the name of
national security, lawmakers present said.
"The House spoke very clearly," Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the
Republican leader, said in an interview after the meeting.
Announcing the company's decision on the Senate floor about 1 p.m.,
Senator John W. Warner, Republican of Virginia, read a statement
from the company: "Because of the strong relationship between the
United Arab Emirates and the United States and to preserve that
relationship, DP World has decided to transfer fully the U.S.
operations of P & O North America to a United States entity."
The announcement did not immediately mollify Democrats, though
Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, a chief critic of the deal,
called it a promising development. But he added that if the Dubai-
owned company ultimately retained control over the port
operations, "I don't think our goals would be accomplished and
obviously we will need to study this agreement carefully."
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, concurred. "We
will have to wait and see what is really going to happen," Mr. Reid
said.
On Wednesday evening, the House Appropriations Committee voted
overwhelmingly to scuttle the deal giving DP World control of some
major seaport operations without awaiting the outcome of a 45-day
review of potential security risks.
Representative Jerry Lewis, the California Republican who is
chairman of the panel, added an amendment blocking the transaction
to an essential emergency spending measure for the war in Iraq and
for Hurricane Katrina recovery.
The vote was 62 to 2, a signal of the deep opposition to the
takeover on both sides of the aisle.
Mr. Lewis's effort was endorsed by Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of
Illinois, so the vote was not exactly a surprise. But it was a stark
example of Republicans breaking with their president, after years of
working in tandem or quietly settling differences behind closed
doors."
source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/09/politics/09cnd-ports.html?
hp&ex=1141966800&en=692ff24212750d79&ei=5094&partner=homepage

(March 9th, 2006) "Kolbe defends Bush Dubai ports plan
The Business Journal of Phoenix - 9:43 PM MST Wednesday
by Mike Sunnucks
The Business Journal
Arizona Republican Congressman Jim Kolbe was one of only two
lawmakers to vote against a federal measure Wednesday aimed at
blocking a controversial White House deal involving turning port
operations over to a state-owned company from the United Arab
Emirates.
The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday voted 62-2 in favor
of a measure blocking a plan to let Dubai-based DP Ports World from
taking over control of terminal operations at a number of U.S. ports
including New York and Miami. DP Ports World is acquiring a British
firm that currently handles those port operations.
Kolbe, a Tucson Republican who is not running for re-election this
year, voted against the measure along with U.S. Rep. Jim Moran, D-
Va.
Phoenix Democratic Congressman Ed Pastor also serves on the
Appropriations Committee and voted for the anti-UAE ports measure
which was put forward by committee chairman Jerry Lewis, R-Calif.
Kolbe defended his vote against the port plan.
"I opposed Chairman Lewis' amendment which blocks the Dubai World
Ports deal
because it diverts attention away from the real issue of port
security. Who
manages the ports has nothing to do with safety. Dubai is a proven
ally in the war on terror and blocking the sale sends the wrong
message. We must focus our attention on the issue at hand—providing
our ports with the
technology and resources needed to prevent terrorist attacks," said
Kolbe in a statement.
Critics of the Dubai ports plan worry about security and letting a
state-owned firm from an Arab nation manage U.S. seaports. The
United Arab Emirates has been an ally of the U.S. but does not
recognize Israel, and two of the 9/11 hijackers were from the UAE.
Scottsdale GOP Congressman J.D. Hayworth has joined rival Senate
Democrats including New York's Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton
in opposing DP World's port takeover. Public opinion polls also show
strong opposition to Bush-approved ports plan.
Kolbe is retiring at the end of the year in a district that includes
parts of Tucson as well as Tombstone and Sierra Vista."
source:
http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2006/03/06/daily40.html?
from_rss=1

"ICEJ NEWS - 04/23/2001
US Representative Jim Kolbe, who chairs the House subcommittee that
oversees American foreign aid, led a congressional delegation to the
region last week. On Thursday, Kolbe held a meeting with Arafat in
Ramallah …
Later, in an interview with THE JERUSALEM POST, Kolbe said… "It is
my view that he" (Arafat) "is fairly desperate now to get back to
the negotiating table." …
Kolbe said that Arafat raised the possibility of simultaneously
starting diplomatic negotiations without preconditions, and issuing
a joint declaration with Israeli Prime Minister Sharon on ending the
violence. Sharon later met with Kolbe and rejected the idea, saying
that Israel wants to see "actions and not declarations." Officials
in Sharon's office have said that Arafat brought up this idea with
Kolbe to try to come up with something constructive in order to get
an invitation to see President George W. Bush at the White House. A
senior aide to Arafat insisted, however, that the idea of making
simultaneous TV appearances to call for an end to the violence came
from Kolbe, and Arafat simply responded "Why not?"


http://www.worthynews.com/news-features/inside-mid-east-peace-
330.html
"REPORT OF EXPENDITURES FOR OFFICIAL FOREIGN TRAVEL, COMMITTEE ON
APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, EXPENDED BETWEEN OCT. 1
AND  DEC. 31, 2005
Hon. Jim Kolbe.........................    10/10       10/12
Lithuania................  ...........
510.00  ...........  ...........  ...........  ...........  .........
..       510.00
                                              10/12       10/14
Ukraine..................  ...........
672.00  ...........  ...........  ...........  ...........  .........
..       672.00
                                              10/14       10/17
Austria..................  ...........
1,161.81  ...........  ...........  ...........  ...........  .......
....     1,161.81
       Misc. Embassy
Costs................  ........  ..........  ........................
.  ...........  ...........  ...........  ...........  ...........
     2,565.36  ...........     2,565.36
       Commercial
Transportation..........  ........  ..........  .....................
....  ...........  ...........  ...........
270.58  ...........  ...........  ...........       270.58
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Hon. Jim Kolbe.........................    11/28       11/29
Pakistan.................  ...........
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Pakistan.................  ...........
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Source: http://frwebgate6.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?
WAISdocID=934372107007+1+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve

Jim Kolbe
AKA James Thomas Kolbe
Born: 28-Jun-1942
Birthplace: Evanston, IL
Gender: Male
Religion: Methodist
Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Gay
Occupation: Politician
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Congressman, Arizona 8th
Military service: US Navy (1965-69); US Navy Reserves (1970-77)
       University: BA Political Science, Northwestern University
(1965)
       University: MBA, Stanford University (1967)
       U.S. Congressman, Arizona 8th, 2003-
       U.S. Congressman, Arizona 5th, 1985-2003
       State Senate Arizona, 1977-82
       International Republican Institute Board of Directors
       Log Cabin Republicans National Advisory Board
       Ripon Society
       World Economic Forum
Official Website:
http://www.house.gov/kolbe/
http://www.nndb.com/people/506/000039389/

Sonoran news November 30th - December 6th, 2005
http://www.sonorannews.com
"Say good-by to Jim Kolbe
By Bob Haran, Phoenix
        Regarding Congressman Jim Kolbe's decision not to run for
reelection, in a word, "Hallelujah." When someone retires or passes
away, we try to say something nice about that person; we downplay
his negatives and point out his positives. I would like to do the
same for Congressman Jim Kolbe, but I really don't have the time to
do that much research, other then to say, I wholeheartedly approve
of his decision to leave Congress.
       I'm sure Kolbe will be missed by Mexican President Vicente Fox,
he is one of the best members of Congress Mexico has ever had in the
United States.
       Kolbe was one of the leading members of Congress responsible
for
the passage of NAFTA and CAFTA. NAFTA has resulted in the loss of
thousands of American jobs to Mexico and CAFTA will help export
American jobs to Central America. Kolbe is also a strong supporter
of FTAA, (Free Trade Area of the America's), which will further
lessen American sovereignty, advance globalism and cause the loss of
even more American jobs.
       I know that Kolbe's announcement will sadden cheap labor
advocates, drug smugglers and traffickers in human beings.
       What Congressman Tom Tancredo is to securing America's borders
and controlling illegal immigration, Kolbe is to open borders and
uncontrolled illegal immigration.
       The departure of Kolbe from Congress signifies the beginning of
the removal from office of Members of Congress that are obstructing
the securing of our borders and the enforcement of our immigration
laws. Kolbe may be responsible for exporting American jobs but he
has also helped to import; cheap labor, along with crime and poverty
and the resulting cost to the taxpayer.
       Republican social conservatives may be singing, "Happy days are
here again,' on learning of his retirement.
       Jim Kolbe is the, only, openly, homosexual Republican in
Congress. Kolbe is not only pro-abortion, he is one of the few
Republicans to vote against the partial birth abortion ban. He will
be surely missed by the gay community and Planned Parenthood.
       In Kolbe's announcement, he states that he is, "Confident that
he would win reelection if he chose to run." That statement would be
true if he had no opponent in the Republican primary, but Kolbe did
have a challenger for the GOP nomination for Congress from Southern
Arizona.
       Randy Graf, a former member of the Arizona House, had decided
to
challenge Mr. Kolbe for the GOP nomination. Graf's candidacy may
have been the deciding factor in Kolbe's surprise decision, not to
run for reelection, along with the passage of Proposition 200, which
Kolbe had opposed.
       Graf is everything Kolbe is not. Where Kolbe has become the
poster boy for illegal immigration, Graf has become the poster boy
for securing America's borders and was a leader behind the passage
of Proposition 200.
       Where Kolbe is a pro-abortion liberal, Graf is a solid, pro-
life, social conservative.
       It seems that Jim Kolbe was reading the writing on the wall and
figured that he is out of step with Republican voters in Southern
Arizona and that this would be a good time to call it quits."
November 30 - December 6, 2005 • Vol. 11 No. 48 • sonorannews.com
http://www.sonorannews.com/archives/2005/2005-
11/051130/LettersToEd.html#Letter4

Congressman Jim Kolbe 8TH DISTRICT ARIZONA PRESS RELEASE

 	   March 8, 2006


 	   KOLBE HAILS FREE TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH MALAYSIA


 	   (Washington, DC)  --  Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ), a leader in
free trade, today praised United States Trade Representative Rob
Portman for launching formal negotiations aimed at a free trade
agreement between the United States and Malaysia.  A free trade
agreement between the two countries will have significant economic
impact in the US.  Malaysia is the United States 10th largest
trading partner and the largest US export market among the
Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN).  The elimination of
barriers will keep the US competitive with other countries such as
China, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, which are already
negotiating preferential agreements with Malaysia.  In particular,
Arizona will benefit significantly from this agreement."Arizona
ranks as the fourth largest state exporter to Malaysia with $750
million in exports in 2005," said Rep. Kolbe.  "This agreement will
allow us to create more jobs at home and bring US products – many of
which are made in southern Arizona – to other parts of the world."
Malaysia has been a key ally and partner in the war against
terrorism and is an important part of the Islamic world.  Malaysia
is also a leader in promoting regional defense cooperation with the
United States in Southeast Asia. "A free trade agreement with
Malaysia is about more than economics.  By opening the markets, we
will build on our already strong bilateral relationship with
Malaysia," added Kolbe

source:
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/az08_kolbe/Malaysia_FTA_030806.h
tml

"Ex-intel officer pleads guilty in exports
By Seth Hettena, Associated Press Writer  |  October 18, 2005
SAN DIEGO—A former Navy intelligence officer pleaded guilty Tuesday
to illegally exporting military aircraft parts overseas, saying he
acted on behalf of a convicted Pakistani arms dealer.
·
George Charles Budenz II, a retired commander, said he shipped
engine parts for F-5 fighters, T-38 military trainers and Chinook
helicopters to Malaysia and Belgium without a U.S. State Department
permit.
Investigators said the F-5 parts may have wound up in Iran, a
country that Budenz has visited.
Budenz, 57, had faced a 30-year prison term, but prosecutors said
they would recommend up to 6 ½ years under a plea agreement when he
is sentenced in January. Budenz surrendered his passport and was
freed on $35,000 bond.
In court, Budenz admitted he made the air freight shipments in
December 2004 and January 2005 at the direction of Arif Ali Durrani.
Last month, Durrani pleaded not guilty to conspiring to illegally
export military aircraft engine parts to the United Arab Emirates,
Malaysia and Belgium.
Prosecutor William Cole, speaking to reporters, declined to say
whether Budenz had agreed to cooperate with the Durrani
investigation.
"Mr. Durrani was the mastermind of this conspiracy and Mr. Budenz,
he was the lieutenant or the facilitator in getting these products
out of the United States," said Serge Duarte, the agent in charge of
Immigration and Customs Enforcement's San Diego office.
While investigators have yet to determine what happened to the
parts, Duarte said, "it's conceivable these parts could have gone to
Iran or other parts of the world."
Investigators have not recovered the parts that Budenz shipped
overseas.
Defense attorney Thomas P. Matthews said his client had a stamp in
his passport showing he had visited Iran, but the attorney was not
sure when the trip took place and said no evidence has been
presented showing Budenz had sold weapons there.
Durrani's attorney, Moe Nadim, has said Budenz did not sell aircraft
parts in Iran at his client's instruction.
Budenz served in the U.S. Navy for more than 25 years, most of the
time as a reserve intelligence officer with postings all over the
world.
A third man, Richard Tobey, pleaded guilty in August to conspiring
to violate U.S. arms export control laws and said Durrani instructed
him to send a T-38 cockpit canopy to the United Arab Emirates."
source:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/10/18/ex_intel_office
r_pleads_guilty_in_exports/
"Posted 10/16/2003 8:19 AM     Updated 10/16/2003 10:41 AM
Malaysian PM urges Muslims to unite against `Jewish domination'
PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
on Thursday told a summit of Islamic leaders that "Jews rule the
world by proxy" and the world's 1.3 billion Muslims should unite,
using nonviolent means for a "final victory."
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad delivers his speech as
chairman of the 10th Session of the Organization of the Islamic
Conference.
By B.K.Bangash, AP
His speech at the Organization of the Islamic Conference summit,
which he was hosting, drew criticism from Jewish leaders, who warned
it could spark more violence against Jews.
Mahathir — known for his outspoken, anti-Western rhetoric —
criticized what he described as Jewish domination of the world and
Muslim nations' inability to adequately respond to it.
"The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million, but today
the Jews rule the world by proxy," Mahathir said, opening the
meeting of Islamic leaders from 57 nations. "They get others to
fight and die for them."
Malaysia, a democratic nation which has a large non-Muslim
population and does not enforce strict Islamic law, has long been a
critic of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories and of U.S.
policy in the Middle East, including the war in Iraq and
Washington's strong backing of the Jewish state.
Mahathir, 77, who is retiring on Oct. 31, has used almost every
international podium to lambaste the West for two decades, winning a
reputation as an outspoken champion of Third World causes.
"For well over half a century we have fought over Palestine. What
have we achieved? Nothing. We are worse off than before," he
said. "If we had paused to think, then we could have devised a plan,
a strategy that can win us final victory."
The prime minister, who has turned his country into the world's 17th-
ranked trading nation during his 22 years in power, said
Jews "invented socialism, communism, human rights and democracy" to
avoid persecution and gain control of the most powerful countries.
Mahathir added that "1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few
million Jews," but he suggested using political and economic tactics
instead of violence.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Jonathan Peled expressed
disappointment in the remarks but said he wasn't surprised.
"It is not new that in such forums there is always an attempt to
reach the lowest common denominator, which is Israel bashing," he
said in Jerusalem. "But obviously we'd like to see more moderate and
responsible kind of declarations coming out of such summits."
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center
in Los Angeles, said Mahathir has used anti-Israel statements in the
past to prove he's tough on the West. But, he said, Thursday's
speech was still worrisome.
"What is profoundly shocking and worrying is the venue of the
speech, the audience and coming in the time we're living in," Cooper
said during a visit to Jerusalem. "Mahathir's speech today is an
absolute invitation for more hate crimes and terrorism against Jews.
That's serious."
U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia Marie Huhtala declined to comment on
Mahathir's speech. Washington was angered over a speech he made in
February, as host of the Non-Aligned Movement of 117 countries, in
which he described the looming war against Iraq as racist.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he supported Mahathir's analysis,
which also included steps for how Muslim nations can develop
economically and socially.
"It is great to hear Prime Minister Mahathir speak so eloquently on
the problems of the ummah (Muslim world) and ways to remedy them,"
Karzai said. "His speech was an eye-opener to a lot of us and that
is what the Islamic world should do."
The summit is the first since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks
reshaped global politics and comes at a time when many Muslims —
even U.S. allies — feel the war on terrorism has become a war
against them.
"It is well known that the Islamic community is being targeted today
more than at any other time before in its creed, culture and social
and political orientation," said Qatar's ruler, Sheikh Hamad bin
Khalifa al-Thani, who hosted the U.S. headquarters in the Iraq war.
The status of Iraq also proved a divisive issue. Malaysia resisted
inviting the U.S.-picked Iraqi Governing Council, describing it as a
puppet of American occupation. But Arab countries that have
recognized the interim body prevailed and council representatives
were attending the summit.
Leaders attending the summit included Jordan's King Abullah, Syrian
President Bashar Assad, Morocco's King Mohammed VI, Pakistani
President Pervez Musharraf and Indonesian President Megawati
Sukarnoputri.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Philippine President Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo are attending as special observers because of their
large Muslim minorities.
Excerpts from speech

Excerpts from Malaysian prime minister's speech at Islamic leaders'
summit:"Our only reaction is to become more and more angry. Angry
people cannot think properly. And so we find some of our people
acting irrationally. They launch their own attacks, killing just
about everybody including fellow Muslims to vent their anger and
frustration.""There is a feeling of hopelessness among the Muslim
countries and their people. They feel they can do nothing right.
They believe that things can only get worse.""But is it true that we
should do and can do nothing for ourselves? Is it true that 1.3
billion people can exert no power to save themselves from the
humiliation and oppression inflicted on them by a much smaller
enemy? Is there no other way than to ask our young people to blow
themselves up and kill people and invite the massacre of more of our
own people?""We are actually very strong. 1.3 billion people cannot
be simply wiped out. The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12
million, but today the Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others
to fight and die for them."


source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-10-16-malaysia-
summit_x.htm

"Dubai threat to hit back By Roxana Tiron
Dubai is threatening retaliation against American strategic and
commercial interests if Washington blocks its $6.8 billion takeover
of operations at several U.S. ports.As the House Appropriations
Committee yesterday marked up legislation to kill Dubai Ports
World's acquisition of Britain's Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Navigation (P&O), the emirate let it be known that it is preparing
to hit back hard if necessary.A source close to the deal said
members of Dubai's royal family are furious at the hostility both
Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill have shown toward the
deal."They're saying, `All we've done for you guys, all our
purchases, we'll stop it, we'll just yank it,'" the source
said.Retaliation from the emirate could come against lucrative deals
with aircraft maker Boeing and by curtailing the docking of hundreds
of American ships, including U.S. Navy ships, each year at its port
in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the source added.It is not clear
how much of Dubai's behind-the-scenes anger would be followed up by
action, but Boeing has been made aware of the threat and is already
reportedly lobbying to save the ports deal.The Emirates Group
airline will decide later this year whether it will buy Boeing's new
787 Dreamliner or its competitor, Airbus A350. The airline last fall
placed an order worth $9.7 billion for 42 Boeing 777 aircraft,
making Dubai Boeing's largest 777 customer.Dubai in mid-February
also established the Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, a $15 billion
investment to create a company that will lease planes, develop
airports and make aircraft parts to tap into growing demand for air
travel in the Middle East and Asia.The family-ruled sheikhdom may
buy as many as 50 wide-body aircraft from Boeing and Airbus during
the next four years, according to Aerospace Enterprise officials.The
UAE military also bought Boeing's Apache helicopters. Meanwhile,
Boeing has been in talks with the emirates to try to sell its AWACS
planes.An industry official with knowledge of Boeing's contracts
with Dubai said that the company has been involved in the emirate
and that it would take a lot "to knock" those relationships."Nothing
about the [ports] controversy diminishes our commitment to the
region," said John Dern, Boeing's corporate spokesman. He added that
at this point the company has no indication that there is or will be
an impact on the company.Any repercussion to Boeing could put House
Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) in a delicate position. Boeing's
decision to move its headquarters to Chicago has been seen as
calculated to facilitate a close relationship with Hastert. He is
against the ports deal, and his office did not return calls by press
time.Several businesses have expressed concern that the controversy
over the $6.8 billion ports deal could damage trade with the UAE.
Dubai is one of the seven emirates. The United States and the UAE
are meeting next week for a fourth round of talks to sign a free-
trade agreement. The American Business Group of Abu Dhabi, which has
no affiliation with the U.S. government, said that Arabs may
hesitate to invest into the United States, according to a report by
Reuters.A Republican trade lobbyist said that because the ports deal
is a national-security issue blocking it would not be in violation
of World Trade Agreement rules."In terms of them retaliating legally
against the U.S. … I don't think there are many options there," the
lobbyist said.But when it comes to the emirates' cooperation in the
war on terrorism and in intelligence gathering, there is concern
that some help may be pulled."If we reject the company in terms of
doing the [ports] work, they are going to lose a lot of face. In the
Arab culture, losing face is a big deal," a former government
official said. "We risk losing that help. It is not an empty
threat."Dubai is a critical logistics hub for the U.S. Navy and a
popular relaxation destination for troops fighting in the Middle
East. On many occasions since the ports story erupted, the Pentagon
has stressed the importance of the U.S-UAE relationship.Last year,
the U.S. Navy docked 590 supply vessels in Dubai, plus 56 warships,
Gordon England, deputy secretary of defense, said in a Senate
hearing last month. About 77,000 military personnel went on leave in
the UAE last year, he added.During the hearing, he warned about the
implications of a negative decision on the ports deal: "So obviously
it would have some effect on us, and I'd not care to quantify that,
because I don't have the facts to quantify it. It would certainly
have an effect on us."Although owned by the Dubai government, the
company at the heart of this controversy, Dubai Ports World, is
trying to distance itself from any kinds of threats, said a lobbyist
closely tracking the deal.Another lobbyist monitoring the
controversy said K Street still believes there will be a compromise
that allows the Dubai deal to go through while meeting congressional
security concerns, even though a bill aimed at that result, put
forward by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King (R-
N.Y.), was widely repudiated amongst lawmakers Tuesday.Senate
leaders have indicated that they would wait to take action until the
new 45-day Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States
(CFIUS) review is completed.Meanwhile, in London, DP World cleared
the last hurdle for its take over of P&O. The Court of Appeal in
London refused Miami-based Eller & Co., which opposed the deal,
permission to appeal against clearances for the legal and financial
measures necessary to implement the takeover.P&O said it expects to
file the requisite court orders, making the takeover terms binding
on DP World, according to the Financial Times.Elana Schor
contributed to this report."
source:
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/030906/n
ews1.html

List of U.S. Ports Affected by Dubai Deal
By The Associated PressMon Mar 6, 7:24 PM ET
Here is a list of all U.S. ports affected by the pending sale of
London-based Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation
_Baltimore: DP World would manage and operate two of the port's 14
terminals,

Homeland Security says.
_Baton Rouge, La.: DP World would run some stevedoring operations at
the port's general cargo dock, a port spokeswoman said.
_Beamont, Texas: DP World would run one of about six stevedoring
operations, the port's manager said.
_Boston: DP World would operate the Black Falcon Cruise Terminal
with the Massachusetts Port Authority, and would run stevedoring
operations at the Moran Automobile Terminal, according to Peninsular
& Oriental.
_Camden, N.J.: DP World would run some stevedoring operations as
part owners of Delaware River Stevedores, according to Peninsular &
Oriental.
_Corpus Christi, Texas: DP World would operate some stevedoring
operations as part of a joint venture, Dix-Fairway, according to a
port spokesman and Peninsular & Oriental.
_Davisville, R.I.: DP World would run some stevedoring operations, a
spokesman for Peninsular & Oriental's local office said.
_Freeport, Texas: DP World would run some stevedoring operations, a
port spokesman said.
_Galveston, Texas: DP World would run some stevedoring operations at
one terminal, a port spokeswoman said.
_Gulfport, Miss.: DP World would become one of two stevedoring
companies, a port spokesman said.
_Houston: DP World would work with other stevedoring contractors at
three of the port's 12 terminals, Homeland Security said.
_Lake Charles, La.: DP World would operate some stevedoring
operations, a spokeswoman said.
_Miami: DP World would operate and manage with another firm, Eller &
Company Inc., one of the port's three terminals, not including
Miami's seven cruise ship terminals, Homeland Security said. It also
would operate some stevedoring services.
_Newark: DP World would operate and manage one of the port's four
terminals, Homeland Security said.
_New Orleans: DP World would manage and operate two of the port's
five terminals, not including chemical-plant terminals along the
Mississippi River, Homeland Security said.
_New York: DP World would manage and operate the New York Cruise
Terminal, Homeland Security said.
_Norfolk, Va.: DP World would be involved with stevedoring
activities at all five of the port's terminals but would not manage
any terminal, Homeland Security said.
_Philadelphia: DP World would operate one of the port's five
terminals, not including the port's single cruise ship terminal,
Homeland Security said.
_Port Arthur, Texas: DP World would operate as one of three
stevedoring companies, the director said.
_Portland, Maine: DP World would operate as one of the stevedoring
companies that serves Portland's terminals, and it would take over
crane maintenance at one terminal, according to Portland's director,
Capt. Jeffrey W. Monroe.
_Tampa, Fla.: DP World would operate and manage some terminals under
a pending contract Tampa's port authority negotiated Feb. 21, but
the port authority said it will reconsider the deal if DP World's
purchase of Peninsular & Oriental is finalized. DP World also would
provide some stevedoring services.
_Wilmington, Del.: DP World would run some stevedoring operations as
part owners of Delaware River Stevedores, one of two stevedoring
companies at the port.
source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060307/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/ports_security_
list_1

"March 14, 2003
WASHINGTON - … Rep. Eric I. Cantor of the 7th District, who belongs
to the House GOP leadership and is the chamber's lone Jewish
Republican. Cantor quickly heightened his political profile in
Washington this week as he condemned Moran's recent remarks and went
further.
Cantor immediately called on the Democratic Party to "clean up its
own house" and pointed to the Senate Republicans' deposing of then-
leader Trent Lott in December….Cantor, meanwhile, has become the
chief focus of an effort to let American Jews know that they can
find a home in the Republican Party, one GOP strategist said.
The Moran episode elevated Cantor's visibility to Jewish
organizations nationally and put him in a position to point out
Democrats' remarks, said the strategist, who added that he would not
be surprised to see Cantor active in President Bush's re-election
campaign.
On Wednesday, Cantor urged the House Democratic leadership to remove
Moran from seats on the influential Appropriations and Budget
committees.
He said in a statement that he found the premise of Moran's
thinking "frighteningly similar" to the "Protocols of the Elders of
Zion," which he called "hate-filled czarist tomes" from Russia
centuries ago.
Before a group of Orthodox Jewish leaders from around the nation
Wednesday, Cantor used similar language. He introduced House
Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, to the group. DeLay said the
Democratic Party "appears to countenance remarks like those made by
Representative Moran in the past few weeks."
Cantor, a second-term congressman and chief deputy majority whip,
said yesterday he was just speaking "from the heart" in responding
to Moran's remarks.
He noted that the meeting with the Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of America had been scheduled well in advance.
"There's no particular political strategy," said Cantor political
adviser Ray Allen Jr. Allen said "everybody in the world" telephoned
for Cantor's reaction to Moran's remarks, and Cantor "spoke out in a
responsible manner. That's about the size of it."
Moran …has said he plans to fight for re-election. That is despite a
letter Wednesday by six Jewish Democrats in the House saying Moran
should not run again.
…
Moran told Roll Call newspaper, a Capitol Hill publication,
that "I'm not going to be intimidated. . . . It's unhealthy for the
American political process for any group within our society to be
able to decide who should and shouldn't represent a constituency."
David Bernstein, Washington director for the American Jewish
Committee, said Moran again raised " the canard of Jewish control"
in suggesting that "one group - the Jewish community - will decide
who represents his district."
Rep. Thomas M. Davis III, R-11th, who has worked closely with the
Northern Virginia Democrat, declined to answer directly yesterday
when asked whether Moran's effectiveness has been diminished.
"I'm still returning his calls," Davis said. "We honor the voters'
choice in this. I think whatever political fallout there is, we'll
find out over the next few months."
In a separate development, Secretary of State Colin Powell rejected
any suggestion that the Bush administration's confrontation with
Iraq was driven by Israel or American Jews.
The drive to disarm Iraq dates back to the end of the Persian Gulf
War and covers two administrations and 12 years of U.N. resolutions,
he told a House Appropriations subcommittee.
"It is driven by our own national interest," Powell said in response
to a question by the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz.
Kolbe mentioned recent media commentary and asked Powell to
state "the actual origins of our Iraq policy."
source: http://www.cantorforcongress.com/news/2003/morans_stumble.htm
Murtha and Moran both voted against the  ARMING PILOTS AGAINST
TERRORISM ACT

H. Res. 472
source:
http://frwebgate6.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?
WAISdocID=936986112385+25+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve
"[Congressional Record: October 15, 2001 (Senate)]
[Page S10676-S10679]
From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:cr15oc01-21]


