News for May 29, 2006

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Reports of Over 3,000 Killed by Earthquake in Indonesia (May 29, 2006) - “The area struck by the quake is densely-populated. The Indonesian Red Cross estimates some 200,000 people fled their homes after it hit early on Saturday morning.” According to a BBC report, an earthquake measuring about 6.2, has claimed the lives of more than 3,000 people in Indonesia on Saturday. The quake hit around 25km (15 miles) south of the city of Yogyakarta, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The hospitals in the area have been overwhelmed by the thousands of people injured, and many are feared to be still trapped under the rubble. In addition, the quake may have triggered the Mount Merapi volcano, which is also part of the Pacific “ring of fire.” The report stated, “there was an eruption soon after the quake which sent debris some 3.5km (2 miles) down its western side.” more...
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Iran Seeks Anti-U.S. Axis Middle East News Line (May 26, 2006) - Iran aims to form an axis of powerful nations against the United States [U.S.]. Officials said Iran has sought to recruit a coalition that would oppose U.S. interests in the Middle East and Central Asia. They said the alliance would include nuclear powers. “China, Russia, India and Iran are capable of establishing a pole of major powers in Asia, opposing the policies of America,” Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Maj. Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi said. Addressing the heads of the Basij militia in Teheran on May 9, Safavi said Iran could forge an international alliance to foil U.S. interests. The general envisioned a clash of such an axis with the U.S. and its allies.
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Abbas: Terrorists are “Our Heroes” Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook - Palestinian Media Watch (May 25, 2006) - Israelis leaders anxiously look to Mahmoud Abbas [Abu Mazen] as a potential peace partner, largely because of his moderate statements in English. However, his Arabic statements continue to show admiration for even the most depraved terrorists. Likewise, Abbas rejects terror for tactical reasons only–not because it is immoral. During a television interview this week, Abbas twice referred to those terrorists serving “tens of life sentences” in Israeli jails as “our heroes.” The terrorists who are serving “tens of life sentences” are those arch terrorists who have personally killed tens of Israelis, and are sentenced to one life sentence for each murder. These are the people whom Mahmoud Abbas calls “our heroes.” In the statement on Palestinian Authority [PA] TV about the jailed terrorists’ recent attempts to bring peace between the Fatah and Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas expressed his satisfaction with the: “initiative of our brothers, our jailed heroes, who have presented a similar initiative [for dialogue]…the initiative proves that these heroes, who are sentenced to tens of life sentences, feel too that the homeland is in danger...” [PA TV May 23, 2006] As Palestinian Media Watch has reported in the past, even in his so-called “condemnations” of terror attacks, Abbas has always been careful in Arabic not to condemn terror because it is evil or immoral. He has criticized suicide terror only because it hurts the PA cause, as he did after the December 2005 suicide attack that killed five in Netanya. Israeli and Western leaders are so eager to find a viable partner for peace that they often mistake PA leaders’ “lip service” in English as statements of truly peaceful intentions. But as PMW has reported for the past decade, the only way to understand these leaders’ real opinions is to pay attention to what they are telling their own people in Arabic. These are the only messages that count.
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“Bush, Britain and the Jews Can [Go] Explode” (May 19, 2006) - The following are excerpts from a speech by Syrian cleric Sheikh Kuraym Rajeh, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on May 14, 2006. *Clip # 1139–Syrian Cleric Kuraym Rajeh in a Damascus Event in Support of Palestinians: Sheikh Kuraym Rajeh: “Hamas won [the elections], with Syria standing by it–in front of it, behind it, to its right, and to its left, and Bush can [go] explode...Bush can [go] explode, and all of Britain can [go] explode, along with all its supporters from among the Jews. “The Jews must know that they will definitely be defeated. The hypocrites should also know...The leaders who tremble and fear for their thrones must also know that these thrones will not help them. These thrones will not spare them anything. This hollow drum will be to no avail on the day the real drum–the drum of Jihad–is beaten. “This nation must devour these hypocrites and trample them underfoot.”
