PROPAGANDA WATCH

LA TIMES: 5,000 Rebels Are in Iraq but U.S. 'in Control,' Chief Says

Forces battling the U.S.-led military coalition in Iraq number about 5,000 and are well equipped, organized and financed, the head of the U.S. Central Command said Thursday

"Da hat die LA Times und die Amerikanischen Fernsehsender die im CIA Bericht erwähten 50'000 Wiederstandskaempfer einfach mal durch 10 geteilt. Lustig ist auch, das der Bericht im Guardian laut Google News in keiner US-Zeitung auftaucht sondern nur in Europäischen und Anderen Blaettern"

Guardian: We could lose this situation
CIA says insurgents now 50,000 strong · Crisis talks over transfer of power

ISRAEL

Guardian: Facility 1391: Israel's secret prison
It has been removed from maps and airbrushed from aerial photographs. But Facility 1391 certainly exists - you just have to ask the Palestinians and Lebanese who have been imprisoned and tortured there. Chris McGreal reports


The men under the black hoods all have the same question once the blindfolds and manacles are off: Where am I? A voice filtering through a narrow slit in the steel door told Sameer Jadala he was "in Honolulu", Raab Bader that he was "in a submarine" and "outside the borders of Israel", Bashar Jadala that he was "on the moon". None of them imagined it at the time, because only a handful of the political and security establishment knew such a thing existed, but they were prisoners in Israel's Guantanamo: Facility 1391.
"I was barefoot in my pyjamas when they arrested me and it was really cold," says Sameer Jadala, a Palestinian school bus driver. "When I got to that place, they told me to strip and gave me a blue uniform. Then they gave me a black sack. They told me: 'This is your sack. You need to keep it with you. Any time someone comes to your cell, you must put it on your head. Any time they deliver the food, you must put it on your head. You must never see the soldiers' faces. You do not want to know what will happen if you take it off.' Sometimes I thought I would die in that place and no one would ever know."

TERROR

World Tribune: Al Qaida Commander Anticipates 'Huge' Attack Soon

Al-Qal'a (The Fortress) an Islamist Internet forum, posted the first of a two-part interview with a person who introduced himself as Abu Salma Al-Hijazi, one of the Al Qaida commanders closest to Osama bin Laden.(1) The interview was conducted in Iraq, south of Faluja. The article notes that Al-Hijazi was surrounded by five masked men carrying missiles as well as personal weapons. The following are excerpts from the interview:

In regard to rumors about a large-scale attack against the U.S. during the month of Ramadan, Al-Hijazi said that "a huge and very courageous strike" will take place and that the number of infidels expected to be killed in this attack, according to primary estimates, exceeds 100,000. He added that he "anticipates, but will not swear, that the attack will happen during Ramadan."

He further stated that the attack will be carried out in a way that will "amaze the world and turn Al Qaida into [an organization that] horrifies the world until the law of Allah is implemented, actually implemented, and not just in words, on His land... You wait and see that the balance of power between Al Qaida and its rivals will change, all of a sudden, Allah willing."

Jihadspund: Al-Qaida Commander Says US Attacks With 100,000 Deaths Is Imminent?
Editors Note: MEMRI, the Washington based organization that translates Arabic political news has translated the first of a two-part interview with a person who introduced himself as Abu Salma Al-Hijazi, said to be an Al-Qaida commander close to Osama bin Laden. The interview was supposedly conducted in Iraq, south of Fallujah. The following are excerpts from the interview as translated and paraphrased by MEMRI. We remind our viewers that MEMRI is owned by an ex Israeli military commander and caution that this is not a confirmed report.

MIDDLE EAST

WRMEA: The U.S. War on Iraq: Yet Another Battle To Protect Israeli Interests?

Why did President George W. Bush invade Iraq? Some very curious developments in the U.S.-occupied nation are making Iraqis and their Arab neighbors very uneasy as they question Bush's motives. These amazing tales should also infuriate Americans who are beginning to suspect they've been hoodwinked into fighting yet another battle on behalf of Israel.

And now another horrible suspicion is crossing their minds. Did Bush's Israel-first advisers invade Iraq in order to assure that Israel would have easy access to oil?

A March 31 Ha'aretz article reported upcoming plans to reopen a long-unused pipeline from Iraq's Kirkuk oil fields to the Israeli port of Haifa. Israel's National Infrastructure Minister Joseph Paritzky suggested that after Saddam Hussain's departure Iraqi oil could flow to the Jewish state, to be consumed or marketed from there.

According to John Cooley's April 23 article in The Christian Science Monitor, "The idea is economically tempting for Israel and some of its friends, especially those whose firms might profit from such a project. Oil-poor Israel, MEES [Middle East Economic Survey] reports, wants high-quality Kirkuk crude oil for its Haifa refinery. Israeli refineries currently use Russian, West African, Egyptian, and other crude oils.

Nevertheless, according to a Ha'aretz article the following day, "a senior Pentagon official" sent a telegram to a "top Foreign Ministry official in Jerusalem" to check the logistics of pumping oil from Iraq to the oil refineries in Haifa and rebuilding the Kirkuk-Mosul-Haifa pipeline. According to the telegram, "The pipeline to Haifa is considered a 'bonus' the U.S. will give to Israel in return for its support for the American-led campaign in Iraq."

ANTI-SEMITISM

Reuters: Sharon hits at critics as anti-Semitic

November 13, 2003: (Reuters) Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said foreign criticism of Israel's use of force against Palestinians in a three-year-old uprising is motivated by a new form of anti-Semitism.

"Around the world, time and again, Israel is criticised for exercising its right of self-defence by using excessive force," Sharon, speaking in English, told visiting Canadian Jewish activists late yesterday.

Those who reject Israel's "right to use force to defend itself" also effectively deny its "birthright to exist" in its ancestral homeland, he added.

"Regrettably, we see this phenomenon among many nations in the world community and I would say that this is a new form of anti-Semitism," Sharon said.