PROHIBITING UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATIONS
Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, today I rise to say the national
antiterrorism legislation passed by this body is in grave danger of
being rendered useless. The bill passed by this body corrected an
immediate and severe impediment to the undercover investigations
that
must be employed to shut down terrorism in our Nation. The
antiterrorism bill passed by this body included legislation
introduced
by Senator Leahy, Senator Hatch, and myself that would untie the
hands
of Federal prosecutors in my home State of Oregon and remove the
roadblocks that currently all but prohibit undercover investigations
there.
Unfortunately, the antiterrorism legislation passed by the House
strips that provision and rips back open the enormous loophole that
potentially makes Oregon a safe haven for dangerous criminals and
terrorists everywhere.
For
more than a year now, State and Federal prosecuting attorneys in
Oregon have been legally prohibited from advising or participating
in
law enforcement undercover investigations. Without advice of
counsel,
law enforcement operatives cannot conduct wiretaps, sting
operations,
or infiltrate dangerous criminal operations. Covert investigations
in
my State have been shut down for more than a year. If the Senate
does
not insist on antiterrorism language to restart these investigations
in
Oregon, the national antiterrorism legislation will not be national
at
all; it will cover 49 States and it will give dangerous criminals,
including terrorists, not just a license but practically an engraved
invitation to set up shop in Oregon with little fear of detection or
apprehension through undercover or covert methods. It would
endanger,
not just the people of my State but all Americans.
I wish to explain briefly how this situation came about. It started
here in Washington in 1998. An amendment to the omnibus
appropriations
bill started the ball rolling in Washington, DC. A McDade-Murtha
amendment required Federal prosecutors to abide by the State ethics
laws and rules in the State in which they work. In Oregon, the State
bar association enacted a disciplinary rule making it unethical for
attorneys to take part in any practice involving "deceit or
misrepresentation of any
kind."
When an Oregon attorney misrepresented his identity to investigate a
claim, the State supreme court found him guilty of an ethics
violation.
The McDade-Murtha amendment backed that up. It became very clear no
matter how vital the investigation, no matter how great the need, no
matter how dangerous the criminals, attorneys—including Federal,
State, and
[[Page S10677]]
local prosecutors—are simply absolutely not allowed to take a single
step, not even to give advice, to help in an undercover
investigation.
If an undercover investigator cannot get advice from a Federal,
State,
or local prosecutor, that undercover investigator cannot go forward.
It
is that simple: no wiretaps, no sting operations, no infiltrating or
gathering information on any criminal group no matter how dangerous
their bent or how dastardly their plans… The terrorists
made their homes in Florida and New Jersey before
striking Americans in New York and Virginia. I don't want to find 6
months from now that the terrorists made their homes in Oregon
because
this body failed in its resolve to shut them down in every State in
our
country. Leaving one State vulnerable makes each State in this
country
vulnerable.
I implore the conferees, and indeed the Congress, to act swiftly and
judicially to guarantee that our
Federal prosecutors and investigators
have these essential tools that they have asked us to support on a
bipartisan basis so they can conduct covert operations that are that
are
necessary to prevent and prosecute criminals in terrorist acts."
source: http://frwebgate6.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?
WAISdocID=937180114579+23+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve
"Congressional Record: November 12,
1998 (House)]
[Page H11711-H11719]
From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:cr12no98-82]



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source: http://frwebgate5.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?
WAISdocID=938377456927+1+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve

"March 2, 2006

UAE served as transfer point for nuclear weapons, Hunter charges By
Roxana Tiron
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) isn't buying repeated assurances from
President Bush and Pentagon officials that the United Arab Emirates
is a key ally of the United States, and therefore the deal giving a
UAE-owned company control of six U.S. ports poses no threat.Numerous
lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are fuming over the
administration's approval of a $6.8 billion deal to allow Dubai
Ports World to take over significant operations at six U.S. ports
without a thorough investigation and without consulting Congress.
Administration officials from the Pentagon to the Department of
Homeland Security have insisted on numerous occasions that the deal
did not pose any national security threats.But Hunter, chairman of
the House Armed Services Committee, during a hearing on Thursday
insisted otherwise, calling the United Arab
Emirates "accommodators."        "They accommodate people who come
with lots of money," Hunter said, adding that UAE has not been a
consistent supporter of the United States. According to Hunter,
Dubai, one of the emirates, played a key role as a transfer point in
the trade of nuclear weapons.In 2003, over U.S. protests, Hunter
said UAE customs officials allowed 66 American high-speed electrical
switches, which are ideal for detonating nuclear weapons, to be sent
to a Pakistani businessman with longstanding ties to the Pakistani
military.In another incident, he said 70 tons of heavy water, a
component for nuclear reactors, was sent from China to Dubai. The
shipping labels were then changed to mask the transaction, and 60
tons of the heavy water was forwarded to India, where it enabled the
government to use its energy-producing reactors to create plutonium
for its atomic weapons program, Hunter charged. Two containers of
gas centrifuge parts from the Pakistani head of a weapons-of-mass-
destruction ring, A. Q. Khan's, were shipped through Dubai to Iran
for about $3 million worth of UAE. currency, Hunter added."They [the
U.A.E] is not interested in who it is, as long as they get to be the
bazaar," Hunter said. "They are an international player who can't be
ignored because of their size, money and strategic location. [But]
those are people you do not want close to the security
apparatus."During the same hearing, Edward Bilkey, the CEO of Dubai
Ports World, attempted to make an impassioned appeal to lawmakers
about his U.S. roots.Bilkey grew up in New Jersey and boasts ties to
former Sen. Joseph Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.), who was the chairman of
the committee on coast defenses and was a cousin of Rep. Rodney
Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.)."In every generation from the founding of the
United States to today, members of my family have served in the
Senate, House of Representatives or as Secretary of State," Bilkey
said in prepared remarks.A former officer in the U.S. Navy, Bilkey
said he personally "set in motion" the arrangements for the first
aircraft carrier to enter the port of Jebel Ali in Dubai "solving a
major logistics problem for the Navy" during the first Gulf War.He
also said that DP World's senior management is from the United
States, Britain, India, Netherlands and Dubai."Our board chairman, a
citizen of Dubai, went to Temple University. Our Chief Executive
Officer also a citizen of Dubai, is a graduate of the University of
Arizona," Bilkey said."
source:
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/030206/u
ae.html
"Overflow Crowd Hears Murtha, Moran Speak on War
Friday January 06, 2006


ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - Emotions ran high at a public forum on the war
in Iraq hosted by northern Virginia Congressman Jim Moran.
Some 500 packed the auditorium in Arlington, as well as an overflow
room, spilling onto the street.
Moran has been an outspoken critic of the war. His guest speaker was
fellow Democratic Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania who
renewed his call for an immediate pullout.
Pentagon officials have criticized Murtha, accusing him of sending
the wrong message to troops and hurting recruiting efforts."
So who is Jim Moran?
"Moran steps down from leadership post
Lawmaker under fire for saying Jews push war with Iraq
Friday, March 14, 2003
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Harshly criticized for saying pressure from the
Jewish community was driving the push toward a possible war against
Iraq, Rep. James Moran stepped down Friday as a House Democratic
regional whip.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California issued a
statement indicating she left Moran, D-Virginia, with little choice
but to give up his leadership post.
"I have taken this action because Congressman Moran's irresponsible
remarks were a serious mistake," Pelosi said in a statement. "As I
said earlier this week, his comments were not only inappropriate,
they were offensive and have no place in the Democratic Party."
Moran has been under fire since March 3, when he said at an antiwar
forum that Jewish leaders were pushing a war with Iraq.
"If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for
this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this," he said at the
forum in Reston, Virginia. "The leaders of the Jewish community are
influential enough that they could change the direction of where
this is going and I think they should."
The comments drew condemnation from the White House, Jewish leaders,
and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle….The controversy over
Moran's remarks
has been compared by some to
the firestorm generated when Sen. Trent Lott, R-Mississippi appeared
to express nostalgia for segregation during a December birthday
party for former Sen. Strom Thurmond. Under pressure, Lott stepped
down as Senate majority leader, but he remains in the Senate.
On Wednesday, a number of Jewish House Democrats urged Moran not to
seek re-election in the wake of his comments. In Virginia, several
local Democrats have already expressed interest in challenging Moran
for re-election.
The leader of the Jewish Community Council of Washington said Moran
should consider resigning. Moran, 57, has said he will not give up
his seat.
The Anti-Defamation League was also among those that condemned
Moran's comments.
"This is one voice in the chorus spreading a new lie, the age-old
anti-Semitic canard that when our country faces danger, Jews are
responsible," it said.
"As we move closer to an invasion with Iraq, the drumbeat of `blame
the Jews'—meaning Jews in the administration, the `Jewish lobby' and
the Jewish community—is intensifying and multiplying.
"Congressman Moran's remarks are symptomatic of a more serious
problem—that in times of crisis and anxiety, Jews continue to be a
convenient and tempting option for scapegoating."
SOURCE: http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/14/moran.remarks/
"If any one of these groups—the British, the Jewish, or the
administration—stops agitating for war, I believe there will be
little danger of our involvement."
Charles Lindbergh- September 11, 1941-Des Moines, Iowa
In 1936, Charles Lindbergh "inspected" Germany's military aviation
program…
In August of 1936  Charles Lindbergh attended the Summer Olympic
Games in Berlin as a guests of Nazi Hermann Goering, the head of the
Luftwaffe. Impressed by German industry and society under Adolf
Hitler, the Lindberghs considered moving to Berlin.
In 1938, Goering presented Lindbergh with the Service Cross of the
German Eagle for his contributions to aviation. Returning to America
in 1939, Lindbergh became an advocate of American isolationism, but
was criticized for his Nazi sympathies and anti-Semitic beliefs.
Charles Lindbergh with ReichsmarshallHerman Goering in Berlin, 1938.
Goering decorated Lindbergh at a state dinner with the
Verdienstkreuz der Deutscher Alder(Service Cross Of The German
Eagle), one of the highest Nazi civilian medals, by order of Adolph
Hitler. This event signalled the beginning of the end of Lindbergh's
huge international popularity.
Lindbergh (at Goering's invitation) visited Nazi Germany four times
since 1936. He openly admired the discipline, intellect,
organization, and strength of the Nazis, and their views on the
traditional role of women. Lindbergh despised the "degeneracy of
Swing Era America" he had nothing good to say about "African Jazz",
or even of dancing. In a Reader's Digest article, he warned
against "the infiltration of inferior blood" into the American
racial makeup. He criticized the American ideal of "universal
equality." Hitler gave his architect Albert Speer carte blanche to
build a permanent residence for the Lindbergh family in Berlin…..
Charles Lindbergh urged America to shun aid to Europe. He suggested
that America ally with Hitler. He was "convinced that Adolph
Hitler... held the future of Europe in his hands, and maybe of
civilization, too." The final straw for Americans was Charles
Lindbergh's  1941 speech in Des Moines, accusing Jews of pushing
America towards war.
A tidal wave of rebuke immediately followed. The Lafayette
Restaurant in NYC removed their large "Lindbergh Flag" from its
wall. TWA's "Lindbergh Line" of commercial aircraft (which Lindbergh
helped create) had his name painted out on all the planes. Little
Falls, Minnesota (his birthplace) took down its  "Home Of Charles
Lindbergh" billboard. Pamphlets and articles appeared: "Is Lindbergh
a Nazi?" and "Lindbergh And The Jews." Amidst the anti-Lindbergh
fervor from virtually every previous supporter, Lindbergh resigned
his Air Force commission…."
"Lindbergh's Public Statements Were More Troubling Than His Private
Affairs
by Dr. Rafael Medoff

The revelation that famed aviator Charles Lindbergh had a German
mistress and fathered three children with her has attracted much
media attention in recent days. The public is always fascinated by
the discovery of celebrities' moral indiscretions. But Lindbergh's
public activities were far more troubling than his private affairs….
after Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany… Charles Lindbergh..
was becoming an apologist for the Nazi regime. Lindbergh declared in
1936 that Hitler had "done much for the German people," and he
attended that year's Olympic games in Berlin as the personal guest
of Hitler's air force chief, Field Marshal Hermann Goering. At an
official state dinner in October 1938, Goering, acting "by order of
the Furrier," presented Lindbergh with a prestigious medal, the
Service Cross of the German Eagle.
Even after the Nazis' Kristallnacht pogrom, and even after Hitler's
dismemberment of Czechoslovakia and annexation of Austria, Lindbergh
continued to make excuses for the Nazis. "Germany has pursued the
only consistent policy in Europe in recent years," he wrote in an
April 1939 diary entry, refusing to acknowledge the evil nature of
the Hitler regime. "The question of right and wrong is one thing by
law and another thing by history."
During 1939-1941, Lindbergh emerged as the most prominent public
spokesman for America First, the extreme isolationist group that
opposed any U.S. action against Hitler.
In a radio address on October 13, 1939, barely six weeks after
Hitler's armies had devastated Poland, triggering World War II,
Lindbergh blamed the British and French for the war…. Despite the
German conquest of Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and France in
1940, Lindbergh refused to reconsider his perspective. "Nothing is
to be gained by shouting names and pointing the finger of blame
across the ocean,"… Perhaps the most infamous of Lindbergh's
speeches was the one he delivered at an America First rally in Des
Moines, Iowa, on September 11, 1941. He accused "the Jews"
of "pressing this country toward war," and complained about what he
called "their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures,
our press, our radio and our government." He also implicitly
threatened American Jews, declaring: "Instead of agitating for war,
the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every
possible way for they will be among the first to feel its
consequences…. Criticism of Lindbergh's Nazi apologetics was
widespread. Interior Secretary Harold Ickes called him "the number
one fellow-traveler of the Nazis in the United States." Time
magazine reported that with Lindbergh's speech, "the America First
Committee had touched the pitch of anti-Semitism and its fingers
were tarred." Residents of Lindbergh's hometown, Little Falls,
Minnesota, removed his name from their water tower…"




"The most recent complaint about Mr. Moran among many Democrats
concerns a remark he made last year blaming Jewish Americans for the
war in Iraq.
"If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community
for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this," he said at a
gathering of antiwar activists in Reston a year ago. "The leaders of
the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change
the direction of where this is going, and I think they should."
The remark brought a stinging rebuke from reliable Democratic
organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League, which called the
comment "pure, unadulterated anti-Semitism."
"That's only the latest in a string of inappropriate statements
and actions the congressman has made," Mr. Rosenberg said
yesterday. "The people of Northern Virginia are aware of his
background. They know, as a member of Congress, he has repeatedly
displayed bad judgment and that has undercut his effectiveness."
Past scandals involving Mr. Moran include a questionable loan by
a bank that had pending legislation before Congress. He also has a
penchant for fistfights, including a famous 1995 tussle on the floor
of the House with Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, California
Republican.
After his remark blaming Jews for the war, Mr. Moran was
stripped of his post as regional whip for members of Mid-Atlantic
states and asked by several Democratic House members not to run for
re-election in the fall."
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040326-121704-3581r.htm
"On the eve of World War II," (Hitler) "publicly threatened the Jews
of Europe during a speech in Berlin: "In the course of my life I
have very often been a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for
it. During the time of my struggle for power it was in the first
instance only the Jewish race that received my prophecies with
laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership
of the State, and with it that of the whole nation, and that I would
then among other things settle the Jewish problem. Their laughter
was uproarious, but I think that for some time now they have been
laughing on the other side of their face. Today I will once more be
a prophet: if the international Jewish financiers in and outside
Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world
war, then the result will not be the Bolshevizing of the earth, and
thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race
in Europe!"
Hitler intended to blame the Jews for the new world war he was soon
to provoke. That war began in September 1939…"
source:
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/holocaust.htm

Choices

The late Carl Sagan: 1934-1996, wrote of hoped for
"methods of avoiding the self-destruction that seems so real a
danger of our present technological adolescence…" in: Knowledge is
Our Destiny," The Dragons of Eden, p. 234
Sagan was hoping that some extra-terrestrial  "advanced
civilizations" might have found those methods.
Here on earth we face the question of whether we can find them
ourselves before it is too late.

Clearly humanity possesses the means to destroy itself. Clearly
humanity lacks
the maturity to avoid destroying itself.

The question is whether the most dangerous people on earth in
possession of the
most dangerous weapons on earth can be disarmed before they can use
those
weapons, or, ideally, can be prevented from possessing those weapons
in the
first place.

Clearly we are in a race against time. Weapons of mass destruction
in the hands of lunatics constitutes a threat to the survival of our
planet. Can
the lunatics be disarmed in time? Can we prevent the lunatics from
becoming
armed with weapons of mass destruction in the first place? How much
time have we
got before it is too late and those weapons start going off in
cities in
America, Israel, Europe, Asia, Australia, etc.? Clearly not much.
The time to
act is now, before it is too late.

"Whether `tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of
outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and,
by opposing, end them?" Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Shakespeare was well aware of the dilemmas caused by lack of
decisiveness.

Indecision is in fact a decision. To avoid action is
to permit other actions to occur.  Sir Edmund Burke put it this
way: "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in this
world is for a few good men to do nothing."

We saw the world stand by and do nothing as The Holocaust occurred.
We saw the world stand by and do nothing as Saddam Hussein paid a
bounty for Jewish scalps by paying the families of GENOCIDE BOMBERS
amounts which climbed from $10,000 to $15,000 to $25,000 and would
no doubt have continued to climb had George W. Bush not liberated
Iraq in March of 2003.


We saw Germans and looked, usually in vain, in a mostly futile
search to find  the few "Good Germans" who opposed Hitler.  The book
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen  explores the Germans found by Daniel
Jonah Goldhagen
Goldhagen says:"… my book shifts the focus of the investigation of
the Holocaust from where it has been—namely, on abstract structures
like the S.S., the Nazi Party, and the terror apparatus—to the human
beings who actually perpetrated the crimes. A very large number of
ordinary Germans were involved—a minimum figure of 100,000--and
until this point, you have probably read close to nothing about the
actual people who carried out the killings, manned the camps, and
guarded the ghettos. I have shifted the investigation to them, the
perpetrators, in an effort to explain their actions, uncover their
motivations, and explicate how such a thing could have happened in
an otherwise civilized country such as Germany.
I am very pleased that the publication of my book has produced
widespread, international discussion and that so many people seem to
feel compelled to come to grips with its contents. Whatever exact
conclusions people arrive at after reading my book—and some
continuing disagreements are inevitable—that the issues it raises
are being discussed so vigorously can be seen as being only a good
thing."

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen is Associate Professor of Government and
Social Studies at Harvard University and an Associate of Harvard's
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
Hitler's Willing Executioners is based upon his doctoral
dissertation, which was awarded the American Political Science
Association's 1994 Gabriel A. Almond Award for the best dissertation
in the field of comparative politics."
Today we see Syria and Iran goose-stepping along with Hamas, et. al.
and wonder when someone will act to stop them before it is too late.

The traitor to Shia Islam and Persia who has assumed power through a
sham
"election", which saw countless candidates ruled off the ballot by
fiat of the
tyranny, who calls himself the "President of Iran" may well be the
most insane
and dangerous person on earth.

Moreover that mad man is allied with Syria, with the terrorists
hosted by Syria
who are murdering Americans in Iraq, and with a worldwide gang of
terrorists who
have been murdering people all over the world for many years.

To understand the depth of the man's madness one must recognize fist
the importance to Shia Islam of the Golden Mosque in Samarra which
was bombed by Sunni Moslems more than likely led by Zarqawi and his
cohorts.


"Los Angeles Times, Friday, February 24, 2006
THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ; Shrine Holds Great Significance for Shiites
BYLINE: Borzou Daragahi, Times Staff Writer
The attackers who bombed the Golden Mosque in Samarra ignited fury
among Iraq's Shiite majority by targeting one of the sect's most
revered shrines.
More so than Sunni Arabs, Shiites believe in the sanctity of
shrines. Pious Shiites from Lebanon to India make pilgrimages to the
shrines of the sect's imams, and Shiite merchants bequeath their
fortunes for the restoration and upkeep of shrines. The Samarra
complex dates to the 9th century, although the famed gold dome was
completed in 1905.
The revered status of the shrines comes from their connection to the
imams, who are "part of the skeleton of the Shiite faith," said
Yitzhak Nakash, associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic
Studies at Brandeis University, who has written about Shiites.
Shiites and Sunnis split early in the history of Islam, differing
over succession after the death of the prophet Muhammad in the 7th
century. The first three successors, or caliphs, were Muhammad's
associates, but Shiites rejected them, arguing that Ali, the
prophet's cousin and son-in-law, was the rightful heir.
Ali became the fourth caliph, but the conflict continued after his
death. From then on, supporters, or Shia, of Ali, took a separate
path, regarding him as their first imam and choosing successors from
among his heirs.
One of Ali's sons, Hasan, lost the struggle for caliphate and
another, Hussein, was killed. According to Shiite belief, the
caliphs were trying to wipe out Ali's line of succession by killing
off his heirs—the imams—one by one over the next few centuries.
The Samarra shrine is believed to house the remains of the ninth and
10th of Ali's heirs, Ali Hadi and Hasan Askari. Shiites believe that
both were poisoned in the 9th century by agents of the caliph.
But, many Shiites believe that Askari's young son, Mohammed Mahdi,
disappeared into a cellar near site of the shrine and was not
killed, an event called the occultation.
They regard Mahdi as the 12th or "Hidden Imam," and believe he will
reappear, heralding a new age and avenging the wrongs done to
Shiites by Sunni governments for centuries.
"Mahdi is expected to return one day as a messiah," Nakash said. The
shrine complex is considered a link to the Mahdi. As a result, the
attack on it "is a very significant provocation."
Source: http://my.brandeis.edu/news/item?news_item_id=104469


"Shrine blast fans fears of civil war
Bombing of Golden Mosque in Samarra aggravates deep-rooted
hostilities between Sunnis and Shiites
Borzou Daragahi, Megan K. Stack, Los Angeles Times
Thursday, February 23, 2006
… suspicion immediately turned toward al Qaeda-affiliated militants
in Iraq, who have claimed credit for numerous bombings of Shiite
targets. Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al Qaeda in Iraq's
leader, has a well-known hatred of Shiites, whom his brand of
extremist Sunnis view as apostates…. Shrine facts
• The Askariya shrine, one of Iraq's most sacred sites, was
built by Caliph al-Mutasim in 836.
• The golden dome was completed under Muzaffar al-Din Shah in
1905.
• It contains tombs of the 10th and 11th imams, descendants of
the prophet Muhammad.
source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
f=/c/a/2006/02/23/MNG7UHDATQ1.DTL&feed=rss.news
attackers blew up the golden dome of the Askariya shrine in Samarra.
The bombing triggered more than 90 reprisal attacks on Sunni
mosques.
In Washington, a senior US official said the al-Qaida was suspected
of being behind the attack on the Shia shrine.
"We believe this can be traced back to the Zarqawi al-Qaida
movement," said the State Department's coordinator for Iraq policy,
Ambassador James Jeffrey, on Wednesday adding the United States
would do all it could to track down the perpetrators.
Asked what evidence the US had to link the attack to al-Qaida,
Jeffrey said Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida leader in Iraq, had
often called for attacks on Shia targets and said they were aimed at
sparking civil war.
"We are trying to connect the dots," he told reporters at the State
Department. "We certainly think it would be in line with what they
have been saying and doing."
source: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6B989359-6D61-4A50-
B4C8-ECCFFA49B0E6.htm

Fully in line with the man's madness so-called "President
Ahmadinejad" of
so-called "Iran", rather than defending Shia Islam
against Zarqawi, et. al, insanely sought instead to blame the attack
on the Shia
shrine on others:

"President Ahmadinejad: Samarra bombing sign of failure of enemies
of Islam
Shahr-e Kord, Charmahal Bakhtiari Prov, Feb 23rd 2006, IRNA
    Iran-President-Speech
The terrorist bombing of the holy shrines of Imam Hadi (AS) and Imam
Hassan Asgari (AS) in Iraq is indicative of the abject failure of
the enemies of Islam, said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in this
western city on Wednesday evening.
Addressing a large number of local officials and scholars upon his
arrival in the city, the president strongly condemned the shameless
and heinous terrorist act, saying it has its roots in the weakness
and failure of the enemies of Islam.
"Those who have seen defeat from the wisdom of Islam express their
anger through savage acts such as by insulting Muslim sanctities,"
Ahmadinejad pointed out.
He said that history has proven that all who have profaned religious
sanctities and the divine messengers of God have endured eternal
misery.
"A number of uncivilized and bloodthirsty people who have no regard
for humanity think they can undermine the good intentions of Muslims
and revolutionary people through such acts," the president lashed
out.
He warned the enemies of Islam to be careful when committing such
acts as the Islamic ummah (nations) "will encounter them more
seriously and with determination now than ever before with their
determination to achieve their longstanding revolutionary
aspirations," the president stressed.
Noting that there was a clear sign of the hegemonic system beginning
to fade away, Ahmadinejad expressed hope that Muslims of the world
would soon witness the complete collapse of hegemony.
"Justice will be implemented all over the world in the near future,"
Ahmadinejad assured." source:
http://diplomacymonitor.com/stu/dm.nsf/dn/dn4118C58E8B8E8DDE8525711E0
02C89A3

This of course came as no surprise. So-called "Iran" has long been
in the hands
of lunatics who are traitors to Persia and Shia Islam and have been
in bed with
the enemies of both.

"How Iran got its name


March 16, 2006 (c.e.)

WorldNetDaily.com
If you didn't think Iran could plunge any lower as a nation-state,
you were
wrong.
Iran's semi-official, best-selling newspaper, Hamshahri, actually
published by
the city government of Tehran, is running a contest for the best
cartoons poking
fun at the Holocaust.
While this may be shocking to some, it is actually what we should
expect from
the mad mullahs of Iran.
This is not, as the newspaper editors have suggested, merely a way
for Iranians
to protest the Danish cartoons about Muhammad. This is not just a
way for the
Iranians and the radical Islamic world to attempt to portray
themselves as
victims. This is not just a tit-for-tat exercise.
This is a reflection of the Iranian mullahs' Nazi sympathies. This
is a way for
them to show the entire Islamic world that they still believe in
Hitler's "final
solution." This is just the latest manifestation of 70 years of anti-
Jewish
history in Iran – and a lot longer in the Islamic world.
In fact, do you know how the nation of Iran got its name?
For thousands of years, the country we now know as Iran was known as
Persia.
But in 1935, the shah of Iran, the father of the man deposed in
1979, was a Nazi
sympathizer. He hated the Jews. So he decided to show his true
stripes by
renaming his country Iran, which literally means "land of the
Aryans."
Later, that same shah welcomed Haj Mohammad Amin al-Husseini, the
exiled grand
mufti of Jerusalem, into the country. The mufti was on the run
because of his
pro-Nazi work and his efforts in attempting to bring the Jewish
Holocaust to the
Middle East. Al-Husseini would later go on to inspire and tutor
Yasser Arafat in
the art of Jew-killing. Arafat referred to al-Husseini as "uncle."
The Nazi shah may have received good notices from Berlin, but London
was none
too thrilled with his pro-Nazi position. And, unfortunately for him
and
fortunately for the rest of the world, Hitler did not conquer the
world. The
shah was deposed by the British and replaced with his son.
But the name "Iran" stuck. And it illustrates the visceral,
underlying
anti-Semitism that has shown itself throughout history in the
Islamic world. "
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49284


The spectre of the mad man Ahmadinejad in possession of nuclear
weapons possibly
before the end of this year, if not sooner, is a horrible prospect,
and one
which must be dealt with sooner, rather than later.

"Ahmadinejad: Wipe Israel off map
Wednesday 26 October 2005, 19:03 Makka Time, 16:03 GMT    Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has openly called for Israel to be
wiped off the map.
"The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world
oppressor against the Islamic world," the president told a
conference in Tehran on Wednesday, entitled The World without
Zionism.
"The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny.
The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in
Palestinian land," he said.
"As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map," said
Ahmadinejad, referring to Iran's revolutionary leader Ayat Allah
Khomeini.
His comments were the first time in years that such a high-ranking
Iranian official has called for Israel's eradication, even though
such slogans are still regularly used at government
rallies.

Call for unity
Addressing about 4000 students gathered in an Interior Ministry
conference hall, Ahmadinejad also called for Palestinian unity,
resistance and a point "where the annihilation of the Zionist regime
will come".
"The Islamic umma (community) will not allow its historic enemy to
live in its heartland," he said in the fiery speech that centred on
a "historic war between the oppressor and the world of Islam". The
term "oppressor" is used by the clerical government to refer to the
United States.
"We should not settle for a piece of land," he said of Israel's
pullout from the Gaza Strip.
"Anyone who signs a treaty which recognises the entity of Israel
means he has signed the surrender of the Muslim world," Ahmadinejad
said.