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Iran Promises ‘Historic Slap’ to Any Attacker; has ‘Mastered Nuclear Cycle’ (May 25, 2006) - Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad boasted Wednesday that the Islamic republic had mastered the entire nuclear fuel cycle and that it would give an “historic slap” to any attacker. “Today, Iran has mastered the entire nuclear fuel cycle, from start to finish, thanks to young Iranian scientists,” the president said in a speech in the southwestern border town of Khorramshahr. “The enemies are looking to plot and want to create differences among Iranians to stop us getting our rights,” Ahmadinejad said. “But if they do the slightest damage to the Iranian people, if they commit the slightest aggression, they will receive an historic slap.” The president was speaking during commemorations of the 1982 recapture from Iraqi forces of Khorramshahr, one of the bloodiest battles of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.
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Bush vows to protect Israel from Iran (May 25, 2006) - US President George W. Bush has provided Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with a strong American commitment to protect Israel in case it is attacked by Iran. In a joint press conference following their Tuesday White House meeting, Bush said that “Israel is a close friend and ally of the United States, and in the event of any attack on Israel, the United States will come to Israel’s aid. “The United States is strongly committed, and I’m strongly committed, to the security of Israel as a vibrant, Jewish state.” When asked about the options the US sees in dealing with Iran’s nuclear threat, Bush stressed the need for diplomacy and said that efforts are being made to convince Russia that Iran is “showing no good faith.” Olmert would not go into the details of his conversation with Bush regarding Iran, but he said after the meeting that what he had heard from the president “gives me reason to be satisfied.” In his speech to Congress on Wednesday, Olmert said there was no time to wait when dealing with Iran. He also stressed that the measure for success of the international community in this issue would be the results, not the intentions, saying, “If we don't take Iran's bellicose rhetoric seriously now, we will be forced to take its nuclear aggression seriously later.”
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Abbas gives Hamas 10 days to accept ‘67 lines (May 25, 2006) - Referendum to be held in 40 days if deal not reached. In a dramatic announcement, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday he will call a national referendum on the parameters of a future Palestinian state if no agreement is reached with Hamas within 10 days. If the deadline expires, Abbas said, he would call a referendum within 40 days on a proposal to accept Palestinian statehood in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem. “If you don’t reach an agreement within 10 days, I’m going to present the document to a referendum in 40 days. Within 40 days I will ask the people,” Abbas told a large gathering at his headquarters in Ramallah. A senior Hamas official said the group accepts the proposal from Abbas to hold a referendum on accepting a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem if an agreement between Palestinian factions is not reached within 10 days. “Returning to the people is one of the most important principles in democracy,” said Abdel Aziz Duaik, the Hamas speaker of parliament. Abbas said earlier that internal tensions were jeopardizing their people’s aspirations. “This crisis, everyone is feeling the danger,” he said. “Our national plan is in jeopardy.” more...
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U.S., Israel ‘in agreement’ on Iran (May 25, 2006) - President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert are in “full agreement” regarding methods to confront Iran’s suspected nuclear program, both leaders said yesterday at a joint press conference in Washington. But Bush stopped short of endorsing Olmert’s plan to withdraw from most of Judea and Samaria, which borders Israel’s major population centers, downgrading the proposed evacuation to a “bold [idea]” that “could be an important step” toward peace. Still, the Israeli media today largely claimed Bush is in support of the withdrawal. Olmert had sought U.S. recognition for new borders he wishes to create after implementing his evacuation, and, according to sources in Olmert’s office, had hoped to gain American financial support for the withdrawal plan. Olmert, speaking to reporters following his White House meeting with Bush, said he believes Iran will cross “the technological threshold” on its path to nuclear capability in about a year. The Israeli leader expressed concern over Iran’s nuclear ambitions, insisting it was not too late to prevent the Islamic republic’s atomic program. more...
