tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56040104075648453362024-02-19T14:38:47.351-08:00LebaneseResistancehttp://elie-hobeika.blogspot.com/
CIA "blowback”.
Refers to retaliation for illegal operations
Carried out abroad, kept secret from the US public.
These operations included clandestine overthrow of governments, counterinsurgency militias,
, training of foreign militaries
In the techniques of state terrorism, rigging of elections in foreign
Countries, interference with the economic viability of countries, as well as
The torture or assassination of selected foreign Leaders.Kappeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07829648539972600691noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604010407564845336.post-85584420979712978342011-11-22T01:30:00.000-08:002012-01-02T07:28:59.375-08:00ايلي حبيقة افتدى لبنان واللبنانيين<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDz77pchRxPvZiQT_e3v4JEldCs2VdcKR05UR03CNr2B6rIRsmOsWb2VMB0aSlI9Y734tMwLcBcof6aDoJAKzjzSqalTBkLbq7Sh3tqOJFawkeBuQB-lfT1gobeq3z8VGz4_YBhTEwgbFy/s1600/%25D8%25A7%25D9%258A%25D9%2584%25D9%258A+%25D8%25AD%25D8%25A8%25D9%258A%25D9%2582%25D8%25A9+%25D8%25A7%25D9%2581%25D8%25AA%25D8%25AF%25D9%2589+%25D9%2584%25D8%25A8%25D9%2586%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586+%25D9%2588%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D9%2584%25D8%25A8%25D9%2586%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586%25D9%258A%25D9%258A%25D9%25862.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDz77pchRxPvZiQT_e3v4JEldCs2VdcKR05UR03CNr2B6rIRsmOsWb2VMB0aSlI9Y734tMwLcBcof6aDoJAKzjzSqalTBkLbq7Sh3tqOJFawkeBuQB-lfT1gobeq3z8VGz4_YBhTEwgbFy/s400/%25D8%25A7%25D9%258A%25D9%2584%25D9%258A+%25D8%25AD%25D8%25A8%25D9%258A%25D9%2582%25D8%25A9+%25D8%25A7%25D9%2581%25D8%25AA%25D8%25AF%25D9%2589+%25D9%2584%25D8%25A8%25D9%2586%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586+%25D9%2588%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D9%2584%25D8%25A8%25D9%2586%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586%25D9%258A%25D9%258A%25D9%25862.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677750442596161762" border="0" /></a><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/o4xr8OWQc4I" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong> <div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;"><strong></strong></span> </div> <div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;"><strong></strong></span> </div> <div> <h2 class="contentheading"><span style="font-family:Arial;">ايلي حبيقة افتدى لبنان واللبنانيين</span></h2></div></strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span> </div> <div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span> </div> <div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span> </div> <div> <p class="articleinfo"><span class="createdate"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></span></p> <center><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></center> <div id="toolbar-articlebody"> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>إن الإنسان المؤمن بربه وبكتبه المقدسة وبتعاليمه وبموت وقيامة السيد المسيح لا يموت، بل يرقد على رجاء القيامة بانتظار يوم الحساب الأخير، والرب الذي وهب الإنسان نعمة الحياة هو وحده يقرر متى يستردها وليس أي مخلوق أخر. </strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>اليوم ونحن نصلي في الذكرى التاسعة لروح الشهيد النائب والوزير الراحل ايلي حبيقة نردد بايمان وخشوع ووقار ما قاله النبي أيوب رغم كل المصائب التي حلت عليه فيما كان الشيطان يحاول جاهداً إيقاعه في التجربة دون أن يتمكن من أن يحقق هدفه اللعين هذا كون إيمان أيوب بربه كان قوياً وراسخاً: "عرياناً خرجت من بطن أمي، وعرياناً أعود إلى هناك، الرب أعطى والرب أخذ تبارك اسم الرب". (ايوب01/21).</strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>يقول السيد المسيح: "أَنَا هُوَ الْقِيَامَةُ وَالْحَيَاةُ. مَنْ آمَنَ بِي، وَإِنْ مَاتَ فَسَيَحْيَا" (يوحنا 25/11). إن تعلقنا بلبناننا الحبيب حتى الشهادة يعزينا ويقوي إيماننا ويرسخ الرجاء في نفوسنا ويساعدنا على تقبل غياب الشهداء الأبرار برضوخ كامل لمشيئة أبينا السماوي فهم لا يموتون بل يبقون أحياء في وجداننا وضمائرنا وقلوبنا وعقولنا وفي كل عمل نقوم به يهدف لخدمة ومساعدة الآخرين الذين هم بحاجة إلينا.</strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>يقول الشاعر: "ما استحق أن يعيش، من عاش لنفسه فقط". لذلك فالشخص المؤمن يجد لذته في أن يحيا لأجل غيره، عملاًً بقول الرب، "تحب قريبك كنفسك" (متى39/22). ولهذا يحب كل الناس من أعماق قلبه وتكون محبته للآخرين محبة عملية حسبما قال الرسول يوحنا: "يا أبنائي، لا تكن محبتنا بالكلام أو باللسان بل بالعمل والحق". (1يو18:3).</strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>هذه المحبة العظيمة، والله هو محبة، تتميز بالعطاء والبذل والتفاني سواء من الناحية الجسدية، أو الناحية الروحية. لذلك فإن الشخص المؤمن والمعطاء والصادق هو بطبيعته إنسان نقي وتقي وشفاف وصادق ومحب يخاف الله الذي خلقه على صورته ومثاله.</strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>هذا الإنسان يجهد بفرح كبير ليكون خادماً يخدم غيره في كل المجالات، لا لأنه مطالب بهذا، وإنما لأن الخدمة جزء من طبيعته ونفسيته وثقافته، ومكون أساسي من مكونات كيانه الإيماني. في خدمة الآخرين يشعر بالحب ويتغذى روحياً من تقديم الخدمات أكثر مما يغذي غيره بها. وإذا كانت الخدمة هي من عمل الملائكة (عبرانيين14:1)، فكم بالأولى البشر. وقد أعطانا السيد المسيح المثال الأبلغ في هذا الشأن إذ قال: "ومن أراد أن يكون الأول فيكم، فليكن لكم عبدا، وهكذا ابن الإنسان جاء لا ليخدمه الناس، بل ليخدمهم ويفدي بحياته كثيراً منهم". (متى 20/27 و28)</strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>جاء في إنجيل القديس يوحنا (15/13): "ما من حب أعظم من هذا: أن يضحي الإنسان بنفسه في سبيل أحبائه". وقال الشهيد النائب والوزير الراحل ايلي حبيقة: "إن الوطن الذي لا يفتديه شبابه بأرواحهم لا يستمر ويزول. إن خدمة الآخرين وبذل الذات من أجلهم هي أعمال مقدسة والمسيح الإله قبل الصلب والعذاب والإهانات وقدم نفسه على الصليب فداء للإنسان ليعتقه من نير وعبودية الخطيئة ويحرره.</strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>إن الشهيد لا يطلب شيئاً لنفسه من مقتنيات هذه الدنيا الفانية، وإنما يسعي لنيل بركات الله ليستحق بجدارة أفعاله وإيمانه العودة إلى منزل أبيه السماوي، والمسيح قال لنا: "ماذا ينفع الإنسان لو ربح العالم كله وخسر نفسه". (متى 16/26).</strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>الشهيد هو قربان طاهر يقدم نفسه طواعية على مذبح الله بمحبة واندفاع وفرح من أجل أحبائه تماماً كما هو حال كل شهيد من شهداء لبنان الأبرار. عرفاناً بجميلهم نقول أنه وبفضل استشهادهم بقينا، وسوف نبقى بإذن الله طالما بقي الشباب اللبناني مؤمنا بلبنان وبرسالته وعلى استعداد تام ودائم للشهادة.</strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>الشهيد النائب والوزير الراحل ايلي حبيقة لم يمت لأنه باق في كل جهد وعمل يقوم بهما أي لبناني من أجل الحفاظ على سيادة واستقلال وحرية وطنه الحبيب، ولصون كرامة وعزة اللبنانيين، كما أن عائلة حبيقة هي نبع معطاء لا ينضب في دفق الإيمان والوطنية والشهادة للحق والشهداء من أجل لبنان الرسالة والقداسة والقديسين.</strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>نصلي من أجل أن يسكن الله روح الشهيد النائب والوزير الراحل ايلي حبيقة فسيح جناته إلى جوار البررة والقديسين وأن يلهم عائلته ومحبيه الصبر والسلوان</strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></span></span> </p> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></span></span> </p> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></span></span><br /></p></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">CIA "blowback" .
refers to retaliation for illegal operations
carried out abroad, kept secret from the US public.
These operations included clandestine overthrow of governments, counterinsurgency militias,
, training of foreign militaries
in the techniques of state terrorism, rigging of elections in foreign
countries, interference with the economic viability of countries , as well as
the torture or assassination of selected foreign Leaders.
http://elie-hobeika.blogspot.com/</div>Kappeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07829648539972600691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604010407564845336.post-38442638424878586832009-02-18T11:06:00.001-08:002011-03-08T03:09:11.993-08:00غريب أمر البعض في لبنان. فالنقاش السياسي معهم يتعلّق بالأشخاص و ليس بالمبادئ.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYxqULHU8PrUGWgV96hq1XRSuPoDfdmEuEe0zxOc39K-JmZ87hJoqCV0kgXYBhWBC_IIevNj9zY1P2cujRxP3DBqy3RoTOMMKs5btkftZPRuW5ps3Slx2aY3oavMJKlQFohTTV6pIUXEEZ/s1600-h/(e)SP_A0031_edited.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 331px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYxqULHU8PrUGWgV96hq1XRSuPoDfdmEuEe0zxOc39K-JmZ87hJoqCV0kgXYBhWBC_IIevNj9zY1P2cujRxP3DBqy3RoTOMMKs5btkftZPRuW5ps3Slx2aY3oavMJKlQFohTTV6pIUXEEZ/s400/(e)SP_A0031_edited.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304216073205637394" border="0" /></a><br /><style></style><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span id="_ctl139_HtmlPlaceholderTwo"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong> <div><span><u><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong> </strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span id="_ctl139_HtmlPlaceholderTwo"><strong>رفاق</strong><span style="font-size:7px;"> </span><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>الوزير الراحل شهيدنا البطل <span>الرئيس</span> ايلي حبيقة </strong></span></span><strong>ستقومون من تحت الرماد كطائر الفينيق <span id="_ctl139_HtmlPlaceholderTwo">«وعد</span> <span id="_ctl139_HtmlPlaceholderTwo">»</span></strong></span></span></span></u></span></div></strong></span> <p dir="rtl"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong> </p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>غريب أمر البعض في لبنان. فالنقاش السياسي معهم يتعلّق بالأشخاص و ليس بالمبادئ. و هكذا يتحوّل هذا النقاش الى مشاحنة كلامية مليئة بالعبارات الرخيصة بدل أن يكون تبادلاً حضارياً للأفكار و تحليلها و تبيان نقاط القوة و الضعف فيها. و الأسوأ من ذلك ينتظر منك هذا البعض أن تلجأ أنت ايضاً مثلهم إلى هذا الدرك في الأسلوب و التعاطي. فالويل لك إذا أنت فعلت و الويل لك إذا أنت أحجمت.</strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>للأسف، هذه اللعبة المضحكة المبكية هي سمة الذين لا حجة لهم سوى النقد السلبي الذي يهدم و لا يبني. هي أيضاً سمة الذين لم يتعودوا على أخذ المبادرات، إما عن جهل أو عن عدم قدرة. هي سمة الذين لا شغل لهم و لا شاغل الا الكلام الفارغ من أي مضمون. هي أخيراً سمة الذين تربوا على مقولة "الكذب ملح الرجال" غافلين أن الكذب في النهاية حبله قصير.</strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>و بكلّ صراحة أرى أن هذا التصرف موجود بكثرة لدى العديد من الفريق السياسي الذي يتغنى بثورة اأكرز... و الذي نسي أو تناسى أننا كنا نحن في أساسها. فبدل أن يقارعوا الحجة بالحجة علهم يفهموا لماذا اخترنا طريقاً يختلف عن طريقهم، يستخدمون كل الوسائل لتحطيم صورتك و تشويه سمعتك كي يبرزوا هم. و للأسف الشديد تشترك معهم في تلك الحملة وسائل اعلامية تقول عن نفسها انها تحب الحياة و تتطلع الى المستقبل و تشرق شامخة كل نهار.</strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>و نحن هنا، بالمقارنة البسيطة، نستطيع تبيان الفارق في المنطق و التفكير بيننا و بينهم تاركين للقارئ حرية الحكم عن ما هو صائب و ما هو خطأ.</strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><u>أولاً:</u> هم يريدون بناء الدولة الحرة السيدة و المستقلة تماماً كما نحن نريد أيضاً. غير أننا نسعى نحن الى بنائها عن طريق نسج التفاهمات بين مكونات المجتمع السياسي من دون استثناء، بينما هم يريدون بناءها على تغذية الأحقاد و العصبيات و عداء البعض للبعض الآخر. و كل هذا دون أن يقولوا لك ما هو البديل لديهم عن هذه التفاهمات التي تحمي البلد. و الأخطر من ذلك، فد يأتي يوم و يقرروا هم البدء في نسج تفاهمات جديدة شرط أن يكونوا قد الغوك من المعادلة لا لشيئ إلا لأنك سبقتهم إلى ذلك، فيأتي هذا القرار بعد خراب البصرة.</strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><u>ثانياً:</u> هم يريدون أن يأتوا الى الندوة البرلمانية بأصواتكم انتم لأنهم ديمقراطيون او هكذا يدّعون؛ و هم بنفس الوقت ينكرون عليك كل لحظة الديمقراطية التي اتيت انت من خلالها الى هذه الندوة سنة 1996، و لن يتهاونوا بفعل الشيئ ذاته اذا انت فزت مجدداً بها سنة 2000...</strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><u>ثالثاً:</u> هم يريدون العدالة على قياسهم فيتهمونك مجاناً بالتخاذل او بالتواطؤ مع القتلة و المجرمين بينما نحن نسعى الى تحقيق العدالة و احقاق الحق. و عندما نقول لهم ان هنالك أمراً مريباً أن تحصل في لبنان اكثر من 28 جريمة سياسية كبرى دون أن يكشف النقاب عن اية واحدة منها، ينهالوا عليك بصفات الخيانة و العمالة و الإنتماء الى محاور عجيبة غريبة....!</strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><u>رابعاً:</u> هم يريدون الاستمرار في ادارة شؤون الوطن و هذا حق مشروع غير انهم لم يفهموا ان تاريخ ممارستهم لهذه الادارة لما يناهز العشرين سنة لا يشرفهم كثيراً. مع كل ذلك، اردنا نحن من البداية الإنطلاق معهم لكي نغيّر و نصلح لاعتقادنا ان التجارب السابقة قد علمتهم، فاذا بهم يرفضون و يريدون اصوات اللبنانيين لتكملة مسيرة فشلهم و سوء ادارتهم لشؤون الناس و انغماسهم بأفعال فاسدة يبدو انهم غير قادرين على تخطيها.</strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>غريب أمر البعض في لبنان. فهم لا يريدون أن يفهموا أن من اختار أن يقاوم في لبنان في غياب الدولة، او على الاقل لعدم قدرتها على حمايتهم، هم جزء من الشعب اللبناني الذي يعيش يومياً في الارض الجنوبية و ليسوا ايرانيين هبطوا بالمظلة هناك؛ و هذا بغض النظر ان كنت تناصر قضيتهم او لا تناصرها. و ماذا لو انقلبت الادوار و كان المقاومون الحاليون من سكان بيروت و الأشرفية و المتن و كسروان و عكار و الشوف و هم الذين يشنون كل يوم حرباً ضروساً على مواطنيهم المقاومين من سكان لبنان و قراه النائية. بربكم ماذا كانوا ليفعلوا...؟</strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>دعوتنا الخالصة و من القلب لهم ان يقاربوا ما حدث في لبنان بطريقة مختلفة و يلتحقوا قبل فوات الاوان بمسيرة الاصلاح شرط ان يصدقوا مع انفسهم و مع الآخرين.</strong></span></p></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">CIA "blowback" .
refers to retaliation for illegal operations
carried out abroad, kept secret from the US public.
These operations included clandestine overthrow of governments, counterinsurgency militias,
, training of foreign militaries
in the techniques of state terrorism, rigging of elections in foreign
countries, interference with the economic viability of countries , as well as
the torture or assassination of selected foreign Leaders.
http://elie-hobeika.blogspot.com/</div>Kappeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07829648539972600691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604010407564845336.post-11077033993985778712008-02-13T06:42:00.000-08:002011-03-08T03:08:52.993-08:00HK, Elie HOBEIKA is Most Charismatic and Unforgettable Leader, a Visionary and a Hero.RIP.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI284CI_R15waeqv-jV5MOPAnZLBWiraGG0PiAIPkX1wgydbqMf9N95LLwoIK1xilTItC6djUsrhgz6-9k-Nf8UcYcPHp1Vdf1Q2ohtKeo3sY98lNC1-UxvjW8WW1oNNIXdh2gMOFIbBs/s1600-h/header++LB_edited.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 49px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI284CI_R15waeqv-jV5MOPAnZLBWiraGG0PiAIPkX1wgydbqMf9N95LLwoIK1xilTItC6djUsrhgz6-9k-Nf8UcYcPHp1Vdf1Q2ohtKeo3sY98lNC1-UxvjW8WW1oNNIXdh2gMOFIbBs/s400/header++LB_edited.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282667902222807330" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://elie-hobeika.blogspot.com/">http://elie-hobeika.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br />Most Charismatic and Unforgettable Leader, a Visionary<br />and a Hero.RIP.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSWNaK3d61cqYd2ySorgXZduGHs999KjNQqASGTpNKIjsbDmwyyfnTo-hSftilK4TtWD0ltKlCYQsDUlMhGaTsVieS0s2G3P3X_DhCZ2EZBuiCdAHi15hHbjh6RdGu6eoLQ9jJ0eFMcOc/s1600-h/ELIE+HK.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSWNaK3d61cqYd2ySorgXZduGHs999KjNQqASGTpNKIjsbDmwyyfnTo-hSftilK4TtWD0ltKlCYQsDUlMhGaTsVieS0s2G3P3X_DhCZ2EZBuiCdAHi15hHbjh6RdGu6eoLQ9jJ0eFMcOc/s400/ELIE+HK.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166474925812562290" border="0" /></a><br />With tears in their eyes and flowers in their hands people paid tribute to their national hero. Sad at the loss, which can not be compensated yet pride was all over their faces,sacrificed their son of the soil. His was a death for a noble cause of dying for one's own country. Such men are not born everyday, they belong to the rare class of humanity, who are an example in themselves, and they are the ones who set precedents. And they themselves are unprecedented. Elie Hobeika, RIP.<br /><br />Special Investigation.<br />**********************<br /><br />"SWAP" MADE IN THE WHITE HOUSE'S MURDER INC...<br /><br />This is the "Arbitrage" DEAL of the Century....<br />A "Derivatives Contract of sorts, offered to Assef Shawkat..."<br />You GET US... Imad Moughnieh's HEAD... and we will get you<br />off the HOOK in Rafic Hariri's Murder ....<br />ASSEF SHAWKAT Delivered the Goods, it was an offer he could<br />not afford to refuse.... BINGO.<br />This Swap... is at the Low-end of the Hizbullah Spectrum for Assef<br />Shawkat....and is something Assef Is "able" to Survive...He thinks,<br />but for Hezbollah, it's a major Blow... ( A Suivre )<br /><br />February 13th... and Syrian Military Intelligence.... A Very Special<br />Anniversary.... of Sorts for THE Murderer ASSEF Shawkat, Official<br />Representative of the "White House Murder INC."...<br /><br />Today is the Anniversary "week" of Ronald Reagan, President Reagan,<br />was the President of the USA in 1983... when the Marines were<br />"smoked" in Beirut's BIA vicinity... courtesy of Hafez Assad....<br />The Great Criminal mind of the White House's Murder Inc., ...<br />as always... has targeted Imad Moughnieh, as a "present" for<br />Ronald Reagan's "Anniversary" Celebrations... just like he did<br />in his earlier Assassination endeavors....<br /><br />Congratulations CIA.... Your Murder Laundry now, is "worthy"<br />of the Middle East's long record of Assassinations....<br /><br />ASSEF SHAWKAT murdered Imad Moughnieh yesterday<br />in Damascus, courtesy of Mitsubishi Corporation's well<br />"rounded" specially designed SEATS, delivered in time,<br />and with great Taste.... In order for Assef Shawkat to<br />"present" his credentials, Officially... to his Masters<br />in CIA's Langley, and Herzliah's MOSSAD and Israel.<br />Assef Shawkat is now the Official representative of<br />Elliott Abrams in Damascus SYRIA. Congratulations<br />ASSEF, and Bushra.<br />Now, the 241 Marines, William F. Buckley, and many others,<br />like Colonel Higgins, Robert Stethem, etc. can rest in Peace....<br />and the French DRAKAR occupants, RIP, 25 years later.....<br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">المعلم: دمشق "ستعلن اسم المسؤول عن مقتل مغنية" : ASSEF SHAWKAT<br />15 شباط 2008<br /><br /><br /><br />A SCRIPT MADE IN HOLLYWOOD AND LANGLEY VIRGINIA TO FREE ASSEF SHAWKAT FROM THE SWIFT AND INEVITABLE RETALIATION OF HEZBOLLAH, AGAINST THE KILLER OF IMAD MOUGHNIEH, ASSEF SHAWKAT. TEL AVIV AND CIA AND MOSSAD ARE ALL SCRAMBLING TO GIVE A SOLID COVER TO THEIR KEY MAN IN DAMASCUS ASSEF SHAWKAT, THE KILLER MURDERER OF MR. ELIE HOBEIKA , ON THE ORDERS OF CIA AND ARIEL SHARON, THE VEGETABLE OF JERUSALEM.,<br /><br />أعلن وليد المعلم وزير الخارجية السوري أنه سيتم قريباً الكشف عن نتائج التحقيق في حادث اغتيال القائد العسكري في حزب الله عماد مغنية في دمشق.ASSEF SHAWKAT<br /><br /><br /><br />ووعد المعلم بتقديم ادلة قاطعة على هوية من قام بالاغتيال ومن كان وراءه، ملمحاً لأول مرة إلى مسؤولية إسرائيلية. ASSEF SHAWKAT<br />في هذه الأثناء اذاعت قناة العالم الإيرانية شريط فيديو قالت إنه للانفجار الذي اودى بحياة مغنية في دمشق. ASSEF SHAWKAT<br /><br />وقالت القناة إن الفيديو التقط عن طريق كاميرا هاتف محمول وانه اظهر السيارة المفخخة التي انفجرت بجانب سيارة مغنية وأضافت أن التفجير تم عن طريق التحكم عن بعد. ASSEF SHAWKAT<br /><br />وكان وزير الخارجية السوري، قد صرح الخميس بأن التحقيقات التي تجريها اجهزة الامن السورية حول مقتل مغنية تسير بشكل جيد، وقال إن الحادث "جريمة ارهابية".ASSEF SHAWKAT<br /><br />وجاء تصريح وزير خارجية سورية خلال المؤتمر الصحفي المشترك الذي عقده مع نظيره الايراني منوشهر متكي، الذي يزور دمشق حاليا بعد مشاركته في تشييع جنازة مغنية. ASSEF SHAWKAT<br /><br />ونفى المعلم وجود صلة بين مقتل مغنية ومقتل رئيس الوزراء اللبناني الراحل رفيق الحريري الا من حيث التوقيت كما امتنع عن الادلاء بأي تعليق حول ما اذا كان قد تم اعتقال أي شخص في اطار التحقيق. ASSEF SHAWKAT<br /><br />إلا انه اكد في الوقت نفسه أن اغتيال مغنية نسف أي فرصة للسلام بين اسرائيل وسوريا. ASSEF SHAWKAT<br />أما متكي فأعرب في المؤتمر الصحفي عن ثقته القوية في أن اسرائيل تقف وراء اغتيال مغنية. ASSEF SHAWKAT<br /><br />وكان الأمين العام لحزب الله حسن نصر الله قد القى بمسؤولية اغتيال مهنية على اسرائيل في خطاب القاه بالامس وهو ما رفضته إسرائيل. ASSEF SHAWKAT<br /><br />وما زالت سوريا واسرائيل في حالة حرب من الناحية النظرية كما شهدت الفترة الاخيرة توترا في ضوء قيام طائرات اسرائيلية باختراق المال الجوي السوري وقصف اهداف داخل اراضيها.<br /><br />"العقوبات بالمثل" ASSEF SHAWKAT<br /><br />وفي تطور آخر، وفي أول رد فعل على قرار البيت الابيض بتشديد العقوبات المفروضة على سورية، والذي يشمل مسؤولين حكوميين ومتعاملين معهم، قال وزير الخارجية السوري وليد المعلم ان دمشق سترد على تلك العقوبات "بعقوبات". ASSEF SHAWKAT<br /><br />وقال المعلم ان "هذه ليست المرة الاولى التي تتخذ فيها الولايات المتحدة اجراءات ضد سورية، لكننا في هذه المرة سنعاقب الولايات المتحدة". ASSEF SHAWKAT<br /><br />وكان الرئيس الامريكي جورج بوش قد قرر توسيع نطاق العقوبات المفروضة منذ عام 2004 والتي تشمل كل الصادرات الامريكية الى سورية ما عدا الاغذية والمواد الطبية.<br /><br />وقد اقرت حينها هذه العقوبات بسبب اتهام واشنطن لدمشق "بدعم الارهاب الدولي وتقويض الجهود الامريكية في العراق". ASSEF SHAWKAT<br /><br />واضاف المعلم: "هناك العشرات من المواطنين السوريين الذين راحوا ضحايا خلال الحرب العدوانية الاسرائيلية على لبنان، سيرفع اهلهم دعاوى لمقاضاة الولايات المتحدة، حيث استخدمت اسرائيل السلاح الامريكي في قتلهم". ASSEF SHAWKAT</span><br /><br />********************************************************************<div class="blogger-post-footer">CIA "blowback" .
refers to retaliation for illegal operations
carried out abroad, kept secret from the US public.
These operations included clandestine overthrow of governments, counterinsurgency militias,
, training of foreign militaries
in the techniques of state terrorism, rigging of elections in foreign
countries, interference with the economic viability of countries , as well as
the torture or assassination of selected foreign Leaders.
http://elie-hobeika.blogspot.com/</div>Kappeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07829648539972600691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604010407564845336.post-69982061605851029202007-12-23T07:10:00.000-08:002011-03-08T03:07:17.354-08:00Scenarios and Related Risks for Lebanon:<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw5PBfBWllphbam3cSdko0_4a_zBsbYToa-D5GvcxmwFe-9hkiRtGWITXiroTDYFI97NKAT_e9q6iiBFhLncfzwBPnXvb1VwK-I9Oay3cJ3EISkHlfO_lmfqCEOofG8r5YVzL-mJ07P9BZ/s1600-h/lebanon_southern_border_1986.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw5PBfBWllphbam3cSdko0_4a_zBsbYToa-D5GvcxmwFe-9hkiRtGWITXiroTDYFI97NKAT_e9q6iiBFhLncfzwBPnXvb1VwK-I9Oay3cJ3EISkHlfO_lmfqCEOofG8r5YVzL-mJ07P9BZ/s400/lebanon_southern_border_1986.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5147189533122268482" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://elie-hobeika.blogspot.com/">http://elie-hobeika.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Most Charismatic, Unforgettable Leader, a visionary and a Hero. RIP</span><br /><br /><a href="http://wiredlebanon.blogspot.com/">http://wiredlebanon.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://phoeniciaphoenix.blogspot.com/">http://phoeniciaphoenix.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />As the election of a Lebanese President is postponed yet again, and for the ninth consecutive time, for lack of a political understanding between the Majority and the Opposition, four possible scenarios for the immediate future of the country spring to mind, each carrying with it its inherent security risks. <br /><br /><br />First Scenario and Related Risks:<br /><br /><br />Under the first scenario, Washington and Riyadh might strike a deal with Syria (and beyond it Iran). Damascus would then put pressure to bear on its friends and allies in Lebanon (Amal, Hezbollah and the likes of Michel Murr or Suleiman Frangieh), for them to put pressure in turn on Michel Aoun and bring him to toe the line. The latter would grudgingly agree and Parliament would convene to elect General Michel Suleiman as President. Such a scenario would go some way towards correcting the imbalances inherent to the lopsided application of the Taef Agreement, allowing the Christians to gain some of the ground lost to the Sunnis since 1989 and allowing the Shiites to at last turn their July 2006 military gains into real political gains.<br /><br />In as much as prioritizing security risks is at all possible, the risks inherent to the First Scenario would, in order of likelihood, be:<br /><br />(1) a war waged by the Army against Al-Qaeda-like Islamist groups;<br /><br />(2) warfare in and around the Palestinian refugee camps as the war between the Army and Sunni Islamists groups overflows;<br /><br />(3) operations staged by Sunni Islamist groups against Unifil units deployed in the South;<br /><br />(4) acts of revenge by Sunni Islamists against Lebanese officials and Sunni “traitors”;<br /><br />(5) acts of provocation by Sunni Islamists against Shiite targets;<br /><br />(6) a wave of political assassinations by one or more foreign party seeking to again rewrite the Taef Agreement to suit its needs. <br /><br /><br />Second Scenario and Related Risks:<br /><br /><br />Under the second scenario, despite Damascus (and beyond it Tehran) having successfully struck a deal with Washington and Riyadh, Syria’s and Iran’s mainly Shiite allies in Lebanon might prove unable to convince Michel Aoun to toe the line and would feel compelled to put an end to the alliance they struck with him in 2006. With Aoun isolated from his allies and still refusing to negotiate, General Suleiman would refuse to run for president and a weak Christian candidate would be elected in his stead. This scenario would favor both the Shiites and the Sunnis, but it would work against the Christians. It would, in effect, take the country back to the early nineties when, after the assassination of President René Moawad, the forced exile of General Michel Aoun and the imprisonment of the assassin and serial murderer Samir Geagea, the Christians were marginalized and Rafic Hariri struck a deal with Damascus that allowed him to run the country for twelve years. <br /><br />In as much as prioritizing security risks is at all possible, the risks inherent to the Second Scenario would, in order of likelihood, be:<br /><br />(1) civil strife in the Christian regions as had happened following the 1989 assassination of President Moawad, when the Syrians succeeded in “Syrianizing” the Taef Agreement and the Christians were torn apart by a fratricidal war pitting opponents and proponents of Taef;<br /><br />(2) operations staged by Sunni Islamist groups against Unifil units deployed in the South;<br /><br />(3) a war between the Army and Al-Qaeda-like Islamist groups;<br /><br />(4) warfare in and around the Palestinian refugee camps as the war between the Army and Sunni Islamists groups overflows;<br /><br />(5) a wave of political assassinations by one or more foreign party seeking to again rewrite the Taef Agreement to suit its needs. <br /><br /><br />Third Scenario and Related Risks:<br /><br /><br />Under the third scenario, no deal having been reached between the West and the Syrians, the Majority would convene its MPs in haste to elect a president from its midst in the absence of Opposition MPs and, more importantly, in the absence of any Shiite MP. This would in effect take the country back to the autumn of 1989 and more particularly to the few weeks which elapsed between the signing of the Taef Agreement in October 1989 and the assassination of newly-elected President René Moawad on 22 November. <br /><br /><br />In as much as prioritizing security risks is at all possible, the risks inherent to the Third Scenario would, in order of likelihood, be:<br /><br />(1) attempts on the life of the next president who will find himself in a similar situation to President René Moawad who was assassinated in the immediate aftermath of the signing of the 1989 Taef Agreement;<br /><br />(2) .attacks on State institutions;<br /><br />(3) attacks on the State’s foreign backers and notably on Unifil units deployed in the South, by Sunni Islamist groups and also possibly by Shiite groups;<br /><br />(4) a resumption of rocket attacks across the border with Israel;<br /><br />(5) Inter-Palestinian clashes in and around the refugee camps.<br /><br /><br />Fourth Scenario and Related Risks:<br /><br /><br />Under the fourth scenario, with the constitutional vacuum persisting, the power struggle between the various Lebanese factions and communities would gradually move away from a beleaguered and henceforth largely irrelevant central State apparatus, and take on a more regional and territorial form reminiscent of the 10-year inter-confessional civil war which, in effect, ended in 1985 with the signing of the short-lived Tripartite Agreement.<br /><br /><br />In as much as prioritizing security risks is at all possible, the risks inherent to the Fourth Scenario would, in order of likelihood, be:<br /><br />(1) attempts on the life of the Batrak, or Druze leader Walid Joumblatt, and or Saad Hariri ;....<br /><br />(2) civil strife in the Druze and Sunni regions; etc.? A New Pseudo-Cedar Revolution... made In Jeffrey Feltman again?<br /><br />(3) sectarian incidents in religiously heterogeneous regions such as West Beirut, Iqlim al-Kharroub and the Shouf, Sidon and the South;<br /><br />(4) inter-Palestinian clashes in the refugee camps;<br /><br />(5) attacks on Unifil units deployed in the South;<br /><br />(6) Cross-border rocket attacks on Israel.<br /><br />(7) A coordinated, targeted attack in Iran, Syria and Hezbollah by USA and Israel....is likely still.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br /><br />* - we are still in an artificial "waiting Game" expressly controlled by the Americans and the Israelis... because the Americans have come to the conclusion that SYRIA is on a "winning path".... if things continue the way it is going now.... and that SYRIA is "draining" the USA [ istinzaf ] Politically over the long haul... and that the US and Israel have devised a PLAN to make SYRIA PAY.... Militarily... and they think that they are abler to get militarily, what they were not able to get Politically from SYRIA.... and IRAN in a ricochet... and may be get them apart finally.....<br />Hence , I see a very Fast and Furious WAR in preparation with Israel and USA, and this WAR is coming sooner than anybody thinks.... and obviously it will target IRAN also for sure and South Lebanon inevitably... despite the UNIFIL...<br />One clear indication the upcoming visit BARAK to Cairo this week to see Mubarak....and many other infos falling together.... </span><br /><br /><a href="http://phoeniciaphoenix.blogspot.com/"><br />http://phoeniciaphoenix.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://hobeika.blogspot.com/">http://hobeika.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Universal Declaration of Human Rights<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicGvcLwYnnW0nP1Yygc_rrRR969HxRCFfuJPQM71CCU-L3qxc7l4Q_LW97VWaxoIWXr7zAECvynhPgsUQ-etIh-WDvJKxNCuZI9gKZP3pUqzBVnrpI9vzwePxO2Ndu9CILaWL7sgkoF-uT/s1600-h/syria_Israel-map.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicGvcLwYnnW0nP1Yygc_rrRR969HxRCFfuJPQM71CCU-L3qxc7l4Q_LW97VWaxoIWXr7zAECvynhPgsUQ-etIh-WDvJKxNCuZI9gKZP3pUqzBVnrpI9vzwePxO2Ndu9CILaWL7sgkoF-uT/s400/syria_Israel-map.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149449789726559570" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />It has been sixty years since members of the United Nations have voted to<br />adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a minimum standard for<br />human behavior.<br /><br />It is paradoxical that a primary contributor to the authorship of this most<br />important document was Charles Malek from Lebanon, a country whose very<br />constitution is based on sectarian principles that violate the most basic<br />principle of the document that one of its sons helped formulate.<br />To be fair though, Lebanon is only one country among many that have failed<br />to implement the associated ideas of human dignity, individual liberty,<br />social and economic justice as spelled out in the UDHR. Unfortunately, the<br />ugly face of cultural and religious relativism seems to have dealt a severe<br />blow to the idea of universalism and cosmopolitanism as envisioned by<br />Charles Malek and his colleagues. Many of the countries of the North have<br />spared no effort to spread civil liberties as enunciated by the UDHR while<br />those in the south have emphasized social and economic freedoms.<br />The UN is launching a major educational campaign, all over the world,<br />in an effort to remind us of these simple and honorable ideas that go a<br />long way in celebrating our humanity.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br /><br />We, in Lebanon in particular, should resolve to use these sacred principles;<br />arrived at by the help of one of our favorite sons; in order to solve once<br />and for all the recurrent crisis that divides us and dehumanize us. We<br />should never forget that we are all born free and equal and that all<br />standards whether based on ethnicity, racial origin, religious practice,<br />gender or sexual orientation are artificial barriers that will only keep us<br />from becoming truly free and human. Is it time that we proclaim that in the<br />new Lebanon individuals will not be judged by their religious practices but<br />by their deep moral convictions and allegiance to sovereignty and human rights.<br /><br />The attached is a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:<br /><br />On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations<br />adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the<br />full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic<br />act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text<br />of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read<br />and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions,<br />without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories."<br /><br />Preamble<br /><br />Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable<br />rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom,<br />justice and peace in the world,<br /><br />Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous<br />acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a<br />world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and<br />freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of<br />the common people,<br /><br />Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as<br />a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human<br />rights should be protected by the rule of law,<br /><br />Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations<br />between nations,<br /><br />Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed<br />their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the<br />human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to<br />promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,<br /><br />Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation<br />with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and<br />observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,<br /><br />Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the<br />greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,<br /><br />Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims<br />THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a<br />common standard of achievement for all peoples and all<br />nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society,<br />keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and<br />education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by<br />progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal<br />and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of<br />Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under<br />their jurisdiction.<br /><br />Article 1.<br /><br />All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are<br />endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one<br />another in a spirit of brotherhood.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Article 2.<br /><br />Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this<br />Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex,<br />language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin,<br />property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made<br />on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the<br />country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent,<br />trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />Article 3.<br /><br />Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />Article 4.<br /><br />No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade<br />shall be prohibited in all their forms.<br /><br />Article 5.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading<br />treatment or punishment.<br /><br />Article 6.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.<br /><br />Article 7.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to<br />equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against<br />any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any<br />incitement to such discrimination.<br /><br />Article 8.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national<br />tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the<br />constitution or by law.<br /><br />Article 9.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.<br /><br />Article 10.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an<br />independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and<br />obligations and of any criminal charge against him.<br /><br />Article 11.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed<br />innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he<br />has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.<br />(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act<br />or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or<br />international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier<br />penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal<br />offence was committed.<br /><br />Article 12.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy,<br />family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and<br />reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such<br />interference or attacks.<br /><br />Article 13.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the<br />borders of each state.<br />(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to<br />return to his country.<br /><br />Article 14.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum<br />from persecution.<br />(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely<br />arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and<br />principles of the United Nations.<br /><br />Article 15.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.<br />(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the<br />right to change his nationality.<br /><br />Article 16.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race,<br />nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They<br />are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its<br />dissolution.<br />(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of<br />the intending spouses.<br />(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is<br />entitled to protection by society and the State.<br /><br />Article 17.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association<br />with others.<br />(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.<br /><br />Article 18.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this<br />right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either<br />alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his<br />religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.<br /><br />Article 19.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right<br />includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive<br />and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of<br />frontiers.<br /><br />Article 20.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.<br />(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.<br /><br />Article 21.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country,<br />directly or through freely chosen representatives.<br />(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.<br />(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of<br />government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections<br />which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret<br />vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.<br /><br />Article 22.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is<br />entitled to realization, through national effort and international<br />co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each<br />State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his<br />dignity and the free development of his personality.<br /><br />Article 23.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just<br />and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.<br />(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for<br />equal work.<br />(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration<br />ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity,<br />and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.<br />(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the<br />protection of his interests.<br /><br />Article 24.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation<br />of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.<br /><br />Article 25.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health<br />and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing,<br />housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to<br />security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old<br />age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.<br />(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance.<br />All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social<br />protection.<br /><br />Article 26.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least<br />in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be<br />compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally<br />available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the<br />basis of merit.<br />(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human<br />personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and<br />fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and<br />friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further<br />the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.<br />(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be<br />given to their children.<br /><br />Article 27.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the<br />community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its<br />benefits.<br />(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material<br />interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of<br />which he is the author.<br /><br />Article 28.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights<br />and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.<br /><br />Article 29.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full<br />development of his personality is possible.<br />(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject<br />only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of<br />securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others<br />and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the<br />general welfare in a democratic society.<br />(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the<br />purposes and principles of the United Nations.<br /><br />Article 30.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State,<br />group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act<br />aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />بين الكلمات والمواقف، صورة مصغرة عن ما نطمح إليه <br /> 24 كانون الثاني 2002 <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br /><br />هل من الصدفة أن نقرأ مواقف الكنيسة المارونية في هذه الفترة الحساسة من عمر الوطن، وأن تكون ملتبسة وغير واضحة ؟!<br />هل من الصدفة أن نسمع كلامًا فيه مساواة بين الحق والباطل ؟! <br /> قد تكون الحقيقة غير مملوكة من طرف واحد، وبالتأكيد لا قدرة لأحد أن يمتلكها بالكامل. ولكن هل يجوز أن تنطلق الحقيقية من فعل مجتزأ وإرادة ناقصة وصورة مشوهة عن التاريخ والأصالة.<br />إذا كان قدر اللبنانيين أن تتجاذبهم إراداتٌ خارجية مبنية على مصالح دول غير عابئة بمصير وطن وشعب، فما بال الكنيسة اليوم لا تبحث عن مصلحة رعيتها، ولماذا عودة الحق إلى إصحابه هي بمثابة حلم لا يجوز وضعه على سلم أولويات المرحلة الراهنة، وإلى متى سنبقى نؤسس وندمر، ونعلو ونسقط، نُساير الآخرين فنصبح مع الوقت أهل زمة عندهم.<br /><br />ولأنَّ، فعل " لأنَّ " في ورقة الثوابت المسيحية لديها دالات كبيرة قد يصعب على البعض تداركها سريعًا، " ولأنَّ من رفض قيام لبنان مسيحي منعزل عن محيطه، له على الشريك الآخر أن يرفض معه قيام لبنان مسلم متنكر لصيغتة، ولأنه لا بديل للمسيحيين عن الاندماج في محيطهم والتآخي ضمن مجتمعهم، مع الحفاظ على شخصيتهم وهويتهم الحضارية المتجذرة في الشرق والمنفتحة على حضارة الغرب، ولأن الحياة المشتركة الواحدة هي أكثر من عملية تلاصق قسري، إنما هي مدخل الى المواطنية ومنظومة حقوق وواجبات، تلجها الجماعات الروحية اللبنانية طوعاً عندما تطمئن الى استقرارها ومستقبلها."<br /><br />واليوم عندما وجدت هذا الإنحدار في خطاب كنيستنا، لم أجد أقدر مما قلته في حفل عشاء هيئة رعشين – إغبه في تموز الماضي، لذا أعود وأنشره علّكم تجدون فيه شيئًا مما تنتظرونه. <br />هل مصادفةٌ، أن نحتفلَ اليوم بعشاء هيئة رعشين – إغبه في التيار الوطني الحر ولبنان يعيش بين مطرقة الفوضى وسندان الأمل بالسلم المنشود.<br /><br />كيف لنا أن نؤسس لنبني وطنًا شعبه ينشد السلام، تواقًا إلى بناء وطنٍ يجسّد طموحاته وأحلامه، ويؤمّن له الحد الأدنى من الاستقرار والأمن والراحة.<br /><br />كيف لنا أن نتحرر من هيمنة الكبار في الخارج وإجرام بعض الصغار في الداخل!؟<br /><br />كيف لنا أن نتحرر، ما دام هناك البعض يساوي بين خيار النصف زائدًا واحدًا ونصاب الثلثين الدستوري لإنتخاب رئيس للجمهورية؟<br /><br />كيف لنا، ما دام البعض، ويا للأسف، غالبيتهم من الموارنة، يجدون في مخيم المعارضة المطالب بالشراكة والعدل في الحكم، في أحد مواقف عاصمَتَنا بيروت، حالة لزعزعة الإستقرار وتدهور الإقتصاد وتعكير السلم الأهلي. ولا يعترضون أو يتساءلون عن الأسباب الموجبة لإنتخاب رئيس "كيف ما كان".<br /><br />كيف لنا، ما دامت الذاكرة الجماعية للمجتمع اللبناني عمومًا والمسيحي خصوصًا غائبة حينًا ومغيبة حينًا آخر، رافضةً التمرد على واقع مُنحدر وصلنا إليه.<br /><br />من هنا أما زلتم تتساءلون أيها الأصدقاء، لماذا خيار الفوضى يساوي خيار السلم في هذه الأيام.<br /><br />- ثماني عشرة سنة وقف أباؤنا وأجدادنا على أبواب الملاجئ يشهدون على دمار أسواق بيروت وجونية، طرابلس وزحلة، فتحولوا مع الوقت شهود زور على القتل والسرقة عاجزين عن إقفها.<br /><br />- وبعدها جاءت ثماني عشرة سنة من حربٍ إقتصادية لسنا في وارد الغوص في أسبابها، بحيث لم تسمح لنا، نحن جيل الغد، أن نعيش طفولتنا كما عاشها أمثالنا في بلدانٍ أخرى.<br /><br />واليوم هل يُعقل أن نسمح لهم أن يسرُِقوا من عيون أجيالنا وأولادنا وأحفادكم حلم الطفولة وأمل المستقبل وحنين الماضي؟<br /><br />هل تسمحون لمن باعنا واستثمرنا ودمّرنا وقتلنا، وطأطأ رؤوسنا، أن يُعطينا دروسًا في الوطنية والأخلاق والدستور.<br /><br />هل يجب أن نُذكرّهم من هي كسروان- الفتوح؟<br /><br />هل يجب أن نذكرهم أن مِعقل الموارنة هنا، فلا زعامة لأحد إلا من أرض العُصاة، من مِعقل التاريخ والأصالة.<br /><br />ومن على تخوم رعشين جاءنا اليوم، من يعمل على أن يكون عاصيًا على بناء الدولة، من دون أن يدرك أن مفهوم العاصية عندنا هو طلب للحرية وليس إستزلامًا لقريطم.<br /><br />هل يجب أن نذكرهم بأن أبناء العاصية، لم يقترعوا للعماد عون في العام 2005 نائبًا، بل اقترعوا له رئيسًا للجمهورية اللبنانية المنشودة.<br /><br />وهل يجب أن نذكرهم بأننا لن نتخلى بهذه السهولة عن حقنا في الخيار ونستسلم للباطل.<br /><br />وإذا كتبَ لنا، أن نخسر معركة بناء لبنان، فنحن على إستعداد أن نخسرها بشرف وبكرامة من أن نبيع أصواتنا وأصواتكم لنتاجر بها مهما غلت التضحيات.<br /><br />بالأمس البعيد، غاب علامة من لبنان، هو بطريركِنا، بطريرك انطاكيا وسائر المشرق إسطفان الدويهي، رحل يوم كان لبنان في أمّس الحاجة إلى أمثاله وما زال. اليوم نناديك ومن عليائك، كم نحن في حاجة إليك وإلى صولجانك واقفًا الى جانب العماد عون والى جانبنا من إجل إسقاط كل مخططات التقسيم والتوطين والإلغاء.<br /><br />أين أنتم يا مفكري هذه الطائفة؟ أين أنت أيها العلامة الأب ميشال حايك؟<br /><br />أين رحلتُم، تاركين وراءكم بيوت الجهل والكفر تعشِّش وتتكاثر ولا من رادعٍ؟<br /><br />ألا يحق لنا أن نبني من كلماتكم قصورًا للعلم والثقافة، ألم يأت السيد المسيح ليقول للفريسيين وفي بيت الله: بيتي بيتَ صلاة يسمى، وأنتم جعلتموه مغارةً للصوص.<br /><br />هل الكفرُ للتغيير كفرٌ؟<br />أم الدعاة للسارقين صلاة؟<br /><br />أيها الكتبة نذكركم بما كتب في الكتاب المقدس في سفر أخبار الملوك الفصل 2 الآية 4 .<br />" لا يموت الآباء بالبنين، ولا يموت البنون في الآباء، بل كل آمرئٍ بخطيئته يموت. "<br /><br />في الختام.<br />كسروان- الفتوح، ورعشين وإغبه حالة لبنانية صرف، وجزء من المعادلة الوطنية الكبرى، من هنا التنافس هو حق مشروع أمام كل الأحزاب. لذا فليكن التنافس حقًّا مقدسًا، والإختلاف حقًّا مقدسًا، والتعددية حقًّا مقدسًا، والتفاعل حقًّا مقدسًا.<br /><br />ولكن حذار تكرار تجارب الماضي، فإنًّ المرء لا يُلدغ من الجحر مرتين.<br /><br />ولنبني لبنان كما قال العماد عون وكرر دائمًا، على قاعدة أن نكون أبعادًا لبنانية في الخارج لا أبعادًا خارجية في الداخل.<br /><br />عشتم;<br />عاش: الوزير السابق ايلي حبيقة; شهيدنا البطل،وعريس بسكنتا, عميد الشهداء.<br />عاش: إلياس (إيلي) حبيقة .<br />عاشت: بسكنتا.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s1600-h/Julia++Boutros.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGPyu2WkZXpj5QiYdBWosmFtRBc2ksvkMdJtSCxlY_2ROkphz7Ccy9E9M5m-LWe4vIVHsBNRMPUc365UFWm0tcAvgdNFA92F7MqUPTGsxbqx7RGuptOXtOL9p41SvGsY27wxf-eFqEmE/s400/Julia++Boutros.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154960877012422018" border="0" /></a><br />وعاش لبنان.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">CIA "blowback" .
refers to retaliation for illegal operations
carried out abroad, kept secret from the US public.
These operations included clandestine overthrow of governments, counterinsurgency militias,
, training of foreign militaries
in the techniques of state terrorism, rigging of elections in foreign
countries, interference with the economic viability of countries , as well as
the torture or assassination of selected foreign Leaders.