"Any leaders in the Islamic umma who recognise Israel face the wrath
of their own people."
Ahmadinejad … spoke of a "historic war".
"It dates backs hundreds of years. Sometimes Islam has advanced.
Sometimes nobody was winning. Unfortunately over the past 300 years,
the world of Islam has been in retreat," he lamented. "One hundred
years ago the last trench of Islam fell, when the oppressors went
towards the creation the Zionist regime. It is using it as a fort to
spread its aims in the heart of the Islamic world." Ahmadinejad
said, "There is no doubt that the new wave (of attacks) in Palestine
will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot (Israel) from the face of
the Islamic world."
"Ahmadinejad has clearly declared the doctrine of his government. He
is returning Iran to the revolutionary goals it was pursuing in the
1980s," said Mohammad Sadeq Hosseini, an expert on Middle Eastern
affairs.
"By these comments, Ahmadinejad is committing himself to those
goals. He is also sending the message that his government won't back
down."
Israeli response
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev" (said)  "Today,
Israelis heard two extremists speak openly about destroying the
Jewish state. One was the new president of Iran, and the
other was the leader of Hamas, Mahmoud Zahar. "And it appears the
problem with these extremists is that they followed through on their
violent declarations with violent actions."
The United States said Ahmadinejad's remarks proved the accuracy of
Washington's fears about Iran's contentious nuclear programme.
"I think it reconfirms what we have been saying about the regime in
Iran. It underscores the concerns we have about Iran's nuclear
intentions," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said."
source:  http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/15E6BF77-6F91-46EE-
A4B5-A3CE0E9957EA.htm

Monday, January 7th 2002 (C.E.)
Captain of Seized Arms Ship Says Was Sent by PA Official
The jailed captain of the captured Karine A weapon-loaded ship
declared today that a Palestinian Authority official in Greece sent
him to bring the ship through the Red Sea to PA-controlled shores.
On January 3, the Israeli Navy seized control over the Karine A ship
that was sailing in international waters on its way to the Suez
Canal. The shipment included both 122 mm. and 107 mm. Katyusha
rockets, which have ranges of 20 and 8 kilometers respectively. It
also contained 80 mm. and 120 mm. mortar shells, various types of
anti-tank missiles, anti-tank mines, sniper rifles, Kalashnikov
rifles and ammunition.
(from Ha'aretz and the Israeli Foreign Ministry)
PM Sharon: PA Is Central Part of International Terror Network
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at a press conference Sunday in
Eilat: "This ship of terror, which was on its way to the Gaza shore,
was carrying what was to threaten each and every one of us - in Tel-
Aviv as in Emmanuel, in Haifa as in Ariel, in Herzlia and Ashkelon
as in Elei-Sinai and Netzarim. The type and character of the weapons
and ammunition discovered on the ship prove once again that the
Palestinian Authority has been focusing all its efforts on terrorism
and preparing the operational infrastructure for the next waves of
terror. Let there be no mistake - this is the choice made by the
Chairman of the Palestinian Authority...
...At the same time as Arafat was saying "my aim is to achieve
peace," he was sending the one responsible for military acquisitions
in the Palestinian Authority to purchase ammunition in Iran. As he
was declaring a cease-fire, he sent his Chief of Naval Police to
purchase a ship in Lebanon. When he announced that he would be
willing to accept the "Hudna" initiative, he was already monitoring
the journey of this ship toward the Gaza port in the hope of
succeeding in smuggling this Trojan horse by sea. The Palestinian
Authority is a major player in the network of international
terrorism, spearheaded by Iran and aimed at sowing death and
destruction throughout the entire world." (from the Israeli Foreign
Ministry)
Editorial: Arafat's Ship of Death
Excerpt from the Jerusalem Post: " If ever there was a photo-
opportunity demonstrating what is behind the hand that Yasser Arafat
sometimes stretches out in peace, the wharf full of captured
weaponry displayed last night was it. The captured ship, the Karine-
A, was reportedly purchased in October 2000 - just months after the
end of the Camp David summit and at the same time Arafat was
pledging his first cease-fire to Ehud Barak, Bill Clinton, Hosni
Mubarak, and Kofi Annan at the Sharm e-Sheikh summit. Every time one
thinks that Arafat's duplicity cannot be more apparent, he manages
to reach new heights..."
SOURCE:
http://www.israelemb.org/sanfran/News&Media/Week_in_Review/Week_Revie
w_Jan11.01.htm
Seizing of the Palestinian weapons ship Karine A - Jan 4- 2002

4 Jan 2002


A ship carrying weapons intended for the Palestinian Authority was
captured in the Red Sea by Israel's Navy and Air Force. The boat's
cargo included 50 tons of advanced weaponry including Katyusha
rockets, rifles, mortar shells, mines and a variety of anti-tank
missiles. Senior figures in the Palestinian Authority were involved
in the smuggling.
Communicated by the IDF Spokesman:
On January 3rd, the Israeli Navy seized control over the Karine A
ship that was sailing in international waters on its way to the Suez
Canal.
The shipment included both 122 mm. and 107 mm. Katyusha rockets,
which have ranges of 20 and 8 kilometers respectively. It also
contained 80 mm. and 120 mm. mortar shells, various types of anti-
tank missiles, anti-tank mines, sniper rifles, Kalashnikov rifles
and ammunition. From Gaza, the 122 mm. Katyushas could have
threatened Ashkelon and other coastal cities; while from the West
Bank, Ben-Gurion International Airport and several major Israeli
cities would have been within their range. The shipment also
included rubber boats and diving equipment, which would have
facilitated seaborne attacks from Gaza against coastal cities.
Preliminary investigation of the crew members has revealed so far
that the commanding officer of the ship is Colonel Omar Akawi. The
ship was purchased by the Palestinian Authority, loaded with weapons
by the Iranians and the Hizbullah, manned by Palestinian Authority
personnel, with the aim of transfering the weapons it carried to the
Palestinian Naval Police near the Gaza beaches.
Since October 2000, Adel Mughrabi, a major buyer in the Palestinian
weapons purchasing system (with the assistance of the Palestinian
Naval Police Commander Juma'a Ghali and his executive Fathi Ghazem),
has been in contact with the Iranians and Hizbullah regarding a vast
weapons smuggling operation for the use of the Palestinian
Authority. This operation included the testing and purchase of
ships, forming a sailing crew and appointing a commander for the
team, as well as making arrangements as to how the weapons would be
stored, loaded onto the vessels, and its journey until delivery to
the Palestinian Authority.
Preliminary investigation of the team members arrested revealed that
the Karine A ship was purchased by Adel Mughrabi in Lebanon, sailed
to Sudan where it was loaded with regular cargo. The crew was then
switched with the team members and in November 2001 sailed to
Hodeida port in Yemen.
In December 2001 the ship sailed according to detailed instructions
from Adel Mughrabi to the beaches of Iran near Qeshm Island. There a
ferry approached it, most likely arriving from Iran, from which the
weapons stored in 80 large wooden crates were transferred and loaded
onto the ship. These weapons were stored in special waterproof
containers produced only in Iran, which are floatable and are set
with a special configurable system that determines how deep they are
submerged, were prepared by Hizbullah personnel for smuggling to the
Palestinian Authority. Included in the ferry team which transferred
the weapons crates to the ship was also a Lebanese trainer, a
Hizbullah operative who trained a diver from the ship's crew in
configuring the floatation devices in Lebanon. The trainer was
present for yet another refreshing training session prior to the
sailing.
After completing the loading process of the weapons onto the ship,
the ship had to divert to Hodeida port in Yemen due to technical
problems. After crossing the canal, the ship was supposed to meet
with three smaller ships that were purchased in advance and to
unload the weapons onto them. According to the plan, the smaller
ships were to leave the weapons near El Arish in Gaza, where the
weapons were to be taken by the commander of the Palestinian Naval
Police Juma'a Ghali and his executive Fathi Ghazem."
SOURCE:
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Communiques/2002/Seizing%20of%
20the%20Palestinian%20weapons%20ship%20Karine%20A%20-

Friday, January 11 2002 (c.e.)
CIA "Concerned" about Syrian Nuclear Plans - US Renews Calls on
Lebanon to Disarm Hizbullah
The CIA yesterday presented an annual report to the U.S. Senate in
which the American intelligence agency said it "remains concerned
about Syria's intentions regarding nuclear weapons."
The report, published as a declassified summary, says that "Syria
maintains a ballistic missile and rocket force of hundreds of FROG
rockets, Scuds, and SS-21 SRBMs. With considerable foreign
assistance, Syria progressed to Scud production using primarily
locally manufactured parts. Syrian regional concerns may lead
Damascus to seek a longer range ballistic missile capability such as
North Korea's No Dong medium range ballistic missile." (from
Ha'aretz)
In an interview with the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation last
night, US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice renewed its
call for Lebanon to crack down on Hizbullah. "We believe that the
Lebanese government should do with Hizbullah what the United States
and other governments are doing with other terrorist organizations:
freezing assets, not allowing them to operate freely, not allowing
them to run arms freely, not allowing their territory to be used as
sanctuary," Rice said. The Lebanese government has refused to freeze
Hizbullah's assets, despite its announced support for the US
campaign against terrorism. (from the JPost)"
source:
http://www.israelemb.org/sanfran/News&Media/Week_in_Review/Week_Revie
w_Jan11.01.htm

"Iran Population: 69,018,924 (July 2004 est.)
Religions: Shi'a Muslim 89%, Sunni Muslim 9%, Zoroastrian, Jewish,
Christian,
and Baha'i 2%
Ethnic groups: Persian 51%, Azeri 24%, Gilaki and Mazandarani 8%,
Kurd 7%, Arab
3%, Lur 2%, Baloch 2%, Turkmen 2%, other 1%
Languages: Persian and Persian dialects 58%, Turkic and Turkic
dialects 26%,
Kurdish 9%, Luri 2%, Balochi 1%, Arabic 1%, Turkish 1%, other 2%
source: http://www.geographyiq.com/countries/ir/Iran_people.htm

The liberation of so-called "Iran" should be accomplished
simultaneously with
the liberation Syria, a state which is a partner in crime with those
who run
so-called "Iran".
On to Damascus
Most of those who are murdering Americans, and others from the
civilized world, in Iraq, are Syrians,or agents of Syria, sent by
the Assad regime to try to drive the U.S. out of Iraq just as Syria
drove the U.S. out of Lebanon by bombing the U.S. Embassy and the
U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon decades ago.

George W. Bush has liberated Iraq and Afghanistan. We hope that
President Bush will learn the bitter lessons of the Vietnam War.

Victory in Vietnam was never possible as long as North Vietnam
remained a sanctuary for those who opposed the U.S. effort in South
Vietnam, from which to launch their assaults and supply their agents
in South Vietnam.

The U.S. never took the decisive step of liberating North Vietnam.
As a result so-called "Vietnamization", of the Vietnam War by
shifting the
burden for the defense of South Vietnam to the South Vietnamese was
doomed to
failure, as, without the liberation of North Vietnam, it was
impossible for
South Vietnam to withstand its enemies in Hanoi, who were able to
strike again
and again from
their sanctuary in North Vietnam.

Until the U.S. has liberated Syria from the Baathist regime and the
Assad family in power in Damascus it will not be possible to defeat
the remants of Saddam's Baathist regime and their allies in Iraq.

While we were happy to see President Bush sanction Syria, the path
to peace in
the middle east runs through Damascus. Not until Syria has been
liberated from
the Assad family and the Baath Party can there ever be a real chance
for peace
in the Middle East.

We urge you to contact President Bush

http://www.whitehouse.gov

and to urge him to liberate Syria. We also think that the U.S.
government ought
to seize ALL hostile assets in the U.S. Should there be a
Presidential finding
that Saudi assets in the U.S. fit that description their seizure by
the U.S.
government should be a top priority of the Bush Administration.
Please urge
President Bush to make such a finding and to seize those assets.
Please also
tell President Bush to permanently abandon his call for a so-called
"palestinian state". Terrorism must never be rewarded.

"Bush Sanctions Syria

Wednesday, May 12, 2004

WASHINGTON — President Bush is tightening the U.S. economic squeeze
on Syria with a ban on all American exports to the Arab
country except food and medicine.

For years, Syria has been branded an exporter of terror by the State
Department, which automatically prohibits U.S. arms sales
and American economic aid. The executive order Bush signed Tuesday
goes further in exacting punishment.

Bush accused Syria of pursuing weapons of mass destruction
and said that, coupled with its influence over Lebanon
represents an "extraordinary threat to the national security,
foreign policy and economy of the United States."

State Department officials emphasized what they said was Syria's
approval for Palestinian extremist groups such as Hamas to plot
attacks on Israel from havens in Damascus.

Meantime, Prime Minister Tony Blair shares U.S. concerns about
Syria, but will continue to pursue a policy of "critical and
constructive engagement," his office said Wednesday. Blair's
official spokesman said the government shared concerns about "WMD,
terrorism, human rights and cooperation over Iraq."

Both the Syrian and Lebanese governments criticized the decision as
wrong and unfair, but Syria said it still seeks dialogue with the
Bush administration.

Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said the sanctions
were "wrong in content and timing" and Syria will be able to
withstand the "new injustice."

In Friday's State Department briefing, the officials said under
rules that barred identifying them that U.S. fuel oil imports from
Syria, which amounted to about $200 million last year, could be
decreased.

While Syrian exports are not banned, American oil firms will be
unable to import equipment from their factories in the United
States, and this could complicate their operations, the officials
said.

Overall, the United States exported $214 million in goods to Syria
last year and imported $259 million worth.
In Damascus, Syrian officials minimized the significance of Bush's
action. Still, Ahmed Haj Ali, media adviser to Syria's information
ministry, said the political effects of the sanctions were much
bigger than the economic ones.
Diplomatic relations were not severed.
The new sanctions include a ban on flights to and from the United
States, although there is no current commercial air traffic between
the two countries.
Also, the Treasury Department was authorized to freeze
assets of Syrian nationals and entities involved in terrorism,
production of weapons of mass destruction, occupation of Lebanon or
terror in Iraq. Restrictions were imposed on banking relations
between American banks and the Syrian national bank. The sanctions
go beyond minimum requirements of the Syria Accountability Act.
That law, which Bush signed into law in December, provides
the basis for his actions Tuesday.

At the same time, the president chose not to take other, more
drastic action under the law, such as barring American companies
from doing business in Syria.

"President Bush did everything within his power to send a message
through diplomatic channels that Syria should not support groups
such as Hamas and Hezbollah, but it has continued to do so," said
U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., chairwoman of the House
International Relations Middle East subcommittee.

The United States is sending "a loud and clear message to the
leaders of Syria that we will no longer turn a blind eye to their
transgressions," said Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y, who co-authored the
legislation with Ros-Lehtinen. "The ball is now in Damascus' court."

"President Bush and other senior administration officials have
complained in recent days about Syria's stockpile of chemical
weapons as well as reports that Damascus may be giving refuge to
members of Saddam Hussein's government."



"October 1983 (according to a report in The Jerusalem Post), Syrian
television
showed 16-year-old girls-trainees in the Syrian Ba'ath Party
militia-fondling live snakes as President Hafez Assad and other
Syrian
leaders looked on approvingly. Martial music reached a crescendo as
the girls suddenly bit the snakes with their teeth, repeatedly tore
off flesh and spat it out as blood ran down their chins. As the
leaders
applauded, the girls then attached the snakes to sticks and grilled
them over the fire, eating them triumphantly. After this, militiamen
"strangled puppies and drank their blood." Such demonstrations are
clearly intended to send a message to the regime's domestic
opponents." http://www.danielpipes.org/articles/198607.shtml
"French Jewish groups say they will file a lawsuit against Mr Assad
for inciting racial hatred when he accused Jews last month of having
betrayed Jesus."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1405000/140
5
980.stm


"ADL URGES AUSTRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO BRING NAZI WAR CRIMINAL TO
JUSTICE
New York, NY, June 30, 1995...When Austria's newly-appointed Foreign
Minister H.E. Wolfgang
Schuessel received a congratulatory letter from the Anti-Defamation
League (ADL) this June, he also got a
renewed request for Austria to bring Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner
to justice. Responsible for the deaths of 60,000 Austrian Jews during
the Holocaust, Brunner is presently in Syria. Elliot Welles, ADL
Associate Director of European Affairs and Director of the Task Force
on Nazi War Criminals, sent Minister Schuessel copies of
correspondence spanning 16 years in which ADL has been urging the
Austrian Government to press Syria for Brunner's return so he can be
brought before an Austrian
Court of Justice. Commenting on reports that Austria and Syria are
expecting to improve mutual business endeavors, Welles wrote, "We
should not forget that Syria has given Brunner asylum and protection
for almost forty years, denying Austria, Germany and France the right
to try Brunner. Austria has not tried any Nazi war criminal since
1972, which is unconscionable...." Welles continued, "It is shameful
that the Austrian government has apparently allowed its desire for a
good relationship with Syria to take priority over this matter," and
has failed "to set a reward for the capture of Alois Brunner."
Welles,
who is a survivor of the infamous Riga Ghetto, stated that he
encountered Brunner before he was
deported to Riga in 1942. "There are now only a handful of survivors
of the Riga Ghetto. We are still waiting for justice to be done,"
Welles said. The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the
world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs
and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry."
http://www.adl.org/presrele/HolNa_52/2582_52.asp

Monstrous Nazi Uncles Mentored Monstrous Nazi Nephews
ARAFAT'S UNCLE, HITLER'S ALLY, THE GRAND MUFTI OF JERUSALEM)
http://notendur.centrum.is/~snorrigb/muftism.htm
http://www.flamemag.dircon.co.uk/yugoslavia_collaboration.htm
http://www.flamemag.dircon.co.uk/nazis_postwar_egypt.htm
http://www.srpska-mreza.com
http://www.srpska-mreza.com/handzar/handzar.htm
http://www.tabloid.net/1998/07/17/lastnazi_980717.html
"The Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin
al-Husseini was later the notorious
Nazi who mixed Nazi propaganda and
Islam. He was wanted for war crimes
in Bosnia by Yugoslavia. His mix of
militant propagandizing Islam was
an inspriation for both Yasser Arafat
and Saddam Husein: He was also a
close relative of Yasser Arafat and grandfather of the current Temple
Mount Mufti. "Arafat's actual name was Abd al-Rahman abd al-Bauf
Arafat al-Qud al-Husseini. He shortened it to obscure his kinship
with
the notorious Nazi and ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Muhammed Amin
al-Husseini."His battle cry was simple and comprehensive: "Down with
the Infidels!" Howard M. Sachar, A HISTORY OF ISRAEL (New York:
Knopf,
1976). The Bet Agron International Center in Jerusalem interviewed
Arafat's brother and sister, who described the Mufti as a cousin
(family member) with tremendous influence on young Yassir after the
Mufti returned from Berlin to Cairo. Yasser Arafat himself keeps his
exact lineage and birthplace secret. Saddam Hussein was raised in the
house of his uncle Khayrallah Tulfah, who was a leader in the Mufti's
pro-Nazi coup in Iraq in May 1941 [1] THE PILLAR OF FIRE, Shikmona
Publishing Company ltd, p 1.61 Right after the 1942 Allied victory in
El Alamein, Jerusalem's grand mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, took to
the
airwaves and broadcast in Arabic from Berlin. At that time he already
was "prime minister" of a pan-Arab government formed in the German
capital. His foreign minister was exiled Iraqi leader Rashid Ali
al-Kilani and his war minister, Fawsi al-Kaukji. Husseini called on
his numerous disciples throughout the Middle East not to lose heart
though their greatest hope - Rommel's conquest of Eretz Yisrael - was
foiled. The mufti planned a triumphant return with the conquering
Axis
forces, and the construction of a death camp outside Nablus to
implement the final solution of the Jewish problem in this region.
Despair after the Desert Rat's rout was immense, but Husseini wouldn'
t give up. "Arise, o sons of Arabia," he exhorted his avid pro-Nazi
followers. "Fight for your sacred rights. Slaughter Jews wherever you
find them. Their spilled blood pleases Allah, our history and
religion. That will save our honor." In late 1944, Husseini still
sponsored a last-ditch effort to trigger another Arab rebellion.His
agents, a mixed German-Arab commando crew, parachuted here. Their
first mission was poisoning Tel Aviv's wells. Husseini arrived in
Berlin three years earlier, after escaping the British. There he
became Hitler's personal guest. The fuehrer granted him a prolonged
personal audience, and the two reached a perfect meeting of the minds
on how to solve the Jewish problem. Husseini was put up in a large
house on Berlin's Klopstock Street, to which the SS referred as "the
Jewish Institute." With good reason. Until 1939 it was a
Zionist-oriented Hebrew school. There must have been particular
perverse pleasure in lodging the mufti precisely there. He thereafter
referred to his new residence as "The Research Institute on the
Jewish
Problem in the Moslem World." The Germans regarded Husseini as worth
investing in. Various Nazi establishments competed for his
affections.
The Foreign Ministry paid him the then monthly equivalent of over
$10,000, when the dollar was almighty. This sum was more than matched
by the SS from its sonderfund resources, which consisted of assets
robbed from Jews, often before their execution. Again, the perverse
pleasure must have been considerable. Husseini's first Third Reich
port of call was SS chief Heinrich Himmler's headquarters. Himmler
took Husseini under his personal wing. He not only organized tours
for
him to Auschwitz, but sponsored and financed his Moslem clerical
academy in Dresden. The graduates were to spearhead Nazi rule in
Moslem lands. Husseini was in charge of pro-German and anti-Semitic
propaganda for Arabs and Moslems everywhere. He recruited Bosnians
and
other Moslem volunteers, who were to cleanse newly-occupied areas of
"hostile elements," concentrate Jews for transport, and operate the
projected death machine in Palestine - in the manner Ukrainians did
the dirty work in Eastern Europe. The SS interest in the mufti
preceded the war. It financed his uprising here between 1936-39. In
1937, Adolf Eichmann visited this country to reconnoiter the Zionist
endeavor and meet the mufti, but the British allowed him only a
48-hour stay. Eventually Himmler introduced Husseini to Eichmann.
Thereafter the mufti became a frequent caller at Eichmann's office.
The two got along famously. They shared the goal of exterminating all
Middle Eastern Jews. This is backed by ample documentation from the
Nuremberg and Eichmann trials. At the end of 1942, Eichmann ordered
10,000 Jewish children sent from Poland to Theresienstadt. The Red
Cross offered to trade German civilians for them.Husseini got wind of
the scheme and protested vehemently to Himmler, warning him that the
little Jews would soon become big Jews. The exchange was cancelled.
Husseini is moreover "credited" with having personally foiled any
compromise on the fate of Hungarian Jewry at the very end of the war.
In his memoirs he wrote: "Our fundamental condition for cooperating
with Germany was a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from
Palestine and the Arab world. I asked Hitler for an explicit
undertaking to allow us to solve the Jewish problem in a manner
befitting our national and racial aspirations and according to the
scientific methods innovated by Germany in the handling of its Jews.
The answer I got was: 'The Jews are yours.' " After the war, Husseini
was declared a wanted war criminal. He fled to France, and from there
reached safety in Egypt, joining a host of nefarious Nazis who
continued maintaining a network of espionage, sabotage, and virulent
antisemitism from Arab havens. The mufti, who was deeply mourned by
the masses when he died in 1974, still remains revered. Arafat and
Faissal Husseini are both his blood kin. Neither repudiated him nor
renounced his teachings. A few weeks ago, an official PA communique,
reprinted in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, accused Israelis of "murdering tots
and elderly Arabs mercilessly. Jews tear open the bellies of pregnant
women and rip out the fetuses, claiming this is the commandment of
the
God of Israel, which he ordered the People of Israel to fulfill." The
logical remedy must be the mufti's recipe for saving Arab honor and
pleasing Allah. The spirit of the man from Klopstock Street still
hovers over Gaza. That's why baby Shalhevet was murdered. [2] [2] The
Jerusalem Post See also Muftism and Nazism: World War II
Collaboration
Documents Bosnian Moslems recruited the Nazi SS by Yasser Arafat's
'Uncle' Turning (Judea and Samaria) into another "Bosnia" The Farhud,
the Mufti inspired Krystallnacht in Iraq, 1941 A "Fatwa " Issued by
Haj Amin al-Husseini in Iraq, pro-Nazi coup May, 1941 Saddam Hussein,
nephew of Khayrallah Tulfah, of the 1941 Pro-Nazi coup in Iraq Hitler
and the Arabs, How could they have missed it?
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/husseini.html Saddam Hussein,
nephew of Khayrallah Tulfah, of the 1941 Pro-Nazi coup in Iraq "We're
dealing with Hitler revisited." George Bush on Saddam Hussein, Oct.
15, 1990.***. The current leader of Iraq was born on April 28, 1937,
in a small village of al-Auja near the town of Takrit. His early
child
hood was spent in a mud hut in a mostly Sunni Muslim part of Iraq,
which is approximately (100) one-hundred miles north of Baghdad.
Hussein's father, Hussein al-Majid, died or abandoned the family
(according to who is reporting the story), within a short time of his
birth. Accurate records are difficult to obtain in a country where
Hussein's birthday is celebrated as a national holiday. He was reared
alone by his mother Subha, until she took a second husband, Ibrahim
Hassan. Hassan, often said to have been brutal and a thief, was a
sheepherder by profession and enlisted Saddam in his ventures.
According to a former personal secretary of Hussein, his step father
abused Saddam and sent him to steal chicken and sheep to be sold.
This
pattern continued until 1947 when, at the age of ten, he was allowed
to move in with his mother's brother, in Baghdad." Saddam's Uncle:
"Three Whom God Should Not Have Created: Iranians, Jews and Flies."
In Baghdad, Hussein began to learn more
than reading and writing.
His tutor, Khayrallah had been
"cashiered" from the Iraqi army for
supporting a "Pro-Nazi" coup attempt
that failed. Khayrallah's
bitterness towards the British and
imperialism, soon was transferred
to Saddam. In fact, some confidants of
Hussein point to his
relationship with Tulfah
as a turning point in his political
awareness. To demonstrate Tulfah's
importance to Hussein, he was later
made Mayor of Baghdad under the
Hussein regime. Saddam finished
intermediate school (roughly the
equivalent of 9th Grade) at the age of
sixteen, and attempted to be
admitted to the prestigious Baghdad Military Academy. Unfortunately,
his poor grades prevented him from doing so, and he became more
deeply
involved in political matters. In 1956, he participated in a
non-successful coup attempt against the monarchy of King Faisal II.
In
1957, he joined the Baath party, a radical nationalist movement. In
1958, a non-Baathist group of army officers succeeded in overthrowing
the King. The group was led by General Abdul Qassim. In 1959, Saddam
and a group of Baathist supporters attempted to assassinate Gen.
Qassim by a day-light machine-gun attack. The attack was
unsuccessful,
but it helped to place Hussein in a leadership position in the
Baathist movement and furthered the process of nationalist political
indoctrination. After the attack, in which Hussein is slightly
wounded, he fled to Syria. From Syria, he went to Cairo, Egypt where
he would spend the next four (4) years. 2 [ Also in Cairo, In 1951, a
close relative of the Mufti named Rahman Abdul Rauf el-Qudwa
el-Husseini matriculated to the University of Cairo. The student
decided to conceal his true identity and enlisted as "Yasser Arafat."
3 ] Persecution was at its worst at the end of 1968. Scores were
jailed upon the discovery of a local "spy ring" composed of Jewish
businessmen. Fourteen men-eleven of them Jews-were sentenced to death
in staged trials and hanged in the public squares of Baghdad; others
died of torture. On January 27, 1969, Baghdad Radio called upon
Iraqis
to "come and enjoy the feast." Some 500,000 men, women and children
paraded and danced past the scaffolds where the bodies of the hanged
Jews swung; the mob rhythmically chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death
to all traitors." This display brought a world-wide public outcry
that
Radio Baghdad dismissed by declaring:
"We hanged spies, but the Jews crucified Christ." 4 In 1978, Saddam
had been working with other Arab nations to ostracize Egypt for it's
diplomatic initiative in resolving Israel/Arab questions. An ally,
President Hafez al-Assad of Syria, almost became the undoing of
Hussein's ascension. If a Syrian/Iraqi federation were formed against
Egypt, Assad, not Hussein, would rise to a position of greater power
in the relationship. President Bakr would lead the federation with
Assad as second in command. Hussein could not allow that to happen
and
began to urge the President to step down. Again with the help of his
family and security apparatus, Hussein was able to accomplish his
task. On July 16, 1979, President Bakr resigned, officially due to
health problems, but in reality a victim of Hussein's political
in-fighting. Moving quickly to consolidate his power, he called a
major Baathist meeting on July 22, 1979. During the meeting, various
family members and other Hussein devotees urged that the party be
"cleansed". Hussein then read a list of names and asked that they
step
outside. Once there, they are taken into custody. A high-ranking
member of the Revolutionary Command, the head of the labor unions,
the
leading Shiite member of the Command, and twenty (20) others are then
systematically and personally killed by Hussein and his top party
officials. During the next few days, reports indicate that as many as
450 other military officers, deputy prime ministers, and "non-party
faithful" were rounded up and killed. This purge insured Hussein's
consolidation of power in Iraq.
In 1980, Iraq invaded Iran and conducted an eight year war against
one
of his nearest neighbors and the home of Shiite fundamentalist
Muslims. The war continued for eight years of brutality and even
repression of Hussein's own countrymen" -especially the (Sunni) Kurds
(and the Shiite Arabs)-. "2 1941 - In April, in accordance to a 1930
treaty Iraq permits the British to move their troops into Iraq. Iraq
appeals for Nazi support and attacks the British air base at
Habbaniya. The Iraqi army is beaten and Prime Minister Rashid Ali
flees the country. Britian resumes military control. The monarchy is
restored. Saddam Hussein's uncle Khairallah is jailed and Saddam
moves
to live with his mother and step-father 1981 - On June 7th Iraq's
nuclear research reactor was destroyed by an Israeli airforce attack.
President Saddam arranges to have the philosophical writings of his
uncle Khairallah published in a treatise titled 'Three Whom God
Should
Not Have Created: Iranians, Jews and Flies." In September the Iraqi
armed forces pull back East of the Karun river.
http://smokylake.com/Christy/history/iraq.htm (most) of the Arab
population of Iraq are Shiites who are subject to rule by a minority
government of Sunni Arabs in Baghdad. The Shiite sect has been the
subject of repeated harassment and persecution by the Iraq government
which views the sect as a pestilential emanation of the civilization
of Iran, itself viewed as the quintessential enemy of all things
Arab.
The Ministry of Education of Iraq once issued a textbook for boys'
high schools entitled Those Three Whom God Should Not Have Created:
Iranians, Jews, and Flies. Since the rise of the Baþthist Party the
Iraqi government has systematically expelled around 10% of its
population for the crime of having Iranian ancestry. Most Iraqi Jews
have long since fled to Israel.
http://www.isu.edu/~andesean/midest.htm
Kairallah was to become not only Saddam's father figure but his
political mentor as well. Kairallah had fought against Great Britain
in the Iraqi uprising of 1941 and had spent five years in prison for
his nationalist agitation. He filled the impressionable young boy's
head with tales of his heroic relatives-his great grandfather and two
great uncles-who gave their lives for the cause of Iraqi nationalism
while fighting foreign invaders. Kairallah, who was later to become
governor of Baghdad, shaped young Hussein's world view, imbuing him
with a hatred of foreigners. In 1981, Saddam republished a pamphlet
written by his uncle entitled "Three Whom God Should Not Have
Created:
Iranians, Jews, and Flies."
http://www.newshour.com/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/readings/po
s
t.html
1 ABC News.Com,
http://www.abcnews.go.com/reference/bios/shussein.html
2 Computers/Technical Operations,
http://www.emergency.com/hussein1.htm, much more information there.
3 Canadian Friends, International Christian Embassy,
http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/medigest/may00/arabnazi.html
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/saddam.html4 Judith Miller and
Laurie Mylroie, Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf, (NY:
Random
House, 1990), p. 34 Muftism and Nazism: World War II Collaboration.
Documents
(examples of original correspondence)
1) U.S. Confirms Role of Mufti as Nazi Middle East Leader OFFICE
OF U.S. CHIEF OF COUNSEL FOR PROSECUTION OF AXIS CRIMINALITY
No. 792-PS
17 September 1945


Sharon: Israel Knows Syria Is Hiding Iraqis, Weapons
By Julie Stahl
CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief
April 15, 2003

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Israel knows that Syria is hiding Iraqi
officials and equipment, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told a Hebrew
newspaper.

