Independent Press Service

    • yidele WTC jokes - Dutch ( i think ) 01.11.01, 12:43
      www.angelfire.com/art2/wtcjokes/
    • yidele Continuing an attack on your freedom.... 01.11.01, 19:13
      Watch out for jackboots
      By Al Martin
      October 30, 2001

      Before his speech, on September 20, 2001, George Bush Jr. kissed Supreme Court
      Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. The reason he kissed her? She was the deciding
      vote in the Florida ballot issue, which formally brought Bush Jr. into the
      White House.

      Later during the speech, Bush announced the creation of a Cabinet level
      position called "Office of Homeland Security."

      The Office of Homeland Security will be initially run by former Pennsylvania
      Governor Tom Ridge. It should be noted that Ridge himself got in trouble a few
      years ago for praising the efficiency of the Third Reich's civilian
      administration.

      Ridge also spoke highly of Mussolini's ability to keep the Italian trains
      running on time. Now Ridge will be the guy running the Office of Homeland
      Security. The Bush administration is playing it smart. It's being cautious by
      whipping up public support first. Later it will announce some of the more
      sinister activities of this agency.

      According to an inside source, the "Office of Homeland Security" will operate
      three divisions. One will be a plain-clothes division similar to the FBI, which
      will be called the State Security Division (SSD). Ironically SSD is the same
      acronym as the former East German Secret Police.

      The second division of the Office of Homeland Security will be a smaller
      uniformed division, which currently remains nameless. It will act as a de facto
      State Political Police.

      By the way, Ridge wants the uniforms of this State Security division to be
      modeled on existing state trooper uniforms–except done in black.

      If you've ever seen New Jersey or Pennsylvania State Police uniforms, they have
      dark blue pants and lighter blue uniform on top. They also have those old-
      fashioned pants that bag out like the old German or Gestapo pants. They'll have
      jet-black jackboots, and black uniforms with lots of gold insignias indicating
      the Power of the State. Of course, "State" here is used in the context of the
      American Nation State.

      The third division of the Office of Homeland Security will be called the Office
      of the United States Air Marshals (Air Marshal Services.) It will have to
      federalize the new air marshal service because security on aircraft is
      currently being provided by state police. The problem, of course, is that there
      will be jurisdictional issues.

      The actual name of this agency, Office of Homeland Security, is very
      reminiscent of 20th century era German/Fascist and Russian/Communist secret
      police agencies. In America, "Homeland" is a neuter word. In German, however,
      the word is translated as "Vaterland" (Fatherland), while in Russian, the word
      is "Rodina" (Motherland). In both cases, these words can be translated into the
      English neuter word—"homeland."

      There is no precedent for the use of this word "homeland" in the United States
      Government.

      This new agency will also operate "with extralegal authority." It will then be
      able to act under suspension of habeas corpus and under suspension of the right
      against self- incrimination, the Fifth Amendment privilege, and also the Fourth
      Amendment privilege.

      That power will be in its charter—it can act in an extra-legal authority, in
      certain cases, where the security of the "homeland" is "threatened."

      The Bush Administration is essentially laying the foundation for a whole new
      classification of law. That's why, in his speech, Bush purposely never used the
      words "national security." He did this deliberately so as not to confuse the
      two.

      With this new agency, the seeds are being sown for a new classification of law
      that will most likely be called "Homeland Security Law." Nobody knows what it
      will be called yet. But this is obviously what they're doing. Anyone, who knows
      the Bushes for what they are, can see that this will be the groundwork for a
      new, more powerful, more sinister agency, wherein all sorts of covert activity,
      illegal and not, will be extant.

      In order to take the concept of "illegal" covert activity away, they are laying
      the foundation for a whole new separate body of law that will be parallel to,
      but above, the National Security Acts.

      The Office of Homeland Security will be a separate agency, not under any other
      agency, not even under the Department of Justice. It will be the most senior
      agency in the Cabinet. It will probably fall somewhere between the Department
      of State and the Department of Defense, or somewhere between Treasury and
      Defense. In terms of authority, it will be called a "Super Agency," which
      implies it will not be under anyone.

      It will act as a coordinating agency, but will be above the FBI, CIA, NSA, and
      DIA. This will, of course, create a whole new set of turf war battles. But no
      agency head–in this post-WTC environment–will dare say anything against it
      because he'd lose his job.

      Ridge will most likely be a political figurehead. He was probably given this
      job as political payback for Bush. It hasn't been decided yet, but one of the
      names that has been mentioned (and I certainly hope it doesn't happen) is Barry
      McCaffrey. If they put that old Nazi in charge, watch out!

      Meanwhile back in the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, there was a large party
      of old generals visiting from the Department of Defense and everybody was
      laughing. They're all interested in seeing what corporations will be getting
      the new contracts.

      With that in mind, the Al Martin Raw website will remain vigilant to see who
      gets all the new contracts to create this new agency. These will be contracts
      not only for a whole new office building, but the furniture as well as
      contracts for electronic components, surveillance equipment, weapons, etc.
      Let's see which corporations get these contracts, how many shares the Bush
      family trust has in these corporations, and how much money the so-
      called "winning" bidders contribute to right-wing think tanks and institutes.

      The Office of Homeland Security will have its own helicopters. Even the FBI
      doesn't have its own helicopters, but has to borrow them from the GSA pool. The
      Department of Justice doesn't have any of its own helicopters either.

      The new Office of Homeland Security helicopters will be painted a matte black
      and have digitized red lettering that says State Security, dark tinted windows,
      and numerous aerials and dishes with a big searchlight on the front. Bell
      Helicopters is supposed to get the new contract to produce this new super-
      surveillance helicopter. Supposedly, they'll have the most sophisticated
      surveillance electronics ever made. This equipment will include gear that
      people don't even know has been invented yet.

      It can't happen here?

      Watch out for jackboots and swagger sticks . . .





    • Gość: Yidele Presidential records put under gag order IP: *.budimex.com.pl 02.11.01, 19:57
      Presidential records put under gag order

      By Bob Kemper
      Washington Bureau
      Published November 2, 2001


      WASHINGTON
    • Gość: Yidele Anthrax strain originated in US IP: *.budimex.com.pl 02.11.01, 20:00
      Friday November 2, 3:42 PM

      Anthrax strain originated in US: French researcher

      The anthrax attacks which have claimed four lives in the United States
      originated from a strain isolated by the US military and sold on to
      laboratories worldwide, a French researcher claimed.

      Professor Michele Mock, an anthrax specialist at the Pasteur Institute in
      Paris, said: "Everything points to the fact that we are looking at a unique
      strain, the Ames type, one of the most virulent of the various strains of
      anthrax bacillus existing in the world".

      In an interview published in the daily Aujourd'hui/Le Parisien, Mock said
      experts at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, had "reached
      this conclusion following genetic analysis on the strain found on the first
      victim, in Florida".

      She said the Ames bacillus, named after the town in Iowa where the strain was
      first isolated in cattle in 1950, was among the most dangerous anthrax types in
      existence.

      The strain was discovered in a US military laboratory in Ames, the spores were
      isolated and then sold on "to very numerous public and private laboratories
      which wanted to add it to their collections," said Mock.

      "As virulent as the Vollum strain, more dangerous than the Stern strain, Ames
      swiftly kills the organism which it invades, but does respond to classic
      antibiotics," she stressed.

      The French researcher said that the Pasteur Institute where she works had
      created a vaccine which works on mice contaminated with the anthrax strain.

      "Up to now we haven't had a lot of offers" from the biochemical
      industry, "because no one thought the disease was a threat to humans," she
      said, adding that it was now possible to begin toxicity tests on humans.

      Anthrax claimed its fourth victim Wednesday when a New York woman succumbed to
      the pulmonary version of the infection, while spores of the bacteria were found
      for the first time beyond the east coast at a postal facility in Kansas City,
      Missouri, in the US heartland.

      Missouri is the fifth state to be hit with anthrax, joining New York, New
      Jersey, Florida and the District of Columbia in the dubious distinction.

      US Federal law enforcement authorities have admitted they are no closer to
      finding the source of the anthrax that claimed its first fatality October 5,
      when a Florida photo editor succumbed to the inhaled strain of the diseased
      spores.
    • Gość: Yidele Powdered Donuts banned !! - will this horror stop? IP: *.budimex.com.pl 02.11.01, 20:02
      Livingston acts on scare Doughnut residue alarms county worker, spurs ban

      Saturday, October 27, 2001


      By STEPHENIE KOEHN
      NEWS STAFF REPORTER


      Powdered-sugar doughnuts will be banned from Livingston County government
      buildings as part of the county's response to bioterrorism.

      David Domas, chairman of the Livingston County Board of Commissioners, said the
      ban is no joke. He will send a memo to department heads next week requesting
      that the doughnuts and powdery substances such as sugar substitutes and coffee
      creamers be stricken from the menu at employees' coffee urns.

      He said he decided to seek the ban after a recent incident in which a county
      employee found a white powdery substance on the floor and called 911. The
      substance was determined to be powdered sugar from someone's morning doughnut,
      but the ban will become part of Livingston County's bioterrorism preparedness
      and response plan, which will be outlined for the public at 7 p.m. Monday in
      the Howell High School auditorium, Domas said. "The already established
      countywide plan is being refined to bring it current with the needs of this
      most recent emergency," Domas said, referring to the Sept. 11 attacks and
      anthrax infections that have sprung up since the incident.

      County officials have investigated several false alarms in that time, from
      chalk on a driveway to silica powder in a shoe box. But Livingston County
      Health Department Director Dr. Richard Thoune said they'd rather investigate
      numerous false alarms than miss one real incident because someone didn't call.

