ECONOMY
Financial Review: The end of globalism
Grand economic theories rarely last more than a few decades. Some, if they are particularly in tune with technological or political events, may make it to half a century. Beyond that, little short of military force can keep them in place.
The wild open-market theory that died in 1929 had a run of just over 30 years. Communism, a complete melding of religious, economic and global theories, stretched to 70 years in Russia and 45 in central Europe, thanks precisely to the intensive use of military and police force. Keynesianism, if you add its flexible, muscular form during the Depression to its more rigid postwar version, lasted 45 years. Our own Globalisation, with its technocratic and technological determinism and market idolatry, had 30 years. And now it, too, is dead.
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Friday, April 09, 2004
IRAQ: ONE AFTER
Independent: I never thought the invasion would end happily. But this is a dangerous mess
A year ago, I drove into Baghdad from Iraqi Kurdistan past smouldering Iraqi tanks. The war had just ended. The statue of Saddam toppled. Government buildings burnt but there was still a feeling among those in the city that the worst was over. It is difficult to recapture that feeling today.
Now Iraq is a country where people fear to venture on to the streets. Whether you are a foreign contractor, a Muslim attending prayers or a journalist, this is a land of ever-present danger.
Yesterday, three Japanese journalists, eight South Korean church ministers and two Arab-Israelis were unfortunate enough to discover that harsh reality. We all wonder who it will be tomorrow.
Independent: I never thought the invasion would end happily. But this is a dangerous mess
A year ago, I drove into Baghdad from Iraqi Kurdistan past smouldering Iraqi tanks. The war had just ended. The statue of Saddam toppled. Government buildings burnt but there was still a feeling among those in the city that the worst was over. It is difficult to recapture that feeling today.
Now Iraq is a country where people fear to venture on to the streets. Whether you are a foreign contractor, a Muslim attending prayers or a journalist, this is a land of ever-present danger.
Yesterday, three Japanese journalists, eight South Korean church ministers and two Arab-Israelis were unfortunate enough to discover that harsh reality. We all wonder who it will be tomorrow.
Thursday, April 08, 2004
IRAQ: UPRISING
Bloomberg: Iraq Kidnappers Take 3 Japan Journalists Hostage, Jazeera Says
April 8 (Bloomberg) -- Kidnappers will kill three Japanese journalists they are holding in Iraq in three days unless Japanese forces withdraw from the country, Qatar's Al-Jazeera satellite news reported, showing video pictures of the hostages.
The three, two men and a woman, are aged 19, 33 and 34, according to video pictures of their passports, Al-Jazeera said. One works for Weekly Asahi, ministerial press passes showed
Bloomberg: Iraq Kidnappers Take 3 Japan Journalists Hostage, Jazeera Says
April 8 (Bloomberg) -- Kidnappers will kill three Japanese journalists they are holding in Iraq in three days unless Japanese forces withdraw from the country, Qatar's Al-Jazeera satellite news reported, showing video pictures of the hostages.
The three, two men and a woman, are aged 19, 33 and 34, according to video pictures of their passports, Al-Jazeera said. One works for Weekly Asahi, ministerial press passes showed
VIDEO: CASTRO
Informationclearinghouse: OLIVER STONE'S COMANDANTE
In February 2002, acclaimed director Oliver Stone traveled to Havana to meet with Cuban leader, Fidel Castro. Over the course of three days, the two men engaged in a series of frank conversations, which culminated, months later, in the film Comandante
In an interview with the London Times, Oliver Stone noted that directing Comandante - his first documentary film - has given him a welcome break from movie-making.
?I was tired of movies because they?re so big, expensive and artificial...and also the digital aspect was so important. It was great to take up the camera and feel it out and feel the freedom.?
The project began when Fernando Sulichan, a Spanish producer, offered Stone a chance to interview Fidel Castro for Spanish TV.
The Cuban leader had agreed to the interview under the condition that he could stop filming at any moment. The production team taped over 30 hours of interviews and Castro never exercised his power to stop the cameras.
Over the three days, Stone films Castro working at his office, touring a medical school and a museum, and follows him through the streets where he mingles freely with Cuban citizens.
In an interview with the BBC, Stone talked about his thoughts on Castro.
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Informationclearinghouse: OLIVER STONE'S COMANDANTE
In February 2002, acclaimed director Oliver Stone traveled to Havana to meet with Cuban leader, Fidel Castro. Over the course of three days, the two men engaged in a series of frank conversations, which culminated, months later, in the film Comandante
In an interview with the London Times, Oliver Stone noted that directing Comandante - his first documentary film - has given him a welcome break from movie-making.
?I was tired of movies because they?re so big, expensive and artificial...and also the digital aspect was so important. It was great to take up the camera and feel it out and feel the freedom.?
The project began when Fernando Sulichan, a Spanish producer, offered Stone a chance to interview Fidel Castro for Spanish TV.
The Cuban leader had agreed to the interview under the condition that he could stop filming at any moment. The production team taped over 30 hours of interviews and Castro never exercised his power to stop the cameras.
Over the three days, Stone films Castro working at his office, touring a medical school and a museum, and follows him through the streets where he mingles freely with Cuban citizens.
In an interview with the BBC, Stone talked about his thoughts on Castro.
Right click here and select "save as" to copy to your hard drive available from 04/05/04 to 04/12/04
IRAQ: UPRISING
islamonline: Arrest Warrant For Sadr 'Illegal': Iraqi Judges
(IslamOnline.net) – As the Iraqi Governing Council Wednesday, April 7, urged investigations into the American military use of "deliberate" force against civilians, the Iraqi Jurists Association said the arrest warrant against Shiite leader Muqtada Sadr is "illegal and based on a lie".
"The arrest warrant is illegal and incorrect, as the occupation forces issued it in disregard for sovereignty of Iraq's justice system," the Association said in a statement a copy of which was obtained by IslamOnline.net.