"Die Definition von Anti-Semitismus wird gerade um "Kritik an Israels Menschenrechtsverletzungen" erweitert"

IRAQI RESISTANCE

Yahoo: Iraqi Teenagers Cheer as American Blood Flows

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - If Washington doubts there is Iraqi public support for guerrillas killing its troops, it should consider the teenagers who happily watched American blood spill on Wednesday.

After a roadside bomb ripped through a military vehicle and wounded two soldiers, Iraqi boys rushed out of their homes to survey the damage.

"This is good. If they ask me, I will join the resistance. The Americans have to die," said Ali Qais, 15. "They are just here to steal our oil."

The U.S. administration has long dismissed the guerrillas as isolated "terrorists" who are Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) loyalists or foreign Islamic militants.

But the scene in the Sarafiya district of Baghdad suggests they are winning the sympathy of Iraqis, whose joy at Saddam's fall has been overshadowed by anti-American rage.

IRAQI RESISTANCE

MSNBC: Is this Saddam’s counterattack?

Commander says insurgency has signs of planning

The recent string of high-profile attacks on U.S. and allied forces in Iraq has appeared to be so methodical and well-crafted that some top U.S. commanders now fear this may be the war Saddam Hussein and his generals planned all along.

USA

International Herald Tribune: Criticizing the U.S. empire is not enough

WASHINGTON Now that the American empire is collapsing around our ears, it is the turn of those who favored a multipolar world - and one in which the United Nations plays a key role - to show that they can do better.

Although no one in Washington has noticed it yet, the days of the American empire are numbered. The notion that one can govern the world by military might has found its limit. It is now widely understood that the United States cannot take out the North Korean regime because some of its weapons of mass destruction are in caves, beyond the reach of bombs. Trying to use force against North Korea might cause the deaths of millions of South Koreans, which forces the United States to pursue negotiations, despite noises to the contrary. The macho declaration of pre-emption is already passé.

Moreover, the U.S. armed forces are stretched thin in Iraq and Afghanistan and the American public willingness to accept more casualties and costs is rapidly fading. Far from going it alone, the United States is courting allies and friends, hat in hand, to share the burden of nation-building in these two countries. Washington felt forced to go pleading with the United Nations to grant its blessing for what needs to be done. Although it has obtained a UN resolution, it will not provide much relief in terms of funds or military forces.

RUSSIA

Washington Post: Arrested Russian Businessman Is Carlyle Group Adviser

The arrest of two of Russia's top businessmen in recent months was more than a distant headline for Washington's well-connected private equity firm, Carlyle Group.
Carlyle, known for the glittering roster of former statesmen among its partners and advisers, has ties to both Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, the jailed Russian tycoons.

Khodorkovsky, 40, Russia's richest man and former chief executive of Yukos Oil Co., serves as an adviser to Carlyle's Energy Group. He is among 15 luminaries who help the firm sort through investment opportunities in energy industries, along with former secretary of state James A. Baker III, former British prime minister John Major and Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Daniel Yergin.

IRAQ

PINR: "U.S. Occupation of Iraq Entering Critical Phase"

In many respects, the current political conditions in Iraq are very similar to that of Vietnam forty years ago. In Vietnam, one of the major goals of the various U.S. administrations, from Truman's to Ford's, was to create a viable government in South Vietnam that had the support of the Vietnamese people but would also be a proponent of U.S. interests in Southeast Asia. In order to achieve this goal, Washington supported a handful of South Vietnamese leaders, from Bao Dai to Nguyen Van Thieu. Yet all of these leaders were corrupt and did not represent the interests of the Vietnamese people. In Iraq, the Bush administration is facing similar political concerns that successive U.S. administrations faced in Vietnam, while at the same time suffering from what many Americans feel is an unacceptable casualty rate that was only seen in the later years of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

USRAEL

Forward: Washington Seeking To Reduce Number of Anti-Israel Votes at U.N.

Diplomatic Effort Aims To Consolidate Resolutions, Restrict Funding for Palestinian Division of Secretariat

UNITED NATIONS — The United States is embarking on the most comprehensive campaign in years to reduce the number of anti-Israel resolutions routinely passed by the United Nations General Assembly.

Top State Department officials, including Secretary of State Colin Powell, have lobbied capitals, ministers and diplomats in recent months to reduce the number of votes in favor of such resolutions in the 191-member General Assembly.

American officials and observers say the unprecedented effort is largely the result of a sustained effort by the American Jewish Committee.

IRAQI RESISTANCE

Guardian: 'We could lose this situation'
CIA says insurgents now 50,000 strong · Crisis talks over transfer of power

The White House yesterday drew up emergency plans to accelerate the
transfer of power in Iraq after being shown a devastating CIA report
warning that the guerrilla war was in danger of escalating out of US
control.

The report, an "appraisal of situation" commissioned by the CIA
director, George Tenet, and written by the CIA station chief in Baghdad, said
that the insurgency was gaining ground among the population, and already
numbers in the tens of thousands.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Medea Benjamin, the founding director of the international human
rights group Global Exchange, is also co-founder of the Occupation Watch
Center in Iraq. Paul Bremer, in Washington mid-week, repeatedly cited the
Iraqi Governing Council in his remarks. Benjamin said today:

"The Bush administration wants the Iraqi Governing Council to
rubber-stamp policies coming from Washington and to take the blame when things go
wrong. The problem for the administration is that some members of the Council
have begun to question U.S. policies, such as opening Iraq to foreign
investment or the U.S. plan for writing and approving the constitution. So now
there are rumors that the U.S. wants to get rid of the Council in favor of a
more pliable transition team. But any new team will come up against the same
contradiction: it is impossible to find Iraqis who are both legitimate
leaders and willing to blindly do the U.S. bidding." MEDEA BENJAMIN

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SOROS VS. BUSH

Sidney Morning Herald: Soros pledges $US15.5 million to oust Bush

George Soros, one of the world's richest men has given away nearly $US5 billion ($7 billion) to promote democracy in the former Soviet bloc, Africa and Asia. Now he has a new project: beating President George Bush.