http://elie-hobeika.blogspot.com/</div>Kappeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07829648539972600691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604010407564845336.post-85917207113200010002007-02-07T07:38:00.000-08:002009-03-04T03:44:47.295-08:00Bashir and ELIE , MUST be turning in their Graves, when they see the " New Alliances " made in Neoconville USA.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwbs4g2HpZvS_OLoIrQPWVdp351JtCR5GyR1LdwkNMZkOWIgxrmlw25Tw57ZGy6d915Ki802lUX4Uag2OH-nC0Ak2ogE1HNxvSJHfCJT6qahm7gl6ZXjkYMWLHNgTGqJgntdcS_va0iVCG/s1600-h/Bashir+young.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwbs4g2HpZvS_OLoIrQPWVdp351JtCR5GyR1LdwkNMZkOWIgxrmlw25Tw57ZGy6d915Ki802lUX4Uag2OH-nC0Ak2ogE1HNxvSJHfCJT6qahm7gl6ZXjkYMWLHNgTGqJgntdcS_va0iVCG/s400/Bashir+young.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049944067987424306" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuV5Dk8CRfUOuxW2aTNKTuXuN9TNjJknPKQx9xP9iUiBW9OCqgaIvlWxpGpceA9fuyVTiaUK5EkYh41Ri4CsXNEAKwlm9ZlX430VehSoNeOMVAJE7QY2Oc09d86ejUBISV6rdc0JqIkRk/s1600-h/hkpartner.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuV5Dk8CRfUOuxW2aTNKTuXuN9TNjJknPKQx9xP9iUiBW9OCqgaIvlWxpGpceA9fuyVTiaUK5EkYh41Ri4CsXNEAKwlm9ZlX430VehSoNeOMVAJE7QY2Oc09d86ejUBISV6rdc0JqIkRk/s400/hkpartner.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061835150656000114" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxGqVBlD_HIxnKWKhFpJqFuAkmjRDMpzydJMJH_gsXy9rBZvWs975v0iQTAMAIvnFsuRE1h6TOe_NhDGfWklvIzA9NS4J7iOicDVHVoD0OdYCAwzmoBtpkiYj8klJawW3Fv1GipkedWW_J/s1600-h/bachir+and+elie.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5030654265479230578" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxGqVBlD_HIxnKWKhFpJqFuAkmjRDMpzydJMJH_gsXy9rBZvWs975v0iQTAMAIvnFsuRE1h6TOe_NhDGfWklvIzA9NS4J7iOicDVHVoD0OdYCAwzmoBtpkiYj8klJawW3Fv1GipkedWW_J/s320/bachir+and+elie.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMzNbB5TxM2Q21YjkLjDge19snI99QHKV2Z8nkkkQWzrFqNw2pjlVQ-yAQA3vOTWCghLQfuNY1wI0nEHnZf294pRgywYuEhlVIJ_ib2LzDXipCROJ7O_POSnbNcEKHdlZE6q2eMB8vQXWx/s1600-h/fz+6.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5029953515795084274" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMzNbB5TxM2Q21YjkLjDge19snI99QHKV2Z8nkkkQWzrFqNw2pjlVQ-yAQA3vOTWCghLQfuNY1wI0nEHnZf294pRgywYuEhlVIJ_ib2LzDXipCROJ7O_POSnbNcEKHdlZE6q2eMB8vQXWx/s320/fz+6.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br />HK:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ce que je n’oublierai jamais, mon cher Elie, c’est le jour de ton départ ! Comment aurais-je jamais pu imaginé que tu tomberais à « Hazmieh », lâchement assassiné ! Comment pouvais-je expliquer à tes amis, la cause de ta mort si incompréhensible et injuste ? Dans notre pays, on assassine les héros au lieu de les glorifier et on récompense les assassins !C'est l'individualisation de cette personnalité, de sa trajectoire, à une époque où le renseignement devient plus technique qu'humain (la faille des Américains, l'une des sources de leurs déboires au Moyen Orient), sa médiatisation connotée, qui fait de HK, Elie Hobeika un héros sans égal...</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">6 ans après, tu es toujours présent parmis nous.<br />100 ans </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">après, tu seras toujours présent parmis nous.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Je n’oublierai jamais !</span><strong>Je n’oublierai jamais !</strong><br /><br />Dans les rues de la ville il y a mon Allégeance . Peu importe où il va dans le temps divisé. Il n'est plus mon amour, chacun peut lui parler. Il ne se souvient plus; qui au juste l'aima?<br />Il cherche son pareil dans le voeu des regards. L'espace qu'il parcourt est ma fidélité. Il dessine l'espoir et léger l'éconduit. Il est prépondérant sans qu'il y prenne part.<br />Je vis au fond de lui comme une épave heureuse. A son insu, ma solitude est son trésor. Dans le grand méridien où s'inscrit son essor, ma liberté le creuse.<br />Dans les rues de la ville il y a mon amour. Peu importe où il va dans le temps divisé. Il n'est plus mon amour, chacun peut lui parler. Il ne se souvient plus; qui au juste l'aima et l'éclaire de loin pour qu'il ne tombe pas?<br />Ils sont venus, les forestiers de l'autre versant, les inconnus de nous, les rebelles à nos usages.<br />Ils sont venus nombreux.<br />Leur troupe est apparue à la ligne de partage des cèdres<br />Et du champ de la vieille moisson désormais irrigué et vert.<br />La longue marche les avait échauffés.<br />Leur casquette cassait sur les yeux et leur pied fourbu se posait dans le vague.<br /><br />Ils nous ont aperçus et se sont arrêtés.<br />Visiblement ils ne présumaient pas nous trouver là,<br />Sur des terres faciles et des sillons bien clos,<br />Tout à fait insouciants d'une audience.<br />Nous avons levé le front et les avons encouragés.<br /><br />Le plus disert s'est approché, puis un second tout aussi déraciné et lent.<br />Nous sommes venus, dirent-ils, vous prévenir de l'arrivée prochaine de l'ouragan,<br />de votre implacable adversaire.<br />Pas plus que vous, nous ne le connaissons<br />Autrement que par des relations et des confidences d'ancêtres.<br />Mais pourquoi sommes-nous heureux incompréhensiblement devant vous et soudain pareils à des enfants?<br /><br />Nous avons dit merci et les avons congédiés.<br />Mais auparavant ils ont bu, et leurs mains tremblaient, et leurs yeux riaient sur les bords.<br />Hommes d'arbres et de cognée, capables de tenir tête à quelque terreur<br />mais inaptes à conduire l'eau, à aligner des bâtisses, à les enduire de couleurs plaisantes,<br />Ils ignoraient le jardin d'hiver et l'économie de la joie.<br /><br />Certes, nous aurions pu les convaincre et les conquérir,<br />Car l'angoisse de l'ouragan est émouvante.<br />Oui, l'ouragan allait bientôt venir;<br />Mais cela valait-il la peine que l'on en parlât et qu'on dérangeât l'avenir?<br />Là où nous sommes, il n'y a pas de crainte urgente.<br /><br />Oh la toujours plus rase solitude<br />Des larmes qui montent aux cimes.<br /><br />Quand se déclare la débâcle<br />Et qu'un vieil aigle sans pouvoir<br />Voit revenir son assurance,<br />Le bonheur s'élance à son tour,<br />À flanc d'abîme les rattrape.<br /><br />Chasseur rival, tu n'as rien appris,<br />Toi qui sans hâte me dépasses<br />Dans la mort que je contredis.<br />Au plus fort de l'orage, il y a toujours un oiseau pour nous rassurer. C'est l'oiseau inconnu, il chante avant de s'envoler.<br /><br /><br />*********************************************************************************<br />Mon futur à présent,<br />Mon chemin face au vent,<br />Pour vivre à tout les temps, tu seras,<br />Mon futur a présent,<br />Pour vivre en frères de sang,<br />L'amour à tout les temps, tu seras, tu seras.<br /><br />Chaque jour de plus est un jour de pluie, quand on retient la vie,<br />On a bien inscrit dans ton coeur d'oiseau, ne pas quitter le nid,<br />Mais je vois dans tes pas de danse naître la confiance, en moi,<br />Tu seras mon arme et la bannière de ma foi, tu seras, tu seras...<br />تقديرينا و محبتنا الى روح الرئيس الشهيد ايلي حبيقة من كل اللبنانيين<br /><br /><br />*****************************************************************************<br /><style></style><div><span id="_ctl139_HtmlPlaceholderTwo"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Will the Lebanese ever learn ounce and for all...that their subservient so-called leaders to CIA for decades...has brought about the utter dislocation of the national institutions on purpose by CIA...because it is the ONLY way for CIA and its new-found Siamese twin...MOSSAD, to keep a direct and daily influence on our institutions, our legislative agenda, our executive powers...and last but not least...the quintessential choice made by CIA, ALL THE TIME, to chose and make believe that it is a"Lebanese choice"...a weak President with no powers to speak of, except for show..., in order to maintain a divided power structure....from which to enter, subvert, penetrate, subjugate, obfuscate... through the inevitable triumvirate of the "three" Presidencies..., which is a fallacy in of itslef, since there should be only ONE President, a Speaker, and a Prime Minister....a unique game of Chicken and egg...of smoke and Mirrors...is perpetuated daily by stupid and pretentious media for FDDC...?</strong></span></span></div> <div><span><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></span> </div> <div><span><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></span> </div> <div><span><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>إن القوات اللبنانية التي تأسست العام 1976 وكانت إطاراً تنظيمياً ضم أربع قوى مقاومة وهي: أحزاب الكتائب والوطنيين الأحرار وحراس الأرز وحركة التنظيم، لم تكن أبداً حزباً بل كانت تحت القيادة السياسية للجبهة اللبنانية وسلاحها كان موجهاً للدفاع عن الوطن والمجتمع.<br /> إن الإتحاد من أجل لبنان، المؤلف من فرقاء أسسوا القوات اللبنانية وشكلوا مجلس قيادتها بالتساوي، يؤكد أن ما يسمى حزب القوات اللبنانية – الهيئة التنفيذية ليس القوات اللبنانية التاريخية.<br /> القوات اللبنانية الحقيقية ليست ملكاً لفرد أو فريق معين، وإن أستعمل شعارات ورموز القوات فلا يحق له أن ينسب لنفسه لا تاريخها ولا شهدائها لأنه نتاج إنقلاب مسلح قام به للإستئثار، خلافاً لروحية المؤسسة.<br /> يرى المجتمعون إن عدم توازن الدولة اللبنانية التي يعتبر رئيس جمهوريتها بمثابة الحكم، يعود إلى عدم وجود صلاحيات تسمح لفخامته القيام بدوره المطلوب، فلا تبقى الموازنة العامة، على سبيل المثال، موضوع تجاذب بين رئيسي المجلس والحكومة فتتعطل الدولة.<br /> فليعط رئيس الجمهورية صلاحيات دستورية تمكنه من القيام بدوره الوطني فتستقر البلاد...</strong></span></span></div> <div><span><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></span> </div> <div><span><span id="_ctl139_HtmlPlaceholderTwo"> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>ولن تستقيم شؤون مؤسسات الدولة وشجونها إلا حين تعود لترتكز إلى الدستور بدلاً من أن تستمدّ قوتها من مواقع نفوذ خارجية، طائفية كانت أم غيرها. والمدخل للوصول إلى ذلك هو تطوير الدستور بشكل يعيد إنتاج تلك المرجعية على رأس الهرم والتي تسمح بالتحكيم بين المؤسسات وإيجاد المخارج عند إستحقاقات الخلافات الكبيرة. ورغم التحفّظات الطائفية التي يمكن البعض أن يحتمي وراءها لرفض هذا التطوير للصيغة الحالية، تبقى رئاسة الجمهورية هي الأكثر تأهيلاً للعب هذا الدور. </strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>ففي الشكل أولاً، رئيس الجمهورية هو رأس الدولة والحكم بين مؤسساتها وفق ما ينصّ الدستور الحالي الذي يعطي الرئيس هذا الدور نظرياً دون إعطائه الصلاحيات للقيام به فعلياً. ووفقاً للروحية ذاتها، رئاسة الجمهورية هي الوحيدة بين الرئاسات الثلاث التي تنتخب بأكثرية الثلثين، أي شبه الإجماع، مما يجعل منها الأكثر أهلية للعب دور المرجعية الأساس للنظام اللبناني الحالي ومؤسساته.</strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>وفي المضمون ثانياً، أظهرت تجربة "الجمهورية الثانية" التي لم تبدأ فعلياً إلا منذ 2005 أن تحوّلات كبيرة طرأت على طبيعة اللعبة السياسية من جرّاء التغييرات الدستورية التي حصلت في الطائف. فاللعبة أصبحت لعبة توازنات بين تكتلات سياسية برلمانية "طائفية" مستقلّة كلها، بما فيها المسيحي منها، عن رئاسة الجمهورية، مما يعزّز موقع الرئاسة كحكم وطني بين كل المكوّنات الطائفية للنظام السياسي اللبناني. هذا ما يفرض إذن تطويراً دستورياً يعيد إلى الرئاسة ببعدها الوطني وليس الطائفي حدّاً أدنى من الصلاحيات التي تخوّلها التحكيم عند نشوب أزمات كبيرة كالتي شهدناها في السنوات الأخيرة وإعطائها إمكان حلّها أو حسمها عبر آليات دستورية (كحلّ مجلس النواب أو إقالة الحكومة) تبقى مشروطة وإستثنائية طبعاً، وتعزيز فاعليتها وتأثيرها في إصدار وإعتراض المراسيم والقوانين والقرارات.</strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>يبقى أن النظام بحاجة إلى تطوير إضافي لكي يعزّز إستقراره ويحمي نفسه من صراعات مستقبلية أصبحت دورية في ظلّ شكله الحالي والحلول المنشودة هي نفسها ما كانت مقترحة، من دون تطبيق، منذ عشرات السنين بما فيها ما ورد ضمن إتفاق الطائف، وأبرزها أمران: اللامركزية وإلغاء الطائفية السياسية.</strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>فاللامركزية هي خطوة كبيرة نحو إستقرار النظام في لبنان وتحصينه تجاه أزمات وخضّات مستقبلية، إذ أن معظم الأزمات الداخلية التي شهدها لبنان على مستوى الحكم جاءت على خلفية توازنات داخل السلطة والنظام، مع شعور مجموعات طائفية بالغبن من جرّاء مجموعات أخرى وقد شهدنا فصولا عديدة من تلك التجارب أكان حول الصلاحيات مثل حقبة ما قبل الطائف، أو حول قانون الإنتخابات وما أصاب المسيحيين من جرّاءه بعد الطائف، أو الإنماء الإنتقائي عبر مجالس وصناديق تصادرها مواقع نفوذ طائفية.</strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>وعليه، فإن اللامركزية تساهم بشكل فاعل في تحقيق إنسجام بين المسؤول والمجتمع الخاضع لمسؤوليته، بين الموارد والمشاريع داخل منطقة واحدة، مما يؤمّن حداً أدنى من الإنماء المتوازن بين المناطق بعيداً عن الإعتبارات الطائفية والخلفيات الإنتخابية لمراكز القرار المركزية كما هي الحال اليوم، ناهيك عن التسهيلات الإدارية للمواطنين ومشاركة كلّ منطقة في وضع سياستها وأولوياتها المحلّية.</strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>أما تجاوز الطائفية السياسية وإرساء قواعد الدولة المدنية فيبقى الهدف الأسمى للصيغة اللبنانية من أجل معالجة شوائب النظام الطائفي مما يسمح حينها بقيام نظام ديموقراطي تنافسي ومستقرّ كما في معظم الديموقراطيات، يعمل على قاعدة الأكثرية والأقلية ويتساوى فيه المواطنون في كل مواقع الدولة مهما كانت إنتماءاتهم الطائفية. وقد نصّ إتفاق الطائف على إلغاء الطائفية السياسية وإنشاء مجلس للشيوخ على قاعدة طائفية وتحرير مجلس النواب من القيد الطائفي لكنّ ذلك لم يطبّق حتى الآن ولن يحصل إلا إذا توافرت مناخات ملائمة وإيجابية، ما زال لبنان شديد البعد عنها اليوم. </strong></span></p> <p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>لا شكّ في أن التحدّيات كبيرة أمام بلد صغير هو الأضعف في المعادلة الإقليمية القائمة ويحمل في تكوينه مكامن ضعف أساسية تفاقم مشكلته، لكن على اللبنانيين ألا يستسلموا للقدرية أو منطق الإنتظار والإستقواء بالخارج، مما يدفعهم نحو الرهان بدلاً من المبادرة، وإلى اليأس والهجرة بدلاً من المثابرة، بل عليهم الإقتناع أولاً ثم العمل بشكل جدّي ثانياً على تحقيق تلك التغييرات الشجاعة المطلوبة لبلوغ حال إستقرار داخلية شبه مستدامة. أما تخلّفهم عن ذلك فهو ينبئ بمستقبل مقلق للغاية لأنهم سيكرّسون فشلهم وعجزهم الحاليين عن إدارة شؤؤنهم بمفردهم ويشجّعون حينها عودة زمن الوصايات على وطنهم</strong></span>. </p></span></span></div>*-+-*+-*+-*+-*+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The International Criminal Court's Obligations Today.<br /><br />The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people....?<br /><br /><br /><br />1) United States must negotiate peace with the countries in the Middle East, especially Iran and Syria. Not only would this give the United States leverage to convince these groups to put a halt to covert funding of groups behind suicide bombings. But it sometimes seems as if these groups are funded solely because they attack Israel, ally of the United States. Regarding many of the groups behind the suicide bombings, Arafat really has little or no control over those organizations, and yet the suicide bombings must stop if peace is to be achieved. What follows is a brief overview of the main groups carrying out suicide bombings:<br /><br />a. Hamas or Islamic Resistance Movement (Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyya), a wing of the Muslim Brotherhood (an Islamist group founded in Egypt as a response to Nasser's secular pan-Arabism), has the stated goal of the destruction of Israel and the creation of an Islamic state. Hamas does not accept Arafat's leadership, in part because he is a secular leader, and in part due to a schism relating to the peace process. Hamas is the second most powerful Palestinian group, after Arafat's Fatah party, and it is possible that the leadership of Palestine could fall to a member of this group if a chain of succession is not set up within Fatah.<br />b. Hizbollah (Party of God), this shi'ite Resistance group operating from Lebanon, was originally funded by Iran, with logistical help from Syria. Hizbollah was originally created in response to the Lebanese civil war, and still received a great deal of funding and leadership from Iran. They also desire a change from feudal sectarian system, to a stable Republic .<br />c. Islamic Jihad (al-Jihad) has the stated goal of the overthrow Israel as well as secular Arab governments. Islamic Jihad receives support and support from Iran as well as other Arab countries.<br />d. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade is an unofficial wing of Arafat's Fatah group, and was created after the last Intifada in response to the success of Hamas and Hezbollah. What is so unusual about this group is that they are secular when compared to the other groups, with their goal being a Palestinian, but not an Islamic, state. The secularism of this group, as well as they fact that they are the only group with female bombers, brings a new dimension to the suicide bombings, and says something about the situation; the movement is not only religious but is in some quarters wholly political.<br />Yasser Arafat has little or no control of the majority of these groups, and so Sharon's constant demands that Arafat to put a halt to the bombings will accomplish nothing, because Arafat does not, and can not control most of these groups, and in most cases the peace agenda is contradictory to the goals of the military wings of these groups. The only way to put a halt to these radical groups is to cut off their international funding and support, and the only way to accomplish that is to make peace with the countries that sponsor those groups. (This is all in addition to the fact that the United States needs to pull its head out of the international political sand and realize that we cannot have things our way, with brutal murders and assassinations of everyone who does not accept our Dictates all the time. We are a super power not a recalcitrant two year old.)<br /><br />2) Jerusalem should be under the control of the United Nations, for several years until it is able to take control, as an independent city, somewhat akin to Vatican City. There will never be peace in the Middle East until the issue of Jerusalem is resolved. United Nations control of an independent Jerusalem would be required for several years to keep the peace. During this time, illegal Jewish building projects in Arab areas must be halted, and control given back to Palestinians in the Arab portions of the city. After such a time as it would take for tempers to cool and saner heads prevail, a council, similar to what has been used before, would rule the city, populated by members of all three faiths, perhaps 40% Muslim, 40% Jewish and 10% Christian. Although it would be more democratic to the set the control along population percentages, such a solution that might allow either the Jews or the Muslims control would simply not work, at least until relations have dramatically improved between those groups, because much like the situation regarding the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the various Christian sects, one group can not be trusted to treat the others fairly.<br /><br />3) Israeli withdrawal to United Nations sanctioned borders. The United Nations Security Council Resolution 242:<br /><br />Affirms that the fulfillment of Charter principles requires the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East which should include the application of both the following principles:<br /><br />Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict;<br /><br />Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force;<br />This would require a withdrawal from the West Bank, Golan Heights and Gaza. Jerusalem, as previous mentioned, would be under international control. There is also a probable need for international troops to remain along these borders until tensions have cooled to a significant degree.<br /><br />4) Major modification of the Right of Return versus the Law of Return. The Law of Return grants every Jew the right to go to Israel as an oleh (Jewish immigrant), and the Israel Nationality Law automatically confers Israeli nationality on every oleh upon entering the country unless he specifies otherwise. The law even provides that a Jew who expresses his desire to settle in Israel may be granted nationality by virtue of the Law of Return even before he physically immigrates. From the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs website: (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH00kp0). Contrasted with this, Palestinians who fled areas of fighting, or had the lands taken by force by the Israeli government, are forbidden to return to their lands and have yet to receive compensation for the loss of their lands. In addition, many Arabs who remain in Israel fear that if they leave they will also be unable to return, and may also suffer the loss of their homes and lands. The Right of Return, or at the very least compensation, must be given those Palestinians who fled or were forced from their homes.<br /><br />5) Major modification of water rights. One Israeli kibbutz uses as much water as forty average sized Palestinian villages. Palestinians collect rain for their drinking water, while Israelis have swimming pools and green lawns. (http://www.loe.org/series/troubled.htm) Such an unequal allocation of water resources is untenable. No country can grow without fresh water resources, and access to clean water is a basic human requirement. It is impossible to achieve a modern state without education, it is impossible to achieve education without health, and it is impossible to achieve health without clean drinking water. This basic right, to clean water, stands in the way of peace and prosperity in the Middle East. I believe that the Palestinian population will remain in poverty, ill health, and susceptible to the messages of radical groups until the issue of water rights and access is resolved.<br /><br />6) Arafat and Sharon should both be brought before a war crimes tribunal for their actions starting with Lebanon and moving forward to the current Intifada. Allowing these two to escape retribution only furthers hostility, and sends a message to the international community that the ends do justify the means.<br /><br /><br />"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another."<br /><br />--Jonathan Swift<br />To be honest, I am not sure that even those drastic measures would work, and I am pretty sure that the United States has little interest in either making peace with any members of the “Axis of Evil” or in partaking in an international presence along an Israeli-Palestinian border, and I fear that without United States and international involvement and intervention, any peace process will be doomed to failure from the start.<br /><br />I was listening to the news over the weekend, and they were interviewing some of the business owners in Ramallah who are finally able to return to their stores after the curfew and siege were lifted, only to discover that everything was looted or destroyed, ostensibly by the Israeli soldiers. One gentleman, the owner of a cyber café and computer store, said that there was not a single piece of equipment left whole, that everything he owned had been destroyed, and he was now completely bankrupt. What I found most disturbing about the interview was that the gentleman, quite obviously educated and savvy, said that he now clearly understood what motivated the suicide bombers.<br /><br />Looking at Ramallah and Jaffa and other such areas of contention, it is clear that Israel, instead of solving problems, is only creating more hatred and fueling the radicals, a situation that is counter to every peace goal they claim they are attempting to make. Changes must be made, both by the Israel and Palestinian governments and in the attitudes of the Israeli and Palestinian people is the situation is to be resolved.<br /><br /><br />"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."<br /><br />--George Santayana<br /><br />History Will Teach Us Nothing ...<br /><br /><br /><br />I think that what disturbs me most about the constant warfare and violence, is that not only are two groups that coexisted peacefully for centuries now bitter enemies, but that it seems that the Israelis, the very people who had struggled for so many years to overcome racism and hatred and segregation, are now using these tools of hatred to subjugate another population, just as they were subjugated throughout Europe and much of the world.<br /><br />And now, for something completely different….<br /><br />Regarding the angel guarding the Garden of Eden:<br /><br /><br />"And the Lord said unto the angel, 'Where is the flaming sword that I gave unto thee?' And the angel answered, saying, 'I had it here a minute ago, can't think what's become of it, be forgetting my own head next'. And the Lord did not ask him again."<br /><br />--Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman in Good Omens .</span><br /><br />*-+*-+*-+*-+*-+*-+*<br /><br /><br />عودة أيلول الاسود<br /><br /><br />نلاحظ، من باب المصادفة، ان المبادرات العربية، واللهفة السعودية، والاهتمام الاخوي على أشكاله، توقفت كلها بعد القمة العربية.<br />كأن ما دار طوال شهر آذار من حركات وحوار يشبه الكذبة. غزل بلا نسيج لترطيب المناخ قبل العرس. وعندما انتهى عرس القمة انفخت الدف وتفرّق العشاق.<br />بعد العرس بدأ فصل جديد من المسرحية العربية المستمرة عنوانه: تطبيع العلاقات مع اسرائيل.<br />الحقبة الجديدة مبنية على الشدة، ورفع الصوت، والذهاب بالامور الى خواتم التعقيد. وهي تعتمد اسلوب القصف المركّز على المواقع المعاندة كي تستسلم حين تدق ساعة التطبيع. والتطبيع لن يرى النور قبل نزع سلاح حزب الله، وكسر رأس حماس، وجر «المتطرفين» الى خانة «المعتدلين» اكراماً لعيني الجارة «الحبيبة» اسرائيل. والمبادرة العربية لاقت الترحيب والاجماع، لأن سكان المنطقة وحكامها تعبوا بعد نصف قرن من الصراع العربي الاسرائيلي.<br />ولكن حين يدعو ملك الاردن عبدالله بن الحسين الى «اسقاط حق العودة واستبداله بحق التعويض» لا بد من أن نصاب بالذهول، ثم نشقّ صدورنا ونصرخ: وا... عرباه!<br />ماذا يبقى من السلام حين يسقط حق العودة؟ وما هي هذه الحلقة الجهنمية التي تطوق عنق لبنان، وتعمي عيون الناس عن الحقيقة؟<br />لقد حارب اللبنانيون التوطين طوال نصف قرن، وها هو ملك الاردن يدعونا علناً، الى توطين الفلسطينيين، وتحت غطاء عربي، يرافقه عزف الاوركسترا المحلية الحاكمة التي تلهي الجمهور بالتطبيل والتزمير.<br />سبق للبنان ان ذاق طعم «الهدية» الاردنية عام 1970 بعد مجازر «أيلول الأسود». تلك الهدية بالذات كانت الشعرة التي قصفت ظهر البعير واشعلت الحرب الاهلية في وطن الارز. واليوم يبدو ان لا شيء تغيّر. والموضوع الفلسطيني، بالواسطة الاردنية، سوف يكون المدخل لعودة المدافع الى الساحات...<br />همس الى الاباء الاجلاء:<br />دفعنا مئة الف قتيل، وعشنا ربع قرن من الحروب، لمنع التوطين. وكل ما يجري يقودنا كالنعاج<br />الى نقطة البداية<br />!<br /><br />===========================================================================<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">إفلاس وردة فعل<br />30 تشرين الثاني 2007<br /><br />الشارع المسيحي في حالة انعدام وزن يسبق السقوط العظيم.<br />كل "الوفاء للوفي"، يجب أن لا ننسى الماضي حتى لا نقع في الأخطاء التي وقعنا فيها سابقًا، اما المسامحة فلا تصح الا عندما يعترف الخاطئ بالخطأ ويطلب الغفران .....<br /><br /><br /><br />لا سنوات الحرب الطويلة، ولا قوافل الشهداء، والتهجير والهجرة، والفقر والتجويع، ولا العنف الدموي تركت اثرها في عقل الجماعة. فشلت في خلق حالة " وعي شعبية " تعلمها كيف تميّز بين الحق والباطل !<br />عقل الجماعة المسيحية لا يزال في جهالة يتنعّم. لذلك يتأرجح الناس بين الأبيض والأسود.<br /><br />ثمة حقيقة ثابتة ، أفرزتها معركة رئاسة الجمهورية ( الفارغة ) بغض النظر عن من هو على خطأ ومن على صوابها. حقيقة الإفلاس الكامل، والعجز عن أي طرح انقاذي من قبل مسيحيي 14 آذار. لم يتبدّل خطابهم السياسي رغم الظروف والمخاطر. كأنهم في جمود فكري تولده عادةً صدمة كبيرة، أو خوف هائل، أو ضياع خدر.<br /><br />قلبهم على لبنان وعلى الدور المسيحي، لكنهم يرددون المقولة التي يحددها سعد الحريري وينظََّر لها مروان حمادة وجيفري فيلتمان. ويسوقونها أمام الناس لتصدق !<br /><br />معركة رئاسة الجمهورية فضحت افلاس هذه المجموعة لأن مواقفها تحولت الى "ردة فعل" على المعارضة. لم تعد افكارهم هي الفعل الذي ينبع عن السلطة الحاكمة. والمفروض ان يحصل العكس. انحصر دورهم في " تسخيف " طروحات الجنرال عون وتفريغها من مضمونها لحظة تبصر النور.<br />لم يقدموا أية فكرة بديلة للخروج من الأزمة المستجدة، لكي يدرسها الناس ويقارنوا بينها وبين طرح المعارضة، العاجزة عن اختراق الجدار الدولي الشاهق.<br /><br />وهكذا يعيش المسيحيون حالة احباط، وقرف، وانعدام وزن، تجعلهم يكفرون بكل شيء. ولا يفكرون الا بمغادرة الوطن. وهذه الحالة "الإحباطية" جزء من خطة شاملة يتمّ تنفيذها على مراحل، ومرحلتها الحالية عنوانا "الفراغ الرئاسي ".<br /><br />ما فشلت مخططات كيسنجر عن تنفيذه عام 1975 يتحقق اليوم بأسلوب " أنابوليسي " جديد. والموجع ان الفريق المسيحي الذي حارب هذه المخططات في الماضي، وقدّم آلاف الشهداء لمواجهتها، يعملُ اليومَ على تنفيذها. ويفعل ذلك باسم الشهداء.<br /><br />«من احداث 1860 الى مرحلة بشير وحبيقة وجعجع وعون, الموارنة لم «يقاتلوا كما تقاتلوا«<br /><br />معروف جنبلاط بصدقيته وثباته على مواقفه المعلنة. فهو قبل انتخابات 2005 وصف سلاح "حزب الله" بالسلاح المقاوماتي الشريف. وبعد ان حصل على اصوات مناصري حزب الله، قال ان سلاح الحزب هو "سلاح الغدر". هكذا كان يتصرّف مع الرئيس الراحل رفيق الحريري كلما تأخر الحريري في الدفع. مرة كان يضعه في خانة "حيتان المال" ومرة اخرى في مصاف القديسين. مواقفه من سوريا وقصر بعبدا تميّزت بـ "النطنطة" نفسها.. ولا شبيه له في لبنان سوى الساكن حديثاً في "معراب".. وبئس من جمعهما فوق جماجم الشهداء وأجراس الكنائس والأديرة المسروقة وأنقاض القرى والبلدات المهجرة!!<br /><br />الإغتيالات المرعبة التي أنطلقت بقتل الرئيس إيلي حبيقة في 24/01/2002: " رحم الله إيلي حبيقة: حبيقة كان مبدعا في حياته وسيظل حاضرا في غيابه ".<br /></span><br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">We missed the opportunity !</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">We don't need a Winograd report on the political and military failures of the leadership of the Hebrew country in its war against Lebanon in order to know what happened last summer on our land and in our skies. Or to know who was the loser and who was the victor.<br />It was reasonable to assume the war and its ramifications would affect Lebanese politics, and that a review would be conducted of the policy that guided the proceedings of last summer. Even if this leads to the government's resignation and the formation of a new government, lessons would be learned from this difficult experience, and this would unify the ranks, something that would eliminate the deep rift created by the war. We missed the opportunity to determine who was responsible for what happened on both sides of the fight in Lebanon. If we had done so, even by means of a "limited Winograd," our crisis would not have continued throughout this entire period, without a solution, and we would not be nearing presidential elections. Likewise, we would not be living as if we were two countries, two peoples and a tribal democracy that rules out the ability to meet and reach a mutual understanding and bridge the gap separating the two sides.<br />What has happened since the war is that the church joined the ranks of one side in the conflict when it should have brought the two sides closer and searched for the common ground between them. Is it not a pity that the Christians lost the fruits of their struggle against the Syrian-sponsored regime, because of the stupidity of the American sponsors of a criminal serial killer and a murderer, by the name of samir geagea and waleed joumblatt, who are positioning themselves and their stooges to be CIA proxy militias again, just like in the 1970s and 1980s, and we have seen the end result of this terribly divisive enterprise and the cowardice of the various American Administrations, at precisely the most awkward of times when they cut and run, leaving behind their proxies in a desperate situation to fend for themselves, or, when the Christians tried desperately to broker a peace agreement locally, the American destructive and disruptive enterprise chose to defeat the local understanding to end the fighting , at a time when we should have recreated a moderate force to counterbalance the other forces comprising the homeland?<br /></span><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br />زينا الخوري - خُطف مواطنان من قلب بيروت في ليلة داكنة. فدبّ الذعر في نفوس الناس، ووضع العقلاء اياديهم على قلوبهم وتذكروا الماضي.<br />سرت الشائعات كالنار في الهشيم، استنفرت القوى الامنية، نشط اهل السياسة صارخين: لا للفتنة! صار القلق سيداً. واحس المواطن اللبناني باقتراب الموعد.<br />هكذا بدأت عام 1975. بعد حادثة البوسطة الشهيرة جاء السبت الاسود. خُطف مواطنون حزبيون. فدب الذعر. وحين ظهرت الجثث المشوهة، خرج الانصار الى ساحة البرج. فكانت مجزرة القتل على الهوية.<br />واختلط الحابل بالنابل. اقفلت الطرقات. نبتت خطوط التماس. سيطرت المدافع وانتشرت لغة الموت. وطال الرحيل على هدير الراجمات واخبار خطفَ، قتلَ، هاجرَ.<br />مرعبة جريمة قتل زياد وزياد. بشاعتها لا توصف. خاصة ان زياد طفل ما يزال في الصف السابع. وقتل طفل يشبه قتل ملاك. يذهب الشر الى اعماق اعماق الجحيم.<br />قتل طفل عمداً، وببرودة اعصاب، دلالة عتمة وحشية تتخطى حدود الجريمة الفردية، لتصل الى الجماعة كلها. يريد القاتل ان يبعث الى كل واحد منا برسالة تقول: سوف اقتلك، كائناً من كنت. لا شيء يرعبني. انا اليوم خاطفك.. غداً انت جثة هامدة!<br />هل هي جريمة مدبّرة لاسباب سياسية؟ هل هي جريمة ثأر عشائرية تقليدية؟<br />لا فرق. لقد اظهرت الخوف العميق، والرعب في النفوس. كشفت الهواجس التي تسيطر على اللبنانيين. وفجرت الرفض والاستنكار على جميع الاراضي اللبنانية.<br />طيبون اهل زياد وزياد. فقراء. يقتاتون من رزقة البحر وصيد السمك. انهم نموذج للشعب المسحوق الذي يدفع الاثمان الباهظة من جراحه ودموعه.<br />وحش القاتل، لا يسمع النحيب. لا يعرف حريق الدمع. ولا تهمّه براءة الطفولة. سكين الحقد في يديه امضى.<br />المرعب؟ حالة تعلو فوق الجريمة. فتجعلنا نشعر ان ما حصل، على فظاعته، «بروفا».<br />انه البرق يسبق عتمة الغيم... ومخاض العاصفة... فوق تراب وطن مخطوف.<br />**********************************************************************************<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I will only say this :<br /><br />Even before it emerged on the map as a nation,<br />Lebanon's history was checkered with periods<br />of prolonged calm alternating with outbursts of<br />violence. There are signs it may be heading for<br />another round of Proxy-Wars made in CIA, just<br />when it seemed set for a period of peace and<br />reconstruction.There is no doubt that the country's<br />religious diversity plays a crucial role in Lebanese politics.<br />For one thing, it prevents class-based politics...[FOR HOW LONG?],<br />thus pushing secular ideologies into the sidelines. Yet history<br />also shows that almost all of Lebanon's internecine feuds have been<br />due to foreign intervention - and so it is again. It is no secret<br />that ALL factions have resumed arming themselves - if only in<br />response to the massive onslaught of the USA and Israel this summer.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyM1zJ8Nb-fs9_xmtqYsDp39rsrc7NaDT_dWw3qIH6HoD5IGUDtvT_0uzwuRTtVgmVEfHQGySIHdmvbKva9uaQ-eSFQi1Zk1FMZxAS7IBukd-K8ts5w1PDtTBFjmhGIkc__XXCuWgqAYbf/s1600-h/cheney+++cnn++xxx_edited.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyM1zJ8Nb-fs9_xmtqYsDp39rsrc7NaDT_dWw3qIH6HoD5IGUDtvT_0uzwuRTtVgmVEfHQGySIHdmvbKva9uaQ-eSFQi1Zk1FMZxAS7IBukd-K8ts5w1PDtTBFjmhGIkc__XXCuWgqAYbf/s400/cheney+++cnn++xxx_edited.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062247912072824338" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />================================================================================<br />محكمة الشرف الرفيع<br /><br />زينا الخوري<br /><br />20 نيسان 2007<br />عندما يدعو النائب وليد جنبلاط امين عام حزب الله الى «الطلاق السلمي»، تتكاثر الاسئلة.. واولها من يُطلق من وفي اية محكمة؟<br />هل الحزب الاشتراكي يطلّق حزب الله ام ان الطلاق يطال الطائفة الشيعية بأكملها؟ وهل المحكمة موجودة في المجلس الشيعي ام في مجلس الامن؟<br />هل يجمع حزب الله والوطن زواج متعة، ام زواج ماروني شعاره: ما جمعه الله لا يفرقه الانسان؟<br />وليد جنبلاط يدعو حزب الله الى القبول بحكم المحكمة مسبقاً. على علته. ومن دون اعتراض. هل بهذه السهولة يتم الطلاق في زخمة المشاكل التي «تشربك» اهل البيت والاقارب والجيران وتنغص عيشهم؟<br />لمن تكون حضانة الاولاد؟ من يأخذ بيت الجبل؟ من يحتل محطة الساحل؟ ماذا عن النفقة...؟<br />منذ وضعت الولايات المتحدة حزب الله على لائحة الارهاب ظهرت شعارات محترفة لتسويق الكراهية وتقليب الرأي العام ضده. تماماً كما حصل مع صدام حسين. ابرز تلك الشعارات: دولة ضمن الدولة. المال الالهي. خطف الوطن. الذراع الايرانية... وكما يتولى نجوم الفن الترويج اليومي لمساحيق الغسيل... يتولى نجوم السياسة عندنا تسويق هذه الشعارات العالية الاحتراف.<br />فكرة «الطلاق السلمي» من انتاج محلي، اوحت بها للمؤلف كثرة الطلاق في الوسط السياسي، حيث يغيّر البعض الزوجات كما يغيّر الكلسات. ويرسلون المطلقة المغلوب على امرها للعيش في الخارج مع الاولاد. ولكن اذا كان عدد الاولاد هو مليون فماذا نفعل بهم؟ هل يلجأون الى حضانة في المختارة ام المنارة؟ ام نلقي بهم في البحر ليأكلهم السمك؟<br />الطلاق في المحكمة الدولية لن يمر «بالسلامة» التي يحلم بها وليد بيك. والسبب ان ام الاولاد ليست مقطوعة من شجرة. وهي ابنة عشيرة كبيرة لن تتخلى عن حقوقها المشروعة وقد حفظت جيداً شعار: لا يسلم الشرف الرفيع من الاذى!<br />همسة الى الاباء الاجلاء: شبعنا سفك دماء!<br /><br />==================================================================================<br />IT'S QUITE AMAZING HOW MUCH THEY LOOK ALIKE, IT'S DOWNRIGHT "SINISTER..."<br />==================================================================================<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpjwskUfy6y5fVJtgsKbSs6b-42exREZlNB8H4zZ-YFF2LApCNagxyFfrXfIbz3WbfTaDyrg6IshDrBHHXYxLa6y5vAudF2m6vpLZqSlmX8N6yY66g8rPA9_z8BXx7nYzMnlSGd-bQ4iz3/s1600-h/CABU++SAMIR+%3D++%24%24%24%24_edited.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpjwskUfy6y5fVJtgsKbSs6b-42exREZlNB8H4zZ-YFF2LApCNagxyFfrXfIbz3WbfTaDyrg6IshDrBHHXYxLa6y5vAudF2m6vpLZqSlmX8N6yY66g8rPA9_z8BXx7nYzMnlSGd-bQ4iz3/s400/CABU++SAMIR+%3D++%24%24%24%24_edited.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062247658669753858" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />صلّوا ولا تملّوا<br />بقلم زينا الخوري<br />تزامنت عريضة «السبعين» الى الامم المتحدة مع احداث دولية كثيرة. لكنها تقاطعت مع بيان الاساقفة الموارنة. فبدا ان خط التوتر العالي الذي «يغزّي» الموقعّين، يمرّ قريباً من سماء بكركي.<br />امين عام الامم المتحدة اخبرنا «ان الوثيقة قيد الدرس» تماماً مثل الجنسية قيد الدرس، التي لا تزال منذ نكبة 1948 عقدة مستقبل لبنان!<br />ولأن مجلس الامن لم يعتبر مذكرة «السبعين» وثيقة لبنانية رسمية، اتبعها الرئيس فؤاد السنيورة برسالة مستعجلة بناء على نصيحة فرنسية. فالرئيس جاك شيراك يريد ان يرى قانون المحكمة قبل رحيله عن الاليزيه، ويسعى لولادة المحكمة بأي شكل من الاشكال: عبر بيان، من خلال معاهدة عن طريق الفصل السابع، لا فرق. دينه للشهيد فوق كل اعتبار. وفي جميع الاحوال سوف يتم تجاهل رئيس الجمهورية اللبنانية، وحقه الدستوري بالتوقيع على المعاهدات الدولية.<br />ورغم ان المندوب الروسي في الامم المتحدة اعلن ان لا ضرورة للعجلة و«معنا حتى نهاية مهمة سيرج براميرتس في حزيران 2008» الخطوات الدولية تتسارع وكأننا في سباق مع الزمن، والمسألة مسأل حياة او موت!<br />لماذا هذه اللهفة؟ لماذا هذا الركض الذي يوتر الاجواء ويعزز في الحقيقة دور رئاسة الحكومة على حساب رئيس الجمهورية؟ هذا ما يحب ان يشغل بال بكركي قبل اي امر آخر.<br />لكن «الدير القريب لا يشفي». لذلك يقصد طلاب المعجزات الاديرة البعيدة. المشكلة ان الدير الدولي الذي يتضرعون اليه يقع في ساحة معركة، وتدور حوله مجموعة حروب قاتلة قد تقضي على لبنان. وبدل ان نحمي رأس وطننا عند تغيير الدول، ها نحن نرمي به عمداً وسط النار.... ونأمل ان تحصل معجزة تنقذه.<br />نصيحة للأباء الأجلاء لبيان الشهر المقبل: صلّوا ولا تملّوا!<br />*********************************************************************************<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVWsKmBcl6-HdZayY2cyntM5UZURptdsbOA8X-5bJtHFLRPmDokAi8wouAbbDdfLO2RESvO1VwsvVEQEHLNMWYHR7bkvHhyphenhypheny5kpqJLhscnB-IEDXoa6LuCWM4Vn1ZdPU3ufE89BqVL9vIO/s1600-h/Satellite_image_of_Lebanon_in_March_2002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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Instead, the heroic Resistance organization is hailed throughout the world for its glorious resistance of the American/Israeli attack on the civilian infrastructure all over Lebanon last summer, all the while Olmert -- despite surviving no-confidence motions in the Knesset on Monday -- is so reviled by his countrymen that according to the latest poll, 0 percent of Israelis would vote for him today, or any day in the future.<br /><br />The poll follows the release of the interim report of the Winograd Commission, a blue-ribbon panel appointed last September to cover-up the American insistence to attack Lebanon and Israel's failings in its second Lebanon War. The report is scathing. It documents in damning detail the bungling, the willful blindness, and the almost criminal savagery of IDF and IAF that pervaded the highest levels of Israel's government during the war by attacking unarmed civilians, and the 50 years leading up to it, hence the growing Resistance of the people of south Lebanon, who are joining Hezbollah in droves to defend their homes, villages and towns and attempt to recapture the Shebaa farms, occupied by Israel.<br /><br />The commission blasts Olmert for making rash and uninformed decisions, and pronounces him guilty of "a serious failure in exercising judgment, responsibility, and prudence." It is equally critical of the inept defense minister, Amir Peretz, whose incompetence crippled Israel's ability to defend itself from Hezbollah's RESPONSE TO ISRAELI attacks, and of former military chief of staff Dan Halutz, who never warned his clueless superiors that the armed forces were prepared for a ground offensive in southern Lebanon....for years, and had been planning for it with the Pentagon for years, but that IDF troops were becoming cowardly and terrorized by the heroic resistance of Hizbullah, and unable to fight, AND THAT THEY WILL LOOSE.<br /><br />The immediate trigger for the war was Israel's July 14th incursion across the Lebanon-Israel border, in which eight soldiers were killed and two others kidnapped. But Hezbollah had been openly preparing for resistance to Israeli attacks for six years, ever since Israel's defeat and retreat from southern Lebanon in May 2000. Making no attempt to disguise its intentions, Hezbollah swept into the territory Israel had abandoned, creating a network of fortified bunkers and launch sites and deploying thousands of missiles and rockets along the border to defend Lebanon and its people from daily Israeli aggressions, which is the normal thing to do. All the while Israel looked on, and started preparing for revenge since May 2000.<br /><br />"Every alarm bell should have been ringing," Jerusalem Post editor Dav Horovkitz writes. "But many of the warning systems had, literally or figuratively, long since been useless."<br /><br />How could Israel have been so cowardly? What could have accounted for such lethargy in the face of a deadly preparedness that was growing more resilient and courageous by the day?<br /><br />The answer, says the Winograd Commission, is that too many of "the political and military elites in Israel have reached the conclusion that Israel is beyond the era of wars." Unlike their forbears, who understood that the Jewish state would never have peace until Israel gave back ALL the occupied territories, today's Israeli leadership imagines that it can achieve peace by means of daily aggressions and assassinations.<br /><br />"Since Israel did intend to initiate a war, made in USA," the report concludes, senior officials decided that Israel "did need to be prepared for 'real' war." And that being the case, "they did also update in a systematic and sophisticated way Israel's overall security strategy and considered how to mobilize . . . all its resources -- political, economic, social, military, spiritual, cultural, and scientific -- to address the totality of the challenges it faced, but Israel failed miserably."<br /><br />Fed up with loosing, aching to live normally, Israelis lulled themselves into a stupor. They shook hands with Yasser Arafat and ran away from Lebanon and expelled the Jews from Gaza. They blamed themselves for their enemies' hatred and turned to more savage aggressions and bombings and targeted assassinations in Lebanon, IRAQ, Palestine and more daily attacks on<br /><br />south Lebanon. They tried to be Sparta, one Israeli commentator wrote last year. But to survive in the Middle East, even Israel must sometimes loose, to demonstrate the futility of the Israeli and American culture of violence, intrigue and murder .<br /><br />"We are tired of being so cruel," Olmert moaned in a 2005 speech. "We are tired of our savagery." But those who grow tired of the daily savagery of Israel, generally end up being prepared to resist , defend and defeat Israel anytime, on the battleground of honor in south Lebanon.<br /><br />As America's beleaguered ally searches for new leadership, one voice worth heeding is that of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah .<br /><br />"We are like a mountain climber who gets caught in a snowstorm," Nasrallah said at this year's Victory Rally in September 22nd. " If he falls asleep, he will freeze to death. We are in terminal danger because we are desperately hated by Israel since the 2000 defeat of IDF. I will allow myself to say a few popular, fashionable words: Our passionate lunging for peace is working for us. It brings us closer to Resistance to occupation and Israeli fears from peace, and helps improve our very honorable resistance over time.<br /><br />With enemies like ISRAEL AND USA, weariness is a luxury LEBANON cannot afford. And lest we forget, ISRAEL HAS ALWAYS BEEN AND is our enemy FOR NOW.</span><br />********************************************************************************<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">WHERE IS "JUSTICE" ? WHERE IS "BEIRUT MERE DES LOIS" ? WHERE ARE THE "BALTAZAR GARCONS" OF LEBANON ???</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG6K_fcELlsW6WygV5dtfidQoMCNXwakJipGSVWVrtMBy0L_AMxC4nxkkeOQqEhvBiC9AcrDTHtrmm0CLkoJ42F-ikQos4y2Sl-MEL0ZzXiFf0Z00GKxrK1mbyArLYWG4lOrF5fZ2_DzJC/s1600-h/avocats+..._edited.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG6K_fcELlsW6WygV5dtfidQoMCNXwakJipGSVWVrtMBy0L_AMxC4nxkkeOQqEhvBiC9AcrDTHtrmm0CLkoJ42F-ikQos4y2Sl-MEL0ZzXiFf0Z00GKxrK1mbyArLYWG4lOrF5fZ2_DzJC/s400/avocats+..._edited.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062508736846775858" border="0" /></a><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br />الاحراج الاصولي<br />بقلم: زينا الخوري<br />لا شك ان فريق 14 آذار شعر باحراج كبير إثر احداث طرابلس. فالكشف على جثث القتلى اظهر ان بعض هؤلاء من «مجموعة الضنية». ومنهم من كان سجينا في روميه. وتم الافراج عنهم بقانون العفو، وبطلب من نواب هذا الفريق.<br />الاحراج يكون عادة مدخلا للنقد الذاتي. يلي ذلك الاعتراف بالخطأ. لكن فريق 14 آذار لجأ الى سياسة «داوني بالتي كانت هي الداء». و«الفاليوم» المعتاد هو توجيه الاتهام الى سوريا. اما تطور الاحداث وترابطها، فكشف ان عصابة «فتح الاسلام» تتخطى الحدود السورية الى مناطق ابعد، ودور اكبر، وربما تدار بواسطة الاقمار الصناعية.<br />الادارة الاميركية، مثل فريق 14 آذار، لا بد من ان تشعر بالاحراج ايضا. فهي منذ غزوة افغانستان، وبعدها غزوة العراق، حددت الخطر والهدف بالارهاب «الاصولي» المتجسد بتنظيم «القاعدة».<br />اما في لبنان فاختلف هدفها. اختارت عندنا سلاح المقاومة، رغم ان المسافة شاسعة بين الاثنين. في ارض الجوار تنبع الاصولية من رحم سلفية سنية متطرفة. وعندنا حركة شعبية شيعية هدفها تحرير ارضها من الاحتلال الاسرائيلي.<br />ومنذ خروج الجيش السوري من لبنان، ركّزت الادارة الاميركية انظارها على المقاومة وسلاحها. جعلته هدفها الاول. لانه الخطر الفعلي على حدود اسرائيل. وطالبت الدولة بنزعه... وغضّت الطرف وتجاهلت «المجموعات المتطرفة» التي كانت تنمو داخل المخيمات الفلسطينية. واكتشفنا اليوم ان هذه «المجموعات» تكاد تحكم الطوق على العالم العربي كله.<br />غزة تسقط في ايادي الاسلاميين المتطرفين. مصر مهددة بالخطر نفسه. المملكة العربية السعودية واجهت منذ اسابيع قليلة مجموعة مماثلة. تركيا تحاول ان تمنعهم من الوصول الى السلطة وتتعرض لانفجاراتهم. العراق مسرحهم الدامي المفضل... وفي افغانستان يسددون ضرباتهم بقوة.<br />اذا كانت سوريا وراء كل هذا، فلا بد من ان تكون هي الدولة الاقوى في العالم!<br />الاحراج؟<br />قلت: طقّ شلش الحياء.<br />قالوا: لم يكن موجودا اصلاً!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Les chrétiens ont un rôle à jouer dans la neutralité du Liban ...??<br />==============================================================================<br /><br />Depuis le retrait de l’armée syrienne, la question du rééquilibrage sur le plan de la participation chrétienne est au cœur du débat politique.<br /><br /><br />« Comment sortir de la marginalisation chrétienne actuelle ? » ; « Quelle participation pour les chrétiens et dans quel cadre ? » ; « Quel rôle pour les chrétiens à l’avenir dans la formule libanaise ? ».<br /><br /><br />Après le député Ghassan Tuéni, qui avait mis l’accent sur le fait que « nul ne peut marginaliser les chrétiens s’ils cessent de rechercher un rôle contre l’autre », c’est au tour du chef du Courant patriotique libre, le général Michel Aoun, de poursuivre le débat :<br /><br />– Comment sortir de la marginalisation chrétienne actuelle ?<br /><br />دور البطرك التاريخي<br /><br /><br />بقلم: زينا الخوري<br /><br /><br />قدر البطريرك نصرالله صفير ان يرأس الطائفة المارونية في حقبة مصيرية تتطلب الكثير من الحكمة! ودوره اليوم اكثر صعوبة من دور البطريرك الياس الحويك في ولادة دولة لبنان المستقل بعد سقوط الامبراطورية العثمانية.<br />يومها لجأ الحويك الى «الام الحنون» فرنسا لتحقيق هدفه. ومن الطبيعي ان يتطلع البطريرك صفير اليوم، على طريقة سلفه الحويك، صوب الغرب حيث مرجعيته الدينية. ومن الطبيعي ان تختلف النظرة الغربية عن المنظار الشرقي. واهمية «البطرك» التاريخي ان يعرف السبيل الاسلم الى المراعي الخصبة...<br />في العشرينات من القرن الماضي، يوم كان العالم العربي يغرق في جهالة وينام في تصحر، كانت طريق الغرب هي طريق المستقبل بلا منازع. اليوم كل شيء تبدل.<br />صحيح ان الولايات المتحدة هي القائد العالمي بامتياز. لكن الصحيح ايضاً ان السياسة الاميركية مبنية على مبدأ القوة. وهي تواجه اخفاقات كبيرة وتتبدل باستمرار...والصحيح ايضاً ان الموارنة مشرقيون. وكنيسة البطريركية المارونية هي انطاكيا.<br />القلق اليوم كبير. والاشهر التي تفصلنا عن ايلول قليلة. والصيف قصير. الكروم تنضج باكراً. والفعلة قليلون. فعلى البطريرك التاريخي ان يؤدي دوراً تاريخياً يمنع «كرمه» من اليباس.<br />نقطة الخلاف الجوهرية اليوم تتمحور حول انتخابات رئاسة الجمهورية. والسؤال الاساسي: ما هو النصاب القانوني للانتخابات؟ هنا جوهر الازمة التي قد تقضي على الجمهورية. وهنا الدور التاريخي لبكركي وواجبها اولاً الحفاظ على الجمهورية. كيف؟<br />- فليأمر غبطة البطريرك صفير بسحب موضوع النصاب من التداول في البازار السياسي... نهائياً.<br />- ولتشكل بكركي لجنة قانونية من خيرة القضاة، وخبراء القانون الدستوري، تمنحها صلاحيات تحديد دستورية آلية انتخاب رئيس الجمهورية. وليتقيّد الجميع بقرارها.<br />- وليقفلُ المنبر الاعلامي على درج بكركي مؤقتاً، لكي تتوقف المبارزة الاستفزازية بين المرشحين.<br />- وليُحذف الكلام السياسي من بيانات الاساقفة الشهرية.<br />الحقبات التاريخية تحتاج الى افعال تاريخية لا الى اقوال عابرة.<br /><br /><br /><br />« La fin de la marginalisation des chrétiens nécessite deux conditions : le respect de la Constitution, d’une part, et une volonté franche de coexistence, d’autre part.<br />En effet, l’idée même du Liban a été fondée sur les principes de la coexistence et du consensus.<br />Tout groupement confessionnel qui ne respecte ni ces principes ni les règles de partenariat qui en découlent, non seulement marginalise les chrétiens, mais met aussi en danger la pérennité de la formule libanaise actuelle.<br />Par ailleurs, la protection des Libanais, chrétiens ou musulmans, ne découle pas tant d’un système propre à chacun que du simple respect de la Constitution libanaise. Les chrétiens sont aujourd’hui marginalisés car la Constitution a été violée plus d’une fois. Elle l’a été dans le choix d’une loi électorale anticonstitutionnelle, dans la violation des articles de la Constitution relatifs à la présidence de la République, et plus généralement dans toute la pratique gouvernementale qui se fait aux dépens de leur représentativité et de leur droit à être partie prenante dans la décision nationale.<br />Le Liban ne retrouvera la stabilité qu’à travers un système politique juste et une vision nationale commune. Or, aucun système politique libanais ne peut être stable sans une représentativité équitable et un vrai partenariat entre les différents groupements religieux libanais. Toute tentative de marginalisation d’une composante de la société, à l’instar de celle qui a encore frappé les chrétiens aux dernières élections législatives, prolongera indéfiniment la lutte de pouvoir interne et se fera aux dépens de la stabilité du pays.<br />Les Libanais doivent arriver à la conviction que seule la règle du “ni vainqueur ni vaincu” est la bonne pour préserver leur coexistence. Une conjoncture favorable à une partie ou à une autre restera circonstancielle et passagère, et ne peut être que génératrice de troubles et de tiraillements. Aucune partie libanaise ne doit adopter une stratégie hégémonique, quelles que soient les circonstances internes et externes en sa faveur ; c’est une stratégie inévitablement perdante au bout du chemin. »<br /><br /><br />– Quelle participation pour les chrétiens et dans quel cadre ?<br /><br />– « Aujourd’hui, à l’heure où une nouvelle “guerre froide” à caractère confessionnel se dessine dans la région, les chrétiens sont plus que jamais appelés à jouer un rôle de rassembleur et d’amortisseur au sein de la formule libanaise. C’est grâce à eux que les dissensions, voire les dissonances régionales, peuvent être atténuées au Liban et que tout différend politique interne ne deviendra pas systématiquement un élément de conflit dans la région; c’est grâce à eux que la raison d’être d’un Liban pluriel et pluraliste restera d’actualité et que cette expérience multiculturelle perdurera.<br />Le Liban trouve sa force mais aussi sa faiblesse dans sa diversité. Cette pluralité est à la fois source de richesse et de prospérité, mais aussi source de vulnérabilité et de dangers, surtout quand elle est victime de manipulation par l’étranger.<br />Les chrétiens profondément et intrinsèquement attachés à l’entité libanaise ont un rôle majeur à jouer dans la neutralité du Liban par rapport aux démarcations régionales et dans la refondation d’un projet libanais dans lequel toutes les factions libanaises trouveraient leur intérêt et leurs aspirations au-delà de toute tentation régionale. »<br /><br /><br />– Quel rôle pour les chrétiens à l’avenir dans la formule libanaise ?<br /><br /><br />دور البطرك التاريخي<br /><br /><br />بقلم: زينا الخوري<br /><br /><br />قدر البطريرك نصرالله صفير ان يرأس الطائفة المارونية في حقبة مصيرية تتطلب الكثير من الحكمة! ودوره اليوم اكثر صعوبة من دور البطريرك الياس الحويك في ولادة دولة لبنان المستقل بعد سقوط الامبراطورية العثمانية.<br />يومها لجأ الحويك الى «الام الحنون» فرنسا لتحقيق هدفه. ومن الطبيعي ان يتطلع البطريرك صفير اليوم، على طريقة سلفه الحويك، صوب الغرب حيث مرجعيته الدينية. ومن الطبيعي ان تختلف النظرة الغربية عن المنظار الشرقي. واهمية «البطرك» التاريخي ان يعرف السبيل الاسلم الى المراعي الخصبة...<br />في العشرينات من القرن الماضي، يوم كان العالم العربي يغرق في جهالة وينام في تصحر، كانت طريق الغرب هي طريق المستقبل بلا منازع. اليوم كل شيء تبدل.<br />صحيح ان الولايات المتحدة هي القائد العالمي بامتياز. لكن الصحيح ايضاً ان السياسة الاميركية مبنية على مبدأ القوة. وهي تواجه اخفاقات كبيرة وتتبدل باستمرار...والصحيح ايضاً ان الموارنة مشرقيون. وكنيسة البطريركية المارونية هي انطاكيا.<br />القلق اليوم كبير. والاشهر التي تفصلنا عن ايلول قليلة. والصيف قصير. الكروم تنضج باكراً. والفعلة قليلون. فعلى البطريرك التاريخي ان يؤدي دوراً تاريخياً يمنع «كرمه» من اليباس.<br />نقطة الخلاف الجوهرية اليوم تتمحور حول انتخابات رئاسة الجمهورية. والسؤال الاساسي: ما هو النصاب القانوني للانتخابات؟ هنا جوهر الازمة التي قد تقضي على الجمهورية. وهنا الدور التاريخي لبكركي وواجبها اولاً الحفاظ على الجمهورية. كيف؟<br />- فليأمر غبطة البطريرك صفير بسحب موضوع النصاب من التداول في البازار السياسي... نهائياً.<br />- ولتشكل بكركي لجنة قانونية من خيرة القضاة، وخبراء القانون الدستوري، تمنحها صلاحيات تحديد دستورية آلية انتخاب رئيس الجمهورية. وليتقيّد الجميع بقرارها.<br />- وليقفلُ المنبر الاعلامي على درج بكركي مؤقتاً، لكي تتوقف المبارزة الاستفزازية بين المرشحين.<br />- وليُحذف الكلام السياسي من بيانات الاساقفة الشهرية.<br />الحقبات التاريخية تحتاج الى افعال تاريخية لا الى اقوال عابرة.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Maronite Patriarch Elias Hoyek, a man of Honor, Integrity, dedication and courage.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLDfxS5JQYMoqIFomH_PcjSXK3s_jXqKbi_Xz44hxZc63ushVIJjI0HU_YA01PkFHPKoSIdV3VS9LCf5oJZlMIucJN8tB9WJHtGUSNLAMCJgX15fnxnkpl14wsosD4DEban5GLiVXL4Z4/s1600-h/Maronite+Patriarch+Elias+Hoyek.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfibjt9uwv4uPlvBQJ5L6IRlIGoYktyXzXQ2Zum_tq5KD_O838rvLCIuXUK9MfJg_Ty1K4E-HL34bbHwO6m8905hRA9AOt_02zItrJIkchRgWFx_q9xycGCuQvYp6HUZaOJF-IeV3KVh0/s400/hariri-usa--Donald-rumsfeld=+OSP%3Dmurder.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060270354493522626" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">KILLERS, MURDERERS, ASSASSINS, LIARS.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl0smNaXMaZVIn3PkBbLP-dNbAizbmcrTmZQLq1FYBCCc2JDma2KuQe56uRiOJ3i1r6FuTmr20L-dPuC92BYiXxaDC5-kDJ8FKpUE-5IpQKVK5f5h4nmR_4JatX965DYnyxL_JviZlko0/s1600-h/Kenaan.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl0smNaXMaZVIn3PkBbLP-dNbAizbmcrTmZQLq1FYBCCc2JDma2KuQe56uRiOJ3i1r6FuTmr20L-dPuC92BYiXxaDC5-kDJ8FKpUE-5IpQKVK5f5h4nmR_4JatX965DYnyxL_JviZlko0/s400/Kenaan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060270212759601842" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhG8KfeX-mPaXGJLoyDGysKZI0EwkcE7IG7iHZCqw2jo30dH3eAxEtsXymwneNLuojgAgSYRZ9FOVC4bZxSlRSnHmHeTQddtFMz9yJa4P2TnpaORq-GcBManhvmvNxu4NYDJ6zm2FHZXY/s1600-h/South+LB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikrT5I3j7b8r-CfQToo7maPQdy58EQvAeNN7bwPXuy5BJXQo9YYfjzAoAUD0CWd5qavmTdBrED3dqUFgWltJwWX-AJfDShRPtLys-6In8zVNYHwifcwCGoYX-frHHnMyUYfe-Waeb4mrE/s400/Sayyed++The+Resistance.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060269624349082242" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju5SuPpzR87gpuutb6cV-RzWlInTgcmSudHGOgDEmNvhyphenhyphenR1DC9VvElqeLv6RcFZqDWLDe2HKxLQ0-sXMr4cyOMccnZzz8Lh6XKNuRl6exrH_LUcEtKc6aY1Ai3sH3y05YCFaTXDJ2X69k/s1600-h/tension_leg_platform.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju5SuPpzR87gpuutb6cV-RzWlInTgcmSudHGOgDEmNvhyphenhyphenR1DC9VvElqeLv6RcFZqDWLDe2HKxLQ0-sXMr4cyOMccnZzz8Lh6XKNuRl6exrH_LUcEtKc6aY1Ai3sH3y05YCFaTXDJ2X69k/s400/tension_leg_platform.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060269491205096050" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjve2XFMUmf4qhQge61YIZzD78ui81R8xvnRRF8ZR_ev0qXA9p0ggE6PJc7zUVVWs8suKE5I35R6Bcn0BhWlCAYvqu4qHh72k-B1lRFeQh5cfelHjB6PKj6TACvtNg88WjtokuO8LYtSDY/s1600-h/Imperial+Hubris.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjve2XFMUmf4qhQge61YIZzD78ui81R8xvnRRF8ZR_ev0qXA9p0ggE6PJc7zUVVWs8suKE5I35R6Bcn0BhWlCAYvqu4qHh72k-B1lRFeQh5cfelHjB6PKj6TACvtNg88WjtokuO8LYtSDY/s400/Imperial+Hubris.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060269310816469602" border="0" /></a><br /><br />– « Nul ne peut imaginer un Liban sans sa composante chrétienne originelle. Il ne serait alors qu’un clone de certains pays de la région dans leur quête d’identité et à l’avenir incertain, tel l’Irak, pris dans un tourbillon de violence et d’instabilité. Le Liban que nous connaissons ne pourrait jamais survivre à la disparition de l’un de ses piliers fondateurs.<br />Les chrétiens continueront de jouer leur rôle pilote dans la nation libanaise sur tous les plans : culturel, économique, social et politique. Si le Liban est resté un pays unique et admirable malgré tous les drames qui l’ont frappé au fil des dernières décennies, c’est grâce à sa diversité culturelle et religieuse dont la dimension chrétienne est une condition sine qua non. »<br />*********************************************************************************<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lessons from Israel's Lebanon war resonate globally...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEh3Y59Gj8Me51yYkLzcRaYwpmk_Sbpbh-MXfA4HB_GNV3faQPY9mfL6-7ot9f70p5QCThvaUx72TX2XwHY2G5hmACPF0MPRDvKqcB-paba1zE6OzCIohSAkcXwPt8T9MqrTUPHYvrmq6N/s1600-h/Sayyed+Hassan+Nasrallah.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEh3Y59Gj8Me51yYkLzcRaYwpmk_Sbpbh-MXfA4HB_GNV3faQPY9mfL6-7ot9f70p5QCThvaUx72TX2XwHY2G5hmACPF0MPRDvKqcB-paba1zE6OzCIohSAkcXwPt8T9MqrTUPHYvrmq6N/s400/Sayyed+Hassan+Nasrallah.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062166458018055666" border="0" /></a><br /><br />A new report provides a window into an increasingly insurmountable task facing democracies: winning war, regardless of military superiority.<br /><br />By Ilene R. Prusher | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor<br /><br /><br /><br />As Israelis continue to absorb the impact of a stinging report indicating that the country's leaders "severely failed" when leading the country in a war against Hizbullah last July, it became increasingly clear that the conflict will be absorbed in the public mind as an almost complete fiasco.<br /><br />This despite – from a strictly military point of view – the devastating losses imposed on Lebanon. Israeli military experts also say that several key goals – "degrading" the military capabilities of the Iranian-backed Hizbullah and getting the international community to keep a closer eye on Lebanon – were unrealized.<br /><br />But last week's Winograd Commission report on the war provides a window into what may be an increasingly insurmountable task facing modern democracies: winning war, regardless of military superiority.<br /><br />Both Israel and the United States are face to face with religious militants and insurgency groups – organizations that are committed to an idea but not necessarily a country or its leadership. From Hizbullah in Lebanon to Al Qaeda in Iraq and around the world, victory is in the eyes of the beholder.<br /><br />Each group has the Internet at its fingertips and an increasingly sophisticated public-relations machine to strike at the home front, from Hizbullah's slick marketing proclaiming "Divine Victory" after the Lebanon war to Al Qaeda's professional video-distribution network.<br /><br />The traditional scorecards used to tally winners and losers, experts say, were designed for a battlefield that is fading into obsolescence.<br /><br />"None of our paradigms apply today. All of our models are becoming irrelevant," says Michael Oren, a senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem and the author of several books on the Middle East.<br /><br />One of the key changes emerges from the reality of facing off against nontraditional combatants. Those opponents find it easier to hide amid civilians and engender the loss of innocent life. "If you're compelled to fight an un-uniformed enemy, he's also forcing you to inflict civilian casualties. The irregulars know this, and that it will find its way onto TV sets, and it will affect your ability to fight them any further," Mr. Oren says.<br /><br />The media's role<br /><br />Although newsreels once drove home some of the horrors of World War II and viewers saw disturbing images of the war in Vietnam through network television footage, the media today can bring tragic scenes to the public eye in minutes, swaying opinion with the alacrity of an e-mail.<br /><br />"The media isn't only more intense; it's more instantaneous, and everyone with a cellphone with a camera on it is a virtual reporter," Oren adds. "War is fought in real time now, and that greatly limits your latitude if you're fighting someone like Hizbullah."<br /><br />After five weeks of war, Hizbullah's top leadership survived, claiming victory.<br /><br />Hizbullah was able to herald Israel's retreat – following its reoccupation of positions in south Lebanon – as capitulation. Meanwhile, many in Israel decried the wanton loss of both Lebanese and Israeli life, as others argued that their leaders sent in reservist soldiers unprepared for battle, making the war particularly ill fought.<br /><br />"There's no question that whether it's the insurgency or Hizbullah, the victories are Pyrrhic," says Oren. "The impression is created that they have won, and this is rife with implications."<br /><br />US-Israeli parallels<br /><br />The Israeli decision to go to war against Hizbullah in Lebanon – a decision which, the commission charged, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made hastily – bears remarkable correlations to President Bush's Iraqi venture.<br /><br />Each leader was relatively quick to take his country into a war for reasons that looked convincing enough at the time, and which, when first launched, prompted mostly tepid reservations. Each leader stands faulted for not having been more adept at planning, for not having anticipated what would go wrong, and for either under-utilizing or disregarding entirely the advice of some of their own best experts.<br /><br />Each also faces quickly dwindling public support and mounting pressure from lawmakers and rivals. In the US, this has crescendoed in the congressional challenge to Mr. Bush in demanding a timetable for drawing down troops in Iraq, tied to a spending bill. And in Israel, this has Mr. Olmert's political peers abuzz, waiting for an appropriate moment to unseat him without having to endanger their own positions in government.<br /><br />"The heart of the failure is this kind of intellectual laziness," says Ari Shavit, an influential columnist for Haaretz newspaper. "It's like, 'Oh, let's have it easy,' " he says with a dismissive air. " 'Let's just send the planes and let them solve the problem.'"<br /><br />His reference is to the approach Israel took at the start of the war, which has primarily been blamed on Israeli army Chief of Staff Dan Halutz, who has since resigned. Israelis blame Mr. Halutz, an airman, for relying too heavily on air superiority and not sending in ground troops until very late in the war.<br /><br />A commander sending his soldiers to do house-to-house operations knows he's sending them on a perilous mission. But fighting from the air often causes a great deal of "collateral damage" and doesn't necessarily put any of the goals within reach.<br /><br />By comparison, the US faced a similar dilemma in the Iraq war, which got the post-Hussein period off to a disastrous start. Amid disagreements among top Army brass over whether there were going to be enough "boots on the ground," then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld argued for the most conservative – and least expensive – estimates.<br /><br />Today, few would argue against the understanding that there were not enough troops to secure Iraq from the start, which quickly unleashed unrest.<br /><br />To be sure, the differences are almost as remarkable as the parallels. Washington's goals in Iraq were largely based on the regime's supposed weapons of mass destruction and Mr. Hussein's oppressive rule, while Israel said it was focused on getting its soldiers back that had been captured by Hizbullah, and, at the same time, inflicting heavy damage on Hizbullah's increased military capacity.<br /><br />Robert Blecher, a fellow at the Center for Human Rights at the University of Iowa and an editor of Middle East Report, says that ideally, the Winograd Report should provide a chance for reassessing whether diplomacy could have played a more prominent role last summer. The report faults the prime minister for not involving his own foreign ministry in the decision making process.<br /><br />"The Winograd Report [is] as a potentially watershed moment in how national decision making is done," says Mr. Blecher, an expert on Israeli and Palestinian affairs. "There needs to be a better calibrated mix of military and diplomatic means to achieve the goals."</span><br /><br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br />Harvard's Twisted Report on Israel's Invasion of Lebanon<br />May 11, 2007<br />FRANKLIN LAMB - First it was (and is) that would be tenure-denying, torture-justifying, Israeli occupation apologist, opponent smearing, Alan Dershowitz. I could deal with Alan.<br /><br />But now it's Marvin Kalb! A boyhood hero of mine!<br />When I spent a year at Harvard Law School, studying the Chinese Legal System a while back, Dershowitz did not appear particularly out of control.<br /><br />Neither did Marvin Kalb when we chatted at a Washington NBC function and who seemed reasonable enough as moderator of Meet the Press. So the problem for sure has got to be Harvard! Or maybe it's just me!<br /><br />Currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard's, Joan Shorenstein Center, (no hard feelings that it's paid for by Walter Shorestein-AIPAC's favorite member and Californian fundraiser or that its DC office is very cozy with the nearby AIPAC office), Kalb recently published a 'study': The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006: The Media as a Weapon in Asymmetrical Conflict. He was joined by Carol Saivetz. So far so good. I'm all for 'academic studies.<br /><br />The JTA news desk featured Kalb's work on May 3, 2007 and AIPAC is now busy flooding Congress with this "academic study" as they attempt to intimidate the fourth estate with shrieks of "See we told you so! You guys are anti-Israel and maybe closet anti-Semites! We have Harvard scholarship to back it up!"<br />Some Harvard scholarship!<br /><br />I won't nit pick Kalb's heavy duty sources for his tome: Fox News, Bill Kristol's, Weekly Standard, Anderson Cooper's " Hezbollah is still a Secretive Organization"( I hope they are or I'm in trouble!) The Jewish Press's Media Monitor, and as Kalb assures us "interviews with many Diplomats", none of whom he names. Forget about the DC Madams phone records, I am more curious about Kalb's secret 'Diplomats" and my concern is about what Harvard publishes as 'scholarship' these days....<br /><br />Kalb doesn't tell us how much time he or his sources actually spent in Lebanon doing research during or since the July war, but there were many solid journalists there, and while they don't need me to defend their work, I would offer Marvin a couple of fact-checks and an observation or two.<br /><br />Kalb's Abstract of his 'research paper' succinctly presents his thesis: During the Hezbollah-Israel "summertime war" (as in picnic, I guess) "the media moved from being objective to becoming "fiery advocates (of Hezbollah) and thus "a weapon of modern warfare".<br /><br />Kalb claims the media gave Hezbollah, which he calls "a closed sect" (that doesn't sound too good) "total control of the daily message of journalism and propaganda" and this fact "victimized Israel" because the latter is 'an open society" whereas Hezbollah is " a closed society, that engages in " undemocratic control of the media", is militant, secretive, a religiously fundamentalist sect, a state within a state, sub-national (not good)'Party of God", , resisting 'the infidel' and seeking 'divine victory' and supported by Iran and Syria (!) )and, if that is not enough, is similar to the Mahdi army. Kalb never mentions that Israel is supported by the US to the tune of 15.1 million dollars a day or 300 times more than the CIA claims Hezbollah gets in foreign aid each year and receives 83% of its weapons from the US, to the tune of tens of Billions of USD, for decades.