A U.S. military spokesman said two days ago the warrant had been issued "in the last several months" by an Iraqi judge investigating last April's murder of a pro-Western Shiite leader one year ago.
islamonline: Arrest Warrant For Sadr 'Illegal': Iraqi Judges
(IslamOnline.net) – As the Iraqi Governing Council Wednesday, April 7, urged investigations into the American military use of "deliberate" force against civilians, the Iraqi Jurists Association said the arrest warrant against Shiite leader Muqtada Sadr is "illegal and based on a lie".
"The arrest warrant is illegal and incorrect, as the occupation forces issued it in disregard for sovereignty of Iraq's justice system," the Association said in a statement a copy of which was obtained by IslamOnline.net.
A U.S. military spokesman said two days ago the warrant had been issued "in the last several months" by an Iraqi judge investigating last April's murder of a pro-Western Shiite leader one year ago.
IRAQ: UPRISING
BNN: Iraq's Sadr urges Kuwaitis to expel U.S. forces-TV
BAGHDAD (Reuters/BGNES)? Militant Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr urged Kuwaitis to put pressure on their government to expel U.S. and other foreign forces based in the country, the Arabic Al Jazeera television said on Wednesday.
"I call on our neighbour Kuwait to ask that American and other bases be removed so that this state may stand hand in hand with us to remove the big nightmare and great Satan from Iraq, whose people are suffering from the occupation," Sadr said in a statement, a copy of which was shown by the satellite channel.
"You cannot keep silent about these crimes and you must help your brothers by removing terrorism from your land," said the statement written in Arabic.
Nasdaq: Cleric Al-Sadr Warns Iraq Could Become A Vietnam For US
Anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr warned Wednesday Iraq will become another Vietnam-like conflict for the U.S. unless it transfers power to "honest Iraqis."
The cleric - whose militia followers have battled coalition and Iraqi security forces across the country for days - accused members of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council of being "collaborators" and said "they do not represent the Iraqi people."
"I call upon the American people to stand beside their brethren, the Iraqi people, who are suffering an injustice by your rulers and the occupying army, to help them in the transfer of power to honest Iraqis," al-Sadr said in a statement issued by his office in the southern city of Najaf. "Otherwise, Iraq will be another Vietnam for America and the occupiers."
BNN: Iraq's Sadr urges Kuwaitis to expel U.S. forces-TV
BAGHDAD (Reuters/BGNES)? Militant Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr urged Kuwaitis to put pressure on their government to expel U.S. and other foreign forces based in the country, the Arabic Al Jazeera television said on Wednesday.
"I call on our neighbour Kuwait to ask that American and other bases be removed so that this state may stand hand in hand with us to remove the big nightmare and great Satan from Iraq, whose people are suffering from the occupation," Sadr said in a statement, a copy of which was shown by the satellite channel.
"You cannot keep silent about these crimes and you must help your brothers by removing terrorism from your land," said the statement written in Arabic.
Nasdaq: Cleric Al-Sadr Warns Iraq Could Become A Vietnam For US
Anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr warned Wednesday Iraq will become another Vietnam-like conflict for the U.S. unless it transfers power to "honest Iraqis."
The cleric - whose militia followers have battled coalition and Iraqi security forces across the country for days - accused members of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council of being "collaborators" and said "they do not represent the Iraqi people."
"I call upon the American people to stand beside their brethren, the Iraqi people, who are suffering an injustice by your rulers and the occupying army, to help them in the transfer of power to honest Iraqis," al-Sadr said in a statement issued by his office in the southern city of Najaf. "Otherwise, Iraq will be another Vietnam for America and the occupiers."
IRAQ: Uprising
IndependentUS stoking unrest before festival, say Shia
American commanders in Iraq vowed yesterday to arrest Muqtada Sadr, the young Shia leader, and crush the black-clad militiamen of his Mehdi Army amid signs that US actions are alienating the Iraqi Shia community as a whole.
US soldiers do not seem able to distinguish between the Army of the Mehdi and ordinary Shia pilgrims on their way to the holy city of Kerbala to commemorate the feast of Arbain, which starts today, forty days after the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, one of the founders of their faith.
"The Americans are just as bad as Saddam Hussein," said Hamid al-Ugily, the leader of six men from Sadr city carrying a green flag who are spending two to three days walking to Kerbala. "We think they will attack Muqtada in Najaf. We will defend our religious leaders."
IndependentUS stoking unrest before festival, say Shia
American commanders in Iraq vowed yesterday to arrest Muqtada Sadr, the young Shia leader, and crush the black-clad militiamen of his Mehdi Army amid signs that US actions are alienating the Iraqi Shia community as a whole.
US soldiers do not seem able to distinguish between the Army of the Mehdi and ordinary Shia pilgrims on their way to the holy city of Kerbala to commemorate the feast of Arbain, which starts today, forty days after the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, one of the founders of their faith.
"The Americans are just as bad as Saddam Hussein," said Hamid al-Ugily, the leader of six men from Sadr city carrying a green flag who are spending two to three days walking to Kerbala. "We think they will attack Muqtada in Najaf. We will defend our religious leaders."
IRAQ: UPRISING
Aljazeera: Plea to lift siege as Falluja toll mounts
Doctors in Falluja want the siege on the town lifted for shifting patients with serious injuries even as brutal street battles rage.
Two hundred and eighty people have been killed since the start of the siege and 400 more injured, said Tahr al-Issawi, the director of Falluja's hospital on Thursday.
"We also know of dead and wounded in various places buried under rubble, but we cannot reach them because of the fighting," he said.
Clinics in the town, 65km west of Baghdad, are struggling to treat victims of the US attacks, said Aljazeera's correspondent Ahmad Mansur.
US helicopters and snipers are firing on ambulances and civilian vehicles trying to take the wounded to clinics or the hospital, the correspondent said
Aljazeera: Plea to lift siege as Falluja toll mounts
Doctors in Falluja want the siege on the town lifted for shifting patients with serious injuries even as brutal street battles rage.
