Gaddafi's Mad World

by Robert Fisk
March 26, 2004

TERROR WAR

We live, as the Arabs say, in interesting times. Today, our Prime Minister flies to Libya to pay homage at the court of Gaddafi. The man blamed for blasting two airliners - one American, one French - out of the sky, for sending weapons to the IRA, for invading Chad, killing a young British policewoman, murdering political opponents at home and abroad, who has himself been bombed by both the United States and Egypt, is to play host to our dear Prime Minister. Gaddafi of the Green Book meets Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara. I cannot wait.

Is it only the Arabs, I wonder, who have been asking the obvious question: how desperate can Mr Blair be to toady up to Gaddafi? Not that the Arabs dislike Gaddafi. They have a sneaking admiration for the man who walks out of the Arab League because it is irrelevant, who makes fun of his fellow Arab leaders for their pomposity, who survives all America's attempts to get rid of him - the 1985 US air raids were also intended to assassinate the Great Leader but killed his adopted daughter instead - even if he did once deport half the Palestinian refugees in Libya and told them to walk back to Palestine.

Like Saddam, Gaddafi has even unburdened himself of a work of literature - old monsters, it seems, tend to write epics in their dotage - which is called Escape to Hell and Other Stories. It should be essential reading on Air Blair today. I would certainly recommend a browse through the chapter entitled "Is Communism Truly Dead?" which suggests that a number of extraordinary events may occur now that the Soviet Union has collapsed.

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http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=5221

The Washington Times reports that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are developing a database that will allow private companies to submit lists of individuals to be screened for a connection to terrorism. The database will eventually allow private-sector entities, such as operators of critical infrastructure facilities or organizers of large events, to submit a list of persons associated with those events to the U.S. government to be screened for any nexus to terrorism. All of this won't be cheap either; total terror-related IT spending by US federal and state governments will run past $100 billion in 2004. But don't feel left out Europeans, since the EU is considering a terror database as well, although France and UK are reluctant to share intel.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/26/204249

BBC News is reporting that Israel is now deploying microdrone spy planes. These planes have a wingspan of 13 inches (33 cm), can be carried in a backpack, can be launched by a single soldier, and can even fly through windows. The next step in the drone wars?

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/26/1732244

SenseCam : nový produkt Microsoftu
26.3.2004
Microsoft uvedl na trh nové zařízení nazývané SenseCam. Je to fotoaparát určený k nošení na krku, který automaticky zaznamená až 2000 snímků denně. Vytváří tak automaticky vizuální deníček, který věrně zaznamenává veškeré aktivity svého nositele. Podle USA Today, který o tomto produktu nedávno přinesl zprávu, je ideální například pro situace, když vám při policejním vyšetřování policisté položí otázku :“Kde přesně jste byl ve středu 25.listopadu v 11 : 30, když došlo k té vraždě ?“. Je pravdou, že tyto situace v našem životě nejsou příliš běžné; SenseCam proto bude muset pro získání svých zákazníků přinést více přidané hodnoty. Dnešní doba sice deníčkům již příliš nepřeje, ale na druhé straně – narcistů, kteří budou považovat za nezbytné svůj život podrobně průběžně dokumentovat, je mezi námi stále dost a dost ! Samozřejmě připadá také v úvahu povinné nošení SenseCamů – např. pro nezletilé děti, delikventy podléhající trvalému policejnímu dozoru nebo vůbec pro pracovníky povinné absolvovat určité typy předem předepsaných aktivit. A můžeme jít ještě dále - ale to už by pro apoštoly Velkého bratra bylo příliš velké pokušení !
http://www.akademon.cz/news.asp

"Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy has called for congressional hearings into radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. The comments were made Mar. 23 to the Georgetown University Law Center's conference on video surveillance technology during a speech titled 'The Dawn of Micro Monitoring: Its Promise, And Its Challenges To Privacy And Security'. Leahy suggested that RFIDs may require federal regulation to ensure the public's privacy rights. Leahy is quoted as saying that the combination of RFIDs, sophisticated databases, networks and the Internet means that, 'We are on the verge of a revolution in micro-monitoring - the capability for the highly detailed, largely automatic, widespread surveillance of our daily lives.' He goes on to say that, 'We need clear communication about the goals, plans, and uses of the technology, so that we can think in advance about the best ways to encourage innovation, while conserving the public's right to privacy.' (Leahy's RFID speech transcript)"

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/26/1322234

A shadowy group that threatened to bomb the French rail network if not paid a large ransom has suspended its threats, French officials say.

But the group, which calls itself AZF, warned it could return with attacks worse than the Madrid train bombings, in a letter to the interior ministry.

"Pay up... or else France will surpass ingloriously the sad records of Spain," the AZF statement read.

It followed Wednesday's bomb find on a track between Paris and Switzerland.

A bomb disposal squad made the device safe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3567369.stm

Deep Cover: Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld's Secret Bunker:

Cheney himself still periodically disappears into "secure, undisclosed locations," with squads of bureaucrats, no doubt to "practice" emergency measures for the next terrorist attack -- the one that Iraq war leader General Tommy Franks tells us will cause "the unraveling of the Constitution" and the "militarizing of our country."

http://www.tmtmetropolis.ru/stories/2004/03/26/120.html

Clarkova kniha šlápla Bushově administrativě na kuří oko

Vladimír Stwora

24.3.2004

V těchto dnech vyšla v Americe kniha s názvem Against All Enemies - Proti všem, kterou napsal prezidentský poradce na bezpečnost a odborník na mezinárodní terorismus Richard Clark. Clark sloužil, počínaje Reagenem, čtyřem prezidentům a byl donedávna jedním z mála lidí, kterým Bushovo křídlo plně důvěřovalo. Byl mužem, který převzal rozhodování těsně po útoku 11. září. Condoleezza Rice ho ustanovila krizovým manažérem několik minut po útoku. On to byl, kdo nařídil dopravit Bushe do bezpečnostního protijaderného krytu bezprostředně po útoku. Clark se účastnil nejtajnějších porad nejužšího vedení, kam se dostane jen málokdo. Jeho svědectví je tedy autentické.

Ve své knize Clark ostře kritizuje Gerga Bushe, Donalda Rumsfelda a Paula Wolfowitze. Píše, že vůči al-Káidě byli tito lidé indiferentní, ale Irákem byli doslova posedlí. Už několik dnů po útoku nařídil Bush bezpečnostním složkám, aby našly vazby mezi Irákem a 11. zářím, a aby vypracovaly dokumenty potvrzující Saddamovu účast na tomto útoku.

"Bylo po 11. září a Bush, tak jako mnoho jiných Američanů, hledal obětního beránka - někoho, koho by bylo možno vybombardovat. Cestou do Situation Room si vzal Clarka stranou. 'Byl za tím Irák?', chtěl vědět. Požadoval, aby FBI a CIA shromáždily důkazy, že za 11. zářím stál Saddam. Stejně tak hledal zdůvodnění pro bombardování Iráku i Donald Rumsfeld. Na jedné ze schůzí po 11. září argumentoval, že Afghánistán a výcvikové tábory Osamy bin Ladena 'nenabízejí dostatek dobrých cílů'. 'Měli bychom zapracovat na Iráku,' řekl doslova Rumsfeld," uvádí Clark ve své knize Proti všem.

Clark dokonce vystoupil v nedělním televizním pořadu "60 minut", kde se nechal zpovídat moderátorkou, a kde znovu opakoval klíčové pasáže své knihy.

Clark se v knize nezříká osobní odpovědnosti. Stejně tak jako neviní pouze Bushe za 11. září. "I Clinton měl svůj podíl," říká. "Ani on nejednal dostatečně rozhodně v okamžicích, kdy jednat měl. I za Clintona už existovaly signály, že se al-Káida pokusí o útok velkého formátu."

