Gość: Yidele Headlines IP: *.*.*.* 29.10.01, 12:57 On One of Bloodiest Days of Palestinian Confrontation, Five Israelis Die and 60 Injured, 3 Seriously, in Two Terrorist Attacks Israeli Ministers Nonetheless Sunday Night Order Troop Withdrawal from Bethlehem and Beit Jallah - Also Military Strength Massed at W. Bank Towns of Jenin and Tulkarm Four of the Dead are Women - Smadar Levy, 23, and Ayalah Levy, 39 from Moshav Elyachin, Lydia Marco, 63, from Hadera, and Sima Menahem, 30, from Zichron Yaacov - Killed When Two Terrorists Sprayed a Bus Stop in Downtown Hadera The Killers Were Palestinian Policemen Ordered by Palestinian Intelligence Chief Tawfiq Tirawi under Arafat’s Direction The Fifth Victim Was St. Sgt. Yaniv Levy, 22, from Zichron Yaacov Who Died in Drive-by Shooting at Metzer Junction in Hadera District Carried Out By Arafat’s Tanzim-Fatah Palestinian Snipers Resume Fire on Hebron’s Jewish Quarter Sunday from Same Hilltops Evacuated by Israeli Troops Earlier This Month Arafat Vows to Continue Struggle for “Jerusalem and Holy Places” Thousands of Pakistani Pashtun Cross Into Afghanistan to Join Taliban Fighters Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Hedara - heart of the trouble IP: *.*.*.* 29.10.01, 13:04 Hadera Retargeted for Palestinian Terror 29 October: The small provincial town of Hadera has the bad luck to be situated on Israel’s narrow waist between the Mediterranean and the West Bank – minutes away from the Palestinian towns of Jenin (“Suicide City”) and Tulkarm. Hardly a month goes by without a Palestinian terrorist attack in its small, crowded downtown. Sunday’s was one of the worst. As a Mitsubishi jeep crawled past a bus stop, one Palestinian jumped out and both he and the driver opened up with M-16 automatic rifles on the waiting commuters. Two passing police detectives quickly jumped in and shot them dead – but not before they had cut down 60 passers-by and killed four women: Smadar Levy, 23, and Ayalah Levy, 39 - both from Moshav Elyachin, Lydia Marco, 63, from Hadera, and Sima Menahem, 30, from Zichron Yaacov. Three of the injured were in grave condition. While Jihad Islami proudly claimed responsibility for the daring act, Israeli security authorities identified them as Palestinian policemen. While their jeep carried Israeli number plates, they stowed their Palestinian plates in the vehicle’s trunk, open to a cursory inspection. As terrorism and intelligence sources have reported frequently, these quasi- official death squads operate more and more blatantly under orders from the General Intelligence Chief, Tawfiq Tirawi, who obeys no one but Yasser Arafat in person. Responsibility for the first terrorist strike of the day, a drive-by shooting near Kibbut Metzer, in which 22-year old St.Sgt Yaniv Levy, from Zichron Yaacov, died, was taken frankly by Arafat’s Tanzim-Fatah movement. Throughout the day, TV pundits, clearly inspired by the Israeli government’s attempt to prepare the public for the troop pullout from Bethlehem and Beit Jala before the end of the day, presented the Palestinian leader as torn between the conflicting hawkish an dovish factions among his advisers. Those commentators were not deterred by the fact that, the day before, they quoted Arafat in one of his most bloodthirsty speeches declaring to the shouted applause of his followers: “We will win!” three times. One commentator went so far as to explain that the Palestinian policemen who sprayed the Hadera bus stop were moonlighting for the Jihad Islami in their off duty hours. All this prevarication meant that prime minister Ariel Sharon, together with his foreign and defense ministers, was determined come what may to go through with the Israeli troop withdrawal from Bethlehem and Beit Jala – in keeping with their promise to US Secretary of State Colin Powell. Tirawi can count the chickens he has hatched with great satisfaction. The Palestinians may have promised to keep the two evacuated towns quiet, but that promise is worth as much as their vow to stop shooting at the Jewish quarter of Hebron if Israeli troops quit the two Palestinian hilltop neighborhoods overlooking the quarter. The troops left a fortnight ago. Today the shooting resumed. A retaliatory strike against Jenin and Tulkarm will not make Hadera safer. Local police chiefs have declared time and again that there is no way to block off outside access to the town, implying that terrorist prevention must start somewhere else. Occupying the two Palestinian towns is no answer either, because the Israeli government falls back at the slightest suggestion of arm- twisting. Fiascos are then blamed on military inadequacies. (“You see, even tanks are useless to stop them!”) The ordinary Israeli sees the simple logic of the view voiced by the US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Sunday. You can only defend yourself against terrorists by taking the battle into their territory and destroying them there. That logic appears to escape Ariel Sharon, Shimon Peres and Binyamin Ben Eliezer. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Priceless bush interview -"limits to freedom" IP: *.*.*.* 29.10.01, 15:11 www.gwbush.com/gwtv/limits_to_freedom.rm Nic dodać, nic ująć UU at his finest! Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Patriot Act - continuing assault on your freedoms IP: *.budimex.com.pl 29.10.01, 15:43 Patriot Act draws privacy concerns By Stefanie Olsen Staff Writer, CNET News.com October 26, 2001, 1:25 p.m. PT President Bush signed legislation Friday that expands the ability to tap telephones and track Internet usage in the hunt for terrorists, new powers that drew praise from law enforcement officials and concern from civil libertarians. The bill, known as the USA Patriot Act, gives federal authorities much wider latitude in monitoring Internet usage and expands the way such data is shared among different agencies. "Today, we take an essential step in defeating terrorism while protecting the constitutional rights of all Americans," Bush said during a signing ceremony. The House of Representatives passed the bill by a vote of 357-66 on Wednesday, and the Senate on Thursday approved the measure 98-1. Attorney General John Ashcroft vowed Thursday to use the new powers to track down suspected terrorists relentlessly. "If you overstay your visas even by one day, we will arrest you. If you violate a local law--we will hope that you will, and work to make sure that you are put in jail and be kept in custody as long as possible," he said in a speech to the nation's mayors about how the law would target suspected terrorists. Civil libertarians say the measure was passed in haste following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. They are particularly concerned that the surveillance powers give law enforcement too much leeway to collect private information on people on the periphery of investigations. "The attorney general is making a full-court press on the Internet. They want to do a lot of data mining and investigations on the Internet, and because they are looking for a needle in the haystack, they are going to conduct investigations that take them to the outer circle," said Jerry Berman, executive director for the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). "The trouble with the bill is that it's very sweeping and it can apply not just to suspected terrorists but people and organizations that may be engaged in lawful actions," Berman said. The new bill was enacted in response to terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, which have sparked the largest criminal investigation in U.S. history. The investigation immediately cast a spotlight on government surveillance powers, as Ashcroft championed the need for new "tools" to track down potential terrorists after the attacks. Part of the new legislation includes the expansion of Internet eavesdropping technology once known as Carnivore. But civil rights advocates have consistently cautioned against expanding surveillance powers unnecessarily, arguing that there is little evidence that tougher surveillance laws could have prevented the tragedy. In response to the new legislation, the American Civil Liberties Union vowed Friday that it would work with the Bush administration and law enforcement agencies to make sure civil liberties were not compromised as a result of the new bill. "The passage of this broad legislation is by no means the end of the story," ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero said in a statement. "We will now work with ACLU affiliates around the country to monitor its implementation." Gregory T. Nojeim, Associate Director of the ACLU's Washington Office, added: "These new and unchecked powers could be used against American citizens who are not under criminal investigation, immigrants who are here within our borders legally and also against those whose First Amendment activities are deemed to be threats to national security by the Attorney General." Specifically, the bill expands a "pen register" statute to include electronic communications and Internet usage. The pen register previously referred to law enforcement powers involving the tracing of telephone numbers called by suspected criminals. By including electronic communications, the statute now allows investigators to easily obtain wiretaps for activity on the Internet, which can mean the collection of information more private than IP addresses, which are roughly the Net's equivalent of phone numbers. In addition, Internet service providers must make their services more wiretap friendly, giving law enforcement the ability to capture pen register information or allowing the installation of Carnivore technology. Critics say there is not enough clarity about what information is collected through surveillance technology. Lawmakers maintain that Carnivore doesn't include information from the subject line of an e-mail, but it may collect data such as names and Web surfing habits. Another major concern is that such investigations are kept secret. "We don't know the scope of what pen register information can be collected in the context of e-mail," said Mike Godwin, policy fellow at CDT. "But what we do know is that it ought to require more judicial review than it gets. Information collected is going to be more private than just e-mail." One potential coup for civil rights advocates could be in a provision introduced by House Majority Leader Dick Armey. The provision requires a judge to oversee the Federal Bureau of Investigation's use of an e-mail wiretap, ensuring some checks and balances over the use of Carnivore. Law enforcement will be required to report back in 30 days to an authorizing judge on information that was collected online during the investigation. "This would require the FBI to show what was collected, by whom, and who had access to it," said Armey spokesman Richard Diamond. "That information would be transferred under seal to the judge authorizing the use of Carnivore." While some provisions in the bill will expire in 2006, powers governing Internet surveillance are not included in the "sunset clause." "We will be watching, and Congress will be watching," Diamond said. "And in four years, when the DOJ asks for reauthorization of their powers, Congress will make sure (that) if any of those Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Patriot Act - H.R 3162 IP: *.budimex.com.pl 29.10.01, 16:24 Link to the act the actual text of bill ( final version ) www.politechbot.com/docs/usa.act.final.102401.html Polecam: SEC. 216. MODIFICATION OF AUTHORITIES RELATING TO USE OF PEN REGISTERS AND TRAP AND TRACE DEVICES. (a) General Limitations.