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Sources: ‘Iran believes Israel to strike within year’ (May 24, 2006) - Iran estimates Israel will strike Tehran’s nuclear facilities within a year, and has been planning retaliatory attacks against Israeli, American and British interests, according to senior Lebanese political sources. The sources, speaking to WorldNetDaily on condition of anonymity, said Iran believes Israel has been practicing raids in Iraq. They said Tehran has held a series of meetings with leaders of the Hezbollah terror group – based along Lebanon's border with Israel – about attacking the Jewish state in the event of any Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear sites. The sources said while Iran is expecting lone Israeli military action, Iranian intelligence estimates the Jewish state is coordinating a planned attack with the U.S. “The Iranians currently are operating under the working assumption that Israel is going to strike in less than a year and that this strike is highly coordinated with America,” said a senior Lebanese politician. Lebanese political sources said Iran has been attempting to organize Shiite tribes in Iraq to stage repeated large-scale attacks against American and British forces stationed there during any Israeli strike. They said Iran believes attacks in Iraq, including hits against soft targets such as oil fields, will prompt a British or American retreat. The Lebanese sources said Iran claims it has intelligence information indicating Israel has been carrying out military exercises related to an attack against it from bases in Kurdish sections of Iraq. Israeli security officials said the claims are baseless. more...
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Osama’s biographer says nukes in U.S. (May 24, 2006) - Al-Qaida has smuggled tactical nuclear weapons and uranium into the U.S. across the Mexican border and is planning to launch a major terrorist attack using a combination of nukes and dirty nukes, according to an interview with Osama bin Laden’s biographer, Hamid Mir, in WorldThreats.com. The information confirms reports previously published in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin and in a new book by Paul L. Williams, “Dunces of Doomsday.” “I came up with this conclusion after eight years of investigation and research in the remote mountain areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan. I traveled to Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Syria, Uzbekistan and Russia and met dozens of people,” Mir said. “I interviewed not only al-Qaida operatives but met scientists and top U.S. officials also. I will have the details in my coming book. At least two al-Qaida operatives claimed that the organization smuggled suitcase nukes inside America. But I have no details on who did it. But I do have details about who smuggled uranium inside America and how.” Mir claims his information is based not only on what al-Qaida operatives, including bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, told him, but also upon his own independent research as a journalist. Mir says his upcoming book, a biography of bin Laden, will disclose al-Qaida’s nuclear attack plans. more...

I think there is a plan by our nation’s enemies to attack on several tiers over time. I believe it is starting subtly with the selling off of America and outsourcing while allowing incredible amounts of illegal immigration. This will slowly remove borders and integrate America like Europe has been doing. This will all lead to a one-world government system like Bush and the others have been pushing for. With Iran and Russia both opening their own oil trading not based on the US dollar, it further undermines the U.S. position in the world financially. This is their desire so that we are weaker. The nuclear option I believe could very well be in place. With 10,000 illegal immigrants PER DAY (only about 3,000 caught per day) there’s plenty of opportunity to physically get the bombs across. Russia has the nuclear capability and is well known for selling off their military hardware, with all the oil money in Muslim extremist hands, I’m sure a deal has been made behind the scenes. Russia is publicly with China in support of Iran, or at least not pushing sanctions. Clearly there is a relationship there. And with Russia ‘becoming a Muslim state,’ is it any surprise that they would align themselves with Iran? Our nation is hated by these groups and they would like nothing better than to get the U.S. out of their hair and the world along with Israel. It’s all lining up just as the Bible says!

Larouche Warns of Cheney Plans to Launch Iran Strike in June (May 26, 2006) - Lyndon LaRouche issued a public warning today, that an ever more desperate Bush Administration, led by Vice President Dick Cheney, is seriously planning a preventive military strike against Iran sometime between now and early July. The warning is based on a series of reports from well-placed military and security sources in the United States and Europe, who point to a particular convergence of developments over this period. First, European security sources have issued dire warnings of serious terrorist disruptions of the scheduled World Cup soccer tournament, which takes place in a dozen German cities from early June through early July. These widely publicized soccer events are believed to be targeted by so-called hooligan gangs, neo-Nazi youth, and possibly by “Islamist” organizations, according to these security specialists. LaRouche pointed out that all of these countergangs have strong ties to the same European Synarchist financial circles who financed the Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, and Vichy fascist organizations during the 1922-1945 period. The heirs of those Synarchist financiers today are actively involved in promoting a resurgence of a new international fascist apparatus, which was already linked to the Madrid, Spain bombings of March 11, 2004, and which capability extends to Italy and parts of South America, as well as into the Islamic world. This Synarchist apparatus also has special capabilities inside Mexico, dating back to the Mussolini and Hitler period, which still remain deeply embedded in the political and social fabric of the country. U.S. military and intelligence sources have also reported that, during the month of June, three American and one French naval aircraft carrier group will be converging on Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf waters near Iran. Thus, military assets will be in place, during that time frame, to launch a short-notice attack, ostensibly in “retaliation” for terrorist actions which would be linked to the Teheran regime. more...