"[Syrian President] Bashar Assad is dangerous. His judgment is
impaired," Sharon was quoted as saying in excerpts published Tuesday
in the daily Yediot Aharonot .

"In the Iraq war he proved he was incapable of drawing conclusions
from very obvious facts. Anyone with eyes in his head would have
known that Iraq was going to be on the losing side. But Assad
thought the United States was going to fail," Sharon said.

The interview broke Israel's official silence on Syria, following a
weekend threat to involve Israel in the event the United States
attacks Syria in its war on terror.

Sharon called on the United States to put "very heavy diplomatic and
economic pressure" on Syria.

He listed five demands: dismantling "palestinian terrorist
organizations" based in Damascus; ousting Iranian Revolutionary
Guards from Lebanon; ending Syrian-Iranian cooperation, including
the transfer of weapons to the so-called
"palestinian" authority and inciting Israeli Arabs; deploying the
Lebanese Army along the Lebanese-Israeli border and ridding the area
of Hizballah; and dismantling the surface-to-surface missile system
that Israel says Hizballah has installed in southern Lebanon.

Tensions have been building between Washington and Damascus during
the war in Iraq, over U.S. allegations that Syria allowed both
fighters and weapons to cross its border into Iraq to fight against
coalition troops.

But President Bush upped the ante over the weekend when he charged
that Syria had chemical weapons and warned that Damascus had better
cooperate.

"The Syrian government needs to cooperate with the United States and
our coalition partners and not harbor any Baathists, any military
officials, any people who need to be held to account for their
tenure," Bush said.


British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said, there were "important
questions" which Damascus needed to answer, such as if it was
harboring Iraqi fugitives or developing "illegal or illegitimate
chemical or biological programs."

Dealing with Syria

Yuval Shteinitz, head of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee, said that the global war on terrorism could not be
completed without dealing with Syria.

The way Syria is behaving "looks strange," Shteinitz said in a
telephone interview.

On the other hand they must understand ... that they are on the list
of terror-sponsoring states and in any case it is better to play the
hero if they are the next stop in the war on terrorism, he said.

Shteinitz charged that Syria is the number one terrorist sponsoring
nation in the world, ahead of Iraq and Afghanistan....
Syria, which according to U.N. resolutions illegally occupies
Lebanon, also backs the Hizballah terrorist organization based in
south Lebanon and hosts the headquarters of at least a dozen
terrorist organizations in Damascus.

"Without dismantling Hizballah, without dismantling the terror
[organizations] in Damascus [like] Hamas and Islamic Jihad the
global war on terrorism cannot be completed," Shteinitz said.

According to some U.S. experts, he said, Hizballah may be even more
dangerous than al Qaeda.

..... if a full-scale war were launched, Shteinitz said, Israel
would likely be attacked and would strike back.

Israel warned Syria and Hizballah prior to the war in Iraq not to
try to take advantage of the situation to attack Israel and pledged
a severe retaliation for any attacks."


"Historical Fact: Syria terrorism and war crimes
At the beginning of January 1976
In Damour and Jieh, two Christian towns south of Beirut, the
Palestinians and Syrians went so far as to cut the fingers of
Christian children to ensure that they never would be able to pull a
gun's trigger. In Damour, at least 300 inhabitants were killed and
their churches profaned.

May 31, 1976
The Syrians invaded Lebanon and established their rule. The invaders
pillaged the towns and villages they went through and humiliated the
Lebanese population. The Syrians shelled all the regions under
Muslim domination. There must have been over 500 victims, mostly
civilians.

March 16, 1977
the Syrians murdered Mr. Kamal Joumblatt, they sent Druze to attack
Christian villages. The result: At least 1000 people were massacred.
The village of Deir Dourit was erased, with 273 dead.

February 7, 1978
hostilities started between the Lebanese Army and the Arab Force of
Dissuasion, the FAD, with its Syrian majority and under the command
of the Lebanese lieutenant Sami Khatib, as a result of the
installation of a Syrian barrage near the Fayadieh Barracks, the
seat of the Lebanese military commander of Mount Lebanon. The Syrian
soldiers insisted on controlling all Lebanese military vehicles
entering the Fayadieh Barracks. They shelled the residential
quarters with Stalin Organs and opened fire on the barracks with MBT
guns.
Mention must be made that as of that period, Sami Khatib is one of
the best Syrian agents in Lebanon. He is responsible for the
incarceration of thousands of Lebanese and the disappearance of
hundreds of others following their torture.

June 27, 1978
Elements from the "special Syrian forces" dragged out of their beds
30 young men from the villages of Kaa and Ras_Baalbeck and executed
them without any form of trial. The man who headed and completed
this job was none other than the Syrian officer Ali Dib.

July 1, 1978
The civilian population of East Beirut and its suburbs were shelled
by Syrian artillery and started with the residential quarters of
East Beirut. The private militia of Rifaat Assad, brother of the
Syrian President, circled the free regions around Beirut. The
shelling lasted five days and five nights. Heavy caliber shells were
used, from heavy cannon to Kaytusha rockets and including all kinds
of mortars (up to 240 mm), rockets and missiles. According to some
obbservers, all sorts of weapon were used, except for aerial
bombing. Sixty civilians were killed and over 300 injured.

Beginning 1979
The Syrians bombed East Beirut and the adjoining Christian regions.
82, 120 and 160 mm shells fell on the targeted sectors.

August 1979
The Syrians shell the villages of Niha, Deir Bella and Douma in
North Lebanon.

February 24, 1980
Mr. Selim Laouzi, owner and director of the al Hawadess revue, was
kidnapped by the Syrians on the road to the Beirut airport. The
mutilated and decomposed body of the journalist was found in the
Aramoun forest ten days after his abduction. He was shot twice in
the head after having been tortured horribly: the ribs on his right
side had been crushed by repeated blows with a bar and his right arm
was lacerated to the bone, from his armpit to his elbow.

July 23, 1980
Riad Taha, president of the press, was killed at Chourane (Raouchþ)
by the Syrians. His car had been sprayed with bullets. Taha was hit
by seven bullets in his face, the back of his head and his breast.
September 4, 1981, Louis Delamarre, the French Ambassador to Lebanon
was murdered by the Syrians in West Beirut. France remained
indifferent to this murder.

March 1981
The towns of Zahlþ in the Bekaa and East Beirut were shelled. In
Lebanon, even the Red Cross was a target for the Syrians. Sister
[Nun] Marie Sophie Zoghbi was one of the Red Cross ambulance drivers
since the beginning of the war. She had forced her way through the
front to the south of the town of Zahlþ on the Saadnayel road. Alone
at the wheel of her ambulance, she'd gone to fetch the dying in
Zahlþ. The Syrians shot the vehicle, killing her on the spot. The
town's hospital was eradicated by thousands of shells which fell on
it during one night. Water, food, and medicines grew rarer and the
corpses of some of the wounded who'd died under the shelters
couldn't be evacuated. In all, the fighting had left some two
hundred dead and five hundred wounded in Beirut alone. The
Palestinians, too, had participated actively in the Zahlþ shelling.
The Palestinian military commander was Ahmad Ismail.

February 1982
In the Syrian city of Hama, an insurrection by the Moslem Brothers
was suppressed with rare brutality in modern history. The Alawite
army isolated the city, cutting off any contact with the outside,
and opened a ground and aerial bombing. According to Amnesty
International, the Syrian military had placed rubber pipes at the
entrance of buildings where insurgents were said to be hiding and
pumped in poison gas. It is claimed that there were some 30,000 dead
in Hama. The Alawite army attacked the entire population, both
Christians and Moslems.

April 3, 1982
The murder of Yacov Barsimentov, third secretary at the Israeli
Embassy in Paris. The murder was claimed by the Lebanese
Revolutionary Armed Fractions (FARL), a small terrorist group
created and manipulated by the Syrians.

April 22, 1982
A booby trapped car exploded Rue Marbeuf in Paris. Two Syrian
diplomats were expelled, and the French Ambassador recalled for
consultation.

May 24, 1982
A Syrian attack against the French Embassy in Lebanon. At eight AM
on a Monday morning, Anna Comidis, secretary at the commercial
service of the French Embassy in Beirut entered the gate of the
compound at the wheel of her Renault R12. The car exploded at that
very moment. Anna Comidis' body was shredded to pieces. Ten
additional people were killed and over twenty were injured. The
explosion, estimated as some fifty kilograms of inflammable fuel,
was operated from a distance at the moment the car was entering the
grounds of the embassy.

September 14, 1982
Syria murders the Lebanese elected president, Bechir Gemayel. The
Syrians used Habib Chartouni as an assassin. The murder was
perpetrated at the military HQ of the Phalangists in Achrafieh.
Habib Chartouni had belonged to the pro-Syrian party the PSNS, since
1977, and was recruited by Assaad Hardane, head of the pro-Syrian
party in Lebanon. Elie Hobeika, head of the Phalangist security had
recruited Habib Chartouni. Hobeika acted in accordance with the
Syrians. Ali Douba, chief of the Syrian intelligence services
supplied Chartouni with the explosives. Chartouni received half a
million Lebanese pounds (700,000 FF at the time). Twenty six people
were killed in addition to Bechir Gemayel in that explosion. The
Syrian consider Chartouni a hero, and they liberated him in October
1990 when they invaded the two Metn. Elias Hraoui, second post Taif
president, announced ironically, following the liberation of
Chartouni, that inquiry would be opened to find Gemayel's murderers.

December 1982
The Syrians destroy the town of Tripoli in Northern Lebanon. The
fighting between the Sunnites of Tripoli and the Syrians started at
the beginning of December. The Baal Mohsen quarter was held by the
Syrians and their allies while the Bab Tebbanne quarter was
controlled by the anti-Syrian Lebanese militia. The Syrians formed a
militia loyal to them, the Arab Democratic Party, whose general
secretary was Nassib Khatib, though directed by the Alawite Ali Eid.
The fighting lasted three years. Tripoli had become a second Beirut.

September 1983
Over 110 villages or Christian quarters in the Chouf were ethnically
cleansed of their Christian inhabitants: Throats were slit, bodies
hacked apart with axes, many were burned alive over fire red, iron
bars. Syrian soldiers and members of the Druze community of Lebanon
took part in these massacres. Likewise, on November 8, 1982, Israeli
Druze officers allowed the Lebanese Druze to massacre the Christian
population in certain villages such as Kfarnabrakh, at the foot of
the cedars of Mount Barouk.
Walid Joumblatt, the leader of the Lebanese Druze, gave the order to
massacre the Chouf Christians.

September 1983
a commando of Khomeinist Iranians emerged from its Baalbeck hideout,
arrived at Rayak in the Bekaa, and after praying at the mosque
exploded a residential building inhabited by Christians, leaving
behind dead and wounded. The Syrians present on the premises
prevented the Lebanese Civil Defense from removing debris burying
two screaming survivors.
Assayed Ahmad Al Fihri, appointed by Khomeiny to head the Hezbollah
in the Middle East, is responsible for this massacre at Rayak. The
Iranian ambassador in Syria, Ali Akbar Montachami, and the military
attachþ, Colonel Haromi Zadem, had been placed at Al Fihri's
service.

October 23, 1983
250 American soldiers and 70 French soldiers were killed at their
HQs in West Beirut. Lebanese and Iranian Islamists supported by
Syrian logistics headed the operation. According to certain military
sources, both buildings had been packed full of dynamite, which
explains the high number of casualties. France and the USA remained
indifferent to these massacres. In the wake of this, the soldiers of
both countries were repatriated because Beirut had turned into a
dangerous city, even for the mightiest fighters of all times.

1983-1984
the Syrians shelled and lay siege to the city of Tripoli in Northern
Lebanon. The overt objective was to evict the PLO Palestinians. The
Syrian army had mobilized militants from Tripoli to take part in
that job. According to the evidence of former Lebanese militiamen
who participated in the battle on Tripoli on the side of the
Syrians, the latter shelled residential zones inhabited by Lebanese
civilians and where no Palestinians ever dwelled. The Lebanese
militiamen who refused to take part in the destruction of their city
were systematically arrested, tortured, and then executed.

February 1984
Occupation of West Beirut by Amal, the pro-Syrian Shi'ite militia.
On February 6, 1984, Amal supported by Syrian troupes, attacked the
Lebanese army stationed in West Beirut. The fighting left at least
one hundred dead and over 400 injured. Nabih Berri, Head of Amal,
and Ghazi Kanaan, commander of the Syrian forces in Lebanon, are
responsible for this slaughter.

March 1985
Exodus of tens of thousands of Christians from Iklim El_Kharroub and
the eastern part of Saida. The Palestinians and Lebanese Druze laid
siege to, pillaged and burned over twenty Christian villages. Walid
Joumblatt, Yasser Arafat and Syrian officers, planned these
massacres.

January 1986
Cancellation of the tri-partite agreement by a war between Amine
Gemayel's phalangists and Samir Geagea's Lebanese Forces which
opposed the agreement on the one hand, and Elie Hobeika's partisans
on the other hand. Hobeika found refuge among his Syrian friends.
Following the failure of the tri-partite agreement, car bombs
started to appear in Beirut and its eastern suburb:
- On Tuesday, March 21, 1986, 11 hours 35, a car bomb exploded in
Furn_El_Chebback (East Beirut), leaving 30 dead and at least 132
injured.
- On May 20, 1986, the French Prime Minister Chirac announced that
he was in favor of strengthening ties between France and Syria. He
added that a solution for Lebanon could only be found together with
Syria.
- On May 21, 1986, a car bomb exploded in the Christian sector,
leaving 7 dead and over 100 injured.
- On July 29, 1986, a Mercedes exploded on the Wadih Nahim Street in
Ein el Remmaneh, a Beirut suburb, with 31 dead and 128 injured.
- On July 30, 1986, a booby trapped Mercedes exploded in Barbir,
West Beirut. The result: 22 dead and 163 - injured. Syria and Elie
Hobeika instigated these terrorist cases.

September 17, 1986
an explosion took place in the Rue de Rennes in Paris, in front of
the doors of the Tati store. Three women and two men were killed,
and over 52 were injured.
The French Secret Services accused Colonel Ghazi Kanaan of acting as
the terrorist chief. Colonel Kanaan manipulated the killers within a
framework of operations determined jointly by Iran and Lybbia under
the aegis of Damascus. The operation having concluded successfully,
Colonel Kanaan was promoted to the rank of General.

September 1986
Colonel Christian Gouttiþre, French military attachþ in Lebanon was
killed near the French embassy in Mar Takla, in the region of East
Beirut. In Damascus, far more rapidly than was their custom, the
Syrians hastened to condemn the murder of the French military
attachþ.

1987
The provocation of the Druze-Shi'ite inter-faith war and the
occupation of West Beirut. Since the beginning of 1987, the tension
between Joumblatt and Berri was reaching its apex. For over a year,
the two rival militias shared everything in West Beirut, thefts,
racketeering and crimes. This tension culminated in the most violent
fighting ever seen in West Beirut. These fights, well orchestrated
by the Syrians, lasted for a long time, with neither of the two
militias managing to gain the upper hand. The Syrians entered West
Beirut in February 1987. The Lebanese Prime Minister Salim Hoss and
other political and Moslem religious leaders approved the Syrian
decision, preferring an Arab army to the Lebanese Army. Hafez el
Assad later got rid of the Sunnite Mufti Hassan Khaled on the day
the Mufti requested the Syrians to leave Lebanon. The Syrian secret
services placed 200 kgs of explosives under his car.

On May 8, 1988
An inter-Shi'ite war is provoked between Amal and Hezbollah. The
fighting lasted three weeks, in the course of which the Amal
militia, financed and manipulated by Damascus, collapsed before the
rival militia. This war enabled the Syrians to deploy their forces
in the southern Shi'ite suburb of Beirut, having done so a year
before in the western suburb.

March 1989
The Syrians shell the eastern regions of Beirut. At the end of
February 1989, the Lebanese Prime Minister, General Michel Aoun,
decides to close all the illegal ports in Lebanon that allow for
drug traffic. The Syrian response was rapid: A shelling of the
regions controlled by the Lebanese army, with an average of 6000
shells per day. The Syrian forces used for this fight totaled about
20,000 men who were under the command of Generals Gazi Kanaan and
Ali Hammoud.

The Syrians killed the Spanish ambassador to Lebanon.
In their wild shelling of the Lebanese population, the Syrian hit
the residence of Mr. Pedro Manuel de Aristegui, Spanish Ambassador
to Lebanon. A shell exploded and destroyed the building where the
diplomat's residence was located, killing the ambassador, his father-
in-law, his sister-in-law, and the Lebanese writer Toufic Youssef
Aouad. Despite the confirmation that the 240 mm shell had come from
the Syrian lines, the official circles in Madrid refused to accuse
the Syrians.

November 22, 1989
It was 13 hours 50 in Beirut, when the armored Mercedes of Renþ
Moawad, accompanied by Syrian soldiers was blown into pieces. Two
hundred kilos of TNT had exploded under his car. In addition to
Moawad, 17 Syrian soldiers perished as well. It is to be noted that
Renþ Moawad's wife never submitted any complaint against the
Syrians. Worse still, she continues to this day to collaborate with
the Syrians, her husband's murderers.

October 13, 1990
in Beirut, the Syrian Air Force begins to bomb the free regions. The
bombing lasted until 14.00 hours, five hours after the surrender of
the Lebanese Prime Minister.

October 13, 1990
The Syrians liquidated the Sayah family in the village of Bsous.
Coletter Sayah, aged 18, awoke one morning to the noise of Syrian
airplanes. The Sayah family hastened to take shelter in a ground
floor room. Shortly before 8 AM, Colette heard the first bursts of
an automatic and the rumble of tanks in the village streets.
Outside, men were shouting: "Out! Out! You dogs, you!" One by one,
the members of the Sayah family left their shelter. In the street,
in the house, there were many tens of Syrian soldiers. They took
away Colette, her mother and her aunts into an adjoining building
under construction. They'd barely arrived there when they heard a
series of shots.
The Syrians had just killed all the men of the family. The father
and a cousin with a bullet in their heads, one of the brothers was
shot through his heart. Another brother was still breathing. Colette
asked them to call an ambulance, but the Syrians preferred that the
boy die. He will die in his sister's arms. Emile and Joseph, the two
uncles, were executed in a staircase. The corpses will lie in the
middle of the road until evening, surrounded by a humming cloud of
flies and bees.
The Hraoui government announced that there had been no massacres.

The massacre of Dahr al Wahch.
The people of the village of Dahr al_Wahch saw Syrian soldiers push
a column of Lebanese prisoners who were walking in their shorts
towards some unknown destination. A nun, a nurse at the governmental
hospital of Baabda, saw the arrival of corpses and of the Red Cross
ambulances. "I counted between 75 and 80, she explained. Most of
them had a bullet in the back of their heads or in their mouth. The
corpses still carried the mark of cords around their wrists." The
rigidity of the corpses fixed their crossed arms behind their backs.
They were naked, wearing only shorts. Some ten of them had their
eyes gouged out, another ten had an arm or leg cut off. All had been
shot in their heads. There can be no doubt about their execution.
The Hraoui government announced that there had been no massacres.

Torture "made in Syria"
All the world organizations that struggle to defend the Rights of
Man have published documents about torture in Syria. The following
is a document published in Geneva in May 1984 by the "Swiss
Association for the Defense of the Liberties of Political Prisoners
in Syria." This document, entitled "The Rights of Man in Syria"
refers to the treatments reserved for political prisoners held by
the Damascus secret services.


The prisoner is stripped naked.
His whole body is shaved.
Cigarette butts are extinguished over the more sensitive places of
his body
They burn his scalp.
They pull out his nails.
They tie his genitals with a nylon thread that they secure to a nail
on the wall after transfixing the prisoner to a ring fixed on the
opposite wall. Then, one of the tormentors strikes the taut nylon
thread repeatedly with a stick.
They flog the soles of a prisoner's feet with lashes of a whip, a
cane, or a plastic pipe, a minimum of two hundred lashes a time.
Then, stretch out the prisoner inside a container of cold water.
They invert the prisoner into a car's tireês rim and then strike him
all over (the process: they insert a leg into the middle of the
tire, followed by the head and the arms in such a manner that the
prisoner is bent over and immobilized in the form of a U inside the
tire's circle).
They hang the prisoner by his feet with his head down.
They force the prisoner to remain standing during several days while
preventing him from sitting down or falling asleep by ordering him
to raise his arms fully stretched and very straight.
They force the prisoner to stand for long periods of time on one
foot, administering blows each time he lowers his raised foot.
They force the prisoners to run while carrying heavy loads and
sustaining blows until utterly exhausted or in a faint.
Pour all of a sudden boiling water over the prisoners.
They force the prisoner to sit on a stake.
They force the prisoner to sit on the neck of a bottle.
They subject the prisoner to electric shock by using an alternative
electric current and tying the wires to the more sensitive parts of
the body, especially to the genitals.
They force pump water or air into the prisoner.
They force sexual intercourse with the prisoner.
They tear out chunks of the prisoner's flesh from various parts of
his body with the help of pliers.
They rope the prisoner to a car and drive it full speed until death
occurs or till the victims' bodies are torn apart and then the
victimês bodies are desecrated by gouging an eye or cutting an ear,
the tongue, the fingers and in some cases the genitals, and by
sticking them into the victim's mouth.
They force the prisoner to run around a large room surrounded by
torturers who strike him with diverse instruments of torture .
Force the prisoner to drink his own urine.
They throw the prisoner into a basin of electrified water.
They tie the prisoner's genitals to prevent him from urinating after
forcing him to drink diuretic liquids.

Taken from lebaneseforces.org

Source: http://www.lebaneseforces.com/blastfromthepast005.asp

We are reminded now too of the Rabin Assassination.
Amir, the allged assassin of Rabin, we recall was stationed in the
Baltics. He had been a paratrooper, in an elite unit, as such he
would normally have been in line to be recruited by Israeli
intelligence. But, the then Soviet Union was notorious for
entrapping Israelis and others on its soil, (which then included
the Baltics), in so-called "honey traps", filled with prostitutes,
in which the unwitting Israelis and others were filmed with the
prostitutes, and blackmailed into becoming agents of the Soviet
K.G.B. Did this happen to Amir? If so, was he later "sold" to the
former Soviet client state of Syria by some former K.G.B. agent who
was running him? Did Amir turn from being an Israeli paratrooper
into being a K.G.B. agent? Was a so-called "false-flag" operation
run on Amir by the K.G.B. and later by Syrian intelligence, to fool
Amir into believing that he had sold out to, and was working for,
someone else, such as France, the U.S. the U.K. etc.? Who really
benefited from the Rabin Assassination? After the assassination of
Rabin Syria falsely claimed that Rabin had agreed to give up the
Golan Heights. Something Rabin would never have agreed to. In fact
Sharon himself has recently stated that he has not intention of
giving up the Golan Heights. Nor can he.
Israeli's security depends on its retention of the Golan Heights. A
live Rabin could have and would have refuted the Syrian claim.
Moreover, the fact that Syria never made the claim while Rabin was
alive reinforces the belief that Rabin was killed so that Syria
could make the claim. We believe that Syria was behind the Rabin
Assassination.

We believe that Syria was behind the assassination of Gemayel, and
his government to be in Lebanon, in which Gemayel and about 400
otheers in his government to be were assassinated in a bombing.

We believe that Syria was behind the assassination of Hariri.
Syria may well have played a role in the attack on Amman. It is
certainly providing a conduit at the very least for attacks in Iraq.
It appears that Syria is also providing agents and materiel for
attacks in Iraq.