      Washtenaw County 911 also has experienced a flurry of calls, said spokeswoman
      Denise Wirtz. Emergency management officials there updated the county's
      Emergency Management Division Web site to include information on bioterrorism
      and emergency response, Wirtz said. The address is: www.co.washtenaw.mi.us.
      Choose "departments," and then "emergency management."
    • Gość: Yidele Headlines - !!! IP: *.budimex.com.pl 02.11.01, 20:50
      Anthrax Spreads to Europe
      ”Strongly Suspected” Envelope Turns up in East German
      Town of Rudolstadt
      Mail Came From Pakistan Where Anthrax Alert Is Declared
      After Spores Detected Twice in Karachi
      In US, Anthrax Contamination Spreads to Midwest
      On West Coast, Security Is Beefed up on Four California Bridges in San
      Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego
      Governor Warns of “Credible” Terrorist Threat Nov 2-7
      White House Denies Taliban Claim of 70-100 US Soldiers
      Killed in Afghan Fighting
      In Israel, Chief Army Chaplain Declares
      Three Abducted Israeli Soldiers Dead in Action
    • Gość: Yidele everything I never wanted to know about sex IP: *.budimex.com.pl 04.11.01, 05:58
      www.dartreview.com/issues/10.1.01/sex.html
    • yidele Life & time of Imad Mughniyeh - kidnap mastermind 04.11.01, 20:41
      Mughniyeh – Linked to Arafat
      4 November: On February 9, the Washington magazine US News & World Report ran a
      cover story captioned: Hostage to Terror, What the US Can Do The face on the
      cover was that of American Professor Robert Polhill, who was kidnapped January
      24 in Beirut, by a master of terror named in print for the first time in that
      article: Imad Mughniyeh.
      One particular paragraph of that spine-chilling expose sheds a harsh light on
      the fate of Mugniyeh’s victims:
      Intelligence sources have told U.S.News that some of the hostages (American and
      European), when first captured, are brought to a sound-proofed basement of a
      building in Dahya where they are blindfolded and chained to their beds. It is
      only after they have been held for some time that the blindfolds are removed
      and the hostages are allowed to stretch their legs. When they are transported
      to different locations, it is done secretly: Some have even been carried in
      trunks and cardboard boxes.
      Inevitably, most of the decisions regarding the hostages in Dahya are made by
      one man. His name, sources say, is Imad Mughniyeh, a Palestinian Shiite with
      close ties to Iran.
      This name struck the intelligence community like a thunderbolt - especially
      when the writer went on to uncover new aspects of that Palestinian Shiite’s
      trail of terror: the Beirut hostage-taking dramas of the 1980s, the bombings
      and other atrocities, notably the devastating explosion at the US embassy in
      Beirut in April 1983, in which 63 Americans died and the entire top rank of the
      CIA’s Middle East-Persian Gulf department, 29 officers in all, were massacred,
      including the brilliant Middle East desk chief
      Robert Ames.
      The article carried two striking revelations: The US embassy was not ravaged by
      a truck-bomb as reported then and since, but by a bomb planted on the floor
      above the conference room in which the CIA officers assembled.
      intelligence sources disclose for the first time, 19 years after the event,
      that two minutes after the CIA chiefs took their seats in that room, the
      explosive charge was detonated by remote control.
      The second revelation shows up a little-known facet of Mughniye’s murky past:
      Up until 1982, when he burst on the Shiite terrorist world of Beirut, Mughniye
      was a member of Yasser Arafat’s personal guard, Force 17, when the Fatah group
      was one of the fiercest warring militias of the savage Lebanese civil war.
      The embassy bombing must have been executed with the help of an inside informer
      or a mole. So secret was the top-level CIA conference that only a trusted
      insider would have known enough to give its timing away to the bomber. That
      insider had to have pre-knowledge of the meeting and be present in the building
      to signal the outside detonator. That was one of many clues to how deeply US
      intelligence was penetrated.
      That problem was not attacked, any more than the terror menace that began
      sprouting then. Instead, after suffering a series of terror strikes, Washington
      turned its back and ordered the US Marines and other Americans to leave war-
      torn Lebanon and go home.
      Switching fast forward to early 1996, 1997 and 1998 intelligence sources
      discover intelligence building up in the Middle East and the US on operational
      relations developing between Mughniyeh and the young Saudi Islamic firebrand
      Osama Bin Laden, on the one hand, and between Mugniyeh and his erstwhile boss
      Arafat, on the other.
      From March 1997 on, US and Israeli intelligence discover the collaboration
      between the Palestinian Shiite and the Saudi fundamentalist deepening.
      Mughniyeh’s hand is detected in setting up the 1998 US embassy bombings in
      Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.
      Then on October 7, 2000, ten days after Yasser Arafat launched his intifada
      confrontation with Israel, three Israeli soldiers were snatched while
      patrolling the Israel-Lebanese frontier.
      This week, after a year of cruel suspense and a hopeless quest for some sign
      from the missing men, the bereaved families received formal notice from the
      IDF’s chief chaplain that the men were judged dead in action, no longer missing
      without trace.
      Three weeks after the soldiers were abducted last October, a civilian, Elhanan
      Tannenboim, described in the media as a Mossad agent, was abducted , reported
      at the time that Mughniyeh masterminded the four abductions, added subsequently
      that he had handed the three bodies and the live civilian over to Bin Laden’s
      people.
      Proof positive of the links between the three terror masters led to the
      targeted killing on February 13, 2001, of the Palestinian Col. Masoud Ayad, a
      senior operation officer of Arafat’s Force 17, in the southern Gaza Strip. Five
      days later, after he was cut down in a missile attack by Israeli choppers,
      explained why Ehud Barak, then prime minister, had decided to target Ayad.
      Late in May, 2000, four months before he launched his uprising, Arafat sent
      Ayad to Beirut on a mission to Lebanon. He was instructed to organize the
      purchase from the Shiite extremist Hizballah of a quantity of weapons and to
      recruit their experts in suicide bombings and mortars as instructors for
      Palestinian terrorists. Shortly after the intifada erupted, smuggled weapons
      began to flow from Lebanon to Palestinian areas, and the imported Hizballah
      instructors were soon at work in the Gaza Strip and later on the West Bank,
      under the protection of the various Palestinian Authority security services.
      Col. Ayad was the linchpin of Arafat’s Hizballah project, which vastly enhanced
      the scope and deadliness of Palestinian terror. On his trips to Lebanon, he
      made a beeline for the big Palestinian refugee camp, Ein Hilweh near Tyre in
      South Lebanon, rather than the Beirut headquarters of the Hizballah secretary
      general, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah.
      His reason was discovered later: One of Mughniyeh’s two main Lebanon cells
      operates secretly at Ein Hilweh; the second at Nahar al Badar in the north.
      Arafat Knew of Abductions
      In the course of the desperate search for the bodies of its three abducted
      soldiers, Israeli intelligence investigators came upon intelligence evidence
      that Col. Ayad knew of Mughniyeh’s plot to kidnap the Israelis and was in fact
      an active accomplice. It was he who carried Mughniyeh’s agents’ request to
      Palestinian intelligence for a detailed account of the scene at the Shaaba
      Farms frontier sector. Col. Ayad would never made this or any move without
      reporting to Yasser Arafat, who must therefore have been aware of Mughniyeh’s
      plan, at least in outline.
      Of late, Israel discovered - and passed the information to Washington by
      foreign minister Peres - that segments of Hizballah’s front line on the Israeli
      border, especially in the Shaaba Farms area, have passed to the direct control
      of Mughniyeh’s men. Just as the Palestinian Shiite terrorist never let the
      Hizballah into the secret of the kidnapped Israeli soldiers, he does not intend
      letting them know next time he strikes against Israel.
      Part of the intelligence Peres conveyed to Washington relates to Mughniyeh’s
      plans to kidnap more Israeli soldiers and civilians, kill some and hold some
      hostage in the same conditions as he held the American and Western hostages in
      Beirut in the 1980s.
      One of the British prime minister Tony Blair’s tasks in Damascus last week was
      to ask President Bashar Assad to rein in Mughniyeh’s men and especially along
      the Lebanese frontier. But Assad refused.
      The Bush administration’s decision to add three Palestinian groups, the Popular
      Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Hamas and the Jihad Islami to the
      list of terrorist groups and impound their bank accounts, is a forward step in
      the global assault on terrorism, but the war agains
      • yidele Re: Life & time of Imad Mughniyeh - kidnap mastermind 04.11.01, 20:48
        Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Hamas and the Jihad Islami to the
        list of terrorist groups and impound their bank accounts, is a forward step in
        the global assault on terrorism, but the war against one of the three most
        dangerous terrorists in the world, Imad Mughniye, is still ahead
    • yidele Prospect of Bush-Arafat Handshake Is Far from Firm 04.11.01, 20:45
      Prospect of Bush-Arafat Handshake Is Far from Firm
      An Analysis
      4 November: As part of a fresh policy posture on the Middle East, President
      George W. Bush is reported to be preparing to receive Palestinian leader Yasser
      Arafat for a long-awaited first encounter on the occasion of the UN General
      Assembly session next week. US, European, Palestinian and Israeli sources
      report that Bush or Secretary of State Colin Powell will deliver a policy
      statement at the session, announcing US support for the creation of a viable
      Palestinian state.
      The Bush administration will not be breaking new ground. In 1997, when Binyamin
      Netanyahu was Israeli prime minister, President Clinton publicly committed the
      United States to supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state. He not
      only shook Arafat by the hand, as Bush may do, but he and Hillary hugged and
      kissed the Arafats on a number of occasions. Yet after he left office, Clinton
      accused Arafat of being the cause of his presidency ending in fiasco.
      His successor will therefore tread more carefully.
      According to sources close to the White House and the National Security
      Council, the president is not proposing to unveil a new Middle East plan or a
      formula for solving the Israel-Palestinian conflict. In any case, the United
      States, European diplomats and even Israel foreign minister Shimon Peres,
      Arafat’s co-Nobel Peace Prize laureate, have failed to bring the Palestinian
      leader round to the slightest letup in the wall of terror with which he has
      engulfed the region for 14 months.
      One high-placed UN source told: He won’t give an inch – not even a clue to his
      intentions. Everyone has tried without success to talk him round – German
      foreign minister Joschke Fischer, European Union foreign executive Javier
      Solana, even British prime minister Tony Blair. He turned them all down and
      practically laughed in their faces. The only thing he would say- in the hearing
      of Blair – was that he objected to Osama bin Laden’s every word and action,
      which is more than any other Arab or Muslim leader dares say out loud.
      On Friday, November 2, at a Middle East economic cooperation conference on the
      Spanish resort island of Marbella, Peres tried to tempt Arafat into lowering
      the level of violence by offering a fast Israeli troop pullout from Ramallah.
      Israel forces withdrew from Bethlehem and Beit Jala last week. Ramallah is one
      of the remaining five Palestinian towns the Israeli army is holding on to since
      Palestinian terrorists assassinated the Tourism Minister on October 17.
      Arafat’s answer was not slow in coming. That same night, his Tanzim militiamen
      shot dead an Israeli soldier, Raz Mintz, 19, from Kiryat Motskin, and injured
      the soldier with him at a roadblock north of Ramallah. By that incident, the
      Palestinian leader administered a calculated brushoff to the Israeli foreign
      minister and his attempt to do a deal.
      As for President Bush, he cannot hope to achieve more in Middle East peace
      currency by meeting Arafat than did Bill Clinton. The encounter is rather
      intended to provide a photo op with Arafat in order to ease America’s
      difficulties in mustering Arab and Muslim support for the increasingly unclear
      US war moves in Afghanistan. The Europeans are keen on this meeting, believing
      it has the power to still the anger in the Muslim world over US-UK bombing
      raids over Afghanistan and the loss of civilian life. However, it is very
      doubtful that Arab and Muslim leaders will be so easily mollified.
      In the view of experts on terror, a Bush-Arafat handshake, rather than easing
      Bush’s difficulties, will serve to weaken Arafat and enhance bin Laden’s
      standing in the eyes of the Muslim masses.
      Arafat and bin Laden in their separate arenas are both at war with America and
      Israel. Arafat adamantly refuses to abate by an iota his campaign of terror,
      turning away all the supplicants knocking on his door, because he fears that if
      he slows down, bin Laden will outperform him. The Palestinian leader is
      determined that he – not bin Laden - will go down in Islamic history as the
      supreme leader of the war to liberate Jerusalem from the Jews.
      Hence his speech last week claiming for himself and the Palestinian struggle
      the role of authentic al Qaeda.
      Hence too Bin Laden’s riposte. In a videotaped statement aired on Al Jazeera
      television Saturday, November 3, the al Qaeda leader condemned as hypocrites
      and infidels those claiming to be Arab leaders who cooperate with the United
      Nations. “The United Nations is a tool of crime”, he thundered, because it
      stands aside from Muslim suffering, especially in Kashmir. But the world body’s
      gravest crime, in the Saudi terrorist’s view, was its resolution to partition
      Palestinian in 1947 and “surrender the land of Islam to the Jews.”
      Bin Laden’s purpose was clearly to cut the Islamic ground from under Arafat’s
      demand for international observers to monitor his conflict with Israel – or,
      for that matter, any other settlement he might achieve with “the Jews” in
      Palestine. Either would prove him a priori an infidel. In the same breath the
      Saudi renegade linked the Palestinian and Kashmir conflicts, indicating in
      typical oblique fashion that the India-Israel strategic pact was now in his
      sights for terror.
      analysts take this as meaning that bin Laden is already counting the Musharref
      regime a dead duck. He fully expects it to buckle under the pressure coming
      from the Pakistan army, military intelligence and the fervent religious and
      political street opposition to Pakistan’s involvement in the Afghan war on the
      American side. That will force Washington to fall back on the Indian-Turkish
      option, with Israel in the background.
      In his second videotaped speech of the Afghan war, Bin Laden laid down the
      resistance ideology for this eventuality, scripting the Muslim masses’ uprising
      against the new US-led alliance and solid stand behind him.
      This script may well deter Arafat from heading towards New York and the UN
      General Assembly, or shaking hands with US President Bush, lest he be branded
      an infidel on both counts.
      The Islamic epithet-hurling contest between the ex-Saudi and Palestinian
      terrorist leaders is hardly the appropriate scene for the Israeli prime
      minister Ariel Sharon, who decided Saturday night to call off his trip to the
      United States and his date with President Bush. He had a more compelling reason
      to stay away. Ten days ago, he sent Peres to Washington with fresh intelligence
      for President Bush, US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of state
      Colin Powell and national security adviser Condaleezza Rice.
      According to sources, the foreign minister carried information attesting to
      increasing collaboration between Arafat and one of bin Laden’s top operational
      associates, the notorious hostage-taker of Beirut, Imad Mughniyeh. (See
      separate item on this page.)
      Sharon calculated that if, irrespective of that information, the Bush team is
      still bent on appeasing Arafat, then he might as well opt out of that game too.
    • yidele ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF TERROR:Al-Qaeda's killing manual 04.11.01, 21:48
      By the book: the Encyclopaedia of Jihad is believed to have been the training
      manual used by Muslim suicide bombers in their attack on New York's World Trade
      Center

      ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF TERROR: Revealed: the bloody pages of Al-Qaeda's killing
      manual

      Nick Fielding




      Deadly advice: the book, cribbed from manuals given to secret services
      throughout the world, covers everythign from assassination tactics to picking
      civilian terror targets
      A UNIQUE manual for Islamic terrorists, detailing every aspect of how to fight
      a guerrilla war, from biochemical attacks to finding the fatal pressure point
      during hand-to-hand combat, has been obtained by western intelligence agencies.

      The 7,000-page guide - entitled Encyclopaedia of Jihad - provides an insight
      into how terrorists from Osama Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network operate in both
      urban environments and on the battlefield.

      Filling 11 volumes and circulated both in book form and on CD-Rom to terrorist
      instructors, it offers guidance on how to inject frozen food with biochemical
      agents to create mass panic, rig up a door lock to explode when the handle is
      turned, and bring down a plane with a missile.

      "This is an amazing document," said Roland Jacquard, head of the World
      Terrorism Observatory in Paris. "It gives us a very clear idea of what we are
      up against with Al-Qaeda and Bin Laden's followers throughout the world."

      The encyclopaedia - extracts of which have been obtained by The Sunday Times -
      is dedicated to Bin Laden and Abdullah Azzam, a charismatic preacher who was a
      formative influence on the Saudi terrorist. It distils the experience of 10
      years of guerrilla fighting against the Russians in Afghanistan and draws on
      stolen CIA and special services' handbooks.

      The most chilling volume is the 11th, which deals with bioterrorism, which is
      on a separate CD-Rom. It explains how to disperse potentially lethal organisms
      and poisons, ranging from botulism and viral infections to anthrax and ricin,
      the highly toxic chemical used on the tip of an umbrella by a Bulgarian secret
      service agent to kill the dissident Georgy Markov in London in 1978.

      It details targets such as water and food supplies, and advocates maximising
      public panic by poisoning medicine, thereby jeopardising treatment of the sick
      and injured. Sources of biological material include a list of countries that
      produce anthrax and a training camp in Pakistan where toxins are manufactured.

      The encyclopaedia was found in 1999 in the home of Khalil Deek when he was
      arrested in connection with an alleged plot to bomb Jordan's main airport in
      the capital, Amman, on the eve of the millennium.

      A university educated computer expert, Deek, who was born in the Israeli-
      occupied territories, had spent two years in Peshawar, Pakistan, where he told
      people he was compiling a CD-Rom on the writings of a well-known Muslim
      preacher.

      Though he denied being part of the Al-Qaeda network, he shared a bank account
      with Abu Zubaydah, often described as Bin Laden's chief-of-staff.

      Despite his connections, Deek was released by the Jordanian authorities in May
      this year after 17 months in prison. Officials said there was insufficient
      evidence to charge him, though it is known that he helped to decipher Al-Qaeda
      computer codes for investigators.

      Khalil Deek: owned manual

      Each of the 10 volumes of the main encylopaedia carries a picture showing a
      belt-fed machinegun standing in a window next to a copy of the Koran. One, on
      security and intelligence, shows the long-term planning involved in operations,
      with "sleeper" cells set up years in advance. "The mujahed should be young, so
      he can start the mission 10 years before the start of the jihad," it states.

      Surveillance of potential targets - with video cameras, still cameras and mini-
      microphones - is critical. And targets should be chosen to put pressure on the
      country to "stop it intervening or creating an obstacle to the jihad",
      according to Jacquard. They include:


      Symbolic targets, such as the Statue of Liberty in New York or the Eiffel Tower
      in Paris, where attacks would cause psychological damage but would be largely
      victimless;

      Key infrastructure, such as nuclear power stations, skyscrapers, ports and
      train stations;

      Human targets, including stadiums where large numbers of people congregate and,
      particularly in Arabic countries, influential public figures.

      The construction of booby- trapped explosive devices that would not be out of
      place in a James Bond film is explained in minute detail. One page, from the
      volume on explosives, shows how to turn a packet of cigarettes into a bomb.
      "Steel plates with electric current are placed on the interior walls of the
      pack so that when the pack is pressed (such as being stepped on), the plates
      touch each other and therefore the electric circuit is complete," it states.

      "This system is normally used in an empty pack thrown in front of the house
      where the targeted person lives, or just to create chaos in a particular area."

      It goes on to detail how individual cigarettes can be primed with explosives as
      well as cigarette lighters, mattresses, chairs and even chocolate bars,
      toothpaste tubes and hairbrushes. Bin Laden appears on Al-Jazeera TV yesterday
      against a sacking backdrop to stop geology revealing his whereabouts


      Another page shows how an envelope can be booby-trapped with a slim lead of C4
      explosive, a desk drawer sprung to explode when it is opened, and a barbecue or
      fireplace prepared to set off a hidden bomb when the fuel is lit.

      A carefully drawn picture of a motorcycle helmet shows how it can be lined with
      explosive, then remotely controlled to blow up when the intended victim puts it
      on.

      One section shows how to turn cameras into bombs. It was the method used to
      kill Ahmed Shah Masood, the leading Afghanistan opposition commander, two days
      before the September 11 attacks.

      Two Arabs posing as television journalists exploded the bomb in their camera
      when they interviewed him. The blast killed Masood and one of the terrorists.
      The other was shot by Masood's bodyguards.

      Besides analysing how Semtex can be used, the encyclopaedia contains
      instructions on the ingredients needed to make explosives, including innocuous
      substances bought from supermarkets.

      It begins with the basic chemical compounds and then lays out the exact
      quantities to be combined. One suggestion even includes Nescafé coffee and
      sugar. "It is clearly the work of someone who is very familiar with chemistry,"
      said one anti-terrorist expert. "It might be hard for a guerrilla in the field
      to follow the detailed instructions, but they are very accurate."

      Each volume is comprehensive. In discussing timers, the section on explosives
      ranges from complex loop, tremor and tilting switches to cruder versions that
      can be made from mousetraps, clothes pegs or light switches.

      Unlike other Islamic terrorist manuals, previously revealed in court papers,
      there is little religious direction in the encyclopaedia. Everything is
      presented factually, almost every page carries a diagram.

      At least four of the chapters are devoted to the military, from showing how to
      create an assault gun in a field forge from metal scavenged from the
      battlefield to mounting an attack on combat vehicles.

      Another section covers first aid, including how to prevent blood loss from
      wounds. Alongside are further diagrams demonstrating how to kill an opponent by
      pinching pressure points on the back of the neck and the windpipe.

      The book outlines how bridges can be blown up using conventional military
      explosives. Last week America was put on high alert over the possibility of
      attacks on bridges such as the Golden Gate in San Francisco.

      Other volumes teach typography
      • yidele Re: ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF TERROR:Al-Qaeda's killing manual 04.11.01, 21:56
        Other volumes teach typography, map reading and how to use the stars to work
        out your location. The importance of propaganda and misinformation is outlined,
        telling operatives of plans to "penetrate certain Arabic papers and also
        western ones". The aim is to sow trouble and confusion by spreading false
        rumours.

        The sophistication of some parts of the manual has alarmed intelligence
        agencies, which have asked counter-terrorism experts given access to the
        document not to discuss or release key elements, particularly on bioterrorism.

        Jacquard believes the document charts how Islamic terrorism has developed over
        the past decade, expanding beyond conventional, low-technology forms of attack.
        There are now different types of terrorist. "The first is psychologically and
        intellectually weak and is used to stage such 'classic' attacks as car
        bombings, hijackings and kidnappings," he said.

        "Recruits who fit a second, stronger profile are referred to as God's Brigade
        by those returning from Afghan training camps and are destined for operations
        such as suicide attacks and bioterrorism."
    • yidele Massive arrests in US. - what's next 04.11.01, 21:52
      This article was reported by Washington Post staff writers Amy Goldstein,
      Marcia Slacum Greene, George Lardner Jr., Hanna Rosin, Lena H. Sun and Cheryl
      W. Thompson, and was written by Goldstein.

      Exactly 23 minutes before suspected terrorist plot leader Mohamed Atta acquired
      a Florida driver's license, a 28-year-old Pakistani gas station attendant got
      his license renewed at the same motor vehicles' branch. For that reason,
      Mohammad Mubeen was standing in a tiny courtroom wearing an orange jumpsuit
      last Monday afternoon, one of more than 1,100 people ensnared in a nationwide
      hunt for terrorists.

      In urgent, rapid-fire Urdu, Mubeen pleaded to be released. True, he had entered
      the United States illegally, he told the judge through a translator. But he
      said he simply did not know any of the hijackers.