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Video: Water Car Inventor Murdered 16 min. 23 sec. Video (May 25, 2006) - Here’s another inventor who was just murdered (I wonder by who?) He has the same thing, water producing hydrogen, but not with the energy drain of electrolysis. Watch the video for the explanation.
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Where Have All the Icebergs Gone? (May 25, 2006) - The British-funded Ice Patrol is usually busy in May, protecting shipping from rogue bergs. But it’s all gone alarmingly quiet this year, as Michael Park discovers. A mere 1,000 feet above the frigid waters of the North Atlantic the debate began in earnest. The pilot of the US Coast Guard’s sturdy C130 plane believed the object which had appeared on both of the plane’s radars was an iceberg. One of two young but experienced ice observers on board disagreed. To definitively identify the target, the plane started to descend to a mettle-testing 400 feet. This was part of the mission, and what is demanded of the staff of the International Ice Patrol (IIP) by the hundreds of ships that traverse this relatively small part of the ocean and rely on its findings for their safety. Ever since the Titanic struck what was actually one of more than 350 icebergs drifting amid the northern Atlantic shipping lanes in April, 1912, the US Coast Guard has undertaken annual iceberg patrols to help protect passenger and freight vessels that sail through the congested waters east of Canada and down the east coast of America. “Before we started there were 113 recorded sinkings caused by icebergs,” says Michael Hicks, the present Commander of the International Ice Patrol. “There have only been 19 since (omega) the Titanic sank, and all of those were vessels that chose to ignore our warnings.” In the past, in a single year, more than 2,000 icebergs have been spotted, tracked and on occasion ineffectually bombed by aircraft, in order to prevent calamitous disasters at sea. Yet in other years, including this one, few if any bergs manage to migrate south from the Arctic Circle. If the unidentified floating object below the approaching plane is in fact an iceberg, it will be the first one seen in the shipping lanes since May 2005, a situation perplexing to oceanographers but emboldening to those shouting loudly about the effects of climate change. “I’ve been trying to understand the variability for years,” says Don Murphy the IIP’s veteran oceanographer. “And every year that goes by I get another year of experience and realise how little we really know.” more...
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More Uncertainty on World Markets (May 24, 2006) - The jitters sweeping global markets have reasserted themselves in Europe, as worries about the continent’s economies triggered fresh falls. Europe’s main share indexes all fell sharply, with the FTSE 100, the Cac 40 and the Dax all losing more than 1.7%, despite earlier solid gains in Asia. Worries about inflation and interest rates overshadowed profits growth. Analysts expect volatile trading to continue after poor economic figures prompted a global sell-off last week. Weighing on the markets is the fear that higher interest rates needed to rein in inflation could kill off the global economic recovery in the process. Higher borrowing costs put a brake on consumer spending and corporate investment, squeezing profits and jeopardising growth. more...

Iran Deploys Its War Machine (May 24, 2006) - Iran’s strategic planners are acutely aware that a military confrontation with the technologically more advanced US Army would be as rapid and multi-fronted as the Iran-Iraq War was static and slow-paced. Quite simply, there would not be a single front. Neither the US nor Israel has ruled out taking military action against nuclear-related targets in Iran if ongoing diplomatic efforts to freeze Tehran’s nuclear program do not prove successful. Accordingly, Iran has been quietly restructuring its military, while carrying out a series of military exercises testing its new military dogma. In December, more than 15,000 members of the regular armed forces participated in war games in northwestern Iran’s strategically sensitive East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan border provinces that focused on irregular warfare carried out by highly mobile and speedy army units. In another telling development, a second exercise was launched in the majority-Arab province of Khuzestan, reportedly aimed at quelling insurgencies in areas subject to ethnic unrest and prone to foreign influence. Involving 100,000 troops, the exercise provided a taste of how the Islamic Republic would respond to further disturbances in the strategic, oil-rich province. The exercise came on the heels of news that the irregular Basij forces that led Iran's offensives against Iraq were being bolstered by so-called Ashura battalions with riot-control training. It is all part of a fundamental transition that Iran's Revolutionary Guard (RG) is undergoing as it moves away from focusing on waging its defense of the country on the borders - unrealistic in view of the vast territory that requires securing and the gulf separating Iranian and US military capabilities - and toward drawing the enemy into the heartland and defeating it with asymmetrical tactics. more...