The Clinton Administration, fearful of revealing the truth about
TWA Flight 800 re-wrote the evidence story with a flimsy cover that
bomb-sniffingdogexercises had been conducted on the plane. Nonsense,
as bomb-sniffingdogs are used to detect explosive material, before
it has gone off,inconcealed devices and luggage, not on airplane
seats after theexplosion has gone off. In the Pan Am 103 bombing
former JFK PressSecretary, Pierre Salinger had speculated on Syrian
involvement intheblast. In the TWA Flight 800 bombing French
intelligence fed Salinger a false story about a US Missile attack on
Flight 800, to divert him from repeating the Syrian track on Flight
800. A Saudi pilot even claimed to have seen odd green flares over
the sight on a laterflightweeks later. The Saudi regent, Saudi Crown
Prince Abdullah , authorofthe infamous so-called "Saudi Peace Plan",
is married to a woman froma prominent Sunni family in Damascus and
has close ties with the Syrian regime. Syria may also have been
responsible for support or more in the bombings of US Facilities in
Saudi Arabia. It certainly is widely viewed to have bombed the US
Embassy in Beirut, the US Marine Barracks in Beirut, and of course
to have murdered 400 people along with the Gemayel government to be
in Lebanon, to have shelled thousands of Christians In East Beirut,
to have occupied Lebanon, to have heavy drug involvement In the
Bekaa Valley, to print fake US currency, to back and permit to
operate countless terrorist gangs,does anyone wish to add more
charges as the list seems to go on endlessly. The Assad family and
the Baath Party are the true obstacles to a Syrian/Israeli peace.
The Assads come from the tiny Alawite minority within Syria. If
arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced appropriately they would not
be missed by the vast majority of the Syrian people.
The Baath Party was founded in Syria when Syriawas a
French colony and France was under nazi occupation. The Syrian and
Iraqi Baath Parties split some years ago into a so-
called "political" wing in Iraq and a so-called "military" wing in
Syria. Most of those who are murdering Americans and others in Iraq
have come from or through Syria or are Syrians themselves. Just as
the
Vietnam War remained unwinnable because the U.S. refused to liberate
North Vietnam by sending in ground troops to create regime change in
North Vietnam, so Iraq cannot truly ever be brought to democracy
while Syrian based and Syrian sponsored terrorists continue to murder
Americans and others from the civilized world seeking to bring
democracy to Iraq. Only regime change in Syria can make the success
of democracy possible in Iraq
I would first suggest that you go to
http://www.forward.com/ which is
the website of The Forward, a historic
Jewish newspaper published both
in print and excerpted on the Web.
Contact them for back copies of
their issues from the period in which
TWA Flight 800 was BOMBED which
contain a story on the Turkish/Syrian
conflict of that period. There
were 40,000 troops on the
Turkish/Syrian border at the time.
There had
been 2 bomb attempts on the life of
then Syrian dictator Hafez Al
Assad, later replaced by his son Bashir
al Assad after he died.
TWA Flight 800: The plane was about an hour late in taking off, the
likely bomb was probably set to go off via a timer, over the ocean
and
far away from any possibility of recovering evidence of the crime.
Evidence of explosive material was found on seats on the plane in
locations similar to the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. The NEW YORK
TIMES
even ran a front page headline piece about that But of course
America
recanted and covered all of that up by coming up with the ridiculous
story about bomb-sniffing dog exercises having been conducted on the
plane. NO WAY
In real bomb sniffing dog exercises the dogs are used to detect
hidden
bombs in transistor radios and such, we assume also in shoes these
days, but NOT ON AIRPLANE SEATS Bomb materials residue would only be
found on seats AFTER the explosion Not before it There had also
been
attacks on US installations in Saudi Arabia not long before TWA
Flight
800 was bombed. The Saudis had been particularly uncooperative with
US
investigators, they did not permit free FBI access to the suspects,
etc.
The usual Saudi procedure is to execute whoever might be able to tell
a tale. Dead men tell no tales as the saying goes. The Saudi regent
Crown Prince Abdullah is married to a prominent member of a Sunni
Moslem family from Damascus Syria. Now if you were a Syrian dissident
and a possible candidate to replace Assad at the time you presumably
speak French as a second language, Syria having been a colony of
France at the time. You know you are not safe in the arab world,
Syria
hosts countless terrorist gangs both in Syria and in its puppet state
of Lebanon. So you probably want to live the good life in exile In
Paris. That's where Khomeini stayed out his exile. Syria was
supporting the Kurdish PKK guerillas In Turkey at the time, which led
to the Syrian-Turkish near war and probably to the 2 bomb attempts by
Turkey, we think it was by Turkey, on Assad's life not long before
TWA
Flight 800 went down.

excerpted from:  THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
DATE: Thursday, August 4, 1994
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: By Frank Greve, Knight-Ridder News Service


…QUESTIONABLE GRANTS
John Murtha, who is not a rich man, gave his alma mater nearly $100
million last year.
His secret: The money was yours.
Murtha, an 11-term western Pennsylvania Democratic congressman,
quietly slipped his gifts into the huge defense appropriations bill
passed by the powerful House subcommittee he chairs.
"Academic pork" is the name of his game….
Congress also is backing diabetes research by a scientist who never
has heard of the National Institutes of Health unit that leads the
field, and is sponsoring Chesapeake Bay studies by a new
Pennsylvania environmental center 180 miles from its shores.
Sometimes it's hard to know just what America's political
philanthropists are up to. Leon Haley, top spokesman for the
University of Pittsburgh, Murtha's alma mater, says he knows "almost
nothing" about how the $99,600,000 in grants to the school included
in the 1994 appropriation are being spent.
"Nobody knew what the h—l to do with it," recalls Lawrence Korb, a
former top Pentagon official whose advice was sought by a friend,
the university's president, when Murtha first offered the money.
Most of the money actually is going to Concurrent Technologies
Corp., a subsidiary of the University of Pittsburgh Trust. Both are
nonprofit corporations used to fund academic research by faculty
members and others.
According to a CTC brochure, its research is focused on
metalworking, manufacturing software and anti-pollution systems. CTC
is based in Johnstown, Pa., Murtha's hometown, 80 miles east of the
university's main campus.
Generous senior House and Senate Appropriations Committee members
like Murtha are behind the successes of the universities and states
that have won the most academic pork since 1980.
Pennsylvania is far out in front with an estimated $377,238,000,
followed by Massachusetts with $206,191,000. Others in the top 10
are Oregon, Louisiana, Florida, New York, Michigan, California, Iowa
and West Virginia, in that order.
The congressional handouts - called earmarks - are specific spending
orders by Congress's most powerful figures. They involve outlays not
called for in the president's budget and generally made without
debate on the merits of the spending.
Pennsylvania dominates the earmark game because Joseph McDade of
Scranton, another Pennsylvanian enthusiastic about academic pork, is
the ranking Republican on the Defense Appropriations subcommittee
that Murtha chairs. Together, they can steer just about anything
through the House."
ACADEMIC PORK
Sources: Library of Congress, Chronicle of Higher Education
For copy of graphic, see microfilm
KEYWORDS: U.S. CONGRESS EDUCATION FUNDING
source: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-
Pilot/issues/1994/vp940804/08040543.htm
an update from 1996 on McDade, who is no longer in Congress, follows:
Rep. McDade Acquitted Of Bribery, RacketeeringPHILADEPHIA
(AllPolitics, Aug. 1) -- An eight-year ordeal came to an end for
Rep. Joseph M. McDade (R-Pa.) after a jury acquitted him of bribery
and racketeering charges. Jurors said the government couldn't prove
its case that the popular 17-term congressman had taken $100,000
worth of gifts and in return steered $53.8 million in Navy contracts
to defense contractors. Prosecutors also accused him of taking fake
campaign contributions, travel and free vacations. But jurors
apparently believed staff aides for McDade who testified that if
gift disclosure laws had been violated, it was their fault. McDade,
they said, didn't handle such details. Defense attorney Sal Cognetti
plans to ask Congress to investigate what he called the Justice
Department's "improper motives" in launching the case, which was
initiated under President George Bush. McDade described the
investigation as "Chinese water torture." "I don't know what (the
case) was motivated by," he told The Associated Press. "It wasn't
motivated by the evidence nor was it motivated by any criminal acts
by Joseph McDade." The trial lasted six weeks, and after
deliberating for about 11 hours, the jury informed U.S. District
Judge Robert S. Gawthrop III they were deadlocked, unable to reach a
verdict. Gawthrop asked them to work some more and within an hour
they returned with an acquittal of all five counts. McDade, 64, has
paid a heavy price. Hospitalized twice during the trial, he has been
diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Had he not been indicted, he
likely would have been appointed chairman of the Appropriations
Committee, a post he may yet secure if he wins re-election.
source:
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/news/9608/01/mcdade/index.shtml
Now for an excerpt from a piece dated January February 1998 source:
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0198/9801024.htm
from the same anti-Israel website praising Murtha among others for
voting against a bill which had sought to stop Iran from getting
missiles capable hitting Israel, and other targets of Iran, with
weapons of mass destruction. Murtha was actually able to overcome
his normal intense hostility to China, lots of Muirtha's top
contributors are either lobbyists for Taiwan, or arms manufacturers
who supply Taiwan with weapons, since in this instance China, (and
Russia), have been supplying arms to Iran, and since Israel is a
likely target of those weapons, Murtha and his pals in Congress were
happy to jump in on Iran's side against Israel.
Here's the excerpt:
"Congress Keeps Pressure on Iran
By Shirl McArthur
In early October, three separate anti-Iran resolutions that had been
languishing in committee since their introduction in early July were
resurrected. The first two, Senate Resolution 48 and House
Resolution 121, were identical and aimed at stopping alleged missile
technology exports from Russia to Iran. The resolutions urge Clinton
to "demand" that Russia take action to stop governmental and non-
governmental entities in Russia from providing missile technology
and technological advice to Iran, and, if Russia's response is
inadequate, to impose sanctions on the offending entities and
to "reassess cooperative activities with Russia." Sen. Jesse Helms's
Foreign Relations Committee considered S.R. 48 on Oct. 8, referred
it to the full Senate on Nov. 4, and the Senate passed it by voice
vote on Nov. 7.
Meanwhile, in the House, Gilman's International Relations Committee
brought up H.R. 121 on Oct. 9, and issued several press releases
denouncing both Russia and Iran. At about that same time, Gilman
resurrected his earlier resolution, H.R. 188, denouncing China for
providing Iran with C-802 cruise missiles, calling this
a "destabilizing" violation of the Iran-Iraq Arms Non-Proliferation
Act of 1992, and urging the Clinton administration to impose
sanctions under the act. Suddenly, however, Gilman got the idea of
combining the two resolutions. The operative portions of H.R. 121
were folded into H.R. 188 on Nov. 6, and it was passed the same day
by roll-call vote, 414-8, with 11 not voting. The eight congressmen
who voted against H.R. 188 were Reps. Lee Hamilton (D-IN), Amo
Houghton (R-NY), E.B. Johnson (D-TX), John LaFalce (D-NY), Jim Moran
(D-VA), John Murtha (D-PA), David Skaggs (D-CO), and Sidney Yates (D-
IL)."
Here's another example of Murtha, Moran and their pals, hard at work
against Israel.
From the October 1996 item titled:  "Special Report A Look at the
104th Congress by Shirl McArthur"
Here's the excerpt from the McArthur piece:
"In the interest of space the accompanying table lists only those
congressmen who, in our opinion, were on the side of justice and the
U.S. national interest by voting against moving the Embassy to
Jerusalem (A) or by supporting lifting the travel ban on Lebanon (B)
or by urging humanitarian aid for Lebanon.  Only 8
representatives (4 from Michigan) and 2 senators show up in all
three columns. About the same number of representatives (9) but
several more senators (11) appear in two columns." Murtha and Moran
are among those praised for their anti-Israel votes in the McArthur
piece at:
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/1096/9610035.htm
Murtha and Moran both voted against the  ARMING PILOTS AGAINST
TERRORISM ACT

H. Res. 472
source:
http://frwebgate6.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?
WAISdocID=936986112385+25+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve
"[Congressional Record: October 15, 2001 (Senate)]
[Page S10676-S10679]
From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:cr15oc01-21]


PROHIBITING UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATIONS
Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, today I rise to say the national
antiterrorism legislation passed by this body is in grave danger of
being rendered useless. The bill passed by this body corrected an
immediate and severe impediment to the undercover investigations
that
must be employed to shut down terrorism in our Nation. The
antiterrorism bill passed by this body included legislation
introduced
by Senator Leahy, Senator Hatch, and myself that would untie the
hands
of Federal prosecutors in my home State of Oregon and remove the
roadblocks that currently all but prohibit undercover investigations
there.
Unfortunately, the antiterrorism legislation passed by the House
strips that provision and rips back open the enormous loophole that
potentially makes Oregon a safe haven for dangerous criminals and
terrorists everywhere.
For
more than a year now, State and Federal prosecuting attorneys in
Oregon have been legally prohibited from advising or participating
in
law enforcement undercover investigations. Without advice of
counsel,
law enforcement operatives cannot conduct wiretaps, sting
operations,
or infiltrate dangerous criminal operations. Covert investigations
in
my State have been shut down for more than a year. If the Senate
does
not insist on antiterrorism language to restart these investigations
in
Oregon, the national antiterrorism legislation will not be national
at
all; it will cover 49 States and it will give dangerous criminals,
including terrorists, not just a license but practically an engraved
invitation to set up shop in Oregon with little fear of detection or
apprehension through undercover or covert methods. It would
endanger,
not just the people of my State but all Americans.
I wish to explain briefly how this situation came about. It started
here in Washington in 1998. An amendment to the omnibus
appropriations
bill started the ball rolling in Washington, DC. A McDade-Murtha
amendment required Federal prosecutors to abide by the State ethics
laws and rules in the State in which they work. In Oregon, the State
bar association enacted a disciplinary rule making it unethical for
attorneys to take part in any practice involving "deceit or
misrepresentation of any
kind."
When an Oregon attorney misrepresented his identity to investigate a
claim, the State supreme court found him guilty of an ethics
violation.
The McDade-Murtha amendment backed that up. It became very clear no
matter how vital the investigation, no matter how great the need, no
matter how dangerous the criminals, attorneys—including Federal,
State, and
[[Page S10677]]
local prosecutors—are simply absolutely not allowed to take a single
step, not even to give advice, to help in an undercover
investigation.
If an undercover investigator cannot get advice from a Federal,
State,
or local prosecutor, that undercover investigator cannot go forward.
It
is that simple: no wiretaps, no sting operations, no infiltrating or
gathering information on any criminal group no matter how dangerous
their bent or how dastardly their plans… The terrorists
made their homes in Florida and New Jersey before
striking Americans in New York and Virginia. I don't want to find 6
months from now that the terrorists made their homes in Oregon
because
this body failed in its resolve to shut them down in every State in
our
country. Leaving one State vulnerable makes each State in this
country
vulnerable.
I implore the conferees, and indeed the Congress, to act swiftly and
judicially to guarantee that our
Federal prosecutors and investigators
have these essential tools that they have asked us to support on a
bipartisan basis so they can conduct covert operations that are that
are
necessary to prevent and prosecute criminals in terrorist acts."
source: http://frwebgate6.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?
WAISdocID=937180114579+23+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve
"Congressional Record: November 12,
1998 (House)]
[Page H11711-H11719]
From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:cr12no98-82]
Murtha, who clearly wants U.S. resources to be shifted away from the
Middle East
and into position to fight a war against China may well be the most
dangerous
American politician. There would be no winners in a total war
between America
and China, which would result in the end of all life on earth.
"The only people who want us in Iraq are Iran and al-Qaeda," Murtha
said on
CBS's "Face the Nation" political talk show. "And I talked to a top-
level
commander the other day and he said China wants us there also. Why?
Because
we're depleting our resources ... our troop resources and our fiscal
resources."
Source:
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?
type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-03\
-06T004635Z_01_N05146615_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-MURTHA.xml
For more on Murtha please do searches for the following posts:
What Does The Murtha Money Trail Teach Us
Murthas Money Trail World
The Murtha Moran McKinney Axis of Evil
The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same
Can We Stop The Coming War Against China
Hear No Evil See No Evil Speak No Evil The Modern Ministry of Truth
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may have
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http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/servicemen-to-get-pay-out-over-
lsd-tests

Servicemen to get pay out over LSD tests

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Britain has agreed to pay compensation to three servicemen given the
mind-altering drug LSD during tests in the 1950s, the government said
on Friday.

The Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6, commissioned
the experiments fearing that the Soviet Union was developing a secret
substance to brainwash its enemies and force prisoners to make
confessions with a truth drug.

The tests were carried out by scientists at Porton Down, the
government's chemical and biological weapons research laboratory, in
1953 and 1954 during the height of the Cold War.

The men who took part in the tests claimed they were duped into
taking the LSD, thinking they were taking part in research to find a
cure for colds.

Don Webb, one of the volunteers who received an extra week's pay for
the tests, said he and a colleague began to hallucinate after being
given a clear liquid to drink.

"His face melted and opened so that I could swear that I could see
his skull beneath the skin," he told BBC radio.

"The walls and floor of the room seemed to be covered by a clear
liquid that was moving about and writhing.

"I was surrounded by a cell of moving writhing things inside an
ordinary room."

A spokesman for the Foreign Office, which deals with MI6 inquiries,
denied the men had been misled.

"Settlement offers were made on behalf of the three claimants and on
legal advice … the government thought it was appropriate to accept,"
he said.

"They weren't duped into taking the tests. It's history: no one knows
precisely what happened 52 years ago."

The amounts paid to the men have not been disclosed but the BBC said
they were thought to be less than 10,000 pounds each.

"I think they have grudgingly acknowledged they did something wrong,"
Webb said. "I think that's as near to an apology or an explanation as
I'll get."

The LSD case comes after an inquest in 2004 ruled that a serviceman
who died during experiments at Porton Down to test the effect of the
lethal nerve gas sarin had been unlawfully killed by the Ministry of
Defence.

Did Anniversary Assassins Strike Again November 22nd 2004
What do you think the chances are that the plane crash which would
have killed the 41st President of the United States, George Herbert
Walker Bush,had he been on board the plane which was enroute from
Love Field in Dallas, Texas to pick him up, on the 41st anniversary
of the assassination of JFK 11/22/1963 was a botched assassination
attempt? Saddam Hussein, who may be running the show from his jail
cell, assassinated his first victim when he was 11 years old, took
power in Iraq in 1968, made it official 11 years later in 1979,
invaded Kuwait 11 years later in 1990 sent bin Laden to assassinate
former President Bush 11 years later on 9/11/2001 on the 11th
anniversary to the day of the 9/11/1990 Bush speech to Congress on
Iraq in which Bush mentioned The New World Order."US plans to
dominate the world under the cover of what is called the new [world]
order. These are the fruits of the new US order. [Video of explosion
rocking World Trade Center] [Description of Source: Baghdad Republic
of Iraq Television in Arabic-Official television station of the
Iraqi Government." The World Trade Center looked so much like the
number 11 that WPIX-TV Channel 11 in New York City used the World
Trade Center as its logo. Note 11 times 2 equals 22. The Madrid
attacks were done exactly 911 days after 9/11/2001. Sadat,
criticized by arafat and Saddam for making peace with Israel, was
assassinated on 10/6/1981 exactly 8 years after the 10/6/1973 Yom
Kippur War in which he failed to defeat Israel. The American
Embassies in Africa were hit on August 8th, 1998, exactly 8 years
after the US entered Saudi Arabia in response to Saddam's invasion
of Kuwait. A gentlemanly John Connally reaches to remove his hat as
Jackie Kennedy enters presidential limousine at Love Field, Dallas,
November 22, 1963
Source: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/images/jbc-love.htm


The shocking news that narco-terrorists in Colombia plotted to
assassinate current President George W. Bush on Monday November
22nd, 2004,
the 41st anniversary of the JFK assassination, needs some
examination.
BCCI, the infamous drug-terror-arms bank that allegedly gave former
President Jimmy Carter $10 million for the Carter Library,had
offices in Peru, where
coca leaves are grown, in Colombia, where the coca leaves are
processed into cocaine, and in Castro's Cuba, and Baathist Syria and
Baathist Iraq. Banks
did not get offices in any of those 3 tyrannies without the approval
of the tyrant.
"Colombian Rebels Planned to Kill President Bush
November 27th, 2004 U.S. National - Reuters
By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - President Bush was
targeted for assassination by Colombia's biggest Marxist rebel group
this week when he visited the Caribbean port city of Cartagena, a
top Colombian official said on Saturday. "According to informants
and various sources, we had information indicating that various
members of the FARC had been instructed by their leaders to make an
attempt against President Bush," Defense Secretary Jorge Alberto
Uribe told reporters. He would not be drawn out on the details of
the threat. The White House had no immediate comment.
The U.S. Secret Service, which protects the president, said it "does
not comment or release information regarding our protective
intelligence and protective methods." "We do not discuss any alleged
threats to our protectees," said Jonathan Cherry, a Secret Service
spokesman.
There was heavy security in Cartagena when Bush visited the city on
Monday(November 22nd, 2004)on his way back from the APEC forum in
Chile. Military helicopters packed with armed soldiers flew over
Bush's motorcade while naval vessels kept watch offshore. Many shops
were shuttered."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041127/us_nm/colombia_bush_plot_dc_5

"In early August, 1991, the Committee was provided with documents
from the Latin American and Caribbean Region Office (LACRO) of BCCI,
describing the offer for sale by the Argentine air force of 22
Mirage aircraft for $110 million. (63) The planned sale was to have
been made to Iraq, as part of Saddam Hussein's massive military
buildup prior to the Gulf war. BCCI was acting as the broker for the
transaction, which was to take place in August or September of
1989...As Robert Mazur, the Customs agent in Tampa who selected BCCI
as the target of the Customs money laundering sting testified, BCCI
bank executives volunteered methods to enhance and improve his
techniques for money laundering, and shortly before the sting ended
the operation, offered to introduce Mazur to other potential "cash"
customers for money laundering services from Bogota, Colombia...."
Source: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/04crime.htm

"The Ba'ath leadership gave the orders for Qasim's assassination...On
October 7th,1959, a six-,man assassination squad was waiting...the
night before one member of the squad had fallen ill. A new recruit
was drafted in...his full name was Saddam Hussein al-Takriti."
Page 22
"The Ba'athist led forces...participated in the coup of 8th February
1963...Immediately after the coup, Saddam Hussein returned to Iraq,
where he was appointed as the head of Al-Jihaz Al Khas, known
popularly as Jihaz Haneen (the Yearning Apparatus), the clandestine
intelligence organization of the Ba'ath Party. Saddam proceeded to
turn it into an instrument of terror....on 18th November (1963) the
army seized power in a swift military coup...the new leadership of
the Ba'ath Party...was arrested. However, some of its members
immediately collaborated with the new regime..." Pgs 25-26

"7th October 1959 A Ba'athist assassination squad fails to kill
Qasim. A member of the team, twenty-two-year old Saddam Hussein,
escapes to Syria and then to Egypt...8th February 1963 A Ba'athist
coup overthrows Quasim amidst several days of terrible street
fighting...18th November 1963 Following bitter infighting
between...factions of the Baath, Arif overthrows the Ba'athist
regime..." Pages 312-313

"Saddam...inherited from his uncle an admiration for Nazi
principles...he was attracted to the ideas of the Ba'ath nationalist
movement. The movement had been established in Damascus in 1943"
(when Syria was a French colony and Hitler ruled France) "by two
Syrians, Greek Orthodox Christian Michel A'flaq and Sunni Muslim
Salah al-Bitar. Their philosophy was based on the ideology of German
national socialism" (Nazism) "and on Italian fascism." Page 199

"After the Ba'ath Party came to power in February 1963...Saddam was
promoted into the Regional Command Council and it was soon found
that this was his metier. He was put in charge of a special force
responsible for terror and assassination and was an interrogator and
torturer in the Qasr al-Nihayyat (`The Palace of the End').
Eyewitnesses say Saddam excelled in creating new methods and
revealed a sadistically inventive mind. He designed new instruments
of torture and then experimentd with them on his victims. ...By the
summer of 1963, Saddam was urging the party to put him in charge of
creating a special security apparatus modelled on the Nazi SS. This
was the Jihza Haneen....following nationalisation of banks and
certain foreign companies in 1964, the Ba'ath Party instructed
Saddam to assassinate the president Abd al-Salam Arif. The proposed
assassination was designed to trigger off another Ba'ath coup.
Critics say it was a plan on behalf of the CIA but according to some
Ba'athist defectors the CIA did not have direct contact with the
Ba'ath itself but with army officers who were co-ordinating a joint
coup with the party. The main contact with the Americans was Iraq's
own ambassador in Washington, Dr. Nasser al-Hanni." Pages 201-203

"The second part of the plot was carried out by the Jihaz
Haneen...Members of the Iraqi Jewish community...were...arrested.
Eleven of them were among the first fourteen `spies' to be pubicly
hanged on 27th January 1969....The public hangings turned into a
national holiday with live television and radio coverage, and the
Ba'ath Party organized the transport of some hundred
thousand `workers and peasants' from outside Baghdad to join
in...Families picknicked under trees while watching the hangings.
This public orgy of death went on for twenty-four hours..." Page 206


Source: Unholy Babylon-The Secret History of Saddam's War by Adel
Darwish and Gregory Alexander St. Martin's Press, New York 1991
ISBN 0-312-06530-2

"Compare the January 1969 show trial with another spectacle
organized by the first Ba'thi regime in 1963 and designed to counter
the continuing popularity of the ousted president, `Abd al-Karim
Qassem, among certain sectors of the Shi'ite population of Baghdad.
In the first week of the coup, the citizens of al-Thawra, a suburb
of Baghdad, had fought the army and Ba'thist militia in some of the
bloodiest street battles in the history of the country. They refused
to believe that Qassem had been overthrown....The Ba'ath...dealt
with this emotive imagery by televising a lengthy film clip
displaying Qassem's bullet-ridden corpse. Night after night, they
made their gruesome point. The body was propped up on a chair in the
studio. A soldier saunter around, handling its parts. The camera
would cut to scenes of devastation at the Ministry of Defence where
Qassem had made his last stand. There, on location, it lingered on
the mutilated corpses of Qassem's entourage...Back to the studio,
and close-ups now of the entry and exit points of each bullet hole.
The whole macabre sequence closes with a scene that must forever
remain etched on the memory of all those who saw it: the soldier
grabbing the lolling head by the hair, came right up close, and spat
full face into it. The fear that the Ba'th were trying to instill in
this and other instances was brutally direct. The centuries-old
message was simple: he is dead, you had better believe it, we can do
the smae to you. The fact that it was on television extended its
reach..." Pages 58-59.
Source: Republic of Fear The Inside Story of Saddam's Iraq by Samir
al Khalil Pantheon Books, New York 1989 ISBN 0-679-73502-X

"An Afghani tends to a field of heroin poppies, the sale of which
provides much of the financing for the Taliban and Osama bin Laden.
Afghanistan is the world's No. 1 producer and distributor of heroin,
and illicit drug trafficking is the biggest funding source for
By Rachel Ehrenfeld / Special to The Detroit News About the author
Rachel Ehrenfeld is director of the New York-based Center for the
Study of Corruption and the author of "Evil Money" (HarperBusiness)
and "Narco-Terrorism" (Basic Books).
Moving the money...
In the welter of events following the bombing of the World Trade
Center in Feb. 26, 1993, few noticed that the first man arrested,
Mohammed Salameh—the poor, unemployed illegal immigrant --
offered $5 million for bail. Where could he get this kind of money?
The judge refused bail. But was the source of Salameh's offer the
same as the one that funded the eight men—arrested shortly
afterward—who planned to blow up Manhattan's tunnels and bridges
and to assassinate public officials?
Were the same money sources behind the final attack on the World
Trade Center on Sept. 11?
... For a long time, there has been evidence that terrorist,
international drug trafficking and criminal organizations use the
same fund-raising methods to enrich themselves.
Yet no one seemed to connect the dots. And no one seriously tried to
crack down on their financing.
Bin Laden's is only one among many hostile international criminal
organizations, often state-sponsored, that will do whatever they can
to diminish the status of the United States as the only superpower.
According to a State Department report, the Taliban, who are at bin
Laden's service, has the advantage of controlling the world's
largest heroin production and distribution in the world.
Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the heroin production
soared to hundreds of tons each year. In 1999 alone, the world
production of heroin was estimated at 500 metric tons; 400 were
produced by the Taliban and available to fund bin Laden and his
associates worldwide. First warning
The writing was on the wall on July 5, 1991, when the Bank of
England shut down what was the most important Islamic bank in the
world, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). This
criminal entity was created by the Pakistani Aaga Hassan Abedi "to
fight the evil influence of the West"; to help with the creation of
the "Islamic Bomb"; to finance all Muslim terrorist organizations;
and to launder the money that was generated mostly by illicit drug
trafficking and other illegal activities, including arms
trafficking.
When BCCI went belly up, we learned from thousands of documents that
Abu Nidal—the notorious Palestinian terrorist organization that
now enjoys the hospitality of Iraq's Saddam Hussein, the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO), Hezbollah and bin Laden—had
accounts in the bank. By the end of the 1980s, the "special
services" provided by BCCI included access to Western humanitarian
and international development funds, as well as drug money
laundering, secret transfers of cash and bribes.
A "Black Network," a special enforcement unit supported by Abu Nidal
and other terrorist organizations, operated from Pakistan. The same
Pakistan that harbored bin Laden for many years while its officials
told the United States that they didn't know his whereabouts. And
the same Pakistan that for decades, even according to the State
Department's annual report, had been a major drug trafficking and
money laundering center.