      Still, the government attorney in the Miami courtroom easily persuaded the
      judge to hold Mubeen without bond. The lawyer presented a striking legal
      document that offers insight into both the strategy behind the detentions and a
      novel legal argument to keep people in custody on the most slender suspicion.

      Signed by a top international terrorism official at FBI headquarters in
      Washington, the seven-page document, which has not been previously disclosed,
      is being used repeatedly by prosecutors in detention hearings across the
      country. The FBI affidavit explains that "the business of counterterrorism
      intelligence gathering in the United States is akin to the construction of a
      mosaic.

      "At this stage of the investigation, the FBI is gathering and processing
      thousands of bits and pieces of information that may seem innocuous at first
      glance. We must analyze all that information, however, to see if it can be fit
      into a picture that will reveal how the unseen whole operates. . . . What may
      seem trivial to some may appear of great moment to those within the FBI or the
      intelligence community who have a broader context."

      The document's language offers the clearest window so far into a campaign of
      detentions on a scale not seen since World War II. As investigators race to
      comprehend the ongoing terrorist threat, the government has adopted a
      deliberate strategy of disruption
    • yidele Massive arrests in US. - what's next? 2 04.11.01, 21:54
      By far the largest group of detainees consists of an outer ring of people whose
      interest to investigators is largely unknown. Some in this outer ring were
      apprehended because they were in the same places or engaged in the same
      activities as the hijackers: learning to fly airplanes, traveling or
    • Gość: Kugiel How about them apples? IP: *.proxy.aol.com 05.11.01, 02:07
      www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/16/103951.shtml
      • Gość: Yidele Re: How about them apples? IP: *.*.*.* 05.11.01, 16:25
        Pretty stinky, but cool
    • Gość: Yidele the terror continues IP: *.*.*.* 05.11.01, 16:38
      Arafat Will Not Let Palestinian Terror Disappear from World TV Screens
      5 November: The inhabitants of north Jerusalem were not surprised by the
      shooting attack at the key French Hill junction Sunday afternoon, in which two
      teenagers, Shoshana Ben-Yishai, 16, and Menashe Regev, 14, were killed and
      dozens injured.
      The Palestinian gunman from Hebron sprayed automatic M-16 fire on the bus
      heading for Neve Yaacov and the passengers waiting to board it – until gunned
      down himself by two border police patrolling nearby. This pattern, seen before
      at the same crowded Jerusalem junction, has become a recurring one in the last
      few weeks, with Palestinian gunmen shooting indiscriminately at bus queues in
      downtown Afula and Hadera.
      Sometimes one group takes “credit”, sometimes another, but the pattern is an
      overall one that is plotted at the highest level of the Palestinians Authority.
      For more than a fortnight now, automatic fire has been heard through most of
      the day in Jerusalem’s northern districts of Ramat Shelomo, French Hill, Pisgat
      Zeev and Neve Yaacov. It comes from the adjacent Arab neighborhoods and
      Palestinian villages. No one explains what is going on. Much of the shooting is
      heard from the large Jerusalem village of Issawiyeh, which commands French
      Hill, Mount Scopus (site of the Hebrew University and Hadassah hospital), their
      approach roads and the heavy traffic moving up and down the Jerusalem-Maaleh
      Adumim highway at all hours. Although included in municipal Jerusalem, Israeli
      police officers never venture to go into Issawiyeh without substantial backup.
      Limited searches have turned up assorted arsenals of deadly weapons in every
      home, including heavy machine guns.
      A similar situation prevails in Issawiyeh’s northern neighbor Sheofat-East,
      where Hizballah and Hamas flags fly undisturbed over homes around the mosque
      and the school. Every night, automatic weapons rattle and flash at the “Coca
      Cola” junction between Sheofat-East and the north Jerusalem road junction
      attacked Sunday afternoon, no more than half a kilometer away.
      The highway linking French Hill and Ramot has seen two deadly drive-by
      shootings in recent months. The police failed to apprehend most of the Beit
      Hanina squad responsible. Palestinian spotters are repeatedly observed out on
      the crags overlooking the highway and wandering through the Jewish areas of
      north Jerusalem.
      intelligence sources shed light on the fragile security situation in the
      northern half of Jerusalem. Until six months ago, Jibril Rajub, head of the
      West Bank Preventive Security service, and his men controlled the Jerusalem
      area. Israeli authorities, including foreign minister Shimon Peres and perhaps
      also the Shin Beit, as well as the European diplomats who busy themselves with
      the conflict, pinned high hopes on Rajub as a positive Palestinian force
      capable of reining in Palestinian violence.
      However, in recent weeks, Rajub and his men were displaced in the sector by the
      wild elements run by his rival, Tawfiq Tirawi, Palestinian General Intelligence
      Chief in the West bank, who is Yasser Arafat’s senior terror master. Tirawi has
      taken over most of Jerusalem including the Old City and Temple Mount. He is
      under orders to keep the level of terrorism high in Israel’s capital city.
      Arafat’s blueprint is plain: Forced under US and European pressure to reduce
      the heat in Bethlehem and Beit Jala, to the south of Jerusalem, he turns it at
      the northern end of the city – but not only there.
      Largely unreported, the Palestinian have ringed fresh targets in the western
      Negev inside Israel. For the last few days, Palestinian firing positions in
      Gaza have been shelling Israeli towns, villages, kibbutzim and army bases with
      mortars and the new homemade Palestinian rocket, Kassem-1. This primitive
      weapon has an effective range of 5 km. Among its targets is the southern
      Israeli town of Sderot.
      The last time Sderot was shelled earlier this year, the Israeli army launched a
      major operation in the northern Gaza Strip and captured the Palestinian town of
      Beit Hanoun.
      This time, however, the shelling is not even reported.
      The Palestinian’s rationale for keeping the violence level high, according to
      Palestinian sources, is connected with the US war on terror. The New York Times
      ran an article Sunday explaining that for America to win the Muslims round to
      supporting its war on terror, the pictures of the Israeli-Palestinian war must
      disappear from TV screens.
      That, according to our Palestinian sources, is just the opposite of Arafat’s
      wishes. He wants those pictures dancing on world television day and night, both
      to block out the footage devoted to Osama bin Laden and to thwart America’s bid
      for a Muslim constituency.
      Since bin Laden began dominating international attention, Arafat has lost
      interest in gaining points with the American public; now he is fighting for the
      Muslim street.
      Palestinian television therefore gloated over the Jihad Islami’s claim to have
      carried out the French Hill junction assault Sunday, one day after the United
      States and Britain added that very Palestinian group to their list of illegal
      terrorist organizations. The broadcast was a deliberate mockery of the two
      Western powers and their proclaimed war against terror.
      To underline Palestinian contempt, the Al Aqsa Brigades (a euphemism for the
      Fatah gangs under Tirawi’s command) circulated a leaflet declaring
      the “Palestinian masses” would not surrender to the “American planes and tanks
      operated by Israel”. This sort of locution disappeared from Palestinian
      propaganda immediately after September 11. Now the Palestinians, riding bin
      Laden’s coattails, have returned to their triumphalist anti-American slogans.
    • yidele Gaza tunnel collapses - 3 dead 05.11.01, 23:52

      November 03, 2001

      Gaza Tunnel Collapses; 3 Killed
      GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - An underground tunnel used to smuggle goods into
      the southern Gaza Strip from Egypt collapsed Saturday, killing three
      Palestinians inside, Palestinian medical sources and Israeli army officials
      said.

      The bodies were pulled from the rubble late Saturday, hours after the collapse
      in the Rafah refugee camp near the border with Egypt, Palestinian medical
      sources and police said.

      It was not immediately clear what caused the cave-in.

      The Israeli army said the collapse was not due to the demolition of a nearby
      building Friday night. The army suspected the building, about 200 yards from
      the tunnel, was being used by Palestinian snipers to fire on Israeli border
      patrols. It was felled by bulldozers, not explosives, the army said.

      Palestinian security officials in Rafah said the tunnel was used to smuggle
      food and cigarettes from Egypt to Gaza and had been destroyed three times
      before by Palestinian authorities.

      The army said the tunnel was used to smuggle weapons and drugs.

    • Gość: Yidele Taliban vampires: Atrocities in Afghanistan IP: *.*.*.* 06.11.01, 13:33

      Atrocities in Afghanistan:
      Opponents of regime are used as human blood banks,
      army surgeon says

      Stewart Bell
      National Post


      Saturday, November 03, 2001

      DASHT-E QALA, AFGHANISTAN -
      The Taliban has
      committed so many atrocities
      during its five-year reign in
      Kabul that Afghans seem almost
      resigned, but even
      veteran military surgeon
      Mohammad Atiq was shocked to
      discover government opponents
      were being used as
      human blood banks.

      Dr. Atiq, an army surgeon who
      runs the Dasht-e Qala
      field hospital
      • Gość: Yidele Re: Taliban vampires: Atrocities in Afghanistan IP: *.budimex.com.pl 06.11.01, 17:24
        As the doctor explains this, a boom interrupts him. It
        is a rocket-launcher at the
        front line blasting at the
        Taliban troops hidden in their bunkers in the Kalalatah
        Hills.

        "We are sure the Taliban will
        be finished and you will see a good future for
        Afghanistan," he says.

        Whatever happens, his future
        does not lie in this wasteland of a country. He is
        hoping to move his family to
        Britain to join his brother Shafiq.

        But first there is the war,
        and the mounting flow of sick refugees whose tents,
        made of sticks and grain
        sacks, pop up like mushrooms each morning in the
        camp down the road.
    • Gość: Yidele Torture Warrants? O tempora! O Mores!! IP: *.budimex.com.pl 06.11.01, 17:26

      U.S. now might have to consider what once was
      unthinkable, Dershowitz says
      By Tina Hesman
      Of The Post-Dispatch
      11/04/2001 06:07 AM


      Americans may have to consider ideas as foreign as
      truth serums and torture warrants when thinking about
      striking a balance
      between liberty and security after the terrorist
      attacks Sept. 11.

      That was the message celebrity lawyer and civil
      libertarian Alan M. Dershowitz delivered to a crowd
      packed into a gymnasium
      Sunday at the Jewish Community Center in Creve Coeur.
      Dershowitz was the opening speaker for the Jewish Book
      Fair.

      He originally was scheduled to talk about his book
      "Supreme Injustice," a critical account of the Supreme
      Court's ruling on the
      presidential election last year. But Dershowitz
      instead turned his comments to civil liberties.

      "I'm not in the mood to start being critical of the
      legitimacy of the president at a time like this," he
      said.

      Dershowitz said he always supported the philosophy
      that it was better to let criminals go free than to
      unjustly detain innocent
      people. But he suggested that terrorist acts should
      make civil rights activists readjust their thinking on
      some issues.

      The American Civil Liberties Union nearly revoked his
      membership for suggesting that national identity cards
      should be
      required, he said. The cards would carry basic
      information - a person's name and Social Security
      number - and a picture, he
      proposed.

      Law enforcement officials and security workers could
      request to see the cards to verify the identity of a
      person at any time, he
      said. The civil libertarians are opposed to such a
      measure because they say it would violate the right to
      privacy.