"It is the central focus of my life," he said. The 2004 presidential race is "a matter of life and death".

Guardian: Soros Says Bush Reminds Him Of Nazis
"When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' it reminds me of the Germans," he said in yesterday's interview. "My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule have sensitised me."

George Soros, one of the world's wealthiest financiers and philanthropists, has declared that getting George Bush out of the White House has become the "central focus" of his life, and he has put more than $15m (£9m) of his own money where his mouth is.

Mr Soros argues that the Bush White House is guided by a "supremacist ideology" that is leading it to abuse US power in its dealings with the rest of the world, and creating a state of permanent warfare.

USA VS. SYRIA

AFP: US Syria Bill Could Lead To Invasion - Sen Byrd

A tough sanctions measure approved by Congress against Syria could lead to a future invasion of the country, a prominent US lawmaker has said.

Senator Robert Byrd, an outspoken critic of US Middle East policy, said on Tuesday that he feared the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Act would be used to justify future military action against Damascus.

"The United States is justified in seeking to apply political and economic pressure on Syria to change its foreign policy," the West Virginia Democrat said.

But he highlighted one particular section of the bill that referred to "hostile actions" by Syria against US-led forces in Iraq.

OCCUPIED TERRITORIES

Democracy Now: “The Violations of Human Rights by the Israeli Army is Unprecedented” - Mustafa Barghouti Discusses the Occupation of Palestine

As a UN committee monitoring human rights abuses of Palestinians concludes that the situation in the Occupied Territories was the worst ever last year we speak with renowned Palestinian Mustafa Barghouti of the Palestinian National Initiative. [Includes transcript]

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ROGUE STATE USA

Boston Globe: Critics say blunt-spoken weapons expert has exaggerated

-- The Bush administration's point man on nonproliferation has exaggerated the threat posed by Syria, Libya, and Cuba in an effort to build the case that strong action is needed to prevent them from developing weapons of mass destruction, former intelligence officials and independent specialists say.

MIDDLE EAST

World Net Daily: Sharon's duplicity

Israeli Prime Minister Sharon went on a mission this week to Russia and to the European Union. He urged them to support the imposition of U.N. Security Council sanctions on Iran – for "violations" of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Sharon also urged them to withdraw a proposed Security Council resolution that could result in sanctions being imposed on Israel – for failure to withdraw its troops from Palestinian Authority-controlled areas.

Why should sanctions be imposed on Iran?

Well, for years Israel and the United States have claimed that Iran has a clandestine nuke development program.

Iran denies it.

ISRAEL

Le Monde Diplomatique: Israel: a racist apartheid state?

BISHOP DESMOND TUTU, the South African Nobel Prize winner, described how he saw on his visit to Israel "much like what happened to us black people in South Africa. I have seen the humiliation of the Palestinians at checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police officers prevented us from moving about" (1). Comparisons between apartheid South Africa and Israel/Palestine have often been made, but not always clearly explained. Many factors have made the comparison attractive.

The first, perhaps most important, is the historical colonialist foundation of the two conflicts. White settlers in South Africa, like Zionist pioneers, colonised a land already inhabited. As in South Africa, the settlers in Palestine expelled the indigenous population, some two-thirds of the Palestinians in the land that became Israel in 1948, took possession of their properties and legally segregated those who remained.

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IRAQI RESISTANCE

CSMONITOR: Defining the resistance in Iraq - it's not foreign and it's well prepared
by Scott Ritter

DELMAR, N.Y. – In the Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib is a compound on an abandoned airstrip that once belonged to a state organization known as M-21, or the Special Operations Directorate of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. As a UN weapons inspector, I inspected this facility in June of 1996. We were looking for weapons of mass destruction (WMD). While I found no evidence of WMD, I did find an organization that specialized in the construction and employment of "improvised explosive devices" - the same IEDs that are now killing Americans daily in Iraq.

NAZI BUSH

Atlanta: The boys from Kennebunkport

John Sugg writes that Prescott Bush's Nazi business-based "financial
empire is what enabled the C-student, affirmative-action-for-the-privileged
Yale grad to launch the career that led to his 2000 electoral putsch.
Moreover, the patterns established by the previous generations have
disturbing echoes today in the Bush family's intricate connections to
Saudi Arabia and the bin Laden family. 'That's the relevance,' Sheldon
Drobny, a Chicago investment banker who is starting a liberal talk show network,
told me. 'Trading with the enemy is trading with the enemy. It doesn't
matter what enemy it is at the time.' It's an astounding story - one you won't
read in the same media that daily stuffed our heads with rumor,
innuendo, suspicion and a few facts about Bill Clinton's sexual foibles. As
Drobny puts it, the mounting significance of the Bush-Nazi evidence is that it
unmasks Big Media's 'sins of suppressing the news.'" And the
suppression continues at NY Times, PentaPost, LA Times, etc...

IRAN

AP: UN: No Evidence Iran Was Making Nukes

The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency has found "no evidence" Iran is trying to make nuclear weapons, but cannot rule out the possibility because Tehran previously hid parts of its program, diplomats told The Associated Press.

The report, drawn up by the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, says Iran has been cooperating with the agency since September, the diplomats said on condition of anonymity.

