Images of the bodies of the Chechen terrorists. One sure fire way to end this Chechen terrorism is to end the war against them.
Society
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Oct 02
US ‘Special Forces’ set to fight the Farc in February 2003
With orders to assassinate the command structure of the rebel group. Interesting timing. February 2003. Is the US trying to secure more oil resources in the event of a failed attempt against Hussein or for the ensuing chaos during the interregnum? Colombia has substantial quantities of oil and the Farc have been siphoning off gasoline to fund their operations in addition to blowing up portions of the pipeline.
Two battalions of US Marine Jungle Expeditionary Forces have recently received deployment orders for insertion into Colombia this coming February, 2003.
According to reliable sources, the battalions, which with support will total roughly 1,100 men, will rotate in and out of southern Colombia, with orders to eliminate all high officers of the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), scattering those who escape to the remote corners of the Amazon. The FARC hierarchy has been the subject of intensive US intelligence scrutiny for several years. The offensive will mean that the US is fighting wars on three fronts simultaneously: Afghanistan, Iraq and Colombia.
I’d hate to see anyone die and I’m sure the Special Forces are a nice sort of violent mercenary group, but I hope the Special Forces get their asses handed to them. This sort of intervention is wrong and a violation of everything that is right.
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Oct 02
And I could be doing a lot more
From Common Dreams: Oppose Iraq War Like Gandhi, Says Indian Author Roy:
ROME – Indian novelist Arundhati Roy urged anti-war campaigners Wednesday to use civil disobedience to oppose military action against Iraq, just as Mahatma Gandhi used it to fight for India’s independence from British rule.
Roy, whose 1997 novel “The God of Small Things” won the Booker Prize in Britain and has sold six million copies in 40 languages, has become a prominent activist for human rights and environmental causes.
Speaking about actively opposing globalization, Roy told a news conference in Rome “The struggle has hit a dead-end. We need to re-imagine nonviolent resistance. It’s not simply about demonstrations on the streets and wearing masks.
“The answer lies in civil disobedience,” she said, detailing some of the boycotts and nonviolent protests Gandhi used to weaken Britain’s grip on the Indian subcontinent, which gained independence in 1947.
Asked whether she would advocate civil disobedience against a possible U.S. attack on Iraq, Roy said: “Absolutely, of course. That is where it is most urgently needed.”
“Those activists who in the past have gone into Palestine, or gone into Iraq and said ‘Bomb us, we’re here, we’re white people and we’re here’ — those are fantastic people,” she told Reuters.
Roy, 41, was in Italy to speak at a festival featuring films on a campaign of opposition to a hydro-electric dam project in India that has displaced millions of people.
“The idea that America or any other country has the right to organize a pre-emptive strike against Iraq on the suspicion that it might be developing nuclear weapons…it justifies anybody going to war against anybody,” she said.
“It justifies India going to war against Pakistan or Pakistan going to war against India based on any suspicion that they have. It’s the most outrageous thing you can possibly imagine.”
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Oct 02
The Weather
With the news of the Wellstone crash, the talking heads on the television have been reiterating that the weather was bad, the weather was bad, icing, icing, but WhatReallyHappened.com called bullsh*t on this. View the clear radar image yourself.
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Oct 02
Holy Shit
Just saw this and my stomach sank.
Sen. Paul Wellstone Dies in Plane Crash
I first thought was holy shit, and my second thought conditioned by long habit was ‘This close to election day? With the senate up for grabs?’. I just don’t know about this. It might be just coincidence, but what a coincidence. The Senate’s most liberal senator dies in a plane crash? A couple of weeks before election day. Remember that Paul Wellstone was one of the few senators to oppose the Iraq resolution. He actually changed his position at the last moment. Be sure to vote out all your war-mongers this election day!
I’m not saying there is necessarily anything nefarious about this just that this is incredibly strange. It might be recalled that during the last elections Democrat Mel Carnahan also died in a plane crash.
Just a reminder of some of the strange political deaths that have taken place during the two Bush administrations and the Clinton administration. Lots of unexplained plane crashes and ‘suicides’.
Paul Wilcher
His partially decomposed body was found in his home, still
seated on the toilet. According to the Washington Times,
“…he was investigating the theory of an ‘October Surprise’
conspiracy during the 1980 federal election campaign. He had
been interviewing an inmate who claimed to have piloted
George Bush to Paris so he could secretly seek to delay the
release of 52 American hostages in Iran.”
Sid Adger
Mr. Adger, a Houston oil supply company executive and Bush
family friend, died in 1996 of unknown causes. Adger was the
mysterious businessman who approached General James Rose and
asked him to help George W. Bush avoid Vietnam by
recommending him for a pilot position with the National
Guard.
General James Rose
General Rose recommended George W. Bush for a pilot position
with the Texas National Guard. He died of unknown causes in
1993. He was immediately buried and no autopsy was
performed.
Senator John Tower
He was appointed by the Reagan/Bush Administration to chair
the bipartisan committee to investigate the Iran/Contra
scandals. He directed the Tower Report and had all the Iran
Contra documents that told the real story. He was killed in
an airplane crash later in Georgia in 1991. Also killed was
his daughter, Marian.
Mario Ruiz Massieu
An apparent suicide, Massieu was facing charges that he
laundered money for the cocaine cartels. A Houston, Texas
jury had found that $8 million in his bank accounts was paid
to him by cocaine cartels.