Western blindness
Yet, now more importantly, we also discovered that the American and
British governments knew and kept the bank open for a long time. The
bank "that would bribe God" was able to get away with its criminal
activities for decades due to Abedi's clever portrayal of the Muslim
nations as victims of Western—and particularly U.S. --
"imperialism." And when the bank was shuttered, the accusation in
the Muslim/Arab and Third World countries was that the U.S. and the
United Kingdom governments closed the bank to curtail the growing
fiscal power of Muslim countries.
Like Abedi, anti-American, anti-Western terrorist and radical Muslim
states and organizations, such as the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Hamas,
Hezbollah, the PLO, Iraq and Iran, use Western democratic rhetoric
to their advantage. But it is the willful blindness, mainly toward
the growing volume of drug money laundering, exercised by Western
bankers on the one hand and Western politicians on the other, that
makes money laundering possible, despite the many laws and
international conventions to control this phenomenon.
The BCCI was the first warning to the West. The second warning about
the abuse of European and American financial markets by terrorist
organizations, as well as their involvement in the illicit arms and
drug trade, was made in February 1994 by the British National
Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS).
The Organized Crime Unit of the NCIS warned that Middle East
terrorist groups and states were targeting the financial centers of
London, Frankfurt and other Western countries, and that they favor
illegal drug trafficking, money laundering and fraud....
Clinton appeasement
Despite its stated policy of not negotiating with terrorists, the
Clinton administration went out of its way to appease a few of the
20th century's most notorious terror groups: the Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia (FARC), the PLO and the Irish Republican Army.
All are heavily involved in the drug trade.
On the eve of the 1993 handshake on the White House lawn between
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat,
Britain's National Criminal Intelligence Service estimated the PLO's
ill-gotten gains to total between $8 billion to $10 billion, with an
annual income of about $1.5 billion to $2 billion from "donations,
extortion, payoffs, illegal arms dealing, drug trafficking, money
laundering, fraud, etc."
Since then, Washington has only aided and abetted the PLO. Since the
start of the Oslo process, Arafat has received at least $3 billion
more from the United States and the international community, without
any serious demand for accountability, according to a report this
year to Congress. Arafat, in well-documented instances, has been
systematically skimming off portions of these funds, as he has with
monies given to him on behalf of the refugees in the camps.
The PLO was in the drug trafficking business almost from the
beginning. Operating from Lebanon, under Habash's able leadership
and assisted by a PLO-owned shipping company SUMUD, the organization
exported hashish, opium, heroin and cocaine, first to Europe and
later even to the United States and Australia. In return, it
obtained weapons for their war against Israel and the West, and
amassed a massive treasure trove. In addition, the PLO and Arafat,
who enjoy the financial and strategic support of Hussein and bin
Laden, have the distinction of being the organization that
promoted "suicide bombers" as a weapon.
Yet the Clinton administration subsidized a multitude of radical
Palestinian groups, ranging from Arafat's Fatah branch of the PLO
and its military wing, the Tanzim, to the socialist-nationalist
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), headed by
George Habash, all with close ties to bin Laden, Iraq and Iran.
...It was the Clinton White House that, despite evidence to the
contrary, removed Syria from its list of the drug trafficking
countries, to entice Syria to join the "peace process" in the Middle
East.
The failure of that process and the compromises the United States
has made to maintain an illusion of peaceful prospects had no doubt
added to the Muslim radical terrorists' resolve to attack what they
see as a naive and vulnerable America.
In another example of self-delusion, in 1999, then Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright suggested a U.S.-led coalition to negotiate
with the FARC and supported Colombia President Pastrana's "land for
peace" initiative, despite a report from the General Accounting
Office that the FARC is running a major international criminal
enterprise that, among other things, supplies hundreds of tons of
cocaine and heroin to the U.S. black market.
This second Clinton "land for peace" initiative gave half of
Colombia to the narco-terrorist FARC, while doing nothing to
diminish its violence or appetite to control the rest of the
country...."
Source: http://www.detnews.com/2001/editorial/0109/30/a17-306400.htm


Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called the Palestinian Authority
a "gang of corrupt assassins and terrorists." "There is an obstacle
[to peace] with the gang of corrupt assassins and terrorists that
lead the Palestinian Authority," Sharon said in a televised speech
in Israel. "The only way to peace is to remove this murderous
posse." – Source:
New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
Sharon raps Arafat `assassins' By KENNETH R. BAZINET DAILY NEWS
WASHINGTON BUREAU Thursday, August 8th, 2002
"Bush back from surprise Iraq trip
President Bush has arrived back in the United States after a
surprise trip to Baghdad, where he spent two hours with US troops
celebrating Thanksgiving Day.
Mr. Bush told troops the US would not be swayed by ongoing attacks
in Iraq.
"We did not charge hundreds of miles into the heart of Iraq, pay a
bitter cost of casualties, defeat a ruthless dictator and liberate
25 million people only to retreat before a band of thugs and
assassins," he told 600 US soldiers.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3245584.stm
"President Bush and his wife, Laura, along with former president
George H. W.
Bush, welcome the King and Queen of Spain, Juan and Sofia Carlos, to
their ranch
Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004, in Crawford, Texas.(AP Photo/Lawrence
Jackson)"
Source:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/041124/480/txlj10111241820
A small jet chartered to fly former President Bush to Ecuador
Monday,November
22nd, 2004 was well below normal altitude when it clipped a toll
road light
tower and crashed into a muddy field three miles south of Hobby
Airport, killing
the crew of three.The plane, which belonged to Jet Place Inc. of
Tulsa, Okla.,
came from Love Field in Dallas. It was approaching the runway when
the wing and
the landing gear on the right side clipped the pole on a tollway
road....."
"Weeks after the last pile of debris from EgyptAir Flight 990 was
pulled from the sea, investigators say they are more
convinced than ever of their original theory: The jet was crashed
deliberately."
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/egyptair000121.html "The
co-pilot under scrutiny in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 uttered
an Arabic prayer not once but as many as 10 times just
before the doomed airliner went down"
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/egyptair991121.html
"Aviation Analyst John Nance Talks About Flight 990 When a commercial
aircraft goes into a dive as steep and precipitous as the preliminary
radar data seems to indicate."
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/chat_johnnance110199.html
"The White House is bordered on three sides by buildings that are as
tall or taller than itself. (OEOB, Treasury, and Blair House.) Beyond
these buildings there are still more buildings, that also are taller
than the White House. The only flight path that is relatively
unobstructed if making a controlled, straight-in approach, is from
the
south, over the ellipse. Even the Marine helicopter the president
uses comes in from this direction and lands on the South Lawn. The
problem with flying a plane the size of a 757 or 767 in from this
direction is that there's a 555 ft tall structure in the way called
the Washington Monument. The Capitol, although a bigger target, is
similarly situated. There are buildings on all sides except for the
west side, which faces the Mall. Again, for a controlled, straight-in
approach, a pilot first would need to avoid the Washington Monument,
and then fly straight down the Mall. There is more room to do this,
but again, it would take considerable skill. Moreover, the buildings
in Roslyn, just across the river from and to the west of the Mall,
would have to be cleared, which means the plane's altitude would
probably be too high, or the angle of descent too steep to permit a
successful attack by anyone other than a skilled, experienced pilot."


Imagine the rage and fury of Saddam Hussein
"On February 26th, 1982 the Reagan Administration told Congress that
it had dropped Iraq from the list of nations that supported acts of
international terrorism. Baghdad would now be eligible for American
government loan guarantees." source: SPIDER'S WEB: THE SECRET HISTORY
OF HOW THE WHITE HOUSE ILLEGALLY ARMED IRAQ by Alan Friedman ASIN:
0553096508
Imagine Saddam's rage and fury when Kuwait was liberated on February
26th, 1991, 9 years to the day after the event described above! Is it
any wonder that Saddam would launch the first of his 2 attacks on the
World Trade Center on February 26th, 1993, the 2nd anniversary of the
liberation of Kuwait City, and the 11th anniversary of the event
described above, and that he would launch his 2nd attack on the World
Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, the 11th anniversary of the
Bush
I speech to Congress on Iraq. Saddam loves 11th anniversaries, for
instance " Saddam Hussein's speech on the 11th Anniversary of the
Great Victory Day In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most
Merciful Great People, The Valiant of Our Brave Armed Forces, Sons of
our Glorious Arab Nation…"
http://www.index.com.jo/iraqtoday/auguste.html

Saddam took credit for the September 11th attacks on America on
Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television. Saddam sent his henchman Osama
bin Laden to attack America and to assassinate former President
Bush, who was at the White House on the morning of September 11th,
2001,just as he had tried to assassinate former President Bush in
Kuwait in 1993. That is why Flight 93 was selected to hit the White
House on the morning of September 11th, 2001. Fortunately the heroes
of Flight 93 stopped that from happening and the plane went down in
Pennsylvania.
Second Attempt to Assassinate President Bush.

We all know that Saddam Hussein attempted to assassinate former
President
Bush in Kuwait in 1993. Laura Bush, wife of the current President
Bush,
along with the current President Bush's brothers, his parents, and
former Secretary of State Baker were actually in the air enroute to
Kuwait when the intelligence came in and their plane was turned back.
Then President Clinton later bombed an empty Iraqi intelligence
building
in retaliation for that attempt in which Saddam's homicide bombers
were
caught in Kuwait.
We believe that the Second Attempt to assassinate former President
George Herbert Walker Bush was made by Saddam Hussein using his
henchman Osama bin Laden on September 11th, 2001.

September 11th, 1990 Dubya's Dad Speaks to Congress on Iraq When
September 11th Yes ! September 11th 1990. Exactly 11 years to the
day before the infamous September 11th 2001 attacks on America.
Saddam's Revenge !!! How clear it is!!! "Address Before a Joint
Session of the Congress on the Persian Gulf Crisis and the Federal
Budget Deficit September 11, 1990.
We gather tonight, witness to events in the Persian Gulf as
significant as they are tragic. In the early morning hours of August
2d, following negotiations and promises by Iraq's dictator Saddam
Hussein not to use force, a powerful Iraqi army invaded its trusting
and much weaker neighbor, Kuwait. *** The crisis in the Persian Gulf,
as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an
historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our
fifth
objective-a new world order-can emerge. ***" READ THE WHOLE OF
DUBYA'S
DADDY'S SPEECH TO CONGRESS ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, 1990 AT
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/ "Note: The President spoke at 9:09
p.m.in
the House Chamber at the Capitol.. The address was broadcast live on
nationwide television and radio." http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/ Iraq
Cheers September 11th Attacks on America "Wednesday, September 12,
2001 Baghdad TV Commentary: US `Reaping Fruits of Crimes Against
Humanity' Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television in Arabic 1700 GMT 11
Sep 01 [TV Commentary by Sa'd Yasin Yusuf read by announcer over
footage of explosions in New York] [FBIS Translated Text] [With
thanks
to Laurie Mylorie - Iraq Watch] The American cowboy is reaping the
fruits of his crimes against humanity. It is a black day in the
history of America, which is tasting the bitter defeat of its crimes
and disregard for peoples' will to lead a free, decent life. The
massive explosions in the centers of power in America, notably the
Pentagon, is a painful slap in the face of US politicians to stop
their illegitimate hegemony and attempts to impose custodianship on
peoples. It was no coincidence that the World Trade Center was
destroyed in suicidal operations involving two planes that have
broken
through all US security barriers to carry the operation of the
century
and to express rejection of the reckless US policy. Panic has spread
among US official circles, which evacuated the White House following
a
series of explosions. They also evacuated the Pentagon, the State
Department, and Congress and closed down the airports and government
institutions. The collapse of US centers of power is a collapse of
the
US policy, which deviates from human values and stands by world
Zionism at all international forums to continue to slaughter the
Palestinian Arab people and implement US plans to dominate the world
under the cover of what is called the new [world] order. These are
the
fruits of the new US order. [Video of explosion rocking World Trade
Center] [Description of Source: Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television
in
Arabic-Official television station of the Iraqi Government]"
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3
"CNN LARRY KING LIVE America's New War: Laura Bush Discusses the
Impact of September 11 Aired October 2, 2001 - 21:00 LARRY KING: A
couple of other things:
Have you spoken to your father- in-law? (Not in transcript, but the
father in law in question is one George Herbert Walker Bush !!!)
LAURA
BUSH: I've spoken to my father-in-law. They were-they had actually
spent that Monday night here. (not in transcript but "here" means at
the White House !!!) LARRY KING: Really? LAURA BUSH: I had just seen
them off that morning when I got in the-got in the car and found out
about the first plane. LARRY KING: Didn't know that. LAURA BUSH: They
were-they were on their way to St. Paul, Minnesota to give a speech,
and they were in a private plane, and their plane was diverted to
Minneapolis." http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/02/lkl.00.html

"September 11th, 2001 - The White House is
evacuated. White House Sealed"
http://www.september11news.com/AAWhiteHouseEvacReuters.jpg
"try to avoid having the principal
travel by commercial airline on terrorist anniversaries" from "The
Art
of Executive Protection"
http://www.securitymanagement.com/library/000450.html "


Perhaps the following may explain how Saddam knew where former
President Bush might be spending the night of September 10th-11th
2001.:

"Like everyone else in the United States, the group stood transfixed
as the events of September 11 unfolded. Present were former secretary
of defense Frank Carlucci, former secretary of state James Baker III,
and representatives of the bin Laden family. This was not some
underground presidential bunker or Central Intelligence Agency
interrogation room. It was the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., the
plush setting for the annual investor conference of one of the most
powerful, well-connected, and secretive companies in the world: the
Carlyle Group. And since September 11, this little-known company has
become unexpectedly important. That the Carlyle Group had its
conference on America's darkest day was mere coincidence, but there
is nothing accidental about the cast of characters that this
private-equity powerhouse has assembled in the 14 years since its
founding. Among those associated with Carlyle are former U.S.
President George Bush Sr., former U.K. Prime Minister John Major, and
former President of the Philippines Fidel Ramos. And Carlyle has
counted, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud of Saudi
Arabia, and Osama bin Laden's family among its high-profile
clientele."
http://www.redherring.com/vc/2002/0111/947.html
Prince
Alwaleed bin Talal reportedly believes AOL is the `anchor' of the
Internet. Billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said Thursday that he
intends to double his investment in America Online (NYSE: AOL),
bringing his stake to a whopping $2.05 billion (US$)" The prince
decided to invest more heavily in AOL because he reportedly believes
the company is the "anchor of the industry" and will flourish even
though other high-tech companies are "collapsing and going under left
and right."
"America Online is the No. 1 Internet company in the world and has a
solid foundation and is making profit," the prince said in published
reports. "When the dust settles on the dot-com industry, America
Online will be around."
"SAUDI PRINCE ALWALEED WILL INVEST ANOTHER $1B IN AOL"
Charles Molineaux, Patricia Sabga
11/20/2000
CNNfn; Capital Ideas
CNN is owned by AOL Time Warner. CNN infamously has provided
platforms to such rabid anti-Israel hosts as Pat Buchanan and Robert
Novak,
and to Clinton, now Kerry operatives Paul Begala and James Carville,
all
four of whom opposed the liberation of Iraq.
"News for
Abdul Aziz (I)

"Saudi Prince Brokers Viacom-Kirch Deal
24 August 1999 (StudioBriefing)
Saudi entrepreneur Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud,
who has
made a number of investments in the worldwide entertainment industry,
disclosed
Monday that Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone had asked him to broker
an
acquisition of a stake in Germany's KirchGruppe. The Kirch company,
which
reportedly is in need of a cash infusion, has also been courted in
recent months
by News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch The Saudi prince, spoke to
Bloomberg News
about the Viacom-KirchGruppe deal on his yacht in Cannes,France."
Source: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0044287/news

"Viacom, the owner of the MTV network, yesterday agreed to buy AOL
Time Warner's 50% stake in Comedy Central, producer of cartoon
series South Park, for $1.2bn (£790m)."
Source: http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/text4-23-2003-39468.asp
"South Park is racist, anti-Semitic...."
Source: http://www.jumptheshark.com/s/southpark.htm
"Although a majority economic interest in Viacom is held by
independent shareholders, the Redstone family maintains voting
control of the
company through National Amusements' holdings of Viacom's class A
stock."
Source:http://www.worldwidewebfind.com/encyclopedia/en/wikipedia/v/vi
/viacom
.html

"Viacom, the parent company of Simon & Schuster, Richard Clarke's
publisher.
It's not clear yet how the Clarke book and testimony will shake out.
But by
publishing Clarke's book and giving him the platform of 60 Minutes,
Viacom
guaranteed that his 9/11 Commission testimony would be a
blockbuster."
Source: http://www.bopnews.com/archives/000424.html
Should the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F.Kennedy, and
The Reverend
Doctor Martin Luther King,Jr. be investigated by a Special
Presidential
Commission, which we hope will be appointed solely by President
George W. Bush,
charged with discovering what role,if any, may have been played in
any or all of
those assassinations by arab terrorists, arab state sponsors of
terror, arab
terrorist gangs, and arab terrorist gangsters such as arafat, Saddam
Hussein,and
others,as well as the role,if any,of persons such as former alleged
New Orleans
mob boss Carlos Marcello,and the alleged associations, which may or
may not be
coincidental, of persons with one another including, but not limited
to: Carlos
Marcello, Lee Harvey Oswald,Ramsey Clark, John Failed The American
Test Kerry,
Teresa Heinz Kerry, Jesse "Welcome to Hymietown" Jackson,Louis
Farrakhan,and
others.

"A Federal Aviation Administration report stated that
Carnahan's plane was flying at 65,000 feet when the pilot reported a
'gyro problem.' A gyroscope on an airplane is a dashboard instrument
that helps the pilot with basic orientation and sense of horizon..."
http://www.cnn.com/chat/transcripts/2000/11/1/murphy/
Did Bill Clinton deliberately sabotage Al Gore in 2000 and John
Kerry in 2004 to
produce a Republican 2 term President whose supporters would help
Bill Clinton's
supporters to get the 22nd Amendment repealed so that Bill Clinton
could run for
President in 2008?

We favor the repeal of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution which
currently
limits Presidents of the United States to two terms.


Amendment XXII
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President
more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President,
or acted
as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other
person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the
President
more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person
holding the
office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress,
and shall
not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President,
or acting as
President, during the term within which this article becomes
operative from
holding the office of President or acting as President during the
remainder of
such term.

Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have
been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the
legislatures of three-
fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of
its submission
to the states by the Congress.

We feel that George W. Bush needs more than two terms to complete
the work of winning the war against terrorists, and the state
sponsors of terror
who seek weapons of mass destruction. We want to draft George W.
Bush for
President of the United States for a third term and if need be for a
fourth and
a fifth term.


We realize that Bill Clinton would also be eligible to run in 2008
if the 22nd Amendment is repealed, all we can say to that is: "Bring
it on". Let
Bill Clinton run if he wants to, we feel he would lose dramatically
to
George W.Bush, and would not take the chance of running and losing.
Our ideal
ticket in 2008 if Dick Cheney wants to retire then, would be George
W. Bush
for President and Joe Lieberman for Vice President. We think that
both the
Republican and Democratic Parties should nominate that ticket in
2008.

Failing that, if Joe Lieberman wanted to run as a Democrat against
George W.
Bush in 2008, at least America would be in good hands no matter
which of them
won.





Imagine
the rage and
fury of Saddam Hussein
"On February 26th, 1982 the Reagan Administration told Congress that
it had dropped Iraq from the list of nations that supported acts of
international terrorism. Baghdad would now be eligible for American
government loan guarantees." source: SPIDER'S WEB: THE SECRET HISTORY
OF HOW THE WHITE HOUSE ILLEGALLY ARMED IRAQ by Alan Friedman ASIN:
0553096508
Imagine Saddam's rage and fury when Kuwait was liberated on February
26th, 1991, 9 years to the day after the event described above! Is it
any wonder that Saddam would launch the first of his 2 attacks on the
World Trade Center on February 26th, 1993, the 2nd anniversary of the
liberation of Kuwait City, and the 11th anniversary of the event
described above, and that he would launch his 2nd attack on the World
Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, the 11th anniversary of the
Bush
I speech to Congress on Iraq. Saddam loves 11th anniversaries, for
instance " Saddam Hussein's speech on the 11th Anniversary of the
Great Victory Day In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most
Merciful Great People, The Valiant of Our Brave Armed Forces, Sons of
our Glorious Arab Nation…"
http://www.index.com.jo/iraqtoday/auguste.html



"MR. FLEISCHER: John, we have real and credible information that the
airplane that landed at the Pentagon was originally intended to hit
the White House.

Q Can you tell us about the nature of that evidence?

MR. FLEISCHER: No, of course I cannot. Any questions relating to how
we have obtained any of this information, sources and methods, I
will, of course, not answer.

Q—why it changed course, Ari? Why it went to the Pentagon and not
the White House?

MR. FLEISCHER: We really do not know the answer to that. But we are
aware of what we have."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010912-
8.html#intended-targets
(MY THEORY ABOUT THE CHOICE OF FLIGHT 93 WAS THAT 1993 WAS THE YEAR
IN WHICH SADDAM FIRST TRIED TO ASSASSINATE FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH IN
KUWAIT, IT WAS ALSO THE YEAR IN WHICH SADDAM HUSSEIN FIRST TRIED
TO DESTROY THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. IT TURNED OUT TO BE AN UNLUCKY
NUMBER FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN BECAUSE THE PASSENGERS ON FLIGHT 93 BECAME
HEROES AND STOPPED THE PLANE FROM GOING INTO THE WHITE HOUSE)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/20/attack/main509535.shtml
"White House Was Flight 93 Target
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/20/attack/main509535.shtml
May 23, 2002
Volunteers in Shanksville this past weekend. (Photo: AP)
The San Francisco-bound jet had turned toward Washington and U.S.
fighter jets were flying to intercept it when it crashed. All 44
people aboard were killed.
(CBS) A high-ranking al Qaeda detainee told investigators the
intended target of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a
Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, was the White House.
Government sources said Abu Zubaydah, now in U.S. custody, is
believed to be the source of the information. He is being
interrogated by U.S. officials at an undisclosed location.
Investigators have linked Zubaydah directly to hijackers on board
Flight 93.
United Flight 93 took off from Newark, N.J., and crashed in Somerset
County, Pa.. A recorder on the plane and calls made to people on the
ground indicate passengers fought for control with the hijackers
before it went down.
The San Francisco-bound jet had turned toward Washington and U.S.
fighter jets were flying to intercept it when it crashed. All 44
people aboard were killed.
Officials previously had assumed the White House was a likely
target, but said the Capitol and CIA headquarters in McLean, Va.,
near Washington were other possibilities.Abu Zubaydah is believed to
have played a key role in organizing the Sept. 11 attacks, officials
said. As al Qaeda's top operational planner, he ran the Khalden camp
in Afghanistan, where U.S. investigators have learned many of the
Sept. 11 hijackers trained. This suggests Abu Zubaydah may have had
direct contact with the hijackers and chosen them for training.
He also had telephone contacts with at least one Arab student at
U.S. flight schools, according to a July 10, 2001, memo from a
Phoenix FBI agent.
The CIA, FBI and Pakistani authorities captured and wounded Abu
Zubaydah in a raid by in Faisalabad, Pakistan, in March. He is
believed to have masterminded the failed millennium bombing plots in
Los Angeles and Jordan, and has been linked to failed plots on the
U.S. embassies in Paris and Sarajevo.
Abu Zubaydah was also indirectly linked, through a web of
associations with other al Qaeda members in Europe, to lead Sept. 11
hijacker Mohammed Atta and his cell in Hamburg, Germany. Three
members of the Hamburg cell were suicide hijackers; three others are
still at large. Ziad Jarrah, believed to be the pilot-hijacker of
Flight 93, was a member of the Hamburg cell."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/20/attack/main509535.shtml

"President Saddam Hussein chairs 48th
Cabinet Session
Baghdad, Oct. 22, 2001 INA
President Saddam Hussein chaired on
Sunday the 48th Cabinet session.
The Cabinet discussed recent events of
Palestinian Intifadha and
praised Palestinians brave and
persistent struggle for liberating
their lands. The cabinet reviewed the
current international
situation, especially the U.S
aggression on Afghanistan.
The Cabinet brought back a historic
stance Iraq had taken in 1979 when
it condemned the military Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan though Iraq
had then deep relations with the Soviet Union and there was a
friendship and cooperation agreement between Iraq and the Soviet
Union, yet this had not prevented Iraq from taking the national
independent stand rejecting Soviet's behavior. History repeats itself
once again in 2001 as Iraq takes the same stance and condemns the US
aggression on Afghanistan....this confirms Iraq's principled stance
rejecting all forms of foreign intervention and aggressions. The
Cabinet discussed issues listed on its agenda and made necessary
decisions and recommendations."
http://www.uruklink.net/iraqnews/enews14.htm
"It occurred on the second anniversary of Iraq's expulsion from
Kuwait
City, and the Bank of
Kuwait just happened to have a vault in the basement of the World
Trade Center. The Hunt Begins The mystery of who triggered the new
york blast prompts a massive manhunt. What the experts are looking
for- and where the clues may lead By Russell Watson NEWSWEEK WEB
EXCLUSIVE March 8, 1993 issue - The explosion in the basement of the
World Trade Center did deadly work "At approximately 12 noon on
February 26, 1993, a massive explosion rocked the World Trade Center
in New York City."
http://www.dssrewards.net/english/wldtrade.html
A key member of the gang that hit the World Trade Center in 1993 is
said to have escaped to Iraq using documents provided by Iraq. During
the Gulf War the same gang killed the Speaker of the Egyptian
Parliament when Egypt broke ranks with Iraq over the invasion of
Kuwait. The same gang is alleged to have assassinated Sadat.
Sheik Rahman, the blind sheik who allegedly led that gang in Jersey
City, New Jersey had a son who was found with bin Laden's gang in
Afghanistan when the U.S. liberated Afghanistan.

Remarks at the Commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the
Liberation of Kuwait Secretary Colin L. Powell Kuwait City, Kuwait
(US
Embassy) February 26, 2001
http://www.state.gov/secretary/index.cfm?docid=954 "Middle East
Correspondent, Robert Fisk: Why was it that the bombing of the two
embassies in Tanzania and Kenya occurred on the eighth anniversary to
the very day of the first arrival of American troops of the 82nd
airborne in Saudi Arabia in 1990?"
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/stories/s12267.htm
"October 15, 2002
During the Gulf War the same gang that attacked the World Trade
Center
in 1993 killed the Speaker of the Egyptian Parliament when Egypt
broke
ranks with Iraq over the invasion of Kuwait. The same gang is alleged
to have assassinated Sadat on October 6th, 1981, the 8th anniversary
of the Yom Kippur War. On Oct. 6, 2002 a French tanker was damaged in
an explosion in Yemen. Re the Bali attack: "The 12th of October 2002
will for the rest of Australian history be counted as a day when evil
struck with indiscriminate and indescribable savagery," "On October
12th, 2000 terrorists in a boat laden with explosives carried out a
suicide bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in the harbor at Aden, Yemen. In
what President Clinton described as a "despicable and cowardly act,"
17 U.S. sailors were killed, and over 30 others were wounded."
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/01011605.htm

"Iraq has the motivation
and the means
to actively support the
Islamist networks of the region*** In the past, there have been
intelligence reports of possible cooperation between Iraq and Osama
bin Laden. Iraq has already tried to assassinate President Bush
Senior
in 1993, when he visited Kuwait as a private citizen. In the attack
on
the USS Cole in Aden (in) October (of 2000), there could have been an
Iraqi connection. Iraq has excellent relations with the anti-Western
Yemeni Islamists of the Army of Aden-Abyan, whose militants have been
arrested by the Yemenite authorities in connection with the attack.
Such an attack required long preparations, technical and military
skills and good operational intelligence. In addition, the explosive
used in the attack was sophisticated, a "shaped charge" like a
torpedo
or a missile, a device not in use by terrorist organizations, and
which may have come from a military stockpile."

4 DAYS BEFORE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 Saddam's Stepson in USA
"Authorities said Saffi" (Saddam's Stepson), " triggered red flags
for
four reasons: the family relationship to the Iraqi dictator; training
at an American flight school; arrival on the eve of the Independence
Day celebrations; and his only documented prior entry into the United
States occurred just four days before the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks."

"Saddam's Stepson to Be Deported Fri Jul 5th 2002 (Saffi) was
planning to study at a flight school believed by the FBI ( news - web
sites) to have been used by one of the Sept. 11 hijackers."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020705/ap_on_re_us
/saddam_s_stepson_12

"US officials state that an FBI investigation had substantiated
charges
that the Iraqi government plotted the assassination of former
President Bush while visiting Kuwait in April 1993."