USA: PROPAGANDA WATCH

The Edge: America's Ministry of Propaganda Exposed -- Part One
A Strategy of Lies: How the White House Fed the Public a Steady Diet of Falsehoods

The Edge: America's Ministry of Propaganda -- Part Two
Transforming Language to Market the 'Big Lie'

The Edge: America's Ministry of Propaganda -- Part Three
Targeting Critics, Spreading Lies, and PSYOPS

The Edge: America's Ministry of Propaganda -- Part Four
Black Programs and the Future of Propaganda

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USA

Heise: Kampf der Giganten

George Soros gegen George W. Bush

Nun sieht er die Zeit gekommen, im eigenen Land für Demokratie und offene Gesellschaft zu kämpfen. Quasi "über Nacht", wie die Washington Post schreibt, sei der 74jährige zum großen financial player der Demokraten geworden. Nun wird der ungarischstämmige Milliardär von Republikanern nicht erst seit gestern als "George-Regime-Change-Soros" bezeichnet. Neu ist jedoch, dass er die 2004 bevorstehende Präsidentschaftswahl als eine "Sache von Leben und Tod" auffasst und das Verhindern einer Wiederwahl von George W. Bush als "größtes Ziel meines Lebens". Dabei bedient er sich ungeniert des rechtlichen Schlupflochs, welches das so genannte soft money system in der Wahlkampffinanzierung bietet. Gestern soll er MoveOn.org, einer liberalen Aktivistengruppe, fünf Millionen Dollar gespendet haben, womit sich seine "Regime Change-Gesamtaufwendungen" auf 15,5 Millionen summieren. "Wenn ich Bush sagen höre, 'Ihr seid entweder für oder gegen uns', dann erinnert mich das an die Deutschen", so Soros, der 1947 von Ungarn nach England und später in die USA emigrierte. Die US-amerikanischen Neocons (vgl. Die Fürsten des IV.Weltkriegs) seien kriegsbesessene Extremisten, welche die Anschläge des 11. September ausnützen würden, um eine bereits seit langem existierende Agenda der Weltherrschaft durchzubringen. Sie seien geleitet von einer kruden Form des Sozialdarwinismus.

"Es gibt ein Wiedererstarken des Antisemitismus in Europa. Die Politik der Regierung Bush und der Regierung Sharon tragen dazu bei. Wenn wir diese Richtung ändern, wird auch der Antisemitismus verschwinden. Ich kann nicht sehen, wie man ihn direkt bekämpfen könnte. "

Aufgrund dieser Äußerungen sieht sich Soros, der selber Jude ist, jetzt selbst dem Vorwurf des Antisemitismus ausgesetzt. Tatsächlich ist die zunehmende Tendenz, die Entstehung von Antisemitismus mit Kritik an Israel zu vermischen mehr als fragwürdig.

ROGUE STATE USA

Spiegel: "EINSETZBARE ATOMWAFFEN"

US-Waffentechniker haben erstmals in einem nicht-geheimen Dokument die Anforderungen an eine neue Generation von Atombomben formuliert. Die "Mini-Nukes" sollen pr?zise und flexibel sein, relativ wenig Menschen t?ten - und Nuklearwaffen zu einem Teil der "normalen" Kriegführung machen.

Bagdad, am 8. April 2003: Die US-Armee bekommt den Tipp, auf den sie lange gewartet hat. Saddam Hussein soll nebst Gefolge und seinen beiden S?hnen in einem Restaurant eingekehrt sein. 45 Minuten sp?ter bricht im Stadtteil Mansur die H?lle los: Zwei 900 Kilogramm schwere Bomben des Typs GBU-31 bohren sich metertief in die Erde und pulverisieren das Geb?ude. Sekunden sp?ter detonierten zwei weitere Bomben gleicher Gr??e an der Oberfl?che und zerrei?en jeden in der N?he. Wo zuvor das Restaurant stand, klafft ein 18 Meter tiefer Krater.
In gewisser Hinsicht hatte Bagdad Glück an diesem Tag. W?ren die Vorhaben der US-Regierung und ihrer Waffenforscher einige Jahre weiter gediehen, w?re der Diktator vielleicht gestorben, mit ihm allerdings auch Tausende Zivilisten. "Führungspersonen und Kommandoeinheiten" geh?ren in den Szenarien der US-Falken zu den erkl?rten Zielen der neuen Generation von kompakten, "einsetzbaren" Atomwaffen.

"on the road to armaggeddon"

MIDDLE EAST

NZ Herald: Robert Fisk: Frightening winds swirl around the House of Saud by Robert Fisk

Osama bin Laden has an awful lot of friends in Saudi Arabia. In the mosque, among the disenchanted youth, among the security forces, even - and this is what the West declines to discuss - within the royal family.

Saudi ambassadors routinely dismiss these facts as "unfounded", but Sunday's attack in the capital, Riyadh, is part of a growing insurrection against Bin Laden's enemies in the House of Saud.

Whether or not the bombers were Saudi security force members - they were certainly wearing Saudi military uniforms - the Riyadh Government's own "war on terror" is now provoking bombings, gun battles and killings almost every day in the kingdom.

The enemies of the House of Saud want to make the kingdom ungovernable - just as America's enemies in Iraq want to make its occupation ineffective. Iraqis are still the principal victims of the bombings in Baghdad, just as Saudis were the principal victims on Sunday.

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MIDDLE EAST

Infoshop: How we denied democracy to the Middle East by Robert Fisk

We created this place, weaned the grotesque dictators. And we expect the Arabs to trust Bush's promise?

It gets weirder and weirder. As his helicopters are falling out of the sky over Iraq, President Bush tells us things are getting even better. The more we succeed, he says, the deadlier the attacks will become. Thank God the Americans now have a few - a very few - brave journalists, like Maureen Dowd, to explain what is happening.

The worse things are, the better they get. Iraq's wartime information minister, "Comical Ali", had nothing on this; he claimed the Americans weren't in Baghdad when we could see their tanks. Bush claims he's going to introduce democracy in the Middle East when his soldiers are facing more than resistance in Iraq. They are facing an insurrection. So let's take a look at the latest lies. "Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe," he told us on Thursday. "Because in the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty." Well said, Sir. George Bush Jr sounds almost as convincing as, well, Tony Blair. It's all a lie. "We" - the West, Europe, America - never "excused and accommodated" lack of freedom. We endorsed lack of freedom. We created it in the Middle East and supported it.