Ron Brown
The Commerce Secretary died on April 3, 1996, in an Air Force jet carrying Brown and 34 others, including 14 business executives on a trade mission to Croatia, crashed into a mountainside. The Air Force, in a 22-volume report issued in June of 1996, confirmed its initial judgment that the crash resulted from pilot errors and faulty navigation equipment At the time of Brown’s death, Independent Counsel Daniel Pearson was seeking to determine whether Brown had engaged in several sham financial transactions with longtime business partner Nolanda Hill shortly before he became secretary of commerce.
Charles Meissner
Following Ron Brown’s death, John Huang was placed on a Commerce Department contract that allowed him to retain his security clearance
by Charles Meissner. Shortly thereafter, Meissner died in the crash of a small plane. He was an Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Economic Policy.
William Colby
Retired CIA director was found dead on May 6,1996 after his wife reported him missing on April 27,1996. Apparently, Colby decided to go on a impromptu canoeing excursion and never returned. Colby who had just started writing for Strategic Investment newsletter, worried many in the intelligent community. Colby’s past history of divulging CIA secrets in the past were well known. Strategic Investor had covered the Vince Foster suicide and had hired handwriting experts to review Foster’s suicide note.
Scary stuff. You can’t trust the powers that be to not murder or assassinate others.
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Oct 02
Building the Iraq sham
From NY Times: Pentagon Sets Up Intelligence Unit:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and his senior advisers have assigned a small intelligence unit to search for information on Iraq’s hostile intentions or links to terrorists that the nation’s spy agencies may have overlooked, Pentagon officials said today.
Curious. So, Rumsfeld wants to set up a team who won’t fail to fabricate ‘evidence’ against Hussein.
Some officials say the creation of the team reflects frustration on the part of Mr. Rumsfeld, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz and other senior officials that they are not receiving undiluted information on the capacities of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq and his suspected ties to terrorist organizations.
But officials who disagree say the top civilian policy makers are intent on politicizing intelligence to fit their hawkish views on Iraq.
In particular, many in the intelligence agencies disagree that Mr. Hussein can be directly linked to Osama bin Laden and his network, Al Qaeda, or that the two are likely to make common cause against the United States. In addition, the view among even some senior intelligence analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency is that Mr. Hussein is contained and is unlikely to unleash weapons of mass destruction unless he is attacked.
Some sort of turf war between the Defense Department and the CIA.
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Oct 02
Interesting point
From Stratfor.com:
The fact that the event is taking place in Moscow underscores Russia’s vulnerability to militant attacks.
Russian President Vladimir Putin — who has earned a reputation for being tough on Islamists and militants and repeatedly has ruled out negotiations with Chechen separatists — well may issue orders for law enforcers to storm the Sharikopogshipnik theater. If so, high casualties are likely.
The case will have a direct impact on intensifying fighting in Chechnya. It also could lead to a cross-border raid into Georgia, which the Kremlin accuses of harboring Chechen militants and providing them a base from which to attack Russian targets. Georgia, however, listens to Washington, not Moscow — and it remains to be seen whether Washington allows Russia to retaliate.
Nevertheless, their shared exposure to militant attacks likely will foster even further cooperation between Russia and the United States on some issues.
Washington previously confirmed links between al Qaeda and the Chechen independence movement, and Stratfor sources within the Russian foreign ministry say the latest development already is shaping Moscow’s diplomatic strategy. They say Moscow will pressure Washington to refocus its efforts on al Qaeda and drop plans to attack Iraq. Few outside the Bush administration believe Iraq has substantial links to al Qaeda. Russia wants to emphasize that, in the aftermath of the Bali bombing and now the Moscow hostage situation, al Qaeda poses a clear and present danger to all countries.
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Oct 02
The Dumbbell of Evil, Israel and the United States, reach out to Russia
The Bush regime would like to bring Russia back in line to support its Iraq resolution in the UN. Israel is, as Noam Chomsky puts it, “an offshore US military base”. I’d imagine the US would now not only be silent if Russia wanted to level Chechnya, but they’re probably now eager to lend a helping hand with the bloody business.
Israel’s outstretched hand: Israel: Chechen Terrorists Linked To Al Qaeda:
How convenient.
Chechen rebels holding hundreds of hostages in a Moscow theater, including Americans and other foreigners, may have links to the al-Qaeda terrorist network of Osama bin Laden, an Israeli expert said here on Thursday, as Israel offered its assistance to Russia. …
There is a feeling that the two countries are opposing the same kind of Islamic terrorism,” Hoffman said in a telephone interview. “This will strengthen those ties.”
WASHINGTON – President Bush , in a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, offered U.S. assistance in the Moscow hostage crisis and said “this is a time of solidarity between the United States and Russia.”
I doubt Bush can even spell SOLIDARITY.
Bush placed the call “to express America’s support for Russia in this hostage takeover. He said the United States was prepared to help Russia with whatever Moscow needed, and this for the two nations to work closely together, the spokesman said.
Asked if the situation was terrorism-related, Fliescher replied, “It’s clearly terrorists.”
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Oct 02
Maybe the War is not delayded after all
I’m guessing the US will attack Iraq at all costs. If the Bush regime loses momentum it’ll be even harder to justify an Iraq attack in the future. Bush says military preparing for Iraq attack