<br /><br />Kalb's first problem with the media focuses on the UN media website. His research reveals that the much maligned UNIFIL observers, who Israel have bombed and shelled 15 times in the past quarter century, posted on its media web site Israeli cross border incursions that took place each preceding day. The same job the UN has been tasked with doing since 1978, as it has documented more than 18,000 Israeli violations of Lebanese territory including its air and sea space. Remarkably Kalb's 'research' in this respect is identical to that of AIPAC's Lori Lowenthal Marcus,<br /><br />"What Did You Do during the War, UNIFIL?" in The Weekly Standard of mid-august. Kalb and Marcus claim that Hezbollah fighters, if they had laptops with internet connections (there was no electricity in the south after the first few hours of Israel's bombing) Hezbollah fighters learned something about where the Israelis were and hence got "a gift" from the UN which became an extremely valuable intelligence asset for Hezbollah, and Hezbollah exploited it."<br /><br />Fact check : Kalb and Harvard's Shorenstein Center may want to know that Hezbollah fighters, organized in groups of two or three (sometimes five depending on the weapons used) know every inch of their assigned areas in South Lebanon, in fact, much better than the UN does. They were born in these villages, have fought the Israelis in this hilly terrain since the 1970's and on July 12th knew exactly which 3 entry points (out of a possible 24) the IDF was going to use to invade Lebanon and they were waiting for them. Hezbollah also had a fairly good idea where every Israeli was at any given time during the conflict. Israel's problem was that they could not find Hezbollah until they wanted to be found whether it was at Maroun al Ras, Eita Al-Chaab, Bint Jbeil, Yarun, Khiam or anywhere along the 'blue line'.<br /><br />The Harvard study complains that the UN did not report on Hezbollah movements, thereby exhibiting anti-Israel bias.<br /><br />Fact check : Excuse me Marvin but if the IDF with the latest US technology and night vision equipment, scores of cameras mounted on Israeli Heron, Searcher Mk II, or Hermes 450 drones, and close up satellite imaging could not find Hezbollah fighters, the UN observers along the blue line dodging Israeli shells were unlikely to. (On July 26 Israel did bomb the UN post near Khiam killing four UN observers-Canadian, Chinese, and Finnish) Moreover, the UN mission is to report crossings of the 'blue line' (only Israel was doing that), not to survey what is going on inside Lebanon.<br /><br />Moreover, blaming the UN for doing its job, which Israel has done for 25 years, and claiming Hezbollah fighters, under a blitz in a free fire zone, including an estimated 4.8 million cluster bombs, were running around with laptops and relied on the UN website for Israeli movements is patent nonsense. His conclusion that "the UN media gave Hezbollah an extremely valuable intelligence asset which they exploited" is fantasy. "Tink tank" 'researchers' really should get out to the field more often and learn the lay of the land, so to speak.<br /><br />Kalb is troubled by what his research revealed:<br /><br />"They (the Israelis) couldn't keep a secret. Hezbollah, on the other hand, controlled its message with an iron grip. It had one spokesman and no leaks. Hezbollah did not have to respond to criticism from bogglers, and it could always count on unashamedly sympathetic Arab reporters to blast Israel for its "disproportionate" military attack against Lebanon during the 2006 summertime war in the Middle East, it was Israel versus Hezbollah, led by the charismatic Hassan Nasrallah, and because Israel did not win the war, it is judged to have lost."<br /><br />Fact check : Hezbollah operated an efficient press information office with several spokesmen and plenty of backgrounders and volunteer staff who answered every question they could and who did help the media. Nasrallah gave no interviews during the 33 day conflict but did issue statements. With virtually the whole Israeli military after him,pounding a block of flats with 23 Tons of high explosives in 2 minutes, whenever they thought Nasrallah was there, he was lying low....<br /><br />Kalb's research found that "the media showed too much destruction of Lebanon and in its reporting did not credit Israel's argument that international law allowed Israel to bomb civilian areas if soldiers were hiding within these homes." Israel used this same argument during its 1978, 1982, 1993, 1996, invasions, as it does in Palestine today. In the summer of 2006 it was very easy for the media to find evidence in Lebanon. 950,000 civilians were bombed out of their villages and the 132,000 homes destroyed or partially damaged ,and were crowded into public parks in Beirut and schools or received in private homes all over Lebanon and Syria. The media had lots of eye witness sources regarding the destruction of Lebanon and they properly reported what they learned.<br /><br />Kalb cites Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni's statement to the New York Times, following the slaughter at Qana, "When you go to sleep with a missile, you might find yourself waking up to another kind of missile" as authority. Israel later admitted there were no missiles fired from Qana, and no Hezbollah in the area, but that it had made a deliberate mistake in killing those 38 civilians hiding in the shelter. Kalb might want to inform diplomat Livni that none of the 10 adults or 28 children had gone to sleep with a missile at Qana, and the same thing happened in the first Qana massacre of 1996, when IDF massacred 95 civilians near a UN post in QANA.<br /><br />Fact check : Again, researcher Kalb seems not to understand how the war was being fought on the ground here in South Lebanon. Hezbollah was not hiding from Israeli forces among the civilians. Contrariwise, they were eager to engage Israel every chance they got. Typically Hezbollah fired their missiles from camouflaged areas such as banana groves, orchards, dense foliage, bunkers, holes in the ground, sides of rocky hills and valleys not from houses or towns. They knew very well that Israel would not hesitate to bomb civilian houses which they have been doing since the late 1960's. After a particular mission, Hezbollah fighters would ditch their weapons and try to sleep. Only rarely making their way back to their villages to check on their families or property.<br /><br />With respect to Israel's admitted "mistake" of bombing the Qana shelter, according to NGO-Lebanon, Israel made 6,979 'mistakes' in bombing during the 33 day July War. Maybe Kalb finds that statistic acceptable given that Israel launched more that 17,000 attacks at more than 8,000 targets, including 300,000 artillery shells and approximately 4.8 million cluster bombs. The juggernaut international Israeli press operation did. Most of the media did not.<br /><br />Kalb's research also finds it problematical that "not only diplomats but the media forgot about who started the war and focused on Israel's "disproportionate response." (Kalb's quotation marks imply that his research found no disproportionate response which puts him at odds with virtually all the world's media including Israel's)). So they did and should have. The applicable principle of international law is simple enough. When one side trespasses, captures soldiers or commits a hostile act that does not allow the other side, in retaliation, to slaughter hundreds of civilians and destroy much of the country. The related principle of international law is the obligation to discriminate between civilian and military targets. Israel's responsive killing of more than 1,450 civilians, nearly 1/3 of them children, many fleeing in convoys waving white flags, or following Israeli orders to flee, or hiding in cellars with no fighters in the area, was indeed disproportionate to the capturing of the two soldiers. The international media properly reported these war crimes.<br /><br />Kalb's research revealed that "Supporters of Israel's position, (including scholars) tend to dismiss the proportionality/disproportional debate as misleading and foolish". He may be right regarding the first group but he's dead wrong regarding the second.<br /><br />Kalb fails to mention the reams of available material on the subject of Israel's illegal "disproportionate" bombing, which he denies occurred, including many testimonies from the Israeli military to the effect that Israel "lost it" early in the conflict, after being repeatedly ambushed and not being able to locate Hezbollah fighters and in a vengeful frenzy carpet bombed much of south Lebanon, and many other parts of Lebanon, especially south Beirut and Baalbek, creating a free fire killing zone.<br /><br />"What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs, we fired 2,800 cluster bombs, containing over 1.2 million cluster bomblets" (IDF head of just one rocket unit quoted in Ha'aretz on 9/12/06)<br /><br />"In the last 72 hours we fired all the munitions we had, all at the same spot, we didn't even alter the directions of the gun. Friends of mine in the battalion told me they also fired everything in the last three days-ordinary shells, clusters, whatever they had." (Israeli reservist in an artillery battalion, quoted in Ha'aretz on 9/8/06)<br /><br />Kalb, admits that Israel has tough military censorship laws, which did not allow reporting, for example, of the weapons stores and bases in northern Israel that many of Hezbollah's missiles were aiming at, rather than targeting civilians, but his media research criticized Hezbollah for restricting movement during Israel's bombing in Lebanon. Hezbollah press aids did sometimes suggest, during intensive bombing that for safety reasons, reporters might want to watch the action on Al Manar TV. The reason is that Hezbollah films most of its battles live, because over the years Israel undercounts its causalities and over counts Hezbollah's (Kalb uses Israel's claim of 600 Hezbollah killed in the July war when the actual figure is 264).<br /><br />Fact check : Al Manar viewership is often higher in Israel during conflicts than Israeli stations because Israelis have greater confidence in Al Manar for truthful reporting than their own government fed stations. Despite this well known fact, scholar Kalb, perhaps recalling his days as a reporter in the USSR, smears Al-Manar: "for reports and information about the war, Al-Manar was to Hezbollah what Pravda was to the Soviet Union." Israeli TV viewers don't agree....<br /><br />Kalb finds a media 'clash of civilizations' problem when Newsweek did not run a gruesome photo and Arab media did. His research concludes: "Two value systems were clearly in collision: one didn't go with the gruesome photo, one did go with it, in fact deliberately spread it far and wide, wanting nothing more than to use any and every weapon of "information" to defeat Israel", while Israel and the DOD<br />in the US, " Pentagon" spend hundreds of millions of USD on FDDC, to spread lies and dis-information worldwide, to cover their horrendous murders in Lebanon, Iraq and elsewhere, and cover the fact that the war on Lebanon in 2006, was a joint US/Israeli operation wall to wall, made in the "culture of Violence" of DOD and Tal-Aviv.<br /><br />Interestingly Kalb's conclusion is nearly word for word, the one that appeared on AIPAC's website, before Kalb completed his own 'study'.<br /><br />To paraphrase Alan Dershowitz's statement on his website ("I like Carter") re President Carter, just before he trashed him, I want to say: "I like Marvin Kalb". And I won't trash him. But if he'll come to Lebanon I'll show him around and help him with additional sources for the next printing of his 'study'....<br /><br />Franklin Lamb's just released book, The Price We Pay: A Quarter Century of Israel's Use of American Weapons in Lebanon is available at Amazon.com.uk. His volume, Hezbollah: a Brief Guide for Beginners is due out in early summer, 2007. He can be reached at fplamb@gmail.com<br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br />قبل أن يصبح المسيحيون وراء المحيطات !<br />17 نيسان 2007<br />ريما فرح - أميركا «صديقة» للبنان، وكذلك فرنسا، فشكرا لهما على «صداقتهما». ولا يسعنا نحن اللبنانيين المسيحيين تحديدا الذين نشأنا على «رعشات» قبلة أنظار اسلافنا التي هي الغرب، ونمونا بفضل «الرضاعة الطبيعية» من ثدي أمنا الحنون فرنسا، واستمرينا في الرضاعة حتى بعد ان تخطينا عمر الفطام، من وقفة تقييم لهذه «الصداقة»، ولمفعول هذه «الرضاعة»، وما هو مردودهما على المسيحيين في لبنان، لنتبيّن، ولنبيّن للآخرين ونضع اصبعنا في عيون كل من يواجه بعضنا بالتعييب، ربطه لمصيرنا بالمشروع الأميركي وحليفه الفرنسي الشيراكي في المنطقة.<br />فماذا يعني ربط المسيحيين في لبنان بالمشروع الأميركي في المنطقة؟<br /><br />الاستنتاج يتوضح في هذا المسار:<br /><br />في العام 1975 اندلعت الحرب في لبنان، في الوقت الذي بدأت فيه الولايات المتحدة عبر وزير خارجيتها آنذاك هنري كسينجر سياسة السلام المنفرد بين اسرائيل والدولة العربية المحيطة بها، بدلا من سياسة الحل الشامل، وتزامنت مع توقيع اتفاق سيناء الثاني بين مصر واسرائيل الذي مهد لاتفاق كامب ديفيد. ويستشم من هذه السياسة، لا بل يتخطى الأمر حاسة الشم ليتأكد بالفم الملآن، والعين المجرّدة، والعقل المتزن، وأصبع توما، ان مشروع توطين الفلسطينيين اللاجئين الى لبنان هو جزء بارز وعامل أساسي في خطط هذه السياسة... فكانت الحرب ضد التوطين وشكل رأس حربتها المسيحيون...<br /><br />تطورت الحرب واستفحلت، وكان وقعها على المسيحيين قاسيا. هجرة الى الخارج وتهجيرا من الداخل الى الداخل، وتورطا بعلاقات عسكرية «انقاذية للوجود» مع اسرائيل، والأم الحنون فرنسا مكتفية بدور المتفرّج، الى آن جاء ترياق النصيحة للحل من الصديقة اميركا عبر دين براون (سفير سابق للولايات المتحدة في الأردن) الذي استعان به كيسنجر ليبلغ القادة المسيحيين (سليمان فرنجية وكميل شمعون وبيار الجميل) انه لا يمكنهم توقع الانقاذ على يد البحارة والجنود الأميركيين كما في العام ,1958 وليقنعهم انه ليس أمام المسيحيين سوى الهجرة والرحيل، وان البواخر الأميركية مستعدة لنقلهم الى كاليفورنيا ومنحهم تأشيرات دخول واقامة كيان لهم.<br />وتوالت رعاية اميركا لاتفاقية وادي عربة بين اسرائيل والأردن، ثم جاء اتفاق اوسلو، وموضوع حق عودة الفلسطينيين الى بلادهم يبتعد أميالا، وتوطينهم في دول الشتات وفي المقدمة لبنان، يقترب بسرعة الضوء.<br /><br />في العام 1983 وغداة انسحاب الجيش الاسرائيلي من الجبل، أي بعد عام على الاجتياح الإسرائيلي الصديق لأميركا، للبنان، اندلعت حرب ضارية بين الدروز والمسيحيين هناك، فكانت النتيجة تهجيرا كبيرا للمسيحيين من هناك وضحايا كثيرين وتدميرا شبه شامل، ونيوجرسي (البارجة الأميركية العملاقة) تنظر عن قريب من مياه لبنان الاقليمية، ومعها كل المارينز.. وكرت هذه السبحة في درب جلجلة المسيحيين، لتشمل الشحار الغربي واقليم الخروب وشرق صيدا وساحل جزين في العامين 1984 و1985 في أحداث مماثلة.<br /><br />«ضبضب» الأميركيون وجودهم وحوائجهم، وغادروا تاركين المسيحيين لمصيرهم المحتوم بعدما توصلت «والية» العالم اليوم، الى تفاهم ما، مع السوريين والإسرائيليين، كان سبقه ما عرف ضمنا باتفاقية الخطوط الحمر...<br /><br />في العامين 1989 و1990 اندلعت حربا التحرير والإلغاء، فدمرت مناطق المسيحيين عن بكرة أبيها، بعدما انحشروا جراء التهجير برعاية الأميركيين والإسرائيليين وسواهم وتحت انظارهم، بين كفرشيما والمدفون، كما دمر اقتصادهم ومعه آلتهم العسكرية، بعدما كان الأميركيون أنفسهم وحلفاؤهم الإسرائيليون، بما لهم من «مونة»، قد اسقطوا الاتفاق الثلاثي في العام .1985 الى ان جاء الطائف المرعى غربيا وعربيا، ولزم الملف اللبناني تباعا للسوريين، فكان ما كان من احباط عند المسيحيين، واستأثر بالسلطة من استأثر من الطوائف التي ما زالت تستأثر اليوم في زمن التحرير والسيادة!، كما في زمن الوصاية!، حتى ان أولئك، وباستقواء الوصاية مارسوا كل ما يكمن على قادة مسيحيي تلك المرحلة لمنعهم من قيام مرجعية مسيحية فاعلة...<br /><br />واليوم، نرى البعض من المسيحيين يهلل للمشروع الأميركي الجديد القديم، والذي أولى ركائزه ما عبّر عنه جون بولتن قبل عام من انهم ينظرون الى الشرق ومنه لبنان، على انه مكوّن من عنصرين سني وشيعي، والمسيحيون فيه حالة ثقافية، وهذا يعني ان المسيحيين ليسوا في معادلة هذا الشرق، ولن يكونوا فيه شركاء او اصحاب قرار. ثم واولى نتائجه هجرة 800 الف مسيحي من العراق والحبل ع الجرّار. وإذا ما قدر للمشروع الأميركي النجاح في سوريا كما هو مرسوم، والذي عليه يُعوّل المتهورون، فإن مصير مسيحيي سوريا سيكون مطابقا لمشهد مسيحيي العراق، من دون ان ننسى مسيحيي فلسطين الذين لم يبق منهم في أرضهم سوى 2٪.<br /><br />أما مسيحيو لبنان اصحاب «الدور الرائد» في الكيان وفي بناء حضارة الشرق، فماذا ينتظرهم؟.. في حال نجح المشروع الذي يراهن عليه البعض، رجاء اتبعوا السيناريو التالي: توطين للفلسطينيين في لبنان، هي نفسها القضية التي قاتل لمنعها المسيحيون منذ العام 1975 وسقط لهم بسببها وما تلاها اكثر من مئة الف قتيل، وهُجر حوالى 300 الف، وهاجر الى الخارج عدد مماثل، ودمرت معظم بلداتهم وخارج كانتونهم الذين حشروا فيه بعد العام ,1985 وقُضي على معظم مواردهم واقتصادهم هناك... ثم في أسوأ الأحوال دويلة وفق نظام فدرالي، او دويلة بعد التقسيم، وكلاهما لا مقومات لدولة فيهما ومن خلالهما... لكن فيها بالتأكيد، خسارة المسيحيين لأهم مواردهم الاقتصادية والانتاجية، تهجير جديد، وهجرة متزايدة الى الخارج، هذا إذا استبعدنا احتمال الوقوع في التجربة ثانية او ثالثة او رابعة.. وعاد بنا الحنين الى الصراعات الداخلية بين الأخوة والرفاق وابناء «الصف والخط والقضية» على «قيادة المجتمع»!.<br /><br />وهذا يكفي، ومن المستحسن وقف سياق السرد عند هذه الحدود، كي لا نفجع المؤمنين بالنتيجة: «سلام على الدور الرائد والفاعل، وعلى كرسي انطاكية وسائر المشرق»، والى اللقاء وراء المحيطات...، لكننا سنتواصل عبر الانترنت...<br /><br />*********************************************************************************<br /><br />لقد تحالف التيار مع حزب الله انطلاقاً من ورقة تفاهم شاملة اعتبرها المدخل الصحيح لمعالجة الازمة اللبنانية من جذورها. بينما تتهم القوات اللبنانية حزب الله «باقامة دولة داخل الدولة» والتسبب بحرب تموز.<br />في الواقع السياسي الفعلي: القوات اللبنانية، المتحالفة مع تيار المستقبل ووليد جنبلاط، تسير في خط السياسة الاميركية حتّى... «العضم». وهي تؤمن ان القوة الاميركية سوف تنتصر. ومن مصلحة المسيحيين ان يسيروا في ركابها.<br />ولم يقطع الجنرال شعرة معاوية مع الاميركان، لكنه يؤمن ان السلم الداخلي الناتج عن التحالف مع حزب الله، هو الضمانة الفعلية، والحقيقية، للحفاظ على وحدة البلاد. ولولا هذا التحالف لما مرّت حرب تموز من دون انعكاسات داخلية خطيرة جدا...ولكانت نتائج الصراع الداخلي اكبر ضررا على لبنان من العدوان نفسه.<br />والخلافات الشعبية مع النازحين كانت احدى الاوراق التي راهنت عليها اسرائيل. وقد اسقطها تحالف التيار مع حزب الله. والحزب يحفظ للتيار هذا الموقف.<br />في بكركي قال الدكتور جعجع انه يقف على طرف نقيض مع الجنرال عون... فالى اين يتجه المسيحيون في الاشهر المقبلة؟ واي دور تلعبه بكركي؟<br /><br />ميليشيات جعجع وجنبلاط تتلقى تتدريبها في إسرائيل<br /><br />قالت صحيفة «الوحدة» الاردنية: إن مجموعة مكونة من 42 من عناصر ميليشيا سمير جعجع ووليد جنبلاط تتلقى تدريبات عسكرية في معسكرات خاصة داخل اسرائيل تستمر ثلاثة أسابيع .<br /><br />ونقلت الصحيفة عن مصادر مطلعة قولها: إن هذه هي الدفعة الثالثة التي وصلت الى اسرائيل جوا للتدريب العسكري عن طريق عواصم أوروبية بجوازات سفر من دون تأشيرات دخول حتى لا يتم كشفها. <br /><br />وقد وصل مع هذه المجموعات أربعة من مسؤولي ميليشيات جعجع وجنبلاط وعادوا الى بيروت عن طريق باريس بعلم السلطات الفرنسية. <br /><br /><br />الثلاثاء، 10 نيسان<br />2007،<br /><br />********************************************************************************<br />فأس الغضب<br />بقلم: زينا الخوري<br />على طريقة الاستشهاديين صوّر الطالب الكوري الجنوبي Cho Scung Hui (تلفظ حسب الواشنطن بوست: جوه سونغ - وي) نفسه، ثم مضى في مهمته الانتحارية. قتل 32 طالباً في جامعة فرجينيا من بينهم لبنانيون في عمر الورود.<br />ارتدى قبعة بايسبول سوداء، ادار وجهها الى الوراء، فبدت كالرباط الذي يلفه «الجهاديون» على جباههم قبل العمليات، وحمّل اميركا مسؤولية الحادثة فقال:<br />«ايها الفاسدون... المتعجرفون... الاغنياء! كان امامكم مئة مليار فرصة لتفادي هذا اليوم. لكنكم قررتم اراقة دمي، حشرتموني في زاوية وتركتم لي خياراً واحداً فقط. كان القرار اصلاً قراركم انتم. اليوم اياديكم ملطخة بالدماء. لن تُغسل الى الابد...!»<br />غاضب. مضطرب. محبط، قليل الكلام. هكذا وصفه رفاقه، لكن طالب الادب الانكليزي، الذي يكتب اشعاراً مليئة بالموت، ابن المهاجر الكوري الجنوبي صاحب المصبغة، كان قنبلة بشرية غاضبة على المجتمع الاميركي، والطريقة الاميركية، والحلم الاميركي...<br />ارتكب مجزرة. لكن نظراته بقيت هادئة، بلا اضطراب. وفي عينيه لمعة حزن اكثر من شراسة جنون.<br />اما عبارة «Ismael AX»، «فأس اسماعيل» التي وشمها على ذراعها، ووجدتها الشرطة على اوراقه الخاصة، فتدعو الى الحيرة، وتوجب التساؤل العميق عن السبب الحقيقي للجريمة. خاصة ان الشريط الانتحاري تضمن عبارة نافرة موجهة الى يسوع: «يسوع يُحب ان يصلبني، كان يعشق ان يزرع السرطان في رأسي، ويرعب قلبي، ويمزق روحي...»<br />لن يعرف احد ماذا كان يدور في رأس «سونغ» لحظة نفّذ جريمته المرعبة. لكن لا بد ان يتوقف عندها الاميركيون طويلاً ومعهم العالم. ربما يفهمون ان صور الانتحاريين في الشرق تنتقل الى الرؤوس في الغرب. و«الارهاب» الذي جاؤوا ليحاربوه شرقاً، تحمله الرياح في كل اتجاه.<br />غاضب واحد قتل 32 بريئاً في اميركا عندما طفح كيله. فماذا يفعل مليون غاضب في بلد صغير مثل لبنان؟<br />همس الى الاباء الاجلاء: أكسروا فأس الغضب!<br /><br /><br /><br />#######################################################################<br /><br />This is MADE in "GeaGea and Jumblatt's land" since 1983 until present and counting.....Their AIM IS FOR THE LAST CHRISTIAN TO LEAVE Lebanon FOR GOOD...<br />**************************************************************************************************<br /><br /><strong>WALEED IN DESPERATE NEED OF HIS DOSE...</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQkKxn9EBhQscG0OyjruvjNo_rKtGn1Ymcd_Jy4_4UslQMljQtHdu8sSqgkJ8crKZLyZzi3dC9sXxwASuy_mHVcZr7bMp4AKLTea071_Z4KVjN3BRdyEdba_KoC48y5uSRZRHb919hBilq/s1600-h/waleed+in+need.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQkKxn9EBhQscG0OyjruvjNo_rKtGn1Ymcd_Jy4_4UslQMljQtHdu8sSqgkJ8crKZLyZzi3dC9sXxwASuy_mHVcZr7bMp4AKLTea071_Z4KVjN3BRdyEdba_KoC48y5uSRZRHb919hBilq/s400/waleed+in+need.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054843708716151698" border="0" /></a><br /><br />++++++++++++++++<br /><br />Ce qu’on peut apprécier de la part du criminel Joumblatt, c’est sa facilité à rappeler le passé des autres sans jamais se souvenir du sien, ainsi que des rôles de ses alliés terroristes durant ce même passé.<br /><br />Je ne peux oublier dans le passé récent, cette accaparation d’une révolution populaire, celle du 14 mars 2005 en parti politique. C’était le peuple et non des politiciens qui appellent ensuite au retour aux maisons pour continuer la ratatouille politicienne habituelle.<br /><br />“rentrez chez vous maintenant, on s’occupe de tout”, avait à l’époque déclaré le sieur de Moukhtara. On voit bien aujourd’hui ou cela nous à mener, avec une alliance “électoraliste” pour obtenir Baabda Aley et les sièges de Saïda, convergences d’intérêts puis la divergence qui a amené à l’éclatement de cette même coalition gouvernementale en 2006 et la paralysie qui en a suivi.<br /><br />Une personne qui aurait vraiment le sens des responsabilités commencerait avant tout non pas par attaquer ses adversaires mais par les comprendre, à répondre à leur inquiétude pour trouver un moyen de s’en sortir en cas de situation aussi grave que celle que traverse le Liban.<br /><br />Ainsi, nos politiciens devraient répondre à des questions tels que:<br /><br /> * Quelles garanties peut on aujourd’hui avoir vis-à-vis de sa propre personne, lui même ne s’était-il pas allié à Hafez el Assad et même aujourd’hui à Khaddam qui ont trempé dans l’assassinat de son propre père? Au nom du tribunal international, ne devrait on pas juger tous les fouteurs de guerre en commençant par ceux de la guerre civile et ainsi promouvoir une réconciliation réelle entre libanais?<br /> * Ne devons nous pas éviter toute provocation qui pourrait ramener au pire, à savoir au conflit, ayant conscience aujourd’hui que le principal danger est celui d’une déflagration entre sunnites et chiites?<br /> * Quelles réformes peut on faire au système politique pour que celui ci soit plus homogène et non paralysable au premier problème venu.<br /> * Quelles relations peut on avoir avec nos voisins?<br /><br />Bien sur que d’autres questions se doivent d’être posées, la liste est non exaustive....<br />**********************************************<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>WHOLESALE TRAITORS FOR DECADES, Yesterday to Syria & CIA, Today to AWKAR, CIA, DGSE and KSA etc.</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-M2jioPkSD2wwAT5xuo5bWJO3J2ue6MU0kRMHY9_9XFeXdwsbdI4pV53B9V8a9Y0spVRdpLXomj0P-Ry8ARYX6_xLXhZdhylVgAt2tsUHOBrGIwZ3pglG_RfW4W-D12OVwnLuVY8yZ0wW/s1600-h/traitors.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-M2jioPkSD2wwAT5xuo5bWJO3J2ue6MU0kRMHY9_9XFeXdwsbdI4pV53B9V8a9Y0spVRdpLXomj0P-Ry8ARYX6_xLXhZdhylVgAt2tsUHOBrGIwZ3pglG_RfW4W-D12OVwnLuVY8yZ0wW/s400/traitors.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054843545507394434" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJHy-UtM5iHTIKaLnbnQ6nJGzWAGYClqK4QZw0HWLq5kKAG2L7eqJssnVPvyf2bjICQGQcXq_b1mi3UxQYSGiU1ptRKVIpbxsd3cZoWwS8NHdnVQcN_sHE08yDybzVSS-_n1_uFzV7J3UQ/s1600-h/spy3.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJHy-UtM5iHTIKaLnbnQ6nJGzWAGYClqK4QZw0HWLq5kKAG2L7eqJssnVPvyf2bjICQGQcXq_b1mi3UxQYSGiU1ptRKVIpbxsd3cZoWwS8NHdnVQcN_sHE08yDybzVSS-_n1_uFzV7J3UQ/s400/spy3.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055075104743680562" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>IF YOU OPEN THE COURT CASE AGAINST ME The BATRAK, [SUITCASES OF CASH IN MY PRIVATE JET AT LE BOURGET...] THEY WILL OPEN YOURS...AFTER YOU LEAVE OFFICE:SWARKO IS MY NEO'CONN BUDDY...]</strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZx6j-niGQU0prxKH9Xp8Ha2oJ0QIzwtYT-P5r38T9u4GlXk_hz90E-DK2PUP3TTZZLCELyyVdj7AU-eVIMhyphenhyphengfQn-Kuz8qOHX6x0wLz3jcK_Gj3KoQ8nWXpjNir5fNxnUY_3pZzw3Wt-i/s1600-h/sfeir-1k++Chirac+100.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZx6j-niGQU0prxKH9Xp8Ha2oJ0QIzwtYT-P5r38T9u4GlXk_hz90E-DK2PUP3TTZZLCELyyVdj7AU-eVIMhyphenhyphengfQn-Kuz8qOHX6x0wLz3jcK_Gj3KoQ8nWXpjNir5fNxnUY_3pZzw3Wt-i/s400/sfeir-1k++Chirac+100.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054843378003669874" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><strong>I DID NOT DO IT; IT SO HAPPENS THAT IT WAS THERE IN MY JET. AND I was told that FRENCH CUSTOMS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO FIND IT ...YA AKHI...? So I got caught with lots of CASH in my suitcases, but most people know by now, especially people who have been close to me for decades... that I have a Malignant Self Love - I am Narcissistic by nature... despite all these books written about me telling my flock that I care so deeply about them..., In Lebanon, we write books full of falsehoods, we clean the record of the assassins, and we destroy the credibility and wonderful record of the HEROES. </strong><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6cZZ4SALywL9KLsoz1k44XFMfxarrOdXkvYnlINHO5h-4P2IlsFHxzilQdq_8fSexuGNNTigF1M9PBb8uilsXh4u4pdQoaPBACxKFxeCvM4ye5Pav6I-cMTfFr4wRzdtdtj6cW4k9C-Uv/s1600-h/LIBANO_-_Sfeir_(80_x_103).jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6cZZ4SALywL9KLsoz1k44XFMfxarrOdXkvYnlINHO5h-4P2IlsFHxzilQdq_8fSexuGNNTigF1M9PBb8uilsXh4u4pdQoaPBACxKFxeCvM4ye5Pav6I-cMTfFr4wRzdtdtj6cW4k9C-Uv/s400/LIBANO_-_Sfeir_(80_x_103).jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057669133337904274" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgud-W9zEpDkFW75vfufrsnIgFKGyJEu_WXJnc8Bhg2rpAf104Sqew1kQeZNKnGnG6arnzI3SRrGeKfmSpsaDKIbj1FA4CPOmRBWaAlMNYQxaXAY6Tc1xdWQj98RC_dlPO0FGNyCn4syJ0-/s1600-h/liban_france_3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgud-W9zEpDkFW75vfufrsnIgFKGyJEu_WXJnc8Bhg2rpAf104Sqew1kQeZNKnGnG6arnzI3SRrGeKfmSpsaDKIbj1FA4CPOmRBWaAlMNYQxaXAY6Tc1xdWQj98RC_dlPO0FGNyCn4syJ0-/s400/liban_france_3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057669554244699298" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAGiAhCdGdmXABUjvPtEBkhVbQezB3YnT48PFEHN5IuRrbQWbAIjB8Oi1FPFV0d_RzOgNR-JkkZrQxCjVJ6_8MKZBOZp3eJjzYqrN6rZFWBVvjd2Iqvhqwpu8jbThLrQ-338gDGO0mxwRI/s1600-h/sfeir220.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAGiAhCdGdmXABUjvPtEBkhVbQezB3YnT48PFEHN5IuRrbQWbAIjB8Oi1FPFV0d_RzOgNR-JkkZrQxCjVJ6_8MKZBOZp3eJjzYqrN6rZFWBVvjd2Iqvhqwpu8jbThLrQ-338gDGO0mxwRI/s400/sfeir220.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054843274924454754" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">THERE IS NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT HIM, THE VATICAN'S HANDS ARE TIED BY CIA, THE NEOCONS AND "OPUS DEI"...</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1983/07/willbedone.html">http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1983/07/willbedone.html</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ8N2QjVk11Hc-La2dMmyq0AsPkbMMi62Vr-Y8w6t2hFHjo6USsY3NsFniJSapUET8pq2VsafIn6S1ytNE0jwBgE-SjFDcC3_VohwHJ_6_YHXsWcXafLdQAdGCwz-CHXiJlXXnfFQBXWJn/s1600-h/cardinal.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ8N2QjVk11Hc-La2dMmyq0AsPkbMMi62Vr-Y8w6t2hFHjo6USsY3NsFniJSapUET8pq2VsafIn6S1ytNE0jwBgE-SjFDcC3_VohwHJ_6_YHXsWcXafLdQAdGCwz-CHXiJlXXnfFQBXWJn/s400/cardinal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058796167116113074" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong>LOVERS AT FIRST SIGHT and More..."Sannioura is Stooge Nr.: 1 " </strong><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikRdzsZjHynX_vIXhbZEpVHJYLqVLXHVqQHq47DtKMeQeKO_2iXZX7Y02Vc2ub61jVCRtUlaPwEUn1jnu8_LKyDcXxZMoXHgYQ7iW1X4EcRp17JtqFax5yrPC4OvArqBcLJF_kYOegwsqR/s1600-h/rice+kisses++traitors+only.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikRdzsZjHynX_vIXhbZEpVHJYLqVLXHVqQHq47DtKMeQeKO_2iXZX7Y02Vc2ub61jVCRtUlaPwEUn1jnu8_LKyDcXxZMoXHgYQ7iW1X4EcRp17JtqFax5yrPC4OvArqBcLJF_kYOegwsqR/s400/rice+kisses++traitors+only.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061877853395633410" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPJiOt9UIQs1kGadM9QnXEs5NUUptsGuaGK3ZRRSCVk43ow_WaHgsMNMuL04VujmsLf6R8DytakACwmndWMgejLKLma-UFhJ6ry576hQYTlkCB126vt4neoUEtgJlOnSuokr6dToaN0Ub-/s1600-h/kiss_of_death.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRDWK83HQuyxurCl6un3TVdmExjtnzqryqSmKKSYQ8tJdxu0Ynd7QUEBSZrikiX6BH45WpYBo2l5SPpOt71RJo57AVAnPryqFvGLhLi5ELjfFKRBQP04N5shHUKGF5XxFqtDGZJK6dqeIm/s400/rice_siniora_ap.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061878050964129058" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPR90hZgqGuJ21JAT7I6VqfeyVXZOnEauLDLL-s3dka3T3gpgNIQQBgevxF7VH-mc0NOoANHUem9dcp4wIfbp7zYwdDys5djFCvZ_NRh8vC2n-9S63fVJTv2n27v2sl8YRDKjeq1JBo23Z/s1600-h/rice+kisses++traitors+%27s+dk.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPR90hZgqGuJ21JAT7I6VqfeyVXZOnEauLDLL-s3dka3T3gpgNIQQBgevxF7VH-mc0NOoANHUem9dcp4wIfbp7zYwdDys5djFCvZ_NRh8vC2n-9S63fVJTv2n27v2sl8YRDKjeq1JBo23Z/s400/rice+kisses++traitors+%27s+dk.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061877969359750418" border="0" /></a><br /><br />هنا السؤال نوجهه الى الاكثرية والى الرئيس السنيورة: هل هم يعتبرون ان هذه القيمة العالية التي قدمها لبنان في الدفاع عن نفسه عبر المقاومة هي قيمة عالية تمتلكها الاكثرية والحكومة ام هم يشاركون واشنطن في انها عبء عليهم ولا بد من العودة الى النقاط السبع كمدخل لبحث موضوع المقاومة.<br />الاشارات كثيرة بأن الرئيس السنيورة والاكثرية لا يريدون المقاومة وهم منحازون ضد فئة كبيرة من شعبهم لصالح القرار الاميركي وبعض الاوروبيين ويظهر ذلك من خلال تصريحات زعماء الاكثرية وتصريحات الرئيس السنيورة كما ان الاشارة الاهم هي ان لبنان تلقى مساعدات نقدية بعد العدوان الاسرائيلي بلغت مليارين ومئة مليون دولار ويكفي ان نرى كيف يحبس السنيورة هذه الاموال ولا يدفعها حتى الان بكامل حسابها للمتضررين من العدوان الاسرائيلي كي نتأكد ان الرئيس السنيورة غير مهتم بقدرة الصمود لدى شعبنا في وجه اسرائيل.<br />في 15 ت2 انهت اسرائيل دفع كل التعويضـات وقـدمـت كل المساعدات في مناطق شمال فلسطين بسبب حربها وبسبب القصف الصاروخي للمقاومة على تلك المناطق.<br />بينما الرئيس السنيورة الذي امتلك القرار المالي لم يدفع سوى 30% من المساعدات التي جرى تقديمها للبنان نتيجة العدوان الاسرائيلي وما زال يحتفظ بالمبالغ بينما الناس في حاجة لها ولو دفع الرئيس السنيورة المليارين ومئة مليون دولار في 15 ت2 2006 كما فعلت اسرائيل لكانت الملياران دولار شكلت دورة اقتصادية هامة في البلاد خصوصا انها اموال لا تخرج من الخزينة بل دفعتها دول عربية واوروبية وصناديق مالية ومتبرعون لبنانيون وعرب ومن كل العالم.<br />السؤال هو هل يحق للرئيس السنيورة ان يأخذ من شعبه اللبناني ما لم تستطع اسرائيل اخذه من اللبنانيين بالقوة وهل يحق للرئيس السنيورة بقرار من الاكثرية اضعاف قدرة الصمود لدى شعبنا اللبناني امام اسرائيل فيما المطلوب تعزيز قدرة الصمود لدى شعبنا خاصة ان الاموال وردت من دول للتعويض على المتضررين من العدوان الاسرائيلي يحتجزها اي السنيورة في حسابات مجمدة بدل دفعها للناس المتضررين.<br />صعب ان ينظر اللبناني الى رئيس حكومة يضعف قدرته على الصمود في وجه العدو الاسرائيلي. ومن الموجع والمؤلم ان نرى اقتراحات من رئيس حكومة لبنان بشأن النقاط السبع لا تصب الا في خانة اميركا واسرائيل ويبقى السؤال هل الرئيس السنيورة رئيس حكومة لبنان ويهمه لبنان ام هو مساعد لكوندوليزا رايس ام اغراه الغداء مع الرئيس بوش والجلوس على طاولة البيت الابيض؟<br />ونحن رأينا كم من زعيم عربي واسلامي تغدى على طاولة الرئيس بوش في البيت الابيض بينما شعبه لا يحترمه ولا يقدره.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoCoKwRWqTR4mI0eqNf-M_3Ab9W7GF7p7k2SLVRz44x_GTXSlVuTWojkYEs5KFj3cInNHC8_X5z6f5SixcCcW7sL5Rslg9TD6XNj-U_CYeSbUNDYkS7CgOhLxLvBwug7fKL6bfLMbkBLRQ/s1600-h/zanniour.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR5u4fOdpy-lJZstpOM3TMGJUZ7_9uCVkxD1KkWsKIxJWQTDfwjxYTwbV7SyMtZIeGkzrtP1gFQtVZVk4ckoJ_vDkCCrFPx68e1YCp-aqgpsbzBSN0iW8rg9uZlxJdUfcX3VCMnQdc-ejq/s400/Made+IN+USA+for+Children+WW4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054842738053542722" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong>IDF, IAF, in action, 'COURAGE' only over civilian areas in Lebanon.</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixIteDW5Lk1VBVmGBAg_m1iEzZm-tYgj3bvuhX5HhgbA-dBHUM182t2FmCVWDSge0JDRVVhrZGqqGzz58ghLdRURJz11U1uEDnBvgQ3Y5TUC1mY3Nu6RHnxktI8zwnyqm8i3awZ5p4monz/s1600-h/IDF+Courage....jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixIteDW5Lk1VBVmGBAg_m1iEzZm-tYgj3bvuhX5HhgbA-dBHUM182t2FmCVWDSge0JDRVVhrZGqqGzz58ghLdRURJz11U1uEDnBvgQ3Y5TUC1mY3Nu6RHnxktI8zwnyqm8i3awZ5p4monz/s400/IDF+Courage....jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054842295671911218" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong>I JUST TOOK 6 MILLION US DOLLARS FROM BANK AL-MADINA FROM RANA, I DON'T<br />WANT TO GIVE IT BACK.... PLEASE, MAKE ME PRESIDENT FOR LIFE...</strong><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifjYWBVaUsYHED2aNuKq-fFauMsW-eUyLeLdkTLJNHuSrJDbucTwkLmeBNjATOjx-oQqHoauQquFvGNSmPCj07PskFW110HtNcxeau411XTROyCCXaw1XnaR6RRvtqxlD3gmsrqhFM6DHk/s1600-h/harb.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifjYWBVaUsYHED2aNuKq-fFauMsW-eUyLeLdkTLJNHuSrJDbucTwkLmeBNjATOjx-oQqHoauQquFvGNSmPCj07PskFW110HtNcxeau411XTROyCCXaw1XnaR6RRvtqxlD3gmsrqhFM6DHk/s400/harb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054842184002761506" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><strong>LIARS LIARS...WE LEARNED FROM OUR BUDDIES THE SYRIANS...YOU KNOW;<br />WE KILL, MURDER... THEN WE COME TO THE GRAVE TO MOURN, and "pray" for that we<br />shall not be discovered so soon....</strong><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkITV0LermK6_eoqYmObdZ73fcZQYq1td3OwqMfzWOfVKPzAlRlD7MUhXitkKA7Ia61x2q1Qg2QbwRDA_sqIDgHiHgTvG_VftcBFRsb0F2GUKfvlLVs6fHR0s8T3qWD4W58fsCPgaBJ4qV/s1600-h/condi+liars.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkITV0LermK6_eoqYmObdZ73fcZQYq1td3OwqMfzWOfVKPzAlRlD7MUhXitkKA7Ia61x2q1Qg2QbwRDA_sqIDgHiHgTvG_VftcBFRsb0F2GUKfvlLVs6fHR0s8T3qWD4W58fsCPgaBJ4qV/s400/condi+liars.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054842003614135058" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><strong>I AM A LIAR AND I CAN PROVE IT .... THANKS CONDI, WE KNOW THAT FOR SURE</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXaZva-vHS8McWbpnfuOqcgZLBSjgPjYTOm-bTWvn6i9V7L_A0JMTIvZ9CDdJthKoUh61sTqP051whyhixg9nGsREkRAk3sIEx7nXLgV-hEZRXFc53U7X-OfzK8r1rDRd01njKlMtqoVWz/s1600-h/condi+liar.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXaZva-vHS8McWbpnfuOqcgZLBSjgPjYTOm-bTWvn6i9V7L_A0JMTIvZ9CDdJthKoUh61sTqP051whyhixg9nGsREkRAk3sIEx7nXLgV-hEZRXFc53U7X-OfzK8r1rDRd01njKlMtqoVWz/s400/condi+liar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054841887650018050" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong>MORE ABOUT LIARS, IT'S HER SPECIALTY</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgti5LCqq_7IPgCa-QUPkX7SmlrYU00LH8QDO492K8AYT7BY__XMHyIfYWSP8cGqWpA3IcSaU9t_1Vf7g0d0uCmXMH5k6zjSGQqYBU5-d1pohmXG3c-XNn9lGWyH5ZG-yYGgphTRWYXDCr8/s1600-h/condi+i+am+lying+again.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgti5LCqq_7IPgCa-QUPkX7SmlrYU00LH8QDO492K8AYT7BY__XMHyIfYWSP8cGqWpA3IcSaU9t_1Vf7g0d0uCmXMH5k6zjSGQqYBU5-d1pohmXG3c-XNn9lGWyH5ZG-yYGgphTRWYXDCr8/s400/condi+i+am+lying+again.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054841793160737522" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong>MARWAN IS ALWAYS: CIA, CIA , CIA, He is the Biggest "HAKHAM", the<br />highest "o...priest"</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvcu_GDJbNUQvtPqwRTSK_iAoZmQz8hI7opUQ0gvNzHZeRSfDuqmNPIQOHwa0ZokXyyLK7izgxMvR5jycpN_VnQcGKaiY8OO4IHDiLXmOshJgAjKwTiGbByymn1DNhZ6AlzhB28hXKw8il/s1600-h/CIA++Marwaine.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvcu_GDJbNUQvtPqwRTSK_iAoZmQz8hI7opUQ0gvNzHZeRSfDuqmNPIQOHwa0ZokXyyLK7izgxMvR5jycpN_VnQcGKaiY8OO4IHDiLXmOshJgAjKwTiGbByymn1DNhZ6AlzhB28hXKw8il/s400/CIA++Marwaine.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054841681491587810" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><strong>I KNOW THAT MY HANDS ARE BOTH IN THE COOKIE JAR FOR YEARS, DAMN THESE<br />POOR LEBANESE....WHAT A CURSE...THEY ARE SO DEMANDING OF MY TIME...</strong><br /><strong>IF YOU OPEN THE COURT CASE AGAINST ME [SUITCASES OF CASH IN MY PRIVATE<br />JET AT LE BOURGET...]THEY WILL OPEN YOURS...AFTER YOU LEAVE OFFICE:<br />SWARKO IS MY NEOCONN BUDDY...]THE CASH IS FOR MY MASTER HARIRI...who is offering me a residence after the Elysee Palace, and protection...I ONLY GOT A BIG BIG CUT...</strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbHjxvdtAaI0Ze_WNaVLePZ1Ym1OFv6mifxpDpypGFLREnd3vi5aDuCaLixqh-jN5dFzyiz-XN_f7GEDnYzq40zAdLepvdpzOwmHNDMxK0UyRZCmt-RQXGZDh19u-IRfgmRa8eYM1EzC_C/s1600-h/Chirac+%2B+Sfeir++and+the+cookie+Jars.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbHjxvdtAaI0Ze_WNaVLePZ1Ym1OFv6mifxpDpypGFLREnd3vi5aDuCaLixqh-jN5dFzyiz-XN_f7GEDnYzq40zAdLepvdpzOwmHNDMxK0UyRZCmt-RQXGZDh19u-IRfgmRa8eYM1EzC_C/s400/Chirac+%2B+Sfeir++and+the+cookie+Jars.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054841509692895954" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />مرتجع مع الشكر<br />19 نيسان 2007<br />زينا الخوري<br /><br />قبل ان يغادر الاليزيه يصر الرئيس جاك شيراك ان يقدّم المحكمة الدولية «هدية وداع» الى الشعب اللبناني. كتب عليها: عربون وفاء لصديقي الشهيد رفيق الحريري.<br />من حق الرئيس الفرنسي، ومن حقنا قبله، ان نعرف القاتل لنسوقه الى العدالة. لكن حياة لبنان كله مرهونة اليوم في مجلس الامن من اجل «الهدية». وهي لن تصل الى بيروت الا عبر البوابة الروسية. والبوابة مقفلة. لذا يحاول «الصديق الوفي» ان يفتحها بشتى الوسائل.<br />بحثاً عن المفتاح الروسي تأتي زيارة خبير القانون الدولي نيكولا ميشال، الذي لاقاه الى بيروت السيد الكسندر سلطانوف في محاولة اخيرة، ويائسة، للخروج من المأزق. المشكلة ان المفتاح الروسي الضائع قد يكون سقط قرب الحدود وليس في قلب العاصمة. لذا يتوجه السيد بان كي مون الى دمشق بعد ايام قليلة.<br />فالأمين العام للامم المتحدة، الذي يعني اسمه بالانكليزية «مفتاح القمر»، يحمل في اجندته مفاتيح كثيرة، لكنها بالنسبة للقضية اللبنانية تصلح لاقفال الابواب... وتعجز عن فتحها.<br />إنه يسافر الى الشام تحت عنوان «مكافحة تهريب الاسلحة من سوريا الى لبنان». وهذا البند يعرقل صدور تقريره حول القرار 1701، بسبب اعتراض بعض الاعضاء في مجلس الامن، وفي طليعتهم دولة قطر!<br />و«تهريب السلاح» امر مهمة اسرائيلي، ولازمة تتكرر على ألسنة كثيرة للتسويق. أما المطلوب فعلياً فهو «وجود دولي» ما على الحدود بين لبنان وسوريا، كمقدمة لمشاريع الحلول التي يتوقف عليها مصير المنطقة. والامين العام يحمل اقتراحاً جديداً لهذا الوجود هو: «لجنة مراقبة مدنية».<br />سوريا ترفض اي شكل من اشكال التواجد الدولي على حدودها مع لبنان. واعلنت مراراً انها سوف تقفل هذه الحدود في حال حصوله.<br />سبق للبنان ان ذاق طعم «العرقلة» على الحدود... اما الاقفال فطعمه «حاجة تانية».<br />«هدية الوداع» قد تتحول الى قنبلة. ليتنا نكتب عليها: مرتجع مع الشكر!<br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>I AM MR. BUSH. I AM HERE TO TELL THE LEBANESE THAT WE DID IT;<br />"THE TERROR CAR BOMB JANUARY 24TH 2002, THEN WE DID IT AT VALENTINE's<br />because RAFIC IS OUR FRIEND, SO WE MADE IT VERY SOPHISTICATED FOR HIM";<br />TO HK ELIE HOBEIKA, we did it WITH SHARON AND SHAWKAT, THEN WE DID IT<br />AGAIN FOR RAFIC HARIRI, MY FRIEND..., JUST BECAUSE WE BECAME<br />SO GOOD AT IT, AND WE WILL DEFINITLY DO IT AGAIN SOON....</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiUukiFo16JxhUL2i7fEHk1BU8lIxsf3-HObYXFon-tsVwwfOz3IbTt6DZBn-uZ54gAuEmbSQMzK2s5X3RM8VBLBQX1ug6CWn_bhRytC8k_Q5o3CWIGhYbp-a2UC860_kKNGzPj9ejgTB_/s1600-h/bush+i+did+it+to+hariri+and++HK.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiUukiFo16JxhUL2i7fEHk1BU8lIxsf3-HObYXFon-tsVwwfOz3IbTt6DZBn-uZ54gAuEmbSQMzK2s5X3RM8VBLBQX1ug6CWn_bhRytC8k_Q5o3CWIGhYbp-a2UC860_kKNGzPj9ejgTB_/s400/bush+i+did+it+to+hariri+and++HK.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054841041541460658" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong>THIS IS FOR SERGE BRAMMERTZ FROM GWB... FOR DNA TESTING II</strong><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHVyoAuTWwSYB0FbnuGBAcYhGP5vg2xCiuJdR6SEhX3287nBY_DYohxeMmnrfKmHBo22CAjKIkRAnZHXTnxDZZlSZdbed4evkKyNEgiDR8mf77BiyfUhk2OFll4JL1oeqryGjiOtTRvYB0/s1600-h/bomba3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHVyoAuTWwSYB0FbnuGBAcYhGP5vg2xCiuJdR6SEhX3287nBY_DYohxeMmnrfKmHBo22CAjKIkRAnZHXTnxDZZlSZdbed4evkKyNEgiDR8mf77BiyfUhk2OFll4JL1oeqryGjiOtTRvYB0/s400/bomba3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054841153210610370" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong>I AM THE EMPEROR OF THE UNIVERSE AND I SPEAK TO GOD FROM ABOVE...</strong><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCclfBYWMn7DsczsvXj9AeqDqRldzfhyphenhyphenjk_7Y8V4e6wtmKRNKu5FyroCld7WO4-coh3m8nFVgpzB9-WX-3zkDBjZIec2c5kSZ0yRE5burA4p2id22pu3wJhckKhAJF3KGY0062ORqf8-jQ/s1600-h/bush+in+white.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCclfBYWMn7DsczsvXj9AeqDqRldzfhyphenhyphenjk_7Y8V4e6wtmKRNKu5FyroCld7WO4-coh3m8nFVgpzB9-WX-3zkDBjZIec2c5kSZ0yRE5burA4p2id22pu3wJhckKhAJF3KGY0062ORqf8-jQ/s400/bush+in+white.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054840959937082018" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><strong>I JUST HELP MR. bush's friends, buddies and agents, and I Help<br />MOSSAD and the Syrians,WITH ALL THE MONEY THEY NEEDED, TO "OIL" THEIR<br />"ROGUE" INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS, and I help myself, AND MY FRIENDS AND<br />LOVERS, AND THEY ARE LEGIONS,EXCEPT FOR ONE: HE IS SOOO GOOD, I MARRIED<br />HIM IN PARIS OF COURSE...Please keep me in RIO DE JANEIRO...</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSjq5DODx_mAjQRuh0b-A60N3ExJSsAFkt8-Rbd52M9n1FF52cIvMJy8jgd3ZmALMyDIK3MaVylSa5UZK69JGkEg1LKQaSZJmnpfBi-Cycu4O2pmChKzTq0ZAWas0qZ6MulKULT6Vo9CSe/s1600-h/almadina_rana_3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSjq5DODx_mAjQRuh0b-A60N3ExJSsAFkt8-Rbd52M9n1FF52cIvMJy8jgd3ZmALMyDIK3MaVylSa5UZK69JGkEg1LKQaSZJmnpfBi-Cycu4O2pmChKzTq0ZAWas0qZ6MulKULT6Vo9CSe/s400/almadina_rana_3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054840792433357458" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>I am a thug, an IDIOT, and I love the Maameltain WHORES...</strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT8tj6yLaz5-MdiLTF8_0bCxeaRwFCfwWvLt6C4rZZKrRvvpG34XKqjvIkEAtg1H_bSeaFoL8WRfhgNMHSu6ZD5w72e8xZFideSDELA1ASnsidyDbiXI8_xSAW7abvBeVpzSrKiZt6H4P1/s1600-h/addoum+the+idiot.htm"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT8tj6yLaz5-MdiLTF8_0bCxeaRwFCfwWvLt6C4rZZKrRvvpG34XKqjvIkEAtg1H_bSeaFoL8WRfhgNMHSu6ZD5w72e8xZFideSDELA1ASnsidyDbiXI8_xSAW7abvBeVpzSrKiZt6H4P1/s400/addoum+the+idiot.htm" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054840659289371266" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJHy-UtM5iHTIKaLnbnQ6nJGzWAGYClqK4QZw0HWLq5kKAG2L7eqJssnVPvyf2bjICQGQcXq_b1mi3UxQYSGiU1ptRKVIpbxsd3cZoWwS8NHdnVQcN_sHE08yDybzVSS-_n1_uFzV7J3UQ/s1600-h/spy3.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJHy-UtM5iHTIKaLnbnQ6nJGzWAGYClqK4QZw0HWLq5kKAG2L7eqJssnVPvyf2bjICQGQcXq_b1mi3UxQYSGiU1ptRKVIpbxsd3cZoWwS8NHdnVQcN_sHE08yDybzVSS-_n1_uFzV7J3UQ/s400/spy3.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055075104743680562" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><strong>French Government is the most hypocritical institution, they are training<br />Iranian Intelligence in Normandy France, all the while claiming to be<br />"supportive" of UN actions and Embargo... towards IRAN....</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/world/iran/index.html">http://www.fas.org/irp/world/iran/index.html</a><br /><br /><br /><br />صندوق المهجرين يمول التظاهرات الفرعية الداعمة للحكومة<br />بطاقات توصية لدفع طلبات ترميم منجز لحامليها أكانوا من المرممين أو المهجرين أم لا<br />.................................................04 نيسان 2007<br />ملف أزلي ينتقل مع حكومات ما بعد الطائف ولا يبدو أن الحل قريب والسبب معوقات كثيرة ليس أولها اقتصادي ولن يكون آخرها السياسي والنتيجة واحدة: عشرات آلاف العائلات هجرت بعد أن ذبح أبناء لها واحتُلت بيوتها وقراها في الجبل وشرقي صيدا وجزين والزهراني ما زالت ممنوعة من العودة الى قراها<br />وما زالت كلمة "عودة" بمثابة حلم انتقل من الآباء الى الأبناء. مئات الملايين من الدولارات صرفت في سبيل هذا الملف الذي لم يقترب بعد من خاتمته. فالأموال دفعت وتُدفع لكن للجميع الا لأصحاب العلاقة. والتغني بالمصالحة التاريخية في الجبل بعد زيارة البطريرك مار نصر الله بطرس صفير الى الجبل وتحالف الفريق المسيحي في 14 شباط مع النائب وليد جنبلاط لم يثمر نتائج على أرض الجبل حيث لم تتعدَّ نسبة العودة 17 %. ولم ينسَ اللبنانيون بعد أن أهالي كفرمتى في انتخابات 2005 النيابية أدلوا بأصواتهم في صناديق وُضعت على مدخل البلدة.<br /><br />ويبدو أن من أولويات السلطة في الآونة الأخيرة أن تدفع طلبات الترميم المنجز بدلاً من تخصيص أموال الصندوق المركزي للمهجرين لعودة من هجروا قسراً وأجبروا على ايجاد البديل لمنازلهم التي أخذت منهم. وفورة الترميم المنجز في الآونة الأخيرة تأتي بالتزامن مع التظاهرات التي تنظمها الموالاة في المناطق بعد أن بدأت المعارضة اعتصامها المستمر حتى اليوم. وهذا التزامن ينسب دائماً للصدفة. فإلى متى سيظل الملف عالقاً وأبناء الجبل مهجرين؟<br />مسؤول ملف الهجرين في التيار الوطني الحر المهندس سيزار أبو خليل يجمع الوثائق والدلائل التي ستشكل له ملفاً سيتم تفجيره في المستقبل القريب ويظهر بالرسومات البيانية والأرقام والتواريخ كيف تزامن دفع مبالغ الترميم المنجز مع التظاهرات وكيف عاد بعدها ليختفي.<br /><br />ويخبر أبو خليل أن واحداً من جماعة الأكثرية أرسل شخصاً ببطاقة توصية الى رئيس صندوق المهجرين لقبض طلب ترميم منجز. وبعد أن تم كشف هذا الأمر وعرضه في جريدة الأخبار، أصدر الصندوق بياناً ينفي فيه الموضوع، ولسخرية الصدف تم الدفع للشخص نفسه يوم نشر البيان في الجريدة نفسها.<br /><br />ويقول أبو خليل: "ملف المهجرين يعنى بالتهجير الذي حصل بين عامي 1983 و1985 في سبعين قرية في قضاء الشوف و51 قرية في قضاء عاليه و27 قرية في قضاء بعبدا وحوالي تسع قرى في المتن الشمالي و67 قرية في شرقي صيدا وجزين والزهراني. عدد العائلات التي تعرضت للتهجير 150 ألفاً وحوالي 3 آلاف قتيل.<br /><br />التيار الوطني الحر لطالما اهتم بها الملف لكن في السابق كان هناك الاحتلال السوري الذي طغى على نشاطنا. وبعد أن تخلصنا منه بدأنا التركيز على أحد الأمراض المزمنة التي نعاني منها وهي التهجير. والجميع يذكرون أن الرئيس العماد ميشال عون في تموز 2005 وفي اولى جلسات المجلس النيابي أثار الموضوع وعرض للاجئين اللبنانيين الى اسرائيل وداخل لبنان والمعتقلين في السجون السورية. وبعدها جاء البيان الوزاري لحكومة الرئيس فؤاد السنيورة الذي أخذ على عاتقه في البند السادس إنهاء ملف المهجرين وإقفاله إقفالاً تاماً. وعملاً بأصول الممارسة الديمقراطية أعطينا الحكومة الجديدة التي تعهدت بإنجاز الملف، فرصة لتنفذ ما وعدت به. لكن بعد مرور سنة من عمر هذه الحكومة وأكثر من 17 سنة على ما سمي وثيقة الوفاق الوطني التي كان أحد بنودها عودة المهجرين، وبعد مرور 13 سنة على تأسيس وزارة المهجرين، وبعد دفع أكثر من أربعة أضعاف الموازنة الأصلية التي رصدت لإقفال الملف والتي كانت بقيمة 400 مليون دولار وبعد دفع أكثر من مليار و600 مليون دولار، كانت النتيجة أن 17 % فقط من المهجرين عادوا الى القرى التي شهدت مصالحات وخمس قرى ما يزال أهلها ممنوعين من العودة إليها وهي بريح، كفرمتى، عبيه، عين درافيل وكفرسلوان. في المقابل، في شرقي صيدا ناهزت العودة 45 % من عدد العائلات الأصلي. ورغم أن العدد غير مرضٍ ونريده أن يصبح تاماً إلا أن التفاوت في النسبة مع قرى الجبل سببه وجود عامل في الجبل غير موجود في الجنوب وهو النائب وليد جنبلاط. الانتماء السياسي للعائلات المهجرة يسهل تحديده من خلال الانتخابات النيابية الأخيرة التي نلنا فيها في هذه المناطق 81% من أصوات المسيحيين المهجرين.<br /><br />ما يحصل في الجبل جريمة تطهير إتني يفوق ما حصل في أي مكان في العالم. فما معنى أن يتم ارتكاب مجزرة وتهجير من نجوا منها ومن ثم منعهم من العودة؟ ما توصيف هذا الأمر بغير التطهير الإتني؟ ومن ناحية أخرى، عندما ندقق في الموضوع يتبين لنا أن الأموال كانت تدفع بالتوازي مع الانتخابات النيابية الأخيرة. والمحتل قبض بأقل تقدير، ضعف ما قبضه المهجر الذي ترك منزله قسراً وأمن البديل على مدى 25 سنة. هذا عدا عن المدفوعات الوهمية، إذ دفع في القرى حيث يوجد ثلاثون بيتاً 330 إخلاء. والأمثلة والدلائل عرضناها في مؤتمر عودة الحق الذي نظمناه في 30 أيلول 2006 وكان من المقرر أن ننظمه في تموز بعد مرور سنة على تشكيل الحكومة والبيان الوزاري، لكنه تأخر بسبب حرب تموز. وعندما عقدنا هذا المؤتمر وأظهرنا كل هذه التجاوزات، تحركت جماعة النائب جنبلاط الذي استدعى على عجل وخلافاً لكل الأصول، لجان العودة في قرى الشحار وتم نوع من مصالحة صورية يوم السبت 30 أيلول بالتزامن مع المؤتمر ووعد نواب اللقاء الديمقراطي ومن بينهم النائب فؤاد السعد بأن الدفع سيتم يوم الإثنين الواقع فيه 2 تشرين الأول 2006. واليوم وبعد أكثر من ثلاثين إثنين من ذاك الاثنين وبعد اجتماع المصالحة، لا هذه الأخيرة وُقعت ولا التعويضات دفعت ولا المهجرون عادوا. وأكثر من ذلك، نرى نواباً أحزابهم ممثلة في الحكومة يظهرون أنفسهم كرواد للديمقراطية ويطالبون بإنجاز الملف. ونحن نخبرهم أن من أبسط القواعد الديمقراطية وجود موالاة ومعارضة. والاطراف الممثلون في الحكومة ليس دورهم المطالبة<br /><br />ما يحصل في الجبل جريمة تطهير إتني وفي شرقي صيدا مؤامرة تساعد على التوطين<br /><br />بل وضع برنامج مفصل بالوسيلة والمهلة والكلفة المحددة لإنجاز أمر ما، والمعارضة هي التي تطالب. وإذا كان عاجزاً عن ذلك عليه الاستقالة من الحكومة والانضمام الى صفوف المعارضة للمطالبة. لا أفهم كيف يمكن لوزير أن يطالب في حين عليه هو أن يحل المشكلة. هذا كله حصل بعد مؤتمر العودة الذي سألناهم بعد انتهائه لماذا لم تتم المصالحات فأجابونا أن العائق مادي. بينما نرى الدفع بالمليارات في طرابلس وبيروت للترميم المنجز. وهنا لا بد من شرح هذه العبارة ليفهمها الجميع. فمن تضرر بيته في الحرب وأعاد ترميمه على نفقته الخاصة ولا يملك الإثبات على ذلك، يتقدم بطلب يتضمن افادة عقارية بملكية العقار وإخراج قيد وثمة مئات الآلاف من هذه الطلبات التي لا يمكن أن نعرف الصحيح منها مما يقبض مالاً سياسياً أو ترضية سياسية. وحالياً أعمل على تحضير ملف جديد ويتضمن معطيات ورسومات تظهر كيف يتم الدفع بالتزامن مع التظاهرات التي تنظمها الموالاة دعماً لحكومة السنيورة في مواجهة اعتصام المعارضة اللبنانية. ففي تظاهرات طرابلس تركز دفع طلبات الترميم المنجز على طرابلس وضواحيها لابتزاز الناس ودفعهم للمشاركة في التظاهرات. وفي تظاهرة دير القمر تم الدفع للقرى المحيطة وكذلك الأمر في بيروت خصوصاً عندما كانت الوفود تقصد السراي الحكومية وكان الدفع يتركز في الحي أو المحلة التي تزور السنيورة. هذا فساد مضاعف فهم لا يشترون فقط أصوات الناس بل ويدفعون لهم من أموال المكلفين اللبنانيين وبغض النظر عن أحقية هذه التعويضات. وحتى حيث تكون محقة هم يبتزون المواطن ليعطوه حقه. الدفع يتوازى زماناً ومكاناً مع التظاهرات الفرعية الداعمة لحكومة السنيورة. وهذه ليست المرة الأولى التي تستعمل فيها أموال المهجرين والمكلف اللبناني كمال سياسي. ففريق الحريري- جنبلاط مارس هذا الأمر في انتخابات 1996 و2000 النيابية. وهذا ما أظهرناه في مؤتمر حق العودة الذي تم بعده دفع أكثر من 20 مليار ليرة وهذا المبلغ لا يعد شيئاً تجاه الافين والمئتي مليار التي دفعت سابقاً لكنه يشكل دفعة أولى من أي مصالحة لأن المصالحة تحتاج بين أربعين وستين مليار بحسب كل قرية من القرى التي لم تشهد بعد مصالحات. لذا يجب التركيز على اولوية دفع التعويضات لعودة المهجرين وليس للترميم المنجز فالمهجر ما زال خارج منزله على عكس الترميم المنجز.<br /><br />وبالنسبة لشرقي صيدا والقرى التي لا تقع ضمن نطاق عمل صندوق المهجرين بل ضمن نطاق مجلس الجنوب، ما زالت التعويضات أقل منها في جبل لبنان الجنوبي. والقانون 362 الصادر في العام 2001 ويذكرنا به باستمرار رئيس الحكومة ووزير المهجرين ويتيح للحكومة الاقتراض للدفع للمهجرين، وينص في المادة الخامسة منه على مساواة التعويضات في هذه القرى بقرى جبل لبنان الجنوبي، وهذا المطلب ينسحب على المناطق اللبنانية كافة. فالبيت في الضاحية الجنوبية الذي تضرر في حرب تموز 2006 أقر له مبلغ ثمانين مليون ليرة مقابل ثلاثين مليون في الجبل وعشرين مليون في شرقي صيدا علماً أن مهجري المنطقتين الأخيرتين ظلوا خارج منازلهم مدة أطول بكثيرمن مهجري الضاحية الذين عادوا فور انتهاء الحرب. وفي شرقي صيدا لا تزال هناك أراضٍ في المية ومية محتلة من قبل فلسطينيين رغم صدور أحكام قضائية تقضي بالإخلاء. و الفريق السياسي المتسلط في هذه المنطقة يحول دون تنفيذ هذه الإخلاءات ربما لأن ذلك يشكل خطوة الى الأمام في اتجاه التوطين الذي يظهر للعلن أنهم رواده ويتعهدونه في لبنان.<br />لماذا لم يعد المهجرون بعد؟<br /><br />لأن العودة تحتاج الى مقومات سياسية وأخرى مادية. يجب أن يعود المهجرون بكرامتهم السياسية وأمنهم السياسي وبدون أن يكونوا مذلولين لوليد جنبلاط أو أن يتعرضوا للاضطهاد والمضايقات. ومن الناحية المادية ليس بإمكان الجميع اقتصادياً أن يعيدوا بناء منزل بعشرين ألف دولار، فهذا المبلغ لا يكفي لإنشاء الأساسات. من لديه الامكانات اعاد ترميم بيته لكن من لا يملكها قبض الدفعة الأولى وهي عشرة آلاف دولار ولم يكمل البناء. والقرى التي جرفت وهجر أبناؤها لا يقتصر العمل فيها على دفع التعويضات لأن الخسارة تفوق هذا المبلغ بأضعاف، بالاضافة الى الحياة التي قطعت وتيرتها والأعمال التي زالت. وهنا أيضاً ليست مقررات مؤتمر العودة مجرد إنشاء لاختتام المؤتمر، بل نعمل في التيار على مشاريع عدة لتثبيت الناس في قراهم.<br /><br />أحياناً يتذرعون بأن الناس ليسوا في قراهم بسبب هجرة الريف. فكيف نفسر مجيء ابن دقون التي تبعد 20 دقيقة عن بيروت من بلونة التي تبعد عنها 45 دقيقة؟ فيما دقون تقع ضمن نطاق بيروت الكبرى ويمكن اعتبارها إحدى ضواحيها الجنوبية الشرقية. هناك عامل يمنع الناس من العودة وهو وليد جنبلاط وصندوق المهجرين ووزارة المهجرين وهؤلاء غير موجودين في شرقي صيدا حيث تبلغ نسبة العودة ثلاثة أضعافها عن الجبل. لكن من تداعيات ورقة التفاهم بين التيار الوطني الحر وحزب الله حل المشكلة في المناطق المسيحية التي تقع على حدود المناطق الشيعية، الا أن المشكلة تبقى اقتصادية. القانون 362 أقر بمساواة التعويضات لكن من الممسك بوزارة المالية منذ 1992 حتى اليوم؟ الصرف ليس في يد نبيه بري أو حزب الله. فلطالما تباهى فريق السلطة بأنه يمسك بالملف الاقتصادي فيما الملف الأمني مع رئيس الجمهورية وملف المقاومة مع الشيعة. أنا لا أدافع عن مجلس الجنوب لكن ما من أموال تحول إليه. فمنذ سنوات نعمل وفقاً للقاعدة الاثني عشرية وما من موازنة.<br /><br />ما رد فريق السلطة على كل هذه الاتهامات خصوصاً مسألة دفع تعويضات الترميم المنجز؟<br /><br />الاجابة دائماً تكون استيعابية وهم لا ينفون الأمر لكنهم يؤكدون أنه من قبيل الصدفة. والتسمية لم تعد متصلة بشيء حدث بل بكمية من المال يريدون تقاسمها وتوزيعها على الطوائف. في مؤتمر العودة أظهرنا تجاوزات كثيرة وطلبنا اعتبار الأمر اخباراً لكن حتى الآن لم يتحرك أي من هذه الملفات ولم يتم تحويلها الى المحاكمة، لا بل هناك جرائم تسقط بمرور الزمن الثلاثي وأخرى بعد عشر سنوات واضاعة الوقت هذه تسقط الكثير من الجرائم وهم اتخذوا القرار بعدم الرد. هم على انقطاع تام مع الرأي العام اللبناني فأكثر من نصف الشعب اللبناني نزل الى الشارع وكأن شيئاً لم يكن. لقد نصبوا أنفسهم علينا وكأنهم منزلون إلهياً. لذلك لا يمكن إصلاح الموجود لأنه فاسد بل يجب أن نغير لنصلح النظام. كل ما يخرج منهم ويردون به على اتهاماتنا أن الأمر من قبيل الصدفة. فما هذه الصدفة أن يبلغ الدفع أوجه في العام 2000 ومن ثم يعود ليصبح صفراً في الأعوام 2001 و2002؟ صادف الدفع الانتخابات ثلاث مرات لكنهم ما كانوا يقصدون ذلك. بالاضافة الى ذلك، يطل علينا وزير المهجرين ليطمئننا الى أنه يشتغل بتوجيهات النائب جنبلاط لكن هذا التطمين يعطي مفعولاً عكسياً لأن خلال 13 سنة لم يعد المهجرون ولم تدفع الأموال والنهب والسرقة على أوجهما. ومن ثم يفخر بإنجاز كبير تم في مصالحة بعورتة- دقون التي وقعت في حزيران 2005 في عهد حكومة الرئيس نجيب ميقاتي والوزير عادل حمية. وهناك طرف آخر أراد تبني مصالحة كفرمتى التي تمت قبل شهرين من خروجه من السجن. بات من عاداتهم تبني انجازات الآخرين. ومصالحة دقون- بعورتة لا أراها انجازاً لأن أهل بعورتة الذين احتلوا دقون قبضوا عشرين مليار ليرة فيما نال أهل دقون عشرة مليارات الذين تهجروا وأمنوا البديل عن بيوتهم طوال سنوات.<br /><br />بعد أن حرك التيار الوطني الحر الملف ظهر الكثير من الغيارى على الموضوع وهذا لا يزعجنا لأن ما يهمنا هو أن يعرف الرأي العام اللبناني من يثير الموضوع لأهداف سياسية ومن يثيره لأهداف انسانية وحقوقية. ولا بد من أن نشير الى أن أحدهم قال إنه لم يعد بإمكاننا الحديث عن مجازر الجبل بعد مصالحة الجبل وتحالف القوات مع جنبلاط. فهؤلاء الذين لا نعرف كيف ماتوا وأين ألا يجب أن نكتشف حقيقتهم؟ نحن طالبنا بكشف المقابر الجماعية لأن هذا يحل الكثير من مشاكل المفقودين. كما أننا لا يمكن أن نعفو عن جريمة لا تزال مستمرة. وكما قال العماد عون :" الغفران لا يجوز اذا لم يتم الاعتراف والاعتذار". والجريمة مستمرة فبماذا تختلف جرائم الابادة والتطهير العرقي عما يحصل في الجبل؟ الناس لم يعودوا بعد أي أن الجريمة تكمل، فهناك أناس ارتكبت في حقهم مجازر وهجروا واليوم يمنعون من العودة. أليس هذا تطهيراً عرقيا؟ ننصح من يريدون اقفال الملف بعد مصالحة الجبل الشهيرة والحلف المسيحي- الدرزي هل انتهت الجريمة؟ بحكم الوكالة الكبيرة التي منحنا اياها الناخبون في مناطق التهجير حيث تجاوز حجم التأييد 80%، تترتب علينا مسؤوليات كتيار لملاحقة مصالح شعبنا وإيجاد الحلول. عملنا يتخطى توثيق المخالفات التي ترتكبها الوزارة والصندوق في هذا الملف الى دراسة الحلول في قرى معينة وفي جبل لبنان الجنوبي ككل".<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />الحقيقة : بيشمركا كردية في لبنان لمساندة ميليشيات 14 آذار<br />********************************************************<br /><br /><br />مئات المقاتلين من بيشمركة البرزاني بتصرف " 14 آذار" في بيروت .. غب الطلب !أسابيع قليلة تفصل عن المواجهة "الحاسمة " أو المصالحة " الدائمة "<br />مشروع التوطين في " القريعة "(*) وشريط " جزين ـ مغدوشة " الصيداوي يسير قدما بهمة ملايين الدولارات السعودية لدار الافتاء و ضابط مخابرات " فتح " المفتي محمد علي الجوزو !؟<br /><a href="http://syriatruth.org/Al-Hakikah/syriatruth_amira_lea_nisim_CVs.pdf" target="_blank">ليئا أبراموفيتش</a> ( تل أبيب ) ، ترجمة " الحقيقة " وخاص بها : وصل الرئيس اللبناني الأسبق أمين الجميل إلى كردستان العراق في 29 تشرين الأول / أكتوبر الماضي دون أي إعلان أو إشارة مسبقة . كانت الزيارة مفاجئة للجميع ، داخل لبنان وخارجه . فلم يعرف سابقا عن آل الجميل أنهم أقاموا أي علاقة ، من أي نوع ، مع الحركات الكردية . يضاف إلى ذلك أن الحركة الكردية وقفت تقليديا مع القوى اللبنانية المناهضة لما عرف بـ " اليمين المسيحي " الذي مثلته دائما القوات اللبنانية والكتائب ، فضلا عن حزب الأحرار وآل شمعون . أكثر من ذلك ، لعبت الحركات الكردية دورا عسكريا ، وإن على نطاق محدود ، في دعم ما عرف خلال الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية بـ " الحركة الوطنية " . ولم يقتصر هذا الدعم على المجتمع الكردي الموجود في لبنان ، بل تخطاه إلى استقدام مقاتلين أكراد من سوريا والعراق لدعم حركة فتح الفلسطينية في جنوب لبنان . ويمكن أن نذكر في هذا السياق ما قام به الزعيم الكردي السوري صلاح بدر الدين الذي كان مقربا من ياسر عرفات . وتشير مصادر إسرائيلية معنية بالشأن اللبناني أن صلاح بدر الدين ، الذي يعيش الآن في ضيافة مسعود البرزاني في إربيل ، استقدم خلال الثمانينيات مئات المقاتلين الأكراد الذين تمركزوا في قلعة الشقيف جنوب لبنان ، وشاركوا في التصدي للقوات الإسرائيلية في العام 1982 . وقد زار صلاح بدر الدين رام الله مرات عدة منذ قيام السلطة الفلسطينية مبعوثا في مهمات سرية خاصة من قبل الزعيم البرزاني لمقابلة عرفات ثم أبو مازن .<br /><br />لكن هذا الوضع تغير الآن . ومنذ ذلك الحين ، أو على الأقل منذ الاحتلال الأميركي للعراق ثم اغتيال الحريري ، جرت مياه كثيرة من تحت جسور التحالفات في المنطقة . فالزعيم " الدرزي " اللبناني وليد جنبلاط ، الذي يخوض معركة حياة أو موت بالنسبة له مع النظام السوري وامتداداته في لبنان ، أصبح حريصا ، بمناسبة ودون مناسبة ، على التذكير بأصوله " الكردية " ، وهي القصة ـ اللغز التي لا يعرف أحد الآن كيف ومتى حصلت طالما أن " التبشير الدرزي " توقف منذ ألف عام ، وأقفلت أبواب الطائفة بـ " الضبة والمفتاح " ، كما يقول المصريون ، منذ وفاة الحاكم بأمر الله الفاطمي ! وتعتقد مصادر إسرائيلية التقت جنبلاط خلال العام الأخير أكثر من مرة على هامش ندوات ومؤتمرات دولية أنه بات مقتنعا بـ " الصيغة العراقية " التي أسفر عنها الاحتلال الأميركي باعتبارها " الحل الأمثل" للبنان . و قناعته هذه ليست وليدة تصور نظري كما يمكن أن يتكهن البعض ، وإنما ذبذبات الموجات القصيرة التي يصعب على غيره التقاطها .<br />يدرك جنبلاط من خلال زياراته الخاصة إلى واشنطن أن الإدارة الأميركية باتت ترى تقسيم المنطقة إلى " معازل وكانتونات طائفية " ، وإن ضمن حدود فيدرالية ، هو الطريقة الأمثل من وجهة نظرها للخروج من المستنقع الذي وجدت نفسها فيه بعد احتلال العراق . وليس لبنان خارج تصورها هذا ، إن لم يكن في القلب منه . وكان بإمكان جنبلاط ، وغيره ، ملاحظة ذلك منذ أن بدأ بعض الأصوات الأميركية يعلو بما كان " محرما " الحديث عنه حتى وقت قريب ، لاسيما ما يتصل بتقسيم العراق إلى ثلاثة كانتونات : شيعي وسني ، فضلا عن الكردي القائم بقوة الأمر الواقع . وقبل ذلك ، وبالتساوق معه ، حديث أكثر من مسؤول أميركي سابق عن الأمر نفسه فيما يخص لبنان ، وهو الأمر الذي اضطرت الولايات المتحدة في الماضي لأن تبرم معاهدة غير معلنة مع الأسد الأب لمنع حصوله في هذا البلد رغم أنه كان المطلب الأساسي لحلفائها اللبنانيين ، لاسيما " القوات اللبنانية "!<br />من الواضح أن ثمة تيارا قويا في " الاستابلشمنت " الأميركية ، بشقيها الجمهوري والديمقراطي ، بات يدفع باتجاه " عرقنة " الوضع اللبناني . وليس هذا أمرا مزعجا بالنسبة لجنبلاط الذي طالما اعتقد أن أي انصهار وطني في لبنان سيكون على حساب نفوذه المذهبي . ومن يراقب مناوراته وتطور خطها البياني منذ مصرع الحريري بإمكانه أن يلحظ ذلك بسهولة . ولم تكن ردة فعله " العدوانية " تجاه تحالف عون ـ حزب الله إلا التعبير المكثف عن ذلك ، بغض النظر عن كل ما قاله وما سيقوله عن هذا " التحالف " لجهة أنه " سيعيد الوصاية السورية " إلى لبنان . وهو يبذل جهودا استثنائية لمنع أي تقارب سني ـ شيعي لاعتقاده أن أي تقارب من هذا النوع لن يسدد أحد فاتورته إلا هو شخصيا .<br />بالتساوق مع ذلك ، ركب جنبلاط موجة الحملة المذهبية التي تقودها " السنية السياسية " الشرق أوسطية ضد إيران وحلفائها من داخل غرفة عمليات مشتركة يرابط فيها على مدار الساعة قادة السعودية ومصر والأردن ، ومن وراء الستارة قادة واشنطن وتل أبيب . وقد أصبحت تعابير من مثل " الفرس" و " المجوس " ، رغم ما تنطوي عليه من مضمون ونبرة عنصريين يذكران بخطاب صدام حسين خلال حربه على طهران ، مكونا أساسيا من مكونات خطابه السياسي . ويبدو جنبلاط في هذا السياق صادما ومذهلا في قدرته على ممارسة نمط من السياسة غير مسبوق في بذاءته وانتهازيتة الأخلاقية والسياسية . فالجميع يعرف " أنه زار طهران أكثر مما زارها حسن نصر الله شخصيا " حسب ما يقول مراقب إسرائيلي معني بالشؤون اللبنانية . ويضيف هذا المراقب " إن عدد زيارات جنبلاط إلى إيران منذ قيام الثورة الإسلامية بلغ أكثر من تسع عشرة زيارة ، بينما لم يزرها حسن نصر الله أكثر من إحدى عشرة مرة حسب ما تؤكده مصادر الاستخبارات إسرائيلية . هذا على الرغم من أن معظم زياراته (نصر الله) أحيط بالسرية لأسباب أمنية " . يضاف إلى ذلك ، والكلام لم يزل للمراقب ، إن جنبلاط كان يتلقى حتى وقت قريب جعالة مالية سنوية من طهران تتراوح ما بين 20 إلى 30 مليون دولار بتوصية من حزب الله وحركة أمل ، على أساس أنه يشكل ظهيرا سياسيا داخليا لا غنى عنه للحزب في تأمين الغطاء السياسي الداخلي لمعركته ضد إسرائيل و سلاحه في آن معا " !<br />يدرك جنبلاط ، والقول لم يزل للمراقب ، أن الفشل الأميركي في العراق دفع واشنطن واليمين الإسرائيلي إلى " مذهبة " المواجهة الدائرة في الشرق الأوسط لتصبح " سنية ـ شيعية " . فالولايات المتحدة أدركت أخيرا أن انتصارها على الساحة العراقية بات مرهونا باستقطاب أوسع تحالف شعبي ورسمي في وسط " السنية السياسية " رغم النكسة التي أصيب بها هذا التحالف في حرب إسرائيل الأخيرة ضد حزب الله ، والتي لم تسفر سوى عن رفع صور نصر الله في حرم الجامع الأزهر وشوارع عمّان . وهذا آخر ما كان ينتظره المحافظون الجدد وإيهود أولمرت ، ومعهما ملكا السعودية والأردن والرئيس المصري ، وإلى حد ما أبو مازن في رام الله ! ويعتقد جنبلاط ، وقد يكون محقا في ذلك ، أن انتصار التحالف الجديد هو الوحيد الذي يضمن مستقبله السياسي . ولهذا وضع بيضه كله في سلته ، وحرق جميع مراكبه التي يمكن أن تؤمن له عودة مأمونة في حال فشل رهاناته . وتجاوز في ذلك جميع الخطوط التي كانت بالغة الإحمرار بالنسبة له حتى وقت قريب ، مثل المواجهة مع إسرائيل ومستقبل القضية الفلسطينية ، ومسألة التوطين التي تشكل المسألة الأكثر حساسية في لبنان . أو على الأقل هذا ما كان يعلن عنه دوما . وتفيد مصادر إسرائيلية وثيقة الصلة بالساحة اللبنانية أن جنبلاط أبلغ مؤخرا أكثر من مصدر أوربي وأميركي أنه بات مقتنعا بأن " توطين حوالي نصف مليون فلسطيني في لبنان هو السلاح الأمضى للتغلب على معضلة الأكثرية الديمغرافية الشيعية في لبنان مرة واحدة وإلى الأبد ، على اعتبار أن معظم هؤلاء ، باستثناء أقلية مسيحية اندمجت مع مسيحيي لبنان منذ وقت مبكر بعد حرب العام 1948 ، هم من المسلمين السنة " . لكن جنبلاط يعرف أن التوطين في لبنان مسألة قد يكون من المستحيل إنجازها قبل حصول حرب أهلية ولو على نطاق محدود . إلا أنه ، في المقابل ، يدرك أن هذه المسألة التي كانت تفتقر إلى أي دعم محلي أو عربي في الماضي ، بل ومن المحرمات ، باتت اليوم حديث الأروقة السياسية في أكثر من عاصمة معنية ، وفي أوساط قيادات " السنية السياسية " اللبنانية ومرجعيتها السعودية . وتسجل مصادر استخبارية إسرائيلية عدة وقائع حديثة العهد في هذا المجال ، لعل أهمها التالي :<br />ـ قرار السعودية منح جنبلاط تلك المبالغ السنوية التي كان يتلقاها من طهران حتى قبل سنتين ، لقاء السير في مشروع التوطين ؛<br />ـ قرار السعودية منح دار الإفتاء اللبنانية ، المرجعية الروحية لسنة لبنان ، مبلغ 15 مليون دولار لمساعدتها على شراء أراض في مناطق تابعة لمنطقة " القريعة " (1) قرب مدينة صيدا تضمها إلى أراضي الوقف التابعة لها . وهو أكبر مبلغ تتلقاه دار الإفتاء في تاريخها . على أن يكون ذلك جزءا من عملية أوسع نطاقا لشراء المنطقة بكاملها وبناء مجمعات سكنية حديثة لفلسطينيي المخيمات في الجنوب بتمويل أوربي ـ سعودي لحكومة السنيورة و " تيار المستقبل" . وتؤكد مصادر إسرائيلية أن مبلغ عشرة مليارات دولار أصبحت متوفرة لإقامة هذه المشاريع السكنية ولتسديد أثمان الأرض المشغولة الآن بالمخيمات الفلسطينية . وتشير أحدث المعلومات المتداولة في الأروقة الإسرائيلية وأروقة السلطة الفلسطينية برام الله إلى أنه تم شراء أكثر من مئة عقار كبير مساحتها تقارب مليوني متر مربع خلال الأشهر الأخيرة وحدها في المنطقة الممتدة بين بلدة جزين الجنوبية شرقا و شاطىء البحر غربا . وطبقا للمعطيات التفصيلية ، فإن العقارات التي تم شراؤها من قبل مسؤولين لبنانيين في " تيار المستقبل" و دار الإفتاء تشمل خراج بلدات وقرى قبيع ، روم ، كفار فالوس ، جنسنايا ، بيصور ، حيداب ، مكنونية ، حسانية ، المجيدل ، طنبوريت ، زغدربا ، عين الدلب ، وصولا إلى أطراف مغدوشة والغازية ومخيم المية ومية . واللافت أن العقارات التي يجري شراؤها بسرعة فائقة تتمتع بميزة التواصل الجغرافي من جهة ، وبكون جهة واحدة هي التي تقوم بعملية الشراء!؟<br />لكن الملاحظة الأبرز في هذا المجال هي أن العقارات المشتراة تتصل بشكل شبه تام مع مشروع " كفار فالوس " الذي بدأ الرئيس الحريري بإنشائه منذ نهاياة السبعينيات ، وأكمله في العام 1985 دون إي إعاقة (!؟) من القوات الإسرائيلية و " جيش أنطوان لحد " اللذين كانا يسيطران على المنطقة . وبحسب مصادر إسرائيلية فإن " فكرة توطين الفلسطينيين في هذه المنطقة كان الرئيس الحريري أول من طرحها حين طالب أطرافا أوربية ( فرنسية ؟) بالتدخل لدى إسرائيل للحصول على ضوء أخضر منها من أجل إشاء مشروعه " ! وتنقل هذه المصادر عن الوسطاء الأوربيين تأكيدهم " أن الحريري يرى في المشروع نواة لمشروع مستقبلي يمكن أن يكون حلا للوجود الفلسطيني في لبنان ، فضلا عن كونه حلا للمشكلة الديمغرافية في الجنوب اللبناني " . وذلك في إشارة منه إلى الغالبية التي يشكلها الشيعة هناك ! ويضم مشروع " كفار فالوس " ، الذي تعرض لبعض الأضرار خلال استهدافه غير المقصود أثناء مواجهات مسلحة حدثت في المنطقة العام 1985 ، جامعة تضم كلية للهندسة الصناعية وأخرى للزراعة الغذائية ، وثالثة للتمريض ، فضلا عن مدارس نموذجية من مستوى رياض الأطفال حتى الثانوية . ومن الواضح ، حسب مصادر إسرائيلية معنية ، أنه بدأ بمشاريع إنمائية من هذا النوع " بهدف التغطية على الهدف الاستراتيجي "! ويقع المشروع الذي تبلغ مساحته أكثر من مليون متر مربع على تلة حرجية ترتفع عن سطح البحر حوالي 500 متر وتقع في منتصف الطريق بين صيدا وجزين!؟<br /><br /><br />ـ تقديم مبلغ خمسة ملايين دولار من السعودية لمفتي جبل لبنان محمد علي الجوزو خلال زيارته الأخيرة للسعودية كتكاليف لحملته الإعلامية والمذهبية التي يشنها ضد حزب الله خصوصا والشيعة عموما ، على اعتبار أن حملة من هذا النوع لا يمكن أن تقوم بها " دار افتاء " مباشرة ، كونها مؤسسة رسمية تمثل السنة ككل في لبنان ، بمن فيهم الجزء المتحالف مع الشيعة . وتسجل المصادر الإسرائيلية تطورين مهمين في هذا السياق ، أولاهما قيام الأمير بندر بن سلطان ، رئيس مجلس الأمن الوطني السعودي ، بترتيب عدد من اللقاءات بين المفتي الجوزو وأجهزة استخبارات " فتح " في جدة والطائف والرياض خلال الأشهر الأخيرة . وتكشف هذه المصادر عن أن المفتي الجوزو كان علاقة تاريخية " تنظيمية " وثيقة بهذا الجهاز وقادته السياسيين و التنفيذيين مثل صلاح خلف و هايل عبد الحميد ( أبو الهول ) وقبله أبو علي حسن سلامة . حيث كان ، طبقا لهذه المصادر ، موظفا رسميا عندهم يتلقى مبالغ مالية ثابتة . أما ثاني هذين التطورين فهو إقدام المفتي الجوزو ، الذي يمثل تيارا وهابيا متطرفا غير معلن داخل دار الافتاء ، على فتح النار باتجاه نبيه بري زعيم حركة أمل ورئيس مجلس النواب ، بالشدة نفسها التي فتحها على حزب الله . وهذا ما كان تحاشاه حتى وقت قريب انطلاقا من تصور في دار الإفتاء و " تيار المستقبل " يقوم على أن فتح النار على نبيه بري يعني القطيعة النهائية مع الشيعة و إغلاق آخر نافذة حوار معهم كان يمثلها شخصيا من خلال " اعتداله " واعتباريا من خلال رئاسته مؤسسة البرلمان .<br />ـ تكليف الرئيس الأسبق أمين الجميل من قبل تحالف " 14 آذار " ، لا سيما جنبلاط و " تيار المستقبل " ، بزيارة كردستان العراق من أجل تعميق الصلة بتيار رئيس الإقليم مسعود البرزاني . وتسجل مصادر الاستخبارات الإسرائيلية في هذا السياق ، والتي لم تكن بعيدة كما يبدو عن ذلك ، أن الزيارة التي حصلت نهاية تشرين الأول / أكتوبر الماضي كانت بترتيب مع مسشار الأمن القومي الأميركي ستيفن هادلي الذي وصل إلى إربيل بالتزامن مع وصول الرئيس الجميل ، وحضر معظم اجتماعاته مع الزعيم البرزاني ومسؤولي أجهزته الأمنية والعسكرية ( البيشمركة ). وبحسب هذه المصادر فإن الرئيس الجميل "طرح على القيادة الكردية بشكل رسمي إمكانية دعم تحالف 14 آذار يالمقاتلين الأكراد المدربين جيدا إذا ما تطورت الأمور في لبنان باتجاه المواجهة المسلحة . وقد حصل الجميل على وعد الرئيس البرزاني بتلبية الطلب حين الاقتضاء " . وتؤكد هذه المصادر أن " الرئيس البرزاني أخبر ضيفه أمين الجميل بأنه يستطيع تأمين ما بين 800 إلى ألف مسلح من البيشمركة . وهو ما يكفي لخلق نوع من التوزان العسكري مع ميليشيات المعارضة ، باستثناء حزب الله ، على اعتبار أن هذا الأخير لا يمكن له أن يتورط في مواجهة مسلحة داخلية ويترك ظهره مكشوفا أمام إسرائيل والقوة الفرنسية في اليونيفيل التي تتربص به شرا " . وتشير المصادر الإسرائيلية إلى أن " التحالف المستجد بين الزعيم البرزاني و قوى 14 آذار اللبنانية سيكون واحدا من محاور البحث على انفراد بين الرئيس السوري بشار الأسد والرئيس العراقي جلال الطالباني خلال زيارته نهاية هذا الأسبوع إلى دمشق ، على اعتبار أن الطالباني لا يمكن أن يقبل بهذا التطور بالنظر لعلاقته التاريخية مع دمشق وطهران " . ( كتب هذا التقرير قبل زيارة الرئيس العراقي لدمشق ـ المترجم ) .<br />من الواضح أن الأسابيع القليلة القادمة ستكون حاسمة جدا على الساحة اللبنانية ، وستشهد تطورات غير مسبوقة منذ انفجار الأزمة مجددا بعد اغتيال الرئيس الحريري . ومن الأكثر وضوحا أن شعرة واحدة باتت تفصل بين الحل والمواجهة الشاملة التي لن تنحصر هذه المرة ، فيما لو حصلت ، داخل الحدود اللبنانية . وستكون الأطراف الإقليمية والدولية في ساحة المواجهة لأول مرة بشكل علني ، بعد أن كانت لاعبا من وراء الستار على مدار الأزمة اللبنانية المعاصرة التي بدأت في العام 1975 ولم تجد حلا جذريا حتى الآن ، والتي لن تجد لها مثل هذا الحل ، على ما يبدو ، طالما لم تستطع " الإستابلشمنت " الأميركية رؤية المنطقة والعالم إلا من ثقب أنبوب نفط أو من خلال النظارات السوداء التي يرتديها الأصوليون في الـ Meah Shearim ( الهامش2).<br /><br />ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ<br />(1) ـ منطقة جغرافية " جردية " غير مأهولة تقع في إقليم الخروب ، قضاء الشوف . كانت أولى المناطق التي حاول الرئيس الحريري أن يقيم فيها مشروعا اقتصاديا ـ اجتماعيا لإسكان الفلسطينيين المهجرين في لبنان خلال الحرب الأهلية . إلا أنه توقف إثر حملة احتجاجات سياسية وإعلامية وشعبية قوية على خلفية ما نشر في حينه من معلومات عن علاقة المشروع بـ " مؤامرة التوطين " . ( " الحقيقة " )<br /><br />(2) ـ الميه شآريم ( מֵאָה שְׁעָרִים ) : حي " المئة بوابة " في القدس . ويعتبر حاضرة اليهود الأرثوذوكس المتطرفين . ( نشكر السيدة ر . خ . على التصويب الذي وصلنا منها بصدد ترجمة هذا التعبير العبري).