--Section 3121(c) of title 18, United States Code, is amended-- (1) by inserting ``or trap and trace device'' after ``pen register''; (2) by inserting ``, routing, addressing,'' after ``dialing''; and (3) by striking ``call processing'' and inserting ``the processing and transmitting of wire or electronic communications so as not to include the contents of any wire or electronic communications''. (b) Issuance of Orders.-- (1) In general.--Section 3123(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: ``(a) In General.-- ``(1) Attorney for the government.--Upon an application made under section 3122(a)(1), the court shall enter an ex parte order authorizing the installation and use of a pen register or trap and trace device anywhere within the United States, if the court finds that the attorney for the Government has certified to the court that the information likely to be obtained by such installation and use is relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation. The order, upon service of that order, shall apply to any person or entity providing wire or electronic communication service in the United States whose assistance may facilitate the execution of the order. Whenever such an order is served on any person or entity not specifically named in the order, upon request of such person or entity, the attorney for the Government or law enforcement or investigative officer that is serving the order shall provide written or electronic certification that the order applies to the person or entity being served. ``(2) State investigative or law enforcement officer.--Upon an application made under section 3122(a)(2), the court shall enter an ex parte order authorizing the installation and use of a pen register or trap and trace device within the jurisdiction of the court, if the court finds that the State law enforcement or investigative officer has certified to the court that the information likely to be obtained by such installation and use is relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation. ``(3)(A) Where the law enforcement agency implementing an ex parte order under this subsection seeks to do so by installing and using its own pen register or trap and trace device on a packet-switched data network of a provider of electronic communication service to the public, the agency shall ensure that a record will be maintained which will identify-- ``(i) any officer or officers who installed the device and any officer or officers who accessed the device to obtain information from the network; ``(ii) the date and time the device was installed, the date and time the device was uninstalled, and the date, time, and duration of each time the device is accessed to obtain information; ``(iii) the configuration of the device at the time of its installation and any subsequent modification thereof; and ``(iv) any information which has been collected by the device. To the extent that the pen register or trap and trace device can be set automatically to record this information electronically, the record shall be maintained electronically throughout the installation and use of such device. ``(B) The record maintained under subparagraph (A) shall be provided ex parte and under seal to the court which entered the ex parte order authorizing the installation and use of the device within 30 days after termination of the order (including any extensions thereof).''. (2) Contents of order.--Section 3123(b)(1) of title 18, United States Code, is amended-- (A) in subparagraph (A)-- (i) by inserting ``or other facility'' after ``telephone line''; and (ii) by inserting before the semicolon at the end ``or applied''; and (B) by striking subparagraph (C) and inserting the following: ``(C) the attributes of the communications to which the order applies, including the number or other identifier and, if known, the location of the telephone line or other facility to which the pen register or trap and trace device is to be attached or applied, and, in the case of an order authorizing installation and use of a trap and trace device under subsection (a)(2), the geographic limits of the order; and''. (3) Nondisclosure requirements.--Section 3123(d)(2) of title 18, United States Code, is amended-- (A) by inserting ``or other facility'' after ``the line''; and (B) by striking ``, or who has been ordered by the court'' and inserting ``or applied, or who is obligated by the order''. (c) Definitions.-- (1) Court of competent jurisdiction.--Section 3127(2) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the following: ``(A) any district court of the United States (including a magistrate judge of such a court) or any United States court of appeals having jurisdiction over the offense being investigated; or''. (2) Pen register.--Section 3127(3) of title 18, United States Code, is amended-- (A) by striking ``electronic or other impulses'' and all that follows through ``is attached'' and inserting ``dialing, routing, addressing, or signaling information transmitted by an instrument or facility from which a wire or electronic communication is transmitted, provided, however, that such information shall not include the contents of any communication''; and (B) by inserting ``or process'' after ``device'' each place it appears. (3) Trap and trace device.--Section 3127(4) of title 18, United States Code, is amended-- [[Page H7165]] (A) by striking ``of an instrument'' and all that follows through the semicolon and inserting ``or other dialing, routing, addressing, and signaling information reasonably likely to identify the source of a wire or electronic communication, provided, however, that such information shall not include the contents of any communication;''; and (B) by inserting ``or process'' after ``a device''. (4) Conforming amendment.--Section 3127(1) of title 18, United States Code, is amended-- (A) by striking ``and''; and (B) by inserting ``, and `contents' '' after ``electronic communication service''. (5) Technical amendment.--Section 3124(d) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking ``the terms of''. (6) Conforming amendment.--Section 3124(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting ``or other facility'' after ``the appropriate line''. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Kursk - Ustinov statement (! peter) IP: *.budimex.com.pl 29.10.01, 21:00 'What happened inside . . . was hell' October 28, 2001 BY SERGEI SHARGORODSKY MOSCOW--Charred and rusting cavities littered with torn metal shards are all that remain of the compartments where commanders and most of the crew of the Kursk were stationed when explosions sank the nuclear submarine, investigators said Saturday. ''What happened inside these compartments was hell,'' said Russian Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov, who presented a seven-minute film shot by investigators inside the portion of the Kursk lifted from the Barents Sea floor and hauled into dry dock this month. ''Everything is littered with equipment that was destroyed in the explosion,'' Ustinov said. ''The strong alloys from which these compartments are built were simply ripped apart.'' In one part of the film, shown on Russian television, the camera focuses on the spot where the Kursk's periscope once stood--now a surreally twisted column of metal. ''The explosion ... wiped out everything here,'' Ustinov said. The chief prosecutor is leading a team investigating the wrecked submarine that sank during naval exercises on Aug. 12, 2000, killing all 118 crewmen. He said the Kursk's commanders and most of its crew were killed in the front compartments as two powerful explosions in the bow sent the mighty submarine to the sea bottom. ''In the 135 seconds that passed between the first and the second explosions, they did not even have time to put on lifesaving equipment,'' Ustinov said. ''But even if this equipment had been put on, there was everything here-- an explosion and fire--so nothing could have survived.'' The fire spread rapidly after the blasts and raised temperatures inside the Kursk above 14,000 degrees, Ustinov said at a separate news conference in Murmansk. Thirty-two bodies have been removed from the wreckage since it was brought to Roslyakovo, a port near Murmansk, the Russian navy's press service said late Saturday in a report cited by the Interfax news agency. Ustinov had said earlier in the day that 19 bodies had been found and 17 of them removed. Seven were identified, he said. Adm. Vladimir Kuroyedov, the Russian navy's commander, said that at the request of relatives, the bodies will be transported to their hometowns and will be remembered in a farewell ceremony ''with full military honors,'' Interfax reported. Officials have said they believe the bodies of most of the crewmen were destroyed in the explosions and fire, and they doubt they will find more than 40 bodies in the eight compartments that were lifted. The submarine had nine compartments, but the mangled bow was left undersea. The bodies found so far had been in the stern compartments, where letters found by divers who recovered 12 bodies from the sunken vessel a year ago indicated that at least 23 sailors survived for hours after the explosions. ''We are finding the bodies of the dead, and the main cause of death is suffocation,'' Ustinov said. He said experts believe the submarine was completely flooded within eight hours at the most--but that most ran out of breathable air before they could drown. ''Those who think there was a possibility of saving our sailors should know that there was no such possibility,'' he said, echoing other officials who contended, amid criticism of the sluggish rescue effort, that nobody could have been saved. Ustinov said the compartment housing the submarine's nuclear reactors withstood the blasts despite their force, and was only flooded by water coming through air vents and other openings. The reactors and the vessel's 22 cruise missiles are to be removed. The cause of the disaster remains unknown. Russian officials have focused on the possibility that a torpedo misfired and exploded inside or near the Kursk during the exercise, but some say they believe it was struck by a foreign submarine or hit a World War II mine. AP Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Next Bioterror Shoe to Drop: Dengue Fever? IP: *.budimex.com.pl 29.10.01, 21:03 Next Bioterror Shoe to Drop: Dengue Fever? Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com Saturday, Oct. 27, 2001 Investors seeking to cash in on bioterrorism fears and the billions of dollars potentially flowing to biochemical, pharmaceutical and medical equipment manufacturers should consider investing in those making products that treat E. coli, dengue fever and tuberculosis, according to TheStreet.com. "Which companies benefit, of course, depends on what kind of infectious diseases or toxins the terrorists try to use. Anthrax is only one possible scenario,” said the report, which was silent about smallpox, the contagion often mentioned as the next shoe likely to drop. A cautious administration was less helpful to info-hungry investors. On the Hill last Tuesday, when Health Secretary Tommy Thompson was asked what new bio-agent exposures Americans could expect, he replied: "I cannot go into that due to national security issues.” Shortly thereafter, Thompson excused himself, citing a pressing meeting at his agency’s "war room” regarding "all threats.” A key recommendation from Thompson was getting qualified epidemiologists on health staffs at the state level. Now, he testified, only 35 of the 50 states had such experts on staff. Further, he recommended that the state epidemiologists be as rigorously trained as their federal counterparts in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). No mention by Thompson during his testimony of dengue fever, despite the fact that the recent outbreak of the disease in Hawaii has some epidemiologists there stumped and one local legislator calling for the immediate levy of environmental SWAT teams. Hawaii health officials confirmed this week that three more people tested positive for dengue fever, raising the number of infected people to 62. Officials are now investigating 258 people who may be infected. The outbreaks, which ominously came to a head in mid-September, are the first documented local transmission of the virus in Hawaii since 1943. Furthermore, say epidemiologists on the scene, the incidence of the mosquito- borne infection has been unaccountably increasing among island residents who have no history of recent travel out of the islands. Also cited as troubling by the experts is the fact that the "Aedes Aegypti” mosquito, the classic carrier of the disease, has not been detected in Hawaii for nearly 50 years, since its eradication by pesticides. According to experts at the CDC, the only other carrier candidate is Hawaii’s Asian tiger mosquito, "Aedes Albopictus.” But experts say this insect is an inefficient carrier of the virus. CDC epidemiologists remain in East Maui trying to solve the puzzle. Dengue is not often life-threatening, say experts, but can be severe in second infections with another type of the virus. "The second or third infections can cause dengue hemorrhagic fever or dengue shock syndrome, conditions which can be fatal,” Hawaii’s health director Bruce Anderson said. The most severe outbreaks, added Anderson, are in tropical areas under assault from a second wave of infection with a new type of dengue fever virus. An outbreak of dengue hemorrhagic fever caused by dengue-2 affected more than 10,000 people in Delhi, India from August-December 1996 and killed 423 people between the ages of 5 and 45 years, said the National Institute of Communicable Diseases. Sen. Kalani English, D-Wailuku-Kahului-Upcountry Maui, who was one of the first people to be stricken by dengue fever last August, said that having the virus was 50 times worse than any flu or cold he ever had. Dengue fever produces fever, headache and rashes on the palms and feet. Defusing notions of terrorist involvement, Dr. Philip Bruno, chief of the communicable diseases division of Hawaii's department of health, told Reuters recently that the Hawaii outbreak appeared to be an extension of an Asia- Pacific epidemic of dengue, almost inevitable as travelers go back and forth between Hawaii and countries such as the Philippines. "We feel that the Hawaii outbreak will not extend to a large number of people or get out of control, and will remain mild in comparison to the large epidemic affecting other tropical areas,” Bruno said. In the meantime, Hawaii health officials, city workers and neighborhood volunteers started passing out informational flyers on dengue fever at 22 district parks last Saturday in an effort to let the public know what can be done to prevent dengue from spreading. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Iran seizes 2,000 protesters, satellite dishes IP: *.budimex.com.pl 29.10.01, 21:07 Iran seizes 2,000 protesters, satellite dishes as unrest spreads SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Sunday, October 28, 2001 NICOSIA — Iran has launched a massive crackdown on dissidents and satellite dishes in response to the embarrassing outbreak of nation-wide unrest in support of the United States and democratic reform. More than 2,000 Iranians were arrested over the weekend in connection with violent demonstrations in several major cities. In addition, Iranian authorities have moved to stop the relay of information from opposition groups to the Islamic republic. Iranian authorities have confiscated more than 1,000 satellite dishes as part of an effort to stop access to television channels used by the opposition, Middle East Newsline reported. The channels are based in the United States. Nevertheless, the demonstrations were continuing Sunday, Iranian sources told World Tribune.com. In the weeks since Sept. 11, the only major spontaneous pro-U.S. demonstrations have taken place in Iran where popular dissatisfaction with the government of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mohammed Khatami has become widespread. "Iranians have now concluded that whatever happens, no one will help them," said Dr. Assad Homayoun, president of the Azadegan Foundation. "They will have to rely on their own power to change the regime." He said the U.S. decision to include Iran in a coalition intended to isolate the Taliban in Afghanistan could have the short-term effect of strengthening the regime in Teheran which has been a leading state sponsor of terrorism. Washington-based sources said Iran's loss in a soccer tournament last week with Bahrain provided an opportunity for street demonstrations in several major cities. The state-owned Iran daily said about 150,000 satellite dishes are expected to be confiscated. The operation would be the first time authorities have enforced a 1995 ban on satellite dishes. Unrest has reportedly increased since the Sept. 11 suicide attacks on New York and Washington. Police have broken up demonstrations in solidarity with the United States. The unrest became violent after Iran's soccer team won another tournament with the United Arab Emirates. The fans attacked government buildings in Teheran and the government-sponsored Islamic vigilantes, torched police cars and chanted slogans against the Islamic republic. The riots then spread to other Iranian cities, including Abadan, Isfahan, Kerman and Mashad. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Russian plans for new Afghan invasion IP: *.*.*.* 30.10.01, 13:04 Russia Prepares 1-Million Man Army for Afghanistan - A DEBKAfile Exclusive 29 October: The shape of the governments-to-be of Afghanistan and Iraq - "when the war is over" seems to be uppermost in the minds of the US-led alliance engaged in the war against world terrorism. This may be a useful academic exercise, but while it is in process, the war itself shows strong signs of running out of steam. military and intelligence experts ascribe this loss of momentum to two primary dilemmas: 1. In order to tackle its objectives of overturning the Taliban regime and rooting out Osama bin Laden's terrorist apparatus, the United States needs to field a ground army of some 400,000 trained combat troops in Afghanistan alone. At a pinch, US and British strength combined amounts to less than a third of this figure � the 100,000 American troops stationed in bases around Afghanistan" borders, the Persian Gulf and the Middle east, and another 20-35,000 British combat troops. 2. The United States and Britain have never invested in the kind of intelligence tools required for winning this war, focusing instead in recent years on satellite and electronic intelligence, which is of limited use in Afghanistan and the counter-terror campaign. America's deficiency of ground forces for combating terrorism is the direct outcome oft the collapse of the international anti-terror coalition doctrine. The diplomacy employed by US secretary of state Colin Powell to muster this coalition stripped the United States of the fighting strength needed for the campaign itself. The four nations with the right kind of fighting strength are India, Taiwan, Israel and Turkey. The first three had to be counted out, while Turkey was only retained as a pro-American reserve for securing the Turkish-Iraqi frontier and standing by in case anti-US turbulence got out of hand in Central Asia and Pakistan. Therefore, Washington has painted itself into a corner with only two options: Declaring a military call up at home � partial, then full conscription, with all the political hazards entailed, or turning to the only other power which commands a substantial military force, whose enlistment will not jeopardize US long term goals - Russia. Sources in Moscow report that in the last ten days, the lights in the planning and operations departments of the Russian armed forces have burned brightly round the clock, as staff officers draft the blueprints for the Russian army's return to Afghanistan in a manner very different from its dismal experience in the 1980s. This time, Russian troops will be going in on a huge scale to fight shoulder to shoulder with their erstwhile foes, the Americans. The Afghanistan intervention force will be made up of roughly quarter of a million combat troops and an equal number of rest air force, intelligence, logistical and services personnel. The conditions posed by Russian army chiefs for meeting President Vladimir Putin's demand for this force were: A. The entire force would not be fully engaged before winter was over, ie April 2002. B. The United States would carry all the costs not only for the creation and training of the Afghanistan expedition army, but also for setting up a comparable force for operation in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia and Chechnya. According Moscow informants, Putin bowed to the generals demands whereupon they went to work on the new venture without delay. This means that the Russian military staff is in the process of building a combat ground force one million strong. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele On the kidnap & death of 3 Israeli soldiers IP: *.*.*.* 30.10.01, 13:10 29 October: In a dramatic announcement to the media, following separate interviews with the families, the head of the IDF's personnel directorate, Maj-Gen Gil Regev, declared that fresh, reliable intelligence data supported the long-standing presumption that the three soldiers abducted last October 7 on the Israel-Lebanese frontier, died during the attack or soon after. They were probably killed or gravely wounded by the explosive charge which went off near their jeep during their border patrol stint. Maj-Gen. Regev's disclosures confirm that Israel is in possession of a secret videotape of the early stage of the abduction. It therefore has a record of the explosion that most probably left the three soldiers dead or seriously wounded. No sign of life has ever been received in Israel from any of the missing eighteen-year olds, Benny Avraham, Adi Avitan and Omar Suwad, despite the good offices of many world diplomats. Neither did any of the Red Cross demands to visit them ever meet with a response. They were never been seen again after October 7 2000. intelligence sources have consistently claimed that the Hizballah never vouchsafed the slightest scrap of information because the group never held the three men, or the Israeli businessman Elhanan Tanenboim who was kidnapped in Europe at about the same time. This publication was alone in contending that the abduction was set up by the former Hizballah master hostage-taker Imad Mughniyeh, at present senior terror adviser to the Iranian supreme ruler, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and in close association with Osama bin Laden. Their complete disappearance is accounted for by their removal from Lebanon. Some weeks after the abduction, carried a report from its intelligence sources in the Gulf emirates that Mughniyeh had handed the four Israelis or their bodies over to Osama bin Laden's men. One thing was very clear: The Hizballah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah never had possession of the missing Israelis or even knowledge of their whereabouts. His ranting speeches demanding that Israel surrender all the Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners in its hands to purchase information on their state of health were huge bluffs. The information drawn by the German foreign minister Joschke Fischer in recent visits to Beirut and Tehran supports this contention. And indeed Maj.-Gen Regev refused to be drawn out by press questions on the Hizballah's role in the affair. For once, a Hizballah television newscast soon after the Israeli briefing offered nothing but a hackneyed response. The new disclosures are reported to have taken the voluble Hizballah leader by surprise â�" even embarrassed him - and not surprisingly. His most valuable tool of extortion was suddenly whipped out of his hands. His followers will not fail to note that Israel would have given up the Hizballah prisoners, at least, for information about the missing men, an opportunity that was missed. Mughniyeh now appears on Washington's list of 22 most wanted terrorists, a presumed accomplice of Osama bin Laden in the September 11 atrocities in New York and Washington. Today, more circles are open to conviction that he captured the four Israelis at bin Laden's behest. In arcane top terrorist circles, few are privy to the secret of where the missing men are hidden or their bodies buried. One is an Iranian, the Revolutionary Guards chief Maj.-Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi, who provides Mughniyeh with the logistical infrastructure for his operations. The men in Tehran say they have seen the back of Mughiyeh, hoping thus to put an end to the endless search for the missing Israelis. In actual fact, they want to wash their hands at this time of the terrorist taint and throw off American charges that Ayatollah Khamenei is a practitioner of terrorism. They also have a stake in the developing war in next-door Afghanistan. The mystery here lies in the timing of the Israeli army's readiness to buy into Iran's game and close the books on the abduction affair. However, intelligence sources are certain that the last word has not been said on that deeply mysterious and tragic affair. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Headlines !!! IP: *.*.*.* 30.10.01, 13:15 Israel Launches Largest-Scale Snap Military Exercise Ever Beginning Monday Exercise Interacts with US Regional Military Movements In Separate Action, IDF Prepares for Major Strike Against Palestinian West Bank Towns of Jenin, Tulkarm and Nablus IDF Manpower Chief Maj. Gen Regev: Fresh Intelligence Supports High Probability Three Abducted Soldiers Were Killed Last Year While Patrolling Israel-Lebanese Frontier Chief of Staff Mofaz Asks Chief Army Chaplain for Final Ruling Families Refuse to Accept Fresh Data as Definitive German FM Fischer Acted as Go-Between in Recent Visits to Beirut and Tehran Russia to Make up Missing US-UK Ground Strength in Afghanistan Afghan Opposition Leader Haq Was Trapped and Executed by Bin Laden Unit - According to 's Special Sources British PM Blair to Visit Israel Thursday - His Second Mid East Stop After Saudi Arabia Israel Completes Troop Withdrawal from Bethlehem and Beit Jala Sunday Night After Two Terrorist Attacks in Hadera and Kibbutz Metzer Junction Five Victims Laid to Rest Monday Two of 60 Injured Still in Critical Condition The Killers Were Palestinian Policemen Ordered by Palestinian Intelligence Chief Tawfiq Tirawi under Arafat's Direction US Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Does Not Rule out Strike Against Iraq Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Abdul Haq executed by /bin/laden's men IP: *.*.*.* 30.10.01, 13:20 Abdul Haq Fell into Trap Laid by Bin Laden A Special Report 29 October: According to intelligence sources, one of Osama bin Laden's special elite units was responsible for the capture and death of the Afghan opposition leader and guerrilla hero Abdul Haq three days ago. The same unit, commanded by al Qaeda' s senior operations chief Muhamed Atif (aka Sobhi Abu Sitta), executed him in an Al Qaeda installation inside Kabul, on orders from bin Laden, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad chief Ayman Zuweiri and the Taliban leader Mullah Omar. The manner of Abdul Haq's capture and death - a grave blow to American plans for post-war Afghanistan - lays bare the weak links in the American operational and intelligence setup in Pakistan and Afghanistan alike. In fact, the trap was laid for him well in advance for the express purpose of exposing those weaknesses. intelligence sources reveal that in early October, soon after the US launched its Afghanistan offensive, tribal representatives from south Afghanistan approached Haq with a request to intercede with the Americans to save their territories from aerial bombing. They were also authorized to discuss raising an anti-Taliban tribal revolt; if adequate American financial and military support were forthcoming, they would consider an operation to wrest Kabul from the ruling clique. Haq passed the message on to the CIA station in Pakistan and Pakistani military intelligence, both of whom told him to go ahead. The story emerging now is that neither intelligence service checked the bona fides of those tribal representatives. Had they done so, they might have discovered them to be agents of bin Laden. Those agents tracked Haq's departure from his home in Peshawar in the middle of last week, his crossing into Afghanistan and the next lap of his journey to the Afghan villages east of Jalalabad where he expected to rendezvous with the men he believed to be tribal agents bent on revolt. He never reached his destination. Taliban soldiers blocking his path forced him to make a detour to Azar, a town 30 km from the Pakistan frontier. There he stopped for two days, giving the al Qaeda unit, under Muhammad Atif's command time to catch up with him. Haq soon realized he was pinned down. Using his satellite phone, he sent distress calls to his people in Peshawar, his American contracts and the Pakistanis. They were picked up by those recipients, but also by Bin Laden's men, enabling them to pinpoint his exact location. Midnight Thursday, October 25, Haq and his two companions fled Azar on horseback. Driven into a deep gorge, they rode straight into the arms of their pursuers. Bundled into a waiting Taliban military vehicle, the three captives were driven to a central al Qaeda command base in Kabul. This was done deliberately to demonstrate to the tribal chiefs in Afghanistan and Pakistan that, notwithstanding three weeks of intense American air raids, Taliban and al Qaeda military convoys were free to come and go in the Afghan capital. It was also a gesture of defiance to show, in the wake of the American announcement that all al Qaeda bases in Kabul had been destroyed, that bin Laden's main command base in north Kabul was standing and functioning. That facility was accordingly chosen for the execution of Abdul Haq and his companions. Monday, October 29, the Americans announced they were setting up a forward base for 1000 Special Forces troops in territory held by the opposition Northern Alliance in the north of the country. The base will be located in the same frontier area that Haq covered last week on his last journey. Intelligence observers report the area as being under al Qaeda intelligence control - not that of the Northern Alliance. The new base will therefore avail the United States campaign little in either operational or intelligence benefits. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Timmy! (McVeigh) - Iraq Connection IP: *.*.*.