Two hundred and eighty people have been killed since the start of the siege and 400 more injured, said Tahr al-Issawi, the director of Falluja's hospital on Thursday.
"We also know of dead and wounded in various places buried under rubble, but we cannot reach them because of the fighting," he said.
Clinics in the town, 65km west of Baghdad, are struggling to treat victims of the US attacks, said Aljazeera's correspondent Ahmad Mansur.
US helicopters and snipers are firing on ambulances and civilian vehicles trying to take the wounded to clinics or the hospital, the correspondent said
US ELECTIONS
Buzzflash: Why 3 Out Of 4 Experts
Predict Terrorist Attack By Nov.
On Dec. 31, 2003, New York Times columnist and former Nixon speech writer William Safire offered his standard New Year's predictions. This time, however, one item stood out. In addition to speculating on everything from which country would next "feel the force of U.S. liberation" to who would win the best picture Oscar, Safire predicted that "the 'October surprise' affecting the U.S. election" would be "a major terror attack in the United States." [Salt Lake Tribune]
While such speculation is hardly worth a trip to the duct tape store, when combined with repeated assaults to our democratic process and troublesome assertions from noteworthy sources, it warrants further investigation.
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Buzzflash: Why 3 Out Of 4 Experts
Predict Terrorist Attack By Nov.
On Dec. 31, 2003, New York Times columnist and former Nixon speech writer William Safire offered his standard New Year's predictions. This time, however, one item stood out. In addition to speculating on everything from which country would next "feel the force of U.S. liberation" to who would win the best picture Oscar, Safire predicted that "the 'October surprise' affecting the U.S. election" would be "a major terror attack in the United States." [Salt Lake Tribune]
While such speculation is hardly worth a trip to the duct tape store, when combined with repeated assaults to our democratic process and troublesome assertions from noteworthy sources, it warrants further investigation.
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IRAQ: UPRISING
Reuters: Iraqis Capture Coalition Soldiers - Sadr Aide
A top aide to the militant Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Wednesday that his supporters had captured a number of soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition during clashes currently taking place across a large swathe of Iraq.
"Some tribes have captured some occupation forces on the streets," Qays al-Khazali told a news conference in the Shi'ite Muslim holy city of Najaf.
He gave no further details. The news conference was broadcast by Lebanon's al-Manar television station, mouthpiece of the militant Shi'ite Hizbollah group.
Reuters: Iraqis Capture Coalition Soldiers - Sadr Aide
A top aide to the militant Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Wednesday that his supporters had captured a number of soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition during clashes currently taking place across a large swathe of Iraq.
"Some tribes have captured some occupation forces on the streets," Qays al-Khazali told a news conference in the Shi'ite Muslim holy city of Najaf.
He gave no further details. The news conference was broadcast by Lebanon's al-Manar television station, mouthpiece of the militant Shi'ite Hizbollah group.
1984: RFID CHIPS
Infowar: Baja Beach Club in Barcelona, Spain Launches Microchip Implantation for VIP Members
Note from Alex Jones:
I interviewed Conrad Chase for 30 minutes on my syndicated radio broadcast. He told me that the CEO of VeriChip, Mr. Bolton, had told him that there was a plan to use the VeriChip as a global implantable identity system. I asked him if whether in the future you would have to have a chip to get into the club period, and he said yes.
I said laughingly, that you're not going to be a VIP in the world if you don't have a chip, to which he responded that that was a great slogan that he would start using.
Baja Beach Club owner Conrad Chase wanted something unique to identify his VIP patrons. Other clubs had special jewelry or key chains, but he was looking for something special. After brainstorming, he came up with the idea to implant his VIP members with VeriChip's implantable microchip.
Alex has spoken many times over the years about how they would make the chip "fun," and how, by giving it an elite status, an entire generation of young teenagers would soon be arguing with their parents demanding that they let them be implanted so that they can be in the "in" crowd. The Baja Beach Club and Chase have proved that the trend has started.
When I spoke to Mr. Chase this morning he told me that his implant launch had gotten the international media's attention. He himself was implanted at the media launch of the VIP implant system along with stars from the Spanish version of the TV Show, "Big Brother," (called "Grand Hermano" in Spain).
He also told me that he had been in touch with the VeriChip Corporation and that there were several new developments with their implant system including the Belgian subsidiary of firearm company, FN Herstal, which manufactures Browning and Smith and Wesson firearms, launching a implant-firearm system which would make a firearm functional only to the individual implanted with its corresponding microchip.
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Infowar: Baja Beach Club in Barcelona, Spain Launches Microchip Implantation for VIP Members
Note from Alex Jones:
I interviewed Conrad Chase for 30 minutes on my syndicated radio broadcast. He told me that the CEO of VeriChip, Mr. Bolton, had told him that there was a plan to use the VeriChip as a global implantable identity system. I asked him if whether in the future you would have to have a chip to get into the club period, and he said yes.
I said laughingly, that you're not going to be a VIP in the world if you don't have a chip, to which he responded that that was a great slogan that he would start using.
Baja Beach Club owner Conrad Chase wanted something unique to identify his VIP patrons. Other clubs had special jewelry or key chains, but he was looking for something special. After brainstorming, he came up with the idea to implant his VIP members with VeriChip's implantable microchip.
Alex has spoken many times over the years about how they would make the chip "fun," and how, by giving it an elite status, an entire generation of young teenagers would soon be arguing with their parents demanding that they let them be implanted so that they can be in the "in" crowd. The Baja Beach Club and Chase have proved that the trend has started.
When I spoke to Mr. Chase this morning he told me that his implant launch had gotten the international media's attention. He himself was implanted at the media launch of the VIP implant system along with stars from the Spanish version of the TV Show, "Big Brother," (called "Grand Hermano" in Spain).