<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://newhk.blogspot.com/">http://newhk.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >le guerrier de la Paix, Mr. Elie Hobeika:</span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >Le guerrier de la paix se comporte parfois comme l'eau, et il se glisse entre les nombreux obstacles qui parsement sa route.</span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >En cela reside la force du courage: jamais un marteau ne peut le briser, ni un couteau le blesser. L'epee la plus puissante du monde est incapable de laisser une entaille a sa surface.<br /></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >Tenue a sa source, elle acquiert peu a peu la force des fleuves qu'e!le rencontre.<br /></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >Pour le guerrier de la paix, il n'existe rien d'abstrait. Tout est concret, et tout lui inspire respect.</span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >Il ne reste pas assis, dans le confort de sa tente, a observer ce qui se passe de par le monde.</span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >Le guerrier de la paix accepte chaque defi comme une occasion de se transfomer lui-meme. Le guerrier transforme sa pensee en action.</span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >Un guerrier courageux pense simultanement a la guerre et a la paix, et il sait agir selon les circonstances.</span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >Un guerrier de la paix ne reste jamais indifferent a l'injustice. Il sait que tout est un, et que chaque action individuelle affecte tous les hommes de la planete</span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >Alors, quand il se trouve devant la souffrance d'autrui, il se sert de son epee pour remettre les choses en ordre.</span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >Un guerrier de la paix n'est jamais lache. La fuite peut etre une excellente methode de defense, mais on ne peut y recourir quand la nation est en danger.</span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >Dans le doute, le guerrier prefere affronter la defaite puis soigner ses blessures - car il sait que, s'il fuit, il donne a l'agresseur un pouvoir plus grand que celui qu'il merite... Le pouvoir de falsifier l'histoire.<br /></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >Dans les moments difficiles et douloureux, le guerrier assume sa position defensive avec heroisme, resignation et courage.</span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >Et le guerrier de la paix de dire:</span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >" Bien que je sois passe par tout ce par quoi je suis passe, je ne regrette pas les problemes dans lesquels je me suis engage, parce que ce sont eux qui m'ont mene la ou je voulais arriver.</span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >Je porte en moi les marques et les cicatrices des combats -elles sont les temoignages de ce que j'ai vecu et les recompenses de ce que j'ai conquis.</span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >C'est moi qui ai decide de prendre cette voie.</span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >Cette phrase renferme tout son pouvoir. Il a choisi la route du defi et du courage legendaire,pour laquelle il a paye avec sa vie, et le martyr ne se plaint jamais.</span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >6 ans après, tu es toujours présent parmis nous.</span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >100 ans après, tu seras toujours présent parmis nous.</span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >Je n’oublierai jamais ! Jamais !<br /></span></p><p><br /></p><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><center><h4><em>You Have Your Lebanon and I Have My Lebanon</em></h4><p><em>Gibran Kahlil Gibran</em></p><h5><em>(written after the first World War, in the 1920’s)</em></h5></center><em>You have your Lebanon and its dilemma. I have my Lebanon and its beauty. Your Lebanon is an arena for men from the West and men from the East. </em><p><em>My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow and rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.</em></p><p><em>You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.</em></p><p><em>Yours are those whose souls were born in the hospitals of the West; they are as ship without rudder or sail upon a raging sea…. They are strong and eloquent among themselves but weak and dumb among Europeans.</em></p><p><em>They are brave, the liberators and the reformers, but only in their own area. But they are cowards, always led backwards by the Europeans. They are those who croak like frogs boasting that they have rid themselves of their ancient, tyrannical enemy, but the truth of the matter is that this tyrannical enemy still hides within their own souls. They are the slaves for whom time had exchanged rusty chains for shiny ones so that they thought themselves free. These are the children of your Lebanon. Is there anyone among them who represents the strength of the towering rocks of Lebanon, the purity of its water or the fragrance of its air? Who among them vouchsafes to say, “When I die I leave my country little better than when I was born”?</em></p><p><em>Who among them dare to say, “My life was a drop of blood in the veins of Lebanon, a tear in her eyes or a smile upon her lips”?</em></p><p><em>Those are the children of your Lebanon. They are, in your estimation, great; but insignificant in my estimation.</em></p><p><em>Let me tell you who are the children of my Lebanon.</em></p><p><em>They are farmers who would turn the fallow field into garden and grove.</em></p><p><em>They are the shepherds who lead their flocks through the valleys to be fattened for your table meat and your woolens.</em></p><p><em>They are the vine-pressers who press the grape to wine and boil it to syrup.</em></p><p><em>They are the parents who tend the nurseries, the mothers who spin the silken yarn.</em></p><p><em>They are the husbands who harvest the wheat and the wives who gather the sheaves.</em></p><p><em>They are the builders, the potters, the weavers and the bell-casters.</em></p><p><em>They are the poets who pour their souls in new cups.</em></p><p><em>They are those who migrate with nothing but courage in their hearts and strength in their arms but who return with wealth in their hands and a wreath of glory upon their heads.</em></p><p><em>They are the victorious wherever they go and loved and respected wherever they settle.</em></p><p><em>They are the ones born in huts but who died in palaces of learning.</em></p><p><em>These are the children of Lebanon; they are the lamps that cannot be snuffed by the wind and the salt which remains unspoiled through the ages.</em></p><p><em>They are the ones who are steadily moving toward perfection, beauty, and truth.</em></p><p><em>What will remain of your Lebanon after a century? Tell me! Except bragging, lying and stupidity? Do you expect the ages to keep in its memory the traces of deceit and cheating and hypocrisy? Do you think the atmosphere will preserve in its pockets the shadows of death and the stench of graves?</em></p><p><em>Do you believe life will accept a patched garment for a dress? Verily, I say to you that an olive plant in the hills of Lebanon will outlast all of your deeds and your works; that the wooden plow pulled by the oxen in the crannies of Lebanon is nobler than your dreams and aspirations.</em></p><p><em>I say to you, while the conscience of time listened to me, that the songs of a maiden collecting herbs in the valleys of Lebanon will outlast all the uttering of the most exalted prattler among you. I say to you that you are achieving nothing. If you knew that you are accomplishing nothing, I would feel sorry for you, but you know it not.</em></p><p><em>You have your Lebanon and I have my Lebanon.<br /></em></p><p><em>****************************************************************************************<br /></em></p></span><br /><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" ></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" ></span></p>أن نَخْـرقَ سَقـفَ بكركي... فَلِكَي نرى الله<br /><br /><br />ناصيف قزّي *<br /><br /><br /><br />بعد أكثر من شهرين على إطلاق ما سُمِّيَ «الثوابت المارونيَّة»، ومعها «مسوّدة ميثاق الشرَف»، وغداة صدورِ رسالةِ البطريرك المارونيّ في بِدءِ الصَوْمِ الكبير، وبُعيدَ إعلان «بيان مجلس المطارنة الموارنة» الشُباطيِّ الأخير، الذي تبنّى بوضوح ما «ظَنَّه بعضُهم محاولةَ انقلابٍ ترمي الى تغييرِ مسار البلد» والى «إحباطِ مؤتمر باريس 3»، ليشكر «أهل الخير من دول العالم الذين يسارعون إلى نجدتنا»، ويلقي اللوم على «المسؤولين بيننا» الذين «يُغرقون البلاد في خلافاتهم ومشاحناتهم وارتهان بعضهم للخارج»، بعد كل ذلك، وبغض النظر عما ترمي إليه بعض التعابير من دلالات، وبعدما كانت ورقة «الثوابت المارونيَّة» قد قدَّمت حلاً سياسياً متكاملاً لقي إجماعاً لبنانياً، أتت «رسالة الصوم» لتتطرَّق، من جديد، بالإضافة الى ما حملته من مفاهيم عامة في محبة الوطن والأرض والمواطنين، الى الشأن السياسي. وفيما أشارت الى ارتفاع الدين العام، والى شكوى المواطنين من الفقر والعوز، ذكَّرت بـ«إقفال العديد من المتاجر وخاصة في وسط العاصمة لما أقيم فيها من خيم نصبها المضربون الذين يقضون معظم أيامهم ولياليهم في تدخين النارجيلة ولعب الورق وقتل الوقت». وقد جاء هذا الكلام نافراً، كما لو أنَّه ليس للاعتصام أيّ هدفٍ وطني، وأنَّه لا مشكلة دستوريَّة للحكومة... والفريقُ الحاكم ليس متسلطاً ولا ضارباً عرض الحائط بكل الأعراف والمواثيق.<br />ألم يكن من الأجدى بصاحب الغبطة والنيافة أن يقارب المسألة الوطنيَّة كما وردت في إعلان «الثوابت المارونيَّة»، التي أكَّدت أنه لا يمكن «لملمة الوضع المتفجِّر» إلا «من خلال تأليف حكومة وفاق توفّر مشاركة واسعة على مستوى الوطن(...) وإذا تعذَّر ذلك، السعي الى تأليف حكومة من مستقلِّين تعمل على إقرار قانون جديد للانتخاب(...) بغية توفير تمثيل صحيح لكل فئات الشعب»(...) يتم بموجبه «إجراء انتخابات مسبقة»... ويصارُ من ثَمَّ الى إيجاد حلٍ «لواقع رئاسة الجمهوريَّة»؟ ونحن على يقين، من أنه، وبمجرد الموافقة المبدئيَّة على ذلك، لا يبقى أحد في الشارع؟<br />في الواقع، ما من عاقل، ومهما أغرق في طوباويَّته، يمكنه أن يمر مرور الكرام على بعض تلك الأحكام والاستنتاجات والنعوت التي وردت في «البيان الشهري للمطارنة» وفي «رسالة الصوم»... والتي، وفي أحسن الأحوال، تتعارض مع روحيَّة ورقة «الثوابت المارونيَّة» الصادرة قبل شهرين، وعن المرجعيَّة نفسِها.<br />هكذا، إزاء مواقف الآباء الملتبِسة من بعض القضايا الوطنيَّة، والتي اعتدنا أن نشير إليها همساً، منذ أن كنا نلملم بقايانا في زمن التهجير ومآسيه، لا خوفاً من «محاكم التفتيش»، ولا احتراماً لموقع الكنيسة ورمزيَّتها في نفوسنا فحسب، بل لعدم إيذاء مشاعر المؤمنين، أولئك الودعاء الذي غالباً ما تلتبس عليهم الأمور، فلا يعودوا يميِّزوا بين الرسالة وحاملها.<br />إزاء هذه المواقف، وبغض النظر عما يمكن أن يفتقِدَ إليه بعض الكلام الوارد في النصوص من الدقة والموضوعيَّة، لجهة إحكام الربط بين المسبِّبات والنتائج، كان لا بد لي أولاً من أن أختلي بنفسي، كما في أوقات المحن والمفترقات والعثرات، لأستقرئ التاريخَ وأحداث التاريخ ومساراته كافة، فأرصُدَ فصولَ المعاناةِ وما عاشَهُ أجدادُنا من عذاباتٍ مدى قرون... قبل أن أسأل عن ماضي وحاضرِ ومستقبلِ كنيستي المارونيَّة... الكنيسة التي أسّسها، قبلَ أربعةَ عشرَ جيلاً، بطريركُ أنطاكيا الماروني الأول مار يوحنا مارون، على اسم ذلك الناسك العظيم مار مارون، والتي كانت، مع سواها من جماعاتٍ دينيَّةٍ مسيحيَّةٍ وإسلاميَّة، في أساسِ بناءِ لبنان. وكم تماهَيْتُ في رحلةِ الهواجِس والهمومِ تلك، مع كلِّ عذاباتِ شعبيّ، لأسألَ ما إذا كانت كنيستي اليوم، وفي ضوء ما تتخذه من مواقف، لا تزالُ حقّاً كنيسةََ الشعب... كنيسةََ المتألِّمين والودعاءِ والبسطاء... كنيسةَ المؤمنين... الكنيسةُ التي طالما حافَظَت على أصالتها الروحانيَّة والنسكيَّة، تلك التي شكَّلَت أبهى مظاهرها؟<br />أنا أعرف ان الكنيسة هي كنيسة الرجاء، لكني، وحقِّ السماء، صرت أفقدُ الرجاءَ كلما نظرتُ الى كنيستي؟<br />أفقد الرجاء عندما أسمع سيد الصرح يتحدث عن «زمن البؤس». وقد كرَّر ذلك مراراً وتكراراً، ليعودَ اليوم فيختمَ به «رسالة الصوم»... الرسالة التي من المفترض أن تحضِّرَنا الى زمن القيامة... زمن التجدُّد والانبعاث.<br />أفقد الرجاء عندما أرى بعض الآباء والمعاونين منشغلين بالشأن اليومي، من تشريفات واستقبالات ومواكبات وإطلالات وكاميرات، أكثرَ من انهمامهم بنشر رسائل التجديد في الكنيسة وفي حياة الجماعة، من الإرشاد الرسولي الى المجمع البطريركي وسواهما من الرسائل الكنسيَّة التي لا تنضب. حتى إن النرجسيَّة حَدَتْ بعضهم على التنظير لـ«حب الحياة» في إعلانات تلفزيونيَّة ترويجيَّة فئويَّة...!؟<br />أفقِد الرجاءَ عندما أسمع مسلسل تصريحات بعض صغار الساسة الموارنة التحريضيَّة، والمتكرِّرة بشكل منتظم من على درج الصرح، ومن دون أي محاولة من الكنيسة للَجْمِها.<br />أفقد الرجاء عندما أعي مدى التباعد القائم بين مسيحيَّة الصفوف الأماميَّة والكاميرات المكرَّسة ومناداة هذا بالبيك وذاك بالشيخ، وملكوت المسيح. أليس هو القائل، على ما جاء في عظة البطريرك لمناسبة عيد مار مارون، «إنكم إخوة، والكبير فيكم، فليكن لكم خادماً»؟هل يمكن أن تتعاطى بكركي بالسياسة من بابها الضيق، هي الحريصة كلَّ الحرص على الوجود التاريخي للموارنة وللبنان، أم شيء ما يدور في أروقتها في غفلة عن سيِّدها؟ ومتى تتمُّ المصالحة بين الكنيسة والشعب، فتصبح الكنيسة كنيسة الشعب لا كنيسة المتسلّطين الذين أثروا من دون عناء... أولئك الذين يصعب عليهم أن يكسبوا ملكوت السماء؟<br />وبعد،<br />إلى متى سيبقى سقف بكركي حاضناً بعض الحقيقة وغافلاً أو متغافلاً عن بعضها الآخر؟لا أريد، هنا، وبأي حال من الأحوال، أن أخدِشَ صفاءَ الإيمان وطهره عند المواطنين الطيِّبين. وإذا كان البعض يرى أنّي أخرُق سقفَ بكركي، أنا الماروني الحريص، الذي اطمأنَّ إليه، يواكيم مبارك، العالم الموصوف، «فاطمأنَّ قلبُه على الموارنة ولبنان» ــ ورد ذلك في مقدمة الخماسيَّة الأنطاكيَّة/أبعاد مارونيَّة، ص. XLV ــ إذا كنت حقاً أخرُق سقف بكركي... فلكي أرى الله!؟ أنا الذي أراه في عيون كلِّ الصامتين والحائرين والقلقين من أبناء شعبي... أراه في وجوه كلِّ المعتصمين الصادقين الصامدين والصابرين في ساحات البطولة والشرف... حتى يعودَ لبنان وطن الشراكة الحقيقيَّة... وطن الرسالة والرسوليَّة... وسيعود.<br />هل يدرك الأحبار مدى التوتر الذي يحدثه البيان الشهري للمطارنة الموارنة في نفوس الناس، عندما يجافي الحقيقة، قلْ بعضَها؟<br />يذكِّرني هذا البيان الشهري، الذي يصدر في الثانية عشرة ظهرَ كلّ أول أربعاء من الشهر، فينتظره الكثيرون من اللبنانيين، كمن ينتظر الفرج الآتي من مكان ما، لينصدموا، عند إذاعته، بمضمونه، الذي غالباً ما يأتي مشابهاً لبيانات الحكومة اللاشرعيَّة، فيتسبب لهم بارتدادات انفعاليَّة تنكأ عمق مشاعرهم... ولا سيما عندما يستمعون إليه وهو يخرج عنوةً، كلماتٍ ملحّنةً، من بين شفاه أمين سر البطريركيَّة المارونيَّة المطبَقَة. يذكِّرني هذا البيان الشهري، بصفارات الإنذار Les Syrennes، التي كانت تزعَقُ ظهرَ كلِّ أولِ أربعاء من الشهر في باريس، يوم كنت على مقاعد الدراسة في عاصمة الثقافة، فيتنبَّهُ الناس فجأة الى إمكان اندلاع الحرب، ليستدركوا فوراً أن ما يجري هو مجرد تجربة.<br />فلكي يخرجَ «بيان المطارنة الشهري» عن كونه صفارة إنذارٍ تجريبيَّة، ينتهي في الأذهان عند الانتهاء من إذاعته، أدعوكم، أيها الأحبار، الى التبصّر أكثر فأكثر في هموم الناس والوقوف على قناعاتهم، وذلك بعدم غضِّ الطرف عن الحقائق الأساسيَّة التي قد لا تأتيكم من أولئك الزائرين المداومين، المتزلِّفين والمأمورين، الذين يحلِّلون كل شيء بحسب مصالحهم الذاتيَّة.<br />أدعوكم، أيها الأحبار، للعودة الى الناس والوقوف بجانبهم أكانوا في الطرق والساحات، أم في المنازل والمعابد والحقول؟ ألم يفعل ذلك الرسل والقدّيسون؟ وهل يعقل ان تكون الكنيسة على الحياد أمام جيش محتل أو حكمٍ مستبدّ أو سلطة جائرة... مهما تكن المبرِّرات؟<br />واسمحوا لي هنا أن أعود الى كتابات أحد جهابذتنا الأفذاذ، وهو واحد منكم، المطران أنطوان حميد موراني في كتابه طريق الإعجاب بالله، إذ يقول، مستلهماً رسالة بولس الرسول الى أهل روما: «السلطة هي أداة الله لخيرك، لكن خَفْ إذا فعلتَ الشرَّ، فإنها لن تتقلَّد السيف عبثاً... ولذلك لا بد من الخضوع، لا خوفاً من الغضب فقط، بل مراعاة للضمير أيضاً. فمثل هذه الطاعة هي للخير العام. والسلطة هي من الله. لكن لها حدوداً. فالسلطة وُضعت لخيرنا، ومتى لم تعد تحافظ على خيرنا بل تناقضه، فإذّاك لا بد من مقاومتها حتى الثورة». أليس هذا ما عُرِف بـ«لاهوت التحرير»؟ أليس في هذا الكلام ما نحن حقاً بفاعلين؟<br />عودوا إلينا بالبساطة والمحبة، أيها الأحبار، وعلِّمونا المقاومة... مقاومة الشر... والشر بيننا ومن حولنا. علّمونا مكافحة الفساد... والفساد مستشر في كل مكان. دعوا «غضبنا المقدَّس» يُدرِك، ولو لمرَّةٍ، مبتغاه. أعيدونا الى «نداءاتكم الخمسة»، تلك التي أزاحت يوماً عن صدورنا كابوس الخوف والذل في زمن الوصاية. ثم أعيدونا معكم الى الله... الى السماء وتعاليمها... الى الروح وصفائه. انبذوا الأحقاد واجمعوا شملنا. أعيدونا من عثار... ثم علّمونا من جديد فعل المحبَّة وفعل الإيمان وفعل التوبة وفعل الرجاء... وكلّ الوصايا... التي ما زلنا، ومنذ طفولتنا، نرتجف عند سماعها كي نلتزم... ولو كان ذلك مرهوناً بضعفنا البشري.<br />بكلمة، أعيدوا إلينا كنيسة الرجاء... لكي يعود إلينا الرجاء...!؟<br />اصغوا إلينا، أيها الأحبار... فمن حقنا أن تصغي الكنيسة إلينا وأن تسأل عن همومنا، في وقت تبدَّد فيه الحكم وتسلَّطت الحكومة وانتُهك الدستور وازدوجت معايير الأمم ومواثيقها... فأنتم الأب الذي يُفترض به أن لا يفرِّق... وأن لا يعامل الجلاد والضحية المعاملة نفسها.<br />ثم، هل يعني توقيعنا الميثاق، «ميثاق الشرف»، أن نتخلى عن حقِّنا الديموقراطي المشروع في الاحتجاج بشكل سلمي؟ وأين وجه الشبه بين هذا التحرك والرصاصات القاتلة؟<br />هل يَعقُل أن لا ترى «رسالة الصوم» الكبير من دلالات للتحركات الشعبيَّة المعترضة، سوى بعض السلبيات، من «شلّ الحركة الاقتصاديَّة» الى «العادات الدخيلة على مجتمعنا»، مروراً بـ«بلبلة الحياة الاجتماعيَّة»؟<br />ومنذ متى كان مجتمعنا مجتمع الخنوع والانهزام والقبول بالذلّ والرضى عما يجري من دون أية مساءلة؟ وهل «محبة الوطن» تفرض علينا الصمت إزاء الأخطار التي تهدِّد الوطن؟هل نسي صاحب الغبطة والنيافة أنه وافق الإكليريكيّين في غزير وشجَّعَهم، يوم كان مدرِّساً في أواخر الستينيَّات من القرن الماضي، شجَّعهم على التجمهُر والاحتجاج بالعنف واقتحام الصرح والصراخ في وجه سيِّده، آنذاك، الكاردينال بولس المعوشي، للمطالبة بحقوقهم البسيطة؟ هل نسي؟ وأين البساطة في قضيتنا اليوم؟ أليست قضيَّةً كيانيَّة تلامس حدَّ ضياع الوطن؟<br />وبعد،<br />نسألكم، أيها السادة، أن تُخرجوا بعض الأحبار من اللوحات الإعلانيَّة والصور الترويجيَّة لـ«حبِّ الحياة»، لأنَّنا، نحن المسيحيِّين بالتحديد، ندرك تماماً أننا «نحيا لنحب»... فالحب عندنا هو الغاية الأساسيَّة وليست الحياة. ألم يرد في «رسالة الصوم» أن «المحبة هي الألف والياء في الدين المسيحي»؟<br />أخيراً، تؤرقني كنيستي... كنيستي العجوز. فما أخشاه، بعد ما شهدناه ونشهده من مفارقات، هو أن يكون «مجلس المطارنة»، بناءً على وشايات كاذبة ومضلِّلة، قد اتَّخذ قراره بالصلب... كما حدث لنا مرّة في أورشليم منذ نيف وألفين... فتبقى الساحةُ، عندئذ، مفرغةً لذاك «الذي يتزيَّا بملاك النور»... ذاك الذي حذَّرنا منه بولس الرسول في رسالته الثانية الى أهل قورينتوس.<br />أخاف من «ملاك النور» هذا... لكن حكاية شاوول ماثلة في قلب التاريخ... لتزفَّ البشارة وتملأ الزمان فرحاً ورجاءً. الكنيسة لا تشيخ... إنها تجدُّد دائم... كما المسيح في صورته الأزليَّة... و«أبواب الجحيم لا تقوى عليها»...!<br />وختاماً، أرجوكم في المرَّة الثانية، أيها الأحبار، أن توقِّعوا الميثاق، «ميثاق الشرف»، بأنفسكم قبل أن ترسلوه الى بعض الذين كان من المُفترض أن يوقِّعوه، علَّهم يخجلون... كي لا يعود إليكم، في نزاعه الأخير، لتمشحوه...!؟* أستاذ الفلسفة في الجامعة اللبنانيَّة<br /><br /><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span lang="AR-LB" style="font-size:16;">يا .. مار مارون<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span lang="AR-LB" style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-size:0;"></span>غسان الشامي</span></b><b><span dir="ltr" style="font-size:16;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span dir="rtl"></span><b><span lang="AR-LB" style="font-size:16;"><span dir="rtl"></span>الثلاثاء، 06 شباط، 2007</span></b><b><span dir="ltr" style="font-size:16;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span lang="AR-LB" style="font-size:16;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl"><b><span lang="AR-LB" style="font-size:14;">عندما قرأت كتاب تاريخ الموارنة للأب بطرس ضو عام 1990 ، الذي طبع بأمر من البطريرك نصرالله بطرس صفير ، وكان حين طباعة<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>الكتاب أمين سر البطريركية المارونية ، لفتني فيه وجود خريطة سمّاها المؤلف "مهد الأمة المارونية" وموقعها في شمال سورية ووسطها ، وبعيداً عن الدخول في سجال حول تعريف الأمة ، وهي واقع اجتماعي بحت ، لا تفصّل في الجغرافيا على مقاس طائفة أو مذهب ، فإن الكتاب حفزني لزيارة "المدن الميتة " وسورية الوسطى مرات عدّة مستطلعاً ومستمتعاً ، وصولاً إلى البحث عن مدفن مار مارون ،الذي أفرد له الكتاب صورة واضحة في قرية "براد".</span></b><b><span dir="ltr" style="font-size:14;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl"><b><span lang="AR-LB" style="font-size:14;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl"><b><span lang="AR-LB" style="font-size:14;">وفي رحلة البحث عن مهد مار مارون الآرامي السوري ، وصلت إلى قرية أكدة قرب الحدود مع تركيا التي كانت تدعى "كيتا" ومنها انطلق الناسك من حضن معلمه الشهير "زابينا" إلى بلدة " نيارا " القريبة من "اعزاز" حيث تنسك مع صديقه داميانوس في كوخ على بيدرها ، وصولاً إلى " كفر نبو" منطلق حضوره وتبشيره وانقضاضه على التماثيل الوثنية وبناء كنيسته وصولاً إلى مدفنه في " براد".</span></b><b><span dir="ltr" style="font-size:14;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl"><b><span lang="AR-LB" style="font-size:14;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl"><b><span lang="AR-LB" style="font-size:14;">كان مشوار البحث طويلاً ، لكنه يستحق العناء ، نجم عنه فيلمان وثائقيان، واحد خلال زيارة البابا يوحنا بولس الثاني إلى سورية ضمن مجموعة أفلام "أعمدة النور" حيث كشف للمرة الأولى ناووس مار مارون ، والثاني قبل سنتين وعنوانه " في ديار مار مارون" تابع بالصورة الموثقة حياة ناسك الشمال السوري ورحلة الموارنة إلى لبنان.</span></b><b><span dir="ltr" style="font-size:14;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl"><b><span lang="AR-LB" style="font-size:14;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl"><b><span lang="AR-LB" style="font-size:14;">ما سبق تمهيد طويل للدخول في لجاجة الأسئلة التي تؤرق الباحث عن الحقيقة، فلقد تصورت بعد الكشف عن موقع تبشير مار مارون والناووس الذي ضم جثمانه منذ العام 1410 للميلاد أن تسعى البطريركية المارونية ، التي تأخذ حضورها من اسم شفيعها إلى الحج نحو ذلك الشمال الجميل الذي عاش فيه الراهب والناسك الآرامي ، الذي توفي بعد مرض دون أن يترك رهبانية أو يؤسس طائفة أو مذهبا ، بل ترك فضائل شاعت بين أهل زمانه فتحولت" كفر نبو" لسنوات طوال إلى موئل للحجيج، وكذلك المعبد الملحق بكنيسة جوليانوس في " براد" حيث وضع جثمان مار مارون، لكن وبعد ست سنوات من إزاحة التراب الذي غطى الناووس طيلة أربعين عاماً يبدو أن السياسة توغل في الإيمان ، فالبطريركية لم تنبس ببنت شفة ولم تحرك ساكناً وسافر البطريرك عبر القارات إلى رعيته في البرازيل وكندا وإلى البيت الأبيض ، ولم يزر رعيته السورية أو ملاعب طفولة ونسك وناووس وكنيسة شفيع بطريركيته.</span></b><b><span dir="ltr" style="font-size:14;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl"><b><span lang="AR-LB" style="font-size:14;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl"><b><span lang="AR-LB" style="font-size:14;">لا تبرير إيمانياً وحتى سياحياً لهذا الأمر ، إلاّ أن مار مارون " لسوء طالعه " في العصر الأمريكي ، أنه سوري الأرض والهوية والولادة والتبشير والوفاة، في زمن نسي الكثيرون بيوتهم وأروماتهم وأجدادهم وقراهم ، بعدما دخلت السياسة والأحقاد ، التي يصل بعضها إلى العنصرية المطلقة، بعض محاريب من آمنوا.</span></b><b><span dir="ltr" style="font-size:14;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl"><b><span lang="AR-LB" style="font-size:14;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl"><b><span lang="AR-LB" style="font-size:14;">أسوق هذا الكلام لأنه لا يمكن طمس حقائق التاريخ والجغرافيا ، وعيد مار مارون بعد غد ، فمهما تغرّب القوم لا بدّ من أرض وهوية لهم ، وإلاّ سيصبحون تفصيلاً في سياق التاريخ، وهذا ما جعلني أغض الطرف عن تصرفات بعضهم السياسية عبر تاريخنا الطويل ،وتحديداً خلال الحملة الصليبية ، رأفة بانتماء إلى هذه الجغرافيا وهذا التراث .. وللذين يقرؤون الأحداث جيداً عليهم مراجعة حقبة البطريرك يوسف الجرجسي!!.</span></b><b><span dir="ltr" style="font-size:14;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl"><b><span lang="AR-LB" style="font-size:14;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl"><b><span lang="AR-LB" style="font-size:14;">في التاريخ عبرة..لذوي الانتماء. <span style="font-size:0;"></span></span></b><b><span dir="ltr" style="font-size:14;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://elie-hobeika.blogspot.com/">http://elie-hobeika.blogspot.com/</a><br />+++++++++++++++++++++<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />الخط الاحمر بقلم: زينا الخوري<br />رسم السيد حسن نصرالله خطين احمرين: الجيش اللبناني ودخول المخيمات، فقامت القيامة. وفي الحقيقة كان يرسم الخط الاخطر على سلامة لبنان.يوم تحوّل اللاجئ الفلسطيني الى مقاوم، رفع شعار «هويتي بندقيتي». فتحوّلت المخيمات الفلسطينية الى محميات. كان هدف البندقية تحرير القدس واستعادة فلسطين. ومع مرور الزمن تغير التصويب... وصارت «المخيمات» اماكن عاصية، خارجة على القانون.ما الفرق الى اية جهة تنتمي «فتح الاسلام»؟ واذا كان شاكر العبسي ربيب المخابرات السورية، ام هو من صنع المخابرات الاردنية، او صدّره لنا ابو مصعب الزرقاوي ليقطع رؤوسنا؟ المهم هو الدور الذي يقوم به هذا التنظيم الاجرامي على الاراضي اللبنانية.لقد لجأت هذه المجموعة الارهابية بداية الى مخيم عين الحلوة. ثم انتقلت الى نهر البارد. فضّلت النهر على العين لان برودة النهر وكثافة سكانه تؤمن لها حماية غير متوفرة على العين.الجيش اللبناني مجروح. وقد سقط له عدد كبير من الشهداء الابرار. من حقه وواجبه ان يطبق العدالة ويقتص من المجرمين. والشيخ حسن نصراله يعرف اكثر من غيره خطورة الامر. وهو حريص على الجيش حرصه على الوطن. وهو حتماً لا يدافع عن القتلة.لكن الفرق شاسع بين القبض على عصابة ارهابية مجرمة، وبين الدخول في حرب مخيمات، تنطلق من البارد لتعمّ المناطق كافة. الحالة الثانية بداية زلزال تقودنا الى الفوضى، التي تحوّل وطننا الى عراق آخر. وهذا ما يطلبه الذين يتآمرون على لبنان.عام 1973 وقع الصدام الاول مع المخيمات. وكان الرئيس سليمان فرنجية مصمماً على حسم الموضوع... لكنه توقف؟الجيش السوري بكل عناده لم يدخل لاستخراج ابو عمار... بل فاوضه لترحيله. وشارون مر بجيشه الجرار بالقرب من هذه المخيمات.ودخول الجيش اللبناني اليوم في حرب استنزاف مع المخيمات هو الخط الاحمر في هذه المرحلة الصعبة من تاريخ لبنان؟ فكفى مزايدة وتحريضاً! </span><br />------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Lebanon: France Moves To Incite Civil Unrest<br />Saturday, 21 April 2007, 1:35 pm<br />Column: Rami Zurayk<br /><br />Chiraq’s Lebanon<br />By Prof. Rami Zurayk<br />French President Jacques Chirac is set on starting a new bout of civil fighting in Lebanon. For months, his ambassador to Lebanon, Bernard Emié has been pumping steroids into the muscles of the US supported Lebanese Government. The French are conniving with the US administration to block all possible avenues for compromise between the Lebanese Government and the Opposition. This is effectively paralyzing the country and creating an environment conducive to civil strife.<br /><br />Last week, while the Lebanese were commemorating the start of the 1975 war with chants of “never again”, France was submitting a strongly worded motion to the UN Security Council. The text openly referred to the Lebanese Resistance as a “militia” (a term still rejected by the Lebanese state) and called for its disarmament. It also drew explicit connections between Iran’s nuclear aspirations and the resistance to Israel. The motion is so extreme in its support of Israeli ambitions that it is being opposed by China, Russia, South Africa, Ghana, Congo, Panama, and Qatar, all currently members of the UN Security Council.<br /><br />What does Chirac want? Not much: an International Tribunal empowered by the UN Security Council. The Tribunal will exact revenge for the murder of his friend and benefactor, Rafic Hariri, the Lebanese (born) Saudi magnate who was Lebanon’s prime minister for over a decade.<br /><br />What’s wrong with a UN sponsored International Tribunal? A lot has been written about this supra-judiciary tool. Besides the intricacies related to national sovereignty and legal minutiae, the main issue lies in the use of the Tribunal as a political tool. The current perception of the Lebanese Opposition is that this Tribunal cannot be neutral nor objective (the UN being a surrogate of the US administration); and that its main purpose is to end resistance to US (and Israeli) hegemony in the Middle East. In simpler terms, phony International Justice will be used as the weapon to accomplish what neither diplomacy (UN resolution 1559 calling for the disarmament of the Resistance) nor violence (33 days of relentless Israeli bombing, mayhem and destruction of Lebanon in July-August 2006) could achieve. Disarming the resistance will facilitate the physical elimination of its leadership and remove the last bastion of opposition to Bush’s New Middle East.<br /><br /><br />Lebanon is a nation hopelessly divided into self-serving sects. Weakening one sect will automatically strengthen the others. Hizbullah and the Resistance represent today the Shi’a sect of Lebanon. Eliminating their leadership will automatically relegate the Shi’a back to their traditional low caste status.<br /><br />For this reason, many Lebanese are very hostile to an UN-sponsored International Tribunal. For this same reason, many Lebanese want the International Tribunal. The US-supported Lebanese Government has sent a draft approval of the International Tribunal to the Security Council. To become legal, this draft has to be approved by the Lebanese Parliament and countersigned by the Lebanese President. This is where the stalemate of the LIARS, lies....<br />-------------------------------------------------------<br />TAKE THREE:<br />**************<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtUU70k9lyhFD1sGtkD6885YbAh3GqgJUGGnRO7w8IVZVqHPvRE_dkLL4x5CceKjokgVsb5zqqTzZfI4IJBI48J725FmadPOo-AchNRh4Y3eKYx6JGZ8EjGashXgEDUxSehd5ufdQ9Ccwh/s1600-h/pertomert_edited.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtUU70k9lyhFD1sGtkD6885YbAh3GqgJUGGnRO7w8IVZVqHPvRE_dkLL4x5CceKjokgVsb5zqqTzZfI4IJBI48J725FmadPOo-AchNRh4Y3eKYx6JGZ8EjGashXgEDUxSehd5ufdQ9Ccwh/s400/pertomert_edited.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062156764276868578" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJK43SLZeQ15KpRhgSDTfEt5k6qykFX-BZWWqqaDEiUFQss9Z1ln8f0BWpylD3QY9XtRIe7KLeMPqGh6vdjM7mi33CsY_ihWnCkNJzK_9e7J8R9QpXWdLocdOUVz2EvPti3_i6qOpnI1Qg/s1600-h/MI+6++++or++MI7_edited.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJK43SLZeQ15KpRhgSDTfEt5k6qykFX-BZWWqqaDEiUFQss9Z1ln8f0BWpylD3QY9XtRIe7KLeMPqGh6vdjM7mi33CsY_ihWnCkNJzK_9e7J8R9QpXWdLocdOUVz2EvPti3_i6qOpnI1Qg/s400/MI+6++++or++MI7_edited.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062156467924125138" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Vr-r8OPFTbkvhO4vSMZs13TCM7SDJYPcJzrN4sb99vNZLfF8PPKBy4bamLsiOuEEIBG3gjeeTOwndbWOn-vpjZId42fL8-gzU_2dLMk2-Qt197zQE6fefVXFfIVItTqT7XBm2MIa9Ql4/s1600-h/FRANCES+MARY+++..._edited.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Vr-r8OPFTbkvhO4vSMZs13TCM7SDJYPcJzrN4sb99vNZLfF8PPKBy4bamLsiOuEEIBG3gjeeTOwndbWOn-vpjZId42fL8-gzU_2dLMk2-Qt197zQE6fefVXFfIVItTqT7XBm2MIa9Ql4/s400/FRANCES+MARY+++..._edited.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062156321895237058" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />New UK Ambassador Starts SECRET Mission in Yemen : RE :THE COLE INCIDENT....<br /><br />Last Friday, March 9th, Mrs. Frances Mary Guy, the new Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Yemen arrived in Sanaa to start her mission as the ambassador appointed by Her Majesty's Secret Service.<br />Mrs. Frances Guy has previously worked in several posts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the UK and in British embassies in Paris, Amman, Khartoum, Bangkok, and Addis Ababa....<br />It is worth mentioning that this is her first post as "Ambassador", even though it will be her third position as an "undercover...in Her Majesty's Secret Service" in the Arab world..........<br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br /><br />Negotiations to find a compromise between the International Tribunal and the protection of the Lebanese Resistance from US and Israeli vindication have been going on, but very slowly. Chirac, however, is in a hurry. He wants a tribunal before the end of his term in May 2007. He has been unremittingly lobbying for the Tribunal to be approved by special UN Security Council resolution under the 7th Article of the UN Charter. This would effectively declare Lebanon a non-state, and place it under the control of the UN. This is also the best way to start a civil war. The Opposition has repeatedly warned that forcing the International Tribunal through the Security Council will lead to “chaos”, a euphemism for unbridled civil violence. But what does Chirac get out of that? After all he opposed the US sponsored invasion and destruction of Iraq, and has bragged plenty about it. Could it be that the alligator actually has a heart? That he really misses his friend Rafic Hariri? That the insurmountable loss has turned him into a political vigilante? This is the story being peddled by the Hariri-controlled media in the Arab World, with regular news items about the emotional bonds that tie the Elysée Palace with the Hariri Dynasty.<br /><br />In reality, the Chirac-Hariri relationship has to be viewed from a different perspective. As soon as he leaves office in a few weeks time, Chirac will be investigated by the French judiciary on charges of corruption and undeclared personal and political “funding” during his tenure as mayor of Paris. Many of his senior aides have already received prison sentences.<br /><br />It is very likely that Chirac has received “funding” from his Saudi-Lebanese billionaire friend. It is very likely that Chirac did not declare this money. Chirac needed funds. Hariri needed credibility. And Chirac has no shame when it comes to selling French credibility. A few weeks ago, he bestowed the French Honor Legion onto Saad Hariri, son of the late Rafic Hariri. Saad’s achievements in the political arena before his dad’s death are well known: he was spending his dad’s money between Riyadh, Paris, Monte Carlo and Washington. Well worthy of the honor legion.<br /><br />The Hariris still need President Chirac, a powerful ally with permanent membership on the UN Security Council. Chirac may still need the Hariris, one of the biggest fortunes on earth, with tentacular connections to help him in his legal predicament. This may well be the dark side of this friendship.<br /><br />In his efforts to restart the Lebanese civil war, Chirac is supported by the US and Britain. They’re happy to lead him down the path they have cleared in their Iraqi adventure, and to teach him one last lesson before he goes: never say “I told you so” when you are a corrupt politician. Lebanon could well become Chirac’s Iraq.<br /><br />******************************************************************************<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Planning started way back in the US Strategic Agreement in 1998....</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR1xJYHV9BRavRyinnqhOwxEeB5rgl1Uhcyea-UIZZeMbn-x2KjM672YNHfbS76aTl4UfQeiboMHDEc2mvKr50rDt4rg1-uMUVNw_lAgCi_zk5CSPGmMJUiwAmsNgjyMPheBYNXnSEp-Hp/s1600-h/rice+butcher.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR1xJYHV9BRavRyinnqhOwxEeB5rgl1Uhcyea-UIZZeMbn-x2KjM672YNHfbS76aTl4UfQeiboMHDEc2mvKr50rDt4rg1-uMUVNw_lAgCi_zk5CSPGmMJUiwAmsNgjyMPheBYNXnSEp-Hp/s400/rice+butcher.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057745615940732946" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYGr6RIJaPCeX8_bZtRC6pU74sojUNB3OeDSKF0VMGlRVEH1WOalTGMBgB12IzRTm9Kd3rTqqtmgaXnD_cNgr1WhedBzxE0f1DNCPJQUErZaUJWOeHicL2hKTRu6QDIt6BQJgf1NxuCrjX/s1600-h/9_10+1998+US-Israel+Strategic+Agreement.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYGr6RIJaPCeX8_bZtRC6pU74sojUNB3OeDSKF0VMGlRVEH1WOalTGMBgB12IzRTm9Kd3rTqqtmgaXnD_cNgr1WhedBzxE0f1DNCPJQUErZaUJWOeHicL2hKTRu6QDIt6BQJgf1NxuCrjX/s400/9_10+1998+US-Israel+Strategic+Agreement.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057745439847073794" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Targets:</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjki_bBqr53z8JP4ilql1ZXHNCfMP0G8kTMf2kjpl2C5F6aMj5emvEtXK4iN8UYhuvh70xx22v9HXEFnaZSBF3deKiaGE6b2Dp0vU1eSRFUzlr_PZ2ra4BHGlWgdyfR4s4wEL3_UTxcLxW3/s1600-h/un_lebanon_syria_2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjki_bBqr53z8JP4ilql1ZXHNCfMP0G8kTMf2kjpl2C5F6aMj5emvEtXK4iN8UYhuvh70xx22v9HXEFnaZSBF3deKiaGE6b2Dp0vU1eSRFUzlr_PZ2ra4BHGlWgdyfR4s4wEL3_UTxcLxW3/s400/un_lebanon_syria_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057745195033937906" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJiXGPXnDyBeYuHqcgfWcbmFCSp128-2AYuqGlfwhrABCmLlyupUGtT5NgfFiluXJlqPSDx1jp6dQsIeloOgFHAEupLgldECpnXDyqlMU2qPwb9R-ID2ytDOCmBWzLvdlmiJoh9c9yJdpd/s1600-h/target_iran.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJiXGPXnDyBeYuHqcgfWcbmFCSp128-2AYuqGlfwhrABCmLlyupUGtT5NgfFiluXJlqPSDx1jp6dQsIeloOgFHAEupLgldECpnXDyqlMU2qPwb9R-ID2ytDOCmBWzLvdlmiJoh9c9yJdpd/s400/target_iran.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057745057594984418" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The TOOLS.... and the Kleiat Air Force Base in North Lebanon ???</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB8eOZyUI0dSoaH-3d3X_oSgptwZE45lBCmn-HVeVf6wP4oOzU0C2lRbmpaX_vEWDAQONt4fsNPIPh8nfNSenXtuNvh6f-L8EuCHPaMKum1wPnfLAPSWG3xZ4_7uZybayM-w5LxcK2ooyU/s1600-h/ShowLetter5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB8eOZyUI0dSoaH-3d3X_oSgptwZE45lBCmn-HVeVf6wP4oOzU0C2lRbmpaX_vEWDAQONt4fsNPIPh8nfNSenXtuNvh6f-L8EuCHPaMKum1wPnfLAPSWG3xZ4_7uZybayM-w5LxcK2ooyU/s400/ShowLetter5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057746144221710450" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBbUF4nt0ZO40vOsuZaMUw10Znjeat51YMvOadf9PHFC3z6786cgm3ayYfrX3qBRKuOPYGm91UPRHmveRZDk5Gu_qHINqm0Y7rIdTyDtRDzlM5ASmWW22pwptBLiubuG-qt32u9r-rk-J0/s1600-h/ShowLetter4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHzI-syramuhZeMKkpoUiaBnEt9BMvoFaj7sTg6pijoljbhARGhU6qTd06JJve5kO2UcCLYj0YSlgFmmEOCZs9HbSYsNiad1KPYDJqjeF-yiLQoPYOEzNy8_SVdC-8dOg2OWNpC5yErCGX/s400/ShowLetter.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057745757674653730" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Murders and the "Outcry"...</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj01c7nwjZvm07pdZeMMCG-nDHYW44Ea-v-q1AhfEkA-_aqb4tIu9Fbl9hLi34ac3B3JrctsBxP6567LcG2m8g-wMrgP23xvyU_A1wos1qo2Zwje9ZUS98V4QJElmJ842HkfFbQP6joUoNN/s1600-h/syria+out.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj01c7nwjZvm07pdZeMMCG-nDHYW44Ea-v-q1AhfEkA-_aqb4tIu9Fbl9hLi34ac3B3JrctsBxP6567LcG2m8g-wMrgP23xvyU_A1wos1qo2Zwje9ZUS98V4QJElmJ842HkfFbQP6joUoNN/s400/syria+out.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057744950220802002" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">SAMIDOUN ???</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJD-UytlNcnb_g9WmgwLb3_Nk60sp_eEVyJni_tNCT17EQJbuJZyOziZmm4yznuH8Vd7KlBuXEoIYkDrwn4CYFNBrPZclF1H-zA2nkZhMRGSHDBc-CiZHfogj66QawZyDr-FdmfWBiZpW4/s1600-h/samidoun_th_logo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJD-UytlNcnb_g9WmgwLb3_Nk60sp_eEVyJni_tNCT17EQJbuJZyOziZmm4yznuH8Vd7KlBuXEoIYkDrwn4CYFNBrPZclF1H-zA2nkZhMRGSHDBc-CiZHfogj66QawZyDr-FdmfWBiZpW4/s400/samidoun_th_logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057744683932829634" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE END GAME .... KSA [ DIVIDED IN THREE TERRITORIES? ]</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFRLSmzxJa6lH7ruFaUEyUbRveZc3HWAXLBYLXbfwBuACRSz2cyJotMQdGu5FoXv38GtADMQrBRGlp_tQy7wNPVUVYtFxMVebkVBhcn5zxlB9CK7DZ8eypcJKzfymrp66tKEUcjRw8T2Ep/s1600-h/olmert_mm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFRLSmzxJa6lH7ruFaUEyUbRveZc3HWAXLBYLXbfwBuACRSz2cyJotMQdGu5FoXv38GtADMQrBRGlp_tQy7wNPVUVYtFxMVebkVBhcn5zxlB9CK7DZ8eypcJKzfymrp66tKEUcjRw8T2Ep/s400/olmert_mm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057744537903941554" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE THUG FROM TEXAS, MANIPULATED BY DICK CHENEY,<br />THE STOOGE OF THE MOTHER OF ALL LOBBIES,<br />THE PETROLEUM LOBBY , OF TEXAS...<br />"THE SUM OF ALL LOBBIES WORLDWIDE"</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFOpfav4BRpphWS5ETbywZqbscSrOAQBxE80C1T10to5jIegl7_bO2ZOlDyYj20wWChO5GOL9iXHqBdp-cddsC-eecOZ3YrGmioHkSHhyaymJGf5P3eETXF_NESqmcOzVQ3Xuiw3mFPxJk/s1600-h/notinhisnose.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFOpfav4BRpphWS5ETbywZqbscSrOAQBxE80C1T10to5jIegl7_bO2ZOlDyYj20wWChO5GOL9iXHqBdp-cddsC-eecOZ3YrGmioHkSHhyaymJGf5P3eETXF_NESqmcOzVQ3Xuiw3mFPxJk/s400/notinhisnose.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057744387580086178" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE LITTLE DONKEYS</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQci6ocaZZJ3xe3TfrlHBZ6fV0ORmQzADBs2LbZOI9p5KqV8NXIH-4dvyTJOn6Hpz7Q-h8_T9GlyM0OhURI0vMPDBiiTsmFcyRqxerFvzCzrR9eT-gPBCLrR4Y4pEbudFI4GFrMv3rNKC3/s1600-h/stooges.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQci6ocaZZJ3xe3TfrlHBZ6fV0ORmQzADBs2LbZOI9p5KqV8NXIH-4dvyTJOn6Hpz7Q-h8_T9GlyM0OhURI0vMPDBiiTsmFcyRqxerFvzCzrR9eT-gPBCLrR4Y4pEbudFI4GFrMv3rNKC3/s400/stooges.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057744194306557842" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE SNAKE </span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcRZItiTd-_9RXUwJiVpZehWGfYxeofKJqhhPspCyIw6upoRQJ4gVph5u1bIltfX4B8gZeHmAJCpjvGTgPWNDbcOGmIXqc27Ae1RP0ZPFy0kjzS6ewOeGIJxeFbS9bI95cb15dHyNagaLG/s1600-h/UZI++ARAD++MOSSAD.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcRZItiTd-_9RXUwJiVpZehWGfYxeofKJqhhPspCyIw6upoRQJ4gVph5u1bIltfX4B8gZeHmAJCpjvGTgPWNDbcOGmIXqc27Ae1RP0ZPFy0kjzS6ewOeGIJxeFbS9bI95cb15dHyNagaLG/s400/UZI++ARAD++MOSSAD.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057744022507865986" border="0" /></a><br /><br />*******************************************************************************<br /><br />La grande illusion<br />Par Percy KEMP<br /><br />Les chrétiens libanais sont absolument persuadés que les Occidentaux sont leurs alliés et croient par ailleurs fermement qu’ils partagent avec eux une même culture et des valeurs identiques. Ces convictions-là mériteraient d’être examinées de près.<br />Et d’abord, l’idée reçue comme quoi les Occidentaux seraient les alliés des chrétiens libanais est-elle avérée au regard de l’histoire des vingt dernières années? Rien n’est moins sûr. Que firent les Occidentaux lorsque, coup sur coup, le président René Moawad fut tué, le général Michel Aoun exilé et le Dr Samir Geagea emprisonné? Rien du tout. Que firent les Occidentaux l’été dernier lorsque Israël bombardait la montagne et le littoral chrétiens? Rien du tout. Cela suggère que les chrétiens du Liban vivent dans l’illusion. Quant aux valeurs qu’ils auraient en commun avec l’Occident, on peut se demander s’il en subsiste encore quelque chose. La démocratie libérale? Elle a cédé la place à un populisme où la démagogie et les mass media font la loi et où les minorités font les frais de l’arithmétique électorale. La liberté? Les dirigeants occidentaux l’ont sacrifiée à l’autel du tout sécuritaire. Le respect de la personne? Jour après jour, en Occident les droits civiques sont bafoués et la vie privée des citoyens violée par l’État policier. Les valeurs chrétiennes? Le Nouveau Testament s’est désormais effacé derrière l’Ancien et le pardon christique a cédé le pas à l’œil pour œil, dent pour dent moïsique. Là aussi, illusion.<br />On m’objectera sans doute que l’Occident et les chrétiens du Liban ont en commun une culture et une religion, les élites chrétiennes libanaises étant tout à fait à leur aise en français comme en l’anglais et priant le même Dieu que les Occidentaux. À quoi je répondrais en rappelant que le roi Philippe de Macédoine parlait le grec et connaissait Homère, ce qui ne l’empêcha nullement d’asservir les cités grecques indépendantes, de mettre à bas leurs constitutions et de leur voler leur liberté. Je rappellerais aussi que son fils Alexandre, qui priait pourtant les dieux grecs de l’Olympe, n’en raya pas moins la ville grecque de Thèbes de la carte lorsqu’elle voulut secouer son joug trop pesant (Thèbes qui, soit dit en passant, avait été fondée par Cadmos, fils du roi de Phénicie, un ancêtre des Libanais).<br />Or, si les valeurs de l’Occident ont tant changé et si la langue et la religion ne sont plus une garantie d’affinité, que reste-t-il de cette culture occidentale à laquelle les chrétiens libanais continuent de s’accrocher comme un naufragé à une planche pourrie? Ce qui en reste, c’est ce qu’on appelle pompeusement un «way of life», un mode de vie, mais qui se résume en réalité à des effets de mode: Hugo Boss, Louis Vuitton, Zara, Prada, Johnny Walker, les pin-up, le loto et les reality shows. Civilisation, avez-vous dit? Dites plutôt consommation. Dites surtout illusion. Percy KEMP<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />السجل العدلي الحافل لـ "جعجع"؟!!<br /><br /><br /><br />24/04/2007 تعرض هذه الوثيقة (المرفقة ادناه) الموقعة من النائب العام الاستئنافي جوزف فريحة لتهديد سمير جعجع لأحد ابرز حلفائه اليوم وهو الرئيس السابق امين الجميل، ففي العاشر من تشرين الاول عام ثمانية وثمانين ابلغ الجميل النيابة العامة ان جعجع وجه له تهديدا بضرورة مغادرة البلاد خلال ايام والا قام بالاجهاز عليه، تبلغ الجميل هذا الامر بعد اجتماع كريم بقرادوني بزوجته جويس الجميل في احدى الجمعيات التي تديرها في سن الفيل.<br />وفي سجل جعجع العدلي انه في الثالث عشر من حزيران عام ثمانية وسبعين قامت مجموعات من القوات اللبنانية يترأسها بشن هجوم على بلدة اهدن الشمالية وقتلت الوزير طوني فرنجية وزوجته فيرا وابنته جيهان البالغة من العمر سنتين ونصف وعدد من المواطنين. لاحقا وصف جعجع ما جرى بانه عملية وليس حادثة قائلا انه قد تلزم عمليات اخرى .<br />في الرابع عشر من شباط عام اربعة وثمانين شاركت مجموعة من اربعة قواتيين بالاجهاز على رئيس اقليم جبيل الكتائبي غيث خوري حيث قتل في كمين مسلح في العقيبة بينما كان عائدا الى بيته وبرفقته زوجته نورا.<br />احد المنفذين كان يخدم في المجلس الحربي للقوات تحت امرة جعجع. اصدر القاضي محمد المظلوم في العام الفين واربعة قرارا ظنيا بالمنفذين طلب فيه عقوبة الاعدام لهم.<br />في الاول من حزيران عام سبعة وثمانين انفجرت مروحية تابعة للجيش اللنباني فوق مدينة طرابلس حيث كانت تقل رئيس الوزراء رشيد كرامي. وجه الاتهام لجعجع بالقضية وحكم عليه المجلس العدلي بالاعدام وخفف الحكم الى السجن المؤبد.<br />في الثامن والعشرين من ايلول عام ستة وثمانين نفذت مجموعة قواتية بأمر من جعجع عملية اغتيال قائد اللواء الخامس في الجيش اللبناني خليل كنعان في منزله بالفياضية على خلفية اشكال مع الجيش في محلة المونتيفردي.<br />في التاسع عشر من كانون الثاني عام تسعين امر جعجع بتصفية عضو مجلس قيادة القوات اللبنانية الدكتور الياس الزايك على خلفية خلافات سياسية معه. اطلق النار على الزايك في الاشرفية وحكم جعجع في قضية التصفية هذه بالسجن المؤبد .<br />مع انحياز رئيس حزب الوطنيين الاحرار داني شمعون الى جانب العماد ميشال عون ومغادرة مختلف القادة الموارنة الى الخارج بقي امام جعجع داني شمعون فقط، وجه الأخير لجعجع الاتهام بتنفيذ مجزرة نهر الموت بحق مواطنين عزل موالين لعون. وفي الحادي والعشرين من تشرين الاول عام تسعين دخل عسكريون الى منزل شمعون في بعبدا وقاموا بتصفيته وعائلته، ادين جعجع بالاغتيال وحكم بالسجن مدى الحياة.<br />وفي سجل جعجع العدلي قضية العمالة لاسرائيلي التي لا يزال يلاحق بها من خلال دعوى مرفوعة عليه من قبل عدد من اللبنانيين قام بتسليمهم الى العدو الاسرائيلي حيث امضوا سنوات عدة في معتقلاته قبل ان يفرج عنهم.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFCrMpaUlR-d-FJeISvXOWEpB1UYyaBjYAZYK0QzMopD-4bNEvXUbVJZFcagwqy0Y5fXoQ3OhdSpd7D16g0qL3U3g2tTFcbGQlxuSubvkSAs4t9Hue07DGIG6erWAJxUVf1tADAlzrLZ-R/s1600-h/ssss_top.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFCrMpaUlR-d-FJeISvXOWEpB1UYyaBjYAZYK0QzMopD-4bNEvXUbVJZFcagwqy0Y5fXoQ3OhdSpd7D16g0qL3U3g2tTFcbGQlxuSubvkSAs4t9Hue07DGIG6erWAJxUVf1tADAlzrLZ-R/s400/ssss_top.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057372772004545650" border="0" /></a><br /><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE MOODY JOUMBLATT IS AT IT AGAIN...PLAYING PING PONG WITH THE DESTINY OF LEBANON AND THE LEBANESE? "BUYERS" BEWARE....OF THE SNAKE.</span><br /><strong>WALEED IN DESPERATE NEED OF HIS DOSE...</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQkKxn9EBhQscG0OyjruvjNo_rKtGn1Ymcd_Jy4_4UslQMljQtHdu8sSqgkJ8crKZLyZzi3dC9sXxwASuy_mHVcZr7bMp4AKLTea071_Z4KVjN3BRdyEdba_KoC48y5uSRZRHb919hBilq/s1600-h/waleed+in+need.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQkKxn9EBhQscG0OyjruvjNo_rKtGn1Ymcd_Jy4_4UslQMljQtHdu8sSqgkJ8crKZLyZzi3dC9sXxwASuy_mHVcZr7bMp4AKLTea071_Z4KVjN3BRdyEdba_KoC48y5uSRZRHb919hBilq/s400/waleed+in+need.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054843708716151698" border="0" /></a><br /><br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br />الى روح الرئيس الشهيد ايلي حبيقة +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br />بالرغم من تقديرينا و محبتنا الى روح الرئيس الشهيد ايلي حبيقة ومطالبتنا معرفة من خطط ونفذ هذه الجريمة النكراء من جميع اللبنانيين, مسيحيين ومسلمين, كبارا" وصغارا", شيوخا" وكهالا", صبية وصبى, أغنياء وفقراء, لبنانيين ومجنسين ومشردين ومهجرين, كلنا يريد معرفة الحقيقة, مثلنا مثل عائلة ايلي حبيقة المفجوعة. سننشىء المحكمة تحت الفصل السابع والفصل السبعين والسبع مرات السبعين لأن دمّ اللبنانيين, كل اللبنانيين يموتون ويشرّدون ويلاحقون بالخوف والرعب والموت... ولكن يا ايها السادة:<br /><br />تقرير صغير ومقتضب عما حصل في مجازر الشوف وعالية:<br />- مقتل 3700 مسيحي جلّهم من الموارنة, الا يستحقون محكمة دولية.<br />- جرح حوالي 5000 مسيحي جلّهم من الموارنة, الا يستحقون محكمة دولية.<br />- تشريد 160000 جلّهم من الموارنة, الا يستحقون محكمة دولية.<br />- فقدان المئات لا بل الآلاف من المسيحيين جلّهم من الموارنة الا يستحقون محكمة دولية.<br /><br />- فقدان المئات لا بل الآلاف من المسيحيين جلّهم من الموارنة الا يستحقون محكمة دولية.<br />- تدمير 116 قرية ومدينة للمسيحيين جلّهم من الموارنة الا يستحقون محكمة دولية.<br />- مسح 16 قرية وضيعة من بكرة أبيها لمواطنين مسيحيين جلّهم موارنة, الا يستحقون محكمة دولية.<br />- تغيير معالم وآثار لعشرات الضيع يسكنها مسيحيون جلّهم موارنة, الا يستحقون محكمة دولية. وأخيرا" وليس آخرا" عدم السماح لهؤلاء بالعودة الكريمة والحرّة الى ضيعهم الا يستحقون محكمة دولية.<br /><br />عار على المسيحيين وخاصة الموارنة الذين يفتخرون بانتمائهم الى الأكثرية, الا يخجلون عندما يوقعون على عريضة السبعين. هل تناسوا مجازر الشوف وعالية والمتن وشرقي صيدا والعيشية وبيت ملات وتل عباس والدامور والجية, ربما قالوا نعم نسينا ولكن ها نسوا غزوة الأشرفية. أم لأن المتهمية بكل تلك المجازر بحق المسيحيين هم من الحلفاء ب 14 آذار أو 14 حجار.<br /><br />كل هذا ألا يستحق محكمة دولية ربما لا لأن المصيبة وقعت على المسيحيين وخاصة على الموارنة<br /><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br />فمتى تنتهي المأساة ؟ بين عام 1975 وعام 2007، 32 سنة مضت.32 سنة ونحن نبكي، 32 سنة ونحن ندفن شهداء.مخطوفون في الشوارع مرميون على الأرصفة، قنّاصون على السطوح يرمون أبرياء.32 سنة ونحن نبكي أهلنا، أخوتنا، ابناءنا، أقاربنا، أصدقاءنا، شباب لا نعرفهم وصبايا وأطفالاً، والسلسلة مستمرة وصولاً الى الشهيدين زياد قبلان وزياد غندور.وفي كل مرة لا نملك إلاّ التعازي، ولا نملك الاّ الدعوة إلى الهدوء أو إلى التصعيد، ولبنان حائر في ظل طبقة سياسية لم تعرف كيف تحافظ على لبنان ولم تعرف كيف تجد اساساً لنظام سياسي يحمي الشعب اللبناني.دائماً تُلقي هذه الطبقة السياسية على أطرافها باللوم، أو تُلقي على الخارج المسؤولية، ولم تتحمّل المسؤولية يوماً بجدية للوصول إلى حل.32 سنة، وشعبنا اللبناني يموت، فمن كان المسؤول؟ ألم يكن المسؤول كل هؤلاء الأطراف السياسية؟ألم تكن كل هذه الأحزاب هي المسؤولة؟ألم تتقاتل كل هذه الأطراف على الساحة فتنة داخلية وصراعاً دموياً حتى القتل والتشريد والتدمير؟32 سنة من الحرب الداخلية والخارجية وليس فيها إلاّ وقفة وحيدة مجيدة هي قتالنا ضد العدو الاسرائيلي وتحرير الجنوب وأما باستثناء ذلك، فالدماء التي سقطت كانت نتيجة شحن الغرائز واستغلال العواطف ودفع الناس للاقتتال.اليوم يقف الجميع ليقدموا التعازي، وصحيح أن هنالك قتلةيجب محاكمتهم قاموا بالجريمة ويوصفون بالأفراد، ولكن من المسؤول عن إيصال البلاد الى هذا الواقع؟من الذي قام بالشحن الطائفي والغرائزي؟من الذي وضع لبنان على كف عفريت وباتت النفوس مشحونة ولا يلزم البارود إلاّ فتيل صغير لإشعاله؟أيها السادة، كما تقومون اليوم بوأد الفتنة، وكما استطعتم يا أهل السياسة اجتياز القطوع والفتنة، فبامكانكم الوصول الى الوفاق والى الوفاق الحقيقي، وعناصر الوفاق واضحة، فلبنان لا يحكم من واشنطن أو باريس، ولا من دمشق أو الرياض أو طهران، بل يحكم بمشاركة كل ابنائه، ولا يجوز أن تستأثر فئة بالحكم وتشكك بالآخرين وتقول إن الثلث هو ثلث معطل، وان فئة لا يمكن ائتمانها على المشاركة في حكومة وحدة وطنية.32 سنة، إلى أين أوصلتمونا كلكم من دون استثناء، ولكن استثناء واحداً هو المقاومة وسلاحها الشريف الذي قدم التضحيات والدماء في سبيل تحرير الجنوب والكرامة الوطنية ودحر العدو الاسرائيلي.كلكم صببتم الزيت على النار، كلكم تضعون الشعب اللبناني وقوداً لمشاريعكم الشخصية والسياسية، ولم يعد بالامكان الاستمرار على هذا الشكل.كلام وليد جنبلاط أن لا فرق بين بيروت والضاحية، وان الضاحية عانت من العدوان الاسرائيلي في صيف 2006، وان بيروت عانت سنة 1982 من العدوان الاسرائيلي، وان مقبرة الشهداء هي لكل الذين قاتلوا هو كلام يؤسس عليه، ولكن مطلوب ايضاً إكمال الاتجاه من الوزير جنبلاط وأيضاً من الرئيس بري ومن الأطراف في المعارضة للتلاقي على قاعدة، وهي المشاركة في حكومة وحدة وطنية.كلام جنبلاط إيجابي، ولكنه لا يكفي، والمطلوب من المعارضة ان تلاقي جنبلاط، ولكن الاساس ان يقنع جنبلاط الاكثرية التي ينضم اليها بقبول مشاركة حزب الله وحركة امل والعماد عون في حكومة وحدة وطنية، وعدم التشكيك من قبل الاكثرية بالمعارضة وعدم القول ان هذه المعارضة لا تؤتمن على 11 مقعداً وزارياً، ذلك ان المؤتمن على تحرير الجنوب، والمؤتمن على الدفاع عن لبنان، والذي يقدم شهداء في سبيل تحرير الجنوب هو الذي يؤتمن على لبنان.ان شعار لبنان اولاً لا يمكن ترجمته الا بتحرير لبنان، و ما التحرير الحقيقي الا من العدو الاسرائيلي.واذا كان لبنان قد اجتاز القطوع والفتنة، فإن الاكيد انه لا ضمانة من دون الوحدة الوطنية، فتعالوا نتفق على لبنان العربي على لبنان المقاوم.تعالوا نتفق على ان سلاح المقاومة هو قوة للبنان، وعندما يتم الاتفاق على سلاح المقاومة ووجوب بقائه وعلى انه قوة للبنان، فالوفاق الوطني يكون قد اصبح قائماً، ويكون جسر العبور من الفتنة الى الوفاق الحقيقي.32 سنة ودماء اللبنانيين تسيل، تهجرت قرى وتذابحتم جميعاً، والوقفة اليوم هي للعمل وليس لوأد الفتنة فقط، واذا كان موقف وليد جنبلاط هو موقف ادى الى اجتياز الفتنة، وإذا كان الكلام قد تغيّر لدى جنبلاط من ضاحية يتم فيها تزوير ارقام سيارات الى ضاحية المقاومة والصمود في وجه العدو الاسرائيلي، فإن المطلوب موقف عملي يترجم بتشكيل حكومة وحدة وطنية، والا فان لبنان لا يكون قد اجتاز الفتنة وبقي معرضاً لأي فتنة في أي لحظة.واما اذا بقي الاستئثار والتفرد في الحكم والتشبث بالكرسي في السراي من قبل السنيورة فلا جدوى، فسنقف عشرات المرات امام مقبرة الشهداء وندفن الشهداء والقتلى ونقدم التعازي، ويبقى لبنان معرضاً للخطر وللتفكك.32 سنة من الدمار تكفي، فانتقلوا من الخطاب السياسي الضيق الى الخطاب الوطني، والبداية تكون في حكومة وحدة وطنية ترتكز اولاً على ان لبنان مقاوم تحتفظ فيه المقاومة بسلاحها للدفاع عن لبنان وترتكز على محكمة ذات طابع دولي لكشف قتلة الرئيس الشهيد رفيق الحريري من دون اي استغلال من الاكثرية او اطراف سياسية لهذه المحكمة، عندها يقوم لبنان العلماني خارج الاقطاعية الطائفية وخارج الامراض المذهبية، وعندها يكون لبنان قد خرج من الفتنة نهائياً.ان الدول لن تنقذ لبنان، بل مطلوب من الشعب اللبناني إنقاذ نفسه، ويجب ان يعرف هذا الشعب ان الجراح قد زادت وان الفقر قد انتشر، وانه لم يعد يستطيع التحمل اكثر مما تحمّل. فلننهض من الفتنة الى الوحدة الوطنية وننه المأساة.<br />***********************************************************************************<br />هي أزمة نظام مهترئ لا يرتفع صوت لابداله<br /><br /><br /><br />ليس ديفيد ولش أكثر من موظف في وزارة الخارجية الأميركية، وهو برتبة مساعد لوزيرة الخارجية بين عدد كبير من المساعدين لها، في اختصاصات مختلفة، وفقاً للنظام المتبع في هيكلية هذه الوزارة. وهو عندما يحضر الى لبنان، ويضع برنامجاً خاصاً للزيارات التي يقوم بها، ويقرر منفرداً مع من يريد أن يجتمع، ومن يصرف النظر عن اللقاء به، متجاهلاً الأعراف البروتوكولية، ويحدد بنفسه من يستقبل في السفارة الأميركية ومن يزور في مقره الرسمي أو في منزله، فإن تصرفه هذا لا يمكن أن يوصف الا بالفظاظة وقلة اللياقة. بدليل أن أي زائر دولي آخر لا يتبع هذا السلوك، دون استثناء، ولا يشذ عنه الا الزائر الأميركي وحده. ومن تقاليد الادارة الأميركية حالياً وسابقاً انها لا توفد الى لبنان ممثلاً لها أعلى من رتبة مساعد وزير، حتى ولو كان الأمر يتعلق بانتخاب أعلى رمز للدولة وهو رئيس الجمهورية. ومن غير المشرف للبنان وللشعب اللبناني أن يستمع الى هؤلاء الموفدين وهم يدلون بالتصريحات الطنانة على أبواب كبار المسؤولين اللبنانيين، وهم يحددون مواصفات الرئيس الذي يتوجب على النواب انتخابه، وكذلك المرشحين الذين ينبغي استبعادهم. وهو أمر لا يختلف كثيراً عن الحالة التي كان فيها عبد الحليم خدام يتصرف خلالها مع الشخصيات اللبنانية، حتى قبل أن يصبح نائباً لرئيس الدولة، وربما بأسلوب أشد خشونة وفظاظة.<br /><br /><br />***<br />لعل من (محاسن) هذه الأزمة التي تعصف بلبنان منذ شهور أنها كشفت بصورة لا تقبل الجدل، كم أن النظام السياسي في لبنان أصبح رثاً ومهلهلاً، وكيف أضاع لونه الأصلي مع كثرة الترقيع، الى درجة أنه لم يعد يحتمل إدخال رقعة أخرى فيه. وندرك اليوم فقط مقدار ما في هذا النظام من ثقوب كثيرة وواسعة، ومن اجتهادات متناقضة حول ما كان من أبسط المسلمات فيه، وكيف تحول الدستور الناظم لقواعد الحياة في الوطن الى دستورين متعارضين، ليخدم مصالح وسياسات الفريق الممسك به ومنظريه.<br />وثبت اليوم أكثر من أي يوم مضى، كم أن هذا النظام الطائفي هو نظام منتج للأزمات لا للحلول، ويقود البلاد الى انفجارات كبيرة ومنتظمة بمعدل مرة واحدة على الأقل كل خمس عشرة سنة، ما عدا الأزمات العابرة والمتكررة على مدى العهود. والمفارقة المذهلة أنه رغم ذلك لا يُسمع صوت واحد منقذ، يطالب بإبدال هذا النظام المتخلف والمهترئ بنظام حديث وعصري كما يليق بلبنان وشعبه، وينقله من حال الطائفية الى حال المواطنة، وذلك لأن أياً من الأفرقاء في هذا الوطن المفروز حصصاً، لا يريد التخلي عن حصته لمصلحة الوطن!<br />***<br />أيهما أكثر إثارة للاستغراب والنفور والتخوف للرسميين من موفدي الدول، أو للسائح العربي والأجنبي: مشهد الخيم في وسط بيروت? أم مشهد السراي ومقر الحكومة المحاط بسور كثيف من الأسلاك الشائكة وأكياس الرمل والآليات العسكرية وحشد كبير من القوى الأمنية، وكأن البلد في خضم حرب أهلية ماحقة أو أنه يستعد لها! أليس من أشد سخريات القدر، ومن أفظع الاهانات التي توجه الى الحكم والحكومة والطبقة السياسية برمتها، أن يكون أعظم طموح لشريحة واسعة من اللبنانيين ليس حل الأزمة، بل مجرد هدنة مائة يوم فقط لمجرد التمتع بنعمة التنفس?!<br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">How far does the Saniora Government Stand from Sunni Radicals<br />One Year after Granting Hizb ut-Tahrir a License ?<br /><br /><br />In a recent article, “The Redirection,” Seymour Hersh pointed out that the Lebanese government led by Fouad Saniora is supporting the rise of Sunni fundamentalist movements in attempt to balance against the spread of Shiite radicalism represented by Hezbollah.<br />According to analysts, this comes at the wake of an increased concern by the United States and other major powers leading the Global War on Terror of the spread of a so-called Shiite Crescent from Iran, through Iraq and Syria and reaching the Mediterranean coast in Lebanon.<br /><br />The Saniora government has denied such allegations and continues to receive the strong backing of the Bush Administration and other Western powers. At the time, no evidence was unveiled to implicate the Lebanese government in this ploy, and its support of Sunni fundamentalist continues to be mere speculations.<br /><br />However, the Lebanese government’s overt support to other absolutist Sunni movements, like Hizb ut-Tahrir, is a clear indicator of this government’s tendency to favor or work with such movements.<br /><br /><br />There have been attempts by the Saniora government to deny that Hizb ut-Tahrir is in fact a menace to Lebanese stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity in an effort to justify granting this group a license to function as a political party, but this study will reveal that the intentions of this group are far from being benign and are in fact a security threat to Lebanon, the Middle East region and the international order.<br /><br />The Lebanese Government and Sunni Fundamentalists :<br /><br />When talking about non-state actors, this term connotes either the generally benign category of non-governmental organizations that work on track-two diplomacy or the more malign category that includes individuals and/or groups of individuals that take advantage of lawless grey areas between states or within states, as well as of the many benefits of globalization to carry out terrorist or unlawful activity that undermine the peace and stability of states, groups of states or the international order. Groups like Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations fall within the latter category, and their ability to shift the security agenda of the leading powers and the international order has been underscored since the events of 9/11. To address this security threat, the United States, which took the lead on the GWOT, has sought to cut off all sources of support to these groups. Ironically the United States continues to support the Lebanese government headed by Prime Minister Fouad Saniora, while the latter has failed to protect Lebanon from the Sunni fundamentalist threat that is plaguing the country, but more importantly has also overtly supported a group known as Hizb ut-Tahrir that believes in the restoration of the Caliphate. Although the focus here is Hizb ut-Tahrir, it is also worth noting that the general internal security environment created by the current Lebanese government has been conducive to the rise of radical Sunni elements. As noted above, Seymour Hersh has gone as far as accusing the Lebanese government, based on conversations he had with former US intelligence sources, of arming Sunni militants with the help of the Bush Administration, and without the knowledge of the US Congress:<br /><br />The United States has also given clandestine support to the Siniora government, according to the former senior intelligence official and the U.S. government consultant. “We are in a program to enhance the Sunni capability to resist Shiite influence, and we’re spreading the money around as much as we can,” the former senior intelligence official said. The problem was that such money “always gets in more pockets than you think it will,” he said. “In this process, we’re financing a lot of bad guys with some serious potential unintended consequences. We don’t have the ability to determine and get pay vouchers signed by the people we like and avoid the people we don’t like. It’s a very high-risk venture.”<br /><br />American, European, and Arab officials I spoke to told me that the Siniora government and its allies had allowed some aid to end up in the hands of emerging Sunni radical groups in northern Lebanon, the Bekaa Valley, and around Palestinian refugee camps in the south. These groups, though small, are seen as a buffer to Hezbollah; at the same time, their ideological ties are with Al Qaeda.<br /><br />These “radical groups” that Mr. Hersh mentions include Fath al Islam, and Asbat Al Ansar. In a recent New York Times article, Souad Mekhennet and Michael Moss give readers a closer look at Fath al Islam and its current leader, a Palestinian outlaw called Shakir al-Abssi who is a former associate of Abu Mussaab Al-Zarqawi and is accused of partaking in the murder of Laurence Foley, the American diplomat in Jordan. Abssi is organizing an armed group of radical Sunni jihadis in the lawless sphere of the Palestinian camps in Lebanon. These camps are suffering from extreme levels of poverty and unemployment providing a breeding ground for future terrorists. According to this article, the Lebanese internal security apparatus is unable to penetrate these camps because any intervention would require the consent of Arab states due to previously signed accords in the Arab League. The other “radical group” finding refuge in these camps is Asbat Al Ansar. In his article Hersh asserts that “Asbat al-Ansar has received arms and supplies from Lebanese internal-security forces and militias associated with the Siniora government.” Moreover, according to the New York Times, leaders of Asbat al Ansar have stated in interviews that they have been “sending fighters to Iraq since the start of the war.” In another press report by the London Sunday Telegraph, British government minister declared that many Sunni insurgents are actually moving from Iraq into Lebanon, because they consider Lebanon as a “soft” target. Also, as is the case with Asbat Al Ansar and Fath al Islam, many of these radicals are gravitating toward the Palestinian camps. Both Hersh and the London Sunday Telegraph articles have claimed that these radicals are being funded by oil-rich Saudis. These press reports were preceded by a Reuters report earlier in March 2007 that pointed also to the Saudis as main financiers of Sunni militants in Lebanon. Hersh was explicit in naming the member of the Saud Royal Family and pointed to Bandar Bin Sultan, former Saudi Ambassador to the United States. All reports seem to also indicate that the alleged Saudi complicity in the rise and empowerment of Sunni radical groups in Lebanon is according to analysts out of fear of the so-called “Shia Crescent.” Following is an excerpt of the Reuters report:<br /><br />The latest flow of money began in December in an attempt to create a counterweight to the Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah, according to former U.S. intelligence officials and independent analysts who view it as part of a Saudi effort to bolster Sunni Islam in the face of growing Shi'ite activism across the Middle East and in Africa.<br /><br />The Associated Press has also recently reported that Jordanian “authorities confiscated a videotape of an Al-Jazeera interview with the country's former crown prince” Hassan, the brother of the late King Hussein. The interview was conducted by one of Al Jazeera’s most prominent news reporters and Beirut Bureau Chief, Ghassan Ben Jeddou, who told AP that the Prince was critical in the interview of the American policy in the region, referring to it as “destructive.” More importantly, according to Ben Jeddou, Prince Hassan also mentioned that a member of the Saudi Royal establishment is funding radical Sunni insurgency in Lebanon to combat Iran’s extension on the Mediterranean, Hezbollah. The pieces of the puzzle seemed to come together when the AP report further revealed that Ben Jeddou “identified the Saudi official as Prince Bandar bin Sultan.”<br /><br />Since the Hersh article was published, the Saniora government has been fast in responding to these allegations and denying them. However, as the saying goes, the proof is in the pudding. One can only judge the Saniora government by the actions that it has taken and that have been made public.<br /><br />One of these actions was also mentioned in Hersh’s article when he pointed out that the son of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri and main backer of the Saniora Government, Saad al-Hariri, “paid forty-eight thousand dollars in bail for four members of an Islamic militant group from Dinniyeh. The men had been arrested while trying to establish an Islamic mini-state in northern Lebanon.” Also, according to this article, Saad al Hariri “later used his parliamentary majority to obtain amnesty for twenty-two of the Dinniyeh Islamists, as well as for seven militants suspected of plotting to bomb the Italian and Ukrainian embassies in Beirut, the previous year.” Hersh obtained this information from The Crisis Group, a US-based organization that deals with conflict resolution and prevention. This organization had also noted, according to Hersh, that many of these militants “had trained in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan.”<br /><br />The second action, which is the focus of this discourse, is the Saniora government’s act of granting Hizb ut-Tahrir a license to operate as a Lebanese political party in May 2006. The interim Lebanese Interior Minister at that time, Ahmad Fatfat, who granted Hizb ut-Tahir a license, released a statement to respond to critics in which he declared that “it’s not possible for freedom and democracy to be partial or discretionary.” It seems, however, that Mr. Fatfat has overlooked the fact that freedom and democracy do not warrant legalizing the activity of a group that plans to overthrow a democratic state’s government or limit the freedoms of its people.<br /><br />The Hizb ut-Tahrir Threat to Lebanon and the Region<br /><br />Hizb ut-Tahrir was founded in Palestine in 1953, and an aggregate review of the available literature on this group shows that it claims to adopt a non-violent approach to achieve a violent end. It comes as no surprise that its rise has been faced with strong resistance from Arab governments and monarchies and most have actually banned its operation, except for Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen. Their alleged non-violent approach relies on the “power of persuasion” to win the hearts and minds of Muslims on their proclaimed goal of restoring the Sunni Caliphate that existed under the Ottoman Empire. Most scholars agree that this process of persuasion unfolds on three stages. The first one begins with “finding and cultivating individuals who are convinced by the thought and method of the party’ and who will then carry out the party's ideas,” and these tend to be members of the elite or educated middle class. The second stage entails, indoctrinating them in “implementing Islam in life, state and society.” The third and final stage begins to unfold when these recruits begin to implement Islam “completely and totally” and end up overthrowing their governments “peacefully” as the main key to establishing the Caliphate. What will follow, also according to many scholars, is conservative Islamic rule, preferably first in Muslim-dominated countries, to be then followed by forcing the rest of the world to convert and become part of the Caliphate through the use of force or jihad.<br /><br />a- The case against the claim of “non-violence:”<br /><br />The claim by Hizb ut-Tahrir that they are non-violent does not justify the ends that they are pursuing. Director of the International Security and Energy Programs at the Nixon Center, Zeyno Baran explains this aspect eloquently when she states:<br /><br />“HT is not itself a terrorist organization, but it can usefully be thought of as a conveyor belt for terrorists. It indoctrinates individuals with radical ideology, priming them for recruitment by more extreme organizations where they can take part in actual operations. By combining fascist rhetoric, Leninist strategy, and Western sloganeering with Wahhabi theology, HT has made itself into a very real and potent threat that is extremely difficult for liberal societies to counter.”<br /><br />Therefore, it should not come as a surprise that the activity of Hizb ut-Tahrir complements the activity of Al Qaeda, particularly by preparing recruits and indoctrinating them in the Salafi and Wahabi radical ideologies. Moreover, according to a policy watch report by the Washington Institute of Near East Policy, Hizb ut-Tahrir members partook in the violent attacks against the Danish Embassy in Lebanon in February 2006 as they were protesting against the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad by a Danish newspaper, which further debunks their claim of being non-violent. This attack which was transmitted live on Lebanese television networks left scores of material damage to churches and private property located in the vicinity of the Embassy. In fact, the mainly Christian residents of the area where the Embassy is located were overtaken with fear at the level of hate and violence displayed by the protestors. Additionally, experts have also noted that terrorist activity could become an option for members of Hizb ut-Tahrir given their ideology.<br /><br />“The reality is that Hizb ut-Tahrir considers the majority of Muslims to be apostates. This leads to the radical notion that the Muslim community must be cleansed of polluting elements. In their belief, the end justifies the means, and therefore for Hizb ut-Tahrir, nothing short of a complete overthrow of the existing status quo will suffice. If this involves killing, mayhem and even terrorism, their beliefs allow and promote such actions.”