      Dershowitz counters that the measure does not violate
      privacy rights but does take away a guarantee of
      anonymity that
      terrorists have used to their advantage.

      It's time to reassess laws and decide how to deal
      with situations that may arise when dealing with
      terrorists, he said. Legislators
      should evaluate and revise quarantine laws before a
      wholesale bioterrorism attack strikes the United
      States, he said, calling the
      current anthrax attacks "retail bioterrorism."

      Americans need to consider what measures should be
      allowed to get information from unwilling terror
      suspects, he said. After
      law enforcement officials have asked, begged,
      cajoled, threatened and bribed a close-mouthed witness,
      they may need to take
      more drastic measures to elicit vital information,
      Dershowitz said.

      Americans should begin thinking about whether it
      would be permissible to grant the suspect immunity from
      prosecution and
      then administer truth serum.

      Even torture may not be off the table as an
      information-gathering tool, Dershowitz said. But there
      must be a national debate
      about the circumstances in which torture is
      permissible and who should have the power to decide
      when to use it. Dershowitz
      suggested that judges could issue torture warrants in
      certain cases.

      Americans must plan their approach to these
      disquieting issues carefully and not allow the basic
      values of the country to erode,
      he said.

      "If Osama bin Laden comes out with a white flag, we'd
      darned well better arrest him. We're still a country
      under the rule of law,"
      Dershowitz said.

      Dershowitz, a professor from Harvard who has been
      called the lawyer of last resort, said that even he
      wouldn't take bin
      Laden's case.

      "That's not a call I want to get."
    • Gość: Yidele Al-Qaida’s endgame IP: *.budimex.com.pl 08.11.01, 19:08
      7 November 2001
      Source: Decision Support Systems, Inc.

      Original PDF: http://cryptome.org/alqaida-game.pdf (70KB)

      [10 pages.]

      DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, inc.

      D S S I M E T A T E M P O : S U R V I V I N G G L O B A L I Z A T
      I O N

      AL- QAIDA’S ENDGAME?
      ____________________________________________

      A STRATEGIC SCENARIO ANALYSIS
      ____________________________________________


      2 NOVEMBER, 2001

      DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, INC.

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      EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
      DSSi’s strategic scenario analysis regarding Al-Qaida’s endgame leads to the
      following conclusions about the real current events:

      The ‘network of networks’ known as Al-Qaida has successfully laid a trap for
      the United States. Al-Qaida retains the initiative and the U.S. is
      operating ‘inside the intentions and plans’ of Al-Qaida
      Al-Qaida cannot destroy the U.S. forces inside the U.S., nor can it convince
      the U.S. to leave the Middle East using terror attacks. The intention of the
      terror attacks is a provocation to force the U.S. to engage and deploy forces
      to the Middle East, where such forces could be destroyed
      The intention and purpose of Al-Qaida’s plans are either to make the Middle
      East ‘ungovernable,’ or to gain control of the petroleum production system in
      the region. Application of the ‘oil weapon’ could be used to attempt to force
      withdrawal of U.S. presence in the region; outright destruction of the
      petroleum production system would leave the U.S. with no or greatly reduced
      real interests in the region
      Control or destruction of the petroleum production system in the Middle East,
      and the potential for attacks on global petroleum production, would transform
      the political situation in the region, initiate a global depression by
      degrading or destroying critical industries of developing and advanced Nation-
      States, and drastically shift the geopolitical balance

      ABOUT THIS ANALYSIS
      The following analysis is the product of DSSi’s strategic analysis team using
      scenario planning to make sense of the current situation and the ‘war on
      terrorism.’ During the course of exploring future scenarios, past events
      acquired meaning, and the direction of the conflict as desired by Al-Qaida
      began to make sense.

      Because of national security implications for the U.S., this material is being
      made available to assist the public in understanding the significance of the
      unfolding events. While the terrorist attacks of 11 September, 2001 were
      horrific, the consequences of success for Al-Qaida in their probable objective
      have the potential to destroy much of what are considered the benefits and
      functions of industrialized Nation-States.

      Taking Osama bin Laden at his word, that he wants the U.S. out of the Middle
      East, and his desire for the destruction of the West, the stakes are greater
      even than massive fatalities by terrorist attack. That such ambitions are
      achievable were part of the conclusions of DSSi scenarios.


      WHAT IS AL-QAIDA?
      “This world is the prison of the believers and the paradise of the
      unbelievers.” –Islamic saying

      It is critical to understand, and not to underestimate, the ‘network of
      networks’ that is the World Islamic Front, of which Al-Qaida is the most well-
      known component:


      The World Islamic Front is composed of Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaida, Al Jihad,
      the Islamic Group, Jamaat ul Ulema e Pakistan, the Moslem Brotherhood,
      components of the ‘black’ (operational) network from the defunct Bank of Credit
      and Commerce Inc. (BCCI), and elements of Abu Nidal’s terrorist organization
      The stated purpose, supported by their operations, is to remove the U.S. from
      Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, and if possible, the world arena
      The Arab ‘core’ of Al-Qaida follow a radical form of Wahhabism, which is
      already a highly puritanical form of Islam. This group believes in the ‘war of
      civilizations’— Western culture is an ‘attack’ on Islamic law and morality, and
      Islam must be protected from the potential of corruption. The U.S. is the most
      successful of Western cultures, and is viewed as the Great Satan, the enemy of
      God and humanity
      The interpretation of the Qur’an (114:4-5) supporting much of this action is
      the need to defend against the “mischief of the slinking prompter, who whispers
      in the hearts of men.” The ‘House of Islam’ (Dar al-Islam) is viewed to be in a
      struggle with the ‘House of War’ (Dar al-Harb), typified in the Egyptian
      radical Islamic thought as “al-kufru millatun wahida” or “unbelief is one
      nation.” All of the West is a ‘legitimate target’ and there are no non-
      combatants (only Moslems as defined by the core group, and non-Moslems).
      Islamic Nation-States and Moslem citizens are not immune—those ‘pure in faith’
      will be ‘afflicted’ or tempted by the freedoms the West has to offer, but
      the “thief does not bother entering a ruined house” (al-Jawahir al-Hisan).
      Individual Moslems and Islamic Nation-States that are ‘corrupted’ will have
      departed the faith into apostasy, and are thus in Dar al-Harb. This includes
      such Nation-States as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, as well as any members of the
      U.S. coalition—both the U.S. and Al-Qaida have a ‘black and white’ view of the
      world as being ‘with us or against us’
      Osama bin Laden has a number of viable ‘role models’ from the history of the
      Middle East, including Saladin and the Assassins. For example, Saladin (the
      enormously successful commander during the Crusades) wrote in a letter to the
      Caliph in Baghdad that “European merchants supply the best weaponry,
      contributing to their own defeat.” This is similar to Lenin’s famous comment
      that “the Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Also
      from the Crusade era are the Ismaili sect known to history as the Assassins.
      The Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood has used the term “Fida’iyan-I Islam”
      or “Devotees of Islam,” which was used by Ismaili emissaries during the
      Crusades. The Assassins were patient, and used ‘sleeper’ agents to infiltrate,
      become trusted, and undertake suicide strikes on command
      The methods of Al-Qaida ‘operatives’ or terrorists have been highly motivated,
      skilled, creative, resourceful, and courageous. Use of what the West considers
      to be its strengths (openness, freedom) against itself is a common feature of
      attacks. The scope and scale of attacks show the ambitious nature of the
      organization, and the approach of “by any means necessary”. Operations are
      clearly planned out in detail—discussion of such operations is likely a primary
      feature of life among Al-Qaida, and the understanding that feeds such planning
      is focused and extremely complex (bin Laden is said to have a detailed map of
      the Middle East painted in his living quarters, with U.S. positions and
      installations marked; this is both a planning tool and a means to visualize
      what he’s after, i.e. removal of those markings). Al-Qaida is a student of
      history, learns from its own actions (both successes and failures), and has at
      least two decades of dealing with the West in various ways

      UNDERSTANDING THE PAST
      To understand the current and future events, it is necessary to realize that
      this ‘game’ has be
      • Gość: Yidele Re: Al-Qaida’s endgame IP: *.budimex.com.pl 08.11.01, 19:19
        UNDERSTANDING THE PAST
        To understand the current and future events, it is necessary to realize that
        this ‘game’ has been going on already for a number of years. Only considering
        the events from 11 September 2001 does not provide adequate scope of how the
        conflict has evolved:


        1993: World Trade Center bombed. Attacks on U.S. military mission in Somalia
        1995: Open letter from bin Laden to Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd
        1996: Osama bin Laden declared jihad (struggle) against U.S.
        1998: World Islamic Front established, uniting for a common purpose the
        survivors of decades of struggle. U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed
        2000: U.S.S. Cole bombed
        2001: 9 September assassination of Ahmad Shah Masoud. 11 September attacks on
        the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Possible on-going use of anthrax
        Al-Qaida’s terrorist attacks are not ‘thrill kills’—they have a purpose.
        Terrorist behavior, as with most individuals, is anticipatory—actions will be
        taken in anticipation of their results. If the results achieved are not what
        was desired, then different strategies and tactics are tried.

        Prior to 2001, Al-Qaida attacked three different sorts of ‘target profiles’—
        civilian, diplomatic, and military targets—all without ‘success’ in achieving
        their purpose. It could be argued that “the attacks were the message,” and that
        mass casualties was the intention; shifting the target profile would then
        appear to be a demonstration of capabilities, range, and creativity. This does
        not fit well with the current ‘controlled escalation’ profile of Al-Qaida
        attacks, nor with their own stated purpose. The other primary reason, and the
        one assumed by DSSi to assess Al-Qaida strategically, coincides with their own
        statements that they are attempting to force the U.S. into engaging them on
        their terms (it should be reasonable to take bin Laden at his word—while he
        doesn’t issue statements directly related to attacks, his comments at other
        times are related, and ambitious enough to be considered). 11 September 2001
        saw massive casualties inflicted largely on the civilian population inside the
        U.S. homeland. Al-Qaida now has the U.S. attention, the U.S. has responded as
        they intended, and events are moving along the course they planned out.

        Why the necessity of forcing U.S. engagement in the region? Al-Qaida can
        not ‘win’ in the U.S. Beating the U.S. on its home territory would require
        massive conventional attacks or use of weapons of mass destruction, which Al-
        Qaida may be unable or unwilling (because of the possibility for immediate U.S.
        reprisals with its own weapons of mass destruction) to utilize at this point.
        The U.S. is also incredibly resourceful, technologically adept, in possession
        of vast material resources, and resilient psychologically. It is also not
        possible to effect a mass transformation of U.S. public or political opinion
        through the use of terrorist attacks, quite the opposite in fact. Comparison to
        the Afghanistan-Soviet conflict does not ‘mesh’ well because of the terrorism
        angle—the success against Soviet forces occurred when they were drawn into
        Afghanistan, not fought on Soviet territory. The Chechnya model must be
        considered—terrorist attacks in Moscow led to reprisal military action. This
        leads to the clear argument that the terrorist attacks have all along been
        intended to force U.S. engagement in the region, where U.S. forces deployed
        could in fact be destroyed. The more forces deployed, the more that can be
        destroyed, the better the result from Al-Qaida’s viewpoint. Future terrorist
        attacks on a massive scale would lead directly to such deployments of U.S.
        forces, particularly if the war can be widened—encouraging the U.S. to engage
        in massive military operations against regional Nation-States, such as has been
        discussed by U.S. strategic planners. Destruction of U.S. forces on this scale
        would have a dramatic adverse effect on overall U.S. national security as well
        as the geopolitical balance of power.