* 30.10.01, 14:01 Iraq Connections to U.S. Extremists By Kelly Patricia O�Meara komeara@InsightMag.com In the global war on terror, law-enforcement officials may need to look in our own backyard for clues about who sent anthrax to Capitol Hill and TV anchormen. Who�s behind the deadly anthrax letters? That is the hot-button question of the moment. While federal law-enforcement officials have come up short in connecting the postal poison to Osama bin Laden, Iraq or any other individual terrorist or state sponsor of terrorism, experts well-versed in terrorism wonder why more attention hasn�t been focused on a connection much closer to home. For example, considerable evidence that may prove helpful in the ongoing investigation has been made public in other recent terrorism cases. Nowhere is this more evident than in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and the relationship of convicted bombing conspirator Terry Nichols to elements of Iraqi intelligence. During the trial of Timothy McVeigh, the convicted mastermind behind the Oklahoma City bombing, information surfaced concerning Nichols� frequent visits to the Philippines; McVeigh attorney Stephen Jones later wrote about this extensively in his book Others Unknown: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy. According to Jones� investigation, Nichols made numerous trips to the Philippines beginning in 1990, many lasting more than a month. Nichols reportedly attended a meeting in the early 1990s on the predominantly Muslim island of Mindanao, a hotbed of fundamentalist activities, at which Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad and Wali Khan Amin Shah were present. The themes of the meeting were �bombing activities, providing firearms and ammunition, training in making and handling bombs.� Yousef was the mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing in 1993; Murad and Shah were convicted in a 1996 conspiracy to blow up 12 U.S. jetliners. Laurie Mylroie, a Harvard-trained Ph.D. who is an expert on Iraqi terrorism and author of Study of Revenge: The First World Trade Center Attack and Saddam Hussein�s War Against America, was a consultant to Jones during the Oklahoma City investigation. She tells Insight �the connection of Terry Nichols, the Philippines and Ramzi Yousef is a very important point that neither the FBI nor the press pursued.� Mylroie adds, �I doubt that Nichols has ever been asked about his connections to Yousef because the government didn�t want to know. It wanted to say, �Here are the perpetrators; we arrested them and we brought them to justice. Case closed.�� Mylroie continues: �The fact is, Ramzi Yousef was in the Philippines at the same time as Nichols and visited the same city out of which the Oklahoma City bombing was planned. I doubt that connection ever was pursued. Only the people in charge of the investigation can explain their motives in failing to focus public attention on this, but I can guess. Remember that before the bombing [President Bill] Clinton was in deep political trouble but, by dealing with it in the fashion he did, his kite rose and he was able to make it look like the FBI did a splendid, knockdown investigation. It was kind of like, �Okay, Tim McVeigh is the mastermind; Terry Nichols assisted him; don�t ask any more questions.� That settled, with Clinton�s tremendous capacity to feel everyone�s pain, he improved his own position.� But suppose the investigation had been done another way, says the terrorist expert, �such as saying, �Terry Nichols has all these suspicious contacts in the Philippines, and we�re gonna pursue them because it may be there�s been a foreign bombing on American soil.� More important is that there were other Americans involved in the McVeigh/Nichols bombing, and they could be involved today in other terrorist activities. But the FBI just isn�t going to recognize it. The kind of irresponsibility that I and others believe the Clinton administration committed is so mind-boggling that many well-meaning people just can�t believe it, even though there is significant evidence � a standard of probable cause. They find it hard to accept because it would follow that the White House and the FBI were corrupt.� A recent Fox News program appeared to support Mylroie�s contention of an FBI cover-up. Paul Bedard of U.S. News and World Report announced on the Fox and Friends show that �top defense officials say that in all the evidence used against Timothy McVeigh to execute him in the Oklahoma City bombing, that he had Iraqi telephone numbers on his person. He had information about Iraq which has led some officials to think that he was an Iraqi agent and maybe was doing Saddam Hussein�s business in Oklahoma City.� Bedard further claimed that �the FBI says this is crazy, there is no evidence. DOD [Department of Defense] comes back and says, �That�s because you didn�t tell us it was a cover-up.� The theory is that he [McVeigh] got those numbers from some militia groups out west which he was associating with. This led the FBI to tell the guys at the Pentagon, �Go fight your war.�� Bedard�s �news� is news to those who conducted the investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing. This startling information never was brought forward at any time during the investigation or trial. At no point in the last six years nor the $50 million investigation did such evidence ever surface or did anyone connect McVeigh to an Iraqi agent, let alone turn up �Iraqi telephone numbers� on his person or in his effects. Jones tells Insight that �we spent considerable time and money investigating the connection between Nichols and the Philippines and Iraq, but I certainly don�t know anything about McVeigh and Iraqi telephone numbers.� While Nichols� ties to the Iraqis are well-documented in numerous books and independent investigations, such as the recent report of Oklahoma state Rep. Charles Keys, he also had ties to other militant groups. For instance, he attended meetings in Michigan of the Posse Comitatus, a militant, right-wing organization founded by Col. William Potter Gale and headed by James Wickstrom. Members of Posse Comitatus, according to legal documents released prior to McVeigh�s trial, have for years been in contact with Iraq and other rogue Arab nations that share a hatred of Israel. This fits with the Oklahoma City defense team�s conclusions concerning Dennis Mahon, long suspected of being a player in the conspiracy to bomb the Murrah building. Mahon is described in Jones� book as �a virulent racist and avowed enemy of the U.S. government� and is a high-ranking member of the White Aryan Resistance (WAR) movement. The defense team reports that its investigation shows �the Iraqi government has given Dennis Mahon thousands of dollars over the past six years, and Mahon has been banned from entering Canada and the United Kingdom and is classified by Interpol as an international terrorist.� The FBI did not bother to interview Mahon in connection to the Oklahoma City bombing. Beyond Nichols and Mahon, there are others with connections to domestic militant groups sympathetic to Islamic fundamentalists. These include Larry Wayne Harris, a licensed clinical and public-health microbiologist who was arrested in Las Vegas in February 1998 for conspiring to �possess biological agents and toxin, to wit: anthrax and anthrax precursors for use as a weapon.� At the time of Harris� arrest he was on probation for a 1995 conviction for fraudulently obtaining bubonic-plague toxins. According to Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Headlines - !!! IP: *.budimex.com.pl 31.10.01, 00:43 First Palestinian Shooting Attack on Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus Road Tuesday Night One Car Hit, Driver Unhurt Gunman Escapes to Issawiyeh Village Americans Warned Fresh Terror Attack Imminent – Most Likely by Bin Laden Network First Inhalation Anthrax Case Confirmed in New York City Terror Alert Still in Force in Central Israel for Terrorist Bomber Making for Israeli Town Police, Border Police, Army, Shin Beit Units with Helicopter Cover Seal Hadera, Zichron Yaacov, Binyamina, Arab Triangle, Wadi Ara, Baq’a al Garbiyeh, Afula Arafat’s Fatah Claims Assassination Attempt Against Israeli Naval Colonel at His Raananah Home Monday Cell Phone-Bomb Attached to Fire Extinguisher Was Dismantled Before Exploding Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Euro Taxpayers Funds Arafat’s Payroll for Terror IP: *.budimex.com.pl 31.10.01, 00:46 How European Taxpayer Funds Arafat’s Payroll for Terror - 31 October: On October 30, four days before an economic conference on the Middle East is due to open at Palma de Majorca, Germany announced it was transferring to the Palestinian Authority the sum of 250 million Deutschmarks. It may therefore be of interest, particularly before British prime minister Tony Blair calls on Arafat on Thursday, to find out how the Middle East economy looks from the perspective of the Palestinian West Bank hub town of Ramallah, in the light of new discoveries revealed by high-placed intelligence sources. On October 22, when Israeli forces burst into the Ramallah headquarters of Yasser Arafat’s presidential guard known as Force 17, they found an extraordinary set of documents containing proof that the Palestinian leader was paying the entire body of Tanzim-Fatah terrorists out of his own “presidential” budget. The figures were there in black and white. Every one of the 10,000 Tanzim activists was taking home 875 New Israeli Shekels – and had been ever since the Palestinian leader launched his armed confrontation against Israel last September. The Ramallah raid was carried out as part of a comprehensive punitive operation for the assassination of Israel’s tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi on October 17. The captured documents included Arafat’s signed directive, issued three weeks before the outbreak of the intifada, to pay $22,000 each into the personal account of each of the leading Fatah terror masters for defray the costs of creating the terror spearhead body named the Tanzim. A corps of Palestinians was to be recruited who were prepared to engage in bombing, shooting, lynching and any other form of terror against Israel that was ordered by their masters. The recipients of these funds were the Tanzim commander Marwan Barghouti, Kemal Hamad, Ahmed Abayat (whom Israeli forces killed this month), Issam Abu Bakr and other Arafat trusties. The documents showed exactly how Arafat’s office transfers the Tanzim payroll to the Ramallah offices of Force 17, whose paymasters distribute the wage packets. intelligence sources further report that Arafat fills those wage packets that keep his terror machine ticking over from the subsidies awarded the Palestinian Authority by European Union member governments, including Germany, Belgium, France, UK and Italy. A simple reckoning shows that, since Arafat declared war on Israel 14 months ago, the European taxpayer has been contributing - unknowingly but regularly - around INS 8,750,000 (roughly US$219,000) per month to keep the Palestinian terrorist Tanzim