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Iran Test-Fires Long-Range Missile (May 24, 2006) - Iran conducted a test launch Tuesday night of the Shihab-3 intermediate-range ballistic missile, which is capable of reaching Israel and US targets in the region, Israel Radio reported. The test came hours before Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with US President George W Bush in Washington to discuss the Iranian threat. Military officials said it was not clear if this most recent test indicated an advance in the capabilities of the Shihab 3. They said the test was likely timed to coincide with the Washington summit and with comments made by Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah during celebrations in Beirut marking the 6th anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon. more...
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Montserrat’s Volcano Threatens Region with Tsunamis (May 24, 2006) - Around 7:20am, Saturday, 20 May 2006, residents of Montserrat witnessed the first dome collapse pyroclastic flow as it reached the sea. All eyes turned to the sky. Scientists at the Montserrat Volcano Observatory (MVO) say they recorded signals of increased activity around 6am, Saturday morning. Expecting that this dome collapse episode could go on for hours, the biggest concern was the possibility of explosive periods triggering pyroclastic flows into Tyres Ghaut, which is the upper reaches leading into the Belham River Valley. Residents of Salem, Olveston, and Old Towne reported stones falling in those communities. Head of the MVO, Dr. Sue Loughlin, confirmed that there was heavy ashing with accompanying small stones on the northwestern side of the island, especially in these villages. more...
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This is one of many indicators that the tectonic plates are becoming more active around the world. Volcanoes are waking up all over the place. This could mean more potential for earthquakes all around the 'ring of fire' and elsewhere. The Pacific Northwest, San Francisco, and L.A. could be hit at any time. There is also the dangers in the Pacific Northwest of St. Helens and Mt. Rainier, both volcanoes, both with increased tremors and in the case of St. Helens, small eruptions and the rebuilding dome.

Ark. Residents Urged to Prepare for Quake (May 24, 2006) - Federal and state emergency officials are encouraging Arkansas residents to prepare now for a possible earthquake. The United States Geological Survey considers Arkansas among the states with a “high earthquake risk” because of activity in the New Madrid fault zone. The fault runs from Marked Tree to near Cairo, Ill., and while it remains active, most of the quakes are too small to be felt at the surface. Win Henderson, a spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency at Little Rock, said Monday the agency wanted to issue a reminder to residents because catastrophic earthquakes are so unpredictable. “It could be tomorrow. It could be 60 years. We don’t know,” Henderson said. In 1811-12, the faults produced some of the strongest temblors ever known to have struck the continental United States. Scientists say similar quakes could kill and injure thousands from St. Louis to Memphis, Tenn., and into northwest Mississippi, but they’re uncertain about how much strain and movement is occurring along the fault zone. more...
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Forecast Warns of Shower of Frogs (May 22, 2006) - This may be the summer of drought - but instead of rain over the next few months people in Yarmouth have been told to brace themselves for a downpour of … frogs. That is the unusual conclusion of a senior weather forecaster who has labelled the resort as the most likely spot for a downpour of BFOs - bizarre falling objects. The town was showered in two-inch sprats in August 2000 while other BFO outbreaks recorded around the country in previous centuries include larger fish, tomatoes and even coal. Recent changeable weather conditions such as storms, droughts and sudden downpours have vastly increased the chances of objects falling from the sky, according to Jim Dale, of British Weather Services, who says they can be caused by heat and air pressure coupled with atmospheric instability. He has been studying BFOs for a new report and has concluded that outbreaks could occur in east Manchester, Ipswich - but are most likely in Yarmouth. He told the EDP: “People may be surprised to hear this happens but while it might be unusual it really does. more...