He also told me that he had been in touch with the VeriChip Corporation and that there were several new developments with their implant system including the Belgian subsidiary of firearm company, FN Herstal, which manufactures Browning and Smith and Wesson firearms, launching a implant-firearm system which would make a firearm functional only to the individual implanted with its corresponding microchip.
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IRAQ: UPRISING
Guardian: Bush & Blair Have Lit A Fire Which Could Consume Them
The Iraqi Uprising Will Drive Home The Forgotten Lessons Of Empire
This revolt shows every sign of turning into Iraq's own intifada, and towns like Falluja and Ramadi - centres of resistance from the first days of occupation - are now getting the treatment Israel has meted out to Palestinians in Jenin, Nablus and Rafah over the past couple of years. As resistance groups have moved from simply attacking US and other occupation troops to attempts to hold territory, US efforts to destroy them - as an American general vowed to do yesterday - have become increasingly brutal. Across Iraq, US soldiers and their European allies are now killing Iraqis in their hundreds on the streets of their own cities in an explosive revival of the Middle East's imperial legacy.
Guardian: Bush & Blair Have Lit A Fire Which Could Consume Them
The Iraqi Uprising Will Drive Home The Forgotten Lessons Of Empire
This revolt shows every sign of turning into Iraq's own intifada, and towns like Falluja and Ramadi - centres of resistance from the first days of occupation - are now getting the treatment Israel has meted out to Palestinians in Jenin, Nablus and Rafah over the past couple of years. As resistance groups have moved from simply attacking US and other occupation troops to attempts to hold territory, US efforts to destroy them - as an American general vowed to do yesterday - have become increasingly brutal. Across Iraq, US soldiers and their European allies are now killing Iraqis in their hundreds on the streets of their own cities in an explosive revival of the Middle East's imperial legacy.
1984: RFID CHIPS
infowars: RFID Company Matric's RFID chip forms a swastika
This image is from RFID wireless computing technologies company Matrics, Inc.
Matrics, Inc. 's "about" page states:
"Matrics was created with a vision to revolutionize the logistics and supply chain processes by deploying breakthrough RFID systems. Today, as Matrics is delivering customer success in pursuit of their vision, Bill and Mike continue to serve the company enthusiastically as Chief Scientist and Chief Technology Officer, respectively.
Matrics provides EPC-compliant RFID systems for retail, CPG, defense, transportation and other vertical markets. Matrics´ commitment to customer success is measured by increased asset visibility and an easy route to compliance. We deliver high performance, cost-effective RFID systems scalable to our customer´s requirements.
Headquartered in the state of Maryland in the United States, Matrics is actively working with customers and partners in Europe, Asia and Latin & South America. Matrics, along with its partnership network, provides RFID solutions to many of the Fortune 1000 companies, government, as well as international businesses. Current customers include International Paper and McCarran Airport..."
Hmmm.... interesting design for this new design for a tracker chip put out by a company called Matrics. They're not throwing it in our face, or anything....
infowars: RFID Company Matric's RFID chip forms a swastika
This image is from RFID wireless computing technologies company Matrics, Inc.
Matrics, Inc. 's "about" page states:
"Matrics was created with a vision to revolutionize the logistics and supply chain processes by deploying breakthrough RFID systems. Today, as Matrics is delivering customer success in pursuit of their vision, Bill and Mike continue to serve the company enthusiastically as Chief Scientist and Chief Technology Officer, respectively.
Matrics provides EPC-compliant RFID systems for retail, CPG, defense, transportation and other vertical markets. Matrics´ commitment to customer success is measured by increased asset visibility and an easy route to compliance. We deliver high performance, cost-effective RFID systems scalable to our customer´s requirements.
Headquartered in the state of Maryland in the United States, Matrics is actively working with customers and partners in Europe, Asia and Latin & South America. Matrics, along with its partnership network, provides RFID solutions to many of the Fortune 1000 companies, government, as well as international businesses. Current customers include International Paper and McCarran Airport..."
Hmmm.... interesting design for this new design for a tracker chip put out by a company called Matrics. They're not throwing it in our face, or anything....
IRAQ: UPRISING
SKY News: 130 US Troops Dead In New Iraq Fighting - Pentagon Source
A Pentagon source has said up to 130 US troops have been killed in fierce fighting in Iraq.
The large scale battle, described as "intense", has taken place in the town of Ar Ramadi, 20 miles west of Fallujah.
Sky News' David Chater said: "None of this is official yet - none of it is confirmed."
But he added: "It sounds very much like this is being carried out by men who are militarily trained."
Chater described the attack as "highly sophisticated".
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1130577,00.html
SKY News: 130 US Troops Dead In New Iraq Fighting - Pentagon Source
A Pentagon source has said up to 130 US troops have been killed in fierce fighting in Iraq.
The large scale battle, described as "intense", has taken place in the town of Ar Ramadi, 20 miles west of Fallujah.
Sky News' David Chater said: "None of this is official yet - none of it is confirmed."
But he added: "It sounds very much like this is being carried out by men who are militarily trained."
Chater described the attack as "highly sophisticated".
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1130577,00.html
IRAQ: UPRISING
Wie ein Mudschahid den Kampf um Ramadi beschreibt
Bei einem Angriff von Aufständischen in der irakischen Stadt Ramadi sind bis zu einem Dutzend US-Marineinfanteristen getötet worden. Eine Beschreibung der Schlacht aus Sicht der Aufständischen wurde heute in einem Internetforum veröffentlicht. SPIEGEL ONLINE dokumentiert Auszüge.
Al-Ramadi: Seid ihr noch am Leben? (...) Überbringt uns Nachrichten!
Al-Anbari: Wir haben die Amerikaner zermalmt, und die Schlachten finden auf allen Straßen statt.
Al-Ramadi: Bei Gott!
Al-Anbari: Bei Gott! Und wir haben uns ihrer Waffen und Gerätschaften bemächtigt.
Al-Ramadi: Wurden denn auch welche von ihnen getötet?