        What is the evidence that the U.S. is acting as Al-Qaida predicted, and
        continues to function in ways for which Al-Qaida has planned? The most
        significant indicator is the 9 September 2001 assassination of Ahmad Shah
        Masoud, only two days before the attacks in the U.S. Given the level of
        planning that went into both operations, the assassination and the terror
        attacks, the timing cannot be viewed as a coincidence. Looking at the result of
        the Masoud assassination is helpful. Afghanistan, the known ‘home’ of Al-Qaida,
        is largely an Islamic warrior culture. U.S. operations in the past made the
        response to 11 September 2001’s attacks predictable—Desert Shield/Storm,
        missile attacks on Afghanistan and the Sudan, the air war over Kosovo.
        Coalitions, alliances with indigenous forces on the ground, use of ‘over the
        horizon’ weapons, reluctance to commit troops and suffer casualties, etc. are
        hallmarks of U.S. military operations. The assassination of Masoud removed the
        most likely single strong individual capable of providing leadership and a post-
        Taliban government. Not being able to stabilize the situation, the U.S. would
        be forced to continue active engagement over a longer period than it would
        normally like, and which would have been achievable had Masoud been available.
        The U.S.’s ‘proxy’ on the ground, the Northern Alliance, and ‘ally’ Pakistan,
        particularly the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, have also likely
        been penetrated by loyalists to the Taliban and Al-Qaida, as the execution of
        Abdul Haq on 26 October 2001 indicates. Haq’s capture and execution, within
        roughly twelve hours of entering Taliban-controlled areas, could only have been
        accomplished through unbelievable luck or good intelligence. The ISI has had
        close ties to the Taliban and Al-Qaida, close ties in the past to the ‘black’
        network of BCCI, and has recently had key individuals removed because of
        concerns regarding their relationships. A great deal of preparation has gone
        into overt and covert control of the region, clearly with the foreknowledge of
        U.S. operations. Since the U.S. has not deviated from its ‘standard operating
        procedure,’ then the events unfolding were, predicted, planned, and prepared
        for by Al-Qaida.


        ANTHRAX ATTACKS
        Still unknown is whether or not Al-Qaida is behind the anthrax attacks in the
        U.S. Some argument has been made that, given the target profile, it is more
        probable that U.S. domestic terrorists are the perpetrators. This is a
        questionable conclusion—the timing makes no sense, nor do the targets. If
        domestic terrorists had the sophistication and capabilities, why choose now to
        strike, when the U.S. is mobilized against such actions?

        There is a motivation possible for Al-Qaida that makes sense within the
        assumptions discussed so far. During Desert Shield/Storm, there was a great
        reluctance to engage in military operations from the ‘Left’ in the U.S. One of
        the most certain ways to convert ‘doves’ to ‘hawks’ is to personally target
        them in attacks. If such an attack is successful, the ‘dove’ is dead and out of
        the political picture; if such an attack fails, their viewpoint has shifted
        dramatically. Attacks such as the one on U.S. Senate Majority Leader Daschle
        have galvanized the political left. The mass of political opinion is now
        momentum toward military action—pushing operations faster than appropriate,
        moving faster than intelligence can be supplied, and silencing voices that
        might urge a more cautious approach. Attacks o
        • Gość: Yidele Re: Al-Qaida’s endgame IP: *.budimex.com.pl 08.11.01, 19:24
          Attacks on the media create ‘feedback’ in the media cycle—coverage all out of
          proportion with the events, and ‘the story is the story.’ Targeted media
          outlets are also directed at serving the U.S. ‘grassroots’ population (such as
          the tabloid publisher), which feeds the political cycle through polling.

          The anthrax attacks have additional benefits from the perspective of an
          attacker such as Al-Qaida:


          They use a strength of the U.S. against itself, the postal delivery system
          They provide a distraction from other potential planned mass terror attacks,
          and deplete the resources used to prevent such attacks
          They provide a proof of a weapon of mass destruction capability
          They test the response and capabilities of the U.S., perhaps aiding in
          selection of future attacks for effectiveness
          An anomaly in the use of anthrax by Al-Qaida can be seen if one understands the
          history of terrorist operations. ‘No retreat’ operations—hijackings, hostage
          situations—led to the development of improved security measures and crisis
          management forces (commando teams). ‘No contact’ operations evolved in response—
          explosive devices on airplanes, hand-grenades into crowds, etc. ‘No survivor’
          operations have evolved because of improved security measures—suicide bombers,
          and the terrorists of 11 September 2001—where a human mind is necessary to
          accomplish the mission. Al-Qaida has preferred to use ‘no survivor’ operations,
          while the anthrax attacks are clearly ‘no contact’ in approach. Whether
          undertaken by Al-Qaida, sponsored by Al-Qaida, or conducted by an unknown third-
          party, they do contribute to the momentum of the U.S. toward massive military
          action in the Middle East. Analysis of the anthrax agent used is contributing
          to the view of the super-’hawks’ that want to extend the conflict to include
          Iraq—Iraq is identified as one of the possible sources of the anthrax agent,
          many strategic planners in the U.S. feel Iraq is ‘unfinished business,’ and bin
          Laden’s comments about the suffering of the Iraqi people have helped move
          events in such a direction.


          UNGOVERNABILITY, CONTROL, AND DESTRUCTION
          DSSi’s strategic scenario analysis of possible directions of future events
          leads in three primary directions: ungovernability, control of the petroleum
          production system, and destruction of the petroleum production system. The
          three approaches are in fact serial, and can be viewed as successive ‘fall-
          back’ strategies.


          Ungovernability. A deadly variation on Gandhi’s approach in convincing the
          British to leave India. Gandhi used “non-violent confrontational non-
          cooperation”—the people of India could not be governed without their consent.
          Gandhi himself became a symbol of what Indians aspired to be like, while at the
          same time maintaining a connection such that anything the happened to Gandhi
          happened to all Indians (because of his moral authority, his actions such as
          fasting or his imprisonment impacted directly on every Indian). U.S. military
          actions in Afghanistan and possibly in the Middle East could escalate into
          violence from ‘grassroots Islam,’ which already has much dislike or hatred for
          the U.S. Such violence could make it impossible for U.S. influence in the
          region, or interaction such as business, tourism, etc. The U.S. has
          created ‘brand bin Laden’ by its own statements and actions—bin Laden is now
          seen as having parity with the U.S. (requiring great effort just to locate and
          capture/kill him), representing much of the opinion of radical and grassroots
          Islam, and inspiring future generations of terrorists. While difficult and
          costly, ungovernability is a long-term strategy that still leaves room for the
          U.S. to absorb the costs and continually attempt re-entry into the region.
          Rumors, if true, regarding bin Laden’s ill health (kidney difficulties) may put
          additional pressure on his planning and timeline—not ‘good news,’ since it
          means dramatic terrorist actions
          Control. As discussed, U.S. entry into Afghanistan will become a long-term
          presence; the potential for pursuit of other targets (such as Iraq), will also
          act to encourage the U.S. to move significant forces into the region. As in
          the ‘ungovernable’ scenario, any actions undertaken by the U.S. draw a reaction
          in the region further polarized opinion against the U.S. Sufficient
          provocation, such as additional massive terrorist attacks in the U.S., would
          lead to expanded operations in the Middle East, thus accelerate the
          destabilization of the region. This is being cast in the region as a ‘war on
          Islam’ and terror attacks just before or during Ramadan (Islam’s holy month)
          would leave the U.S. with two equally bad choices—no reprisals which would look
          like weakness, or reprisal attacks which could be spun as evidence of the ‘war
          on Islam.’ Attacks in the U.S. are viewed favorably by much of grassroots
          Islam, while attacks in the region are viewed as evidence of U.S. imperialism.
          Key petroleum production Nation-States, such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the
          collection of the United Arab Emirates, are already viewed as corrupt, weak,
          and un-Islamic. Every action by the U.S. in the region weakens the position of
          the ruling families, while also destabilizing Pakistan. Al-Qaida may already
          control Pakistan’s nuclear weapons (command and control for these weapons is
          human-centric, and thus susceptible to infiltration or subversion), or could
          acquire control through overthrowing the destabilized government. Collapse of
          such Nation-States would leave a ‘power vacuum’ for someone to fill; removal
          and replacement with Al-Qaida members or supporters in the weak or unstable
          Nation-States would leave Al-Qaida with control of much of the petroleum
          production of the region. At roughly the same time, some weapon of mass
          destruction could be used on U.S. deployed forces. Such a weapon could be
          nuclear (acquired from Pakistan, Russia, or possibly Iraq), biological,
          chemical, or radiological. The reason for provocation to encourage massed,
          clustered U.S. forces is because of the reality of use of weapons of mass
          destruction—they work best against concentrated groups (the U.S. has limited
          options for basing forces in the region due to the decay in relationships with
          various Nation-States), and they must be used wisely since they would have a
          limited number. Such weapons could be delivered by ground delivery or SCUD (use
          of anthrax in the U.S. may lead to inaccurate assessment of the SCUD threat—the
          current anthrax attacks are part of a deception campaign to make U.S. planners
          later assume the use of biological weapon warheads, when nuclear warheads may
          well be used against U.S. forces instead). The willingness of Al-Qaida
          operatives to commit suicide as part of an operation solves many of the
          limitations assumed in delivery mechanisms. Control of the petroleum production
          system in the Middle East would allow Al-Qaida to ‘set terms,’ which would
          clearly include withdrawal from the region. As in the ‘ungovernable’ scenario,
          such a situation could not be safely continued, since the U.S. would again seek
          a way to reestablish itself in the region. For this reason, DSSi views
          the ‘control’ scenario as temporary at best, a transition between making the
          region ungovernable and the ‘necessity’ for Al-Qaida to attempt to destroy
          petroleum production systems