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Scientists Say They Have Cleared Technical Hurdle in Fusion Research (May 22, 2006) - Physicists working in the United States believe they have cracked an important problem facing man-made nuclear fusion, touted as the cheap, safe, clean and almost limitless energy source of the future. In fusion, atomic nuclei are fused together to release energy, as opposed to fission -- the technique used for nuclear power and atomic bombs -- where nuclei are split. In a fusion reactor, particles are rammed together to form a charged gas called a plasma, contained inside a doughnut-shaped chamber called a tokamak by powerful magnetic coils. A consortium of countries signed a deal last year to build the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in southern France as a testbed for an eventual commercial design. But many experts have been shaking their heads at the many challenges facing the ITER designers. One of them is a phenomenon called edge localised modes, or ELMs. These are sudden fluxes or eddies in the outer edge of the plasma that erode the tokamak’s inner wall -- a highly expensive metal skin that absorbs neutrons emitted from the plasma. Erosion means that the wall has to be replaced more often, which thus adds hugely to costs. Eroded particles also have a big impact on the plasma performance, diminishing the amount of energy it can deliver. Writing on Sunday in the British journal Nature physics, a team led by Todd Evans of General Atomics, California, believes that the problematic ELMs can be cleverly controlled. They found that a small resonant magnetic field, derived from special coils located inside a reactor vessel, creates “chaotic” magnetic interference on the plasma edge, which stops the fluxes from forming. more...
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Al-Qaeda's de facto 'boardrooms' are hosted by Saudi and U.A.E. Sheiks (May 23, 2006) - When the 9/11 Commission finally released its report on the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Flight 93, there were 28 pages redacted by the government for reasons of “national security.” The information centered around Saudi Arabian and Emirate sheiks of the U.A.E. Now, a shocking revelation about complicity between the US State Department and those Sheiks, who also fund al-Qeada, may prove to be what those redacted pages are, at least in part, about. This information concerns, of all things, incredibly, falconry, the practice of hunting with birds. ...Parrot explained to me how falconry of all things has become a means of funding al Qaeda, of supplying that terrorist organization that murdered 3,000 people on US soil in 2001 with money, vehicles, equipment, logistical support and just about anything al Qaeda needs while the US State Department runs interference for the Sheiks. “The Sheiks fly into hunting camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan on C-130 military cargo planes filled with SUV’s, supplies and even steamer trunks full of cash. They meet with al Qaeda leaders or bin Laden himself while in these camps and discuss their Muslim obligations and unity. When they leave, they leave all the vehicles, supplies and any other useful equipment behind as donations to al Qaeda for its efforts at jihad,” he told me. “I know this because I was there.” Parrot, who even found himself spending nights in the home of an al Qaeda arms dealer, says the US State Department covers these transactions up for the Saudi and Emirate Sheiks much to America’s peril. He makes a convincing case. “Everyone remembers about the Cruise missiles fired to get bin Laden in Afghanistan after the suicide attack on the USS Cole,” he said. “That was a failure, they missed and did not kill bin laden in August 1998. But the mainstream press has almost ignored how there was a botched second opportunity firing the weapon because some Sheiks from the UAE were allegedly hunting in the area.

“Point of fact, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed - a son of Zayed, was tipped off about a second US military strike in process against bin Laden by NSC adviser Richard Clarke,” says Parrot. “Mohammed then tipped off his brother, Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed, who was with bin Laden in the falconry camp in Afghanistan at the time, that an attack was in the works. Clarke called off the attack to save the lives of the key Sheiks of the UAE precisely because of the financial interests the Sheiks have with Washington interests.” The attack was stalled and delayed long enough for bin Laden to escape even though CIA field operatives had him in their sites for a missile attack. Clarke subsequently brokered a deal as an agent for Lockheed-Martin worth 6.4 billion dollars to provide the UAE with 80 F-16 fighter jets. “This is not just about falcons. This has about as much to do with falcons, as pigskin has to do with the Super Bowl. It is true that falcons are an essential component, without which, the hunting camps cease to exist. But more importantly: today’s royal falconry hunting camps which operate without passport or border controls, are month-long venues for clandestine meetings between legitimate Arab leaders, and today’s dark purveyors of organized terror,” Parrot told me angrily. “The same Sheik who wants to control US seaports meets with bin Laden and supplies him in these camps!” more...