<br /><br />b- The case against granting Hizb ut-Tahrir legal status in Lebanon:<br /><br />Visiting the official website of Hizb ut-Tahrir, one would notice that this organization refers to a group of countries as Wilayas or “districts” in the Muslim Caliphate. These countries include Australia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Pakistan, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, U.K., and Yemen. Explicitly stating that these countries are “wilayas” or districts implicates Hizb ut-Tahrir in compromising the sovereignty and territorial integrity of these states. In the case of Lebanon, on May 16, 2006, Hizb ut-Tahrir held a press conference in which their spokesperson called for “the implementation of the system of just Islam in the country [Lebanon], uniting the entire community [as] a caliphate country.” Again, it is not clear how a group that calls for changing the current form of Lebanon’s government, dissolving its borders, and integrating it into a larger Islamic “ummah,” is legalized by the Lebanese government and its activity ignored or justified under the pretense of “freedom of speech” or democracy.<br /><br />Hizb ut-Tahrir and the World Community:<br /><br />From the Middle East, Hizb ut-Tahrir has spread all over the world, but has taken advantage of the freedoms of liberal societies, particularly in Europe. Experts have noted that this group has a significant presence in Germany, although they have been banned in that country. The widely agreed upon “nerve center” for their operations in Europe is London, where this group “produces propaganda leaflets and books that are distributed globally.” Recently, British Prime Minister Tony Blair approved a ban of Hizb ut-Tahrir on university and college campuses, particularly after widespread reports of their recruitment activities in these locales.<br /><br />Hizb ut-Tahrir is very well organized and does not disclose the names of its leaders. It is, however, believed that the main leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir resides in secret in Lebanon and goes by the name, Abu Rashta. However, what experts have been able to uncover is a general idea on the organization’s hierarchal structure across countries and continents.<br /><br />“While there are many assumptions regarding the structure of Hizb ut-Tahrir, its structure may roughly be depicted as follows. At the lowest level, the operational cell is called the halaka, or group. The members of the halaka know only their immediate teammates and leader. Efforts are made so the members of each group have no knowledge of the existence of another group. All relations outside the group are carried out only by the leader. The leaders of such groups form another halaka in their turn and that group also has a leader. This method allowed Hizb ut- Tahrir to conduct secret operations in several countries for many years.”<br /><br />Experts disagree on the sources of financial support for Hizb ut-Tahrir, but fingers are pointing toward the Wahabis in Saudi Arabia. “At various times, experts have speculated that Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan have collaborated with HT.” What is evident is that this group has taken advantage of all the perks of globalization to communicate with and recruit members, and keep a low profile. Security experts have also noted that Hizb ut-Tahrir “has the most sophisticated presence in cyberspace, which fits the party’s modern image as well as its defiance of national borders.” They are known to use chat rooms and forums to recruit members and spread their ideology. Also, experts indicate that analyzing numbers of visitors to Hizb ut-Tahrir’s website shows that they receive a high volume of traffic. Counter-terrorism analyst Madeleine Gruen explained that Hizb ut-Tahrir is using music to reach out to youth, and “she attributed HT’s transnational success in part to its ability to adapt its message according to the needs of potential followers in each particular country.”<br /><br />As Europe struggles to integrate thousands of Muslim immigrants arriving from Muslim countries in Southeast Asia and Northern Africa, Hizb ut- Tahrir’s message of “anti-integration” has been found to be a real threat to this regional effort. The more this organization tells people not to integrate into western societies the higher is the chance for future clashes between these immigrants and natives and/or internal security forces of these states. Hizb ut-Tahrir works to unite Muslims in Europe by creating an almost autonomous sub-culture. This network seems to be highly effective and well-connected as revealed by experts.<br /><br />Conclusion :<br /><br />Exposing Hizb ut-Tahrir’s ideology reveals that this group is far from deserving to be granted the liberty to operate as a political party in any state. The one piece of information that stood out while examining this organization is the fact that they go after elites and members of the educated middle class as their target recruits. Could it be that Hizb ut-Tahrir has succeed in recruiting members of the ruling Sunni elite in Lebanon, including the former interim Interior Minister Faftat or Saad al Hariri or maybe even Fouad Saniora himself? At this point, there is no evidence, but mere speculations. However, what seems to be evident day after day is that the Saniora government has made it easy for Sunni radicals to turn Lebanon into their playground, while claiming that they either have no control over the situation or justifying their actions under the pretense of freedom of speech or democracy. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration continues to give unlimited support to the Saniora government in the hopes that strengthening the latter would eventually lead to overpowering Hezbollah. The big question is how would they do that and at what expense? The Soviets ended up withdrawing from Afghanistan, but what did American and Saudi support to jihadis operating against the Soviets cost the US national security in the end? Are we creating another Al Qaeda-type organization in Lebanon?<br /><br />Joelle Jackson is a recent Master of Arts graduate in International Security Studies and the Middle East from the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, D.C. </span><br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sy Hersh: Bush administration arranged support for militants attacking Lebanon .<br />May 23, 2007 <br />In an interview on CNN International's Your World Today, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh explains that the current violence in Lebanon is the result of an attempt by the Lebanese government to crack down on a militant Sunni group, Fatah al-Islam, that it formerly supported.<br />Last March, Hersh reported that American policy in the Middle East had shifted to opposing Iran, Syria, and their Shia allies at any cost, even if it meant backing hard-line Sunni jihadists.<br />A key element of this policy shift was an agreement among Vice President Dick Cheney, Deputy National Security Advisor Elliot Abrams, and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi national security adviser, whereby the Saudis would covertly fund the Sunni Fatah al-Islam in Lebanon as a counterweight to the Shia Hezbollah.<br /><br />Hersh points out that the current situation is much like that during the conflict in Afghanistan in the 1980's – which gave rise to al Qaeda – with the same people involved in both the US and Saudi Arabia and the "same pattern" of the US using jihadists that the Saudis assure us they can control.<br /><br />When asked why the administration would be acting in a way that appears to run counter to US interests, Hersh says that, since the Israelis lost to them last summer, "the fear of Hezbollah in Washington, particularly in the White House, is acute."<br />As a result, Hersh implies, the Bush administration is no longer acting rationally in its policy. "We're in the business of supporting the Sunnis anywhere we can against the Shia. ... "We're in the business of creating ... sectarian violence." And he describes the scheme of funding Fatah al-Islam as "a covert program we joined in with the Saudis as part of a bigger, broader program of doing everything we could to stop the spread of the Shia world, and it just simply -- it bit us in the rear."<br /><br />TRANSCRIPT :<br /><br />HALA GORANI: Well, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported back in March that in order to defeat Hezbollah, the Lebanese government supported a Sunni militant group, the same ones they're fighting today. Seymour joins us live from Washington. Thanks for being with us. What is the source of the financing according to your reporting on these groups, such as Fatah al-Islam in these camps of Nahr el Bared, for instance? Where are they getting the money and where are they getting the arms?<br /><br />SEYMOUR HERSH: The key player is the Saudis. What I was writing about was sort of a private agreement that was made between the White House, we're talking about Richard -- Dick -- Cheney and Elliott Abrams, one of the key aides in the White House, with Bandar. And the idea was to get support, covert support from the Saudis, to support various hard-line jihadists, Sunni groups, particularly in Lebanon, who would be seen in case of an actual confrontation with Hezbollah -- the Shia group in the southern Lebanon -- would be seen as an asset, as simple as that.<br /><br />GORANI: The Siniora government, in order to counter the influence of Hezbollah in Lebanon would be covertly according to your reporting funding groups like Fatah al-Islam that they're having issues with right now?<br /><br />HERSH: Unintended consequences once again, yes.<br /><br />GORANI: And so if Saudi Arabia and the Senora government are doing this, whether it's unintended or not, therefore it has the United States must have something to say about it or not?<br /><br />HERSH: Well, the United States was deeply involved. This was a covert operation that Bandar ran with us. Don't forget, if you remember, you know, we got into the war in Afghanistan with supporting Osama bin Laden, the mujahadin back in the late 1980s with Bandar and with people like Elliott Abrams around, the idea being that the Saudis promised us they could control -- they could control the jihadists so we spent a lot of money and time, the United States in the late 1980s using and supporting the jihadists to help us beat the Russians in Afghanistan and they turned on us. And we have the same pattern, not as if there's any lessons learned. It's the same pattern, using the Saudis again to support jihadists, Saudis assuring us they can control these various group, the groups like the one that is in contact right now in Tripoli with the government.<br /><br />GORANI: Sure, but the mujahadin in the '80s was one era. Why would it be in the best interest of the United States of America right now to indirectly even if it is indirect empower these jihadi movements that are extremists that fight to the death in these Palestinian camps? Doesn't it go against the interests not only of the Senora government but also of America and Lebanon now?<br /><br />HERSH: The enemy of our enemy is our friend, much as the jihadist groups in Lebanon were also there to go after Nasrallah. Hezbollah, if you remember, last year defeated Israel, whether the Israelis want to acknowledge it, so you have in Hezbollah, a major threat to the American -- look, the American role is very simple. Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, has been very articulate about it. We're in the business now of supporting the Sunnis anywhere we can against the Shia, against the Shia in Iran, against the Shia in Lebanon, that is Nasrallah. Civil war. We're in a business of creating in some places, Lebanon in particular, a sectarian violence.<br /><br />GORANI: The Bush administration, of course, officials would disagree with that, so would the Senora government, openly pointing the finger at Syria, saying this is an offshoot of a Syrian group, Fatah al-Islam is, where else would it get its arms from if not Syria.<br /><br />HERSH: You have to answer this question. If that's true, Syria which is close -- and criticized greatly by the Bush administration for being very close -- to Hezbollah would also be supporting groups, Salafist groups -- the logic breaks down. What it is simply is a covert program we joined in with the Saudis as part of a bigger broader program of doing everything we could to stop the spread of the Shia, the Shia world, and it bit us in the rear, as it's happened before.<br /><br />GORANI: Sure, but if it doesn't make any sense for the Syrians to support them, why would it make any sense for the U.S. to indirectly, of course, to support, according to your reporting, by giving a billion dollars in aid, part of it military, to the Senora government -- and if that is dispensed in a way that that government and the U.S. is not controlling extremist groups, then indirectly the United States, according to the article you wrote, would be supporting them. So why would it be in their best interest and what should it do according to the people you've spoken to?<br /><br />HERSH: You're assuming logic by the United States government. That's okay. We'll forget that one right now. Basically it's very simple. These groups are seeing -- when I was in Beirut doing interviews, I talked to officials who acknowledged the reason they were tolerating the radical jihadist groups was because they were seen as a protection against Hezbollah. The fear of Hezbollah in Washington, particularly in the White House, is acute. They just simply believe that Hassan Nasrallah is intent on waging war in America. Whether it's true or not is another question. There is a supreme overwhelming fear of Hezbollah and we do not want Hezbollah to play an active role in the government in Lebanon and that's been our policy, basically, which is support the Siniora government, despite its weakness against the coalition. Not only Siniora but Mr. Aoun, former military leader of Lebanon. There in a coalition that we absolutely abhor.<br /><br />GORANI: All right, Seymour Hersh of "The New Yorker" magazine, thanks for joining us there and hopefully we'll be able to speak a little bit in a few months' time when those developments take shape in Lebanon and we know more. Thanks very much.<br /><br />HERSH: glad to talk to you. </span><br /><br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">LIBAN / POINT DE SITUATION</span><br />22/05/07<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br />Les combats entre l’Armée libanaise et Fatah Al-Islam continuent de faire rage autour du camp palestinien de Nahr El-Bared au Nord Liban et les « dommages collatéraux » touchant les civils continuent eux aussi et s’amplifient : pilonnage intensif du camp par l’Armée d’un côté, attentats à la bombe de l’autre. En effet, après l’attentat à l’explosif qui avait visé, dimanche soir, un centre commercial à Achrafieh, un quartier chrétien de Beyrouth, lundi soir c’était au tour d’un centre commercial de la rue Verdun, un quartier beyrouthin à prédominance sunnite, d’être visé et, plus tard dans la nuit, on apprenait qu’une patrouille de l’Armée avait arrêté, à Mansourieh, à quelques kilomètres au nord-est de la capitale, un Palestinien et un Egyptien porteurs d’une valise piégée.<br />Au troisième jour des combats, il apparaît, plus que jamais auparavant, que c’est à un nouvel avatar de la guerre du Liban que nous assistons : après la guerre entre Libanais chrétiens et Palestiniens des années 70, après la guerre entre chrétiens et musulmans des années 80, après la guerre entre pro-syriens et anti-syriens des dernières années et après la guerre entre sunnites et chiites des derniers mois, voilà sans aucun doute une guerre entre sunnites.<br />Depuis quelques années en effet et plus particulièrement depuis le retrait syrien du Liban au printemps de 2005, les intégristes sunnites, qu’ils soient libanais, palestiniens ou autres, ne cachaient plus leur volonté de vouloir se constituer, à Tripoli, une base territoriale similaire à celle dont les intégristes chiites bénéficient dans la banlieue sud de Beyrouth et à celle dont les intégristes chrétiens avaient jadis bénéficié dans les quartiers est de la capitale.<br />Longtemps ces intégristes sunnites-là furent d’ailleurs ménagés, chouchoutés même, par la composante sunnite de la majorité parlementaire libanaise représentée par les Hariri, laquelle espérait pouvoir s’en servir comme d’une carte contre la Syrie (un fief intégriste sunnite au Nord Liban menacerait directement le pouvoir alaouite en Syrie) et comme d’un contrepoids face à la milice chiite du Hezbollah. Rappelons à ce propos que les intégristes sunnites de Denniyeh au Nord Liban, arrêtés pour avoir enlevé et tué des soldats de l’Armée libanaise, furent par la suite remis en liberté sur ordre du gouvernement issu de l’actuelle majorité parlementaire. Rappelons aussi que ces derniers mois des informations faisaient état d’une intense activité des services de renseignement saoudien et jordanien dans les milieux sunnites intégristes au Liban. <br />Le coup d’éclat du Fatah Al-Islam, dans la nuit du 19 au 20 mai (attaque d’une banque et attaque des positions de l’Armée), semble néanmoins avoir été la goutte qui aura fait débordé le vase, la composante sunnite de la majorité parlementaire s’étant finalement rendu compte que ces éléments qu’elle espérait pouvoir utiliser à son avantage étaient tout à fait incontrôlables. Ce qui expliquerait l’ordre et l’aval donnés par le gouvernement à l’Armée de pourchasser ses éléments-là et de les éliminer. De ce fait, on pourrait dire que la guerre actuelle met aux prises, d’une part des sunnites intégristes libanais et étrangers et, d’autre part, des sunnites libanais modérés, les anti-syriens parmi eux côtoyant étonnamment des pro-syriens.<br />L’appui des sunnites modérés, les Hariri en tête, à l’Armée, dans sa guerre actuelle contre Fatah Al-Islam, a néanmoins ses limites, évidentes. La « rue » sunnite, base de pouvoir des Hariri, voit en effet d’un assez mauvais œil l’Armée pilonner et tuer ses « frères » sunnites, palestiniens et arabes. La composante sunnite de la majorité parlementaire libanaise se trouve de ce fait confrontée à un dilemme, lequel ira croissant si les combats devaient se poursuivre et s’intensifier. Ce qui explique que, tout en appuyant l’Armée, le gouvernement libanais dominé par les Hariri ait néanmoins insisté afin que l’Armée ne pénétrât pas dans le camp de Nahr El-Bared, remettant aibsi en cause l’accord du Caire de 1969 qui avait consacré l’extraterritorialité des camps palestiniens au Liban.<br />Dans cette affaire, les dirigeants sunnites du pays ont, on le voit, beaucoup à perdre et peu à gagner. En effet, une victoire décisive de l’Armée sur Fatah Al-Islam affaiblirait la « rue » sunnite libanaise tout en renforçant l’Armée qui ne doit rien au gouvernement et aux Hariris. En échange, une victoire de Fatah Al-Islam renforcerait le courant intégriste libanais et l’encouragerait à s’autonomiser, échappant ainsi totalement à ceux (Hariris, Saoudiens, Jordaniens) qui pensaient pouvoir l’instrumentaliser. </span><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />« <span style="font-weight: bold;">Le Gouvernement Libanais "Inconstitutionnel" a favorisé l'implantation du Fatah Al Islam depuis plus d'un an</span> »<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Le gouvernement libanais "Inconstitutionnel" et les traitres du soi-disant groupe du 14 Fevrier, infeodés aux Néo-conservateurs Américains, en complicité avec la CIA et le MOSSAD Israélien, ont favorisé l'installation de groupes extrémistes au Liban, pour contrer la popularité croissante du Hizbullah au Liban et partout dans le monde, depuis la guerre barbare de l'été dernier sur le Liban : « Depuis plus d'un un, les milices de tous bords, et spécifiquement les milices terroristes du Fatah Al Islam, s'arment au vu et au su de tout le monde, sans qu'aucune mesure effective ne soit entreprise par le gouvernement pour arrêter cette implantation ». « La volonté du gouvernement libanais d'arrêter les attentats qui ont secoué le Liban depuis plus de deux ans n'est qu'un vœu pieux. Ce gouvernement est des plus cyniques : il a laissé agir ces groupes pendant des mois, et a exploité la terreur qu'ils ont engendrée, notamment dans les zones chrétiennes, pour accuser l'opposition de ces faits. En fin de compte, il n'hésitera pas à aller monnayer le désarmement de ces groupes auprès des démocraties occidentales afin d'assurer sa survie. La politique du pompier pyromane tant exercée par les Syriens durant l'occupation a été reprise par le gouvernement actuel. ». Dès lors nous attendons avec impatience de l'armée libanaise qu'elle continue sa mission et qu'elle ne soit pas stoppée dans sa lancée à des fins politiciennes.<br /><br />Est-il nécessaire de rappeler que pendant que le ministre de la défense pavoisait devant les caméras pour avoir arrêté un seul camion de munition appartenant au Hezbollah, des centaines d'islamistes s'armaient du Sud au Nord du Liban dans le but de terroriser le pays sans qu'ils ne soient à aucun moment inquiétés par le gouvernement ? Au Liban il faut tout d'abord être tué pour qu'on s'interroge enfin sur l'existence de réseaux terroristes, puis d'attendre un peu avant qu'une enquête bâclée ne tombe aux oubliettes ! Aujourd'hui, il n'existe aucune politique gouvernementale sécuritaire et préventive pour protéger ces citoyens. Alors que n'importe quel habitant de Tripoli aurait pu vous guider vers le repère des terroristes, le gouvernement de Mr Saniora n'a pas trouvé nécessaire d'intervenir plutôt. Il a préféré que la situation dégénère au point de déstabiliser le pays tout entier et affaiblir son économie. Il reste sourd et aveugle face aux besoins des libanais, et pire encore, à ce stade de responsabilité, il devient d'une manière ou d'une autre complice de nos assassins.</span><br /><br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br />APRIL 25, 2007: "Buying the War"<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Four years ago this spring the Bush administration took leave of reality and plunged our country into a war so poorly planned it soon turned into a disaster. The story of how high officials misled the country has been told. But they couldn't have done it on their own; they needed a compliant press, to pass on their propaganda as news and cheer them on.<br /><br />Since then thousands of people have died, and many are dying to this day. Yet the story of how the media bought what the White House was selling has not been told in depth on television. As the war rages into its fifth year, we look back at those months leading up to the invasion, when our press largely surrendered its independence and skepticism to join with our government in marching to war.<br /><br />Our report was produced and directed by Kathleen Hughes and edited by Alison Amron.<br /><br />ANNOUNCER (March 6, 2003): Ladies and Gentlemen: the President of the United States<br /><br />PRESIDENT BUSH: Good evening, I'm pleased to take your questions tonight.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Two weeks before he will order America to war, President Bush calls a press conference to make the case for disarming Haddam Hussein.<br /><br />PRESIDENT BUSH: Iraq is a part of the war on terror. It's a country that trains terrorists, it's a country that could arm terrorists. Saddam Hussein and his weapons are a direct threat to this country.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: For months now, his administration has been determined to link Iraq to 9/11.<br /><br />PRESIDENT BUSH: September the 11th should say to the American people that we're now a battle field.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: At least a dozen times during this press conference he will invoke 9/11 and Al Qaeda to justify a preemptive attack on a country that has not attacked America.<br /><br />REPORTER: Mr. President, if you decide…<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: But the White House press corps will ask no hard questions tonight about those claims. Listen to what the President says:<br /><br />PRESIDENT BUSH: This is a scripted…(laughter)<br /><br />REPORTER: Thank you Mr. President--<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Scripted. Sure enough, the President's staff has given him a list of reporters to call on.<br /><br />PRESIDENT BUSH: Let's see here… Elizabeth… Gregory… April…Did you have a question or did I call upon you cold?<br /><br />APRIL: No, I have a question (laughter)<br /><br />PRESIDENT BUSH: Okay. I'm sure you do have a question<br /><br />ERIC BOEHLERT: He sort of giggled and laughed. And, the reporters sort of laughed. And, I don't know if it was out of embarrassment for him or embarrassment for them because they still continued to play along. After his question was done. They all shot up their hands and pretended they had a chance of being called on.<br /><br />APRIL: How is your faith guiding you?<br /><br />PRESIDENT BUSH: My faith sustains me because I pray daily. I pray for guidance.<br /><br />ERIC BOEHLERT: I think it just crystallized what was wrong with the press coverage during the run up to the war…I think they felt like the war was gonna happen. And, they-- the best thing for them to do was to get out of the way.<br /><br />PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you for your questions.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Our story begins with the horror of 9/11….<br /><br />CHARLES GIBSON: (ABC NEWS 9/11/01) Oh my God.<br /><br />DIANE SAWYER: Oh my God. Oh my God.<br /><br />CHARLES GIBSON: That looks like a second plane.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Like everyone else journalists were stunned by the death and devestation.<br /><br />REPORTER (ABC NEWS 9/11/01): This is as close as we can get to the base of the World Trade Center. You can see the firemen assembled here. The police officers, FBI agents. And you can see the two towers - a huge explosion -now raining debris on all of us - we better get out of the way!<br /><br />AARON BROWN: (CNN LIVE 9/11/01): And there as you can see, perhaps the second tower, the front tower, the top portion of which is collapsing. Good Lord.<br /><br />PAT DAWSON (NBC NEWS 9/11/01): If there is a war it's a war against terrorism that started, rather ongoing right now, it started here at about quarter to nine this morning.<br /><br />DAN RATHER: There are no words that can describe this.<br /><br />DAN RATHER: I was deeply moved by 9/11. I don't know of any American who wasn't. I think we all bought into that the world had changed.<br /><br />BOB SIMON: I think the atmosphere in the United States after September 11th was so overwhelmingly patriotic. And overwhelmingly: "We must do something about this."<br /><br />PRESIDENT BUSH (9/14/01 at ground zero): And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.<br /><br />CROWD CHANTING: USA! USA!<br /><br />DAN RATHER (on LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN (9/17/01): George Bush is the President, he makes the decisions and you know, as just one American wherever he wants me to line up, just tell me where.<br /><br />DAN RATHER: I didn't mean it in a journalistic sense; I know it may have come across that way. I meant it in a sense as an individual citizen. Mr. President if you need me, if you need me to go to hell and back for my country, I will do it.<br /><br />DAN RATHER (9/17/01): But I'll tell you this, if they could go down to ground zero here in lower Manhattan-and you referred to it earlier-and see the following, see those fireman....<br /><br />DAVID LETTERMAN: OK I'll tell you what…<br /><br />DAN RATHER: I can finish it.<br /><br />DAVID LETTERMAN: No, no. Dan take care of yourself. We'll be right back here with Dan Rather<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: What I was wrestling with that night listening to you is; once we let our emotions out as journalists on the air, once we say, we'll line up with the President, can we ever really say to the country the President's out of line.<br /><br />DAN RATHER: Yes. Of course you can. Of course you can. No journalist should try to be a robot and say 'They've attacked my country, they've killed thousands of people but I don't feel it.' But what you can do and what should have been done in the wake of that is suck it up and say, okay, that's the way I feel. That's the way I feel as a citizen. And I can serve my country best by being the best journalist I can be. That's the way I can be patriotic.<br /><br />By the way Bill, this is not an excuse. I don't think there is any excuse for, you know, my performance and the performance of the press in general in the roll up to the war. There were exceptions. There were some people, who, I think, did a better job than others. But overall and in the main there's no question that we didn't do a good job.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: As Americans reacted to the atrocities of a sneak attack, a powerful surge of solidary swept across the country.<br /><br />AARON BROWN (CNN Live 9/14/01): One of the things that seems to be binding all Americans these days no matter their backgrounds, in the aftermath of this tragedy, is a renewed sense of patriotism.<br /><br />BRENT BOZELL: (Fox News Channel, HANNITY AND COLMES 9/28/01) ... To see so many reporters just wearing a little American flag on the lapels, to see Tim Russert on MEET THE PRESS.<br /><br />SEAN HANNITY: Yeah<br /><br />BRENT BOZELL: With the red, white and blue ribbons. I think -- I think it's a human emotion there.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: And as the administration organized to strike back at the terrorists, there was little tolerance for critical scrutiny from journalists.<br /><br />WALTER ISAACSON: There was a patriotic fervor and the administration used it so that if you challenged anything you were made to feel that there was something wrong with that.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Walter Isaacson was then Chairman and Chief Executive Officer OF CNN.<br /><br />WALTER ISAACSON: And there was even almost a patriotism police which, you know, they'd be up there on the internet sort of picking anything a Christiane Amanpour, or somebody else would say as if it were disloyal….<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: We interviewed a former reporter at CNN who had been there through that period. And this reporter said this quote, "Everybody on staff just sort of knew not to push too hard to do stories critical of the Bush Administration."<br /><br />WALTER ISAACSON: Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get that critical of a government that's leading us in war time.<br /><br />SOLDIER: Move out!<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: When American forces went after the terrorist bases in Afghanistan, network and cable news reported the civilian casualties…the patriot police came knocking.<br /><br />WALTER ISAACSON: We'd put it on the air and by nature of a 24 hour TV network, it was replaying over and over again. So, you would get phone calls. You would get advertisers. You would get the Administration.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: You said pressure from advertisers?<br /><br />WALTER ISAACSON: Not direct pressure from advertisers, but big people in corporations were calling up and saying, 'You're being anti-American here.'<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: So Isaacson sent his staff a memo, leaked to THE WASHINGTON POST: 'It seems perverse' he said, 'to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan,"<br /><br />REPORTER: There's a body up here.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: And he ordered his reporters and anchors to balance the images of civilian devastation with reminders of September 11th.<br /><br />WALTER ISAACSON: I felt if we put into context, we could alleviate the pressure of people saying, "Don't even show what's happening in Afghanistan."<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Newspapers were squeezed, too. This one in Florida told its editors: "Do not use photos on page 1a showing civilian casualties…" our sister paper …has done so and received hundreds and hundreds of threatening e-mails … "<br /><br />And then there was Fox News: Whose chief executive — the veteran Republican operative and media strategist Roger Ailes — had privately urged the white house to use the harshest measures possible after 9/11...<br /><br />WALTER ISSACSON: … so we were caught between this patriotic fervor and a competitor who was using that to their advantage; they were pushing the fact that CNN was too liberal that we were sort of vaguely anti-American.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Even as American troops were still chasing Osama bin Laden through the mountains of Afghanistan, Washington was moving toward a wider war. Within hours after the attacks on 9/11, Defense Secretary Rumsfield put Saddam Hussein on the hit list. An aide took notes.<br /><br />DAN RATHER: I knew before 9/11 that many of the people who came into the administration were committed to toppling Saddam Hussein. And doing it with military force if necessary.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Dan Rather is talking about prominent Washington figures in and outside of government…known as neoconservatives. They had long wanted to transform the Middle East, beginning with the removal of Saddam Hussein. The terrorist attacks gave them the chance they wanted. And the media gave them a platform.<br /><br />JOHN KING (WAR ROOM WITH WOLF BLITZER,CNN 11/19/01): Richard Perle? Next phase Saddam Hussein?<br /><br />RICHARD PERLE: Absolutely.<br /><br />WILLIAM KRISTOL (FOX NEWS 11/24/01): One person close to the debate said to me this week that it's no longer a question of if, it's a question of how we go after Saddam Hussein.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: In the weeks after 9/11 they seemed to be on every channel, gunning for Hussein.<br /><br />TED KOPPEL (NIGHTLINE 11/28/01): You are probably the hawkiest of the hawks on this. Why?<br /><br />JAMES WOOLSEY: Well I don't know that I accept that characterization but it's probably not too far off. I think that the Baghdad regime is a serious danger to world peace.<br /><br />RICHARD PERLE (ABC THIS WEEK 11/18/01): Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Saddam Hussein, plus his known contact with terrorists, including Al Qaeda terrorists, is simply a threat too large to continue to tolerate.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Among their leading spokesmen were Richard Perle and James Woolsey. Both sat on the Defense Policy Board advising Donald Rumsfeld. And they used their inside status to assure the press that overthrowing Hussein would be easy.<br /><br />RICHARD PERLE (CNN 11/19/01): We would be seen as liberators in Iraq.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Major newspapers and magazines gave them prime space to make their case, including the possibility that 9/11 had been "sponsored, supported and perhaps even ordered by Saddam Hussein." The president, they said, should take "Preemptive action."<br /><br />WILLIAM KRISTOL (MEET THE PRESS, NBC, 10/7/01): The biggest mistake we have made-it's our mistake, it's not the mistake of the Arabs-- was not finishing off Saddam Hussein in 1991.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: No one got more air time from an arm chair than Bill Kristol, editor of THE WEEKLY STANDARD And a media savvy Republican strategist.<br /><br />In the 1990s Kristol organized a campaign for increased military spending and a muscular foreign policy. In 1998 he and his allies wrote President Bill Clinton urging him 'to remove Saddam Hussein from power.<br /><br />And now, just days after 9/11 with many of their allies serving in the administration, they wrote an open letter to President Bush calling for regime change in bagdad. Over the coming months Kristol's Weekly Standard kept up the drum beat.<br /><br />FRED BARNES (BELTWAY BOYS, Fox 11/24/01): What are the consequences if the US does not finish off this Saddam Hussein as a second step in the war on terrorism?<br /><br />WILLIAM KRISTOL: It would mean that the president having declared a global war on terrorism didn't follow through-- didn't take out the most threatening terrorist state in the world."<br /><br />TIM RUSSERT (MEET THE PRESS, NBC 12/30/01): Safire will you wager Ms. Wright, right now that Saddam will be out of power by the end of 2002.<br /><br />WILLIAM SAFIRE: Absolutely. I'll see you here a year from now.<br /><br />CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: (FOX NEWS 9/22/01) If you go after Iraq you're gonna lose a lot of allies, but who cares.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Charles Krauthammer and other top columnists at THE WASHINGTON POST also saw the hand of Saddam Hussein in the terrorist attacks…<br /><br />Jim Hoagland implicated Hussein within hours after the suicide bombers struck on 9/11….<br /><br />…and the POST's George Will fired away on the talk shows.<br /><br />GEORGE WILL (ABC 10/28/01): The administration knows he's vowed-Hussein has vowed revenge, he has anthrax, he loves biological weapons, he has terrorist training camps, including 747's to practice on…<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: It was proving difficult to distinguish the opinion of the pundits from the policies of the administration...but as the hullabaloo over Saddam grew in Washington, Bob Simon of CBS News '60 Minutes' was dumbfounded. He is based in the Middle East.<br /><br />BOB SIMON: From overseas we had a clearer view. I mean we knew things or suspected things that-- perhaps the Washington press corps could not suspect. For example, the absurdity of putting up a connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Absurdity. The Washington press corps cannot question an absurdity?<br /><br />BOB SIMON: Well maybe the Washington press corps based inside the belt-- wasn't as aware as those of us who are based in the Middle East and who spend a lot of time in Iraq. I mean when the Washington press corps travels, it travels with the president or with the secretary of state. And--<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: In a bubble.<br /><br />BOB SIMON: Yeah in a bubble. Where as we who've spent weeks just walking the streets of Baghdad and in other situations in Baghdad-- just were scratching our heads. In ways that perhaps that the Washington press corps could not.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Simon was under no illusions about Saddam Hussein. During the first Gulf War he and his camera crew were arrested by Iraqi forces, and brutalized for 40 days before being released.<br /><br />BOB SIMON: We're going home, which is the, the place you go to after a war when, if you've been as lucky as we've been.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: It didn't make sense to Simon that the dictator would trust islamic terrorists.<br /><br />BOB SIMON: Saddam as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do. So I just didn't believe it for an instant.<br /><br />JOHN WALCOTT: And some of the things that were said, many of the things that were said about Iraq didn't make sense. And that really prompts you to ask, "Wait a minute. Is this true? Does everyone agree that this is true? Does anyone think this is not true?"<br /><br />JOHN WALCOTT: This is what we're going to do, this is plan A now…<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: John Walcott Wasn't buying the official line, either. The Bureau Chief of Knight Ridder News Service, he and his reporters covered Washington for 32 newspapers spread across the country.<br /><br />JOHN WALCOTT: Our readers aren't here in Washington. They aren't up in New York. They aren't the people who send other people's kids to war. They're the people who get sent to war.<br /><br />And we felt an obligation to them, to explain why that might happen. We were determined to scrutinize the administration's case for war as closely as we possibly could. And that's what we set out to do.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: So as he listened to pundits and officials talking about Saddam Hussein's supposed connections to 9/11 Walcott was skeptical.<br /><br />JOHN WALCOTT: It was not clear to us why anyone was asking questions about Iraq in the wake of an attack that had Al Qaeda written all over it.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: He assigned his two top reporters to investigate the claims. Between them, Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay, had more than 40 years experience reporting on foreign affairs and national security. They had lots of sources to call on.<br /><br />WARREN STROBEL: We were basically I think hearing two different messages from-- there's a message-- the public message the administration was giving out about Iraq — it's WMD-- the fact there was an immediate threat-- grave threat-- gathering threat and — but the was so different from what we were hearing from people on the inside, people we had known in many cases for years and trusted.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: They went about their reporting the old-fashioned way — with shoe leather… tracking down and meeting with sources deep inside the intelligence community.<br /><br />WARREN STROBEL: When you're talking to the working grunts, you know-- uniform military officers, intelligence professionals-- professional diplomats, those people are more likely than not-- not always, of course, but more likely than not to tell you some version of the truth, and to be knowledgeable about what they're talking about when it comes to terrorism or the Middle East, things like that.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Strobel learned that within two weeks after 9/11, senior intelligence officers were growing concerned that the bush administration was stretching 'little bits and pieces of information….' to Connect Saddam Hussein to Al qaeda — with no hard evidence.<br /><br />WARREN STROBEL: There was a lot of skepticism among our editors because what we were writing was so at odds with what most of the rest of the Washington press corps was reporting and some of our papers frankly, just didn't run the stories. They had access to the NEW YORK TIMES wire and the WASHINGTON POST wire and they chose those stories instead.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Within the month Strobel found out the Pentagon had already dispatched James Woolsey to Europe looking for any shred of evidence to incriminate hussein....<br /><br />WARREN STROBEL: He did this even knowing that the CIA had already analyzed this carefully and found no such links. So, the more I thought about that, the more it just didn't seem to make sense.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Knight Ridder's early skepticism was a rarity inside the beltway bubble…..<br /><br />JOHN WALCOTT: A decision to go to war, even against an eighth-rate power such as Iraq, is the most serious decision that a government can ever make. And it deserves the most serious kind of scrutiny that we in the media can give it. Is this really necessary? Is it necessary to send our young men and women to go kill somebody else's young men and women?<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: That meant asking questions about the sources of information the press and government were relying on, including, notably, this man, Ahmed Chalabi.<br /><br />After the first gulf war americans had installed Cchalabi as the leader of Iraqi exiles seeking regime change in Baghdad. Now he was all over Washington, as the administration's and the neo-conservatives' star witness against Saddam.<br /><br />AHMED CHALABI: Hello… Yes, very well.<br /><br />JOHN WALCOTT: Chalabi's motives were always perfectly clear in this and understandable. He was an Iraqi. He didn't want his country run by a thug and a murderer, a mass murderer-- and a crook. And everything he said had to be looked at in that light, and scrutinized in that light.<br /><br />And why anyone would give him a free pass, or anyone else a free pass for that matter, on a matter as important as going to war, is beyond me.<br /><br />JAMES BAMFORD: Chalabi was a creature of American propaganda to a large degree. It was a American company, the Rendon Group, that — working secretly with the CIA — basically created his organization, the Iraqi National Congress. And put Chalabi in charge basically.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: James Bamford is an independent journalist whose specialty is the intelligence world.<br /><br />JAMES BAMFORD: From the very beginning Chalabi was paid a lot of money from the US taxpayers. The CIA paid him originally about 350,000 dollars a month, to Chalabi and his organization. The CIA finally caught on in the mid-90s that-- Chalabi was a conman basically. And, they dropped him.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Chalabi's handlers in Washington were not deterred by that stain on his credibility. He charmed Congress out of millions more dollars for his cause, and had the press eating out of his hand.<br /><br />JAMES BAMFORD: He made a lot of friends in the media. And, he convinced a lot of people that he was legitimate even though the CIA had dropped him.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: When Chalabi made selected iraqi defectors available to the press it was a win-win game: the defectors got a platform. Journalists got big scoops.<br /><br />MICHAEL MASSING: There was a big effort, in fact, to find people who seemed to have credible evidence about what was going on inside Iraq. Because, in fact, if you could find somebody who was credible — talking about a nuclear program — in Iraq or chemical weapons, that would be a big story.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: And it worked. THE NEW YORKER. USA TODAY. THE WASHINGTON POST. THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. THE NEW YORK TIMES. And on PBS just two months after 9/11, Frontline and the New York Times teamed up for a documentary on the defectors.<br /><br />FRONTLINE NARRATOR (FRONTLINE, PBS, 11/8/01): Captain Sabah Khodada is a former army officer who defected from Iraq. He made a crude drawing of what he says is a terrorist training camp on the outskirts of Baghdad.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: There were caveats...<br /><br />FRONTLINE NARRATOR: And a further caution: these defectors have been brought to FRONTLINE's attention by one group of Iraqi dissidents, the INC, The Iraqi National Congress.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: But the caveats couldn't compete with the spectacular tales told by defectors.<br /><br />Before the invasion THE NEW YORK TIME's Judith Miller would write 6 prominent stories based on their testimony.<br /><br />JUDITH MILLER: Ahmed Chalabi is a controversial leader of the Iraqi opposition…<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: And still on the web, a report about the defectors, narrated By Judith Miller and produced By NEW YORK TIMES Television for THE NEWSHOUR on PBS…<br /><br />JAMES BAMFORD: Well, Judy Miller had been an old friend of Chalabi. Did a lot of the stories on Chalabi. Was very favorable to Chalabi.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: James Bamford found out that in 2001 Chalabi had arranged for Miller to meet in Thailand with a defector from Iraq named Al-Haideri.<br /><br />JAMES BAMFORD: So, Al-Haideri was in Bangkok. Judy Miller flew there to interview him.<br /><br />JAMES BAMFORD: The NEW YORK TIMES ran a front page-- story-- basically confirming everything the administration had been saying about Iraq -<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Al-Haideri said he was a Kurd from northern Iraq. He told Miller the Iraqis had hidden chemical and biological weapons….Some.... miller reported...... Right under Saddam's "presidential sites."<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: The story spread far and wide.<br /><br />MICHAEL MASSING: THE NEW YORK TIMES is just-- remains immensely influential. People in the TV world read it every morning, and it's amazing how often you'll see a story go from the front page of the day's paper in the morning to the evening news cast at night. People in government-- of course read it, think tanks, and so on.<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: There were some red flags that the NEW YORK TIMES story threw out immediately, which caught our eye-- immediately. The first was the idea that a Kurd-- the enemy of Saddam had been allowed into his most top secret military facilities. I don't think so. That was, for me, the biggest red flag. And there were others, like the idea that Saddam Hussein would put a biological weapons facility under his residence. I mean, would you put a biological weapons lab under your living room? I don't think so.<br /><br />WARREN STROBEL: The first rule of being an intelligence agent, or a journalist, and they're really not that different, is you're skeptical of defectors, because they have a reason to exaggerate. They want to increase their value to you. They probably want something from you. Doesn't mean they're lying, but you should be -- journalists are supposed to be skeptical, right? And I'm-afraid the NEW YORK TIMES reporter in that case and a lot of other reporters were just not skeptical of what these defectors were saying. Nor was the administration…<br /><br />FOX NEWS ANCHOR (8/1/02): A former top Iraqi nuclear scientists tells congress Iraq could build three nuclear bombs by 2005.<br /><br />CNN NEWS ANCHOR (12/21/01): Well, now another defector. A senior Iraqi intelligence official tells Vanity Fair in an exclusive interview that Saddam Hussein has trained an elite fighting force in sabotage, urban warfare, hijacking and murder. David Rose wrote the story, he joins us now from London.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: In VANITY FAIR's David Rose, defectors found another eager beaver for their claims. The glossy magazine, a favorite of media elites, gave him four big spreads to tell defector stories.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: The talk shows lapped it up.<br /><br />DAVID ROSE: (MSNBC 12/21/01) What the defector Al-Qurairy, a former brigadier general in the Iraqi intelligence service, told me is that these guys, there are twelve hundred in all and they've been trained to hijack trains, buses, ships and so forth…<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: As you track their stories, they become ever more fantastic, and they're the same people who are telling these stories, 'til you get to the most fantastic tales of all, which appeared in Vanity Fair Magazine.<br /><br />DAVID ROSE: The last training exercise was to blow up a full size mock up of a US destroyer in a lake in central Iraq.<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: Or jumping into pits of fouled water and having to kill a dog with your bare teeth. I mean, the-- and this was coming from people, who are appearing in all of these-- these stories, and as I-- and-- and-- and sometimes their rank would change.<br /><br />LESLIE STAHL: (60 MINUTES, CBS 3/3/02)…Musawi told us that he has verified that this man was an officer in Iraq's ruthless intelligence service the Mukhabarat<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: And, you're saying, "Wait a minute. There's something wrong here, because in this story he was a Major, but in this story the guy's a Colonel. And, in this story this was his function, but now he says in this story he was doing something else.<br /><br />LESLIE STAHL: The defector is telling Musawi that in order to evade the UN inspectors Saddam Hussein put his biological weapons laboratories in trucks that the defector told us he personally bought from Renault.<br /><br />>LESLIE STAHL: Refrigerator trucks?<br /><br />DEFECTOR: Yeah, yeah.<br /><br />LESLIE STAHL: And how many?<br /><br />DEFECTOR: Seven.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Leslie Stahl and CBS Retracted their story a year after the invasion when nearly all the evidence presented by defectors proved to be false.<br /><br />VANITY FAIR's Rose later said high government officials had confirmed his stories. But these were the very officials who had bet on Chalabi as their favorite man o'war. To the Knight Ridder team it all smelled of a con game.<br /><br />JOHN WALCOTT: What he did was reasonably clever but fairly obvious, which is he gave the same stuff to some reporters that, for one reason or another, he felt would simply report it. And then he gave the same stuff to people in the Vice President's office and in the Secretary of Defense's office. And so, if the reporter called the Department of Defense or the Vice President's office to check, they would've said, "Oh, I think that's-- you can go with that. We have that, too." So, you create the appearance, or Chalabi created the appearance, that there were two sources, and that the information had been independently confirmed, when, in fact, there was only one source. And it hadn't been confirmed by anybody.<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: And let's not forget how close these people were to this administration, which raises the question, was there coordination? I can't tell you that there was, but it sure looked like it.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: The administration was now stepping up efforts to nail down a tangible link between Saddam and 9/11. Journalists were tipped to a meeting that supposedly took place in Prague between Iraqi agents and the 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta. Pundits had a field day.<br /><br />GEORGE WILL: (THIS WEEK, ABC 10/28/01) He has contacts outside in Sudan and Afghanistan with terrorists. He met… They did indeed have a contact between Atta and an Iraqi diplomat.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: In THE NEW YORK TIMES William Safire called the Prague meeting an 'undisputed fact'. He would write about the Atta connection ten times in his op-ed column.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Just weeks after 9/11, Safire had predicted a 'quick war' ….With Iraqis cheering their liberators and leading 'the Arab world toward democracy."<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Between March 2002 and the invasion a year later Safire would write a total of 27 opinion pieces fanning the sparks of war.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: And on Tim Russert's MEET THE PRESS Safire kept it up.<br /><br />TIM RUSSERT (MEET THE PRESS, NBC7/28/02): Bill Safire, the difference between sufficient provocation and a preemptive strike?<br /><br />WILLIAM SAFIRE: I don't think we need any more provocation then we've had by ten years of breaking his agreement at the cease fire. He has been building weapons of mass destruction.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: In October his own paper ran a front page story by James Risen questioning the evidence.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Then came this report from Bob Simon:<br /><br />BOB SIMON (60 MINUTES 12/8/02): The administration has been trying to make the link to implicate Saddam Hussein in the attacks of September 11th and they've been pointing to an alleged meeting between Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker, and an Iraqi intelligence officer in the Czech capital of Prague.<br /><br />BOB SIMON: If we had combed Prague and found out that there was absolutely no evidence for a meeting between Mohammad Atta and the-- the Iraqi intelligence figure. If we knew that, you had to figure that the administration knew it. And yet they were selling the connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam.<br /><br />BOB SIMON: (60 MINUTES) Bob Baer spent 16 years as an undercover agent for the CIA in the Middle East.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: How did you get to Bob Baer, the former CIA official who was such an important source for you?<br /><br />BOB SIMON: We we called him.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: How did you find him? Did you know him?<br /><br />BOB SIMON: I knew some friends of his. It was-- it wasn't a problem getting his phone number. I mean any reporter could get his phone number.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Who was he? And what-- why was he important?<br /><br />BOB SIMON: He was one of the guys who was sent to Prague to find that link. He was sent to find the link between Al Qaeda and Saddam<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: He would have been a hero if he'd found the link.<br /><br />BOB SIMON: Oh my heavens yes. I mean this was what-- everyone was looking for.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: But there was little appetite inside the networks for taking on a popular war time president. So Simon decided to wrap his story inside a more benign account of how the White House was marketing the war.<br /><br />BOB SIMON (60 MINUTES 12/8/02): It's not the first time a president has mounted a sales campaign to sell a war.<br /><br />BOB SIMON: And I think we all felt from the beginning that to deal with a subject as explosive as this, we should keep it in a way almost light., if that doesn't seem ridiculous.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Going to war, almost light.<br /><br />BOB SIMON: Not to-- not to present it as a frontal attack on the administration's claims. Which would have been not only premature, but we didn't have the ammunition to do it at the time. We did not know then that there were no mass-- weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.<br /><br />We only knew that the connection the administration was making between Saddam and Al Qaeda was very tenuous at best and that the argument it was making over the aluminum tubes seemed highly dubious. We knew these things. And therefore we could present the Madison Avenue campaign on these things. Which was a-- sort of softer, less confrontational way of doing it<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Did you go to any of the brass at CBS-- even at 60 MINUTES-- and say, "Look, we gotta dig deeper. We gotta connect the dots. This isn't right."<br /><br />BOB SIMON: No in all-- in all honesty, with a thousand Mea Culpas-- I've done a few stories in Iraq. But-- nope I don't think we followed up on this.<br /><br />ARI FLEISHER (9/18/02): Iraq is in possession of weapons of mass destruction contrary to their promises…<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: What the White House was now marketing as fact would go virtually unchallenged.<br /><br />DONALD RUMSFELD (Department of Defense Press Briefing, 9/26/02): We know they have weapons of mass destruction, we know they have active programs.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: As the WASHINGTON POST'S veteran reporter Walter Pincus would later report, the propaganda machine was run by the president's inner circle — officials who called themselves the White House Iraq Group, or WHIG.....<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: You wrote that WHIG included Karl Rove, the chief of staff, Andrew Card, Mary Matalin, Condi Rice, Steven Hadley, Lewis Libby and they were in charge of selling the war.<br /><br />WALTER PINCUS: Selling the war. Yeah.<br /><br />PRESIDENT BUSH (9/11/02): Good evening. A long year has passed since enemies attacked our country.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Their chief salesman had the best props at his disposal<br /><br />PRESIDENT BUSH (9/11/02): …and we will not allow any terrorist or tyrant to threaten civilization with weapons of mass murder.<br /><br />WALTER PINCUS: They created that link.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: The marketing group?<br /><br />WALTER PINCUS: The marketing group. And the link was a twofold link. One, he had weapons of mass destruction. And two, he supported terrorists. And they repeated it everyday. anybody who watches-- television these days knows you sell a product, not just by saying it once, by saying it over and over again with new spokesmen two, three times a day and it sinks into the public.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: But is there anything unusual about an administration marketing its policy?<br /><br />WALTER PINCUS: It's, I think each administration has learned from the other, and with this group is just the cleverest I've ever seen-- and took it to new heights.<br /><br />NORM SOLOMON: The TV, radio, print, other media outlets are as crucial to going to war as the bombs and the bullets and the planes. They're part of the arsenal, the propaganda weaponry, if you will. And that's totally understood across the board, at the Pentagon, the White House, the State Department.<br /><br />COLIN POWELL (9/26/02): A proven menace like Saddam Hussein in possession of weapons of mass destruction<br /><br />PRESIDENT BUSH (Discussion with Congressional Leaders, 9/26/02): The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons<br /><br />DONALD RUMSFELD (DOD Press Briefing 9/26/02): We do have solid evidence of the presence in Iraq of Al Qaeda members.<br /><br />PRESIDENT BUSH: The regime has long standing and continuing ties to terrorist organizations.<br /><br />BOB SIMON: Just repeat it and repeat it and repeat it. Repeat Al Qaeda, Iraq. Al Qaeda, Iraq. Al Qaeda, Iraq. Just keep it going. Keep that drum beat going.<br /><br />And it was effective because long after it was well established that there was no link between Al Qaeda and the government of Iraq and the Saddam regime, the polls showed that an overwhelming majority of Americans believed that Al Qaeda-- that Iraq was responsible for September 11th.<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: Most people actually believed and accepted that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. I have to admit that until we really started burrowing into the story-- that I believed it, too.<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: Is this something that they could go along with…<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Landay found plenty of evidence to contradict the official propaganda, and the facts quickly changed his mind.<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: I -- simply spent basically a month familiarizing myself, with what Saddam's weapons of mass destruction programs had been and what had happened to them. And, there was tons of material available on that from the UN weapons inspectors. I mean, they got into virtually everything, and their reports were online.<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: If you go down here the Iraq Nuclear Verification Office, they put up regular-here you go-key findings, what they found out about Iraq's nuclear weapons programs. It's all here in the open for anybody who wants to read it.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: International inspectors had gone into Iraq after the first Gulf War to search for and to destroy Saddam Hussein's weapons systems….Late in 1998, the inspections came to an abrupt halt after the iraqi government refused to cooperate…but that hardly meant no one was watching.<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: During the period of time between when the inspectors left Iraq, which was in 1998-- the end of 1998 and then, the United States had covered the place with spy satellites and-- U2 over flights, and-- you know, the-- other intelligence services had their eyeballs on this place.<br /><br />DICK CHENEY: (Speech to the VFW 8/26/02) There is a great danger that…<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: That's why Landay was surprised by what Vice President Cheney told a group of veterans in late august 2002.<br /><br />DICK CHENEY: (Speech to the VFW 8/26/02) Many of us are convinced that Saddam Hussein will acquire nuclear weapons fairly soon.<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: …And I looked at that and I said, "What is he talking about?" Because, to develop a nuclear weapon you need specific infrastructure and in particular the way the Iraqi's were trying to produce a nuclear weapon was through enrichment of uranium.<br /><br />Now, you need tens of thousands of machines called "centrifuges" to produce highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon. You've gotta house those in a fairly big place, and you've gotta provide a huge amount of power to this facility. Could he really have done it with all of these eyes on his country?<br /><br />DICK CHENEY: (Speech to the VFW 8/26/02) But we now know that Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons.<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: So, when Cheney said that, I got on the phone to people, and one person said to me-- somebody who watched proliferation as their job-said, "The Vice President is lying."<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: On the basis of his intelligence sources Landay wrote there was little evidence to back up the Vice President's claims.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: But the story Landay wrote didn't run In New York or Washington - Knight Ridder, remember, has no outlet in either city. So it couldn't compete with a blockbuster that appeared two days later on the front page of the nation's paper of record, with a familiar by-line….<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Quoting anonymous administration officials, the TIMES reported that Saddam Hussein had launched a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb using specially designed aluminimum tubes...<br /><br />And there on MEET THE PRESS that same morning was Vice President Cheney.<br /><br />DICK CHENEY (MEET THE PRESS NBC 9/8/02): There's a story in the NEW YORK TIMES this morning, this is-- and I want to attribute this to the TIMES -- I don't want to talk about obviously specific intelligence sources, but--<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: Now, ordinarily information-- like the aluminum tubes would-- wouldn't appear-it was top secret intelligence, and the Vice President and the National Security Advisor would not be allowed to talk about this on the Sunday talk shows. But, it appeared that morning in the NEW YORK TIMES and, therefore, they were able to talk about it.<br /><br />DICK CHENEY (MEET THE PRESS NBC 9/8/02): It's now public that in fact he has been seeking to acquire and we have been able to intercept to prevent him from acquiring through this particular channel the kinds of tubes that are necessary to build a centrifuge and the centrifuge is required to take low grade uranium and enhance it into highly enriched uranium which is what you have to have in order to build a bomb."<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Did you see that performance?<br /><br />BOB SIMON: I did.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: What did you think?<br /><br />BOB SIMON: I thought it was remarkable.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Why?<br /><br />BOB SIMON: Remarkable. You leak a story, and then you quote the story. I mean, that's a remarkable thing to do.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: And that's only part of it. Using the identical language of the anonymous sources quoted in the TIMES, top officials were now invoking the ultimate spectre of nuclear war -- the smoking gun as mushroom cloud.<br /><br />CONDOLEEZA RICE (CNN 9/8/02): There will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquire a nuclear weapon. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."<br /><br />ERIC BOEHLERT: Those sorts of stories when they-- appear on the front page of the so called liberal NEW YORK TIMES. It absolutely comes with a stamp of approval. I mean if the NEW YORK TIMES thinks Saddam is on the precipice of-- some mushroom clouds. Then, there's really no debate.<br /><br />BOB SCHEIFFER: (FACE THE NATION, CBS 9/8/02) We read in the NEW YORK TIMES today a story that says that Saddam Hussein is closer to acquiring nuclear weapons… Does he have nuclear weapons, is there a smoking gun here?<br /><br />DONALD RUMSFELD: The smoking gun is an interesting phrase.<br /><br />COLIN POWELL: Then as we saw in reporting just this morning…<br /><br />TIM RUSSERT: What specifically has he obtained that you believe will enhance his nuclear development program.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Was it just a coincidence in your mind that Cheney came on your show and others went on the other Sunday shows, the very morning that that story appeared?<br /><br />TIM RUSSERT: I don't know. The NEW YORK TIMES is a better judge of that than I am.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: No one tipped you that it was going to happen?<br /><br />TIM RUSSERT: No, no. I mean-<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: The-- the Cheney-- office didn't make any-- didn't leak to you that there's gonna be a big story?<br /><br />TIM RUSSERT: No. No. I mean, I don't-- I don't have the-- this is, you know, on MEET THE PRESS, people come on and there are no ground rules. We can ask any question we want. I did not know about the aluminum-tube story until I read it in the NEW YORK TIMES.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Critics point to September eight, 2002 and to your show in particular, as the classic case of how the press and the government became inseparable.<br /><br />Someone in the administration plants a dramatic story in the NEW YORK TIMES And then the Vice President comes on your show and points to the NEW YORK TIMES. It's a circular, self-confirming leak.<br /><br />TIM RUSSERT: I don't know how Judith Miller and Michael Gordon reported that story, who their sources were. It was a front-page story of the NEW YORK TIMES. When Secretary Rice and Vice President Cheney and others came up that Sunday morning on all the Sunday shows, they did exactly that.<br /><br />TIM RUSSERT: What my concern was, is that there were concerns expressed by other government officials. And to this day, I wish my phone had rung, or I had access to them.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Bob Simon didn't wait for the phone to ring.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: When you said a moment ago when we started talking to people who knew about aluminum tubes. What people-who were you talking to?