Kniha ostře napadá zástupce tajemníka ministerstva obrany Paula Wolfowitze, jako šéfa týmu "Chyťte Saddama." Zmiňuje se o schůzce z dubna 2001, kde Wolfowitz odmítl Clarkovův návrh věnovat se al-Káidě: "Koho zajímá nějaký malý terorista v Afghánistánu," pravil prý tehdy Wolfowitz. "Skutečným nebezpečím je státem sponzorovaný Saddamův terorismus." Wolfowitz tam rovněž citoval z kontroverzních studií Laurie Mylroie, kde se tvrdí, že Saddam byl za útokem na WTC v roce 1993. Clark prý na to odpověděl: "Vyšetřovali jsme tu možnost. Ale nikdo nevěří, že za tím byl Saddam. Byla to al-Káida." Wolfowitzův tiskový mluvčí nazval tyto pasáže v knize výmyslem.

"V prvních měsících Bushovy vlády jsme opakovaně upozorňovali na nebezpečí plynoucí od al-Káidy," praví Clark ve své knize. "Ale administrativa byla k našim varováním hluchá a slepá. Státní žalobce John Ashcroft dokonce snížil prioritu boje s terorismem a namísto toho kladl důraz na boj proti drogám a násilným činům. To léto zabránil federální soudce několikrát agentům FBI odposlouchávat potenciální teroristy. "

Počátkem léta 2001 byli Clark a bezpečnostní služby opravdu silně znepokojeny zvýšenou komunikační aktivitou. Varovali Bushe, který byl v té době zrovna na svém ranči v Crawfordu v Texasu. Clark ale přiznává, že Bush nicméně nebyl spraven o možnosti unést letadlo a někam s ním narazit. Řekli mu pouze, že bezpečnostní služby zachytily stopu, že syn slepého šejka Omara Abdela Rahmana, který sedí za útok na WTC v roce 1993, prý v Afghánistánu shání podporu pro únos letadla a výměnu rukojmí za svého otce.

Načasování vydání knihy Proti všem nemohlo být lepší. Zrovna v době, kdy se rozjíždí volební kampaň, a do voleb je dostatečně dlouhá doba, aby to voličům došlo, a dostatečně krátká doba, na to, aby si to voliči pamatovali.

Clark byl veřejně degradován (a tedy ponížen) minulý rok. Následně opustil svou mocnou a dobře placenou pozici šéfa protiteroristického týmu. Můžeme tedy právem chápat jeho motivy, rozhodl-li se mluvit. Chtěl se pomstít. Ale možná za tím bylo něco víc. Teď se zase dostáváme na pole konspiračních teorií, ale nelze to přehlédnout. Co když v zákulisí už padlo rozhodnutí Bushe obětovat? Špinavou práci už odvedl, iráckou naftu Americe zajistil, pro Sharona zničil největšího rivala na Středním východě. Pravda, dokázal si při tom znepřátelit celý svět. Včetně přátel. Je na čase ho vyměnit. Konečně o nic nejde, ti, kteří skutečně vládnou, nic neztrácejí. Kerry je ze stejného těsta jako Bush, ale svět to o něm ještě neví. Dokonce je snad vhodnější, protože je přímo pokrevně spojen s těmi, kteří skutečně vládnou. Je na čase ukázat světu novou, lidštější tvář Ameriky. Možná proto kniha mohla vyjít. Možná proto kniha musela vyjít.
A o tom, že způsobila značné škody v Bushově týmu, není pochyb. Bílý dům okamžitě vydal několik odsuzujících prohlášení. Dokonce i ztělesnění zla, Condoleezza Rice vystoupila s prohlášením typu 'my mu nerozumíme...', 'proč to udělal?..', 'vždyť byl jeden z nás...' a také s přímým útokem: 'Clark lže..., ty porady, o kterých píše, se nikdy nekonaly...'. Dokonce se pokusili knihu zesměšnit. 'Bylo by prý lépe pojmenovat ji "...kdybychom jen poslouchali Richarda Clarka...".' Takže je jasné, že v kruhu Bushových pohůnků zavládla panika.