Al-Anbari: Ja. Die gesamte Truppe, die in die Straße Nr. 20 eindrang, wurde vollständig vernichtet und einer der Wagen, der in der Nähe von Mariams Haus stand, wurde abgebrannt.
Al-Ramadi: Welcher Mariam?
Al-Anbari: Du kennst doch Mahmud al-Mariam, der in der Nähe von dem Haus von Ibrahim al-Khaschiban wohnt? Das Haus dahinter.
Wie ein Mudschahid den Kampf um Ramadi beschreibt
Bei einem Angriff von Aufständischen in der irakischen Stadt Ramadi sind bis zu einem Dutzend US-Marineinfanteristen getötet worden. Eine Beschreibung der Schlacht aus Sicht der Aufständischen wurde heute in einem Internetforum veröffentlicht. SPIEGEL ONLINE dokumentiert Auszüge.
Al-Ramadi: Seid ihr noch am Leben? (...) Überbringt uns Nachrichten!
Al-Anbari: Wir haben die Amerikaner zermalmt, und die Schlachten finden auf allen Straßen statt.
Al-Ramadi: Bei Gott!
Al-Anbari: Bei Gott! Und wir haben uns ihrer Waffen und Gerätschaften bemächtigt.
Al-Ramadi: Wurden denn auch welche von ihnen getötet?
Al-Anbari: Ja. Die gesamte Truppe, die in die Straße Nr. 20 eindrang, wurde vollständig vernichtet und einer der Wagen, der in der Nähe von Mariams Haus stand, wurde abgebrannt.
Al-Ramadi: Welcher Mariam?
Al-Anbari: Du kennst doch Mahmud al-Mariam, der in der Nähe von dem Haus von Ibrahim al-Khaschiban wohnt? Das Haus dahinter.
Wednesday, April 07, 2004
IRAQ: UPRISING
Independent: 40 dead' as US rockets hit Fallujah mosque
Forty Iraqis were reportedly killed when a US helicopter struck a mosque with three missiles today in the central Iraqi city of Fallujah.
Cars ferried bodies of the dead from the scene and part of the wall surrounding the Abdul-Aziz al-Samarrai mosque was demolished, said an AP reporter, Abdul-Qader Saadi, who added that the mosque building itself was not damaged.
The strike came as worshippers gathered for afternoon prayers, witnesses said. An angry crowd gathered as the wounded were taken to makeshift hospitals.
Independent: 40 dead' as US rockets hit Fallujah mosque
Forty Iraqis were reportedly killed when a US helicopter struck a mosque with three missiles today in the central Iraqi city of Fallujah.
Cars ferried bodies of the dead from the scene and part of the wall surrounding the Abdul-Aziz al-Samarrai mosque was demolished, said an AP reporter, Abdul-Qader Saadi, who added that the mosque building itself was not damaged.
The strike came as worshippers gathered for afternoon prayers, witnesses said. An angry crowd gathered as the wounded were taken to makeshift hospitals.
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
HEISE
Ein Kommentar aus dem Forum:
Wider die Hetze gegen unsere moslemischen Nachbarn!
cui bono (6. April 2004 10:30)
Ich bin erstaunt dar?ber, mit welch erschreckender Leichtfertigkeit
von vielen auch hier im Forum der "islamische Terrorismus" als
solcher f?r bare M?nze genommen wird: als g?be es auch nur ein
einziges, rechtsstaatlichen Anforderungen gen?gendes
Gerichtsverfahren weltweit, das die urspr?ngliche Urheberschaft auch
nur eines einzigen, tats?chlich stattgefundenen "El Kaida"-Anschlags
letztinstanzlich BEWIESEN h?tte!
Ich kann nur wiederholen:
Je ungeheuerlicher ein Vorwurf, umso h?her mu? der Anspruch an die
Beweise sein!
Vor diesem Hintergrund tun mir die Millionen Moslems, die als
Minderheiten in westlichen L?ndern leben, unendlich leid f?r die
vielen direkten und indirekten Verd?chtigungen und Anschuldigungen,
denen sie von den ach-so-zivilisierten Westlern zunehmend unverbl?mt
ausgesetzt werden. Ich erinnere nur mal an die k?rzlich (Sonntag?) in
den Tagesthemen gezeigte Szene, wo bei Madrid ein moslemischer Junge
(aus dem Vorortviertel, wo j?ngst die angeblichen Nr.1 und 2 des
Anschlags von Madrid per Explosion aus dem Leben schieden) mit den
w?tenden christlichen Nachbarn zu argumentieren versuchte, sie darauf
hinwies, da? sie doch ALLE hier lebten, mit dem gleichen Zug in die
Stadt f?hren, alle gemeinsam von solchen Anschl?gen bedroht seien,
und deshalb doch besser zusammenhalten sollten... aber die lieben
Nachbarn lie?en ihm keine Chance!
Da wird von den hiesigen Massenmedien, nicht zuletzt in diversen
Talkrunden, ein Klima geschaffen, als wollte man die hier lebenden
Moslems geradezu absichtlich in die Arme ihrer vermeintlichen R?cher
oder Befreier treiben... Wenn gar die Forderung erhoben wird, sie
m?gen sich in ?ffentlichen Massen-Demonstrationen (z.B. "mit
Lichterketten", Extra3, letzten Donnerstag!) von dem Terror ihrer
"Glaubensbr?der" "distanzieren" - wo bleibt da bitte ein
einheitlicher Ma?stab?
Wo bleiben Forderungen nach solchen "Distanzierungs-Demonstrationen"
an die "Glaubensbr?der" anderer, nicht nur erwiesener, sondern sich
ihrer Untaten auch noch r?hmender "westlich-zivilisierter"
Verbrecher? Konkret: warum m?ssen sich nicht auch
amerikanisch-christliche Minderheiten in aller Welt ?ffentlich vom
v?lkerrechtswidrigen Angriffskrieg eines christlich erweckten Bush,
j?dische Minderheiten in aller Welt ?ffentlich von den
v?lkerrechtswidrigen Morden der Regierung eines im Namen aller Juden
handelnden Staates in Demonstrationen, mit Lichterketten etc. pp.
distanzieren?