          Destruction. An analysis of U.S. behavior of intervention and military
          operations leads one to believe that a
          • Gość: Yidele Re: Al-Qaida’s endgame IP: *.budimex.com.pl 08.11.01, 19:27
            Destruction. An analysis of U.S. behavior of intervention and military
            operations leads one to believe that as long as the U.S. has real interests in
            a region they will find a way to be involved; conversely, if the U.S. has no
            real interests in a region (e.g. much of Africa), its involvement will be half-
            hearted at best. As long as ‘control’ of the petroleum production system
            remained possible to attempt to retake, the significance of oil to the global
            economy would continue to encourage the U.S. to so attempt. The only way to
            remove the U.S. from Saudi Arabia, from the Middle East, and from the world
            arena, as bin Laden has stated he would like to accomplish, would be through
            the destruction of the petroleum production system. Al-Qaida’s support and
            relationships with guerrilla and terrorist organizations around the world may
            give them the ‘reach’ necessary to launch additional attacks on other petroleum
            production systems as well (U.S. domestic, Central and South America). This
            could be accomplished in a number of ways, but three are notable:
            Conventional. Iraq, as part of their ‘spoiler’ strategy when forced out of
            Kuwait, managed to destroy many facilities and damage many wellheads. Given the
            number of individuals trained by Al-Qaida, the dispersed task of destruction of
            petroleum facilities is not out of the question; plans for such ‘rolling
            destruction’ date back to World War II, when many production systems were in
            fact destroyed
            Nuclear. There are a limited number of strategic positions that a nuclear
            device could be detonated at as a demolition charge, having three effects:
            massive radiation exposure of the petroleum system; hydrostatic shockwaves
            destroying the in-place production systems; hydrostatic shockwaves shifting or
            destroying the accessibility of petroleum supplies. Again, such devices could
            be obtained from Pakistan, Russia (which has never adequately accounted for
            its ‘backpack’ nuclear weapons), or perhaps Iraq (less likely, given the impact
            on Iraq’s petroleum supplies as well)

            Nuclear. Osama bin Laden’s recent comments in support of the Palestinian cause
            may have been for more than generation of popular support, and linking his
            cause to theirs. It has ‘engaged’ Israel as well. Any conflict in the Middle
            East would likely draw in the Israelis—unlike in Desert Storm, Ariel Sharon has
            expressed that Israel will respond to any attacks made on it. Israel has
            nuclear-warhead equipped missiles, and would perhaps use them if provoked
            adequately. What form such provocation might take is unknown, but launching a
            weapon of mass destruction on a SCUD would invite retaliation, particularly if
            the launch platform and Al-Qaida leadership were located conveniently on
            critical petroleum system points. The politics of why this is not
            an ‘unthinkable’ scenario are beyond the scope of this document, but it can be
            stated that Israel has little to lose by destruction of their regional
            competition, particularly the source of their incomes


            CONSEQUENCES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
            Any loss of U.S. position in the Middle East would have considerable regional
            consequences:


            Destabilization and ‘coup’ potential. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Pakistan will
            not emerge from the current circumstances unchanged. There is no evidence that
            the governments of the three Nation-States enjoy the popular support of their
            populations. The probability of a shift to a more radical Islamic government is
            considerable for all three; Saudi Arabia’s change of power structure would have
            dramatic consequences because of the oil reserves as well as the two holy
            cities, while Pakistan’s change of power structure might well lead to nuclear
            weapons being under control of radical Islamic militants
            Chaos and ‘economic starvation.’ Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt are in dire
            financial condition, and already close to financial collapse. Traditional trade
            in the area has been critical, as has been support from greater or more wealthy
            Nation-States (Soviets, U.S., Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc.). Collapse of these
            economies would lead to massive starvation, as well as further radicalization
            of their populations n Isolation or endangerment. India and Iran would both
            find themselves neighbor to dangerous regimes. India would need to close off a
            large section of its border, create military defenses, and direct its economic
            activity through its rail system away from the hostile regions. Iran faces an
            impact on its petroleum production system, as well as hostile and even more
            radical neighbors
            Wildcards. Israel has much to gain and much to lose if events move in the
            direction outlined; their current political structure makes them the next
            logical target in the region, as well as fairly easy to provoke (and thus lured
            into traps). Iraq may well be collaborating in an agreement of convenience with
            Al-Qaida (as is suggested by similarities in anthrax agents); this agreement
            would break down shortly after destabilization became reality. Iraq could
            rapidly restore its military power by capturing the Western-provided weapons
            systems in Saudi Arabia; retaking Kuwait would ‘redress a historical wrong’ in
            Iraqi opinion. The struggle for title of ‘Caliph’ would put Saddam Hussein in
            conflict with Al-Qaida; who would win is anyone’s guess. If Iraq is not
            operating in agreement with Al-Qaida, their petroleum production is just as
            threatened, as is the Ba’ath political structure. Given the West’s view of
            Iraq, it wouldn’t take much to provoke an attack on Iraq, which may very well
            lead to Iraq’s use of its own weapons of mass destruction

            GLOBAL DEPRESSION AND SHIFTS IN GEOPOLITICAL BALANCE
            Whichever of the three possible endgame scenarios Al-Qaida is playing for, the
            impact of their success on the global economy would be a lasting depression:


            Power generation is reliant on petroleum and petroleum derivatives
            Transportation is the primary consumer of petroleum—air, shipping, rail,
            automobile, trucking
            Pharmaceutical and medical device production requires petroleum derivatives
            Materials such as plastics and synthetic fabrics are petroleum derivatives
            Manufacturing systems require petroleum lubricants
            Agricultural and food production systems rely on tractors, transportation,
            fertiziliers, pesticides, etc. that are petroleum-enabled or derivatives
            Components for high technology products are produced in petroleum-poor Nation-
            States (Japan, Taiwan) that would be dramatically impacted, and require
            transport even if still produced
            As a consequence of such events unfolding in the Middle East, the geopolitical
            balance could shift away from the U.S. This almost certainly would leave Nation-
            States such as China and Russia in positions of advantage—able to secure their
            own petroleum supply, maintain military ‘force projection’ capabilities, and
            dictate terms inside their regional spheres because of the dependence upon
            petroleum products.


            CONCLUSIONS
            Again, DSSi’s strategic scenario analysis regarding Al-Qaida’s endgame leads to
            the following conclusions about the real current events:


            Al-Qaida has successfully laid a trap for the United States, retains the
            initiative, and the U.S. is operating ‘inside the intentions and plans’ of Al-
            Qaida
            The purpose of the terror attacks is a provocation to force the U.S. to engage
            and deploy forces to the Middle East, where such forces could be destroyed
            Al-Qaida’s aims are to make the Middle East ‘ungovernable,’ gain control of the
            petroleum production system in the region in the attempt to force withdrawal
            • Gość: Yidele Re: Al-Qaida’s endgame IP: *.budimex.com.pl 08.11.01, 19:29
              CONCLUSIONS
              Again, DSSi’s strategic scenario analysis regarding Al-Qaida’s endgame leads to
              the following conclusions about the real current events:


              Al-Qaida has successfully laid a trap for the United States, retains the
              initiative, and the U.S. is operating ‘inside the intentions and plans’ of Al-
              Qaida
              The purpose of the terror attacks is a provocation to force the U.S. to engage
              and deploy forces to the Middle East, where such forces could be destroyed
              Al-Qaida’s aims are to make the Middle East ‘ungovernable,’ gain control of the
              petroleum production system in the region in the attempt to force withdrawal of
              U.S. presence in the region, or destroy the regional petroleum production
              system
              Control or destruction of the petroleum production system in the Middle East
              and elsewhere would transform the political situation in the region, initiate a
              global depression, and drastically shift the geopolitical balance
              DSSi believes the materials presented in the above strategic scenario analysis
              substantiate these conclusions.


              ADDENDUM—6 NOVEMBER, 2001
              Similar to the conclusions presented in the above scenario analysis, President
              Bush today warned the public of Al-Qaida’s global ambition and quest for
              nuclear weapons. Thus, this material is made available to assist the public in
              understanding the significance of unfolding events. In reviewing our
              assessment, please keep in mind the following:


              These are cautionary scenarios. We are not being critical about US response to
              the attacks; we are critical about playing into Al-Qaida’s hands.
              The stakes in this conflict are incredibly high. While the terror attacks are
              horrible, they are not over. If Al-Qaida can’t accomplish their goal of forcing
              the U.S. out of the Middle East, then they will likely conduct operations
              intended to cause catastrophic damage and loss of life. It remains an option
              for them to try to do as much damage as possible to plunge the U.S. economy
              into a deep depression, and subsequently force attention to return home.
              The U.S. public ‘will’ remains untested. Pearl Harbor was a ‘one off’—the
              conflict didn’t strike deep into the U.S. What price are we willing to pay for
              our interests ‘over there’?
              Focus is critical. Petroleum is essential to protect, and ‘losing’ the Middle
              East, even if not by the design of Al-Qaida, has serious consequences. The U.S.
              homeland is unprepared for domestic attacks. The ‘top down’ approach isn’t
              going to work—the government can incentivize through tax exemptions, and
              respond to crises, but cannot always predict, protect, and prevent. That’s up
              to individual Americans and U.S. companies to do.
              Rules of engagement. Right now, the U.S. has the ‘moral authority’ of having
              been the victim. The U.S. must maintain that moral authority, which is why
              control in the military response is a critical issue.
              Military response. The U.S. military is still making a number of key
              assumptions—the U.S. feels it has the initiative, and that events are unfolding
              by its plan. It seems clear from looking at the history, planning, and
              preparation by Al-Qaida that such assumptions are likely inaccurate. Rather
              than discussing things the U.S. should do, it’s more clear what it should not
              do—put a lot of concentrated mass where it could be attacked, which means
              diversifying and dispersing bases and positions. The U.S. should stick to
              unconventional warfare—it affords more control and leaves fewer chances for
              mistakes, which is critical in maintaining the moral authority. The military
              response is not the primary ‘big picture’ approach, but the U.S. should be
              focusing on social, political, and economic issues in the region. Without
              paying attention to the non-military issues, the region will continue to
              generate such groups. All military action accomplishes—U.S., Israeli, Russian,
              etc.—is to kill the ‘weak’ and create smarter, more dangerous terrorists. That,
              in fact, is where Al-Qaida comes from, the survivors of decades of military and
              covert actions.
    • Gość: Yidele Iraq next! IP: *.budimex.com.pl 08.11.01, 19:36
      Iraq Trained Muslims to Attack U.S. Targets - Paper
      NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Iraqi government ran a secret camp to train Muslims
      from around the Middle East to attack targets in the United States and Europe,
      including training to hijack airliners, two Iraqi defectors said.

      In an interview with The New York Times published on Thursday and arranged by a
      group that opposes Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), the
      defectors also said they knew of a closely guarded compound within the camp,
      known as Salman Pak, where Iraqi scientists, led by a German, produced
      biological agents.

      The revelations by the defectors come amid a debate in the U.S. government over
      whether it should turn its attention to Iraq and its weapons program once it
      concludes the military campaign against the al Qaeda organization and the
      Taliban in Afghanistan (news - web sites).

      The United States believes that al Qaeda, led by Saudi-born dissident Osama bin
      Laden (news - web sites), is the main suspect behind the hijacked airliner
      attacks in the United States on Sept. 11 that killed thousands of people.

      The defectors
    • Gość: yidele Terrorists hate snowmen IP: *.budimex.com.pl 08.11.01, 19:41
      www.dailyrotten.com/bush_snowmen.mpg
    • Gość: Yidele World's best/worst job? IP: *.budimex.com.pl 08.11.01, 20:03
      Zoo sperm bank worker Mohd. Binatang bin Goncang wins "Worst Job in Singapore".

      Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS), which runs the Singapore Zoo,has set up a
      bank of sperm and animal tissue in order to help preserve species.

      The thankless task of collecting the sperm falls to Mr. Binatang's, starting
      his rounds at 4 a.m. "We start so early in the morning because a lot of the
      animals have 'morning glory' when they wake up, and it's easier to collect the
      sperm.