S Bushem by odešli i jeho sekerníci. Byl by to politický konec celosvětově nenáviděných (opravdu - málokdy je světové veřejné mínění tak jednotné, jako v případě těchto mužů a ženy) šedých eminencí typu Johna Ashcrofta, Condoleezze Rice, Paula Wolfowitze, Richarda Perleho a dalších tvůrců PNAC.

Jestliže opravdu padlo rozhodnutí se těchto lidí zbavit, pak lze předpokládat, že už za ně mají náhradu - pochopitelně ze stejného soudku. I když je to těžko uvěřitelné, protože takové panoptikum zrůd se jen tak nevidí.

Je nutno si uvědomit, že na samotném plánu PNAC se nic nemění. Pouze ke slovu možná přijde druhá generace jeho realizátorů.

Zvíře zahnané do kouta se brání. Teď je jen otázkou, kolik moci mu zbývá, a kolik škod ještě může napáchat, než ho odrovnají docela. A hlavně zda bude schopen zopakovat 11. září. Tak jako předchozí teroristické útoky velkého rozsahu, ani ten příští se neobejde bez pomoci skutečných vládců.

http://www.zvedavec.org/zpravySQL.php?clanek_id=831

AL QAEDA TARGETS U.S. TRAINS

Experts warn that beefed up security critical to our safety

Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda network has been blamed for the Madrid train attacks
The bloody bomb attacks in Spain that slaughtered 200 and wounded more than 1,500 can happen here -- unless we act FAST, warn top security experts.

The ENQUIRER spoke to key sources in the intelligence community and discovered shocking information -- Al Qaeda is targeting U.S. trains!

"It's a frightening prospect but it most definitely could happen in the U.S.," Ross Bulla, president of The Treadstone Group, a leading private security agency, told The ENQUIRER.

"We need to beef up security at our ports, where containers are loaded onto trains, and especially at yards where hazardous materials are handled. And we need to screen passengers before they board trains.

"It would be a massive task, but unless we act, we face the prospect of seeing something similar to what happened in Spain happening in the U.S."

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http://www.nationalenquirer.com/stories/feature.cfm?instanceid=61259

Assassinating Sheikh Yassin - Sharon Edges Closer to World War

March 22, 2004

By GILAD ATZMON

Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was murdered at daybreak on Monday. Israel Air Force helicopters fired missiles at the car carrying the wheelchair-bound head of the Islamic group as he left a mosque near his house in Gaza City. It also appears Ariel Sharon was in direct command of the assassination operation, not entirely surprising considering his bloody history.

For those who fail to realise, today's barbaric Israeli act is an open call for a world war. It is the final wake up call for every Muslim around the world. It is violent proof that Israel isn't only against the Palestinians but rather against Islam. Israel killed a prime spiritual leader on his way out of the mosque. I have no doubt that this Israeli act won't be forgiven. I also have no doubt that many Israelis will pay with their life for Sharon's act. Moreover I am sure that sooner rather than later many innocent non-Israelis around the world will die just for being near by an Israeli embassy, Israeli consulate, a synagogue or even an American bank...This is the reality Sharon favours the most.

This is exactly what Israel wants: to turn the entire world into a victim of terror. This might help us to realise the main difference between the Israeli left and right. While both believe in the right of the Jews to live in Zion at the expense of the Palestinian people, the Israeli right wing rely on maintaining a bloody struggle, oppressing the Palestinian people (in particular) and humiliating Arabs (in general). While the Israeli left would attempt to come up with some unrealistic righteous suggestions to appease the Palestinian people and the world community (Oslo accord for instance), the right wing Israelis will suggest that the only method to guarantee Israeli security is to maintain the conflict with the Palestinian people and to let it escalate into an international battle.