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This story is one of the reasons I personally feel like there is really nothing that we can do. The people who are in power aren’t going to be removed from power. Especially those not in our nation whom we have no control over. When so many greedy people can be so easily bought out by oil money, what can we do even when united in voice together? The corruption is so integrated, that I’m sure the majority of the evil that goes on is still hidden in the shadows. Not to mention, you probably couldn’t get enough voices with stories like this because so many would just blow it off as flights of fancy. It is these secret groups that control the world’s nations and eventually sometime really soon, will bring them all together into a one-world government under the beast of Revelation.

The EU Incentives Proposal for Iran Is Rife with Hidden Dangers (May 20, 2006) - US undersecretary of state Nicholas Burns was being polite when he said Friday, May 19, that Washington was still looking at the European proposal of incentives, and promised to deliver the US response at the next US meeting with European negotiators in London this coming Thursday. He was referring to the EU proposal to persuade Iran to abandon uranium enrichment, the heavy water plant under construction at Arak and its ambitious nuclear “research” projects. These concessions would assure the world that Tehran was not pursuing nuclear weapons. But the package has already been repeatedly rejected by Iran, dismissed as “nuts and chocolates for gold.” According to DEBKAfile’s sources in the US capital, Washington also finds it unacceptable and has informed the Europeans that their package poses more dangers - even than the consortium Moscow proposes for a joint venture to enrich uranium up to low levels in Russia. The Bush administration accuses the Europeans of going behind America’s back to assemble an apparently innocuous proposal which is rife with hidden dangers. In the first place, not one, but several light water reactors are on offer. In the second, Iran will get an almost unlimited supply of fuel rods containing enriched uranium (up to 60%) for powering these reactors. Furthermore, the spent fuel contains fission products and plutonium which has military uses. more...
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A Hamas Ideologue Bares His Movement’s Secret Designs and Dilemmas (May 14, 2006) - Since elected to rule the Palestinians, the leaders of Hamas sound sometimes as though they are talking in different voices - depending on the place and occasion. While one appears to accept 1967 borders, another stands by the “right of refugees (1948) to return” - another formula for Israel’s destruction, like the demand for a Palestinian state ranging from “the river to the sea.” The tactic is transparent: Hamas, a designated Islamic terror group whose politburo chief resides in Damascus hopes to disarm the more susceptible countries of the West by apparently confused signals to end its government’s isolation and get frozen financial aid back on stream. But in their internal discourse, Hamas’ policy-makers are unwaveringly consistent in their aims. Prof. Abdel al Sather Qassam, university lecturer at Nablus a-Najah University, is a little-known figure to the outside world. However Israeli intelligence rates him as Hamas’ senior strategic ideologue and a highly influential voice in the Palestinian terror movement at large. Last week, he gave a group of leaders of the umbrella terrorist coalition in Gaza, the Popular Resistance Committees leader, by video broadcast from Nablus, a stern talking-to with some important new guidelines. One member of his audience was Jemal Semhadana, the PRC chief who was recently appointed commander of the new Hamas security service. Israeli intelligence monitors routinely listened in to the broadcast. DEBKAfile runs the gist of the Hamas professor’s briefing - obtained from our intelligence sources - because of his unusual frankness and the relevance of his guidelines for the immediate future. Prof. Qassam makes no distinction between Palestinian organizations, whether leftist, jihadist or semi-criminal, treating them as a single military force which, he maintains, for the war on Israel is a single entity which operates in unison. He admits to severe damage sustained by the Palestinian armed movement in the past year as a result of by systematic IDF military operations in Palestinian areas and the hindrance posed by Israel’s West Bank Wall (still only partially built.) According to the Hamas academic, the wall shot a large hole in the balance of terror the Palestinians had gained through its suicide terror attacks. Al Qassam puts his finger on the Palestinian terror movement’s primary predicament, the inability to make the transition from terror attacks to guerilla warfare. He reproves the Palestinians for their childish and primitive grasp of the nature of guerrilla war, because of which “We (the Palestinians) of all the organizations share the same difficulty in mounting a challenge to Israel from the West Bank.” more...
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