militia afloat - a total of INS 122,500,000 (about US$31million) since September 2000. International terror experts estimate Osama bin Laden’s war chest for his terror campaign worldwide as running to some $300m.The Ramallah Force 17 documents, showing only a small portion of Arafat’s outlay on his terror offensive against Israel alone, demonstrate that the Palestinian is spending funds on a scale not far short of the Saudi-born terrorist Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele cell phone user's location tracked&recorded in G.B IP: *.budimex.com.pl 31.10.01, 00:49 Liberties fear over mobile phone details Records which map out users' whereabouts held indefinitely Stuart Millar and Paul Kelso Saturday October 27, 2001 The Guardian One of the fastest growing mobile phone providers is indefinitely storing information that allows its customers' movements over the last two years to be mapped to within a few hundred metres. As the government rushes through emergency anti-terror legislation that would require vast amounts of electronic communications data to be retained in the name of national security, the Guardian has established that Virgin Mobile has been storing the location records of its 1m customers since the network launched in November 1999. Last night, the privacy watchdog, the information commissioner, told the Guardian that it would be investigating the practice to establish whether it contravenes regulations governing retention of communications data. When calls are made or received on a mobile phone, the call is automatically logged at the nearest base station through a "locator code", allowing the networks to track the geographical usage pat terns of their customers. In urban areas where there is a high density of base stations, the information is currently accurate to within a few hundred metres. When the new breed of 3G - third generation - phones comes on stream, probably next year, they will enable the users' location to be pinpointed to within a couple of metres. Current regulations do not specifically cover location data, dealing only with the broad areas of traffic and billing data. Data protection legislation, however, requires companies to ensure that personal information about individuals is processed for limited purposes and is not kept for longer than is necessary. Virgin Mobile is co-owned by Sir Richard Branson and One2One, which provides the network infrastructure. A spokeswoman told the Guardian: "As we are a virtual network, the phone locator codes of Virgin Mobile customers are stored for us by One2One. These codes have been stored since launch - ie almost two years - and there are no plans to destroy this data for the foreseeable future." She said they were required to keep the information for billing purposes for up to six years under financial regulations. But Vodafone, Britain's biggest network, by contrast, retains the data for only a year for billing purposes, to prevent fraud or help police investigations. BT Cellnet failed to respond to requests for information about their policies. Orange refused to say what data they retained but said their policy was in accordance with regulatory requirements. The Virgin revelation has appalled civil liberties campaigners. Caspar Bowden, director of the independent think-tank, the Foundation for Information Policy Research, said there was a serious danger that the information could be misused. "Sensitive data revealing where you are, and who you talk to could be pulled into a central databases for public demonstrations, health and safety, tax, or minor crime," he said. "Collecting the streams of thought of the population and processing them by computer is a good definition of a police state." Campaigners were already concerned about the human rights implications of the home secretary, David Blunkett's emergency anti-terror bill. It includes "measures to enable communication service providers to retain data generated in the course of their business, namely the records of calls made and other data", although not the content. Home Office and communications industry officials met on Wednesday to discuss a voluntary code of practice under which companies would be required to retain data for an extended period "in the interests of protecting national security". A Home Office spokeswoman said that electronic communication data had been crucial to the investigation into the September 11 attacks, and that the industry had co-operated with British police and FBI requests for information. "What we're seeking to do is work with the industry to extend the period over which information is retained." Acccess to that information is governed by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which allows law enforcement agencies to access the companies' records. But critics say the measures will only be effective in tracking the movements and communications traffic of law-abiding citizens because they will be easily circumvented by terrorists or serious criminals. "Professional terrorists know how to cover their tracks, for example they use pre-paid mobile phones once and throw them away," said Mr Bowden. "Reports of the September 11 hijackers indicate they used web-based email from public terminals. It is not persuasive to argue for privacy to be sacrificed in the name of fighting terrorism if the measures would not be effective." Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele A history of CIA's complicity in domestic terror IP: *.budimex.com.pl 31.10.01, 00:54 The Man Behind the Curtain By William Rivers Pitt "Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth." Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Headlines IP: *.*.*.* 31.10.01, 18:28 Series of Israeli Military Counter-Terror Operations in Palestinian West Bank Areas Wednesday: In Pre-Dawn Raid, A Special Forces Unit with Tanks Rounded up Jihad Islami Activists Heading for Suicide Strike in Israel Three Palestinians Wounded in Battle Elsewhere, Israel Accused of Deaths of Two Wanted Hamas Terrorists: Senior Hamas Activist Jamil Jadallah Kawasmeh Was Blown up in His Hebron Home. He Lived Under Palestinian Police Protection Though Wanted for Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Pizzeria Bombings and Previous Murders Hamas Leader Abdullah Jarushi Shot Dead by Israeli Troops in Tulkarm, Which Was Placed under Curfew Wednesday Morning Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Hardcore shit in Israel - Debka headlines IP: *.*.*.* 31.10.01, 18:46 31 October:Before dark Wednesday, an Israeli patrol shot dead two armed Palestinians caught red-handed sniping at traffic on a West Bank highway near Humash. The two gunmen were members of the Palestinian police force, but also of the Fatah-Tanzim militia. Their deaths brought to nine the number of terrorists killed or detained in a day of intense Israeli counter-terror operations on the West Bank. The first operation by a Special Forces unit, backed up by tanks and helicopters, targeted Jihad Islami militants in Araba, a large village in the Jenin sector. This was the group that claimed responsibility for Sunday?s attack in Hadera, in which four women were shot dead at a bus stop. Fire was exchanged, wounding two Israeli troops and two Palestinians. After detaining Mujhad Abu Jalbush, who had been assigned a suicide mission, his controller, Nabil Moughir and three others, the Israeli force pulled out of the village. Later, senior Hamas activist Jamil Jadallah Kawasmeh was struck by an Israeli helicopter-borne missile in Hebron, where he lived under Palestinian Police protection, although he was high on Israel?s wanted list for a long string of mass and single murders. They included active complicity in the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Pizzeria bombings. A second senior Hamas militant, Abdullah Jarushi, was shot dead by Israeli troops in Tulkarm, after the town was placed under curfew Wednesday morning. For two days, many thousands of Israeli vehicles in the most densely populated part of Israel have been tied up in miles of traffic jams caused by a massive police- army- border guard operation, in response to a high terror alert. The irritating holdups will continue Thursday too as the danger has not passed. Security attention will focus along the Rosh-Ha?Ayin-Bat Hefer Highway 444, which runs parallel to the West Bank border past the Palestinian towns of Qalqilya and Tulkarem. District police report Palestinian mass bombers had been assigned to striking in an Israeli town in the region ? Netanya, Hadera or Kfar Saba, all of which have been repeatedly targeted by terrorists. The massive blockading of the key highway foiled the attack ? but only for the time being. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Kugiel Re: Independent Press Service IP: *.proxy.aol.com 31.10.01, 23:50 Some interesting stuff on Debka but what's your take on this www.jonathanpollard.org/2001/040301.htm Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Re: Debka IP: *.budimex.com.pl 01.11.01, 00:25 I don't have much to say about them, IMO they have so far proved to be an interesting source. Of course, everyone has their bias, that is unavoidable, but if you imagine the truth to be something tangent to the curve on which the mainstream press, Debka and rotten lie, then you can only benefit from having a fuller picture. Frankly - if their headlines and news articles pass the test of real life - I don't care what the Pollard site says about them, or, for that matter anyone else. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