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IRAQ

Washington Post: GI Kills Head of Council in Baghdad Slum


BAGHDAD, Nov. 10 -- The U.S. military and residents of Baghdad's largest neighborhood differ on the circumstances of Muhannad Kaabi's death. Did he reach for a gun? Did he try to wrestle a U.S. soldier to the ground? Was he killed in cold blood?

They do, however, agree on the aftermath, another potential setback in U.S. efforts to court support among the crucial constituency of Sadr City. After a shouting match and fight that lasted a few minutes Sunday, a soldier shot Kaabi, the man leading the U.S.-supervised council that runs the slum, which is home to as many as 2 million people. His death left supporters of U.S. efforts grasping for explanations and handed detractors new evidence that tranquility under the occupation is impossible.

"Why would they use force against him?" asked Thamer Hamad, 30, a neighbor who joined the funeral procession Monday that escorted Kaabi's flag-draped coffin from his home. "He was the representative of this city and people trusted him."

"Die Amerikaner scheinen nervoes zu sein. Nun erschiessen sie bereits die Iraker die für sie arbeiten"

ISRAEL: APARTHEID WALL

Haaretz: Separation Fence To Include Wide Area East Of Jerusalem

The route of the separation fence east of Jerusalem will include a wide swath of territory extending to the Alon Road and cliffs of Wadi Kelt, according to a plan prepared by the defense establishment.

In addition to the West Bank city of Ma'aleh Adumim, the fence will encompass the Mishor Adumim industrial area, the Kfar Adumin settlement and Palestinian villages such as Hizmeh and Anata.

When the government approved the route of the separation fence on October 1, it did not include planning for the area east of Jerusalem. So far, fence construction has begun on the southern and northern outskirts of the capital. The route of the fence planned to encircle northern Jerusalem has been revised several times. The latest plan calls for a "minimalist" route that leaves the village of A-Ram east of the fence.

IRAQI RESISTANCE

YAHOO: General Warns Iraqis Attacks Must Stop

FALLUJAH, Iraq - America's top general in the Middle East has warned community leaders the U.S. military will use stern measures unless they curb attacks against coalition forces, an Iraqi who attended the meeting said Monday.

Gen. John Abizaid, chief of the U.S. Central Command, delivered the warning to tribal sheiks and mayors in the "Sunni Triangle" city of Ramadi west of Baghdad, according to Fallujah Mayor Taha Bedawi.
"We have the capabilities and equipment," Bedawi quoted the general as saying at Saturday's meeting.

"Neither America, nor the father of America, scares us," said one resident, Najih Latif Abbas. "Iraqi men are striking at Americans and they retaliate by terrifying our children."

Fakhri Fayadh, a 60-year-old farmer, said reprisal attacks "will only increase our spite and hatred of them. If they think that they will scare us, they are wrong. Day after day, Americans will be harmed and attacks against them will increase."

"Es geht möglicherweise nicht mehr lange, bis die USA zu israelischen Methoden greifen um den Wiederstand zu brechen."

NAZI BUSH

TNHG: Bush-Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951 - Federal Docs

After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.

Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his colleagues routinely attempted to conceal their activities from government investigators.

Bush's partners in the secret web of Thyssen-controlled ventures included former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and his younger brother, E. Roland Harriman. Their quarter-century of Nazi financial transactions, from 1924-1951, were conducted by the New York private banking firm, Brown Brothers Harriman.

The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment.

ECONOMY: USA VS. EU

Independent: Europe Plans Huge Trade War With US

BRUSSELS -- American jeans, Florida orange juice and dozens of other US products could double in price from next month because of a growing transatlantic trade war.

The World Trade Organisation gave the European Union permission yesterday to impose huge import tariffs, which will allow price increases of between 8 and 100 per cent on a range of goods.

The row, which began when America imposed special duties of up to 30 per cent on European steel last year, reached a climax yesterday when the trade watchdog gave a final decision in favour of the EU. It said the US action was "inconsistent" with free trade commitments. Europe can now impose duties on products ranging from T-shirts and lavatory paper, to bras, pantyhose, suspenders, ballpoint pens, ski suits and bowling alley equipment. Harley Davidson motorcycles were included in an early draft of the sanctions list, but were not included yesterday.

"Die USA und die EU moegen die Freie Marktwirtschaft solange sie 3. Welt Laendern aurauben koennen. Wenn es dann um ihre eigenen Maerkte geht, ist die Sache ploetzlich eine ganz Andere"

WAR ON TERROR

Guardian: Dreamers & Idiots By George Monbiot
Britain And The US Did Everything To Avoid A Peaceful Solution In Iraq And Afghanistan

Those who would take us to war must first shut down the public imagination. They must convince us that there is no other means of preventing invasion, or conquering terrorism, or even defending human rights. When information is scarce, imagination is easy to control. As intelligence gathering and diplomacy are conducted in secret, we seldom discover - until it is too late - how plausible the alternatives may be.

Over the four months before the coalition forces invaded Iraq, Saddam's government made a series of increasingly desperate offers to the United States. In December, the Iraqi intelligence services approached Vincent Cannistraro, the CIA's former head of counter-terrorism, with an offer to prove that Iraq was not linked to the September 11 attacks, and to permit several thousand US troops to enter the country to look for weapons of mass destruction. If the object was regime change, then Saddam, the agents claimed, was prepared to submit himself to internationally monitored elections within two years. According to Mr Cannistraro, these proposals reached the White House, but were "turned down by the president and vice-president".

By February, Saddam's negotiators were offering almost everything the US government could wish for: free access to the FBI to look for weapons of mass destruction wherever it wanted, support for the US position on Israel and Palestine, even rights over Iraq's oil. Among the people they contacted was Richard Perle, the security adviser who for years had been urging a war with Iraq. He passed their offers to the CIA. Last week he told the New York Times that the CIA had replied: "Tell them that we will see them in Baghdad".