"Terrorist Pilot Met With Iraqi Intelligence Agent By RICK JERVIS
Special to The Wall Street Journal Europe Wall Street Journal,
Europe October 4, 2001
[With thanks to Laurie Mylroie - Iraq News] PRAGUE-Mohamed Atta, who
allegedly crashed the first plane into the World Trade Center on
Sept.
11, met at least one Iraqi intelligence agent last year in Prague
before moving to the U.S., a Czech official close to the
investigation
said."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEPF/message/61598
"LONDON, Sept 20TH,2001 (Reuters) - The military journal Jane's has
reported
that Israeli intelligence believes Iraq was a sponsor of the attacks
on the United States last week. Foreign Report, published by Jane's
Information Group, said on its website on Thursday that officers in
Israeli military intelligence believed two of the world's "foremost
terrorist masterminds" had led the attacks. The journal named them as
Imad Moughniyeh of Lebanon, a man it said was head of special
overseas
operations for Hizbollah, and Egyptian Ayman Al Zawahri, a senior
member of prime suspect Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda group. "The
Iraqis,
who for several years paid smaller groups to do their dirty work,
were
quick to discover the advantages of Al-Qaeda," Foreign Report said.
"We believe that the operational brains behind the New York attack
were Moughniyeh and Zawahri, who were probably financed and got some
logistical support from the Iraqi Intelligence Service (SSO)," an
Israeli intelligence source told Foreign Report. Foreign Report
quoted the Israeli sources as saying that Iraqi intelligence officers
had been shuttling between Baghdad and Afghanistan, meeting Zawahri,
for the past two years. According to the sources, the Pakistanis
captured one of the Iraqi intelligence officers last October near the
border with Afghanistan. "The Iraqis are also reported to have
established strong ties with Imad Moughniyeh," the report said. It
quoted unconfirmed reports in Beirut as saying that Moughniyeh had
undergone plastic surgery and was unrecognisable. The report quoted
one Israeli intelligence source as saying Israeli military
intelligence had warned Israel's allies six weeks ago that an
"unprecedented, massive terror attack was expected." Moughniyeh, a
member of Lebanon's Shi'ite Muslim Hizbollah movement, was behind a
wave of anti-American attacks in Lebanon in the 1980s, including the
truck bombing of a barracks in Beirut in 1983 that killed 241 U.S.
Marines and sailors. He led a network of kidnappers who held dozens
of
American and other Western hostages in Lebanon for some seven years.
Zawahri was indicted in New York in 1999 in connection with the
bombing of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya on August 7,
1998.
09-20-01"
Should Bill Clinton be tried for war
crimes perpetrated against the Serbian
people while Clinton was President?
We hope to present many articles on
this matter as time goes on



"Jesse Jackson referred to Jews as "Hymies" and to New York City
as "Hymietown"
in January 1984 during a conversation with a black Washington Post
reporter,
Milton Coleman. Jackson had assumed the references would not be
printed because
of his racial bond with Coleman, but several weeks later Coleman
permitted the
slurs to be included far down in an article by another Post reporter
on
Jackson's rocky relations with American Jews. A storm of protest
erupted, and
Jackson at first denied the remarks, then accused Jews of conspiring
to defeat
him. The Nation of Islam's radical leader Louis Farrakhan, an
aggressive
anti-Semite and old Jackson ally, made a difficult situation worse by
threatening Coleman in a radio broadcast and issuing a public
warning to Jews,
made in Jackson's presence: "If you harm this brother [Jackson], it
will be the
last one you harm." ... Jackson refused to denounce Farrakhan, and
lingering,
deeply rooted suspicions have led to an enduring split between
Jackson and many
Jews. The frenzy also heightened tensions between Jackson and the
mostly white
establishment press."
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/jackson.htm

If you do a Yahoo search for Final Call, Farrakhan's publication you
will see it described as: "Final Call weekly publication founded by
Louis
Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Category: Nation of Islam"

If you go to: http://www.finalcall.com/2002/index09-17-2002.htm
you will see prominent links to:
The Hon. Minister Louis Farrakhan: Is Oil the Motive for War? -
Weekly Column
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark's statement on Iraq
-BlackElectorate.com

"Ramsey Clark was born to power. In 1945, the Clark family made its
leap from
Dallas to DC when Ramsey's dad Tom Clark, a lobbyist for Texas oil
interests, was appointed attorney general by President Harry Truman.
In his
Texas days, the politically ambitious Clark was cultivated as a
useful
connection by New Orleans mafia kingpin Carlos Marcello, and many
feared
Clark's new job would afford organized crime access to higher levels
of
power. AG Clark was repeatedly mired in corruption scandals. In
1945, he was
accused of taking a bribe to fix a war profiteering case. In 1947,
after he
had four convicted Chicago mob bosses sprung from prison before
their terms
were complete, Congress appointed a committee to investigate—and was
effectively roadblocked by Tom's refusal to hand over parole
records. Truman
admitted to a biographer that "Tom Clark was my biggest
mistake."...AG Tom Clark
played along with the post-war anti-communist hysteria, approving
federal
wiretaps on Alger Hiss, the State Department official accused being
a Soviet
mole. In 1949, he moved over to the Supreme Court. Carlos Marcello
biographer
John Davis asserts the kingpin continued to funnel money to Clark
when he sat on
the high court. Source: http://www.ainfos.ca/01/sep/ainfos00307.html

In 1968, Clark prosecuted Dr. Benjamin Spock for
advocating draft
resistance. "As late as 1968, while campaigning for Lyndon Johnson in
Wisconsin, Clark was shouting at anti-war protesters to take their
grievances to Hanoi rather than Washington," wrote John B. Judis in
a 1991
expos?on Clark in The New Republic. Clark also dutifully backed the
official
findings that Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan each acted alone
in the
assassination of the Kennedy brothers. But when LBJ lost in `68,
Clark was iced
from his farewell luncheon."
Source: http://www.ainfos.ca/01/sep/ainfos00307.html

"LEESBURG, Virgina August 19th, 2004 (UPI) John F. Kerry received
backing on his
battle about his military record from Lyndon LaRouche....LaRouche's
statement
came the same day as Kerry denounced those who had accused him of
lying about
incidents that occurred during his military service in Vietnam."
Source: http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040819-054701-
8282r.htm

"During the 1972 "Kerry for Congress" campaign, flyers invited
voters to "hear
Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General, who has just recently
returned from a
visit in North Vietnam." While in Hanoi, Clark had distinguished
himself by
roundly condemning the United States, heaping praise on his
Communist hosts, and
lecturing American prisoners of war."
Source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/916835/posts

"Ramsey Clark William Ramsey Clark (born December 18, 1927) served
as the 66th United States Attorney General under President Lyndon
Johnson. He is the son of Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark....Born
in Dallas, Texas, Clark served in the United States Marine Corps in
1945 and 1946,...He
served in the United States Department of Justice as Assistant
Attorney General of the Lands Division from 1961 to 1965, and as
Deputy Attorney General from 1965 to 1967....On March 2, 1967,
President Johnson appointed him Attorney General of the United
States. He served in that capacity until January 20, 1969.Clark is
well-known for having unconventional political views and for
providing legal counsel to numerous controversial figures, including
former Nazis
Karl Linnas
and Jack Riemer, Liberian political figure Charles Taylor during his
1985 fight
against extradition from the United States to Liberia, and in 1989
to Lyndon
LaRouche, who faced charges of conspiracy and mail fraud....Clark
has also
represented Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, a leader of the Rwandan
genocide. He also
represented PLO leaders in a lawsuit brought by the family of Leon
Klinghoffer,
the wheelchair bound elderly tourist who was shot and tossed
overboard from the
hijacked Achille Lauro cruise ship by Palestinian terrorists in
1986. Prior to
the start of the second Gulf War, Clark was retained by the state of
Iraq,
serving as legal counsel for the Hussein regime. Clark is affiliated
with
VoteToImpeach, an organization advocating the impeachment of
President George W.
Bush. He has been an opponent of both Gulf Wars. It is also widely
claimed that
his association with Lyndon LaRouche in the early 1990s went beyond
legal
counsel to advocacy. He is the founder of the International Action
Center, which
has much overlapping membership with the Workers' World Party. Clark
and the IAC
helped found the anti-war group ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End
Racism)."
Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/ramsey_clark

Kerry Lawyer Represented Saddam,Arafat,Nazi,Terrorists,LaRouche
"Ramsey Clark Endorses John Kerry
By Cliff Kincaid
March 1, 2004
One of the leading "America bashers" on the political scene
today
has endorsed John Kerry for president....Ramsey Clark
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/forum/rclark.JPG
said he's
voting for Kerry because he would take U.S. foreign policy in a new
direction...."I think John Kerry is a great human being,"
Clark told
this reporter. "I knew him when he was—I call a youngster—in his
20s...." Clark has been labeled a "traitor" for his
habit of showing
up in countries hostile to the U.S. A lawyer, he has represented
accused terrorists and war criminals.Clark served as LBJ's Attorney
General in the 1960s and then participated in the anti-Vietnam War
movement in the early 1970s with Kerry, just back from the war, who
accused his fellow soldiers of war crimes and genocide. Clark was a
lawyer for Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and Kerry was a major
leader of the group. A photograph at the time shows Clark on the
same stage with Kerry. Clark and Kerry were strongly against the
Reagan policy of supporting the anti-communist "Contra"
freedom fighters in Nicaragua. The policy, though opposed by a
liberal
Congress, resulted in the holding of elections in Nicaragua, the
electoral defeat of the Communist Sandinistas, and an end to the
communist insurgency in El Salvador.More recently, Clark has been
collaborating with the communist Workers World Party (WWP) in
staging "anti-war" demonstrations against U.S. Iraq policy.
Brian Becker, a member of the WWP secretariat, helped organize those
protests...Cliff Kincaid is Editor of the AIM Report."
Source:
http://www.aim.org/publications/weekly_column/2004/03/01.html


"So how does Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry
spend
John Heinz' money? Just one example: According to the G2 Bulletin,
an online intelligence newsletter of World Net Daily, in the years
between 1995-2001 she gave more than $4 million to an organization
called the Tides Foundation. And what does the Tides Foundation do
with John Heinz's money? They support numerous antiwar groups,
including Ramsey Clark's International Action Center. Clark has
offered to defend Saddam Hussein when he's tried. They support the
Democratic
Justice Fund, a joint venture of the Tides Foundation and billionaire
hate-monger George Soros. The Democratic Justice Fund seeks to ease
restrictions
on Muslim immigration from "terrorist" states. They support
the
Council for
American-Islamic Relations, whose leaders are known to have close
ties to the terrorist group, Hamas. They support the National
Lawyers Guild,
organized as a communist front during the Cold War era. One of their
attorneys,
Lynne Stewart, has been arrested for helping a client, Sheikh Omar
Abdel
Rahman, communicate with terror cells in Egypt. He is the convicted
mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing...
Source: http://www.clockguy.com/KerryReason3.html

'The New Soldier'
by John F. Kerry and Vietnam Veterans Against The War New York:
Collier Books.
please click the url below to see the American Flag Turned Upside
Down on
the cover of Kerry's evil book. Don't let Kerry turn America upside
down!
http://peacecouncil.net/images/New%20Soldier%20Cover.JPG


first click on the url below
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com./

then click on NEW Video TV Ad - Kerry's VVAW Assassination Plot

Click on the url below to see Kerry shaking hands with Daniel Ortega
http://www.lyingleft.com/philmappe/01b.jpg

"MANAGUA, NICARAGUA By Catherine Elton | Special to The Christian
Science Monitor - Weeks after the repeat images of jetliners
crashing into
the twin
towers began to give way to regular programming on TV screens around
the world,
they continue to be broadcast here...in political ads for
Nicaragua's upcoming
presidential elections. The image of the flaming towers and their
victims gives
way to shots of Sandinista revolution leader, former president, and
current
presidential candidate Daniel Ortega with Yasser Arafat, Libya's
Muammar
Qaddafi, and Fidel Castro."
..........................................
"Mona Charen on Nicaragua in the 1980's: The "Dear
Comandante"
Letter from 10
Congressmen. Mona Charen's book, Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It
Wrong in the
Cold War and Still Blame America First has a good description of the
liberal
love affair with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
The Sandinistas had enjoyed good relations with the Palestinian
Liberation
Organization for a decade. Sandinista militants had received
training in Fatah
camps in Lebanon and Libya during the 1970s and had fought with the
PLO against
Jordan's King Hussein. ... Nicaragua's new rulers made their anti-
Jewish and
anti-Israel views known from the beginning and quickly moved against
Managua's
small Jewish community. In 1978, Sandinista gangsters had set fire
to the doors
of Managua's synagogue while a service was in progress. Those who
attempted to
exit through a side door were forced back by armed men. The fire was
extinguished and there were no deaths. After the revolution, the
Sandinistas confiscated the synagogue and Jews received death
threats and other
harassment. ... The fifty families comprising the Nicaraguan Jewish
community,
who had lived in Managua for more than one hundred years, fled."
Source: http://www.rasmusen.org/w/04.05.19d.htm
re item above, we note the long term "party to party"
agreement
between Daniel Ortega's Genocidal anti-Semitic Sandinista Terrorists
and
arafat's so-called "PLO".

We saw Dan Rather seemingly freak out and have a seemingly near
nervous breakdown about September 11th, on the David Letterman Show
on September 17th, 2001, followed on September 18th, 2001 by the
sending of anthrax by Saddam Hussein, perhaps to shut Dan Rather's
mouth about what he might have known about such things? Who can say?
"Dead Men Tell No Tales", as the saying goes, and Rather was
certainly coming up with some bizarre quotes in his coverage of the
November 2nd, 2004 election on CBS. Was he freaking out again?
His voice seemed to quake as he spoke about September 11th.

"Dan Rather's bias, of course, was obvious long before he and
producer Mary Mapes used forgeries to impeach President Bush's
National Guard
service. Now CBS News remains the most persistently anti-Bush,
growing more
intense as Election Day draws near. Consider: On Thursday, the CBS
Evening News
reported, "U.S. researchers reported the war has directly or
indirectly caused
the deaths of about 100,000 Iraqi civilians." That's more than
six
times the
highest estimates made even by antiwar groups
like Human Rights Watch — and, as with the Rather-Mapes forged
documents, the assertion failed to stand up to independent Internet
analysis.
Moreover, as the Media Research Center notes, CBS didn't mention
that the author of the study — who said he "was opposed to the
war"
and remains
so — admitted to the Associated Press that he'd released the
story "under the
condition that it came out before the election."
In other words, what CBS billed as a scientific study was in fact
yet another politically timed hatchet job from a blatantly partisan
source.
And so it goes. Bush may or may not win tomorrow. But both CBS News
and The New
York Times come out of this election with their
self-proclaimed "reputation for fairness" thoroughly in
tatters."
Source: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/33097.htm


"The Source Behind the Interview
CBS News is acknowledging that anchorman Dan Rather had help in
getting his
exclusive interview with Saddam Hussein from none other than Ramsey
Clark, the
onetime U.S. attorney general who has since been on the outer fringe
of the
American left. Clark, who bitterly opposed the Gulf War in 1991, has
since
accused the United States of war crimes in that conflict.... He
visited with
Saddam Hussein over the weekend, as he has done several times before,
and,
according to CBS News, put in a good word for Rather, whom he has
known for a
long time."
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C79634%2C00.html


On September 17th, 2001 Dan Rather appeared with David Letterman on
Letterman's CBS TV show. The tearful appearance by Rather with
Letterman
showed a clearly overwrought and emotional Dan Rather discussing the
September
11th,2001 attack on America. You can see photos of that appearance
at:
http://www.geocities.com/davidletterman82/LateShowEpisodePicturesSept

ember17th.html

On September 18th, 2001 the first of the anthrax letters was mailed.
There are
those who speculate that the real target of the anthrax attacks was
Dan Rather,
who was perhaps a "man who knew too much", about too many
things
from the
Kennedy assassination in 1963 to Saddam Hussein, to Afghanistan, and
who
knows what else. Did Saddam Hussein see a tape of Dan Rather's
seeming nervous breakdown about 9/11 on September 17th, 2001 on
David Letterman's show and
decide to order the anthrax attack on Dan Rather to close Dan
Rather's mouth
forever? We do not know. We have no forged or fabricated documents to
back up such a theory. But the theory is out there.


"CBS: Traces of anthrax in Dan Rather's office
October 22, 2001 CBS News anchor Dan Rather
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Preliminary testing found trace amounts of anthrax
in CBS News anchor Dan Rather's anteroom and office areas, but
Rather had shown no signs of exposure, CBS News announced
Monday."
Source:
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2001/US/10/22/cbs.rather.anthrax/


Iraq behind US anthrax outbreaks
Britain's GPs put on full alert over deadly disease War on
Terrorism: Observer special
David Rose and Ed Vulliamy, New York
Sunday October 14, 2001 The Observer
American investigators probing anthrax outbreaks in Florida and New
York believe they have all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack - and
have named Iraq as prime suspect as the source of the deadly
spores.Their inquiries are adding to what US hawks say is a growing
mass of evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved *** with the 11
September hijackers....Leading US intelligence
sources, involved with both the CIA and the Defence Department, told
The Observer that the `giveaway' which suggests a state sponsor for
the anthrax cases is that the victims in Florida were afflicted with
the airborne form of the disease. `Making anthrax, on its own, isn't
so difficult,' one senior US intelligence source said. `But it only
begins to become effective as a biological weapon if they can be made
the right size to breathe in. If you can't get airborne infectivity,
you can't use it as a weapon. That is extremely difficult. There is
very little leeway. Most spores are either too big to be suspended in
air, or too small to lodge on the lining of the lungs.' As claims
about an Iraqi link grew, senior health officials in Britain revealed
they warned all the country's GPs last week to be vigilant about the
disease. `I think we have to be prepared to think the unthinkable,'
said the Government's Chief Medical Officer, Dr Liam Donaldson. The
Department of Health confirmed the Government is conducting an urgent
review of Britain's ability to cope with chemical or biological
attacks. It also emerged last night that three people who worked in
the Florida buildings at the centre of anthrax scares are now in the
UK and undergoing tests for the disease. ***In liquid form, anthrax
is
useless - droplets would fall to the ground, rather than staying
suspended in the air to be breathed by victims. Making powder needs
repeated washings in huge centrifuges, followed by intensive drying,
which requires sealed environments. The technology would cost
millions. US intelligence believes Iraq has the technology and
supplies of anthrax suitable for terrorist use. `They aren't making
this stuff in caves in Afghanistan,' the CIA source said. `This is
prima facie evidence of the involvement of a state intelligence
agency. Maybe Iran has the capability. But it doesn't look likely
politically. That leaves Iraq.' Scientists investigating the attacks
say the bacteria used is similar to the `Ames strain' of anthrax
originally cultivated at Iowa State University in the 1950s and later
given to labs throughout the world, including Iraq. According to
sources in the Bush administration, investigators are talking to
Egyptian authorities who say members of the al-Qaida network,
detained
and interrogated in Cairo, had obtained phials of anthrax in the
Czech
Republic. Last autumn Mohamed Atta is said by US intelligence
officials to have met in Prague an agent from Iraqi intelligence
called Ahmed Samir al-Ahani, a former consul later expelled by the
Czechs for activities not compatible with his diplomatic mission.The
Czechs are also examining the possibility that Atta met a former
director of Saddam's external secret services, Farouk Hijazi, at a
second meeting in the spring. Hijazi is known to have met Bin Laden.
It was confirmed yesterday that Jim Woolsey, CIA director from1993 to
1996, recently visited London"
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/11/wbr.02.html

"BLITZER: That's Osama bin Laden's group. Now you also have some
new information, David, about Mohamed Atta. He's the suspected
ringleader of the September 11th hijackings.
ENSOR: Well, that's right. As you know, he was one of the suicide
hijackers who died on September 11th on one of those aircraft. And we
had previously reported on September 19th that he met with an Iraqi
intelligence official somewhere in Europe. Well, I'm now able to tell
you, based on information from U.S. sources, he met not once but
twice
with Iraqi intelligence officers in Prague in the Czech Republic:
once
last year in June of 2000 and once in April of 2001."
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/10/lkl.00.html

"LARRY KING: Senator Lieberman, we have 30 seconds. Your
thoughts on
anthrax?
JOE LIEBERMAN: My colleagues are absolutely right. And I think it's
important to go back. Don't panic. Be prepared. We've been thinking
about this for a while. But I want go back to what Bill Owens said.
Iraq and Saddam Hussein have been working to develop chemical and
biological weapons. They've used them against their own people. They
used them against the Iranians during their war. Saddam really ought
to be the next target of this war on terrorism, because he can do the
unthinkable to us if we give him a chance.
LARRY KING: Gentlemen, this is for all three you. I can't go by
without asking it.
Admiral Owens, are you concerned about this anthrax thing?
RETIRED ADMIRAL WILLIAM OWENS,
FORMER VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS.: Well, I am concerned about
it, Larry. I think we in the military have been following anthrax,
as its been part of the story of Saddam Hussein, and the world of
terrorism, for the last decade or so. And I think we always fear
that something like this would start to be seen inside our
borders."
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/15/lkl.00.html


LARRY KING: We now welcome to LARRY KING LIVE Judith Miller, who has
been helping us over the past five weeks report on this story, and
who
has written a best-selling book, way up on the list, "Germs:
Biological
Weapons and America's Secret War." But now, she becomes part of
the
story herself with a scare herself."
JOURNALIST JUDITH MILLER, CO-AUTHOR OF THE BEST-SELLING BOOK
"GERMS:
BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS AND AMERICA'S SECRET WAR." SENIOR WRITER AT
"THE
NEW YORK TIMES,": I have always been concerned about Iraq. I
share
the
concern about Iraq's biological weapons program. I found it very
curious
indeed that Saddam Hussein was willing to give up information about
his
nuclear program and his chemical program, but not the biological
weapons.
He had anthrax, botulinum toxin, other agents, perhaps, as well. And
he fought very, very hard to keep weapons inspectors out and to
safeguard
that technology. So it is something I am concerned about."
http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/10/15/anthrax.butler/index.

html

"Ex-U.N. weapons inspector: Possible
Iraq-anthrax link

October 15, 2001 NEW YORK (CNN) -- Richard Butler, the former U.N.
weapons inspector,
pointed Monday to a possible Iraq connection to the recent anthrax
mailings, saying he did not believe
terrorist groups could have made the deadly bacteria. ***"What
we've
got to be certain about above
all is whether it came from a country supporting these terrorists as
a
matter of policy, such as Iraq, which we know has made this
stuff,"
Butler said. "And there's a credible report, ***, that they may
indeed
have given anthrax to exactly the group that did the World Trade
Center." Mohamed Atta-one of the suspected suicide hijackers-had
two
meetings with Iraqi intelligence officers in Prague, Czech Republic,
U.S. and Czech officials told CNN.*** Butler *** said Egyptian
authorities believe that Iraq could have handed some anthrax over to
one of the suspected terrorists in the September 11 attacks.
"It's
possible that many months ago anthrax, a small quantity of it, was
handed over in Prague to Mohamed Atta ... and the person who handed
it
over in Prague was an Iraqi," Butler said. "If that proves
to be
true,
there's a connection. ***Butler, however, did mention something that
would worry him-an outbreak of smallpox, perhaps caused by a
terrorist
act. "I'd be much more concerned about smallpox because it's
contagious," Butler
said. "And there is reason to think that Iraq, for example, and
maybe
some others
were in the past attempting to bring back smallpox for use as a
biological weapon."
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nyt/20011014/ts/investigators_say_some_t

e
rror_cells_broken_up_in_u_s__1.html

"Chemical weapons lab found 26 November 2004
Iraqi troops in Fallujah have found a chemical weapons laboratory
that included manuals on manufacturing explosives and toxins --
including anthrax.
National security adviser Qassem Dawoud said National Guard troops
"found a chemical laboratory that was used to prepare deadly
explosives and poisons."

Source:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/PA_NEWIRAQChemicalsThur17
Chemic?source=


THE GROUP CALLING ITSELF A.N.S.W.E.R.WAS SPUN OFF IT SEEMS TO US FROM
the International Action Center. Ramsey Clark FOUNDED the
International Action Center.
http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/Kennedy/WCH/clark_w.html

"Testimony Of Dr. William Kemp Clark ... before the President's
Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy..."
http://www.webcom.com/ctka/pr1195-clark.html

The Formation of the Clark Panel: More of the Secret Team at Work? By
Lisa Pease The Clark Panel was the medical panel convened almost
immediately after Ramsey Clark had been approved for his appointment
as Attorney General in 1967. The panel was clearly convened to put to
rest the growing doubts caused by the exposures of Mark Lane, Harold
Weisberg, other researchers and even in late 1966, LIFE magazine
itself. All of the above talked about the evidence of conspiracy, and
the implication is that the medical evidence would either show
conspiracy, or else, signs of tampering. What brought it to a crux
was
Jim Garrison's all-out investigation of the assassination, which, in
1967, was making official story proponents very nervous. One of the
key questions raised by the New Orleans DA was this: Why hadn't the
Warren Commission members examined the autopsy photographs and
X-rays?"
Ramsey Clark also dutifully backed the official findings that Lee
Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan each acted alone in the
assassinations
of the Kennedy brothers.*** Carlos Marcello biographer John Davis
asserts that the kingpin continued to funnel money to (Ramsey)
Clark(`s father Tom Clark) when he, (Tom Clark), sat on the high
court.*** " http://www.holysmoke.org/wb/wb0093.htm

The first, and so far, only Roman Catholic President of the United
States,
John F. Kennedy took office on January 20th, 1961. He was
assassinated, while in
office on November 22nd, 1963. JFK dramatically increased the number
of
so-called U.S. "advisors" in South Vietnam from the 800 or
so that
had been
there under his predecessor, President Eisenhower, to around 40,000.
JFK created
the so-called "Special Forces" (eerily reminiscent in name
at least,
of
Hiter's "Einsatz Grupen" (so-called "Special
Groups" used to advance
The
Holocaust as nazi forces pushed into Eastern Europe), and the so-
called "Green
Berets". JFK's notorious pro-Nazi father, Joseph P. Kennedy has
been
quoted on
the PBS special on the Kennedys as saying that: "The Jews
Deserved
The
Holocaust." Kennedy supported the repressive Roman Catholic
regime
of Diem and
Nhu in South Vietnam. However that regime ran into trouble as the
90% of South
Vietnamese who were Buddhists rallied behind Buddhist monks who were
committing
suicide by burning themselves alive in the streets of South Vietnam
in protest
against the repression of that Roman Catholic regime. The former
colony of Roman
Catholic France had had more than enough of Roman Catholic regimes.
That JFK was
himself a Roman Catholic had helped him to sell the Vietnam War to
conservative
Roman Catholic Cardinals in the U.S. such as Cardinal Cook and
Cardinal Spellman
but now his very Catholicism was preventing the U.S. from
successfully
prosecuting the Vietnam War as a Roman Catholic President could
not "win the
hearts and minds of the Vietnamese people." Diem and Nhu were
assassinated in a
coup on November 1st, 1963, three weeks later to the day JFK himself
was
assassinated. With JFK dead the opium grown in the Golden Triangle
of Indochina
could continue to make its way to
Marseilles, France, there to be processed into heroin to be shipped
to the Mafia
family of Carlos Marcello, mob boss of New Orleans, who could then
distribute it
throughout the United States. Bobby Kennedy, JFK's brother and
U.S. Attorney General was trying to deport Marcello at the time of
JFK's
assassination.

"In his Texas days, the politically ambitious elder Clark was
cultivated as a useful connection by New Orleans Mafia kingpin Carlos
Marcello, and many feared Clark's new job would afford organized
crime
access to higher levels of power. AG Clark was repeatedly mired in
corruption scandals.*** In 1947, after he had four convicted Chicago
mob bosses sprung from prison before their terms were complete,
Congress appointed a committee to investigate-and was effectively
road
blocked by Tom's refusal to hand over parole records. "Roselli
was a
Las Vegas based Mafia figure and a link in the CIA-Mafia chain. He
had
close ties to three Mafia bosses associated with the Kennedy
assassination: Sam Giancana of Chicago, Santos Trafficante of
Florida,
and Carlos Marcello of New Orleans. According to columnist Jack
Anderson, Roselli told him that mob leaders had ordered Jack Ruby to
kill Lee Harvey Oswald because they were afraid he might crack and
reveal their part in the conspiracy to kill President Kennedy. In
July
1976, shortly before Roselli was to be questioned by the Senate
Intelligence Committee, his body was discovered floating in
Dumfoundling Bay in Miami. He had been strangled and stabbed; his
legs
had been sawed off and stuffed into an empty oil drum along with the
rest of his body. It is believed that Roselli was killed by someone
working for Trafficante because he was talking too much about the
Kennedy assassination. Conspiracy" "Crime and Cover-Up (p.
44): Here
Scott discusses links between Ruby, Roselli, and Ramsey Clark.
"One
of
Ruby's close personal friends' and character witnesses for his liquor
license was Hal Collins (22 H 928), brother-in-law of prominent local
attorney Robert L. Clark, the brother and uncle respectively of U.S.
Attorneys General Tom and Ramsey Clark (CD 4.371)Robert L. Clark and
his law partner Maury Hughes. arranged the...parole in 1947 of John
Roselli."
http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/17th_Issue/rambler4.