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http://www.counterpunch.com/atzmon03222004.html

The Apparat

George W. Bush's back-door
political machine

It's anti-democratic, anti-Constitutional, and is working to create a one-party America

© 2004 by Jerry M. Landay
for Mediatransparency.org

POSTED MARCH 18, 2004 --

On a Tuesday evening in mid-January, a right-wing Washington writer-for-hire named Clark Judge appeared on public radio's Marketplace.

In a commentary heard by an estimated five million people, Judge complained that the philanthropist George Soros was engaged in an "unethical" effort to outwit legal restrictions on campaign contributions.

Judge huffed that Soros, along with the Democratic Party, was "ponying up" millions of dollars in funding to tax-exempt, liberal advocacy organizations to prevent the re-election of George W. Bush. He labeled Soros and the Democrats "prime abusers," for using barely legal tactics to evade the contribution ceilings of the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law.

Judge was correct when he implied that legal and IRS regulations that are supposed to curb political activities by tax-exempt non-profit organizations are riddled with loopholes. Judge went much farther, though, implying that Soros and the Democrats had cornered the market on cheating. He warned his listeners to "brace...for the biggest tidal wave of political sewage in American history" from these Soros-supported organizations.

The Pot and the Kettle

In political parlance, Judge was acting as a surrogate. He had no apparent connection with the Bush campaign. But he had struck a blow for Bush's re-election on behalf of the political propaganda machine of the organized right. To the uninitiated, Judge's credentials seemed to lend throw-weight to his attack: managing director of the White House Writers Group, an umbrella firm of former ghostwriters for Republican presidents and bureaucrats now at the service of anyone willing to pay.

But only those in the know would understand the flaws in Judge's statements. He failed to mention that hundreds of tax-exempt organizations of the far right have been exploiting the twilight zone of campaign and IRS regulations for three decades -- receiving billions of dollars in grants and contributions to wage ideo-political warfare for far-right ideas, causes, and Republican candidates. Liberal political organizations resort to the same shortcuts, but they pale when compared to the scale and duration of right-wing mischief. Judge is one more cog in a vast machine that, in the judgment of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) has "played a critical role in helping the Republican Party to dominate state, local and national politics." It is now operating at full throttle to keep Bush in office.

Though its activists like to call themselves conservatives, there is nothing they wish to "conserve" beyond their power, status, and wealth. They are right-wing radicals who have stolen the GOP away from the true conservatives who once dominated it.

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http://www.mediatransparency.org/stories/apparat.html

Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2004 10:26 AM EST
9/11 Commission: Clinton Refused to Let CIA Kill Bin Laden

Announcing some of its preliminary findings on Wednesday, the 9/11 Commission has confirmed that President Clinton ordered the CIA to take Osama bin Laden alive or not at all - a directive that made the task of neutralizing the terrorist kingpin infinitely more difficult.

In a statement read at the beginning of Wednesday's session, 9/11 staffer Michael Hurley revealed:

"CIA senior managers, operators and lawyers uniformly said that they read the relevant authorities signed by President Clinton as instructing them to try to capture bin Laden.

"They believed that the only acceptable context for killing bin Laden was a credible capture operation. 'We always talked about how much easier it would have been to try to kill him,'" a former chief of the bin Laden station told the Commission.

"Working level CIA officers were frustrated by what they saw as the policy restraints of having to instruct their assets to mount a capture operation," the Commission statement said.

Commission staffer Hurley detailed one attempt to recruit indigenous Afghan forces in a bin Laden capture operation, explaining, "When Northern Alliance leader Massoud was briefed on the carefully worded instructions for him, the briefer recalled that Massoud laughed and said, 'You Americans are crazy. You guys never change.'"

The Commission found that at least two senior CIA officers would have objected to killing bin Laden even if Clinton had authorized the hit. "One of them, a former counterrorism center chief, said that he would have refused an order to directly kill bin Laden," the Commission statement said.