911

APFN: Stranger than Fiction

AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF 9-11 AND THE WAR ON TERRORISM

OPENING STATEMENT

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates taught his students that the pursuit of truth can only begin once they start to question and analyze every belief that they ever held dear. If a certain belief passes the tests of evidence, deduction, and logic, it should be kept. If it doesn't, the belief should not only be discarded, but the thinker must also then question why he was led to believe the erroneous information in the first place. Not surprisingly, this type of teaching didn't sit well with the ruling elite of Greece. Many political leaders throughout history have always sought to mislead the thinking of the masses. Socrates was tried for "subversion" and for "corrupting the youth". He was then forced to take his own life by drinking poison. It's never easy being an independent thinker! Today, our ruling government/media complex doesn't kill people for pursuing the truth about the world (at least not yet!) They simply label them as "extremists" or "paranoid", destroying careers and reputations in the process. For many, that's a fate even worse than drinking poison hemlock!

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MIDDLE EAST

Rense: What Right Do Zionist Jews Have To Palestine?

What title-deeds do the Jews of today actually have to the land of 'Israel'? The idea that a people can possess some kind of ethnic ancestral right to a territory supposedly vacated by their forebears some millenia previously, implying a right in perpetuity, can have no legal basis. Or otherwise Americans of European ancestry, to name just one group of people, will have to pack their bags.

ILLUMINATI

Rense: Makow - Rothschilds Conduct 'Red Symphony'
The 20th Century Unveiled

Incredible and bizarre as it sounds, humanity is indeed the victim of a diabolical conspiracy.

War, depression and genocide in the past century were not accidental or inevitable but the result of a malevolent design.

Shocking evidence is a 1938 Stalinist police (NKVD) interrogation of a founder of the Communist International, Christian G. Rakovsky, 65, who was facing the firing squad for plotting to overthrow Stalin.

The 50-page transcript of his interrogation, dubbed "The Red Symphony," was not meant to become public. It confirms that the Rothschild-Illuminati planned to use Communism to establish a world dictatorship of the super rich.

USA

Spiegel: Kampfjets fingen Flugzeug über dem Weißen Haus ab$

Alarm in Washington: Amerikanische Kampfjets haben am Montag im gesperrten Luftraum über dem Weißen Haus ein Privatflugzeug abgefangen und aus dem Luftraum eskortiert. Vizepräsident Cheney wurde sofort in Sicherheit gebracht.

"Dieses mal war NORAD schnell"

IRAQ

Al-Jazeera: Shocking images shame US forces


A series of shocking pictures revealing US soldiers tying up Iraqi women and children in their own home has provoked international outrage.
The occupying forces have now come under renewed fire for their treatment of ordinary Iraqis as shown in the pictures published today by Aljazeera.net.

RUSSIA

American Free Press: Countdown to Armageddon?

Are the Israelis willing to start World War III?

According to a recent article by veteran British military analyst Joseph Vialls, Russia has sent the most advanced and feared missile in the world, owned only by Russia and China, the P270 Moskit, also known as the “Sunburn,” to Damascus and Tehran. This can only be understood as a counter to the Israeli threats to use nuclear weapons against their enemies.

The Sunburn flies at an altitude of 60 feet and is nearly impossible to defend against. A few fired at Israel could make that state “history.”

Add to this a new Russian air force installation near the Kyrgystan/Russia border, coupled with a Chinese base just over their western border with Kyrgystan, and Armageddon may be on the horizon. All Russian jets at this new base just outside of Bishkek are equipped with Sunburn missiles.

Vialls writes:

The gloves are off, and with America and Israel still unable to steal any oil from Iraq because someone keeps blowing the pipelines, Russian and Chinese firepower buildup suddenly slammed the door firmly shut on Caspian oil reserves in the old Soviet republics. For more than a decade American oil multinationals have been conducting “joint ventures” in the former Soviet republics bordering the Caspian Sea, with the stated intent of pumping stolen crude oil out through Turkey, then on to western markets. Now this route has been blocked permanently, and America is in no position to do anything about it, because a large part of the U.S. conventional army is currently bogged down in Iraq, being shot at and killed on a daily basis.

USA: CAPITALISM

WsWs: US mutual fund industry hit by fraud scandal

The latest scandal to hit Wall Street and corporate America centers on
the mutual fund industry. Several mutual fund firms, investment banks and
hedge funds have been implicated in “market timing” and illegal late trading
of mutual fund shares. These practices have benefited an elite group of
investors and fund managers at the expense of millions of small
investors.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and state regulators in
New York and Massachusetts have brought charges against such firms as the
mutual fund giant Putnam Investments, the brokerage firm Prudential
Securities and a series of smaller mutual fund companies. Individual
brokers and executives at some of these firms are facing criminal
charges, while the mutual funds themselves face civil fraud charges.

SAUDI ARABIA

Independent: Riyadh: a new front against US

America's fortunes in the Gulf were in free-fall yesterday after a suicide bombing in Riyadh late on Saturday that appeared to be aimed at undermining the Saudi monarchy, the United States' key ally in the region.

No one had claimed responsibility by last night, but the shadow of the fugitive Saudi national Osama bin Laden hangs over the outrage. At least 17 people, many of them Arab expatriates, were killed and 120 others, 36 of them children, were injured in a massive car bomb attack on a residential compound in Riyadh.

IRAQI RESISTANCE

Ny Times: Iraqi Insurgents Take a Page From the Afghan 'Freedom Fighters'

As the daily attacks against American forces in Iraq increase in number
and sophistication, the Bush administration continues to portray its
adversaries s an assortment of die-hard Baathists, criminals, thugs
and foreign terrorists, all acting out of desperation. Certainly, there
are Baathists and foreign terrorists operating against the American-led
coalition, and their ranks probably include criminals. But the
overarching reality is that the American and British forces are facing a
resourceful adversary whose game plan may be more fully developed than
originally thought.