      Wearing rubber gloves and carrying a cooler box filled with ice and tupperware,
      Mr. Binatang, 25, told us that he'd just graduated from Singapore Polytechnic
      with a diploma in life sciences. He liked nature and animals, and thought that
      the Singapore Zoo would be the perfect place to work.

      "I never thought I'd be giving an orang-utan a hand job every morning," he said
      somewhat ruefully. "And he is the worst, he expects to be kissed first. "As we
      approached the orang-utan enclosure, we saw the Zoo's most famous resident
      lying casually on his back, hands behind his head, and sporting a huge erection.

      Applying the massage oil onto his gloves, he lingered outside the enclosure
      before entering and knelt before the orange beast. About 2 minutes' worth of
      squelching noises could be heard before Mr.Binatang emerged again.

      Next the tiger enclosure, the big cats were sprawled lazily on the grass verge,
      in a somewhat half-hearted manner as he put on a fresh set of gloves and
      entered the enclosure. "Here, kitty, kitty,kitty..."

      Moments later, he emerged with several tupperware full of viscous fluid.

      "Isn't it dangerous?" we asked.

      Mr. Binatang was silent for a while.

      "They know I'm not there as an enemy," he finally said, a glazed, faraway look
      in his eyes.

      Worked his way round the zoo, finished his rounds at 3 pm in the afternoon.
      Carrying out his duties with the tapirs, the rhinoceros, giraffe and the
      gorillas, amongst others. "Each animal is different," he said, removing his
      gloves, now speckled with traces of polar bear spunk.

      "The chimpanzees always want to be hugged afterwards. The elephant is the most
      tricky because of the size of its thing... sometimes I have to use both my arms
      to tug on it."

      "As you can expect it's really affecting my sex life. I can't help it. Each
      time my wife initiates sex, these ejaculating hippos keep floating through my
      mind."

      How long will he stay difficult to know, but deputy assistant director Lai Jee
      Seow thinks it is important to continue.

      "It's because the animals have gotten too used to Binatang coming over every
      morning to pull them off," said "Many of them now can't be bothered to engage
      in real sex."

      by Kway Png
    • Gość: Yidele Noam Chomsky - Radio B92, Belgrade interview IP: *.budimex.com.pl 08.11.01, 23:49
      Terrorist Attacks on America
      September 2001
      Source: ZNet
      Noam Chomsky interviewed by Radio B92, Belgrade
      QUESTION: Why do you think these attacks happened?

      CHOMSKY: To answer the question we must first identify the perpetrators of the
      crimes. It is generally assumed, plausibly, that their origin is the Middle
      East region, and that the attacks probably trace back to the Osama bin Laden
      network, a widespread and complex organization, doubtless inspired by bin Laden
      but not necessarily acting under his control. Let us assume that this is true.
      Then to answer your question a sensible person would try to ascertain bin
      Laden's views, and the sentiments of the large reservoir of supporters he has
      throughout the region. About all of this, we have a great deal of information.
      Bin Laden has been interviewed extensively over the years by highly reliable
      Middle East specialists, notably the most eminent correspondent in the region,
      Robert Fisk (London _Independent_), who has intimate knowledge of the entire
      region and direct experience over decades. A Saudi Arabian millionaire, bin
      Laden became a militant Islamic leader in the war to drive the Russians out of
      Afghanistan. He was one of the many religious fundamentalist extremists
      recruited, armed, and financed by the CIA and their allies in Pakistani
      intelligence to cause maximal harm to the Russians
      • Gość: Yidele Re: Noam Chomsky - Radio B92, Belgrade interview IP: *.budimex.com.pl 08.11.01, 23:52
        Do you expect U.S. to profoundly change their policy to the rest of the world?

        The initial response was to call for intensifying the policies that led to the
        fury and resentment that provides the background of support for the terrorist
        attack, and to pursue more intensively the agenda of the most hard line
        elements of the leadership: increased militarization, domestic regimentation,
        attack on social programs. That is all to be expected. Again, terror attacks,
        and the escalating cycle of violence they often engender, tend to reinforce the
        authority and prestige of the most harsh and repressive elements of a society.
        But there is nothing inevitable about submission to this course.





        After the first shock, came fear of what the U.S. answer is going to be. Are
        you afraid, too?

        Every sane person should be afraid of the likely reaction
    • Gość: Yidele Attorney-Client Privilege a victim of terror ! IP: *.budimex.com.pl 09.11.01, 20:20
      Government proposes rule to eavesdrop on phone calls between lawyers and
      clients in terrorist probe

      By PETE YOST
      The Associated Press
      11/8/01 6:38 PM


      WASHINGTON (AP)
    • Gość: Yidele Headlines IP: *.budimex.com.pl 11.11.01, 00:50
      Saddam Orders His Nuclear Commission to Prepare Iraq’s Nuclear Devices for
      Arming
      Bin Laden Brandishes Nuclear and Chemical Weapon
      Threat – If America Uses Them First
      Bin Laden’s Nov. 7 Statement to Pakistani
      Paper Coincides with Implicit Iraqi Nuclear Threat
      arried on Same Day in Baghdad “Babil” – Pointing to
      Saddam-Bin Laden Nuclear Coordination
      Bin Laden Threat Omitted Biological Weapons - Indicating He Does Not Claim
      Responsibility for Anthrax Attack in America
      Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance Claims
      Further Gains Saturday after Capturing Key Town of
      Mazar-e-Sharif and Its Airfield from Taliban
      First Opposition Victory Since Start of US Air Strikes Oct. 7
      Provides Land Bridge to US Bases in Uzbekistan and First Air Base inside
      Afghanistan for American Use Taliban Regrouping in Konduz
      With Stockpiled Scud Surface Missiles for Blasting
      Mazar and its Airport Israel Tank-Backed Unit Drives Friday Night Into Araqa,
      West of Jenin, Detains 12 Palestinian Terrorists and Destroys Home of Gunman Who
      Killed Three Israelis in Afula October 4 Trail of Killers of Hadas Abutbul,
      Shot Dead on Road Near Yabed Friday, Led to Same Village
      Jordan’s Abdullah Proposes Arab Countries Guarantee
      Israel’s Security and Integration in Mid East in Return for Palestinian State
      Saudi Arabia Greets Bush Refusal to Meet Arafat With Fury: FM Al-Faisal: It’s
      Enough to “Make a Sane Man Go Mad”
      Earlier, US National Security Adviser Rice: Bush Will Not See Arafat (at the
      UN) Because He “does not take seriously the US war on terrorism and the al-
      Qaeda terror network” Rice Added: “You cannot help us with al-Qaeda and
      hug Hezbollah – that’s not acceptable – or Hamas.” And: “There are
      responsibilities that come with being representative of the Palestinian people
      and that means…rooting out terrorists.”
      • q&e Please gie me answer 11.11.01, 01:09
        I think to stop Bin Ladin send him some social workers to help him to
        understand that in this fuzzy wuzzy world it is unacceptable, to blow up or
        kill Americans when, they are killing their own people with that stupid show
        Survivor on TV.

        Please tell me what you think!!!!
    • Gość: Yidele Are Bin Laden and Saddam in Nuclear Tune? IP: *.budimex.com.pl 11.11.01, 00:53
      Are Bin Laden and Saddam in Nuclear Tune?
      10 November: Three violently anti-American leaders suddenly burst into speech
      last Wednesday, November 7 – all in the hearing of the media. The most wanted
      terrorist in the world, Osama bin Laden, waved his nuclear-chemical warfare
      threat in an interview he granted to the Pakistani editor Hamid Mir, in a
      secret place north of Kabul; the commander of his al-Qaeda, the Egyptian Jihad
      Islami leader Dr Ayman al-Zawahri, pledged the “holy war” would continue, in an
      interview to the Qatar TV station al-Jazeera; and the semi-official Baghdad
      newspaper, Babil, reported a surprise visit by Saddam Hussein to the heads of
      Iraq’s nuclear program.
      intelligence sources believe that Saddam, during his November 6 visit, ordered
      his nuclear executives to make nuclear devices in stock ready for arming, the
      first time this order has ever been issued.
      A day later, bin Laden declared “…if America uses chemical or nuclear weapons
      against us then we may retort with chemical and nuclear weapons. We have the
      weapons as a deterrent.” Asked where he got the weapons from, he responded: “Go
      to the next question.”
      Our sources find indications that the three appearances were closely
      synchronized, pointing to a high degree of publicity – or even operational
      coordination between Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
      In 1997, before Saddam threw them out of the country, United Nations arms
      inspectors reported “credible intelligence” that Iraq had built and maintained
      three or four “implosion devices” that lacked only cores of enriched uranium to
      make 20-kilotons nuclear weapons. Since then, very little information on the
      types and quality of Iraq’s nuclear devices has reached US, British, French or
      Israeli intelligence agencies, but informed sources believe it safe to assume
      that Saddam has since made up his deficiency.
      Saddam’s November 6 visit took his nuclear program heads, including Dr. Fadhi
      al-Janabi its director, by surprise. It could only have taken place outside
      Baghdad, because at the end of July, according to military sources, Saddam
      moved his own and the nuclear commission’s offices to secret shelters outside
      the capital. At the same time, he massed troops on Iraq’s northern frontiers
      with Syria and Jordan, fearing a US attack on Iraq’s northern oil fields,
      especially Mosul and Kirkuk.Middle East intelligence sources add that Dr. al-
      Janabi only had three hours’ notice of the presidential visit. He was advised
      that the event would produce the most important communiqué ever issued on
      Iraq’s nuclear capability. Saddam arrived attended by two of his sons, Qusai,
      in the uniform of an Iraqi general and Odai, who edits and owns Babil.
      In covering the visit, Babil’s November 7 report contains two ominous
      references: one calling the researchers and engineers of the National Nuclear
      Program “warriors”; the second, a quote from Saddam’s words to them: “When the
      human brain is alive and has a big objective, it will not be diverted from its
      goal when constrained, but will search for more effective means to reach the
      goal.”
      Taken together, these references imply warm praise for the “warriors” of Iraq’s
      nuclear program for their success in developing ways and means of overcoming
      the obstacles heaped by international sanctions on Iraq’s road to attaining
      nuclear weapons.
      Bin Laden’s nuclear warning confirms October 12 disclosure that the Islamic
      terrorist had procured nuclear weapons, a report repeated later on this site.
      The White House stated it was taking bin Laden’s threat very seriously - and no
      wonder intelligence sources think it possible that the al Qaeda chief may have
      accumulated as many nuclear devices of unknown types as Saddam, with only a
      part of his nuclear stock kept in Afghanistan; some devices may even have been
      smuggled into the United States.
      military sources discern the omission by bin Laden and the Iraqi leader of any
      mention of biological weapons, probably to deny the Bush administration any
      pretext for tying either with the anthrax outbreak in the United States amid
      proliferating warnings of an impending smallpox attack.
      The latest FBI profiling of the party behind the anthrax assault as an
      American “loner” does not contradict the possibility of his being an agent for
      bin Laden or Iraqi military intelligence.
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