SEE ALSO: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3341739/
"JFK: The day that changed America" IN WHICH RAMSEY CLARK
STATES
THAT HE, RAMSEY CLARK, WAS THE FIRST ONE INTO THE EAST ROOM OF THE
WHITE HOUSE AFTER THE JFK ASSASSINATION. "ABCNEWS: What do you
make
of the idea that Oswald's uncle, Dutz
Murret, could have been the connection between Marcello and
Oswald"
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/WorldNewsTonight/JFK_Ralph_Salerno

-3.html
"The authors also reveal a Mafia chieftain, who employed Jack
Ruby
and Oswald's uncle, confessed to federal officers he had been
directly involved in Kennedy's murder. "
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.aspARTICLE_ID35618


http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/Kennedy/WCH/clark_w.html


"FBI records indicate that when in 1961 Carlos Marcello... had
become
one of Bobby Kennedy's targets for deportation, the New Orleans don
contacted Santo Trafficante... who in turn called Frank to use his
influence with `the President's father' on Marcello's behalf."
(P.295)
This story has appeared (with little emphasis) in the Blakey-Billings
book (which does not specify that a contact with Sinatra was made; p.
242) and at 9 HSCA 70 (which does not specifically refer to JFK's
father). "
http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Fringe/Conspiry/jfk-echo.txt

RFK was killed on the first anniversary of the Six Day War.
http://www.idf.il/english/history/sixday.stm
FBI records indicate that when in 1961 Carlos Marcello had become one
of Bobby Kennedy's targets for deportation, the New Orleans don
contacted Santo Trafficante.). International Action Center-IAC-
Founder Ramsey ) "Clark represented PLO leaders in a suit
brought by
the family of Leon Klinghoffer, the elderly vacationer who was shot
and thrown overboard from the hijacked Achille Lauro cruise-ship by
Palestinian terrorists in 1986."
http://stopterror.org/lawsuits.html

"The PLO, PA, and other related defendants are being represented
by
former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark." "PLO attorney and
former
U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark." Clark also represented PLO
leaders in a suit brought by the family of Leon Klinghoffer, the
elderly vacationer who was shot and thrown overboard from the
hijacked
Achille Lauro cruise-ship by Palestinian terrorists in 1986."
Another Ramsey Clark client was Sheik Rahman himself.
""In private legal practice since 1969, Mr. Clark has
argued or
briefed a number of ... cases before the Supreme Court. In addition,
he has
defended a rogue's gallery of clients, including convicted 1993
World Trade Center bombing conspirator Sheik Rahman and presidential
fringe candidate Lyndon LaRouche."—National Press Club Luncheon
With
Ramsey Clark"

Who is Dan Rather?
"With the Zapruder film, came the frame by frame voice account of
the assassination. It was the voice of an obscure KRLD-TV Dallas
news reporter as the only journalist allowed to view the Zapruder
film and report on it to the public. The voice was that of Dan
Rather, and his frame by frame account of the head shot was that
"
the bullet clearly entered the back of the President's head as then
the President's head lurched FORWARD with considerable force".
His
account was precisely the opposite of what the film clearly showed,
and Dan Rather was lying to the public and the government was
sanctioning this!! We all three agreed that fall evening in 1971,
that Dan Rather was "going places". He did not disappoint
us."
Source: http://www.jfk-info.com/discus/messages/23/47.html


"Dan Rather was spawned Halloween day, 1931, in Wharton, Texas.
He
was the CBS news reporter covering the Kennedy visit to Dallas on
November 22, 1963. At the time, Rather was widely praised for his
coverage of the assassination. However, over the years, as elements
of the truth have been discovered, Rather's reporting has been
revealed to be less than truthful. Consider this: Rather was the
only newsman present at a private screening of the Zapruder film the
day after the assassination. He described what was in the film over
nationwide radio and was fairly accurate until he described the
fatal head shot. Rather stated Kennedy's head "went forward with
considerable violence," the exact opposite of what is in the
film.
Several months later, Rather was promoted to White House
correspondent for CBS and by the 1980s, he was chief news anchorman.
Now, since the film was immediately bought from Abraham Zapruder by
Time-Life, and withheld from public viewing until 1975, that means
for over a full decade, Rather's bogus account of the fatal head
shot was taken as the gospel truth.

Another questionable statement by Rather involves his location at
the time of the assassination. In his book, "The Camera Never
Blinks," Rather wrote how he was waiting to pick up news film
from
CBS cameramen in the Presidential motorcade. He wrote he was
standing on the west side of the Triple Underpass and missed
witnessing the assassination by only a few yards. However, recently
discovered film footage of the west side of the underpass has now
become public. This film plus still photographs show the Kennedy
limousine speeding through the underpass and on to Stemmons Freeway--
but no sign of Dan Rather.

Why did Rather lie about the fatal head shot? Why did Rather lie
about his whereabouts at the time of the assassination?"
"Encounters with President Kennedy (1962)

Kerry sails aboard the Coast Guard yacht Manitou with President John
F. Kennedy off Narragansett, Rhode Island, on August 26, 1962.In
1962, Kerry volunteered for Edward Kennedy's first Senatorial
campaign. That summer, he began dating Janet Jennings Auchincloss,
Jacqueline Kennedy's half-sister. Auchincloss invited Kerry to visit
her family's estate, Hammersmith Farm in Rhode Island. It was there
that Kerry met President Kennedy for the first time
...Later that day, a White House photographer snapped a photo of
Kerry sailing with Kennedy and his family in Narragansett Bay. They
met again a few weeks later at the America's Cup race off the coast
of Rhode Island."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry

"Mr. Kerry Well, I guess the president and you and I are three
examples of lucky people who married up. And some would say maybe me
more so than others. But I can take it..." October 13th, 2004
Bush-
Kerry Debate
Afghanistan, Reagan and George H.W. Bush

Dan Rather gained national recognition for his reports from
Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion of 1980During the Soviet
Invasion of Afghanistan, Dan Rather was filmed wearing a traditional
Mujahadeen headress and garments while reporting from near the front
lines. These reports were some of the first by Rather which helped
him gain national prominence.

Later on during the 1980s, Rather gained further renown to some for
his forceful and skeptical reporting on the Iran-Contra Affair that
eventually led to an on-air confrontation he had with then vice-
president George H. W. Bush.

This incident was widely believed to have been a notable event in
Bush's campaign to win the presidency in the 1988 election. It also
marked the beginning of Rather's ratings decline, a slump from which
he has never recovered. Bush never forgave him and refused to grant
Rather an interview after their initial tangle. His son George W.
Bush has apparently followed suit, and has thus far declined to
grant Rather an interview during his presidency.

Shortly after the Gulf War began, Dan Rather secured an interview
with Saddam Hussein which, among other things, captured the flavor
of Saddam's boldness towards the US. [2]
(http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/pgwar/pergul1.htm)


"There is no powerful and quick strike that a people could
deliver,
whatever their overall power. The United States depends on the Air
Force. The Air Force has never decided a war in the history of
wars."

Saddam Hussein in interview with Dan Rather, Aug 29, 1990

The Wall Within
On June 2, 1988, Dan Rather hosted the CBS News special, The Wall
Within. In the special, Dan Rather interviewed six individuals who
presented themselves as Vietnam veterans. All six men purported to
have witnessed horrible acts in Vietnam. Some said that they killed
civilians and others said that they saw friends die. Each man talked
about the effects that the war had upon their lives such as becoming
mentally depressed, becoming unemployed, using drugs, and becoming
homeless. Upon further scrutiny of the claims made by the six men it
was discovered that only one of the six men was actually in Vietnam.
He claimed to have been a 16 year-old Navy SEAL but was actually an
equipment repairman. While researching for his book Stolen Valor:
How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heroes and its History
(ISBN 096670360X), B. G. Burkett claims that he easily obtained the
service records of all six men which records where each man was
stationed during the Vietnam War. Since the program's airing in
1988, neither CBS nor Dan Rather have issued a retraction for the
content of the CBS News special.

Clinton
Some conservatives accused Rather of going easy on stories critical
of President Clinton. These critics gained further ammunition when
the The Washington Post revealed he had raised money for the
Democratic Party of Texas. The incident dogged Rather for weeks and
he was asked about it repeatedly by fellow journalists.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather#Afghanistan.2C_Reagan_and_Geo

rge_H.W._Bush

We were not happy when Dan Rather gave Saddam Hussein an interview,
which may be read at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/26/60II/main542151.shtml


February 24, 2003 Dan Rather's Exclusive Interview with Saddam
Hussein Here is an excerpt from some critical commentary on that
interview:
"February 27, 2003, 9:00 a.m. Dan Rather's Soft Serve
He's easier on dictators than democratically elected Americans.
By Tim Graham Dan Rather's big interview with Saddam Hussein
Wednesday night was
not an exercise in social responsibility. It was a commercial
opportunity,
no more dignified than Martin Bashir exploiting Michael Jackson. It
didn't
put the American people first. It put Dan Rather first. On last
night's shows
alone, Rather was softer than ABC's Barbara Walters was with Robert
Blake....Saddam Hussein is a mass murderer, a man who has children
killed in
front of their parents as a torture tactic. Rather called
him "President
Hussein" and "Mr. President," and sat cooperatively as
he declared
that he had
won 100 percent of the last election. "100 percent," Rather
repeated, with a
tone that sounded like "you don't say." read the rest at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-graham022703.asp

The 2003 Dan Rather Saddam Hussein love-in was not
the first tete a tete between Rather and Saddam.
"CBS acknowledged that Rather's access was aided by former US
Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Mr Clark had met with Saddam on
Sunday.
Rather suggested that his previous face-to-face interview with Saddam
in 1990 had also helped him to secure the conversation."
Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2797199.stm


SS-100X turned left from Houston to Elm Street. The crowds that were
so dense on Main had thinned, and the big car entered a grassy area
called
Dealey Plaza. To the right, a squat six story brick building called
the Texas
School Book Depository loomed over the park-like plaza. Ahead, Elm
St. passed
beneath a broad railroad viaduct known locally as the triple
underpass. Beyond
it, a young reporter for CBS News named Dan Rather waited for the
motorcade to
pass by. Suddenly he realized, something was wrong. Rather
remembered:
"Wait a minute, I thought. The motorcade has taken a wrong turn
here.
It seemed to be moving very fast. Something seemed wrong. I'd heard
no shots,
but I ran to the crest of the railroad tracks, and the scene I saw,
I'll never
forget. There were people screaming, there was great confusion. I
knew something
was very wrong." Four minutes later, UPI Correspondent Merriman
Smith seized a
radiophone in a car 150 feet behind the President's, and began
dictating to the
Dallas Bureau: "Three shots were fired at President Kennedy's
motorcade in
downtown Dallas."

Saddam Hussein and Ramsey Clark
Iraq's Hussein won't offer condolences to Bush
September 26, 2001
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein said Wednesday
he will not offer condolences to U.S.
President George W. Bush for
those
killed in terror attacks because the
United States is "launching a war
on us"
and his condolences would be
hypocritical.
In a meeting with a representative of
Russian President Vladimir
Putin, Hussein
said, "Bush wants us to pay our condolences, but if I were to do
that
I would not be respecting my people. Bush is the president of a state
that is launching a war on us ... in a mean, terroristic manner.
"And if I offered condolences to its president, this would be
hypocrisy, and we are not hypocrites. Since offering condolences is a
kind of courtesy between states, but we offered condolences to small
organizations in America and to an American personality [Ramsey
Clark]
who came to extend condolences for America's calamities against
us."
Hussein's remarks were reported by the Iraqi News Agency.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/26/vic.saddam.no.condolences/index.html

dex.html
Ex-Atty. General Would Aid Saddam Defense
Fri Dec 19,10:26 PM ET
By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark said Friday
that he would be willing to provide legal counsel to Saddam Hussein
The 76-year-old Clark, who was attorney general under President
Lyndon Johnson, has met with Saddam on several occasions in the past
decade. He most recently sat down with the former Iraqi leader in
February, in the days leading up to the U.S. invasion.
Clark has assisted other despised leaders before."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031220/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saddam_lawyer_2 "THE
MYSTERIOUS
RAMSEY CLARK STALINIST DUPE OR RULING-CLASS SPOOK? By Manny
Goldstein "Clark couldn't keep his client from a conviction and
brief
prison term. But Clark's relationship with LaRouche went beyond legal
representation to actual advocacy. Researcher Chip Berlet, a watchdog
on radical right groups, told Judis that Clark's brief was a
"political polemic." In June 1990, a LaRouche front
organization, the
Schiller Institute, flew Clark to a cult-organized conference in
Copenhagen. His speech there claimed the US government had moved
against LaRouche because he was "a danger to the system,"
and decried
that he was a victim of "vilification." The speech was
printed in
full
by the LaRouchie New Federalist propaganda rag.Clark also represented
PLO leaders in a suit brought by the family of Leon Klinghoffer, the
elderly vacationer who was shot and thrown overboard from the
hijacked
Achille Lauro cruise-ship by Palestinian terrorists in 1986.Another
Clark client was Karl Linnas, an ex-Nazi concentration camp guard in
Estonia (where he had overseen the murder of some 12,000 resistance
fighters and Jews), who was being deported from the US to the USSR to
face war crimes charges. Clark again lost the case, but again went to
bat for his client in the public arena, questioning the need to
prosecute Nazis "forty years after some god-awful crime they're
alleged to have committed."
(fyi, not part of article immediately below or above but related to
this case: "Buchanan has consistently portrayed war criminals as
patriotic Americans, innocent victims of "revenge-obsessed Nazi
hunters" in Washington. Virtually everything the accused and
their
defenders have said he accepts as truth, and, in the words of one
critic, he wages "journalistic guerilla warfare" on their
behalf.
Says
Neal Sher, former director of the U.S. Justice Department's Office of
Special Investigations: "Buchanan went to bat for every Nazi war
criminal in America." Liberty Lobby, the leading anti-Semitic and
racist organization in America, overwhelmingly endorsed Pat Buchanan
during the 1996 presidential primaries. An editorial in its
publication, The Spotlight, pointed out that "the 112 issues or
legislative positions that Liberty Lobby has taken over the past 40
years...shows that Pat Buchanan stands with us." The predominant
issue
they share is Holocaust revisionism, the spearhead of the
international anti-Semitic movement. Buchanan used his syndicated
column and his office as communications director in the Reagan White
House from 1981-1987 to assist pro-Nazi Eastern European
organizations
in trying to block the denaturalization and deportation of Karl
Linnas, John Demjanjuk, and at least seventeen others who had been
charged by the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special
Investigations or had been convicted in federal courts of concealing
war crimes in order to gain illegal entry into the U.S. The Karl
Linnas Case In 1981 the Federal District Court in Westbury, NY
stripped 67-year-old Karl Linnas of his citizenship for having lied
to
immigration officials thirty years earlier about his Nazi past.
Linnas's crimes, the judge said, "were such as to offend the
decency
of any civilized society." From 1941-43 Linnas had commanded a
Nazi
concentration camp at Tartu, Estonia, where he directed and
personally
took part in the murder of thousands of men, women, and children who
were shot into anti-tank ditches. A 1986 federal appeals court upheld
his deportation order, ruling that the evidence against the defendant
was "overwhelming and largely uncontroverted." Summarily
rejecting
the
court's findings because evidence had been obtained from the Soviet
Union, Buchanan orchestrated a national media effort to exonerate
Linnas, demanding that his citizenship be reinstated. He championed
the Linnas cause in his syndicated newspaper column and TV program
"Crossfire," and arranged for then U.S. Attorney General
Edwin Meese
III to meet with him and members of Eastern European organizations
who
hailed Linnas as a hero. On March 31, l987, Menachem Rosensaft,
founder of the International Network of Children of Holocaust
Survivors, wrote a New York Times Op-Ed piece calling for a
congressional investigation to determine whether any American
official
or functionary had intervened on Mr. Linnas's behalf. Buchanan
responded by saying it was the Office of Special Investigations that
needed to be investigated. "Let us get it all out in the
open," he
wrote, "nothing un-American can live in the sunlight."
Attorney
General Meese delayed the deportation of Linnas as long as possible,
all the while searching for a haven. After sixteen countries had
refused, Panama agreed to accept Linnas "on humanitarian
grounds."
News of the decision prompted Rosensaft and others to intercede with
Panamanian officials in Washington, who told them that their
government had not been informed of Linnas's wartime atrocities.
Panama withdrew its offer and issued a statement saying that "our
country and our Government reject and condemn the crimes committed by
fascists." On April 20, 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to
hear
a
final appeal. At that point Meese was legally bound to comply with
the
deportation order. Linnas was flown to the Soviet Union and three
months later died in a prison hospital while awaiting trial."
http://uahc.org/rjmag/1096ca.html
Article continues below: "The Devil's Pact In August 1990, two
months
after his return from the LaRouche conference in Copenhagen, with US
troops mobilizing to Saudi Arabia, Clark accepted an invitation to
lead the National Coalition to Stop US Intervention in the Middle
East.....In November 1990, Clark flew to Baghdad to meet with
Saddam, who allowed him to return with a few hostages. In February
Clark was in Basra,
Iraq's southern port. But his consistent failure to complain about
Saddam's regime made it clear he was there at its invitation. With
Clark's name-recognition and homespun, avuncular image, WWP had the
opportunity to form a new front group.This was the International
Action Center (IAC), which remains the top vehicle for Clark's ego
and WWP's play for hegemony. IAC/WWP embraces what is now called in
Europe the "Red-Brown Alliance"-the notion of a left-fascist
alliance against the West. This alliance is most advanced in Russia
where
neo-Stalinists and neo-Czarists have joined to oppose Yeltsin (seen
as a stooge of the West). In an echo of the 1939 Hitler-Stalin Pact,
former communists and anarchists in Russia now work with figures like
Zhirinovsky, who have themselves sought alliances with German
neo-Nazis. Clark, meanwhile, represented a Rwandan Hutu militiaman
fighting his extradition from the US back to Rwanda to face genocide
charges. The WWP line simultaneously (and predictably) tilted to the
genocidal Hutu militias as the UN wrote up war crime charges against
their leaders for ordering the slaughter of half a million Tutsi
civilians in 1994."

Two weeks before he was assassinated on April 4th, 1968 Dr. Martin
Luther
King,Jr. had endorsed the Presidential candidacy of Eugene,
(Gene),McCarthy, a
liberal Democratic Senator from Minnesota, who was seeking the 1968
Democratic
Presidential nomination on a platform opposed to the U.S. war in
IndoChina.

McCarthy was 7 points ahead of Republican Presidential contender
Richard M.
Nixon. Nixon would go on to win the Presidency in November of 1968
against
Lyndon Johnson's Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. Humphrey
supported the
IndoChina War. Humphrey had been Johnson's 2nd choice to be his Vice
President.
Johnson had sought to emulate the 1960 formula which won for John F.
Kennedy, of
a Northern Catholic and a Texas Democrat. He first asked Gene
McCarthy
to his Texas ranch where he test McCarthy's willingness to do
something morally
repugnant to him. He asked McCarthy to participate in his "deer
hunt".
The so-called "hunt" consisted of shooting a deer tied to a
pole or
a tree.
McCarthy refused to "hunt" the deer, even though other
politicians
seeking to
win favor from then President Johnson had participated in
the "hunt". Needless
to say McCarthy did not get the job as (LBJ's),Lyndon Baines
Johnson's Vice
President. McCarthy would go on to write his poem entitled:
"Lyndon
Johnson's
Deer", to memorialize the event. Johnson then invited McCarthy's
fellow
Minnesota Senator, Hubert H. Humphrey to the ranch where Humphrey
dutifully took
the gun, shot the deer, and got the job as LBJ's Vice President.

The story of how Hubert H. Humphrey got the Presidential nomination
is somewhat
more complicated. It required a split in the left of the Democratic
Party to get
the otherwise leftist, but pro-war Humphrey nominated. Had Martin
Luther
King,Jr. NOT been assassinated the candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy
could never
have gotten off the ground. RFK claimed, wrongly, that he was the
candidate of
what were then known as "Black" Americans, and are now
known as
"African-Americans". A live Dr. King could have refuted that
incorrect claim,
having endorsed Gene McCarthy for President. So Dr. King had to be
murdered to
split the Democratic Party. Once Dr. King was assassinated Bobby
Kennedy (RFK)
could go on to wrongly claim that he was the representative
of "Black"
Americans. However Bobby Kennedy also needed to die to stop Gene
McCarthy from
being nominated. Teddy Kennedy was the Kennedy Senator from
Massachusetts,
so like Hillary Clinton, Bobby Kennedy (RFK) moved to New York State
and ran for
Senator and won. However Gene McCarthy's anti-war supporters in New
York State
would go on to produce a victory for McCarthy in the June 1968
Presidential
Primary. As the Democratic Senator from New York RFK would have to
have obeyed
the wishes of his consitutents and dropped out of the Presidential
race to
endorse Gene McCarthy. However RFK was murdered before
Gene McCarthy could beat him in that primary. RFK was murdered by
Sirhan
Sirhan,who we believe was working directly for arafat. He was
murdered on the
first anniversary of the Six Day War in June of 1968, two months
after Dr.King
was murdered. Beating a dead Bobby Kennedy later that month in New
York State
was no victory. Nor could a dead Bobby Kennedy go on to endorse Gene
McCarthy.
RFK was murdered just after he had won the California Democratic
Primary.
After his death RFK's delegates went every which way. A live Bobby
Kennedy could
have marshalled those delegates for Gene McCarthy.
"ARAFAT ORDERED DIPLO SLAYINGS: EX-SPY By URI DAN New York Post
http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/7289.htm
December 15, 2001 -- JERUSALEM - Yasser Arafat personally ordered the
execution of two American diplomats in 1973, a former U.S.
intelligence officer says. James Walsh said he knew of a tape
recording in which Arafat calmly discussed an attack on the Saudi
Arabian Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan. In February 1973 gunmen had burst
into the embassy and seized American Ambassador Cleo Noel and his
charge d'affaires, George Curtis Moore. The Black September terrorist
organization took responsibility for the assault and demanded the
release of Sirhan Sirhan, the imprisoned assassin of Robert F.
Kennedy, and other jailed Palestinians. Walsh, then a member of the
National Security Agency based in Cyprus, said his organization
intercepted a conversation between Arafat and Black September in
which
the PLO chairman ordered the killing of the Americans and a Belgian
diplomat. Walsh told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that the
conversation was never disclosed by U.S. officials because it would
compromise American eavesdropping resources. Walsh said the NSA had
intercepted a series of phone calls between Arafat and the Black
September kidnappers. Officials in Jerusalem said the United States
had been informed of the conversation through another channel. They
said then-Prime Minister Golda Meir told then-President Richard Nixon
that Israel had also intercepted a conversation between Arafat and
kidnap leader Khalil al-Wazir, in which they discussed killing the
Americans.."
Cousin of Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan suspected in kibbutz
massacre
"By Margot Dudkevitch Nov. 13, 2002 Security forces arrested a
number
of Palestinian terrorist suspects in Judea and Samaria on Tuesday as
a
manhunt continued for Tanzim terrorist Sirhan Sirhan, blamed for the
shooting attack in Kibbutz Metzer on Sunday night November 10th,
2002.
Security sources confirmed Wednesday that they suspect that Sirhan, a
resident of Tulkarm, carried out the attack and Palestinian reports
claimed that his uncle was among those arrested on Tuesday by
security
forces. The suspect is related to Sirhan B. Sirhan, the Jerusalemite
who assassinated US Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968. Kennedy was shot
dead in 1968 at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel by Sirhan Sirhan, a
25-year-old Palestinian immigrant who said he felt betrayed by
Kennedy's support for Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967. At the time,
Kennedy was a Democratic senator running for president. Israeli
security sources said they believe the gunman in the Kibbutz Metzer
attack is a cousin of the Kennedy assassin, and may have been named
after his infamous relative. The Kennedy assassin is serving a life
sentence in a California state prison. His lawyers have suggested
that
if he was released from prison he could return to the Palestinian
territories. Sirhan has been denied parole 10 times and prosecutors
say his return to Judea and Samaria could further enflame the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Meanwhile, the Tanzim Al-Aksa Brigades
on Tuesday vowed to continue attacks against Israeli civilians and
soldiers, after claiming Sunday's attack at Metzer in which five
people were killed."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?
pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/Show
Full&cid 37076677290
"Tanzim - Arafat loyalists schooled in the first intifada n 1995
the
Fatah leadership instituted its own militia, the Tanzim. It has also
served as a pro-Arafat offensive force. Fatah was founded by Mr
Arafat
and a handful of close comrades in the late 1950s. The group came out
into the open in 1965; under Mr Arafat's effective leadership it
became the strongest and best-organised of the Palestinian factions
and it has remained so ever since."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2001/israel_and_the_p

a
lestinians/profiles/1371998.stm
"KIBBUTZ METZER, Israel Ela Levinson was startled awake by a
bang at
her neighbor's door, a gunshot and the last anguished cry of a
terrified mother."It was clear to me that it was a terrorist and
he
was shooting her and the kids," (the) gunman sneaked into Kibbutz
Metzer just before midnight Sunday night, November 10th, 2002, and in
a 15-minute killing spree gunned down a woman strolling down a
sidewalk with her boyfriend and a kibbutz leader who drove toward the
sound of the gunfire. He then stormed into a nearby house, killed a
34-year-old mother and shot dead her 4- and 5-year-old sons as they
lay in their beds beneath a large stuffed Winnie the Pooh bear."
From: "JFK, RFK, the Mob and Dallas by Ronald Goldfarb
"Ronald
Goldfarb ...worked for Robert F. Kennedy in the
Department of Justice 1961-64. "Judith Exner, once close to
mobsters
John Rosselli and Sam
Giancana, told talk show host Larry King on television in 1992 that
she repeatedly carried satchels of money from JFK to Sam Giancana for
his use in Kennedy's West Virginia primary. She said that Sam
Giancana
bragged to her, "Your boyfriend wouldn't be in the White House
if it
wasn't for me."*** After the assassination, Hoffa told Ragano
that he
was delighted. "Did you hear the good news? They killed the
son-of-a-bitch bastard.", Hoffa rejoiced. Hoffa pulled down the
flag
that hung at half mast at Teamsters headquarters. Hoffa told one
reporter, on the day Ruby killed Oswald, "Bobby Kennedy's just
another
lawyer now." Several days after the assassination, he took Ragano
aside, saying: "I told you they could do it. I'll never forget
what
Carlos and Santo did for me." Later, in New Orleans, Marcello,
who
was
waiting for approval of a huge Teamsters pension fund loan, told
Ragano, "When you see Jimmy, you tell him he owes me, and he
owes me
big."

"Teamster's Hoffa firmly in Kerry camp
By William L. Watts, CBS.MarketWatch.com
July 27, 2004."

The Wall Street Journal of December 1st, 2000 page one states: "
'Madame Butterfly' Theresa Le Pore wasn't always an embattled Palm
Beach ballots chief. In the 1980s she moonlighted as a flight
attendant on private planes owned by Saudi weapons dealer Adnan
Khashoggi, a middleman in Reagan administration arms sales to Iran."
The Rockefeller-Harriman alliance dates back at least to the period
in the past
when Rockefeller coal was transported aboard Harriman rail lines.
Pamela Harriman's late husband, Averell Harriman actually gave Jackie
Kennedy his house in Georgetown to move into after JFK was
assassinated. Nixon was in Dallas on that day, November 22nd, 1963,
which probably explains why The JFK trip was scheduled then. Should
something go wrong the real conspirators could blame Nixon, JFK's
obvious enemy for the assassination. Had Nixon really had anything to
do with It he would have been at the other end of the earth on that
day. Pamela Harriman was a key fundraiser for Bill Clinton in 1992,
holding
events which included Jay Rockefeller. Clinton later named her his
Ambassador to
France. Pamela Harriman was the widow of the late Averell Harriman,
prior to
her marriage to Averell Harriman she had been married to Randolph
Churchill,
son of the famous British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. Her
son, Winston
Churchill, was named after his famous grandfather. The December 1st,
2000 issue
of The Wall Street Journal reported that Theresa Le Pore, designer
of the 2000
Palm Beach Florida Butterfly Ballot, which allegedly caused Gore
voters to
mistakenly cast votes for Pat Buchanan, had been a flight steward
aboard private
planes in the Iran-Contra Era of the 1980s, which were owned by one
of the
world's richest people: Saudi Arms Dealer Adnan Khashoggi.
Khashoggi's ex-wife
Saroya was the alleged lover of Pamela Harriman's son Winston
Churchill.
"Allen Dulles was the
director of the CIA, Charles Cabell was its deputy director ( his
brother was the mayor of Dallas) and Richard Bissell was the deputy
director for plans, the dirty tricks department of the agency."
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/ST/STchp20.html It was long time
Harriman family attorney Allen Dulles, then CIA director, who
"suggested that the administrator of the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, T. Keith Glennan, release a pre-prepared cover
story" on the U-2 which soon fell apart. Another long time Harriman
buddy, Richard M. Bissell, Jr. was the CIA person "in charge of the
U-2 project". Bissell also allegedly ran the Bay of Pigs invasion of
Cuba in 1961, allegedly along with alleged former press secretary to
A.Harriman E.Howard Hunt of Watergate "fame". you can see some photos
of the infamous alleged 3 tramps at
http://www.koelle.dk/dealey_plaza_16.html
http://www.koelle.dk/dealey_plaza_17.html one of Allen Dulles is at
http://www.koelle.dk/who_13.html Frank Sturgis is in one at
http://www.koelle.dk/who_36.html Allen Dulles and JFK may be seen at
http://libweb.princeton.edu:2003/libraries/firestone/rbsc/mudd/online
_
ex/adulles/ Photos CIA JM/WAVE station, Miami
http://www.busprod.com/hellion/jfk/photos/jmwave.jpg Desmond
Fitzgerald http://www.busprod.com/hellion/jfk/photos/desfitz.jpg E.
Howard Hunt http://www.busprod.com/hellion/jfk/photos/ehhunt.gif Mark
Lane, author of Plausible Denial quotes from Hunt's testimony in a
civil suit On pages 250-251 of that book : " I made my way back to
the
States via California and stayed with a fellow OSS officer at his
home- I came east and got a job with the Marshall Plan." Q: " What
was
the Marshall Plan?" A: "That was the plan conceived by General George
C. Marshall and approved by then President Truman, to reestablish the
European economy that was destroyed or semi-destroyed by the war as a
means of withstanding the Soviet encroachment from the east." Q:
"Where were you?" A: " I was press aide to Averell Harriman in
Paris."
Q: "What was Harriman's job with the Marshall Plan?' A: "He was the
European director of it." (Averell Harriman chose Richard M. Bissell,
whom he had known in London in 1942, To head what was popularly known
as the Harriman Committee's professional staff, in furtherance of the
Marshall idea some weeks after Marshall's speech.)