From my perspective, the Iraqi resistance has taken a page from a sophisticated insurgency playbook in their confrontations with the American-led coalition.

The insurgents' strategy could have been crafted by Sun Tzu, the Chinese military tactician, who more than 2,500 years ago wrote, in "The Art of War," that the highest realization of warfare is to attack the enemy's strategy.

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IRAQI RESISTANCE

Asia Times: Miscalculations and misconceptions

LONDON - With Iraqi resistance forces downing a second American
military helicopter in a week, veteran Iranian and Arab political analysts are
warning of "a debacle" awaiting the coalition forces, putting the blame
squarely on the decision to dissolve the Iraqi army overnight, and a
lack of adequate intelligence.

"One of the biggest mistakes of the coalition forces was to dissolve
the army and the security forces," Peyman Pejman of the Inter Press Service
quoted Brigadier-General Mohammed Abdullah Shahwani as saying in
Baghdad. Shahwani left Iraq in 1990 and became a part of Washington's covert
efforts to topple the Iraqi dictator.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack
each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."

George W. Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003 (what does he think he just did?)

USA/ISRAEL

doublestandarts.org: What Christians Don’t Know About Israel

American Jews sympathetic to Israel dominate key positions in all areas of our government where decisions are made regarding the Middle East. This being the case, is there any hope of ever changing U.S.policy?

President Bill Clinton as well as most members of Congress support Israel – and they know why. U.S. Jews sympathetic to Israel donate lavishly to their campaign coffers. .

The answer to achieving an even-handed Middle East policy might lie elsewhere – among those who support Israel but don’t really know why.

This group is the vast majority of Americans. They are well-meaning, fair- minded Christians who feel bonded to Israel – and Zionism – often from atavistic feelings, in some cases dating from childhood. I am one of those. I grew up listening to stories of a mystical, allegorical, spiritual Israel. This was before a modern political entity with the same name appeared on our maps. I attended Sunday School and watched an instructor draw down window-type shades to show maps of the Holy Land. I imbibed stories of a Good and Chosen people who fought against their Bad “unChosen” enemies.

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USA

Independent: Case for war confected, say top US officials

An unprecedented array of US intelligence professionals, diplomats and former Pentagon officials have gone on record to lambast the Bush administration for its distortion of the case for war against Iraq. In their view, the very foundations of intelligence-gathering have been damaged in ways that could take years, even decades, to repair.

A new documentary film beginning to circulate in the United States features one powerful condemnation after another, from the sort of people who usually stay discreetly in the shadows - a former director of the CIA, two former assistant secretaries of defence, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and even the man who served as President Bush's Secretary of the Army until just a few months ago.

Between them, the two dozen interviewees reveal how the pre-war intelligence record on Iraq showed virtually the opposite of the picture the administration painted to Congress, to US voters and to the world. They also reconstruct the way senior White House officials - notably Vice-President Dick Cheney - leaned on the CIA to find evidence that would fit a preordained set of conclusions.

IRAQ

Prison Planet: A Depression of Hitherto Unimaginable Severity

Mr. Joe Vialls says that our empire's noble crusade to liberate the ingrate Iraqi barbarians is actually a war of aggression to siphon their oil and pump it all to Israel.

"As you can see on the map above, the Mosul to Haifa pipeline runs all the way down the Western Desert of Iraq, then crosses into Jordan rather than Syria, continuing west to a point near Amman, just a few miles short of the Israeli border. Until very recently, Iraq pumped free oil along this pipeline to Jordan, as a way of saying thank you for Jordan's support during the 1990-1991 Gulf War. "Free" oil for Israel has thus always been tantalizingly close, and is the sole reason for "Operation Iraqi Freedom".

How much will the stolen oil come to? Mr. Vialls says about 45 billion American dollars worth per year. The quote below was taken from the same article that is linked to above.

"... they are already planning to steal 1,825 million barrels of Iraqi oil per annum. Taking a nominal price of US $25.00 per barrel ... the Israeli-Jewish terrorists stand to make a cool US $45,625,000,000.00 each year .... "

Mr. Vialls claims that the 45 billion a year jackpot is more than just a lot of money, it's a matter of survival for Israel.

"The Israeli-Jewish lobby's motive for the original Operation Shekhinah, and latterly for Operation Iraqi Freedom, was and is based on the certainty that the American economy and social structure is in steep decline. Unless the Israel-Jewish lobby could somehow find a massive independent income stream, the parasitic Jewish State would completely collapse in less than a decade. ... Since early 2000, it has been obvious to most informed analysts that America's economy and employment have been in ever-decreasing decline, made worse by several nations switching their oil trading from US Dollars to Euros. If the situation worsens, perhaps triggered by OPEC switching all oil trade to Euros, with China and Japan panicked into converting their own massive holdings to Euros, the United States Dollar will crash completely, driving America into a depression of hitherto unimaginable severity."

MEDIA WATCH: CENSORED

Memory Hole: Deleted Political Cartoons From al Jazeera

The Qatar-based al Jazeera network--often called the CNN of the Arab world--is known for broadcasting images and reports that the Western powers would rather you not see. The news outlet has a reputation for not backing down, but that seems to be changing. With its star reporter under arrest (he's been accused of being a part of al Qaeda) and the station at least temporarily silenced in Iraq, al Jazeera has apparently caved to US pressure.

According to Arab News, the station yanked two political cartoons from its Arabic and English-language Website when a US official from the State Department complained that they were "inflammatory"

IRAQ

NY TIMES: With a U.S. Nod, Turkey Says It Won't Send Force to Iraq

With the quiet blessings of the White House, Turkey said Friday that it was withdrawing its offer to deploy troops to help stabilize Iraq. The decision ended a lengthy and almost entirely futile effort by the Bush administration to solicit large numbers of foreign troops to bolster the American presence.