<br /><br />BOB SIMON: We were talking to people - to scientists - to scientists and to researchers and to people who had been investigating Iraq from the start.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Would these people have been available to any reporter who called or were they exclusive sources for 60 minutes?<br /><br />BOB SIMON: No, I think that many of them would have been available to any reporter who called.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: And you just picked up the phone?<br /><br />BOB SIMON: Just picked up the phone.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Talked to them?<br /><br />BOB SIMON: Talked to them and then went down with the cameras.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Few journalists followed suit. And throughout the fall of 2002 high officials were repeating apocaplyptic warnings with virtually no demand from the establishment press for evidence.<br /><br />PRESIDENT BUSH (Cincinnati Speech, 10/7/02): Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof-the smoking gun -that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Could members of the press have known at that point that the administration was exaggerating?<br /><br />WALTER PINCUS: Individuals did it. There were specialists who were raising questions. And one of our reporters, Joby Warrick wrote a very tough piece about not just the disagreement, but-- but how doubtful it was that these tubes were for nuclear weapons. It was a one-day piece in our paper. And it wasn't picked up.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: But Warrick's story appeared on page 18, not page one.<br /><br />HOWARD KURTZ: The front page of THE WASHINGTON POST or any newspaper is a billboard of what the editors are telling you, these are the most important stories of the day. And stories that don't run on the front page, the reader sort of gets that, well, these are of secondary importance.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Howard Kurtz is the WASHINGTON POST media critic.<br /><br />HOWARD KURTZ: I went back and did the math. From August 2002 until the war was launched in March of 2003 there were about 140 front page pieces in THE WASHINGTON POST making the administration's case for war.<br /><br />It was, "The President said yesterday." "The Vice President said yesterday." The Pentagon said yesterday." Well, that's part of our job. Those people want to speak. We have to provide them a platform. I don't have anything wrong with that. But there was only a handful-- a handful of stories that ran on the front page. Some more that ran inside the pages of the paper that made the opposite case. Or, if not making the opposite case, raised questions.<br /><br />Was this really true? What was the level of proof? Did the CIA really know? What were those aluminum tubes? Those stories, and some reporters worked hard on them, had a harder time getting on the front page. Why because they weren't definitive.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: But who defines definitive? Reporter Walter Pincus' sources deep inside the government questioned how the intelligence was being used. But his stories were mostly relegated to the back pages. Across the media world the bellicose but uncomfirmed claims made the big headlines. The cautionary stories did not.<br /><br />WALTER PINCUS: And I believe honestly, people don't have a fear of irritating the White House-- certainly not at the WASHINGTON POST. But-- they do worry about sort of getting out ahead of something.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Isn't that supposed to be scoop journalism?<br /><br />WALTER PINCUS: Well but you could be wrong.<br /><br />NORM SOLOMEN: It's a truism that individual journalists, and in fact the top rank media outlets they work for, really want to be ahead of the curve but not out on a limb. And, if you took seriously the warning flags that were profuse before the invasion of Iraq, that the administration's story was a bunch of nonsense about WMDs, you would not just be ahead of the curve a little, you would have been way out on a limb.<br /><br />WALTER ISAACSON: I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building-- biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Isn't it the role of the fourth estate, though, to be critical of group think?<br /><br />WALTER ISAACSON: It definitely is and I think we in the press, we're not critical enough. We didn't question our sources enough.<br /><br />DAN RATHER: We weren't smart enough, we were alert enough, we didn't dig enough. And we shouldn't have been fooled in this way.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Even Oprah got in on the act, featuring in October 2002 NEW YORK TIMES reporter Judith Miller.<br /><br />JUDITH MILLER: (OPRAH 10/9/02) The US intelligence community believes that Saddam Hussein has deadly stocks of anthrax, of botulinium toxin, which is one of the most virulent poisons known to man.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Liberal hawk Kenneth Pollak.<br /><br />KENNETH POLLAK: And what we know for a fact from a number of defectors who've come out of Iraq over the years is that Saddam Hussein is absolutely determined to acquire nuclear weapons and is building them as fast as he can.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: And the right hand man to Ahmed Chalabi.<br /><br />OPRAH: And so do the Iraqi people want the American people to liberate them?<br /><br />QUANBAR: Absolutely. In 1991 the Iraqi people were….<br /><br />WOMAN: I hope it doesn't offend you…<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: When one guest dared to express doubt Oprah would have none of it<br /><br />WOMAN: I just don't know what to believe with the media and..<br /><br />OPRAH: Oh, we're not trying to propaganda -show you propaganda. ..We're just showing you what is.<br /><br />WOMAN: I understand that, I understand that.<br /><br />OPRAH: OK, but Ok. You have a right to your opinion.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Contrary opinions weren't very popular in Washington either, as ambitious democrats embraced the now conventional but unconfirmed wisdom.<br /><br />JOHN KERRY (Senate Floor 10/09/02): In the wake of September 11, who among us can say with any certainty to anybody that the weapons might not be used against our troops or against allies in the region.<br /><br />HILLARY CLINTON (Senate Floor 10/10/02): It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: When Democrats did go against the grain, they were denounced by the partisan press and largely ignored by the mainstream press.<br /><br />ROBERT BYRD (Senate Floor 10/10/02): And before we put this great nation on the track to war I want to see more evidence, hard evidence, not more presidential rhetoric…<br /><br />SENATOR TED KENNEDY (9/27/02): I have heard no persuasive evidence that Saddam is on the threshold of acquiring the nuclear weapons he has sought for more than 20 years. And the administration has offered no persuasive evidence that Saddam would transfer chemical or biological weapons of mass destruction to Al Qaeda."<br /><br />ERIC BOEHLERT: Ted Kennedy gave-- a passionate speech in 2002 raising all sorts of questions about the war. And what the aftermath would be.<br /><br />SENATOR TED KENNEDY (9/27/02): War with Iraq before a genuine attempt at inspection and disarmament, without genuine international support, could swell the ranks of Al Qaeda with sympathizers and trigger an escalation in terrorist acts.<br /><br />ERIC BEOHLERT: WASHINGTON POST gave that speech one sentence. 36 words. I calculated in 2002 THE WASHINGTON POST probably published 1,000 articles and columns about-- about Iraq. Probably one million words. In excess of one million words. And one of the most famous democrats in the country raised questions about the war…the WASHINGTON POST set aside 36 words.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: It had now become unfashionable to dissent from the official line — Unfashionable and risky.<br /><br />BILL O'REILLY: (Fox 2/26/03) Anyone who hurts this country in a time like this. Well let's just say you will be spotlighted<br /><br />NORM SOLOMON: If you're a journalist or a politician, and you're swimming upstream-- so to speak-- you're gonna encounter a lot of piranha, and they are voracious. There's a notion that this is the person that we go after this week.<br /><br />ERIC BOEHLERT: Fox news and-- and talk radio and the Conservative bloggers. I mean, they were bangin' those drums very loud. And-- and, everyone in the press could hear it. -- not only was it just liberal bias, it was an anti-American bias, an unpatriotic bias and that these journalists were really not part of America.<br /><br />DAN RATHER: And every journalist knew it. They had and they have a very effective slam machine. The way it works is you either report the news the way we want it reported or we're going to hang a sign around your neck.<br /><br />BILL O'REILLY (2/27/03): I will call those who publicly criticize their country in a time of military crisis, which this is, bad Americans.<br /><br />MICHAEL MASSING: There's a level of vitriol, and vindictiveness that is very scary to listen to. And, you think the millions of people listening to them. The media have become sort of like the-- the whipping boy, because they know that the press can provide information that runs counter to what the government is claiming, to what the Bush administration is claiming.<br /><br />ANNOUNCER: (MSNBC 12/16/02) Now, Donahue.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: On his new MSNBC talk show Phil Donahue, discovered just what could happen when you stepped out of line.<br /><br />PHIL DONAHUE (MSNBC, 1/13/03): Tonight: Anti-war protestors taking on the government, is there a place for them in this post 9/11 world or are they just downright unpatriotic.<br /><br />PHIL DONOHUE: And I just felt-- you know, what would be wrong with having one show (LAUGHTER) a night, you know, say, "Hold it. Wait a minute. Can we afford this? Do we have enough troops? And what about General Shinseki? And where are all-- you know, what is Guantanamo? I mean, what's wrong with this?"<br /><br />I thought people who didn't like my message would watch me. Because the-- no one else was doing it. That's why I-- I couldn't get over the unanimity of opinion on cable. The drum was beating. Everybody wanted to bomb somebody. And I'm thinking, "Wait a minute." So here I go-- I mean fool that I am. I rushed in.<br /><br />PHIL DONOHUE: Scott Ritter is here and so is Ambassador…<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: You had Scott Ritter, former weapons inspector. Who was saying that if we invade, it will be a historic blunder-<br /><br />PHIL DONOHUE: You didn't have him alone. He had to be there with someone else who supported the war. In other words, you couldn't have Scott Ritter alone. You could have Richard Perle alone.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: You could have the conservatives-<br /><br />PHIL DONOHUE: You could have the supporters of the President alone. And they would say why this war is important. You couldn't have a dissenter alone. Our producers were instructed to feature two conservatives for every liberal.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: You're kidding.<br /><br />PHIL DONOHUE: No this is absolutely true-<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Instructed from above?<br /><br />PHIL DONOHUE: Yes. I was counted as two liberals. And so-<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: They're under selling you.<br /><br />PHIL DONOHUE: --I had to-- I had to have two-- there's just a terrible fear. And I think that's the right word.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Eric Sorenson, who was the president of MSNBC, told the NEW YORK TIMES quote: "Any misstep and you can get into trouble with these guys and have the patriotism police hunt you down."<br /><br />PHIL DONOHUE: He's the management guy. So his phone would ring. Nobody's going to call Donahue and tell him to shut up and support the war. Nobody's that foolish. It's a lot more subtle than that.<br /><br />MICHAEL MASSING: I think that what happened in the months leading up to the war is that there was a sort of acceptable mainstream opinion that got set. And I think that people who were seen as outside that mainstream were viewed as sort of 'fringe.' And they were marginalized.<br /><br />MICHAEL MASSING: You saw that in the demonstrators.<br /><br />DEMONSTRATORS: (chanting) One, two, three, four, we don't want no Iraq war<br /><br />MICHAEL MASSING: How people demonstrating did not get much play.<br /><br />DEMONSTRATORS: (chanting) Five, six, seven, eight, stop the bombing, stop the hate.<br /><br />DEMONSTRATORS: (drum beat) We don't want no Iraq war; throw Dick Cheney through the door.<br /><br />ERIC BOEHLERT: So in October of 2002, 100,000 people in Washington, the-- one of the largest, you know, peace demonstrations in-- in-- in years in the United States. And the press just-- you know, the WASHINGTON POST put a photo on its Metro page.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: The photographs ran with an article but the paper's ombudsman later criticized the post for not giving the story more prominence.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Meanwhile, in the six months leading up to the invasion THE WASHINGTON POST Would editorialze in favor of the war at least 27 times.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: What got even less ink than the protestors, was the release of something called the national intelligence estimate. Before voting to give the President war powers, Congress asked the administration to detail all the top secret evidence it was using to justify an invasion.<br /><br />The press got a declassified version. Most of the media gave it a cursory reading, but jonathan landay examined the text closely…<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: I got my copy, and I opened it up…<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: This is the white paper that…<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: And I came to the part that talked about the aluminum tubes. Now, it said that the majority of analysts believed that those tubes were for the nuclear weapons program. It turns out, though, that that majority of intelligence analysts were-- had no background in nuclear weapons.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Knight Ridder was on top of the most important story of the runup to the invasion....The manipulation of intelligence to make the case for war.<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: So, here was yet another building block in this chain of building blocks that we had collected over these months about what they were saying to the public, and what the intelligence was actually telling them. And, there were differences. Some of them were-- were nuanced. Some of them were quite large. But, it became quite apparent that they were grabbing just about anything they could to make the case for going to war in Iraq.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Over a dozen sources told Knight Ridder that the pentagon was pressuring analysts to "cook the intelligence books" -- deep throats were talking…. But few in the press were listening.<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: There are people within the U.S. government who object when they perceive that their government isn't being straight with the people. And when they perceive that an administration is veering away from the principles on which this country was built, they become more ready to talk about things that perhaps they ordinarily shouldn't.<br /><br />HOUSE SPEAKER (Congressional Vote 10/10/02): Aye's are 296. The nays are 133. The Joint Resolution is passed.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Ignoring the reports of flawed intelligence, Congress gave the president the go-ahead for use of force. Knight Ridder's team just kept on digging. By the end of the month, their reporting had come full circle. Sources confirmed that the Pentagon was preparing for war based on information from ahmed chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress, despite objections from experts inside the CIA…<br /><br />WALTER PINCUS: The administration can withstand the Knight Ridder critique because it-- it wasn't reverberating inside Washington. And therefore people weren't picking it up.<br /><br />JOHN WALCOTT: We were under the radar most of the time at Knight Ridder. We were not a company-- that-- I think Karl Rove and others cared deeply about, even though in terms of readers, we're much bigger than the NEW YORK TIMES and THE WASHINGTON POST. We're less influential. There's no way around that.<br /><br />WARREN STROBEL: But there was a period when we were sittin' out there and I had a lotta late night gut checks where I was just like, "Are we totally off on some loop here? That we--"<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: Yeah. We-- we would--<br /><br />WARREN STROBEL: "--are we-- we wrong? Are we gonna be embarrassed?"<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: --everyday we would lo-- everyday we'd look at each other and say-- lit-- literally-- One of us would find something out and I'd look at him and say -- What's going on here?<br /><br />ERIC BOEHLERT: But I think it's telling that they didn't really operate by that beltway game the way the networks, the cable channels, NEWSWEEK, TIME, NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST. They seem to sort of operate outside that bubble. And look at what the benefits were when they operated outside that bubble. They actually got the story right.<br /><br />What's important is it's proof positive that that story was there. And it could have been gotten. And some people did get it. But the vast majority chose to ignore it or-- or not even try.<br /><br />WARREN STROBEL: How many times did I get invited on the talk-- how many times did you get invited on a talk show?<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: I think maybe on-<br /><br />WARREN STROBEL: Yeah, not the big talk shows.<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: Actually-<br /><br />WARREN STROBEL: Not the big Sunday shows-<br /><br />JONATHAN LANDAY: You know what? I'll tell you who invited me on-- on a talk-- on a talk shows- C-Span.<br /><br />HOWARD KURTZ: Television, especially cable television has a sort of Cross-Fire mentality. You put on the pro-Bush cast and the anti-Bush cast and they go at it. You put on the let's go into Iraq and let's not go into Iraq and they go at it.<br /><br />Well, that's what they do. They're pundits. But that's not a debate that's particularly well-suited to shedding light on whether or not the Bush administration's case for war-- rested on some kind of factual basis. That's not what pundits do.<br /><br />PETER BEINART: (CNN 4/29/02) I mean, I really think the reason the United States has a bad reputation in the Arab world is that we have been on the side of dictatorships. We've been on the side of very corrupt, very backward governments.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Peter Beinart became editor of THE NEW REPUBLIC at age 28. During the run-up to the invasion he was one of the hottest young pundits in town, a liberal hawk, accusing opponents of the war of being "intellectually incoherent and echoing the official line that Hussein would soon possess a nuclear weapon.<br /><br />PETER BEINART: (CNN 4/29/02) We need a little bit of logistical support, but we don't need the moral support of anyone, because we're on the side of the angels in this.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Had you been to Iraq?<br /><br />PETER BEINART: No.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: So what made you present yourself, if you did, as-- as-- as a Middle East expert?<br /><br />PETER BEINART: I don't think that I presented myself as a Middle East expert per se. I was a political journalist. I was a-- a columnist writing about all kinds of things. Someone in my-- in my position is not a Middle East expert in the way that somebody who studies this at a university is, or even at a think tank. But I consumed that stuff.<br /><br />I was relying on people who did that kind of reporting and people who had been in the government who had-- who had access to classified material for their assessment.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: And you would talk to them and they would, in effect, brief you, the background on what they knew?<br /><br />PETER BEINART: Sometimes, but--<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: I'm trying to help the audience understand. How does-- you described yourself as a political-- a reporter of political opinion, or a journalist--<br /><br />PETER BEINART: Yeah.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: --political opinion. How do you-- how do you get the information that enables you to reach the conclusion that you draw as a political journalist?<br /><br />PETER BEINART: Well, I was doing mostly, for a large part it was reading, reading the statements and the things that people said. I was not a beat reporter. I was editing a magazine and writing a column. So I was not doing a lot of primary reporting. But what I was doing was a lot of reading of other people's reporting and reading of what officials were saying.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: If we journalists get it wrong on the facts what is there to be right about?<br /><br />PETER BEINART: Well I think that's a good point, but the argument in the fall of 2002 was not mostly about the facts it was about a whole series of ideas about what would happen if we invaded.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: What I'm trying to get at is how does the public sort all of this out from out there beyond the beltway. Far more people saw you, see Bill Kristol on television, than will ever read the Associated Press reports or the Knight RIdder reporters. Isn't there an imbalance then on what the public is going to perceive about a critical issue of life and death like, like war.<br /><br />PETER BEINART: I think it's important for people, look, would it be better if television were not the primary medium through which people got their news? Yes. That's why I'm not, I do television, but I'm primarily in the business of writing and editing because I believe ultimately that words can convey more, richer information than television. Wouldn't we be a better society if people got most of their news from print rather than television, yes I think we would.<br /><br />WALTER ISAACSON: One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters. And in the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.<br /><br />DAN RATHER: Reporting is hard. The substitute for reporting far too often has become let's just ring up an expert. Let's see. These are experts on-- international armaments. And I'll just go down the list here and check Richard Perle.<br /><br />RICHARD PERLE (HARDBALL MSNBC 2/25/03): Once it begins to look as though he is relinquishing his grip on power I think he's toast.<br /><br />WILLIAM KRISTOL: (INSIDE POLITICS, CNN 2/14/03) The choice is disarming him by war or letting him have his weapons of mass destruction.<br /><br />DAN RATHER: This is journalism on the cheap if it's journalism at all. Just pick up the phone, call an expert, bring an expert into the studio. Easy. Not time consuming. Doesn't take resources. And-- if you-- if you're lucky and good with your list of people, you get an articulate person who will kind of spark up the broadcast.<br /><br />WALTER ISAACSON: The people at Knight Ridder were calling the colonels and the lieutenants and the people in the CIA and finding out, ya know, that intelligence is not very good. We should've all been doing that.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: How do you explain that the further you get away from official Washington, the closer you get to reality…<br /><br />WALTER ISAACSON: That's one of the hazards in this business is when you rely on top level sources too much, you can lose out on getting the real information.<br /><br />REPORTER: (CNN "Line in the Sand: Tough Talk on Iraq" 1/19/03): The president's top national security advisors fanned out on the talk shows with a coordinated message.<br /><br />DONALD RUMSFELD: (1/19/03)The test here is not whether they can find something. The test is whether or not Iraq is going to cooperate.<br /><br />CONDOLEEZA RICE: (1/19/03) This is about the disarmament of Iraq, not about weapons inspectors hunting and pecking all over the country.<br /><br />COLIN POWELL: (1/19/03) Time is running out and we just can't keep hunting and pecking and looking and…<br /><br />JOHN WALCOTT: The people at the top generally are political rather than professional. And their first loyalty is to a political party or to a person, not to a bureaucracy, not to a job. And so, what you get from them is spin.<br /><br />TIM RUSSERT: I-- look, I'm a blue-collar guy from Buffalo. I know who my sources are. I work 'em very hard. It's the mid-level people that tell you the truth. Now-<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: They're the ones who know the story?<br /><br />TIM RUSSERT: Well, they're working on the problem. And they understand the detail much better than a lotta the so-called policy makers and-- and-- and political officials.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: But they don't get on the Sunday talk shows--<br /><br />TIM RUSSERT: No. You-- I mean-- they don't want to be, trust me. I mean, they can lose their jobs, and they know it. But they're-- they can provide information which can help in me challenging or trying to draw out-- sometimes their bosses and other public officials.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: What do you make of the fact that of the 414 Iraq stories broadcast on NBC, ABC and CBS nightly news, from September 2002 until February 2003, almost all the stories could be traced back to sources from the White House, the Pentagon, and the State Department?<br /><br />TIM RUSSERT: It's important that you have a-- an oppos-- opposition party. That's our system of government.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: So, it's not news unless there's somebody-<br /><br />TIM RUSSERT: No, no, no. I didn't say that. But it's important to have an opposition party, your opposit-- opposing views.<br /><br />WALTER PINCUS: More and more, in the media, become, I think, common carriers of administration statements, and critics of the administration. And we've sort of given up being independent on our own.<br /><br />ANNOUNCER: (3/6/1981) Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States.<br /><br />WALTER PINCUS: We used to do at the Post something called truth squading. --President would make a speech. We used to do it with Ronald Reagan the first five or six months because he would make so many-- factual errors, particularly in his press conference. PRESIDENT REAGAN: (3/6/1981) From 10 thousand to 60 thousand dollars a year…<br /><br />WALTER PINCUS: And after-- two or three weeks of it-- the public at large, would say, "Why don't you leave the man alone? He's trying to be honest. He makes mistakes. So what?" and we stopped doing it.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: You stopped being the truth squad.<br /><br />WALTER PINCUS: We stopped truth squading every sort of press conference, or truth squading. And we left it then-- to the democrats. In other words, it's up to the democrats to catch people, not us.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: So if the democrats challenged-- a statement from the president, you could-- quote both sides.<br /><br />WALTER PINCUS: We then quote-- both sides. Yeah.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Now, that's called objectivity by many standards isn't it?<br /><br />WALTER PINCUS: Well, that's-- objectivity if you think there are only two sides. and if you're not interested in-- the facts. And the facts are separate from, you know, what one side says about the other.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: By late November 2002 the press had yet another chance to get the facts right. Facing intense international pressure, The White House agreed to hold off military action until Saddam Hussein permited a team of un inspectors to return to iraq and take a closer look.<br /><br />The first inspections began on November 27th<br /><br />Charles Hanley, a prize winning reporter for the Associated Press, with more than 30 years experience reporting on weapons issues, went along to cover their work.<br /><br />CHARLES HANLEY: What we did was-- go out everyday with the inspectors. These guys would roar out on these motorcades at very high speed and roar through towns and do sudden U-turns and-- and drive over land and do all of these things to confuse the Iraqis about where they were going-- so that there wouldn't be a call ahead telling-- telling them to put away all the bad stuff.<br /><br />CHARLES HANLEY: The inspectors then would issue a daily report. And-- as it turned out, of course, inspection after inspection, it turned out to be clean. They had nothing to report, no violations to report.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: In January of '03 Hanley wrote about the suspicious sites that the us and British governments had earlier identified as major concerns. "No smoking guns in...Almost 400 inspections." He reported. It ought to have cast serious doubt on the white house's entire evaluation of the iraqi threat. But reporting like this was overshadowed by the drumbeat from Washington -- which is why, Hanley says, sometimes his editors balked when he wrote that the White House lacked firm evidence on WMDS.<br /><br />CHARLES HANLEY: And that would be stricken from my copy because it would strike some editors as a-- as tendentious. As sort of an attack or a-- some sort of-- allegation rather than a fact. You know and we don't want our reporters alleging things. We, you know, we just report the facts. Well it was a fact. It was a very important fact that seemed to be lost on an awful lot of journalists unfortunately.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Six weeks before the invasion, with the facts still in short supply, the American Secretary of State went before the United Nations.<br /><br />COLIN POWELL (UN Security Council 2/5/03): I cannot tell you everything that we know. But what I can share with you, when combined with what all of us have learned over the years, is deeply troubling.<br /><br />CHARLES HANLEY: One major problem was that-- Secretary Powell barely acknowledged that there were inspections going on. It got to ridiculous points such as-- his complaining about the fact that they'd put a roof over this open air shed where they were testing missiles.<br /><br />COLIN POWELL (Security Council 2/5/03): This photograph was taken in April of 2002. Since then, the test stand has been finished and a roof has been put over it so it will be harder for satellites to see what's going on underneath the test stand.<br /><br />CHARLES HANLEY: What he neglected to mention was that the inspectors were underneath, watching what was going on.<br /><br />COLIN POWELL (Security Council 2/5/03): A single drop of VX on the skin will kill in minutes. Four tons!<br /><br />CHARLES HANLEY: he didn't point out that most of that had already been destroyed. And-- on point after point he failed to point out that these facilities about which he was raising such alarm-- were under repeated inspections by-- by good-- expert people with very good equipment, and who were leaving behind cameras and other monitoring equipment to keep us-- a continuing eye on it<br /><br />COLIN POWELL (Security Council 2/5/03): Leaving Saddam Hussein in possession of weapons of mass destruction for a few more months or years is not an option, not in a post-September 11th world.<br /><br />ERIC BOEHLERT: The holes in the-- his presentation became immediate within days if not hours.<br /><br />COLIN POWELL: But what I want to bring to your attention today is the potentially much more sinister nexus between Iraq and the Al Qaeda terrorist network, a nexus that combines classic terrorist organizations and modern methods of murder.<br /><br />ERIC BOEHLERT: One of the first big embarrassments was-- Powell had talked about this British intelligence report.<br /><br />COLIN POWELL: I would call my colleagues attention to the fine paper that United Kingdom distributed yesterday, which describes in exquisite detail Iraqi deception activities.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Supposedly that 'exquisite detail' from British intelligence came from a top secret dossier<br /><br />ERIC BOEHLERT: Literally within a day or two it was-- it was proven in the-- in the British press that that had simply been-- downloaded off the internet. And was plagiarized. And it actually contains the typos that were in the original.<br /><br />BRITISH REPORTER: (2/7/03): The British government dossier is supposed to be about Iraqi deception and concealment. It says it draws upon a number of sources including intelligence material. Well, actually what it largely draws on is a thesis written by a Californian post graduate student…<br /><br />ERIC BOEHLERT: That was just the first of many embarrassments that were to come. But within days-- the British press was going crazy over this-- over this revelation.<br /><br />BRITISH REPORTER: As for the student himself, he's accused the government of plagiarism.<br /><br />BRITISH REPORTER: If the government is reduced to trawling academic journals then how good is the rest of its case for war against Iraq?<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Few prominent American broadcasters would ask such pointed questions:<br /><br />FOX NEWS: The Secretary of State Colin Powell has made the case against Iraq. TOM BROKAW (NBC "Making the Case" 2/5/03): Secretary of State Colin Powell has given a lot of important speeches in his lifetime to a lot of large audiences but no speech was more important then the one he gave today.<br /><br />PETER JENNINGS (ABC 2/5/03): In the United Nation Security Council this morning, the secretary of state Colin Powell took almost an hour and a half to make the Bush administration's case against Saddam Hussein.<br /><br />CBS EVENING NEWS (2/5/03): Making the case for war, Secretary Powell shows the world what he calls "Undeniable Proof."<br /><br />DAN RATHER: Colin Powell was trusted. Is trusted, I'd put it-in a sense. He, unlike many of the people who made the decisions to go to war, Colin Powell has seen war. He knows what a green jungle hell Vietnam was. He knows what the battlefield looks like. And when Colin Powell says to you, "I, Colin Powell, am putting my personal stamp on this information. It's my name, my face, and I'm putting it out there," that did make a difference.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: And you were impressed.<br /><br />DAN RATHER: I was impressed. And who wouldn't be?<br /><br />NORM SOLOMON: And you look at the response from-- forget about the right-wing media-- from the so-called liberal press the next morning. You pick up the WASHINGTON POST, on the op-ed page, there's Jim Hoagland saying, obviously from what Powell said, there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. You go a few inches away to Richard Cohen, a vowed liberal, he says, obviously there are weapons of mass destruction. I mean it's a fair paraphrase to say, these pundits and many others were asserting, if you don't think there are WMDs in Iraq, you are an idiot.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Across the country editorial writers bought what Powell was selling. "A Masterful Legal Summary." "A Strong, Credible and Persuasive Case." "A Powerful Case." "An Ironclad Case...Succinct and Damning Evidence." "A Detailed and Convincing Argument." "An Overwhelming Case." "A Compelling Case." "A Persuasive, Detailed Accumulation of Information."<br /><br />NORM SOLOMON: These were supposed to be the most discerning, sophisticated journalists in the country writing this stuff, and they were totally bamboozled.<br /><br />MICHAEL MASSING: And, sure enough, in the newspapers, if you look very hard inside in the next few days in the coverage-- you could find really serious questions that were raised about this. But, they were very much pushed aside.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: This gets us right to the heart of the debate that's going on now in our craft. We lean heavily in reporting on what they say.<br /><br />DAN RATHER: That's right.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: We want no wider war. I'm not a crook. Mushroom cloud. Weapons of mass destruction. We really give heavy weight to what public officials say. .<br /><br />DAN RATHER: Well, that's true. And we need to address that. In the end, it was, look, the President himself says these things are so. He-- he stands before the Congress with the question of war and peace hanging in the balance and says these things. And there was a feeling, not just with myself, given all that, who am I to say; you know what, I think it's all-- a Machiavellian scheme to take us into Iraq.<br /><br />ALAN COLMES (HANNITY AND COLMES, FOX NEWS 2/25/03): Big news today in the cable world Ellen, Phil Donahue, cancelled, by that other, uh, network.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Twenty two days before the invasion, your show was canceled.<br /><br />PHIL DONOHUE: It should be said that we did fairly well in the ratings. We did not burn the town down. Nobody on MSNBC did. But we were certainly as good as anybody else on the network. And often-- often we led the network.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: In dumping Donahue, NBC cited ratings. But a blogger got his hands on an internal memo and the press picked it up.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Now that memo said, "Donohue presents a difficult public face for NBC in a time of war. At the same time our competitors are waving the flag at every opportunity." Did you know about that memo at the time?<br /><br />PHIL DONOHUE: No. No. I didn't know about that till I read about it in The NEW YORK TIMES.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: What did you think-- what-- what does that say to you? That dissent is unpatriotic?<br /><br />PHIL DONOHUE: Well, not only unpatriotic, but it's not good for business.<br /><br />ANNOUNCER (MSNBC): Tonight, the case for war!<br /><br />ANNOUNCER: Showdown Iraq, with Wolf Blitzer.<br /><br />NORM SOLOMON: I think these executives were terrified of being called soft on terrorism. They absolutely knew that the winds were blowing at hurricane force politically and socially in the United States. And rather than stand up for journalism, they just blew with the wind.<br /><br />And-- Dan Rather, and others who say, yeah, you know. I was carried away back then. Well, sure. That's when it matters. When it matters most is when you can make a difference as a journalist<br /><br />DAN RATHER: Fear is in every newsroom in the country. And fear of what? Well, it's the fear-- if-- it's a combination of; if you don't go along to get along, you're going to get the reputation of being a troublemaker.<br /><br />There's also the fear that, you know, particularly in networks, they've become huge, international conglomerates. They have big needs, legislative needs, repertory needs in Washington. Nobody has to send you a memo to tell you that that's the case.<br /><br />You know. And that puts a seed in your mind; of well, if you stick your neck out, if you take the risk of going against the grain with your reporting, is anybody going to back you up?<br /><br />CHARLES HANLEY: The media just continued on this path of reporting, "Well-- the Bush administration alleges that there are WMD," and never really stopped and said-- "It doesn't look like there are. There's no evidence." That should have been the second sentence in any story about the allegations of WMD. The second sentence should have been, "But they did not present any evidence to back this up."<br /><br />JOHN WALCOTT: You know, we're sending young men and women, and nowadays not so young men and women, to risk their lives. And everyone wants to be behind them. And everyone should be behind them. The question for us in journalism is, are we really behind them when we fail to do our jobs? Is that really the kinda support that they deserve? Or are we really, in the long run, serving them better by asking these hard questions about what we've asked them to do?<br /><br />ANNOUNCER: ("Target Iraq Today," NBC 3/22/03) Good Morning. Shock and Awe.<br /><br />ANNOUNCER: (NIGHTLY NEWS, NBC 3/20/03) Operation Iraqi freedom reports of secret surrender talks as US bombs hit Baghdad.<br /><br />ANNOUNCER: (CBS 3/20/03) This CBS news special report is part of our continuing coverage of America At War<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: Four years after shock and awe, the press has yet to come to terms with its role in enabling the Bush administration to go to war on false pretenses.<br /><br />Peter Beinert is almost alone in admitting he was mistaken.<br /><br />PETER BEINERT: Where I think I was tragically wrong was not to see in February, March 2003 after we got the inspectors back in on the ground and we began to learn much more about what had been going on in Iraq than we had known in 2002 when we had no one on the ground that that assumption was being proven wrong.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: You say tragically wrong.<br /><br />PETER BEINART: Because I think the war has been a tragic disaster. I mean-- the Americans killed, the Iraqis killed. It's true, life under Saddam was hell. But can one really say that life for Iraqis is better today?<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: We wanted to talk to some others in the media about their role in the run up to war….<br /><br />Judith Miller, who left the TIMES after becoming embroiled in a White House leak scandal declined our request…on legal grounds.<br /><br />The TIMES' liberal hawk Thomas Friedman also said no.<br /><br />So did Bill Safire, who had predicted Iraq would now be leading the Arab world to democracy. President Bush recently awarded him the Medal of Freedom.<br /><br />THE WASHINGTON POST's Charles Krauthammer also turned us down…so did Roger Ailes the man in charge of FOX NEWS.. He declined because, an assistant told us, he's writing a book on how Fox has changed the face of American broadcasting and doesn't want to scoop himself.<br /><br />William Kristol led the march to Bagdad behind a battery of Washington microphones. He has not responded to any of our requests for an interview…but he still shows up on tv as an expert, most often on FOX NEWS.<br /><br />WILLIAM KRISTOL: (Fox 1/10/07) And he's got to begin to show progress in three, four, five months, once the US troops get in.<br /><br />NORM SOLOMON: Being a pro-war pundit means never having to say you're sorry.<br /><br />ERIC BOEHLERT: I mean these were people who were laying out the blueprint for the war about how it was gonna unfold. And, it turns out, couldn't have been more wrong every which way.<br /><br />WILLIAM SAFIRE: You have a president…<br /><br />ERIC BOEHLERT: And it's astonishing to see them still on TV invited on as experts in the region.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: It's true, so many of the advocates and apologists for the war are still flourishing in the media…<br /><br />Bill Kristol and Peter Beinart, for example, are now regular contributors to TIME magazine, which has been laying off dozens of reporters.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: And remember this brilliant line?<br /><br />PRESIDENT BUSH: We cannot wait for the final proof: the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: The man who came up with it was Michael Gerson. President Bush's top speechwriter. He has left the White House and has been hired by THE WASHINGTON POST as a columnist.<br /><br />The American number of troops killed in Iraq now exceeds the number of victims on 9/11. We have been fighting there longer than it took us to defeat the Nazis in World War II. The costs of the war are reckoned at one trillion dollars and counting. The number of Iraqis killed -- over 650 thousands -- is hard to pin down. The country is in chaos...The Middle East is in Chaos, the Energy Policy is in Chaos, and the World<br />is in Utter Chaos........<br />*****************************************************************************<br />General Aoun is accused of being pro-Syrian ?<br /><br />Many people wonder how perceptions became so warped in Lebanon today, how a politician like General Aoun is accused of being pro-Syrian, while Walid Jumblatt, Syria's most loyal henchman during the Last 35 years, spends most of his time making death threats against Bashar Al Assad flanked by Hariri and "Geagea the Ripper". Are we going through a twilight zone of sudden role reversals? It was not too long ago by any measure, that Aoun's historic defiance of Syria was celebrated in the "Cedar Revolution" of 05 which supposedly liberated Lebanon from Syrian occupation. It was not much longer before then that Aoun lead the outnumbered (twenty to one) and outgunned Lebanese Army in a war against Syria and its allies in Lebanon, including the Lebanese Forces of Samir Geagea, the PSP of Walid Jumblatt, the Amal of Nabih Berry and a myriad of Syrian sympathizers and Palestinian extremist groups from all over the Arab world. On multiple fronts, the Lebanese Army fought and won against terrible odds while having scarce resources and support only from the Lebanese populace hiding in shelters and praying to end a war that stretched over two decades leaving their country in ruins. How is it then that Aoun's consistency is being questioned today? How is it even possible that his positions on Syria and Iran are scrutinized by those who want to cast him as an agent or a traitor to Lebanon, someone who is willing to compromise anything to obtain the presidency? Aren’t his accusers the same as those who lead countless pro-Syrian militias over two decades? How are we to believe that a man who spent his entire career fighting against the foreign enemies of Lebanon would all of a sudden make a complete turn in the opposite direction and jump in the lap of Syria and Iran? Let’s not forget our history:<br /><br />Beginning: September 23, 1988<br /><br />When Gemayel appointed Aoun as interim prime minister according to Article 53 of the Lebanese constitution, the pro-Syrian warlords of West Beirut immediately declared dissidence and established an independent self contained government lead by Salim el Hoss, strongly opposing any attempts by Aoun to establish free and legal presidential elections. At every turn, Hoss, Jumblatt, Syria and their dozen allied militias would block all propositions at establishing groundwork to perform free elections of a Lebanese president. The pro-Syrian government in west Beirut used Para-military groups to combat any attempts by Aoun at creating an environment that would allow the Lebanese people to independently vote for a president instead of having to endure one handpicked by Hafez el Assad. The pressure by these Syrian controlled mafia like armed groups lead Aoun to declare all militias in Lebanon illegal and unleash the Army to shut down their operations, starting with the seizure of the 5th basin of the Port of Beirut from the Lebanese Forces (Christian Militia) which had been under their control since the early days of the war. For the first time since 74, the legitimate government of Lebanon actively tried to control facilities and resources that had been hijacked and looted by these militias for years. On February 14th 1989 the port of Beirut was back in the hands of the legitimate government.<br /><br />Aoun’s approach was to start this process of cleansing in his own backyard to avoid being cast in the traditional sectarian camps that had plagued Lebanon since the declaration of independence. In this now famous start of his mandate, Aoun had done something no one else in Lebanon had dared to do including all of the presidents and leaders from Franjiyeh to Hariri: He was finally empowering the Lebanese government and its enforcer, the Lebanese army to combat and control all that had torn the country to pieces for twenty years. Where other presidents had faltered and refused to deploy the army to stop the chaos, Aoun was trying to force all rogue elements out by order of the law and the constitution without drawing distinctions along sectarian lines. This was an act that outraged all the hardened warlords that were very well entrenched in their alliances with countless foreign governments and groups, and defied a formula that everyone had agreed on up to that point: all parties were dealing in the currency of religious strife. Syria became enraged when on 24 February 1989 Aoun ordered the closure of all illegal ports to force shipping to use the Port of Beirut and so the Syrian controlled militias refused to comply with Aoun's orders. On March 6 Aoun activated the army's ‘Marine Operations Room' and started a blockade of West Beirut militia ports. The attempt by Aoun to close illegal militia ports in Syrian parts of the country resulted in the shelling of east Beirut by pro-Syrian militias and the Syrian Army.<br /><br />Aoun had dared to tackle the very essence and core of the Lebanese war conspiracy, threatening its fabric to dissipate and melt in a new order imposed by a strong national government. Syria mobilized all of its henchmen while deploying around the clock 240 mm bunker buster artillery bombings to bring the free regions of East Beirut to their knees. Lebanon had never witnessed as much destruction in all of its bloody history. But the man in Baabda did not waiver. He had launched a new challenge to Assad: “everything in now destroyed and the only thing left is you head”.<br /><br />On 14th March 1989 Aoun declared the 'War of Liberation' against the Syrian Army in Lebanon. This led to a 7 month period of shelling of East Beirut by pro-Syrian militias and by Syrian forces. Aoun answered with unprecedented and daring targeting of Syrian military installations across Lebanon from Beirut to the Bekaa valley. The Syrian forces also imposed a land and sea blockade. Shipping entering ports under Lebanese Army control was fired upon by Syrian artillery based in West Beirut and the North.<br /><br />Numerous attempts to defeat Aoun through repeated pro Syrian militia assaults on the Lebanese Army defending strategic town of Souq el-Gharb failed and so it was decided that a larger scale Syrian attack was required. The morning of 10th August 1989 saw extremely heavy bombardment of Souq el-Gharb which was to last for until the morning of 13th August 1989, when units of the Syrian Army, Syrian Special Forces troops, Jumblatt PSP militia, Palestinians guerrillas, and Communist Party troops launched a general assault on the town. Despite the attackers breaching the perimeter early in the battle, and Lebanese army counter attack dislodged the Syrians and their allies. During the battle Walid Jumblatt announced that Souq el-Gharb had been 'liberated from the occupation of the Lebanese Army' and called for a press conference to be held at Souq el-Gharb. Upon their arrival, the international press was surprised to see that the Lebanese Army in Souq el-Gharb had won a decisive victory in the face of overwhelming odds.<br /><br />The Arabs Intervene: The Taef Accords<br /><br />After months of intense discussions, in October 1989, the deputies informally agreed on a charter of national reconciliation, also known as the Taef agreement.<br /><br />The Syrians were not willing to tolerate any resistance to their occupation. Some months earlier, in May 1989, the Grand Mufti of the Lebanese Sunni community, Hassan Khalid, who had expressed his support for Aoun, was assassinated just days after meeting with officials from Aoun's administration.<br /><br />The deputies returned to Lebanon in November, where they approved the Taef agreement on November 4, and elected Rene Moawad, a Maronite Christian deputy from Zghorta in north Lebanon, President on November 5. General Aoun, claiming powers as interim Prime Minister, issued a decree in early November dissolving the parliament and did not accept the ratification of the Taef agreement or the election of President Moawad.<br /><br />General Aoun's main objection to it was that Syria had committed itself neither to rapid nor complete withdrawal. To the contrary, he complained, Syrian forces were to stay in place for a full two years, ostensibly "assisting the Lebanese government extend its authority." After that, Syrian forces were to be redeployed only as far as the Bekaa valley.<br /><br />The Agreement gave no timetable for any further Syrian withdrawal, merely stipulating that "such withdrawals would be negotiated at the appropriate time by the governments of Lebanon and Syria." Furthermore, General Aoun charged that the political reforms were unacceptable because they simply shifted power from the office of the President to that of the Prime Minister without solving any fundamental political problems.<br /><br />Walid Jumblatt, conspired with Yasser Arafat, and assassinates Rene Moawad .<br /><br />As the days passed Moawad was becoming embarrassed with heavy handed Syrian desires to push through the accords and Syrian press even went so far as to invent aggressive anti Aoun interviews which Moawad felt obliged to disclaim. As Moawad found himself to be unable to win over army officers and men who all remained loyal to Aoun, Moawad refused to replace General Aoun with a new armed forces commander, preferring negotiation to confrontation and he would not allow the Syrians to dislodge Aoun militarily. President Moawad was assassinated on November 22, 1989, by a bomb that exploded as his motorcade was returning from Lebanese Independence Day ceremonies. 550lb (250kg) of remote controlled explosives destroyed the president's Mercedes in the heart of west Beirut. The enormous amount of explosives used, were placed over a period of some days, during "road works", within a side retaining wall on the road along which the car would pass. The explosives were detonated as the car passed the side wall. The occupants were vaporized; the rear section of the vehicle was tossed onto the roof of a local building with the front half being thrown 200 yards away into a parking lot. No "official" investigation was carried out into this murder. Walid Jumblatt, conspired with Yasser Arafat, and assassinated Rene Moawad, because jumblatt had a deep trenched animosity towards Rene Moawad for a very long time, and for the school of thought of President Moawad, [President Fouad Chehab's "deuxieme bureau"]. Walid Jumblatt has a visceral and deep trenched HATE, for anything related to the Army Intelligence and its involvement in the Political life, during President Fouad Chehab's tenure.... It's the anthisesis of the Feudal system of the Jumblatts.... So Jumblatt, who is an expert Murderer, succeeded in eliminating the newly-elect President of the Republic in 1989, and he walked away from this horrendous act, scott free.<br /><br />The parliament met on November 24 in the Bekaa Valley and elected Elias Hrawi, a Maronite Christian deputy from Zahleh in the Bekaa Valley, to replace him. The results of the election were broadcast on Syrian radio ten minutes before the vote actually took place. President Hrawi named a Prime Minister, Salim al-Hoss, and a cabinet on November 25.<br /><br />Despite widespread international recognition of Hrawi and his government, General Aoun refused to recognize Hrawi's legitimacy, and Hrawi officially replaced Aoun as army commander in early December. The vast majority of the Lebanese Army, however, again remained loyal to General Aoun.<br /><br />The Treachery<br /><br />General Aoun's attempt to break the power of the militias and his standing up to the Syrians made him extremely popular with a cross section of the Lebanese population; this was manifested by large demonstrations in his support around the Presidential Palace. Samir Geagea and the LF were now rapidly losing prestige and control of the Christian enclave. Geagea was becoming seduced by the Taef agreement which could open the way for him to receive a high government posting should he side with Hrawi and the Syrians. The LF hoped that siding with the Taef agreement would give the militia international respectability and that once Hrawi was bought into power the LF could detach him from Syria and use him as a cover to restore its domination of the enclave. The LF, in January 1990, made no secret of its option of linkage with Hrawi “if things don't work out with the general” or its derision for the “circus” of pro-Aoun demonstrations. Syria was well aware of the LF scheme and encouraged Hrawi to entice the militia.<br /><br />Also in January 1990, rumors surfaced in East Beirut about alleged LF contacts with American officials and Syrian officers regarding an LF ditching of Aoun. Whether these reflected reality or disinformation, they certainly raised tensions. The daily al-Safir later quoted a reference by Christian deputies to “the capitals that were behind encouraging the LF to go into the battle with Aoun.” Only Washington and Damascus could have had this interest. By this point the LF was probably already plotting a surprise military strike to paralyze army communications to coincide with a “security plan” proposed for West Beirut in early February. On 30 January, Aoun intervened after army and LF mobilizations in a clash over LF use of school buildings in a Beirut suburb—he announced a compulsory “uniting of the rifle” in East Beirut, meaning absorption of the LF into his army brigades.<br /><br />For the LF this was a declaration of war. Immediately after Aoun’s “unification of weapons” speech, the LF stormed, captured, and held the Lebanese army barracks of Amshit, Sarba, Safra, Halat and the naval base at Jounieh, spread through the urban area and secured the Ashrafieh hill, adjacent to the militia “war council”. The unthinkable had happened. The LF had gone to war against Aoun who had been concentrating his forces against Syria was not prepared for a flare up within his base area. The army had taken no precautions with regard to its scattered barracks, ammunition dumps, and other assets in the LF heartland. The big Adma base which was exposed to LF encirclement had limited ammunition and no provision had been taken for the dispersal of the helicopter fleet which was destroyed by the LF on the first day of fighting.<br /><br />The final blow came on 9th April 1990 when the Lebanese Forces announced their support for Taef and their readiness to hand over the institutions under their control to the rival government in west Beirut. The fighting continued and over 900 people died and over 3,000 were wounded during these battles called the 'War of Elimination' by Samir Geagea.<br /><br />The Gulf War and the Syrian-American agreement<br /><br />General Aoun’s 1989 campaign against the Syrians inconvenienced the U.S. In the American outlook, Aoun distracted attention from Israeli-Palestinian issues, was trying to create complications between the West and Syria at a time when the U.S. wanted to bring Syria into its new “order,” and was behaving in a way likely to make Lebanon even more attractive to disruptive forces, particularly Shiite Islamic radicalism.<br /><br />For their part, Lebanon’s Shiite militants enabled Iran to affect Middle Eastern affairs far beyond its own borders. In short, Lebanon’s Christian and Shiite communities each presented a serious challenge to U.S. policy for “stabilizing” the Middle East. The fact that Aoun and Hezbollah both represented populist upsurges left the Americans cold—this only made it more imperative that both be curbed.<br />Iraq’s 2 August 1990 seizure of Kuwait, the Iraqi-American confrontation, and the infusion of Western forces into the Persian Gulf transformed Middle Eastern political calculations. The U.S. now needed—or, more accurately, imagined itself as needing—the broadest possible Arab military participation, and Syria suddenly found itself the object of the most flattering Western attentions. Assad tested the winds of the world for a week or so, calculated that his Iraqi enemy was headed for catastrophe, and offered himself as a partner in the American-led coalition. By mid-August, as the daily al-Safir noted, it was obvious that “Gulf events have removed foreign barriers standing against the Hrawi government asking Syria to strike at the unnatural situation in East Beirut.”<br /><br />On 28 September, the Taef regime committed its prestige and existence to a successful showdown by imposing a siege on the Aoun area, blocking food supplies to the population.<br /><br />13th October 1990<br /><br />In October 1990, the Syrian military supported by a few Lebanese troops loyal to Hrawi launched an attack against General Aoun. The attack came just after 7:00 a.m. on the 13th October and started with an air raid by Syrian Soukhoi fighter bombers against the Palace and the Ministry of Defense. For many years a no fly zone over the whole of Lebanon had been enforced by the Israelis preventing the Syrians from using their air force, on this day however, the Syrians were allowed to fly by the United States as reward for their joining the NATO coalition against Iraq in the Gulf crisis. Immediately before the assault, Syrian aircraft overflew the Matn to test the efficacy of American intervention with Israel.<br /><br />The air attacks lasted 13 minutes after which Syrian Special Forces troops advance under massive artillery cover, LF artillery joined Syrian artillery and fired on the Lebanese Army. The French considered intervention through their fleet positioned off the Lebanese coast, but after this did not materialize, General Aoun realizes that he cannot win and at 8:45 a.m. announces his surrender from the nearby French embassy in order "to avoid even more bloodshed, limit the damage and to save what remains." The surrender is broadcast on all radio stations throughout the day as General Aoun personally contacts his field commanders to orders that they "obey the orders of the commander in chief of the Army, General Emile Lahoud." At 10:00 a.m. the Syrians enter the Palace but despite this, many units of the Lebanese Army initially refuse to surrender and heavy fighting continues, a Lebanese Army unit counter attacks Deir al-Qalaa, at Beit-Mery, and manages to oust Syrians special forces that had occupied the monastery by force at the very start of the day. The Lebanese unit finds that some of the monks in the monastery had been killed by the Syrian troops. At Douar, on the Bikfaya front, the elite commandos engaged Syrians tanks and caused heavy damage. On the hill of the Prince, at Souk al-Gharb, the cadets of the military Academy, assisted by regulars of the 10th Brigade put up a very hard fight. In Suq al-Gharb itself, Aoun’s Lebanese army units, with only a fraction of their pre-February 1990 hardware, killed about 400 Syrians before the front was overrun. The Lebanese Army headquarters at Yarze even refused to give the ceasefire order finally announcing it 12:30 p.m. It was fortunate that Aoun had managed to directly speak to many of his units and so prevent much bloodshed.<br /><br />Estimates of Syrian losses ranged from 160 to 450 in the battle that followed and it seems that the 102nd fought on until their ammunition ran out refusing to let Dahr el-Wahesh, which overlooks the Palace, fall into Syrian hands. Later that afternoon some 80 bodies of soldiers of the 102nd would be brought to a Baabda mortuary, most had their hands tied behind their backs and had been shot in the back of the head, some had been stripped down to their underpants before being executed. The Syrians executed one of the officers, Emile Boutros, by forcing him to lie down on the road and then driving a tank over him. At least 15 civilians were executed by Syrian soldiers in Bsous after having been rounded up from their homes, and another 19 people, including three women, were reported to have been killed in cold blood in al-Hadath. Around the Presidential Palace another 51 Lebanese Army soldiers were stripped and executed.<br /><br />For anyone, foreign or within to disregard the history of our struggle and the tenacity of our beliefs in our freedom is laughable. History is recorded, and Aoun’s consistency is proven. At any one of these turns, he could have capitulated and received the presidential chair and avoided great hardship to himself, his loved ones and his extended family: Lebanon. I once heard: “It’s an honor for Lebanon and for the people of Lebanon that a General wearing a military uniform was to stand, and tell the whole world, that life without freedom is a form of death...While the world disregards men in uniform”<br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Le testament "Hariri" de Chirac à Sarkozy ....</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIWpgFLHZnYMyj92N7oeIudjhoVdViRF4C2ZcwR4qJUg6QxA8QmsdUfgaMFfesYUIkgJre4UdFFgJo58FMw5ECrP82pb6KafkmEUx9k4qo0uva0bE3FhYfgfLdTzIa9vlOuek9naUbZctN/s1600-h/chirac_bush_Pinocchios.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIWpgFLHZnYMyj92N7oeIudjhoVdViRF4C2ZcwR4qJUg6QxA8QmsdUfgaMFfesYUIkgJre4UdFFgJo58FMw5ECrP82pb6KafkmEUx9k4qo0uva0bE3FhYfgfLdTzIa9vlOuek9naUbZctN/s400/chirac_bush_Pinocchios.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063300007261652594" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhalijXIzHzTkL6rVegKMFuOmhyTJluhbbHHnEPHzo95tR6Vfkh9L6qhQC4Ndg8X5ToJytHsTNU5hybo8G4NZ8P__YkpGWqfLk6f7hp4v1gBjeuv-Fp_KztiTLB5ZLVB-hdKDtHnmlGuB_X/s1600-h/medium_chirac.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhalijXIzHzTkL6rVegKMFuOmhyTJluhbbHHnEPHzo95tR6Vfkh9L6qhQC4Ndg8X5ToJytHsTNU5hybo8G4NZ8P__YkpGWqfLk6f7hp4v1gBjeuv-Fp_KztiTLB5ZLVB-hdKDtHnmlGuB_X/s400/medium_chirac.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063299929952241250" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6DsbeCRlXBf4_BGbaA5lIOlroTCuCa4f2GK5vkZVePlf5DEWFEr3c9XL19yZ7pxQQ6ztqRfvoDLg7sNz0_yG4Y9hD0GwU_GCYoB1oiBEpYzKKUA-eGUj8pAgHzuswwBok8eBqsrvsld2n/s1600-h/jpg_chirac16-430.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6DsbeCRlXBf4_BGbaA5lIOlroTCuCa4f2GK5vkZVePlf5DEWFEr3c9XL19yZ7pxQQ6ztqRfvoDLg7sNz0_yG4Y9hD0GwU_GCYoB1oiBEpYzKKUA-eGUj8pAgHzuswwBok8eBqsrvsld2n/s400/jpg_chirac16-430.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063299818283091538" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihLHsTpqtG_XPKZGF3KAMy2I9pBU7HK88AU6d-kIO9rWcEyIJ-LXdOBIqX1L9ITckhZjXkVMSLihyphenhyphenyOF9zuM0HJLxay3Sc7jfBEY0clhsw9dLyvywTq7Z3susWiHXx9Bnpj802yhoVRxS_/s1600-h/chirac++%26++Baathists.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihLHsTpqtG_XPKZGF3KAMy2I9pBU7HK88AU6d-kIO9rWcEyIJ-LXdOBIqX1L9ITckhZjXkVMSLihyphenhyphenyOF9zuM0HJLxay3Sc7jfBEY0clhsw9dLyvywTq7Z3susWiHXx9Bnpj802yhoVRxS_/s400/chirac++%26++Baathists.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063299689434072642" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Jacques Chirac adore les Hariris . Il l'a encore démontré hier, en présentant à Nicolas Sarkozy Saad Hariri, le fils cadet de l'ancien Premier ministre Saoudien / Libanais Rafic Hariri.<br />« Le tropisme Haririen de Chirac est lié à son amitié pour cette famille », explique Joseph Branais , de l'Institut d'études politiques du Chiraquisme.<br />Mais depuis l'assassinat de "son ami" en février 2005, le "Cover-up" et la création d'un tribunal international chargé de juger les commanditaires de l'attentat sont une obsession pour le Président, qui continue à inviter allègrement le tueur Assef Shawkat,pour des visites officielles à Paris depuis..., car c'est toujours le monde à l'envers, rien ne change et rien ne changera....?<br /><br />Initiateur de l'idée du "cover-up" d'un tribunal international auprès de l'ONU, Chirac passerait, selon des sources bien informées, 170 % de son temps sur ce dossier. Il se serait engagé, en privé, à ce que tous les responsables de l'attentat siègent dans le box des accusés avant la fin de son mandat. C'est loin d'être le cas.... et ca ne le sera jamais, et Chirac le sait si bien, car la débandade est toujours de mise depuis 1943.<br /><br />Chirac pousse donc le Conseil de sécurité à adopter une résolution contraignante pour l'instauration du tribunal. Objectif : venger son ami.<br />L'affaire est personnelle, il ne s'en cache pas. En quittant l'Elysée, il s'installera dans un appartement prêté par la famille Hariri, ce qui consterne le Quai d'Orsay....et les "services"? On se moque toujours du monde des Libanais, affables et naïfs, comme on l'a toujours fait, depuis 1943, et on continue à "héberger" et protéger en France, les hommes de sous-mains des Israéliens, des Syriens et des Saoudiens, qui collaborent activement à "dérouter" toutes les investigations "sérieuses" au Liban et en France ? , depuis des années... en toute connaissance de cause !<br /><br />Dans ce contexte, pas étonnant que Saad Hariri soit le premier représentant étranger qu'il présente à Nicolas Sarkozy. La question est maintenant de savoir si ce dernier s'inscrira dans la continuité de Chirac. Difficile pour Christophe Boltanskhi, auteur, avec Eric Aeschrimann, de Chiraq d'Arabie (Grasset), « jamais politique étrangère n'avait été aussi indexée sur les hommes de BUSH et de la CIA, menteurs proféssionnels à Gage.<br />Ces dernières enquêtes et rumeurs sur Jacques Chirac sont moins ébouriffantes...<br />incontestablement ».</span><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">À l’aune de notre seule ombre </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Par Percy KEMP<br /><br />La joie qui se lisait, au soir de l’élection présidentielle française, sur le visage des principaux artisans de la victoire de Nicolas Sarkozy est compréhensible. L’immense fierté – pour ne pas dire l’extrême autosatisfaction – qui s’y lisait autant, l’est beaucoup moins. Voyant ces gens-là pavoiser en prenant la mesure du pouvoir que leur succès venait de leur conférer, j’ai eu à l’esprit le comportement, en pareilles circonstances, du Thébain Epaminondas.