yidele Information Lockdown - freedom of information? 01.11.01, 11:39 Information Lockdown by Bruce Shapiro Viewers of the old spy spoof Get Smart will remember the Cone of Silence--that giant plastic hair-salon dryer that descended over Maxwell Smart and Control when they held a sensitive conversation. Today, a Cone of Silence has descended over all of Washington: From four-star generals to lowly webmasters, the town is in information lockdown. Never in the nation's history has the flow of information from government to press and public been shut off so comprehensively and quickly as in the weeks following September 11. Much of the shutdown seems to have little to do with preventing future terrorism and everything to do with the Administration's laying down a new across-the-board standard for centralized control of the public's right to know. The most alarming evidence of the new climate emanates from the Justice Department. Investigators still hold in custody 150 of the 800 people rounded up in the aftermath of the attacks. (One detainee died in custody in New Jersey.) No charges have been filed, no hearings convened. The names of nearly all those still held remain classified, as do the reasons for their incarceration. Lawyers for some of the hundreds cleared and released have told reporters of questionable treatment of their clients--food withheld, attorneys blocked from access. Of the 150 who remain detained, only four presumed Al Qaeda suspects have been publicly named. FBI agents frustrated at the lack of progress in their interrogations of those four now mutter in the Washington Post about using sodium pentothal, or turning the suspects over to a country where beatings or other torture is used. The government's stranglehold on information about other arrests makes it impossible to know just how far agents have already gone down that road, or whether the dragnet was mainly a public- relations exercise. Just as damaging as these detentions is an October 12 memo from Attorney General John Ashcroft reversing longstanding Freedom of Information Act policies. In 1993 then-Attorney General Janet Reno directed agencies to disclose any government information upon request unless it was "reasonably foreseeable that disclosure would be harmful." Ashcroft reverses this presumption, instead calling on agencies to withhold information whenever the law permits: "You can be assured that the Department of Justice will defend your decisions," he writes. Ashcroft is in effect creating a "born secret" standard; in the words of the Federation of American Scientists, the order "appears to exploit the current circumstances" to turn FOIA into an Official Secrets Act. One after another, federal agencies are removing public data from their websites or restricting access to their public reading rooms. Caution is understandable, but OMB Watch and Investigative Reporters and Editors have both documented egregious examples that seem at best tangentially related to terrorism and more likely designed as butt-coverage for mid-level bureaucrats. The Energy Department has removed information from its web-posted Occurrence Reporting Program, which provides news of events that could adversely affect public health or worker safety. The EPA removed information from its site about the dangers of chemical accidents and how to prevent them, information the FBI says carries no threat of terrorism. More relevant than Al Qaeda, it appears, was hard lobbying by the chemical industry, which found the site an annoyance. The FAA pulled the plug on long-available lists of its security sanctions against airports around the country--depriving reporters of their only tool for evaluating the agency's considerable failures to enforce its own public safety findings. At the Pentagon, news has been reduced to a trickle far more constricted than anything during Kosovo, which in turn was more restrictive than during the Gulf War. So comprehensive is the shutdown that on October 13, presidents of twenty major journalists' organizations declared in a joint statement that "these restrictions pose dangers to American democracy and prevent American citizens from obtaining the information they need." In the short run, the Cone of Silence did most damage at the Centers for Disease Control. Could the two (at this writing) Washington, DC, postal workers who died of inhalation anthrax have been protected by earlier treatment? Did any of the CDC's doctors or scientists recommend a course of antibiotics for postal workers along the trajectory of anthrax-laden letters? Who knows? With the CDC's staff muzzled, the public and postal workers alike were left with politicians as the conduits for contradictory and inadequate information about the risk. The uncertain dimensions of the Al Qaeda threat make equally uncertain which information the government publishes might contribute to another attack and what to do about it. But it should be noted that the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks apparently involved data no more confidential than an airline schedule. The Administration's response has been to treat all information and press access as suspect--an approach that will subvert public confidence and undercut legitimate media scrutiny more than it will damage Al Qaeda. During Vietnam, the famous credibility gap resided at the Pentagon, with briefings and Congressional testimony at odds with battlefield evidence. Just weeks into this war, the Bush Administration is risking a new credibility gap roughly the size of the District of Columbia. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
yidele FBI searches for six men with nuke,pipeline info 01.11.01, 11:43 FBI searches for six men who had nuclear, pipeline information By Martin Merzer, Lenny Savino and Sumana Chatterjee Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - As the nation again stands on high alert, the FBI is searching for six men stopped by police in the Midwest last weekend but released - even though they possessed photographs and descriptions of a nuclear power plant in Florida and the Trans-Alaska pipeline, a senior law enforcement official said Tuesday. The Federal Aviation Administration imposed new flight restrictions around nuclear plants nationwide Tuesday, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission advised the nation's 103 nuclear plants late Monday to fortify security. The FAA temporarily banned all flights near New York's Yankee Stadium, where President Bush stood before a huge crowd at a World Series game Tuesday night and - wearing a New York City Fire Department jacket - tossed the ceremonial first pitch. "It helps to keep the fabric of our country strong," said spokesman Ari Fleischer. Meanwhile, an administration official said the urgent terrorism alert sounded Monday evening by Attorney General John Ashcroft was based largely on a message transmitted Sunday night by an Osama bin Laden supporter in Canada to Afghanistan. That message referred to a major event that was going to take place "down south" this week, the official said. Knight Ridder reported Monday that American officials feared that members of bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network had been unleashed to launch attacks without specific permission from their superiors. On Tuesday, agency spokesmen said the FAA's flight restrictions and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's security recommendations were based on Ashcroft's general alert rather than a specific threat. Ashcroft warned that Americans at home or abroad could be struck by another terrorist attack this week. The incident in the Midwest apparently contributed to the new terror warning. The six men stopped by police were traveling in groups of three in two white sedans, said the senior law enforcement official, who requested anonymity. In addition to the photographs and other suspicious material, they carried "box cutters and other equipment," the official said. They appeared to be from the Middle East and held Israeli passports. They were let go after the Immigration and Naturalization Service determined the passports were valid and that the men had entered the United States legally, the official said. A spokesman for the INS called the report unfounded. "We have absolutely no information at this point in time to substantiate that story," said INS spokesman Russ Bergeron. It could not be learned in what state the six men were stopped or how they aroused suspicion. It was not known if their true identities matched those on the passports, or why the FBI was not releasing their names or descriptions. Investigators think the men almost certainly have changed cars by now and have fled to Canada or elsewhere. Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller were "furious" that the INS allowed the men to be released without holding them at least until the FBI could be consulted, the official said. Ashcroft and Mueller appeared Monday evening at a hastily called news conference to announce that the government had "credible" but vague information that another wave of terrorist attacks could strike Americans within a week. Shortly after the announcement, Vice President Dick Cheney moved once again to an undisclosed, secure location and remained there Tuesday. There are three nuclear power facilities in Florida: Florida Power & Light Co.'s Turkey Point facility, south of Miami, and St. Lucie facility, near Fort Pierce, and Florida Power Corp.'s Crystal River plant, about 85 miles north of St. Petersburg. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a new threat advisory Monday night to all nuclear power plants, other electrical plants, a dozen decommissioned reactors and three nuclear fuel-manufacturing facilities, said spokesman Victor Dricks. The action was in response to the FBI's general warning, he said, and the commission was "not aware of any specific threats" against any power plant. The advisory suggested the plants fortify perimeter security and, if necessary, call in help from local or state law officers or the local National Guard. At least one Florida plant was doing that Tuesday. At Crystal River, workers installed concrete road barricades at strategic spots inside the sprawling site, which includes one nuclear reactor and four fossil-fuel plants. Citrus County sheriff's deputies were summoned to supplement the plant's full-time security force, said Florida Power spokesman Mac Harris. Florida Power & Light, which runs the two other nuclear plants in Florida, has adopted a corporate policy not to discuss security measures or threats in detail. Spokeswoman Rachel Scott said FPL's plants remained at the highest level of alert. "We are in very close communication with all levels of law enforcement, including the FBI, to ensure we have the security measures in place to protect the plants," she said. Also Tuesday, the FAA restricted all flights below 18,000 feet and within 10 miles of 86 "sensitive nuclear sites" until Nov. 6, the agency said. Exceptions can be made for law enforcement, medical and firefighting flights. The 800-mile-long Trans-Alaska Pipeline, which delivers 17 percent of the nation's domestic oil production, runs from Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean to Valdez on the Pacific. Tim Wolston, a spokesman for Alayeska, the company that runs the pipeline, said it had not received any information about the Midwest incident but it has enhanced security in recent weeks. Still, the incident apparently contributed to the many pieces of information that triggered the FBI's general alert. A senior administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the agency's warning was based on messages from known or suspected operatives of bin Laden in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Jakarta, Indonesia, Afghanistan and elsewhere during the last week, coupled