With the announcement, the administration's effort, presented by the president in early September, appears to be close to a complete failure. India and Pakistan both have declined, at least for the time being. South Korea has said it may be willing, but is concerned about reducing its own troop levels at a moment of heightened tension with North Korea. Japan has approved sending some troops for noncombat missions, but has yet to deploy them.

911

Fox News: Sept. 11 Panel Votes to Subpoena Defense Dept

WASHINGTON — A federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks voted Friday to subpoena the Pentagon for documents related to the activities of U.S. air defenses on the day of the terrorist hijackings.

The independent commission said it was "especially dismayed" by incomplete document production on the part of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (search), or NORAD, the part of the Defense Department responsible for protecting North American airspace.

The commission's broad investigation includes questions about how, and how quickly, the Federal Aviation Administration (search) notified U.S. air defenses about hijacked planes on Sept. 11, 2001. The commission's first subpoena, issued last month, was to the FAA.

NY TIMES: 9/11 Panel Issues Subpoena to Pentagon

The federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks stepped up pressure on the Bush administration to cooperate by issuing a subpoena on Friday to the Pentagon.

Members said they were still weighing a subpoena to the administration for Oval Office documents President Bush received in the days before Sept. 11, 2001, although the panel chose not to issue one today.

The 10-member panel said in a statement that it had encountered "serious delays" in obtaining information from the Defense Department. It voted to subpoena the Pentagon for documents, tapes and transcripts involving the actions of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or Norad, on the morning of Sept. 11, as the suicide hijackings were being carried out. The Defense Command is responsible for protecting American airspace.

WAR ON TERROR: SAUDI ARABIA

Sunday Herald: Dozens killed in terrorist blasts at Riyadh compound

THREE explosions at a residential compound in the Saudi capital of Riyadh killed dozens of people last night in what the government described as a terrorist attack.
Two Britons are believed to have died in the blasts, which came a day after the United States warned of terrorist attacks and shut its missions in the kingdom.

The blasts occurred shortly after midnight local time at the Muhay compound in west Riyadh, where most of the residents are Muslims.

IRAQI RESISTANCE

Observer: Americans sow seeds of hatred

Patrick Graham in Falluja meets angry Iraqi tribes who say they, not Saddam's forces, are shooting down US helicopters

Sarab rolls up her sleeve and looks at the thick scar across her upper arm. The eight-year-old says she was playing in the bathroom of her house when the shots were fired but cannot remember anything else.
'It is their routine,' said her grandfather, Turk Jassim. 'After the Americans are attacked, they shoot everywhere. This is inhuman - a stupid act by a country always talking about human rights.'

While the US authorities maintain that resistance attacks are carried out by former Baathists and supporters of Saddam, they continue to ignore the tribal nature of the insurgency which has grown steadily over recent months. Deeply conservative clans like the 50,000-strong Albueisi have codes of honour which they complain the American army ignores at checkpoints and during raids on houses.

IRAQ: LIES, LIES, LIES

AP: AP Enterprise: Iraqi Scientist Portrayed by U.S. as Nuclear Bomb Researcher Was Not Involved, Fellow Iraqi Physicists Say

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - An Iraqi scientist killed in the U.S. invasion and now linked by arms hunter David Kay to possible nuclear weapons research was working on an advanced gun, not atomic bombs, fellow physicists say.
They and eyewitnesses also say Khalid Ibrahim Sa'id was killed not when he tried to "run a roadblock," as asserted by Kay, but when a U.S. tank crew blasted his civilian car without warning on an open street.

These accounts of the physicist's research and death, provided by 10 Iraqis and supported on key points by U.N. arms inspectors, challenge a core element of Kay's testimony Oct. 2 to congressional committees in Washington.

SELL OUT IRAQ

ZMAG/Guardian: Pillage Is Forbidden
Why the privatisation of Iraq is illegal


What are the US-UK's responsibilities as occupier of Iraq?

On May 22 2003, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1483, abolishing sanctions against Iraq and recognising the United States and United Kingdom as the country's occupying powers. The resolution called upon the US-UK authority to "comply fully with their obligations under international law, including in particular the Geneva Conventions of

1949 and the Hague Regulations of 1907." [1]

How has the CPA changed Iraq's economy and laws?

Among many changes, the US-UK Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), has laid off hundreds of thousands of Iraqi workers, virtually eliminated trade tariffs and enacted laws that radically alter Iraq's economy. Order 39, decreed by CPA head Paul Bremer on September 20 2003, abolished Iraq's ban on foreign investment, allowing foreigners to own up to 100% of all sectors except natural resources. Over 200 state-owned enterprises, including electricity, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals have been privatised. Iraq's highest tax rate has been lowered from 45% to a flat rate of 15%. Although foreign ownership of land remains illegal, companies or individuals will be allowed to lease properties for up to 40 years. [2]

Are these changes legal?

These laws stand in clear violation of Iraq's constitution, as is openly admitted. The US department of commerce notes that "the Iraqi constitution prohibits foreign ownership of immovable (real) property," and "prohibits investment in, and establishment of, companies in Iraq by foreigners who are not resident citizens of Arab countries." [3]

USA

Independent: 'No President has lied so baldly and so often and so demonstrably'

The intelligence process is a bit like virginity," says Ray McGovern, who worked as a CIA analyst for 27 years. "Once you prostitute it, it's never the same. Your credibility never recovers.

"Watching what has happened with Iraq over the past several months has been like watching your daughter being raped."

Such is an indication of the extraordinary depth of feeling within the US intelligence community as the Bush administration's basis for the war in Iraq - the weapons of mass destruction, the dark hint of links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qa'ida - has been shown to have been built on air.

Mr McGovern worked near the very top of his profession, giving direct advice to Henry Kissinger during the Nixon era and preparing the President's daily security brief for Ronald Reagan. Now he is co-founder of a group of former CIA employees called Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, or Vips for short.