Ich beobachte jedenfalls zunehmend eine ?ffentlich verbreitete
anti-moslemische Hetze, die - sollte jemand auf den Gedanken kommen,
mal "Islam" und "Moslems" durch "Judentum" und "Juden" zu ersetzen,
nach der Lehre des "Wehret den Anf?ngen" l?ngst
Solidarit?ts-Demonstrationen der hier lebenden
Mehrheitsgesellschaften mit ihren MOSLEMISCHEN Nachbarn erforderlich
machen sollten!!!
Auch fange ich langsam an zu kapieren, wie es kam, da? offensichtlich
zumindest bei simplen Gem?tern, wie es sie leider heute -TROTZ der
Lehre des Dritten Reichs!- nicht minder zu geben scheint, die Hetze
der nationalsozialistischen Massenmedien seinerzeit auf allzu
fruchtbaren Boden fiel.
Und an alle, die so gerne leben: die Gefahr, bei einem Autounfall ums
Leben zu kommen oder verletzt zu werden, ist um ein x-faches h?her,
als durch einen von-wem-auch-immer angezettelten Terroranschlag -
jedenfalls sofern man das seltsame Gl?ck hat, im Westen und nicht in
einem von einem westlichen Hegemonial-Staat besetzten Land zu leben.
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Wider die Hetze gegen unsere moslemischen Nachbarn!
cui bono (6. April 2004 10:30)
Ich bin erstaunt dar?ber, mit welch erschreckender Leichtfertigkeit
von vielen auch hier im Forum der "islamische Terrorismus" als
solcher f?r bare M?nze genommen wird: als g?be es auch nur ein
einziges, rechtsstaatlichen Anforderungen gen?gendes
Gerichtsverfahren weltweit, das die urspr?ngliche Urheberschaft auch
nur eines einzigen, tats?chlich stattgefundenen "El Kaida"-Anschlags
letztinstanzlich BEWIESEN h?tte!
Ich kann nur wiederholen:
Je ungeheuerlicher ein Vorwurf, umso h?her mu? der Anspruch an die
Beweise sein!
Vor diesem Hintergrund tun mir die Millionen Moslems, die als
Minderheiten in westlichen L?ndern leben, unendlich leid f?r die
vielen direkten und indirekten Verd?chtigungen und Anschuldigungen,
denen sie von den ach-so-zivilisierten Westlern zunehmend unverbl?mt
ausgesetzt werden. Ich erinnere nur mal an die k?rzlich (Sonntag?) in
den Tagesthemen gezeigte Szene, wo bei Madrid ein moslemischer Junge
(aus dem Vorortviertel, wo j?ngst die angeblichen Nr.1 und 2 des
Anschlags von Madrid per Explosion aus dem Leben schieden) mit den
w?tenden christlichen Nachbarn zu argumentieren versuchte, sie darauf
hinwies, da? sie doch ALLE hier lebten, mit dem gleichen Zug in die
Stadt f?hren, alle gemeinsam von solchen Anschl?gen bedroht seien,
und deshalb doch besser zusammenhalten sollten... aber die lieben
Nachbarn lie?en ihm keine Chance!
Da wird von den hiesigen Massenmedien, nicht zuletzt in diversen
Talkrunden, ein Klima geschaffen, als wollte man die hier lebenden
Moslems geradezu absichtlich in die Arme ihrer vermeintlichen R?cher
oder Befreier treiben... Wenn gar die Forderung erhoben wird, sie
m?gen sich in ?ffentlichen Massen-Demonstrationen (z.B. "mit
Lichterketten", Extra3, letzten Donnerstag!) von dem Terror ihrer
"Glaubensbr?der" "distanzieren" - wo bleibt da bitte ein
einheitlicher Ma?stab?
Wo bleiben Forderungen nach solchen "Distanzierungs-Demonstrationen"
an die "Glaubensbr?der" anderer, nicht nur erwiesener, sondern sich
ihrer Untaten auch noch r?hmender "westlich-zivilisierter"
Verbrecher? Konkret: warum m?ssen sich nicht auch
amerikanisch-christliche Minderheiten in aller Welt ?ffentlich vom
v?lkerrechtswidrigen Angriffskrieg eines christlich erweckten Bush,
j?dische Minderheiten in aller Welt ?ffentlich von den
v?lkerrechtswidrigen Morden der Regierung eines im Namen aller Juden
handelnden Staates in Demonstrationen, mit Lichterketten etc. pp.
distanzieren?
Ich beobachte jedenfalls zunehmend eine ?ffentlich verbreitete
anti-moslemische Hetze, die - sollte jemand auf den Gedanken kommen,
mal "Islam" und "Moslems" durch "Judentum" und "Juden" zu ersetzen,
nach der Lehre des "Wehret den Anf?ngen" l?ngst
Solidarit?ts-Demonstrationen der hier lebenden
Mehrheitsgesellschaften mit ihren MOSLEMISCHEN Nachbarn erforderlich
machen sollten!!!
Auch fange ich langsam an zu kapieren, wie es kam, da? offensichtlich
zumindest bei simplen Gem?tern, wie es sie leider heute -TROTZ der
Lehre des Dritten Reichs!- nicht minder zu geben scheint, die Hetze
der nationalsozialistischen Massenmedien seinerzeit auf allzu
fruchtbaren Boden fiel.
Und an alle, die so gerne leben: die Gefahr, bei einem Autounfall ums
Leben zu kommen oder verletzt zu werden, ist um ein x-faches h?her,
als durch einen von-wem-auch-immer angezettelten Terroranschlag -
jedenfalls sofern man das seltsame Gl?ck hat, im Westen und nicht in
einem von einem westlichen Hegemonial-Staat besetzten Land zu leben.