<br /><br />Plutarque nous rapporte en effet, qu’alors qu’il avait l’habitude de se montrer tout le temps soigné de sa personne et le visage serein, Epaminondas, au lendemain de sa grande victoire sur Sparte à la bataille de Leuctres en 371 avant notre ère, se présenta en public mal lavé et tout abattu. Ses amis s’inquiétant de savoir s’il lui était arrivé quelque malheur, « Aucun, leur répondit-il, mais hier, après la bataille, j’ai senti en moi plus de fierté qu’il ne convient et c’est pourquoi je rabats aujourd’hui l’excès de ma joie. »<br /><br />Les lendemains de victoire sont extrêmement périlleux. Car c’est dans ces moments-là que, nous identifiant totalement à notre victoire, nous présumons le plus de notre personne et de notre valeur. Recherchant alors les yeux flatteurs de nos admirateurs, nous nous y mirons volontiers et nous en venons naturellement à nous y voir immensément grandis.<br /><br />A ce propos, il ne serait pas inintéressant de rappeler ici la réponse qu’Archidamos, roi de Sparte, fit jadis à Philippe, roi de Macédoine, au lendemain de la défaite cinglante que les Macédoniens infligèrent aux Grecs à Chéronée, en 338 avant notre ère. Philippe, victorieux, ayant en effet écrit à Archidamos, vaincu, une lettre pleine de morgue, ce dernier lui répondit en ces termes : « Si tu mesurais ton ombre, Philippe, tu ne la trouverais pas plus grande aujourd’hui qu’avant ta victoire. »<br /><br />Percy KEMP<br /><br />Article paru le jeudi 17 mai 2007 dans L’Orient-Le Jour (Beyrouth)</span><br /><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br />To the young generation of LEBANON and all over the world.<br />***********************************************************<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Please subscribe to the notions of this very genuine and well intentioned appeal here:</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><p><em>Dear all ,</em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em>Thank you for visiting my site and giving me the opportunity to render my cause and the cause of so many around the world, a cause founded, initiated, and pursued by righteousness and a desire for the good for all mankind. I hope that with my modest undertaking, and an infinite desire for good, a precedent will be set and an example to be followed by more of our world’s youth. While the young are desperate for guidance, the purported “leaders” have fallen short of our expectations and of their own responsibilities. In 2007, more than any other time, the youth of Lebanon and the world are yearning for change, for peace; something only possible and resultant by the initiatives and leadership of real and genuine leaders, men and women who seek the greater good for all mankind and not solely of their own.</em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em>My project and undertaking here is only bit and parcel of my real dreams and ambitions, only a fragment of where I believe our world should be led. For years I’ve watched fellow countrymen tear the land of the cedars apart by their sectarian fanaticism, blind hatred, political prostitution, and unreserved ignorance. I invite you to my site as we witness a real desire for change, an authentic intention to lead our country towards genuine national unity. I’ve been called everything from a hero to a traitor, I’ve been threatened and harassed yet this cause is unwavering, and I remain steadfast to my beliefs. This site has been attacked by hackers and individuals who propagate lies and heresy in the name of their so-called “causes” yet I ask, what is more noble than the cause of humanity? Protecting our heritage as Lebanese and citizens of this world is our only guarantee for a better future- neglecting your past equates to nullifying your future.</em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em>I have no political motives, I’m not a self-hating Lebanese or Muslim, I have no affiliations to any foreign country besides my own; there are not any underlying motives, so I ask that you do not contact us with unfounded and baseless accusations and threats. I direct my comments to both ends of the obvious political and ideological spectrums. What joins you is hatred, ignorance, and a lack of education and respect. What united us here is our common humanity, values, and genuine desire for peace. We shouldn’t yearn for peace without conciliation, without understanding. God gave us two ears and one mouth so we listen twice as much as we speak. Without acknowledging the rights of others and acknowledging an individuals value as a human being and granting them their fundamental and inalienable rights as human beings, we will continue leading the lives we’ve led for the last 50 years.</em></p><p><em>I have dedicated my life to the land of my ancestors out of respect and appreciation for what our respective civilization has contributed to the world. The land of the cedars, the land that gave the world its alphabet. This cause, of rebuilding our nation is far greater than any cause prescribed in Lebanon, greater than the hollow political slogans and ideologies broadcasted in the capitals of the world. The Lebanese cause is not the Zionist cause, the Lebanese cause is not the Arab cause, nor the Christian or Islamic cause- the Lebanese cause is humanity’s cause; the struggle for mankind to live together, peacefully, and most noteworthy, it’s distinction of being universally applicable. We must end the tendency to regard ourselves as individuals in this increasing globalized society.</em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em>Lebanon was and will always be the model for religious coexistence and cultural pluralism in the Middle East and the world. It’s by no coincidence that Lebanon is the only country in the world besides the obvious exception here or there....? My site and its content are purely Lebanese, national in character and spirit. No falsehoods, agendas; what you see here is who I am and what I believe in. They showed us where they could lead Lebanon and the youth see it differently. I am only one voice in the collective courage of our youth, the children and the diaspora of our great nation.</em></p><p><em>I invite you visitor, Lebanese or non-Lebanese, as a brother in faith and humanity, welcome to my site, your site, the site where good people are all welcomed.</em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><strong>A human being, an inhabitant of civilization, a son of the Holy Cedars of Lebanon,</strong></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><em>NEWHK</em></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><strong><em></em></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal">**********************************************************************************************************<br /><strong><em></em></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><em><br /></em></strong></p><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">The trained psychotic liars of the State Department, Washington DC.</span><br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></span><div><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" >"But war is also the continuation of false consciousness/ And falsified policy and politics/ And greed masked as bourgeois generosity/ By the falsified desires of American imperialism/ By presidents wedded to cowboys and missiles/ By chauvinist beer salesmen peddling stars and stripes by the six-pack/ By the trained psychotic liars of the State Department/ By the simple minded sods in all 50 states ..." - from "A Momentary Belief in the Wisdom of the Common People and a Curse on the Bastards Who Own and Operate Them", Thomas McGrath, 1916-90. Every time I read another powerful writing by Pepe Escobar, I am reminded of the late Great Plains poet Thomas McGrath, who wrote of the fallacies [and] bittersweet ironies of past failures and injustices effected by US foreign policies and insurgencies. Tom McGrath was blacklisted during the notorious McCarthy era but rose again as a voice of conscience during the Vietnam War and spoke up against US atrocities agitated directly or indirectly in Latin America; those actions still supported by the still-functioning training school for torture, the infamous School of the Americas - which Escobar documented in two previous articles [eg </span><a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/HL07Dj01.html" target="_blank"><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" >Bush, OPEC and Chavez of Arabia</span></a><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" >, Dec 7, '06]. After reading David Simmons' review [</span><a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/IB10Dj01.html" target="_blank"><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" >The Roving Eye's grim world view</span></a><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" >, Feb 10] and </span><a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/IB10Dj03.html" target="_blank"><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" >excerpt</span></a><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" > from Pepe Escobar's book <i>Globalistan</i>, I have ordered several copies to share with friends.</span></span></div><br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">SEEING THE LIGHT AND POWER OF FRIENDSHIP!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">“To our joy or to our misery, the contingencies of reality have a great influence on what we say, when writing in the wake of personal disaster,” . It is hard to talk about yourself, and so before I describe my current writing experience, at this time in my life, I wish to make a few observations about the impact that a disaster, a traumatic situation, has on an entire society, an entire people. I immediately recall the words of the mouse in Kafka’s short story “A Little Fable.” The mouse who, as the trap closes on him, and the cat looms behind, says, “Alas . . . the world is growing narrower every day.”<br /><br />Indeed, after many years of living in the extreme and violent reality of a political, military and religious conflict, I can report, sadly, that Kafka’s mouse was right: the world is, indeed, growing increasingly narrow, increasingly diminished, with every day that goes by. And I can also tell you about the void that is growing ever so slowly between the individual human being and the external, violent and chaotic situation within which he lives. The situation that dictates his life to him in each and every aspect.<br /><br />And this void never remains empty. It is filled rapidly — with apathy, with cynicism and, more than anything else, with despair: the despair that fuels distorted situations, allowing them to persist on and on, in some cases even for generations. Despair of the possibility of ever changing the prevailing state of affairs, of ever being redeemed from it. And the despair that is deeper still — despair of what this distorted situation exposes, finally, in each and every one of us, on both sides of any conflict.<br /><br />And I feel the heavy toll that I, and the people I know and see around me, pay for this ongoing state of war. The shrinking of the “surface area” of the soul that comes in contact with the bloody and menacing world out there. The limiting of one’s ability and willingness to identify, even a little, with the pain of others; the suspension of moral judgment. The despair most of us experience of possibly understanding our own true thoughts in a state of affairs that is so terrifying and deceptive and complex, both morally and practically. Hence, you become convinced, I might be better off not thinking and opt not to know perhaps I’m better off leaving the task of thinking and doing and establishing moral norms in the hands of those who might “know better....”on both sides of any conflict.<br /><br />Most of all, I’m better off not feeling too much — at least until this shall pass. And if it doesn’t, at least I relieved my suffering somewhat, I developed a useful numbness, I protected myself as best I could with the help of a bit of indifference, a bit of sublimation, a bit of intended blindness and large doses of self-anesthetization, knowing how deep, grave and desperate, the Lack of Leadership is worldwide .<br /><br />In other words: Because of the perpetual — and all-too-real — fear of being hurt, or of deceptive petty politicians, or of unbearable loss, or even of “mere” humiliation, each and every one of us, the conflict’s citizens, its prisoners, trim down our own vivacity, our internal mental and cognitive diapason, ever enveloping ourselves with protective layers, which end up suffocating us, because of very low expectations from the so-called "elite" and from perpetual feudal war-lords, clinging to failed and miserable policies.<br /><br />Kafka’s mouse is right: when the predator is closing in on you, the world does indeed become increasingly narrow. So does the language that describes it. From my experience I can say that the language with which the citizens of a sustained conflict describe their predicament becomes progressively shallower the longer the conflict endures. Language gradually becomes a sequence of clichés, colors and slogans. This begins with the language created by the institutions that manage the conflict directly —the war-lords, the feudal elite, the army, the police, the different government ministers; it quickly filters down to the mass media that are reporting or regurgitating "words", syllables and "formulas" about the conflict, germinating an even more cunning language that aims to tell its target audience the story easiest for digestion; and this process ultimately seeps into the private, intimate language of the conflict’s citizens, even if they deny it... leaving no room for cool and thoughtful analysis, to produce a lasting political formula for decent and long-lasting Good Governance, in a time of conflict and utter gridlock.<br /><br />Actually, this process is all too understandable: after all, the natural riches of human language, and their ability to touch on the finest and most delicate nuances and strings of existence, can hurt deeply in such circumstances, because they remind us of the bountiful reality of which we are being robbed, of its true complexity, of its subtleties. And the more this state of affairs goes on, and as the language used to describe this state of affairs grows shallower, public discourse dwindles further. What remain are the fixed and banal mutual accusations among enemies, or among political adversaries within the same country. What remain are the clichés we use for describing our enemy and ourselves; the clichés that are, ultimately, a collection of superstitions and crude generalizations, in which we capture ourselves and entrap our enemies. The world is, indeed, growing increasingly narrow.<br /><br />My thoughts relate not only to the conflict in the Middle East. Across the world today, billions of people face a “predicament” of one type or other, in which personal existence and values, liberty and identity are under threat, to some extent. Almost all of us have a “predicament” of our own, a curse of our own. We all feel — or can intuit — how our special “predicament” can rapidly turn into a trap that would take away our freedom, the sense of home our country provides, our private language, our free will, our Honor, our Independence, our self-worth, etc. !<br /><br />In this reality we authors and poets write. In Lebanon , Israel and Palestine, Chechnya and Sudan, in Colombia New York, and in Congo. Sometimes, during my workday, after several hours’ writing, I lift my head up and think — right now, at this very moment, another writer whom I don’t even know sits, in Damascus or Tehran, in Kigali or in Belfast, just like me, practicing this peculiar, Don-Quixote-like craft of creation, within a reality that contains so much violence and estrangement, indifference and diminution. Here, I have a distant ally who doesn’t even know me, but together we weave this intangible cobweb, which nevertheless has tremendous power, a world-changing and world-creating power, the power of making the dumb speak and the power of perception, or correction, in the deep sense it has in the human mind... and could even add, edit, or transform some thoughts and adapt them to a somewhat similar environment somewhere on this planet.<br /><br />As for me, in recent years, in the facts that I wrote, I almost intentionally turned my back on the "elites", and feudal fiery reality of my country, the reality of the latest news bulletin. I had written notes about this reality before, and in essays and interviews, I never stopped writing about it, and never stopped trying to understand it. I participated in dozens of protests, in international peace initiatives. I met my neighbors — some of whom were my enemies — at every opportunity that I deemed to offer a chance for dialogue. And yet, out of a conscious decision, and almost out of protest, I did not write about these disaster zones yet, because this does not enjoy people’s complete attentiveness as the nearly eternal war thunders.<br /><br />About five years ago, when my friend HK, was savagely assassinated, I could no longer follow my recent ways. A sense of urgency and alarm washed over me, leaving me restless. I then began writing notes, that treat directly the bleak reality in which we live. A way that depicts how external violence and the cruelty of the general political and military reality penetrate the tender and vulnerable tissue of a single family, ultimately tearing it asunder.<br /><br />“As soon as one writes,” “one miraculously ignores the current circumstances of one’s life, yet our happiness or misery leads us to write in a certain way. When we are happy, our imagination is more dominant. When miserable, the power of our memory takes over.” It is hard to talk about yourself. I will only say what I can at this point, and from the location where I sit.<br /><br />I write. In wake of the death of my friend Elie Hobeika, in the war between Israel and Lebanon, the awareness of what happened has sunk into every cell of mine. The power of memory is indeed enormous and heavy, and at times has a paralyzing quality to it. Nevertheless, the act of writing itself at this time creates for me a type of “space,” a mental territory that I’ve never experienced before, where death is not only the absolute and one-dimensional negation of life.<br /><br />Writers know that when we write, we feel the world move; it is flexible, crammed with possibilities. It certainly isn’t frozen. Wherever human existence permeates, there is no freezing and no paralysis, and actually, there is no status quo. Even if we sometimes err to think that there is a status quo; even if some are very keen to have us believe that a status quo exists. When I write, even now, the world is not closing in on me, and it does not grow ever so narrow: it also makes gestures of opening up toward a future prospect.<br /><br />I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator... At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which deceit enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.<br /><br />I write. I feel the wealth of possibilities inherent in any human situation. I sense my ability to choose between them. The sweetness of liberty, which I believed that I had already lost. I indulge in the richness of true, or borrowed, intimate language. I recall the delight of natural, full breathing when I manage to escape the claustrophobia of slogan and cliché. Suddenly I begin to breathe with both lungs.<br /><br />I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by Mafias, by black-ops, by government's assassins and pseudo-armies, by despair and tragedy.<br /><br />I write. I relieve myself of one of the dubious and distinctive capacities created by the state of war in which we live — the capacity to be an enemy and an enemy only. I do my best not to shield myself from the just claims and sufferings of my enemy. Nor from the tragedy and entanglement of his own life. Nor from his errors or crimes or from the knowledge of what I myself am doing to him. Nor, finally, from the surprising similarities I find between him and me.<br /><br />All of a sudden I am not condemned to this absolute, fallacious and suffocating dichotomy — this inhumane choice to “be victim or aggressor,” without having any third, more humane alternative. When I write, I can be a human being whose parts have natural and vital passages between them; a human who is able to feel close to his enemies’ sufferings and to acknowledge his just claims without relinquishing a grain of his own identity.<br /><br />Sometimes when I write, I can recall what we all felt in Lebanon, for one singular moment, when the airplanes of the Israeli Air Force, pounded our towns and villages, our buildings and infrastructure, killing tens of thousands of our citizens for the last 40 years ago, after decades of war between the two nations: then, all of a sudden, we discovered how heavy is the load we carry all our lives — the load of enmity and fear and suspicion. The load of permanent guard duty, the heavy burden of being an enemy, at all times.<br /><br />And what a delight it is, to think that one day, may be, just may be we could remove for one moment the mighty armor of suspicion, hate and stereotype. It is a delight that is almost terrifying — to stand naked, pure almost, and witness a human face emerge from the one-dimensional vision with which we observed each other for years.?<br /><br />I write. I give intimate private names to an external and foreign world. In a sense, I make it mine. In a sense, I return from feeling exiled and foreign to feeling at home. By doing so, I am already making a small change in what appeared to me earlier as unchangeable. Also, when I describe the impermeable arbitrariness that signs our destiny — arbitrariness at the hands of a human being, or arbitrariness at the hands of fate — I suddenly discover new nuances, subtleties. I discover that the mere act of writing about arbitrariness allows me to feel a freedom of movement in relation to it. That by merely facing up to arbitrariness I am granted freedom — maybe the only freedom a man may have against any arbitrariness: the freedom to put your tragedy into your own words. The freedom to express yourself differently, innovatively, before that which threatens to chain and bind one to arbitrariness and its limited, fossilizing definitions.<br /><br />And I write also about that which cannot be brought back. And about that which is inconsolable. Then, too, in a manner I still find inexplicable, the circumstances of my life do not close in on me in a way that would leave me paralyzed. Many times every day, as I sit at my desk, I touch on grief and loss like one touching electricity with his bare hands, and yet I do not die. I cannot grasp how this miracle works. Maybe once I finish writing these memories, I will try to understand. Not now. It is too early.<br /><br />And I write the life of my land, Lebanon. The land that is tortured, frantic, drugged by an overdose of history, excessive emotions that cannot be contained by any human capacity, extreme events and tragedies, enormous anxiety and paralyzing sobriety, too much memory, failed hopes and the circumstances of a fate unique among all nations: an existence that sometimes appears to be a "message to the world", especially to Israel..., a story of mythical proportions, a story that is “larger than life” to the point that something seems to have gone wrong with the relation it bears to life itself. A country that has become tired of the possibility of ever leading the standard, normal life of a country among countries, a nation among nations.<br /><br />We writers go through times of despair and times of self-devaluation. Our work is in essence the work of deconstructing personality, of doing away with some of the most effective human-defense mechanisms. We treat, voluntarily, the harshest, ugliest and also rawest materials of the soul. Our work leads us time and again to acknowledge our shortcomings, as both humans and souls.<br /><br />And yet, and this is the great mystery and the alchemy of our actions: In a sense, as soon as we lay our hand on the pen, or the computer keyboard, we already cease to be the helpless victims of whatever it was that enslaved and diminished us before we began to write. Not the slaves of our predicament nor of our private anxieties; not of the “official narrative” of our country, nor of fate itself. Hence, I will say this from the heart:<br /><br />The Lebanese people are getting so tired of the Feudal Sectarian Mess and of the so-called March 14th stooges, prisoners of the American/Israeli new-imperialistic and Hegemonistic formulas, which made of them traitors to the real March 14th Spirit, and the whole mess called Lebanon. Despair is in their faces and immigration is on the rise. There is a danger that there will reach a point where no body cares about anything anymore. To avoid this situation, the silent opposition should take action and take it soon. One idea is to ask the UN to put Lebanon under its mandate and send a bigger force to dismantle the Sectarian system for good. The UN mandate, constituted of European forces only, is needed to avoid chaos and bloodshed for many years. After-all, the Lebanese have proven that they are not mature or capable of ruling themselves and thus they need to be governed by an outside authority. It could be that the 30 years of Syro-American inspired occupation, has made the Lebanese so dependent on another country to resolve their problems and they lost their ability to rule. The UN mandate will help to disarm all the feudal elitist entities in Lebanon, apprentice Lebanese in running a modern form of government, reform the constitution to rid Lebanon of the Religious sectarianism. The UN should stay in Lebanon for 50 years till the sectarian generations are turned over and new generations take over to continue the development of good governance in a modern decentralized state, to liberate the energies of the talented youths of Lebanon ounce and for all.<br /><br />We write. The world is not closing in on us. How fortunate we are. The world is not growing increasingly narrow...??? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">INDEPENDENCE 07???</span><br /><br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lebanon's Independence is Falling Apart??</span><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">كيف للأفاعي الزاحفة على الأرض ان تفهم النسور المحلقة في السماء ?</span><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Summer in the eastern Mediterranean is always hot, wet, and stormy. But in Lebanon, this summer could be bad -- even by last year's standards. The political struggle that has paralyzed Lebanon since the assassination of Rafik Hariri and the departure of the Syrian Army in 2005 must come to a head by September, when a new president must be selected. Under Lebanon's constitution, only the parliament can select the president -- and this parliament is suffocating from deadlock, gridlock and utter incompetence of a Prime Minister, bent on breaking the constitution and laws of the land daily.The opposition -- and for months has prevented parliament from meeting because the constitutionality of the actual government is in question. In all likelihood, Lebanon will be divided between two competing governments by year's end -- and facing civil war again. But this time the war will add the fuel of Islamist terrorism to that of sectarian militias -- a potentially cataclysmic combination. The resolution currently being debated by the Security Council may add fuel to the fire of the future of Lebanon.<br /><br />The current crisis pits two unlikely coalitions against each other. In the opposition, supported openly by 2/3 of the Lebanese people, are the Shiite Amal Movement and Hezbollah as well as the Free Patriotic Movement of General Michel Aoun, a Christian and formerly Syria's nemesis in Lebanon. On the other side is the governing majority of the "February 14 Alliance," named for the day of the Hariri assassination made in SYRIA, CIA and MOSSAD, which consists of some Sunnis, some Druze, and those Lebanese Christians who are a proxy CIA Militia, trained in Israel and financed by CIA. The opposition controls the presidency and the office of the speaker of parliament, while the majority controls the parliament and the unconstitutional government of the pawn Prime Minister Siniora, a petty politician, a thug and a thief.<br /><br />Since pulling their six ministers out of the government in January, the opposition demonstrates daily that the government is no longer legitimate, on the basis of a constitutional provision requiring that the major confessional communities be represented in the government. Thus, even though the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora rests on a stolen parliamentary majority, important CIA power stooges within the state -- including the CIA/DIA-installed President Emile Lahoud and the pro-AMAL speaker of parliament -- refuse to acknowledge its legitimacy. The "constitution" of Lebanon, a constantly changing Frankenstein's monster, is full of devices meant to protect confessional minorities. But by defeating majority rule, the only real effect of these devices is to leave the state unable to protect itself.<br /><br />The government there is too weak even to claim a monopoly of legitimate force, much less exercise one. Several leading Lebanese, including a senior Christian army general and a Sunni cabinet minister, suggested to me that the weakness of Lebanon's institutions is indeed necessary for political stability there. Such thinking, incredible as it may seem, is common in Lebanon. The Lebanese army maintains its power and prestige chiefly by never acting to defend any institution in Lebanon except itself.<br /><br />As long as both the Lebanese army and the U.N. forces under UNIFIL stay out of the political conflict, Hezbollah will remain the only force in Lebanon able and willing to impose its will. The international community needs to wake up to the fact that neither the tribunal it has called for, nor the government of Lebanon generally, can long survive without popular Lebanese protection. It is vital to expand the mandate of UNIFIL into one that protects Lebanon's key institutions -- its parliament as well as the tribunal -- from its internal as well as external enemies.<br /><br />Opponents of intervention will invoke Article 2(7) of the U.N. Charter, and argue the U.N. should stay away because the current constitutional crisis is "essentially a matter within the domestic jurisdiction" of Lebanon. But it isn't. The forces currently preying on Lebanon are very definitely coming from the outside -- chiefly USA and ISRAEL -- and have now assumed decisive influence over both the investigation into Hariri's death and the coming presidential election. This is of critical importance, because all the evidence thus far adduced in the investigation suggests that responsibility for the murder of Hariri rests at the highest levels of the Syrian government, CIA and MOSSAD, and that it was carried out by the instruments of an American inspired Syrian occupation.<br /><br />President Emile Lahoud argues that the government of the prime minister is illegitimate -- but he was himself "elected" by a parliament installed under Syrian occupation, and his term was legally extended by this same rubber stamp for an American inspired CIA extension. Now both he and the speaker of parliament, who is increasingly popular, argue that the current parliament won't be able to select a president with a simple majority vote unless it first achieves a supermajority quorum -- which it can't do without the presence of the opposition. So another defeat for majority rule and for Lebanon is looming.In default of any general agreement on a constitutional means to elect future governments, the international community must leave Lebanon alone, just as it did in the former 1700s. The vacuum of sovereignty that exists in Lebanon needs to be filled, and only the Security Council has the perceived legitimacy to fill it....?<br /><br />If we don't move to save Lebanon now, we will be handing America's enemies an enormous victory, and the spread of democracy in the Middle East will suffer a deadly blow. After all, if democracy cannot be saved in the one Arab country where it has existed for a long time, what hope is there of democracy surviving among Iraqis, Israelis and Palestinians who have never had it?</span><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">البارد يغلي دوليا<br />بقلم: زينا الخوري<br />الجيش اللبناني الباسل يدرك ان هناك طريقة وحيدة للتعامل مع العصابات التي تعتدي على الوطن: الحزم للحسم. وهو يتقدم نحو الهدف.<br />اما الحكومة فتتردد وتتراجع امام ابسط خطوة سياسية للانقاذ!<br />فضحت الاحداث الاخيرة العمل الحكومي القائم على «البروبغاندا». وكشف النقاش الساخن داخل مجلس الوزراء ان الاسلوب الذي واجهت به عصابة «فتح الاسلام» اجهزة الدولة، تستوجب التحقيق الدقيق ... والمسآلة.<br />فمراجعة شريط الاحداث بهدوء تظهر ان العصابة كانت مستنفرة ... وجاهزة لمباغتة القوى الامنية. تصرفت العصابة كأنها تنتظر المعركة من خلال كثافة النيران، والانتشار السريع على الطرقات، والمجازر التي ارتكبتها بدم بارد.<br />كذلك عملية السطو على المصرف في الكورة تطرح علامات استفهام. فالسيارة التي اوقفتها العصابة امام المصرف، التقطت الكاميرا رقمها بوضوح، فقادت الاجهزة الى تحديد هوية السارقين. هل كانت «الطعم» الذي فرض المداهمة الفجرية، ليتفجّر بعدها الوضع داخل المخيمات؟<br />هل كانت «فتح الاسلام» تتوقع عملية امنية عليها في مرحلة لاحقة، فقررت ان تستبق التوقيت. واتخذت المبادرة بأسلوب معكوس. وضعت «الطعم» امام مصرف في الكورة واستعدت للمواجهة من القلمون الى البارد؟<br />وسارع الفريق «الاكثري» الى انشاد معزوفته المعهودة، رابطا الانفجار بالمحكمة الدولية.<br />اعتقد ان الربط الفعلي والموضوعي لا بد ان يكون مع مداخل الاراضي الفلسطينية، حيث تدور المعارك بين الفصائل المتناحرة، خاصة في قطاع غزة.<br />شرارة نهر البارد كان هدفها الفعلي اشعال النيران في مختلف المخيمات الفلسطينية في لبنان، لكي يرتفع الدخان الفلسطيني عاليا في سماء المنطقة كلها.. مقدمة لحل... لعله الكونفيديرالية التي اقترحها ملك الاردن مع الدولة الفلسطينية...؟!<br />هناك من يتحدث عن مخطط لوضع المخيمات تحت اشراف الامم المتحدة بعد ان يفشل الجيش اللبناني بضبط اوضاعها ... ومطار القليعات جاهز ليصبح مركز القيادة الشمالية.<br />أمل الوطن ان يحسم جيشنا الباسل، وتولد حكومة وحدة وطنية ... قبل فوات الاوان<br /></span><br />------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A secular defense of human rights, </span><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Laic, In Dignity, Rights, and Personal Responsibility.</span><br /><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />In today’s Lebanon, we often take for granted ideas like human dignity and human rights. Many of us hold them to be natural, inalienable, or universal. But we would do well to ask: where do human dignity and human rights come from?<br /> ... a foundational fiction to which we more or less wholeheartedly subscribe, a fiction that may well be indispensable for a just society, namely, that human beings have a dignity that sets them apart from animals and consequently protects them from being treated like animals ... helps to define humanity and the status of humanity helps to define human rights ... an affront to our dignity strikes at our rights. Yet when, outraged at such affront, we stand on our rights and demand redress, we would do well to remember how insubstantial the dignity is on which those rights are based...<br />Human dignity is a human construct; its prehistoric roots perhaps lie in the universal human aversion to pain and humiliation. Animals suffer too, but humans, with their superior consciousness and cognition, could act to reduce it. When they collectively did so, they implicitly adopted a notion of human dignity (the birth of civilization?).<br /><br />The edifice of rights was built upon this foundation of dignity. The right to life is the earliest major human right. The equality of the right to life is a more recent idea and a higher order abstraction still.?<br /><br />Human rights today include the equality of the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But without a 'higher' or objective truth to derive human rights from, all depends on a peoples' gallant embrace of principles. We also know that rights can be easily undermined by centrifugal traits in human nature (rooted as it is in the animal kingdom and worsened swiftly by sociopolitical turmoil), or by autocrats in the name of culture, order, security, or tradition.<br /><br />‘A secular defense of human rights depends on the idea of moral reciprocity: that we cannot conceive of any circumstances in which we or anyone we know would wish to be abused in mind or body.’ But there is no consensus on precisely what rights all humans deserve in a world with diverse histories. Then there are practical challenges—how do we match the high-minded language of universal rights with equally high-minded enforcement? What do we make of those who consent to being abused in mind or body, cease to think of it as abuse, and settle for other benefits?<br /><br />The modern age has overseen a great expansion of our rights. Global disparities remain but there is no dearth of people who believe that rights are a good thing (at least for the social group they identify with most, be it based on race, nation, class, culture). Countless rights commissions and tribunals, as well as some NGOs and the media, strive to preserve or enhance them, often on behalf of strangers across the world and often with remarkably heartening results. Clearly, talk of rights is now chic but what about obligations and personal responsibility? What good is the former without the latter? People can demand rights from their government, but who gets to demand personal responsibility from the people? What happens when our exercise of rights and freedom get increasingly divorced from personal responsibility?<br /><br />As early as the 1920s, in a keenly observant and prophetic work, The Revolt of the Masses, Ortega y Gassett wrote that life in the modern West “as a program of possibilities [for all] is magnificent, exuberant, superior to all others known to history. But by the very fact that its scope is greater, it has overflowed all the channels, principles, norms, ideals handed down by tradition.” Furthermore, our age is stamped by the arrival of the self-satisfied, indocile, mass-man, a drifter without history, saved from the pre-modern age’s harsh life and exacting gods. He now sees no need to make real demands on himself, wants and receives as entitlement all the rights, freedoms and comforts of the modern age but accepts none of the obligations, limits and standards vital to civilized life. Even the modern professional who leads the mass-man behaves no better outside his narrow domain. Ortega y Gassett called this a “vertical invasion of the barbarians ... as if through the trapdoors ... the commonplace mind knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.” This may be why Kierkegaard cynically quipped: “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use.”<br /><br />This drift in modern culture towards the least common denominator is perhaps why many perceive in it a strong sense of decadence. “We are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, [because they have nothing] to which to give themselves.”* Fearful of the worst, many artists and activists today adopt humorless, neo-luddite attitudes: modernity has ushered in a more abrasive social milieu; science and technology has given more power to man than he can handle with grace; they glorify the past out of postmodern nostalgia. But the imagined virtues of the past are only phantoms of our mind. We can learn from the past but we cannot go back to reclaim it; our unique age must find its own destiny. Let us recall this cautiously optimistic verse by the sixth century BCE Greek poet, Xenophanes of Colophon,:<br /><br />The gods did not enrich man with a knowledge of all things from the beginning of life.<br /><br />Yet man seeks, and in time invents what may be better.<br />***********************<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Blowback in Lebanon</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Islamists at the centre of the fighting were built up by pro-government forces for sectarian reasons<br /><br />Charles Harb in Beirut<br />Thursday May 24, 2007<br />The Guardian<br /><br /><br />The violence that has engulfed the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in northern Lebanon over the past few days, started after a night raid by internal security forces to arrest alleged bank robbers in Lebanon's second largest city, Tripoli. That turned into armed clashes between police and a small radical Islamist group, Fatah al-Islam. Within hours, the Lebanese army was pulled into the conflict when more than a dozen soldiers were ambushed and killed. The army surrounded and began shelling the camp where Fatah al-Islam militants are based - home to more than 30,000 refugees - with mounting casualties on all sides, including civilians.<br /><br />The story of Lebanon's US-backed Siniora government and army battling an isolated al-Qaida-type terrorist group allegedly backed by Syria obscures a complex picture that has been years in the making, and which involves a peculiar social environment, Lebanese political manoeuvring, and the wider dynamics of an increasingly volatile region.<br /><br />North Lebanon, especially Tripoli and Akkar, contains some of the country's most deprived areas, neglected by successive governments. Tripoli, a traditionally conservative Sunni city, and Akkar, a strikingly poor province, became fertile territory for the proselytising of Salafist and radical Sunni groups. But impoverished conditions do not explain the rapid empowerment of radical Sunni movements in recent years; political cover was needed - and was provided by pro-government forces. In the 2005 national parliamentary elections, Saad al-Hariri, the son of slain prime minister Rafik Hariri, appealed to Sunni sentiment to woo northern voters. Significant efforts were made to bring the Sunnis of Tripoli and Akkar under his wing and away from the area's traditional leaders. Fulfilling an electoral pledge, the new parliament pardoned jailed Sunni militants involved in violence in December 2000. Those clashes in Dinnieh between Islamist radicals and the Lebanese army left dozens dead in a precursor of the violence of recent days.<br /><br />Courting radical Sunni sentiment is a dangerous game. A major sign of trouble ahead had already emerged in February last year, when a protest against the cartoons belittling the prophet Muhammad turned violent and the Danish embassy was set ablaze in the fashionable Beirut district of Ashrafieh. Most of those protesting came from the impoverished areas of the north.<br /><br />This picture becomes more complicated when the regional dimension is factored in. The invasion of Iraq has inflamed the Sunni-Shia divide and is changing the dynamics of the Middle East. Fear of Shia influence in Arab affairs has prompted many Sunni leaders to warn of a "Shia crescent" stretching from Iran, through Iraq, to south Lebanon. Several reports have highlighted efforts by Saudi officials to strengthen Sunni groups, including radical ones, to face the Shia renaissance across the region.<br /><br />But building up radical Sunni groups to face the Shia challenge can easily backfire. While militant Islamist groups are sensitive to appeals to Sunni sentiment, they remain locked in their own agenda. Courted by regional players - Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia - and infiltrated by intelligence services, Islamist radical groups serve the needs of some without necessarily becoming servants to any.<br /><br />Some perceive the fighting of recent days as a confrontation between regional forces - the US, Syria, Saudi Arabia - vying for control of the Lebanese political space. Others see it as a plan that went wrong, with Islamist groups escaping the control of the pro-government forces that nurtured them. And others perceive it as an attempt to draw the Lebanese army - regarded as the only genuinely national force in the country - into the fray of Lebanese politics.<br /><br />The Siniora government is enfeebled. Claims that Syria is behind the current conflict have not so far been endorsed by the White House or other Arab leaders. The army, which has tried to remain neutral, is now muddied and its weaknesses made apparent to all.<br /><br />The plight of thousands of Palestinian refugees trapped in the Nahr al-Bared camp echoes the Israeli bombing of Palestinian camps in occupied Palestine. Radical Islamist activists are moved by the atrocities in the north and attacks on their fellow militants. Palestinian factions are fractious, weakened, and infiltrated by foreign agents, further destabilising security within the refugee camps. The relations between Palestinian groups and Lebanese authorities are strained, and tensions can easily spill outside the refugee camps. The dangers of a conflagration that could spread across the country are serious. The US once nurtured the mujahideen in Afghanistan, only to pay the price much later. In the dangerous game of sectarian conflict, everyone stands to lose.<br /><br />· Professor Charles Harb teaches at the American University of Beirut<br /></span><br />-------------------------<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Wednesday, May. 23, 2007<br />The Link Between Lebanon and Gaza<br />By Robert Baer<br />Talk about the heart of darkness: The Israeli army shelling the Palestinians in Gaza, the Lebanese army bombarding the Palestinians in a refugee camp outside of Tripoli. It may take a while for the smoke to clear, but one thing is for certain: neither Lebanon nor Israel fully understands their enemy and the nature of the relationship between the Palestinians and al-Qaeda, which is strengthening. The hope is that overwhelming military firepower will defeat unbendable faith, and, for our part, let's hope they have better success than we've had in Iraq<br /><br />Lebanon's government would like us to believe Fatah Islam started the fighting there on Sunday on the orders of Damascus. I hope they know better. Whether Syria is providing tactical help or not, at the end of the day Fatah Islam is the Syrian regime's mortal enemy. If the fighting were to somehow lead to an all-out civil war, Syrian stability will be undermined. Lebanon has had a Sunni fundamentalist element in the north for more than 25 years. As I've written before in this column, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood used northern Lebanon as a rear base to seize the Syrian city of Hama in 1982. Lebanese Sunni, including fundamentalist Palestinians, were instrumental in the attack. In 2000, a Qaeda-affiliated group in northern Lebanon attacked the Lebanese army. Iraq and Afghanistan have only exacerbated the problem.<br /><br />Spend time in any Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon and you quickly understand that Osama bin Laden is a symbol of resistance. In the run-up to the Iraq war TIME Beirut correspondent Nick Blanford and I visited 'Ayn al-Hilweh, a Palestinian camp outside of Sidon. Two things struck me. A fundamentalist Sunni group, Usbat al-Islam, occupied half the camp, which we didn't enter because we probably wouldn't have made it back out. And, two, the Fatah commander was already recruiting fighters to go to Iraq to fight the occupation. Both sides were signed up for the jihad.<br /><br />Gaza is a mirror image of what is happening in Lebanon. Last year, Israelis have told me, Qaeda was growing like a fungus there, with both mainline Fatah and Hamas losing followers to it. In Gaza you could see the place was seething. But frankly the notion of bin Laden taking over sounded like propaganda to me. Now, though, watching the growing chaos, and with the kidnapping of a BBC journalist, I think the Israelis were right.<br /><br />And it's not just in Lebanon and Gaza where Qaeda is poking its head up. In a startling interview with the Financial Times, John Negroponte, deputy U.S. Secretary of State, said Qaeda is on the move in North Africa, as well as in the Sahel region, in such countries as Chad, Mali and Niger. Negroponte also said we should brace ourselves for a merger between Qaeda and the Algerian fundamentalists.I heard the same thing from a Libyan official, who said that one day in the near future Qaeda-associated groups could pose a threat to Libya's stability. Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia left a vacuum Qaeda is quickly filling.<br /><br />All of this begs the question; are the explosions we are seeing in Gaza and Lebanon a sign that the long-feared Qaeda resurgence is here?<br /><br />Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East and Time.com's intelligence columnist, is the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1624621,00.html">http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1624621,00.html</a><br /><br />+++++++++<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">"The US and Israel Stand Alone"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Former US president Jimmy Carter speaks with DER SPIEGEL about the danger posed to American values by George W. Bush, the difficult situation in the Middle East and Cuba's ailing Fidel Castro.<br /><br /><br />SPIEGEL: Mr. Carter, in your new book you write that only the American people can ensure that the US government returns to the country's old moral principles. Are you suggesting that the current US administration of George W. Bush of acting immorally?<br />Carter: There's no doubt that this administration has made a radical and unpressured departure from the basic policies of all previous administrations including those of both Republican and Democratic presidents.<br /><br />SPIEGEL: For example?<br /><br />Carter: Under all of its predecessors there was a commitment to peace instead of preemptive war. Our country always had a policy of not going to war unless our own security was directly threatened and now we have a new policy of going to war on a preemptive basis. Another very serious departure from past policies is the separation of church and state, which I describe in the book. This has been a policy since the time of Thomas Jefferson and my own religious beliefs are compatible with this. The other principle that I described in the book is basic justice. We've never had an administration before that so overtly and clearly and consistently passed tax reform bills that were uniquely targeted to benefit the richest people in our country at the expense or the detriment of the working families of America.<br /><br />SPIEGEL: You also mentioned the hatred for the United States throughout the Arab world which has ensued as a result of the invasion of Iraq. Given this circumstance, does it come as any surprise that Washington's call for democracy in the Middle East has been discredited?<br /><br />Carter: No, as a matter of fact, the concerns I exposed have gotten even worse now with the United States supporting and encouraging Israel in its unjustified attack on Lebanon.<br /><br />SPIEGEL: But wasn't Israel the first to get attacked?<br /><br />Carter: I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and Gaza. I do not think that's justified, no.<br /><br />SPIEGEL: Do you think the United States is still an important factor in securing a peaceful solution to the Middle East crisis?<br /><br />Carter: Yes, as a matter of fact as you know ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton. This administration has not attempted at all in the last six years to negotiate or attempt to negotiate a settlement between Israel and any of its neighbors or the Palestinians.<br /><br /><br />SPIEGEL: What makes you personally so optimistic about the effectiveness of diplomacy? You are, so to speak, the father of Camp David negotiations.<br />Carter: When I became president we had had four terrible wars between the Arabs and Israelis (behind us). And I under great difficulty, particularly because Menachim Begin was elected, decided to try negotiation and it worked and we have a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt for 27 years that has never been violated. You never can be certain in advance that negotiations on difficult circumstances will be successful, but you can be certain in advance if you don't negotiate that your problem is going to continue and maybe even get worse.<br /><br />SPIEGEL: But negotiations failed to prevent the burning of Beirut and bombardment of Haifa.<br /><br />Carter: I'm distressed. But I think that the proposals that have been made in the last few days by the (Lebanese) Prime Minister (Fuoad) Siniora are quite reasonable. And I think they should declare an immediate cease-fire on both sides, Hezbollah said they would comply, I hope Israel will comply, and then do the long, slow, tedious negotiation that is necessary to stabilize the northern border of Israel completely. There has to be some exchange of prisoners. There have been successful exchanges of prisoners between Israel and the Palestinians in the past and that's something that can be done right now.<br /><br />SPIEGEL: Should there be an international peacekeeping force along the Lebanese-Israeli border?<br /><br />Carter: Yes.<br /><br />SPIEGEL: And can you imagine Germans soldiers taking part?<br /><br />Carter: Yes, I can imagine Germans taking part.<br /><br />SPIEGEL: ... even with their history?<br /><br />Carter: Yes. That would be certainly satisfactory to me personally, and I think most people believe that enough time has passed so that historical facts can be ignored.<br /><br />SPIEGEL: One main points of your book is the rather strange coalition between Christian fundamentalists and the Republican Party. How can such a coalition of the pious lead to moral catastrophes like the Iraqi prison scandal in Abu Ghraib and torture in Guantanamo?<br /><br />Carter: The fundamentalists believe they have a unique relationship with God, and that they and their ideas are God's ideas and God's premises on the particular issue. Therefore, by definition since they are speaking for God anyone who disagrees with them is inherently wrong. And the next step is: Those who disagree with them are inherently inferior, and in extreme cases -- as is the case with some fundamentalists around the world -- it makes your opponents sub-humans, so that their lives are not significant. Another thing is that a fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality. And so this administration, for instance, has a policy of just refusing to talk to someone who is in strong disagreement with them -- which is also a radical departure from past history. So these are the kinds of things that cause me concern. And, of course, fundamentalists don't believe they can make mistakes, so when we permit the torture of prisoners in Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib, it's just impossible for a fundamentalist to admit that a mistake was made.<br /><br />SPIEGEL: So how does this proximity to Christian fundamentalism manifest itself politically?<br /><br /><br />Carter: Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous. For three years, I'd say, the major news media in our country were complicit in this subservience to the Bush administration out of fear that they would be accused of being disloyal. I think in the last six months or so some of the media have now begun to be critical. But it's a long time coming.<br />SPIEGEL: Take your fellow Democrat Senator Hillary Clinton. These days she is demanding the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. But she, like many others, allowed President Bush to invade Iraq under a false pretext.<br /><br />Carter: That's correct.<br /><br />SPIEGEL: Was the whole country in danger of losing its core values?<br /><br />Carter: For a while, yes. As you possibly know, historically, our country has had the capability of self-correcting our own mistakes. This applied to slavery in 1865, it applied to legal racial segregation a hundred years later or so. It applied to the Joe McCarthy era when anti-communism was in a fearsome phase in the country like terrorism now. So we have an ability to correct ourselves and I believe that nowadays there is a self-correction taking place. In my opinion the election results in Connecticut (Eds: The primary loss of war supporter Senator Joseph Lieberman) were an indication that Americans realized very clearly that we made a mistake in going into Iraq and staying there too long.<br /><br />SPIEGEL: Now even President Bush appears to have learned something from the catastrophe in Iraq. During his second term he has taken a more multilateral approach and has seemed to return to international cooperation.<br /><br />Carter: I think the administration learned a lesson, but I don't see any indication that the administration would ever admit that it did make a mistake and needed to learn a lesson. I haven't seen much indication, by the way, of your premise that this administration is now reconciling itself to other countries. I think that at this moment the United States and Israel probably stand more alone than our country has in generations.<br /><br />SPIEGEL: You've written about your meeting with Fidel Castro. He appears seriously ill now and Cuban exiles are partying already in the streets of Miami. You are probably not in the mood to join them.<br /><br />Carter: No, that's true. Just because someone is ill I don't think there should be a celebration of potential death. And my own belief is that Fidel Castro will recover. He is two years younger than I am, so he's not beyond hope.<br /><br /><br />SPIEGEL: You sought to normalize relations with Castro, but that never happened. Has anything been achieved through Cuba's isolation?<br />Carter: In my opinion, the embargo strengthens Castro and perpetuates communism in Cuba. A maximum degree of trade, tourism, commerce, visitation between our country and Cuba would bring an earlier end to Castro's regime.<br /><br />SPIEGEL: You've been called the moral conscience of your country. How do you look at it yourself? Are you an outsider in American politics these days or do you represent a political demographic that could maybe elect the next US president?<br /><br />Carter: I think I represent the vast majority of Democrats in this country. I think there is a substantial portion of American people that completely agree with me. I can't say a majority because we have fragmented portions in our country and divisions concerning gun control and the death penalty and abortion and gay marriage.<br /><br />SPIEGEL: As president, your performance was often criticized. But the work you did after leaving office to promote human rights has been widely praised. Has life been unfair to you?<br /><br />Carter: I've been lucky in my life. Everything that I've done has brought great pleasure and gratification to me and my wife. I had four years in the White House -- it was not a failure. For someone to serve as president of the United States you can't say it is a political failure. And we have had the best years of our lives since we left the White House. We've had a very full life.<br /><br />SPIEGEL: Do you feel you achieved even more out of office than you did as president?<br /><br />Carter: Well, I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.<br /><br />SPIEGEL: Does America need a regime change?<br /><br />Carter: As I've said before, there is a self-corrective aspect to our country. And I think that the first step is going to be in the November election this year. This year, the Democrats have good chance of capturing one of the houses of Congress. I think the Senate is going to be a very close decision. My oldest son is running for the US Senate in the state of Nevada. And if just he and a few others can be successful then you have the US Senate in Democratic hands and that will make a profound and immediate difference.</span><br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />السلاح الفلسطيني والمخيمات بين جيلين<br />29 ايار 2007<br />ميشال أبو نجم - لا ينفصل بعض تداعيات أحداث مخيم نهر البارد بين وحدات الجيش وآخر إفرازات التقاطعات التكفيرية مع شد الحبال المذهبي - الإقليمي - الدولي، "فتح الإسلام"، عن الزلزال الذي يشهده لبنان ووعي جماعاته الطائفية منذ العام 2005، خصوصاً في ارتفاع الحساسية الكيانية اللبنانية.<br />فخلف مشاهد الاشتباكات وتقاذف المسؤوليات السياسية عن تنامي ظاهرة "فتح الإسلام"، وصورة الالتفاف اللبناني الشامل حول المؤسسة العسكرية، يندفع إلى الأذهان فضول البحث في صورة السلاح الفلسطيني والمخيمات لدى الأجيال المتعاقبة، والمقارنة بين زمني السبعينات و2007، والتي تظهر عمق الهوة الفاصلة بين جيلين لا يزالان يعانيان التهديدات المصيرية نفسها.<br /><br /><br />تقزَّمت القضية الفلسطينية التي اجتاحت - بفضل ضخ البترودولار الخليجي والسعودي ونجاح إدارة منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية للمعركة الإعلامية - مخيلات "الجماهير" العربية واللبنانية - الإسلامية وصولاً إلى الإعلام العربي وخصوصاً الأوروبي، واخترقت البنية السياسية والدينية المسيحية.<br /><br /><br />معاصرو تلك المرحلة يتذكرون حجم الاستنفار السياسي في الصف المسيحي الذي أحدثه مؤتمر يسوع الملك للشبيبة الطالبية المسيحية وشخصيات دينية وفكرية مسيحية بين 28 و31 كانون الأول 1968 تحت تأثير دعمه للكفاح الفلسطيني، ويتذكرون أيضاً أن حرب العام 1975 حملت تأييد مسيحيين يساريين للمنظمات الفلسطينية، تحت شعار "حركة المسيحيين الوطنيين".<br />تقزَّمت القضية الفلسطينية في بُعدها العسكري في لبنان تدريجاً، سالكةً طريقاً طويلة من المنعطفات والانحدارات المتلاحقة في دهاليز حساسيات الطوائف اللبنانية. فبعد المسيحيين، واجهت المنظمات الفلسطينية الشيعة الذين ساهمت في تسليح حركتهم السياسية والعسكرية الأولى، "أمل"، في "حرب المخيمات" الشهيرة، حتى تحجيم السلاح الفلسطيني وتجميد وظيفته الإقليمية في ثلاجة مصالح النظام السوري وإدارته للوضع اللبناني، مع دخول الجيش اللبناني إلى شرق صيدا صيف العام 1991 بعد معارك مع المنظمات الفلسطينية في تلك المنطقة.<br /><br />بين صرخة "كلنا فدائيون" لرئيس الحكومة السُني عبد الله اليافي وتصدر كمال جنبلاط للتظاهرات الداعمة للثورة الفلسطينية في اواخر الستينات وأوائل السبعينات، وغليان الساحة السُنية ضد المسلحين الفلسطينيين، وبشكل أدق وأوضح مسلحي المنظمات الفلسطينية الموالية لسوريا - لاحظوا التشديد على السلاح الفلسطيني خارج المخيمات وعبارة "فتح أبو عمار" لسعد الحريري - (ولو أن مدى شمولية هذا الغليان أو انحساره وارتباطه بقابلية التلويح بالسلاح الفلسطيني ضد "حزب الله" يستدعي بحثاً معمقاً ضرورياً لسنا في وارده الآن)، ودعوة وليد جنبلاط إلى التطوع في الجيش من جهة اخرى، عوامل كثيرة تبدلت وطفت على سطح الحدث، وساهمت في شمولية الشعور اللبناني بالتهديد الذي يمثله السلاح الفلسطيني في المخيمات، يمكن المراقب ملاحظة بعضها على الشكل الآتي:<br /><br />- ارتفاع الحساسية اللبنانية الكيانية لدى السنة إلى أعلى مستوى لها منذ استشهاد الرئيس رفيق الحريري، مترافقاً مع استمرار الارتباط الوثيق لمنظمات فلسطينية أبرزها "الجبهة الشعبية - القيادة العامة" بدمشق التي لم تضع الحرب بينها وبين الأكثرية بزعامة "تيار المستقبل" أوزارها بعد.<br /><br />- تراكم سلبيات انفلاش المخيمات الفلسطينية وعدم تجفيف بؤرها الأمنية، وتزامن ترسيخ هذه الخلاصة في نهاية الحرب مع بداية صعود الجيل الذي نشأ في النصف الثاني من الحرب.<br /><br />فجيل الستينات والسبعينات ممن تأثروا بجاذبية القضية الفلسطينية وعدالة قضيتها، انجرفوا في تيارها حتى انتمى العديد من اللبنانيين إلى الحركات الفلسطينية المتعددة، التي كانت تمثل في نظرهم العامل التغييري الحاسم للنظام السياسي اللبناني، قبل أن تصطدم الأحلام الرومنسية بصخرة الواقع ومحدوديتها. أما جيل شباب اليوم فاستفاق على "حرب المخيمات" واستغلال الفلسطينيين داخلياً وإقليمياً (مشاركة مسلحي أحمد جبريل و"أبو موسى" في "حرب الجبل") وعلى اصطدامهم بالجيش اللبناني في معارك شرق صيدا في العام 1991.<br /><br />وخلال فترة تكريس السيطرة السورية من التسعينات حتى العام 2005، تابع الشباب على اختلاف طوائفهم خروج المخيمات عن سيادة الدولة وتحولها بإرادة أهلها أو من دونها، إلى ملجأ للخارجين عن القانون وتفريخ المجموعات الأصولية التي شُرّع بعضها وتحول مرجعاً للضبط الأمني كلما "فرَّخت" عن يمينه منظمة أكثر تشدداً (مثال "عصبة الأنصار" و"جند الشام" و"فتح الإسلام"، إذ أصبحت "العصبة" عامل استقرار في حي الصفصاف والتعمير في عين الحلوة). وشهد الشباب اللبناني كيف "ذاب" "أبو محجن" المتهم بقضية اغتيال الشيخ نزار الحلبي وكيف لجأ مسلحو الضنية إلى عين الحلوة، وكيف تم العفو عن سلطان أبو العينين بسحر ساحر، وسمعوا بغصّة المتلهف إلى الدولة "الموقوفة" التهديدات الاستفزازية لمسؤولي المنظمات الحليفة لسوريا في صيف العام 2005 والعام الماضي وحالياً، كلما طرح موضوع السلاح الفلسطيني أقله خارج المخيمات، إلى أن كان استشهاد عشرات العسكريين غدراً في يومٍ واحد القشة التي قصمت ظهر البعير، ما دفع بالجميع إلى تأييد أي خطوات حاسمة يتخذها الجيش لضبط الوضع.<br /><br />إذن، المسألة الفلسطينية في بعدها المسلح هي مختلفة كلياً عن زمنٍ انطوى، بعدما راكمت الذاكرة الجماعية اللبنانية سلبيات السلاح الفلسطيني واستغلاله، وتكرست تالياً نظرة الحذر إلى المخيمات خاصة "النشطة" منها (كعين الحلوة في الجنوب والبارد والبداوي في الشمال ومواقع قوسايا والسلطان يعقوب وحلوى في البقاع الغربي والناعمة جنوب بيروت)، والتباس هذا الحذر مع التعاطف الدائم مع قضية الشعب اللبناني ومعاناته.<br /><br />العامل الذي يجب أن يظل حاضراً لدى معالجة مسألة السلاح الفلسطيني ومراقبة تحولاتها كما أي مسألة أخرى متعلقة بلبنان، هو العامل الطائفي والمذهبي.<br /><br />فإرث الحساسية المرتفعة و"النقزة" من الفلسطينيين عامةً متواصلان في أجيال البيئة المسيحية، لا توجد منعطفات أو مراحل تدرج في النظرة إلى هذا السلاح، ما عدا رصد بدايات تعاطف مع مأساة الفلسطينيين في الضفة الغربية وغزة، وتجلى ذلك في المشاركة في التحركات التضامنية مع مواجهات العام 2002 لا سيما ما حصل في مخيم جنين، التي شارك فيها شباب ما كان يعرف بـ"المعارضة المسيحية" آنذاك. السلاح أو تحرك أو عمل تُشتمّ منه رائحة التوطين مرفوض بقوة ومثير للخوف والحذر، والسلاح الفلسطيني هو "أصل البلاء" الكياني.<br /><br />هذا العامل المذهبي ينسحب أيضاً على الشيعة، أصحاب المعاناة الطويلة مع الفلسطينيين منذ العام 1969 ومن أيام موسى الصدر الذي قال لكريم بقرادوني في جُمل بالغة الدلالة: "ليست المقاومة الفلسطينية ثورة... إنها آلة عسكرية ترهب العالم العربي... منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية سلطة فوضوية في الجنوب. لقد تغلب الشيعة على عقدة المنظمات الفلسطينية. لقد طفح الكيل!" ("كتاب السلام المفقود"، صفحة 118)، حتى حرب المخيمات (85-88) مع حركة أمل بقيادة نبيه بري. وإذا أضفنا الى الحساسيتين المسيحية والشيعية التخوف الدرزي الدائم على صفاء المناطق الدرزية ومنع أي تمدد فلسطيني باتجاهها، تبقى النظرة السُّنية إلى فلسطينيي لبنان وسلاحهم هي التي تستحق قدراً أكبر من التدقيق والمتابعة. والسؤال الأكبر هو: ما هو موقع السلاح الفلسطيني في احتمالات التحسب لمواجهة مذهبية مع حزب الله؟ وما هي الأجوبة الحقيقية عن المعلومات المتداولة بقوة عن علاقة ما بين "فتح الإسلام" كقوة أصولية سّنية و"تيار المستقبل" على خط الزلزال السُّني - الشيعي في المنطقة والحديث الدائر عن خطة مواجهة لإيران والشيعة تتضمن في طياتها التلويح بسلاح المنظمات التكفيرية المتشددة؟ وأخيراً: هل انتفت الحاجة إلى الفلسطينيين كـ"جيش المسلمين السنة"، أم أن هذه الحاجة ما زالت موجودة في زمن تكتل الطوائف الخائفة - المخيفة، وعلى الأخص لدى السُّنة الطائفة الأكثر تمركزاً في المدن، والأقل خبرة في المواجهات العسكرية الداخلية والخارجية على مر التاريخ اللبناني الحديث؟<br /><br />في انتظار الأجوبة على هذه التساؤلات المشروعة، يمكن التأكيد على وجود الحد الأدنى من الإجماع اللبناني على ضرورة الحسم مع السلاح الفلسطيني وانفلاشه، بغضّ النظر عن تركيبة "فتح الإسلام" المتعددة الجنسية!<br /><br />زيارتي الأولى إلى محيط صبرا وشاتيلا :<br /><br />على خط التداخل اللبناني السني - الفلسطيني في الأحياء والشوارع المحاذية لمخيم صبرا وشاتيلا، ترتفع الأعلام اللبنانية واللافتات المؤيدة للجيش والمحتضنة له، في اختلافٍ واضح عن مشهد السبعينات حين كانت مناطق الفاكهاني والطريق الجديدة والجامعة العربية تشكل عقر دار المنظمات الفلسطينية ومقار قيادتها والبحر الشعبي الآمن الذي تسبح فيه.<br /><br />لم يعد العامل المذهبي والقومي العربي العامل الرابط الوحيد بين السنة والفلسطينيين، ففي حين يستمر التضامن المذهبي عاملاً جامعاً بين الشلل الشبابية الفلسطينية واللبنانية السنية ومحرضاً لها على الاشتباك مع نظيرتها الشيعية، كما بينته أحداث الجامعة العربية، (وطقس الشجارات ستؤديه في كل الأحوال بشكلٍ شبه يومي إذا لم يتوافر "الخصم")، تفرق النظرة إلى أحداث نهر البارد بينها.<br />الشباب السني المؤيد في غالبيته الساحقة لـ"تيار المستقبل" في تلك الأحياء يدعم الجيش، وفي المقابل تسري في أوساط الشباب الفلسطيني إدانات وانتقادات لرد الجيش الذي يعتبرون أنه يستهدف المدنيين.<br /><br />ثمة تمايز لا يمكن إلا ملاحظته في الأحياء السنية بشكلٍ عام، والذي يشكل الجو في مناطق الفاكهاني والطريق الجديدة والجامعة العربية نموذجاً عنه، في إطار تمدد "تيار المستقبل" إلى الأحياء الشعبية السنية واستقطابه لفئات اجتماعية كانت خارج اهتمامه النخبوي (رجال أعمال، طلاب جامعات، موظفون، أطباء مهندسون ومحامون...)، كفتية الشوارع المتحلقين حول نوادي اللياقة البدنية وصالات البليارد وصالونات الحلاقة وجلسات النارجيلة، والذين ينفذون عمليات حراسة ليلية تخوفاً من اختراقات أمنية ووضع حقائب متفجرة.<br /><br /><br /><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br />غباء أو إستغباء؟<br />29 أيار 2007<br />بشارة خيرالله - لا جديد، فقد إنتهجت حكومة المستقبل سياسة إستغباء اللبنانيين مدى سنتين لإخفاء إخفاقاتها وتجاوزها القوانين والدساتيروالأن تحاول إستعطاف اللبنانيين من خلال إستدراجهم وكأن الجيش اللبناني جيشهم والعلم علمهم ومن يخالف هذه الحكومة فهو يخالف الجيش ومن ينتقدها يكون حتماً ضد الجيش، هذا ما تحاول هذه الأكثرية تسويقه لإستثمار بطولات الجيش اللبناني المغدور من قبلهم مهما حاولوا تضليل الرأي العام.<br />هذه الحكومة تتحمل المسؤولية الكاملة لما تعرض له جيشنا من جماعات فتح الإسلام في اليوم الأول حين فوجىء الجيش بعملية أمنية مدبرة ومصورة دون التنسيق أو على الأقل دون إعلامه ما أدى الى إستفراد عناصره وقتلهم نتيجة خطأ جسيم يتحمل مسؤوليته من أعطى أوامر تنفيذ العملية المسماة "مداهمة من إقتحم وسرق بنك البحر المتوسط" في حين أن الهدف الحقيقي تعويم سياسي لتيار المستقبل وحكومته لو نجحت هذه العملية وإلا لماذا دعت الإعلاميين الى تصوير العملية؟<br /><br />أما ربط الجيش اللبناني بالحكومة فهو قمة الإستخفاف بعقول الناس وخاصة بأن الجيش هو المؤسسة الوحيدة المدعومة من اللبنانيين بأغلبية ساحقة دون منّة هذه الحكومة التي تبحث عن أي إنتصار وهمي للهروب الى الأمام وهذا ما لن يحصل لأن المؤوسسة العسكرية تحظى بثقة المعارضة تحديداً إما الحكومة فهي محط سخرية لما نتج عنها من بدع منذ تأليفها.<br /><br />سبق وصدرت مئات التصاريح على السن قيادات المعارضة لعدم عرقنة لبنان ومع الأسف لم تلق أي أذان صاغية من قبل مجموعة السراي الساعية الى البقاء حتى لو لم يبق لبنانيين في لبنان فعادت لغة التفجيرات لزرع الرعب في نفوس اللبنانيين الذين ذاقوا الأمريّن من هكذا ممارسات تخريبية يقابلها تصرف لا مسؤول لمن هم في سدّة الحكم ويتبجحون بأنهم " ثوار الأرز".<br />الف تحية الى جيش لبناننا العظيم والف رحمة على ارواح شهدائه الأبطال يقابلهم مليون دعوة لهذه الحكومة بالرحيل لأنها علة العلل، قمة التأمر حين يطعن الجيش اللبناني نتيجة قرار أمني يكون فيه أخر من يعلم، لهذا عليه إكمال طريقه لتطهير المخيمات من هكذا مجموعات دون أي قرار سياسي لأن الشعب اللبناني وحتى الفلسطيني بأكمله يؤيد ما يفعله الجيش البطل دون إستغلال "الحكومة" لبطولاته وإستثمارها كذريعة للبقاء على حساب اللبنانيين الأبرياء المهددين بأمنهم في كل دقيقة نتيجة الفشل الحكومي في إدارة شؤون البلاد. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer">CIA "blowback" .