Last week NBC News quoted former CIA official Gary Schroen as saying that White House orders to spare bin Laden's life cut the chances of getting him in half, from 50 to 25 percent.

Schroen's revelation - now confirmed by the 9/11 Commission - was ignored by the mainstream press beyond its initial coverage by NBC.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/24/102828.shtml

Tyhle valecny fotky sou sice moc husty, ale imho valka je realita natolik odlisna od ty v ktery zijem my ze tyhle fotky pozbyvaj vyznamu. Navic prezentovat je jako dukaz valecnych zlocinu a porovnavat je s civilizovanym svetem je zcestny... valka je zlocin... v te civilizovany svet neexistuje....

Pride mi to stejny jako vysvetlovat nekomu z medii co se deje sedmej den na technivalu... taky to nikdo nepochopi... ale to nic, jenom takovej komentar

UNICEF Nigerian Polio Vaccine Contaminated with Sterilizing Agents Scientist Finds
Scientist says things discovered in vaccines are "harmful, toxic"

KADUNA, Nigeria, March 11, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A UNICEF campaign to vaccinate Nigeria's youth against polio may have been a front for sterilizing the nation. Dr. Haruna Kaita, a pharmaceutical scientist and Dean of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, took samples of the vaccine to labs in India for analysis.

Using WHO-recommended technologies like Gas Chromatography (GC) and Radio-Immuno assay, Dr. Kaita, upon analysis, found evidence of serious contamination. "Some of the things we discovered in the vaccines are harmful, toxic; some have direct effects on the human reproductive system," he said in an interview with Kaduna's Weekly Trust. "I and some other professional colleagues who are Indians who were in the Lab could not believe the discovery," he said.

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http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/mar/04031101.html

na military.com probiha zajimava debata.... radi by zavreli proitvalecne servery. doporucuju precist, zajimave postrehy z mysleni US vojaku...

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Let's shut this guy down http://tvnewslies.org/html/news.html

The link above is to an AntiAmerican, AntiMilitary **********. I was surfing the net and found it while doing a search for PFC Patrick Miller. I never did find out why Miller's name brought up this hit.

The server has been shut down before because of too many hits. If we all hit it at least once a day, they may have to shut it down again.

FYI check out his link from "Do the math" that goes to opinion.telegraph.co.uk about Hating America.

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pak se tam objevi i majitel serveru a tohle je protiargument na ty tuny informaci co tam ma ;)

"Helllllo Mr Truth Fighter! Ever seen the video of OBL admitting that he authorized the terrorist attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon?" But unlike you, we are sane and we know the difference between truth and bullsh*t.

The UN is impotent. The UN didn't care about the Iraqi people at all or they would have done something sooner.

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http://forums.military.com/1/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=78919038&f=409192893&m=13810824&r=71310734

Terror suspect worked with spy agency

Tue 23 March, 2004 23:05

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=481720§ion=news

Izraelska rozviedka chybne informovala o Iraku

http://www.sme.sk/clanok-1312616.html

tyve a este je na tej hlavni aj zly spelling, omg!

Iraq War Crimes: Disturbing Picture

Is this what Bush means when he says: "We the Civilized World"



"Lcpl [Lieutenant Corporal] Boudreault killed my Dad then he knocked up my sister!"

This photo is disturbing, it certainly reflects the military training and indoctrination of the troops, which encourage them to kill civilians indiscriminately as confirmed in numerous reports.

It also confirms the crudest form of war crimes committed by an Occupation Army: murder and rape.

The two smiling children on the picture do not know what is written on the card-board poster.

We are not dealing with an isolated event.

We are dealing with a code of conduct which emanates from the US occupation high command. The war is criminal and it instills criminality among occupation forces.

Is this what Bush means when he says: "We the Civilized World"



Circulate this posting. An international inquiry into Bush Administration war crimes is long overdue. The individual in the picture should be arrested and judged not by the US Military but by the people of Iraq.

Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research (Canada), 24 March 2004.