with a new message Sunday that suggested an attack within the next week. However, the official said the sudden flood of messages could be "deliberate deception of the kind we saw before September 11," when bin Laden associates sent a flurry of messages suggesting a forthcoming attack on U.S. interests in Europe or the Middle East. Those messages held no hint of the U.S. hijackings to come. Bin Laden is suspected of orchestrating the attacks on the four jetliners, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that killed nearly 5,000 people. On Capitol Hill, some senators criticized the White House warning as alarmist. "We all know that there could be another terrorist threat, and we know it could be imminent," Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J. Others said the president was doing the best he could under the circumstances. "I give him the benefit of the doubt," said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge defended the administration's decision to issue the alert, and said it was unavoidably imprecise. "If we had specific information about the type of weapon or a specific location, this would have certainly been shared with the local or state officials," Ridge said. "Unfortunately, we view the information as credible, but not specific." He said it was a "convergence of credible sources that occasioned the alert. More than the usual, is all I can tell you." In a related development, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta conceded that many problems remain with airport security procedures. Last week, security screeners in New Orleans failed to challenge a passenger who carried a handg Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
yidele FBI searches for six men with nuke,pipeline info2 01.11.01, 11:45 Last week, security screeners in New Orleans failed to challenge a passenger who carried a handgun in his carry-on baggage. Mineta said special agents from the FAA and other agencies would inspect screening procedures, and he warned that more flights and passengers might be delayed during the process. Ridge urged Americans to find new reservoirs of patience and to remain alert, but also to find a way to proceed with life as normally as possible. He noted that Bush was keeping his commitment to attend the World Series game. "America has to continue to be America," Ridge said. "What terrorists try to do is instill such uncertainty, such fear, such hesitation, that you don't do things that you normally do. And all we're saying with a general alert is to continue to live your lives, continue to be America, but be aware, be alert, be on guard." - Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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yidele free, white and full of hate - Aryan Nations 01.11.01, 12:07 They're free, white and full of hate Pa. bigot quickly climbs Aryan Nations ladder, plans to bring it home By DANA DiFILIPPO difilid@phillynews.com COUDERSPORT, Pa. - At first glance, August Kreis looks like a cop, with his crisply ironed, black, military-style suit, soldiers' boots and authoritarian air. But the silver ring on his right hand suggests something more. Bearing a skull and crossbones with ruby eyes, the ring - a gift from his wife - belonged to an SS officer in Nazi Germany. It's fitting adornment for the man tapped this month to be the official mouthpiece of the Aryan Nations, an international, white supremacist, anti- Semitic group. The 46-year-old father of eight joined the Aryan Nations just last year. But already he's second-in-charge and prepared to oversee the group's move from Idaho to his 10-acre plot of scrubland in north-central Pennsylvania's rural Potter County. Experts are baffled as to how he earned his influence. "Kreis has been singularly unsuccessful in building up the movement in any way," said Mark Potok, spokesman for the Southern Poverty Law Center, a Montgomery, Ala.-based group that monitors hate groups. Despite Kreis' shortcomings, some experts and Potter County citizens worry that the group's shift to Pennsylvania could give Kreis, an unemployed carpenter, the resources and power to transform his message of hate into dangerous action. They also fear that the move's timing - in the wake of backlash against racial and religious minorities since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks - will mean more momentum for Kreis and his army of intolerance. Although the Aryan Nations' power has waned in recent years, its members were once among the most violent of radical racists and have been linked to several hate murders and countless attacks. The promotion of Harold Ray Redfeairn - a convicted felon who shot an Ohio police officer in the 1970s - as the group's national director has some civil- rights advocates fearing their resurgence. "I don't rule out violence, because I deem it warranted if it's an act of self- defense," said Redfeairn, 49, of Dayton, Ohio. "We have the right to free speech, and we will defend ourselves to the fullest extent necessary." Kreis agreed: "We might be pressed into fighting." August Kreis is a man of contradictions. Despite his ominous costume, he looks like a cop who's eaten too many doughnuts. He's an anti-government, anti-tax militia member whose children attend public school and who lives off Social Security. He applauds the terrorists who toppled the World Trade Center for their willingness to die for their convictions and their attack on "Jew York City," and yet he himself treads carefully in spreading his message of hate, seeking to avoid a criminal record. "May the WAR be started," Kreis wrote on the Internet even before the twin towers collapsed. "DEATH to His enemies, may the World Trade Center BURN TO THE GROUND!" But the self-taught computer whiz was savvy enough on the Internet to attract the attention of Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler, who recruited Kreis to run the group's Web site and who this month appointed him "director of information and propaganda." Kreis, who was born and raised in Newark, N.J., said he began to resent minorities when his neighborhood "went black." Racial fights at school were common. He dropped out of Irvington High School in the 11th grade to join the Navy. After his military service, he returned to Newark and worked as a building manager for a Jewish developer. He was fired in 1981 after he held Ku Klux Klan meetings in a predominantly Jewish apartment complex. That was the start of an ideological shift, in which he came to see Jews as "Satan's spawn" and racial minorities, or "mud people," as their minions. "By any means necessary, I want every last Jew exterminated," said Kreis, whose Web site bears the logo: "Fighting Jewish Takeover for 25 Years." He was active in many racist and anti-Semitic groups and militias, most recently the Sheriff's Posse Comitatus, before joining the Aryan Nations last year. He left New Jersey, which he now sees as a "multicultural cesspool," and relocated to the Allentown area, where he spewed his racist message primarily on the Internet. In 1993, he fled unpaid debts and settled in Potter County, about 270 miles from Philadelphia. Adjoining the New York border, Potter County is a place of pickup trucks and gun-toting hunters in fluorescent orange. It's a place where American flags fly from most homes and telephone poles, where you can get a grilled cheese sandwich and fries for $1.50, and where the cars go barely faster than the Amish buggies as drivers of both goggle at the flaming, changing leaves. The county's beauty and remoteness attracted Kreis. But his biggest draw? Its population. Ninety-eight percent of its 18,000 residents is white, and Coudersport - the biggest town, with 2,650 residents, closest to Kreis' homebase in Ulysses Township - is 97 percent white, according to 2000 census data. In Potter County, Kreis has been most active on the Internet, running Web sites for both the Aryan Nations and the Sheriff's Posse Comitatus, a militia group. He's held organizational meetings at the 10-acre property he rents in Ulysses, but few big gatherings. "I haven't noticed that he's been too active, and I've never seen him or met him," said Don Low, 60, a lifelong Potter Countian who lives in Shinglehouse, Pa. "I don't think people here are all that worried about him." But others foresee trouble. "Most people regard him as a nut and treat him as such," said Joe Wolf, pastor of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in Potter County and a leading voice against the Aryans. "But what's concerning now is that although August Kreis has always been a threat, now it seems like he's going to have some resources and will be bringing in much nastier racists." Kreis' only sizable party in Potter County was in 1993, when about 700 followers converged on his compound for a racist rock concert. Several attendees nearly killed a bicyclist when they opened their car door as they sped past him on their way to the concert. They were later convicted. The county's growing diversity also could prove combustible for the arriving racists, Wolf said. Adelphia, a cable TV company headquartered in Coudersport with 5.5 million customers nationwide, is one of the region's biggest employers and has attracted dozens of minority workers to Potter County in recent years. Particularly disturbing is the promotion of Redfeairn, formerly Ohio's state leader of the Aryan Nations, as the national director and his plans to join Kreis in Potter County, Wolf and other observers say. "When you have a violent group led by an individual with a violent past, that's a bad combination," said Ted Almay, superintendent of the Ohio Bureau of Identification and Investigation. In 1979, Redfeairn shot a Dayton, Ohio, cop three times. As the critically injured officer lay bleeding, Redfeairn climbed atop him, pointed the gun at his head and growled: "You think you're so bad now, cop?" After his arrest, he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. In trial testimony, psychologists said he was a paranoid schizophrenic and had religious delusions since childhood. But he was found competent for trial, was convicted and served six years in prison. Most recently, he was nabbed at an Ohio McDonald's plotting, police said, with a supporter to overthrow the federal government. He wasn't charged in that case and denies any overthrow plot. Redfeairn and Kreis plan to build a "churchgrounds" in Ulysses where they will hold the group's annual Congress and Youth Congress. Although Butler - now the group's "spiritual leader" - has insisted the headquarters will remain in Idaho, Redfeair Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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