PROPAGANDA WATCH: VENEZUELA
Williambowles: US Foreign Policy: A Media Mystery
Okay, so what's the deal? Why won't the corporate media tell us what's going on? Why do I have scrabble around the Internet looking for answers? Why won't my local print, tv and radio tell me why, yet again, the US is orchestrating a coup d'etat against Venezuela?
Dumb questions I know, but over the past week, the number of stories on Venezuela available locally – of any kind – is zero. And over the past few weeks, it's not much more, a handful to be exact. And no doubt, just as with the appalling press coverage of the US-backed coup d'etat in Haiti, we won't read anything until it's all but over (barring the killing), then of course, the vampires are all over the place
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Williambowles: US Foreign Policy: A Media Mystery
Okay, so what's the deal? Why won't the corporate media tell us what's going on? Why do I have scrabble around the Internet looking for answers? Why won't my local print, tv and radio tell me why, yet again, the US is orchestrating a coup d'etat against Venezuela?
Dumb questions I know, but over the past week, the number of stories on Venezuela available locally – of any kind – is zero. And over the past few weeks, it's not much more, a handful to be exact. And no doubt, just as with the appalling press coverage of the US-backed coup d'etat in Haiti, we won't read anything until it's all but over (barring the killing), then of course, the vampires are all over the place
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911 PREWARNING
Haaretz: Odigo says workers were warned of attack
Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of its workers received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on September 11 predicting the attack would happen, and the company has been cooperating with Israeli and American law enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to find the original sender of the message predicting the attack.
Micha Macover, CEO of the company, said the two workers received the messages and immediately after the terror attack informed the company's management, which immediately contacted the Israeli security services, which brought in the FBI.
"I have no idea why the message was sent to these two workers, who don't know the sender. It may just have been someone who was joking and turned out they accidentally got it right. And I don't know if our information was useful in any of the arrests the FBI has made," said Macover. Odigo is a U.S.-based company whose headquarters are in New York, with offices in Herzliya.
As an instant messaging service, Odigo users are not limited to sending messages only to people on their "buddy" list, as is the case with ICQ, the other well-known Israeli instant messaging application.
Odigo usually zealously protects the privacy of its registered users, said Macover, but in this case the company took the initiative to provide the law enforcement services with the originating Internet Presence address of the message, so the FBI could track down the Internet Service Provider, and the actual sender of the original message
Haaretz: Odigo says workers were warned of attack
Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of its workers received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on September 11 predicting the attack would happen, and the company has been cooperating with Israeli and American law enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to find the original sender of the message predicting the attack.
Micha Macover, CEO of the company, said the two workers received the messages and immediately after the terror attack informed the company's management, which immediately contacted the Israeli security services, which brought in the FBI.
"I have no idea why the message was sent to these two workers, who don't know the sender. It may just have been someone who was joking and turned out they accidentally got it right. And I don't know if our information was useful in any of the arrests the FBI has made," said Macover. Odigo is a U.S.-based company whose headquarters are in New York, with offices in Herzliya.
As an instant messaging service, Odigo users are not limited to sending messages only to people on their "buddy" list, as is the case with ICQ, the other well-known Israeli instant messaging application.
Odigo usually zealously protects the privacy of its registered users, said Macover, but in this case the company took the initiative to provide the law enforcement services with the originating Internet Presence address of the message, so the FBI could track down the Internet Service Provider, and the actual sender of the original message
IRAQ: UPRISING
Informationclearinghouse: Shiite Clashes in with Coalition in Najaf Baghdad: Phase II of the Anti-Occupation Struggle Begins
04/04/04 "ICH" The always tense relationship between the Sadrist movement among Iraqi Shiites and the US and its Coalition partners has taken a dramatic turn for the worse. Perhaps a third of Iraqi Shiites are sympathetic to the radical, Khomeini-like ideology of Sadrism, and some analysts with long experience in Iraq put it at 50%. Earlier Muqtada Al-Sadr, the movement leader, had called on his forces to avoid violence against Coalition forces. As of Sunday, he has decided that the Coalition means permanently to exclude his group from power, and has decided to launch an uprising. This uprising involves taking over police stations in Kufa, Najaf, Baghdad and possibly elsehwere. The Sadrist militia now controls Kufa, according to the New York Times, and probably controls much of Sadr City or the slums of East Baghdad, as well, though it has been expelled from the police stations it had occupied there.
So far, about 60% of clashes with Coalition troops had occurred in the Sunni heartland of Iraq. But the violent clashes in Najaf, Baghdad, Amara and Nasiriyah may signal the beginning of a second phase, in which the US faces a two-front war, against both Sunni radicals in the center-north and Shiite militias in the South. The clashes come at a pivotal moment, since on Friday April 9, the Shiite festival of Araba'in will take place, coinciding this year with the anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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Informationclearinghouse: Shiite Clashes in with Coalition in Najaf Baghdad: Phase II of the Anti-Occupation Struggle Begins
04/04/04 "ICH" The always tense relationship between the Sadrist movement among Iraqi Shiites and the US and its Coalition partners has taken a dramatic turn for the worse. Perhaps a third of Iraqi Shiites are sympathetic to the radical, Khomeini-like ideology of Sadrism, and some analysts with long experience in Iraq put it at 50%. Earlier Muqtada Al-Sadr, the movement leader, had called on his forces to avoid violence against Coalition forces. As of Sunday, he has decided that the Coalition means permanently to exclude his group from power, and has decided to launch an uprising. This uprising involves taking over police stations in Kufa, Najaf, Baghdad and possibly elsehwere. The Sadrist militia now controls Kufa, according to the New York Times, and probably controls much of Sadr City or the slums of East Baghdad, as well, though it has been expelled from the police stations it had occupied there.
