Independent Press Service

    • 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
    • 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.

    • 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!
    • 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
    • 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''.
    • 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

    • 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.
    • 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.


    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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
    • 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.
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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."

    • 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."
    • 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
    • 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.
    • 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
      • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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
    • 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."
      -
    • yidele US reserves - will they call up more than 50.000? 01.11.01, 11:56
      Reservists could exceed 50,000 in U.S. war against terrorism

      November 1, 2001, 5:18 AM EST

      WASHINGTON
      • 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
    • yidele Ground zero webcam link 01.11.01, 12:40
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