So far, about 60% of clashes with Coalition troops had occurred in the Sunni heartland of Iraq. But the violent clashes in Najaf, Baghdad, Amara and Nasiriyah may signal the beginning of a second phase, in which the US faces a two-front war, against both Sunni radicals in the center-north and Shiite militias in the South. The clashes come at a pivotal moment, since on Friday April 9, the Shiite festival of Araba'in will take place, coinciding this year with the anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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Monday, April 05, 2004
IRAQ: SHIA RESISTANCE
Robert Fisk: Bloodbath a bad omen for coalition forces
To the horror of the occupying powers in Iraq, the country's ever more bloody insurgency has at last spilled over into the majority Shi'ite Muslim community.
Coalition soldiers fought gunmen in the holy city of Najaf yesterday with the loss of at least 20 lives.
The shooting started after protesters gathered at the Spanish base on the outskirts of the city following the arrest of an aide to Muqtada al-Sadr, the young Shi'ite cleric whose "Army of Mehdi" has never before fired its guns.
The demonstrations had their roots in the decision of the US administrator, Paul Bremer, to close al-Sadr's small-
circulation weekly newspaper, al-Hawza, in Baghdad a week ago for "inciting violence against coalition forces".
It now seems that his decision to shut down the paper has incited violence on a far greater scale than Bremer could have imagined.
Yet he managed to say all the wrong things again yesterday. "This morning, a group of people in Najaf have crossed the line and they have moved to violence," he announced. "This will not be tolerated by the Iraqi people and by the Iraqi security forces."
The trouble is that Bremer has said all this before - but about Sunni insurgents - and his warnings almost always increase the anger of his antagonists and bring no end
to violence.
Robert Fisk: Bloodbath a bad omen for coalition forces
To the horror of the occupying powers in Iraq, the country's ever more bloody insurgency has at last spilled over into the majority Shi'ite Muslim community.
Coalition soldiers fought gunmen in the holy city of Najaf yesterday with the loss of at least 20 lives.
The shooting started after protesters gathered at the Spanish base on the outskirts of the city following the arrest of an aide to Muqtada al-Sadr, the young Shi'ite cleric whose "Army of Mehdi" has never before fired its guns.
The demonstrations had their roots in the decision of the US administrator, Paul Bremer, to close al-Sadr's small-
circulation weekly newspaper, al-Hawza, in Baghdad a week ago for "inciting violence against coalition forces".
It now seems that his decision to shut down the paper has incited violence on a far greater scale than Bremer could have imagined.
Yet he managed to say all the wrong things again yesterday. "This morning, a group of people in Najaf have crossed the line and they have moved to violence," he announced. "This will not be tolerated by the Iraqi people and by the Iraqi security forces."
The trouble is that Bremer has said all this before - but about Sunni insurgents - and his warnings almost always increase the anger of his antagonists and bring no end
to violence.
IRAQ: RESISTANCE...LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE
Independent: Governor's office stormed in Basra
The governor's office in the Iraqi city of Basra has been taken over in protest at coalition actions against radical Shia Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr.
About 150 men took over the building in a dawn invasion that met no resistance today. They said they were staging a peaceful sit-in in the country's second city.
The governor, Wael Abdul Latif, fled the building earlier.
Sadr is an outspoken opponent of the US-led occupation and the coalition recently arrested one of his top aides, Sheikh Yakubi, and closed down a newspaper accused of inciting anti-US violence.
Newsday: 9 troops dead in 3 incidents
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Seven U.S. soldiers were killed in clashes yesterday with militiamen loyal to Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Shia slums of Baghdad, military officials said. Al-Sadr's supporters also fought with coalition troops in three southern Iraqi cities, marking a dramatic escalation of violence with Iraq's Shia majority.
In all, nine U.S. troops were killed in fighting yesterday in both Shia and Sunni areas of Iraq.
Boston Globe: U.S. declares radical Shiite cleric an ''outlaw'' after clashes kill dozens; American troops seal of Fallujah
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) The top U.S. administrator in Iraq declared a radical Shiite cleric an ''outlaw'' Monday after his supporters rioted in Baghdad and four other cities in fighting that killed at least 52 Iraqis, eight U.S. troops and a Salvadoran soldier.
The fiercest battle took place Sunday in the streets of Sadr City, Baghdad's largest Shiite neighborhood, where black-garbed Shiite militiamen fired from rooftops and behind buildings at U.S. troops, killing seven Americans. At least 30 Iraqis were killed and more than 110 wounded in the fighting, doctors said.
Independent: Governor's office stormed in Basra
The governor's office in the Iraqi city of Basra has been taken over in protest at coalition actions against radical Shia Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr.
About 150 men took over the building in a dawn invasion that met no resistance today. They said they were staging a peaceful sit-in in the country's second city.
The governor, Wael Abdul Latif, fled the building earlier.
Sadr is an outspoken opponent of the US-led occupation and the coalition recently arrested one of his top aides, Sheikh Yakubi, and closed down a newspaper accused of inciting anti-US violence.
Newsday: 9 troops dead in 3 incidents
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Seven U.S. soldiers were killed in clashes yesterday with militiamen loyal to Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Shia slums of Baghdad, military officials said. Al-Sadr's supporters also fought with coalition troops in three southern Iraqi cities, marking a dramatic escalation of violence with Iraq's Shia majority.
In all, nine U.S. troops were killed in fighting yesterday in both Shia and Sunni areas of Iraq.
Boston Globe: U.S. declares radical Shiite cleric an ''outlaw'' after clashes kill dozens; American troops seal of Fallujah
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) The top U.S. administrator in Iraq declared a radical Shiite cleric an ''outlaw'' Monday after his supporters rioted in Baghdad and four other cities in fighting that killed at least 52 Iraqis, eight U.S. troops and a Salvadoran soldier.
The fiercest battle took place Sunday in the streets of Sadr City, Baghdad's largest Shiite neighborhood, where black-garbed Shiite militiamen fired from rooftops and behind buildings at U.S. troops, killing seven Americans. At least 30 Iraqis were killed and more than 110 wounded in the fighting, doctors said.
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