refers to retaliation for illegal operations
carried out abroad, kept secret from the US public.
These operations included clandestine overthrow of governments, counterinsurgency militias,
, training of foreign militaries
in the techniques of state terrorism, rigging of elections in foreign
countries, interference with the economic viability of countries , as well as
the torture or assassination of selected foreign Leaders.
http://elie-hobeika.blogspot.com/</div>Kappeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07829648539972600691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604010407564845336.post-71702996677908155972007-02-03T03:08:00.000-08:002011-03-08T03:06:05.242-08:00Why Nemesis is at the US's door.<span style="font-weight: bold;">Rice pointing to Sanyoura's "DIKK" and March 14th achievements...</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">after 13 Years of direct, daily and constant support from CIA/MOSSAD/DGSE/MI6/SIMI/GID, EGID, KSA-GID/CSIS/ASIO/DIA/DEA/ and many others....and BILLIONS of USD in electoral BRIBES.....</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihZD4uZIhsnNwKKEcCRRbblQzJAzu8fBjT5Gj6RDTbeVhD4idJreDw6xdrWQsZbn8NbgdWSo9913e866ORLr3T-uXzhXO_3EN1P_aQpp574SY8H3XycQg-B8Sm1zYvdVXjBEQ90ZuZXDr3/s1600-h/rice+kisses++traitors+%27s+dk_edited.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; 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You will always be remembered as the most Charismatic Leader of all times.<br />********************************************************************************<br /><br />The babble about the war in Iraq having been won or lost<br />is just that - babble. Iraq has never been America's to win<br />or lose. The country belongs to the people of Iraq, and it's<br />theirs to win or lose.<br />The Bush administration started something it cannot<br />finish without further destroying thousands of Iraqi lives<br />and hundreds more American lives.<br />The reality is that Iraq is, and always will be, an Islamic,<br />a Shiite majority nation with close ties to its neighbor,<br />Iran. Any freely-elected government will reflect this, as<br />the present government does.<br />To resolve the Iraqi conflict, there must be regional<br />diplomacy, something the Bush administration has<br />been loathe to do. The overwhelming majority of Iraqis<br />see the United States as occupiers and the day is<br />coming near when the Iraqi government will tell the<br />Americans to get out.<br />To do so honorably, the United States must engage<br />Syria and Iran in direct, unconditional negotiations<br />based on mutual respect, otherwise nothing will change.<br />The cost of President George W. Bush's adventure in<br />Iraq in men and materials will continue to mount...and<br />his late found stooges in Lebanon will be squeezed like<br />dead cockroaches.<br />***********************************************************<br /><br />"That is the meaning of the martyrdom of Mr. Elie Hobeika, and it is a tragedy for all of us.”<br /><br />As the engineered sectarian melt-down in Lebanon crawls forward, it is interesting to read the neocon columnists as they bewail the erosion of the “Cedar Revolution,” that is to say the neocon-neolib subversion of Lebanese politics.<br /><br />“In this sense, the HOBEIKA assassination is one of the opening shots in Hezbollah’s showdown with supporters of the Cedar Revolution,” which culminated in the Assassination of Rafic Hariri, both engineered in CIA and MOSSAD.<br /><br />But what of this so-called Cedar Revolution? Is it purely a Lebanese political phenomenon, having risen out of the anger and opposition to the presence of Syria in the country?<br /><br />Hardly.<br /><br />“Standing behind Lebanon’s current effort to build democracy are U.S. and other international aid groups. Many had spent the past years building the foundations for democratic change. Now they can help ensure the success of what is known as the Cedar Revolution—named after the national tree depicted on the Lebanese flag,” explains USAID, a documented CIA asset, now more precisely an asset for the Pentagon and the State Department, as noted by Bill Berkowitz earlier this year.<br /><br />“The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) functions as an instrument of CIA penetration into civil society, by enabling the ‘legitimate’ funding of millions of dollars to promote U.S. foreign policy abroad and influence internal politics of foreign nations while avoiding Congressional scrutiny,” writes Eva Golinger. According to Ralph McGehee, a former CIA agent, and other former CIA operatives, the agency manipulated the trade union movement in the Philippines through USAID front organizations.<br /><br />“In a recent article in the Journal of Contemporary Asia, American sociologist James Petras describes how progressive non-government organizations can be neutralized, if not co-opted, thru US government, big business-backed funding agencies or CIA fronts and conduits masquerading as foundations,” writes Roland G. Simbulan for the Manila Studies Program at the University of the Philippines.<br /><br />The purpose, according to Petras, is “to mystify and deflect discontent away from direct attacks on the corporate/banking power structure and profits toward local micro-projects …that avoids class analysis of imperialism and capitalist exploitation.” Neo-liberalism today, according to Petras, encourages NGOs to “emphasize projects, not movements; they ‘mobilize’ people to produce at the margins, not to struggle to control the means of production and wealth; they focus on the technical financial aspects of projects not on structural conditions that shape the everyday lives of people.” While using the language of the Left such as “people empowerment,” “gender equality,” “sustainable development” etc., these NGOs funded by USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Asia Foundation, etc. have become linked to a framework of collaboration with donors and even with government agencies with whom they have partnerships that subordinate activity to nonconfrontational politics, rather than militant mass mobilization.<br /><br />But it is not simply Asia where USAID works its “democratic” magic, more accurately described as cultural and economic voodoo. The CIA (and Pentagon) connected so-called NGO has turned up in Iraq, Haiti, the Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Russia, Afghanistan, Egypt, Nigeria, and elsewhere.<br /><br />It is especially interesting to read the account of USAID interference in Lebanon, as recounted by the Lebanese socialist Bassem Chit. “Lebanon’s ‘cedar revolution’ is being touted as the shining example of regime change on the cheap. Since the mass protest drove out the Syrians last year, Lebanon has seen an ascending flow of US interference. It varies from direct political manipulation and media campaigns to discreet funding of civil movements through ‘NGOs,” Chit wrote in May of this year.<br /><br />It is worth quoting Chit at length:<br /><br />A few months after the protests I received a call from a friend telling me that a US NGO called Freedom House wanted to meet “Lebanese activists”. Being a well known activist on the left and one of the organizers of the anti-war movement, I was intrigued by the purpose of the meeting. A few of us were invited to an expensive British restaurant in one of Beirut’s trendy neighborhoods.<br /><br />An American-Lebanese woman representing Freedom House was accompanied by a “retired revolutionary” from Ukraine. The guy was eager to get us on board, and boasted of the joys of being “US-funded” — he added that after Ukraine’s Orange Revolution he even had the opportunity to “meet George Bush.” He obviously thought that was enough to close the deal.<br /><br />After some questioning about the intentions of Freedom House it became clear they wanted to “fund youth movements to help the process of democratization”. At that point we told them that if they really wanted democracy to thrive in Lebanon they should leave the country immediately. Undeterred, they returned a few months later wanting to fund “transparency workshops and projects”. Again we refused.<br /><br />That the US is wanting to finance Lebanese leftists might seem odd, but it is part of a pattern of political interference that emerged since the invasion of Iraq. During the “cedar revolution” US ambassador Jeffrey Feltman invited many of the leaders of the anti-Syrian movement to dinner parties. The US embassy also had a direct hand in fomenting the anti-Syrian protests.<br /><br />The New York Post reported how, at the height of last year’s protests, “the CIA and European intelligence services were quietly giving money and logistical support to organizers of the anti-Syrian protests to ramp up pressure on Syrian president Bashar al-Assad… The secret program is similar to previous support of pro-democracy movements in Georgia and Ukraine, which also led to peaceful demonstrations.”<br /><br />(…)<br /><br />Now the country is awash with dubious NGOs. Among them is the United States Committee for a Free Lebanon, headed by Ziad Abdel Nour. The son of wealthy right wing Lebanese MP, Ziad Abdel Nour let the cat out of the bag when he declared, “We have absolutely no problem with heavy US involvement in Lebanon. On an economic level, military level, political level, security level… whatever it is. Israel is the 51st state of the United States. Let Lebanon be the 52nd state. And if the Arabs don’t like it, tough luck.” We will Murder, kill, assassinate anyone in Lebanon to get to our goals...<br /><br />(…)<br /><br />As well as trying to tempt the left into its orbit and bankroll the many genuine civil movements, there is a whiff of arrogance about the US in Lebanon. Embassy staff and their hangers-on regularly colonize the cafes and restaurants in downtown Beirut. It seems no expense will be spared to wine and dine their way to regime change.<br /><br />Yet the US has a problem. The sparkle has gone out of the “cedar revolution” and, far from delivering stability and prosperity, the country is sinking into economic malaise. The slogan that marked the revolution, “We have had enough of your lies, now leave”, is still being chanted, but now its is not aimed at the Syrians but at the US-backed politicians that run the country. You can’t buy that.<br /><br />It is interesting Chit mentions the Freedom House. This so-called NGO is stacked with neocons and neolib one-worlders, including James “World War Four” Woolsey, a former director of the CIA and VP for Booz Allen Hamilton, and the Rockefeller protégé Zbigniew Brzezinski, the engineer behind the Afghan Mujahideen, eventually to conveniently morph into al-Qaeda. Others include the Trilateralist Samuel P. Huntington, architect of the “clash of civilizations” currently underway, and Clinton national security adviser Anthony Lake, former Kissinger lackey and Clinton’s pointman on the bombing of Yugoslavia.<br /><br />It now appears all the hard work of the neocons and the USAID, NED, and other reactionary NGOs—work designed to subvert indigenous political activity frowned upon by the one-world types and their neocon kissing cousins—is for naught. “Hezbollah may be about to win power in Lebanon,” laments Mario Loyola. “But in the political dialogue of Lebanon—and the Arab world—Hezbollah has already won the argument. The murderous law of Hezbollah’s many grievances is now the real constitution of that country. Of course, Mr. Loyola is speaking the language of his masters—the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, yet another neocon “think tank” aligned with the American Enterprise Institute, the Hudson Institute, and the above mentioned Freedom House.<br /><br />Predictably, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies includes on its roster the usual suspects, including the Ritchie Rich Steve Forbes, Jack Kemp, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Newt Gingrich, Joseph Lieberman, James Woolsey, Frank Gaffney, William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Perle, and walid Phares.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Obviously, with friends like these, Lebanon needs no enemies. </span><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The American Commission </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, made a remarkable statement last week. He praised Israel for conducting an inquiry into last year’s war with Hezbollah — an inquiry that accused Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of “serious failure in exercising judgment, responsibility and prudence.”<br /><br />Mr. Nasrallah was quoted by the BBC as saying Israelis “study their defeat in order to learn from it,” in contrast with the American pseudo-democracy that “do not probe, do not ask, do not form inquiry commissions ... as if nothing has happened, but form endless congressional chatter boxes, filled with potted plants that regurgitate AIPAC's and Neo-Zionist crap for years, like in the 1980s Iran-Contra etc. which end in "naught".”<br /><br />One has to be impressed by his honesty, but he did not take it all the way, since the American leader who most needs to be probed is Dick Cheney himself. He started the war on Lebanon, which was a disaster for civilians all over Lebanon. If there were an honest American Inquiry Commission into the war, here is what it would say about him:<br /><br />On July 12, 2006, Hezbollah fighters directed by Mr. Nasrallah abducted two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in a provoked attack across the Lebanon-Israel border, after daily Israeli incursions into south Lebanon and all over Lebanon, which UNIFIL has counted at about 18000 encroachments on Lebanese sovereignty over a period of 30 years, including several wars on Lebanon costing tens of Billions of USD in damages and tens of thousands of civilian casualties. This triggered an American war that killed about 1,400 Lebanese and 160 Israelis this last summer. After interviewing all relevant parties, the American Commission finds Mr. Cheney guilty of a serious failure of judgment, responsibility and prudence — for the following reasons.<br /><br />1. Mr. Cheney demonstrated a total failure to anticipate Lebanon’s response to his raids. He assumed Hizbullah would carry out the same limited retaliation it had with previous raids. Wrong. He failed to take into account the changed circumstances in Lebanon. The kidnapping of an Israeli soldier in Gaza a few weeks earlier, plus the fact that a new chief of staff, who is a criminal savage of the Israeli Army, a new idiotic prime minister and a new stupid defense minister had just taken office and all felt they were being festered by USA to attack Lebanon and Hizbullah, triggered an enormous Hizbullah response that defeated the IDF and the Israeli stooges of the USA in Israel. Some 1,400 Lebanese died because of this gross culture of Violence, made in USA and Israel.<br /><br />2. In unilaterally launching a war against Lebanon, without a vote of the Israeli cabinet — of which the Pentagon is a member — the IDF did grievous harm to Israel’s fragile democracy and democratization in the Palestinian territories. All the fears that if you let an idiot, [olmert, Peretz, Halutz] made by the butcher Ariel Sharon into government, it will respect the rules of the game of similar butcheries carried out by Sharon in the past, all over the Middle East.<br />Hence, Dick Cheney and GWB should be impeached and AIPAC should be considered an enemy of the USA and disbanded, and the American Media pundits<br />sent to Guantanamo Cuba for re-education, since they failed to inform the American public about their Governments criminal record.<br /><br />3. The ICC in the Hague should indict all the military and Political Leaders in USA and Israel, for their atrocious actions in Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine, and brought to Justice henceforth. The ICC should draw upon the decades of "Violence and Intrigues" made in USA and Israel in the Middle East, to produce the most trenchant, vivid, and thought-provoking court hearings yet on the region and the World.<br />No issue in international politics has been more hotly disregarded than the US-Israeli "culture of Violence". And no reporter has dis-illuminated both the conflict and the rhythms of life in the Middle East with more immediacy and dis-information than Tom Friedman, twice winner of the CIA Prize for international Obfuscations, Extremism, terrorism, fundamentalism on USA and Neo-Zionism, Friedman puts all the operative currents into perspective with an inimitable specificity and clarity in his daily justification for the BUSH Neocon agenda and the emancipation of the Neo-Pseudo-Christian Zionists in Dc and Herzliah.<br /><br />On Friedman's own remarkable journey from St-Paul to Langley, he writes, "This is a book about the people in Langley and Jerusalem themselves, who were going through remarkably similar identity crises. Each was caught in a struggle between the new ideas, the new relationships, the new nations they were trying to destroy for the future of the "energy Matrix" of Dick Cheney and the mother of ALL Lobbies, and the ancient memories, ancient passions, and ancient feuds that kept dragging them back into the past wars." "From Langley to Jerusalem" is a major work of dis-information, a much needed framework for understanding the "NEW" Middle East, yesterday, today, and tomorrow, made in the USA's dark rooms with the stooges in IDF, AMAN and Mossad.<br /></span><br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Obviously, with friends like these, Lebanon needs no enemies. </span><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br />ماذا لو لم يتمّ اللقاء بين العماد عون وولش؟<br />كنعان: من يتباكى على المسيحيين هو المسؤول عن تهميشهم<br />المسيحيون ممثلون بـ 16% ويجب تصحيح الخلل باعادة تكوين النظام<br />طرحنا آلية لمعالجة سلاح حزب الله، ومن لديه تصور آخر غير المواجهة العقيمة فليطرح تصوره، والتيار ليس مع سلاح حزب الله إلى الأبد.<br />مشكلتهم ليست بورقة التفاهم إنما بكون العماد عون شخصية قادرة على إلزام الغير بحلٍّ حقيقي فوق الطاولة في وجه حلول مستحيلة تحت الطاولة"<br />هل العماد عون يريد عودة سوريا إلى لبنان، وهو الذي دفع الأثمان الباهظة للوقوف بوجهها؟<br />18 ايار 2007<br />أكدّ عضو تكتّل التغيير والإصلاح النائب ابراهيم كنعان أنّ قول مساعد وزير الخارجية الأميركية دايفد وولش بأنّ الولايات المتحدة لن تفرّط بسيادة لبنان يأتي ضمن تبدبد المخاوف التي تحدثت عنها بعض الدوائر السياسية في لبنان، عن إحتمال أن تكون هناك تسوية ما في المنطقة على حساب لبنان.<br />ورأى كنعان في حديث إلى "كلام الناس" وجوب أن يكون الحلّ لبنانياً بالدرجة الأولى حتى لا تغيب الحقوق والمصالح الوطنية، مشيراً إلى أنّ التيار الوطني الحرّ يأمل "التوافق مع الجميع بمن فيها الولايات المتحدة، مرحبّاً بالجهود الدولية المبذولة شرط تقاطعها مع الإرادة اللبنانية".<br /><br />واعتبر كنعان أنّ لقاء العماد ميشال عون بدايفيد ولش "خطوة أولى للتواصل والحوار، والذي يهمّ العماد عون هو المضمون وليس الشكل، لأن هذا ما نحتاجه كلبنانيين، الشكل في السنوات الماضية لم يحافظ على السيادة اللبنانية، بالرغم من بقاء المؤسسات الدستورية شكلاً"، وسأل كنعان: "ماذا لو لم يتمّ اللقاء بين العماد عون ودايفد وولش في السفارة في هذا الظرف الإستثنائي، خصوصاً أنّ الأول يمثّل شريحة كبرى من اللبنانيين عموماً والمسيحيين خصوصاً، والثاني يمثّل حكومة وإدارة الولايات المتحدة؟<br /><br />ووصف كنعان اللقاء ب"الهادئ" و"المفيد"، لأنّه حمل عرضاً موضوعياً لرؤية الجنرال للمشاكل العالقة بالرغم من وجود التباين بين الرؤيتين من ناحية التنفيذ، وقال: "العماد عون بمقاربته السياسية قدم طرحاً متمايزاً بمعالجة جميع الملفات برؤية واضحة وشاملة.".<br />وردّ كنعان على الإدعاءات الكاذبة التي تقول أنّ العماد عون مع سلاح حزب الله إلى الأبد بقوله: "نريد آلية لمعالجة سلاح حزب الله، هناك اسباب فرضت حمل السلاح، منها تلاشي الدولة، والقرار 1701 يتحدث عن قيام الدولة والجميع مع قيامها في العلن. حزب الله حزب لبناني وكل اللبنانيين، بمن فيهم حزب الله، مسؤولون عن معالجة قضية السلاح ليكون بيد الدولة، والخطورة تكمن في اجتزاء الحل حتى لا يكون هناك حل".<br /><br />ولفت كنعان إلى أنّ الهجوم على العماد عون ليس بسبب ورقة التفاهم بينه وبين حزب الله، "مشكلتهم هي في العماد عون نفسه، لأنّه يشكّل عائقاً أمام طموحات البعض، فيما ورقة التفاهم تتحدث عن قيام الدولة، وتتحدث عن إحترام الديمقراطية التوافقية، وعن العلاقة الندّية بين الدولتين اللبنانية والسورية، بالإضافة إلى موضوع سلاح حزب الله الذي وضع ضمن الإطار اللبناني الواضح بعكس ما طالب به الشهيد رفيق الحريري عام 2004 بربطه السلاح بقضية التسوية في الجولان والمنطقة"، وأضاف: "مشكلة العماد عون الحقيقية أنّه ذو شخصية قادرة على إلزام الغير والإلتزام بحلٍّ حقيقي فوق الطاولة في وجه حلول مستحيلة تُعدّ تحت الطاولة".<br /><br />وفي الاستحقاق الرئاسي رأى كنعان أنّ المجلس النيابي غير مؤهل للقيام بواجبه في هذا الاستحقاق بسبب الخلل البنيوي والمعنوي. "المسيحيون ممثلون بحوالي 16 % من طاقتهم الإنتخابية، وبالتالي يجب تصحيح الخلل حتى لا تكون الرئاسة محطّ تجاذب وإنقسام اللبنانيين، وذلك لتفادي أن يؤتى برئيس ضعيف يدير الأزمة ولا يحلّها".<br /><br />وسأل كنعان إلى متى سننتظر الحلول المستوردة؟ وهل على اللبنانيين أن ينتظروا الفرج الإقليمي والدولي لتبريد الساحة الداخلية؟ وتابع: "الحلّ يبدأ بتصحيح الخلل والعماد ميشال عون بمبادرته يحاول إنقاذ الدولة اللبنانية وديمقراطيتها المريضة بطرح صورة ورؤية إنقاذية شاملة غير مجتزأة تستند في جزئها الإقليمي على حيثيات القرار 1701".<br /><br />وقال كنعان أنّ موقف التيار الوطني الحرّ الثابت هو دعم قيام المحكمة ذات الطابع الدولي، " وعدم تحويل هذه المحكمة إلى مادة تجاذب سياسي محلياً وإقليمياً بحيث لا يتمّ إستغلال الشهداء في معارك سياسية لا تمتّ بوظيفة المحكمة الأساسية، مهمة المحكمة بالنسبة للبنانيين بالإضافة إلى كشف الحقيقة في الإغتيالات التي حصلت تحقيق عدالة كاملة وحماية المجتمع اللبناني، وفي السياق نفسه نعتبر بأنّ حتى فيما لو أبرمت المحكمة تحت الفصل السابع فانها تحتاج في عدة مجالات إلى المؤسسات الدستورية اللبنانية وتحديد آلية عملها محلياً للقيام بمهامها، من هنا نرى بأنّ السلطة قد ساهمت من خلال الخلل الحاصل في تكوينها وآدائها في إبعاد المحكمة الدولية عن مسارها الطبيعي".<br /><br />وأشار كنعان إلى أنّ الأغلبية الحاكمة تضرب عرض الحائط بالوضع التمثيلي المسيحي لتستأثر بالسلطة، وهي تكيل الإتهامات والإفتراءات على العماد عون لتشويه صورته، و"يبدو أنّ بروباغاندا السلطة قوية لدرجة أنّها حاولت تشويه صورة الوفد النيابي الذي زار مؤخراً الولايات المتحدة وكنت في عداده مع الزميل غسان مخيبر، فقط بهدف تشويه صورة التيار الوطني الحرّ. فهل من المعقول أن يصبح النائب كنعان إرهابياً لدى الجوقة الإعلامية هذه لأجل "القوطبة" على التيار حتى لا يطرح رؤيته داخل المجتمع الأميركي ومؤسساته؟ هذا الحقد السياسي وهذا التطاول هما دلالة على ضعف خطابهم الذي لا يقوم الاّ على سياسة التجنّي وتشويه الوقائع والحقائق".<br /><br />وقال كنعان من المعيب القول أنّ العماد عون يريد عودة سوريا إلى لبنان، وهو الذي دفع الأثمان الباهظة للوقوف بوجهها.! "هل محاولة توحيد اللبنانيين وراء مشروع واحد أصبحت تخدم الخارج في لبنان؟".<br /><br />وتمنّى كنعان أن يأتي التغيير بالسرعة المطلوبة، لافتاً إلى انّ "الحلّ قد يبدأ بتكوين سلطة جديدة على أساس قانون إنتخابات جديد يحترم فيه التمثيل الصحيح كما نصّت عليه وثيقة بكركي، وعلى تحرير المجلس الدستوري، لأجل تكوين سلطة جديدة قادرة على معالجة قضية سلاح حزب الله من ضمن مقاربة القرار 1701 والحقوق اللبنانية المتوجبة على ذمّة المجتمع الدولي". وقال: أنّ القرارات الهامة في جميع دول العالم تتطلب أكثرية الثلثين، وقرار ال"فيتو" لدى المجتمعات المركبّة ضروري، " هو ليس تعطيلاً للدولة بل وقفاًً لأيّ تعسّف يمكن أن تلحقه جماعة بأخرى. هذا الحق الدستوري لم يأتِ من عدم، وهو المحصّلة النهائية لتجارب الشعوب ومنها لبنان".<br /><br />وختم كنعان بأن من يتباكى على المسيحيين، عليهم إقران اقوالهم بالأفعال، المسيحيون، كما سائر المواطنين يريدون قانون إنتخابات جديداً وعصرياً يعيد لهم التوازن والشراكة في المؤسسات، "الفرق بين الذي يطالب بالتغيير وبين الذي يشارك في القرار هو ان قرار هذا الأخير في نهاية المطاف يشكل إمعاناً بتهميش المسيحيين".<br />****************************************************************************<br />على مَنْ تَقرأُ مزاميرََك يا دَاوود ؟<br />صوت الغد - قولنا والعمل 31 ايار 2007<br />د . جورج زكي الحـاج<br /><br /><br /><br />لا أغالي إذا قلت إن أهل السلطة في لبنان إختصاصيّون في فنّ التلفيق والقيل والقال ، ومحترفون في نسب التُّهم إلى غيرهم من الناس ، ويجيدون فنَّ اللحاق بالآخرين ، إذا وجدوا في الآخرين ما يُرضي أطماعَهم ومراكزَهم وجيوبَهم ... وبارعون في تعميم أمراضهم ونواياهم ، وحتى أفعالهم على الآخرين...فهم يرتكبون الإثم ويقولون لغيرهم أنتَ الذي ارتكبت ، ويتكلمون على غيرهم وكأنه هم ، فيُغدقون عليه الاتهامات والقبائح، وينسون أو يتناسون أن ما يقولونه هو الكلام عينه الذي يقوله الناس عنهم في كلّ يوم ...<br /><br /><br /><br />والآفة الكبرى هو أنهم يحسبون الناس أغبياء انطلاقًا من نظرتهم إلى مناصريهم ومحازبيهم وزبانيتهم الذين يعيشون على فُضُلاتهم ... والآفة الأكبر هي عندما ينبري واحدهم ليكون محامي الشيطان ، وبما أنه لا يملك الحقيقة ، ولا الجرأة على قول الحقيقة ، تراه يلجأ إلى الديماغوجية مستخدمًا اللفَّ والدوران، فيُغيّر في السؤال، ويُحوِّر في الكلام، ويستبدل مفردةً بأخرى ، ويطرح تفسيراتٍ مغايرةً ، وأبعادًا مختلفة ، ويصوغ السؤال ، برمّته ، كما يحلو له هو ، حتى يُصبح السؤال تجنيًّا على الموضوع ، ومخالفًا لآراء الناس ، واستفزازًا لمشاعر بعضهم أو غالبيتهم ، ليستطيع الإجابة عنه أو الردَّ عليه .. ويكون الردُّ بعيدًا عن الصدق والصراحة ، لأنه ردٌّ على سؤالٍ لم يُطرح في الأساس .. وبذلك يستقطب هذا " الواحدهم " عددًا من قصيري النظر ومحدودي الثقافة ، والغارقين في بحار التعصّب الطائفي أو الفكري ... ثم نسمع هؤلاء يرددون ببغاويًّا ما قاله جِهبذُهم الألمعي الذي كان همُّه أن يرى الناسُ ، ربطةَ عنقه ، ومُثبِّت شعره ، وحركات يديه .<br />ولا أغالي إذا قلت أيضًا إنهم جعلوا الناس يكفرون بالسياسة واالسياسيين ، وبالأرض وحكامِّها إذا كانوا على شاكلتهم ، وبات همُّهم كيف يتخلّصون من هذه الطُّغمة الفاسدة التي ابتلي بها الوطن منذ عقودٍ من الزمن ، وإنْ كان بعضها لم يُكمل العقدين أو العقد الواحد بعد ...<br /><br />مَنْ منّا يعرف ماذا يجري في كواليس الأمم المتحدّة ، غير الذي نسمعه في وسائل الإعلام ؟ ومَن منّا يعرف ما هو الموقف الحقيقي لكلّ دولة ، غير الذي يُعلنه سفيرها أو الناطقُ باسمها ؟ ولكننا جميعًا نعرف ، أنه كلّما تعثّرت المحكمة ذات الطابع الدولي ـ كما يسمونها ـ كانت تقع جريمةٌ ، أو يحدث تفجيرٌ على أرض لبنان ، فينبري أهل السلطة ليتّهموا مَن يتهمون ، بحجّة تعطيل المحكمة أو إبطائها ... والناس يعرفون أن مثل هذه الجرائم تُسرَّع إنشاء المحكمة ، ولا تؤخّره ، فمن يكون الجاني يا تُرى ؟!<br /><br />لقد أقاموا الدنيا ولم يُقعدوها عندما سمعوا كلام العماد ميشال عون على البؤر الأمنية ، في مناقشة البيان الوزاري للحكومة السنيورية ، واعتقدوا أنهم بهجومهم ذاك يستطيعون النيل منه ، فكانت النتيجة أن جيّروا ما قاله العماد لأنفسهم ، وصاروا هم المطالبين بحلّ المشكلة ، عساهم يظهرون أبطالاً... لكنّ هذا لم ينطلِ على أحدٍ من الناس ...<br />أتوا بـ " فتح الإسلام " فربّوا عناصرها ، ودرّبوهم ، وموّلوهم لغاياتٍ ليست بريئةً ، كي لا نقول أكثر ، وبات معظم الضالعين معروفين من القاصي والداني ، ثم اتهموا الخارج بتربية هذه المجموعة وبإرسالها إلى لبنان ... لكنَّ هذا لم ينطلِ على أحدٍ من الناس أيضًا ...<br /><br />وعندما أتى السيّد ولش إلى لبنان، زارهم فردًا فردًا ، لكنّه دعا العماد عون إلى السفارة للاجتماع به ، ظنًّا منه أن الجنرال سيرفض الدعوة لأنها ليست في بيته ، وبذلك يكون قد أُسقط في أيديهم .. لكنّه لبّى الدعوة بطيب خاطرٍ ، وخرج من الاجتماع غير منزعجٍ .. " وعشرا حصرم بعين الحسود "<br /><br />وكلما كان تصريحا العماد عون والسيّد نصرالله مختلفين في الأسلوب ، وإنْ كانا متفقين في الجوهر والمضمون ، تنادت وسائل إعلامهم ، وبدأت التحليلات الأصمعية ، والتساؤلات والاستفهامات ... حتى يكاد المرء يحسب أن الخصامَ قد وقع بين الرجلين ، وأن الرهان قد سقط ... لكنّ هذا لم يعد ينطلي على أحدٍ من الناس أيضًا ...<br /><br />وكانت أحداث نهر البارد ، وما رافقها من إبهاماتٍ وعلامات استفهام ، باتت شبه معروفةٍ عند الكثيرين من أهل العقل والرأي ، وكيف تحوّلت من مسرحيةٍ فاشلةٍ إلى مأساةٍ لا تُنتسى ، فانبرى الغيورون على الجيش والوطن ، ينادون بالحسم القاطع والحتمي ، وهم لا يرضون دونه حلاًّ ... لكنّ الغايةَ الحقيقية لم تكن القضاء على زمرة " فتح الإسلام " ، ولا الدفاع عن كرامة الجيش والقوى الأمنية ... فـ" فتح الإسلام " تربية أيديهم ، أما تاريخ بعضهم مع الجيش فأحمرُ أسود على مدى عقودٍ من الزمن ... فمن أين أتت هذه الغيرةُ ، وتلك المحبة فجأةً ؟ والكثيرون من أبناء هذا الوطن ، لم تفارق مخيّلتهم نعوشُ آبائهم وأبنائهم وإخوتهم ، وهي ملفوفة بالعلم اللبناني ، وقد سقطوا شهداء على أرض لبنان برصاص لبنانيين يُنصبّون أنفسهَم اليوم مدافعين عن الجيش وكرامة الجيش ... ؟<br /><br />نعم ، الغاية الحقيقية لم تكن هذه ، وإنما كانت ـ حسب ظنِّهم ـ تحميسًا للسيّد حسن نصرالله لكي يجاريهم بما يطالبون به ، ويسير في خطِّ الحسم العسكري ، فيكون هو الشيعي قد طالب بإنهاء ظاهرةٍ سنيّة ، وتكون الحرب المذهبية ، ويكون لهم ما لم يستطيعوا تحقيقه في كثيرٍ من المرّات ، وبعدها ينقلبون عليه ذئابًا . غير أنّ السيّد نصرالله خذلهم ، ورفض حسمهم العشوائي ، وأقفل أمامهم كلّ الأبواب ، فتراجعوا عن حسمهم ، واحدًا بعد الآخر ، كعادتهم ، ولحسوا ما كانوا قد صرّحوا به ، وبدوا صغارًا كما هم دائمًا أمام كبيرين من بلادي ، قال لي أحدهما عندما كان يسمع بياناتهم ونخواتهم وبهوراتهم : " على مَنْ تقرأ مزاميرَك يا داوود . "<br />على مَنْ تَقرأُ مزاميرََك يا دَاوود ؟<br /><br />*********************************************************<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Masters in Deceit and Deception</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQy9PQpHWDpnB-AewDaSMWd0_ctqXMjbCl2EeQD8w8WUtEMYEUvvZbblQ2e_hgZvLLsV5Tq41syE1HxV-8yAXC6RIQAZOJXJr0sKy5Ehc2u-ydwo4MlkizJ-o9KB1FC91GI7pckOSlTvfA/s1600-h/ghazi+kanaan_edited.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQy9PQpHWDpnB-AewDaSMWd0_ctqXMjbCl2EeQD8w8WUtEMYEUvvZbblQ2e_hgZvLLsV5Tq41syE1HxV-8yAXC6RIQAZOJXJr0sKy5Ehc2u-ydwo4MlkizJ-o9KB1FC91GI7pckOSlTvfA/s400/ghazi+kanaan_edited.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066708293185297778" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">This is a MOSSAD Agent , last year he was privy of the OPS. in JULY since End of May...</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD-fFOg6Eo7VfAJFz7EZ1gUb9ZD2aHdzM5wUKaKvylXV0WBafbbkFmLZO3ugfyVuiZEpzTkrsFHrdsEhrtOVSuRBQuLhws7bfDVHNYOs8beOoPyvbcZPIY_S7vWdjKzAIxSbUBji0E3cpj/s1600-h/ziad+mossad_edited.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD-fFOg6Eo7VfAJFz7EZ1gUb9ZD2aHdzM5wUKaKvylXV0WBafbbkFmLZO3ugfyVuiZEpzTkrsFHrdsEhrtOVSuRBQuLhws7bfDVHNYOs8beOoPyvbcZPIY_S7vWdjKzAIxSbUBji0E3cpj/s400/ziad+mossad_edited.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066708207285951842" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">JUMBALLAT'S PARROT AND CHEAP SERVANT</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A COWARD AND A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIaDlMDkXouEoX7vEBWYXiSdAm6OGMV-w_3sh0HvEwzb8K687oYqVY2mkx-xZKgFjDczi3iAtq0bfhsUOvY3onmlqgbUynKMrqScCKJd03yUWpp8MJIVpm8nPVlxnR3EZLJnxx1UbO5xYM/s1600-h/wael+jumblatt_edited.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIaDlMDkXouEoX7vEBWYXiSdAm6OGMV-w_3sh0HvEwzb8K687oYqVY2mkx-xZKgFjDczi3iAtq0bfhsUOvY3onmlqgbUynKMrqScCKJd03yUWpp8MJIVpm8nPVlxnR3EZLJnxx1UbO5xYM/s400/wael+jumblatt_edited.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066708129976540498" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPdHFxujiLwPdH5_2bmjQhDOimshAPXvRyOKJ3ZUbMsM8tgaKnWZHYtCFAWfA2g-_KJ11Ua-cDBWS02kdO4eV7n8_kDOIkAL_ofpVs6Ae2fv_Jzatac0sINHY7SDpBlouB6AWSNYXZdhXx/s1600-h/gemayel3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPdHFxujiLwPdH5_2bmjQhDOimshAPXvRyOKJ3ZUbMsM8tgaKnWZHYtCFAWfA2g-_KJ11Ua-cDBWS02kdO4eV7n8_kDOIkAL_ofpVs6Ae2fv_Jzatac0sINHY7SDpBlouB6AWSNYXZdhXx/s400/gemayel3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066707988242619714" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">No Comment</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikWw37XOvgSbp4PRc4rfTpem5O-0wADaV-_7ObLl7U_7CYo5A38jUA7aZMjMjrLt6VXrLi56bk6_Aj3NngbABB0QRZhmTfZ8Q87o5_g9l7FQgn0vrzrvYvej_PHj5teUVXXTGKT3oEHzTq/s1600-h/pawns+in+the+sewage.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikWw37XOvgSbp4PRc4rfTpem5O-0wADaV-_7ObLl7U_7CYo5A38jUA7aZMjMjrLt6VXrLi56bk6_Aj3NngbABB0QRZhmTfZ8Q87o5_g9l7FQgn0vrzrvYvej_PHj5teUVXXTGKT3oEHzTq/s400/pawns+in+the+sewage.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066707863688568114" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A creep and a Stooge of Ghazi Kanaan for decades</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFY8fuxySGcjRudaI-vWO_88gbqcHAHqrm5CtZPr-rzSqcS3jR2AB8reWaXflSN-AboyBPh44LQ7DhH51M_WRgDwI_bcHOtMjE62Fml0lMspr2ZJ8TyZbkb2ZRvHhdK75FykHx69Cnsnvx/s1600-h/aridi+ss+stooge+of+Ghazi+Kanaan_edited.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFY8fuxySGcjRudaI-vWO_88gbqcHAHqrm5CtZPr-rzSqcS3jR2AB8reWaXflSN-AboyBPh44LQ7DhH51M_WRgDwI_bcHOtMjE62Fml0lMspr2ZJ8TyZbkb2ZRvHhdK75FykHx69Cnsnvx/s400/aridi+ss+stooge+of+Ghazi+Kanaan_edited.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066707687594908962" border="0" /></a><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br />The Assassination of MP and Minister Mr. Elie Hobeika, January 24th 2002.<br />"A wilderness of mirrors" .<br /><br />http://anaconda-manifesto.blogspot.com/<br /><br />On September 15, 2001, just four days after the 9-11 attacks,<br />CIA Director George Tenet provided President [sic] Bush with a Top Secret<br />"Worldwide Attack Matrix"-a virtual license to kill targets deemed to be a<br />threat to the United States in some 80 countries around the world. The Tenet<br />plan, which was subsequently approved by Bush, essentially reversed the<br />executive orders of four previous U.S. administrations that expressly<br />prohibited political assassinations. Mr. Elie Hobeika will be the first<br />target of the US administration, to pave the way for its Iraq Invasion .<br />It planned to directly control the "Energy Basin" and ALL the OIL<br />Transportation routes,from Pipelines to the Maritime avenues and choke<br />points in the Gulf areas, and from central Asia to Mauritania and beyond.<br /><br />But most of all, Mr. Elie Hobeika will be made to pay dearly with his life,<br />for daring to change his politics and views, after experiencing first hand,<br />THE BRUTALITY OF THE ISRAELIS AND THE AMERICANS ,<br />and their CULTURE OF VIOLENCE , Intrigue, murder & very bad Politics.<br />Elie Hobeika knew first hand about ALL their dirty tricks and deeds,<br />and he knew first hand, all about their sources and methods & tools, in<br />the 70s and 80s, they wanted him out, because the US was about to<br />re-enact the same deeds in IRAQ and beyond, to fracture the whole<br />area along sectarian lines, in order to serve Israeli and American<br />interests for decades to come...<br /><br />Cheney's back office and OSP were to make this operation a prime<br />example of what is to come in the New Middle East of BUSH.<br />http://anaconda-manifesto.blogspot.com/<br /><br />The Domination of the Energy resources and its ROUTES, could now begin in<br />earnest, for Mr. Cheney and his GANG, wanted for friend and Foe, to be<br />forewarned of the Harsh consequences of opposing their monstrous and<br />Machiavellian Plans for the New " New Middle East " second or third edition.<br />This Jan. 24th 2002, will be made an example to see worldwide... within<br />Intelligence circles worldwide, especially in Lebanon and the immediate<br />surroundings.<br />http://anaconda-manifesto.blogspot.com/<br /><br />This targeted Political assassination would pave the way for another attempt<br />by the USA, to reshape the Politics of Lebanon, by re-engineering its Pawns<br />and tools, the Trio Joumblatt, Geajea, A.Gemayel with the young Hariri ,<br />after taking out the cumbersome Hariri Senior 3 years later, in a strikingly<br />similar operation, for as the manipulation and penetration of the Syrian and<br />Lebanese Intelligence services is exactly identical in nature and pawns.....<br />Hence the US of A , will do its utmost to make sure that the HOBEIKA<br />Murder will not be investigated in any way, shape or form...so far.<br />No free press, no courage, no guts , no glory for the Lebanon, the land<br />of the legendary Cedars? Despite the fact that some of the journalists,<br />know quite a bit on many issues relating to this and other murders, as well<br />as some Politicians....<br />http://hk-elie-hobeika.blogspot.com/<br />The relationship between the United States and Syria is still contradictory<br />and obscure. Washington is facing increasing problems in the Middle East.<br />In his speeches, Bush continues to accuse both Iran and Syria of causing<br />instability in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, although some<br />political moves seem to suggest that a distinction has been made between<br />these two countries, because it is clear and obvious that they are partners<br />in some of the covert political assassinations that took place in Lebanon,<br />through manipulations, penetrations of secret services and military<br />intelligence structures in Syria and Lebanon to directly serve US and<br />Israeli interests.<br />Hence, the International tribunal has no legs to stand on as of yet, and the<br />jury is still out to see whether it will ever take shape or where it will be<br />driven to achieve goals which have nothing to do with "Truth", Justice<br />or the like.<br />The obvious game of these parties, "playing enemies" is very very clear and<br />transparent for the world to see.<br />People tend to forget so quickly that the USA, especially the Pentagon, was<br />the main driving force behind the elimination of the Belgian Law of 2001,<br />which was the main reason for indicting Ariel Sharon for the sabra Shatila<br />Massacre, and the most adamant adversary of such tribunal was the US<br />administration.<br />http://hk-elie-hobeika.blogspot.com/<br /><br />The US has a long history of opposing such international bodies and such<br />claims to International investigations and criminal courts run by<br />"international judges".... this will not change now, to the contrary the US<br />will do its utmost to KILL any such jurisdictions... and they will do it using<br />the usual proxies to do the dirty work for them, and they will keep<br />pretending to be for Justice, freedom, Peace and democracy, which is<br />utterly False.<br />ALL the Investigations since the Hariri Murder of Feb. 14th 2005,<br />which has striking resemblance with the Hobeika Murder of Jan. 24th 2002,<br />in its Modus Operandi PRIOR and after the horrendous Car bombs, in the<br />sense that both personalities have been demonized since 1998 in shady<br />publications in Beirut and elsewhere , like the infamous book [The Black<br />Hands ]which was fabricated by Jameel El-Sayyed from Lebanese<br />Intelligence, and Military Intelligence which provided a lot of the info<br />on Hariri Senior, on the shady deals of Fouad Sannioura and complete<br />fabrications and lies about Mr. Elie Hobeika, which proved utterly baseless<br />since, like all the other publications which came out in the ensuing years,<br />and continue to this day... It seems that CIA has to find an ongoing "safe"<br />to burry all its dirty laundry in Lebanon... From "VEIL" to MEHLIS !<br />The clown who was chosen to put his name on this book ( Black Hands ) is a<br />rabid buffoon by the name of Najah Wakim. Just like Naji N. Najjar has done<br />2 years later with another book, using another criminal idiot as "Author",<br />in a similar Intelligence operation to smear another target for assassination,<br />Mr. Elie Hobeika, as a prelude to a bigger HIT on Rafic Hariri, 3 years<br />later.<br />These operations are linked and the criminal mind is the same.<br />A very interesting and "telling" conversation, between Bashar Al-Assad<br />and someone...[ I will withhold the name ] for his protection, and to<br />respect his wish to remain "anonymous" for now, told me that Bashar<br />called Rafic Hariri: "A traitor" .... in JULY of 2004..., This "meeting"<br />and personal conversation, between xxxxxx xxxx and Bashar Al-Assad was<br />relayed to CIA very quickly, and confirmed in July 2004, but that person<br />will come to regret very deeply his de-briefing by CIA, and will "age"<br />10 years in a month....after a cataclysmic operation....almost succeeded<br />in depriving him of a "significant" ...? I will STOP for now.<br />In the case of Rafic Hariri,a casus belli was created by the Israeli<br />Mossad's assassination of Rafik Hariri, a popular Lebanese politician<br />and subsequent disinformation promulgated and instigated by both Israel<br />and the United States blamed Syria for the killing, because Syria, more<br />specifically Assef Shawkat, did carry out this operation on behalf of<br />Mossad, CIA and Syrian Intelligence, because all three wanted Rafic<br />Hariri out of the picture, in the New Middle-east of Condi and Dick,<br />and their Energy Matrix. http://anaconda-manifesto.blogspot.com/<br /><br />"A Wilderness of Mirrors"<br /><br />Assef Shawkat prepared the "PLAN",with the same group of people who<br />masterminded Elie Hobeika's assassination on January 24th 2002,<br />[Jamil Al-Sayyed and Raymond AZAR],the Mitsubishi truck, the BOMB<br />and the suicide bomber. The suicide bomber's name is "Abou 3Ala'".<br />In order to "prime" Assef Shawkat to carry out this operation,a very<br />simple design was put in motion. Rafic Hariri was well known for<br />distributing money, to ALL groups, Militias, overtly or covertly, for<br />a very long time. In fact it's Hariri's Modus Operandi all his life...<br />Rafic Hariri did distribute money to ALL warring factions during the<br />long Lebanese war, hence, someone pushed Hariri into giving large<br />amounts of money, to extreme elements within the Sunni Muslim<br />Brotherhood of Syria, even to a group on the right of the famous<br />Bayanouni, who is now "allied" with Abdel Halim Khaddam,<br />and Mossad and CIA, knew that Assef Shawkat had penetrated these<br />groups, so it was a matter of time until Assef Shawkat, "discovered"<br />the fact that Hariri is actually financing extremist groups, bent on<br />toppling the ASSAD regime in Damascus. Since 1559, the Damascus<br />regime was very very edgy in Syria, and believed that somebody is<br />truly out to get them this time around.... and BINGO, Assef Shawkat<br />put his shrewd plans into action....et VOILA, Hariri was "Toast"....<br />What is very very interesting, is that a meeting in Damascus was<br />arranged for Seymour Hersh with President Bashar Assad of Syria.<br />This appointment for that private meeting was done within 2 days.<br />The date of that meeting was February 14th 2005.... The time of<br />that meeting: NOON to 13.30 Damascus local time...<br />When the suicide bomber blew his Mitsubishi truck in Beirut at 12.55,<br />killing Rafic Hariri and 22 other people in a devastating explosion,<br />Bashar Al-ASSAD was in his office meeting with Seymour Hersh, and Mr.<br />Hersh was able to "WITNESS" FIRST HAND, how "angry and upset" Bashar<br />al-Assad was, when one of his aides "broke" the news to Bashar and<br />Mr. Hersh, by barging into this "particular" meeting....<br />How convenient, for this meeting to be taking place at this particular<br />time...? allowing for Bashar Al-ASSAD to manifest his "utmost anger"<br />in front of such a great reporter.....How convenient for Bashar ASSAD<br />to have this fantastic opportunity to say "one Day" , if need be, you<br />can ask Seymour Hersh: I was with him in a meeting in Damascus and had<br />absolutely no idea about any of this... what a great cover and a<br />wonderful "alibi" for him , for Maher Al-Assad and ASSEF Shawkat and the<br />ubiquitous Buthaina Shaaban....{ Great Planning }.<br />It's that simple. People who are not versed in Covert and False Flag<br />operations, have a hard time understanding the subtleties of the crude<br />intelligence world.... and the Press spreads enough garbage to blur<br />the picture, and help shrouding the whole scene in cacophonies on<br />a daily basis, just to fill air-time and sell newspapers...<br />"A Wilderness of Mirrors" http://anaconda-manifesto.blogspot.com/<br />Assef Shawkat is so proud of his biggest operation yet... that he even<br />challenged ALL western Intelligence agencies, in their faces, because<br />he is still meeting in Paris with DST, DGSE and others, to be able to<br />find the identity of this Brain-washed suicide bomber. The best<br />estimates which Mossad, CIA , BND, and many other intelligence<br />agencies had been able to come up with until today, is that this<br />suicide bomber is either coming from Morocco, Iraq, or Arabistan in<br />Iran, but are still unable to go any further.<br />He has been told that his target is an American Infidel coming from<br />overseas to Lebanon, and he had been "primed" for the KILL, and he<br />did just that, blow himself up, in order to destroy the Imperial Infidels.<br />This brain-washed time-bomb, had no idea who the exact target was<br />when he carried out his monstrous act, killing Hariri and 22 other people<br />near St. Georges Hotel in Beirut.<br />http://anaconda-manifesto.blogspot.com/<br />Western Intelligence agencies are still incapable of determining the<br />nature of the explosives used, nor their exact origin, despite all the<br />sophisticated techniques, and all the DNA testing, the highest<br />technologies etc. All they did so far, is speculate with hyperboles and<br />projections, because the bomb was so large and devastating in nature,<br />nothing of any value remained on the scene, was worthy for the<br />investigations to be precise and adequate, and it will remain that way,<br />because this is exactly what the criminal mind intended it to be in<br />the first place. Assef Shawkat is and will remain "protected by his<br />peers in the Middle East and worldwide, especially MOSSAD, since<br />he is their "MAN" in Damascus. It goes without saying that all 4<br />Lebanese Generals who are in jail today, are there for one reason<br />only, and that is for their own protection, and they are ALL assets<br />of various western Intelligence agencies of one kind or another, and<br />because they Know Too Much...<br />They will be freed in time, when enough time has gone by, to do it in<br />such a way, that no major outcry will ensue...<br />Jameel Al-Sayyed for instance, was granted a 5 year permanent<br />status resident in France, only 4 days before he was to be arrested<br />in Beirut.<br />This is precisely for his protection, after the whole operation will be<br />put to rest for good...some day...!<br />Jamil Al-Sayyid has a style of providing little information to one side<br />in order to extract more valuable information for the other side....a<br />trick of the trade, he learned in his "advanced Intelligence Course"<br />in Arizona....The Americans had him play this role vis-à-vis the<br />French in the 1980's... and, during the 1990's, with Western<br />intelligence services. The rapid advancement of his career testifies<br />to his dedicated service on behalf of the Americans and Israelis....<br />Presently, Jamil Al-Sayyed's assignment is to keep his cool, just<br />like Geagea did in the 90s, for the potential he carries from his<br />loads of Information, to do maximum damage to the CIA ,<br />MOSSAD , Assef Shawkat, Maher Al-ASSAD and Bashar ASSAD.<br />Jameel Al-Sayyid planed to run for parliament in 2004 and was being<br />groomed to become speaker of the parliament shortly thereafter.....<br />but fell in the trap of his superiors of CIA... He is related by marriage<br />to Mustafa Hamdan, the ex-commander of the Lebanese Presidential<br />Guards.... who is presently in Prison too, together with Raymond AZAR,<br />"the James Jesus Angleton" of Lebanese Army Intelligence stooges<br />of CIA and MOSSAD... COUNTLESS BOOKS AND MOVIES have<br />displayed the seedier elements of the spy trade: the entrapments,<br />the blackmail, the assassinations. Yet the analytical, brainy side of the<br />profession has always been of equal importance: There is a reason why<br />spies are said to belong to the "intelligence community." Just as James<br />Bond needs his boss M for guidance, real-life spies rely on armchair<br />accomplices to shape raw data into coherent and meaningful analysis.<br />http://anaconda-manifesto.blogspot.com/<br />But what kind of analysis? Attempting to distinguish "signal" from<br />"noise," officials at the CIA and Defense Department debate competing<br />methods of data-sifting and weigh the aggressive, "hypotheses-driven"<br />style of interpretation favored by the Pentagon. Probability and risk are<br />continually assessed, and sometimes the talk can sound nearly<br />philosophical. Referring to the lie of the centuries, the search for illegal<br />weapons in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld declared on<br />Aug. 5 that "the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."<br />"the practical criticism of ambiguity." (As William Epstein observes,<br />this phrase is "derived from the titles of two of the most influential texts<br />of formalist criticism, Richards's `Practical Criticism' and Empson's<br />`Seven Types of Ambiguity."<br />The New Critics famously attacked the "intentional fallacy," arguing<br />that the meaning of a text could not be identified with its author's<br />intentions. They also put a high value on paradox, indirection, and all<br />the many ways in which a written artifact does not mean what it<br />seems to mean.<br />Angleton once described the intelligence world as "a wilderness of mirrors",<br />a quote taken from one of his favorite poets, T.S. Eliot. For all his<br />reputed brilliance, Angleton got lost in that wilderness....<br />Perhaps the moral of Angleton's story can be found in another work of<br />literature. Norman Rush's recent novel, "Mortals," tells the story of a CIA<br />agent and John Milton scholar whose cover is his job teaching literature<br />at a university in Botswana. At one point, Rush's scholar-spy reflects:<br />"The past is a forest of signs. The problem was that you could only<br />read them when you turned around and looked back, unfortunately." ......<br />"A Wilderness of Mirrors"<br />http://anaconda-manifesto.blogspot.com/<br />Amine Gemayel was working behind the scenes for Pierre to become the<br />next "president"...it cost his son's life....<br />As a side note, the young and ignorant,[he should have seen it coming],<br />Pierre Gemayel, was murdered by the killers of samir Geagea and his<br />so-called Lebanese Forces of thugs, who are a "proxy Militia" for CIA,<br />in collusion with Ashraf Riffi in person, who protected the whole team<br />and the operation, wall to wall. Amine Gemayel is privy to these details<br />in FULL, but he is such a coward that he would not dare speak, and has<br />fully accepted the crap given at the white house, DOD and state, and CIA,<br />and did SHUT-UP, for the "higher good" in his view...typical Amine<br />Gemayel vintage, and he will remain so all his life.<br />Also, it has been proven beyond doubt, that Ramzi IRANI was also murdered<br />by Samir Geagea, and info was given to Geagea by a certain "Kairouz..."<br />that Ramzi was too close and personal with Sethrida... but this was the<br />case for so long... since Nigeria.... but Jealousy is too strong for the<br />criminal Samir Geagea... and his complete s... impotence does not help,<br />so he murdered Ramzi Irani in cold blood....<br />"A Wilderness of Mirrors" http://anaconda-manifesto.blogspot.com/<br /><br />The project of this book is the work of a Sunni tool of Jameel El-Sayyed ,<br />another puppet, tool like so many others, Tahseen Khayyat, Chairman of<br />NTV or NEWTVSAT,who is but another lackey who made a fortune<br />from printing several million copies of the Holy Qoran in Saudi Arabia,<br />and is but another pawn in the Lebanese Chess game, masterminded by<br />CIA, Saudi Intelligence, CIA & MOSSAD, among other Intelligence<br />agencies fighting for "space" on the Lebanese Turf....<br />Jamil Al-Sayyed was/is CIA, with a direct link to MOSSAD also .<br />He is a multidimensional agent, working for Syrian Israeli and American<br />Intelligence, instead of working for the Lebanese National Interest.<br />Jameel El-Sayyed is the Master Manipulator in Lebanon.<br />He masterminded the arrival of Lahoud in 1998, together with CIA.<br />Stories abound in Lebanon about Jameel Al-Sayyed being the "real"<br />President and the real power behind the facade of the Lebanese<br />institutions for years. His "Training in the early 80s, his career<br />path, his personal friendship with Bashar Al-Assad, his known and<br />documented contacts with American and Israeli handlers, speaks<br />volumes about this "classic" manipulation Made In Langley and Herzlia.<br />Emile Lahoud is absolutely perfect for the period 1998/2008, because<br />they know that he is a harmless idiot, and will accept to be completely<br />and utterly manipulated by Jameel-El Sayyed.<br /><br />http://hk-elie-hobeika.blogspot.com/<br /><br />"A Wilderness of Mirrors" http://anaconda-manifesto.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Jameel el-Sayyed was the main conduit and mastermind of the Hariri<br />Assassination, which he started planning for since 1998...<br />It is interesting to see the choice of Judge Elias EID in the scope<br />of the International Investigation of Hariri's Murder, knowing that<br />Judge Elias EID was a STOOGE of Kamel Jamil Al-Sayyed, the son of the<br />Director Jameel Al-Sayyed.... but Elias EID has now switched his fake<br />"allegiance" again..., and of course SAID MIRZA IS a Hariri pawn.<br />Jamil El-Sayyed is well known for being extremely smart, intelligent<br />and extremely manipulative. He was/is a FAVORITE of the weasel Walid<br />Joumblatt, and his main contact and main source of information<br />for years, during the Pax Syro-Americana in Lebanon. Waleed Joumblatt<br />is part and parcel of the Israeli/ American manipulation to eliminate<br />Rafic Hariri, despite his outward signs of sorrow and fake emotions.<br />Waleed is a master clown in disguise, and a pathological liar, just<br />like his masters in Neoconville. The remaining "tools" are : Geagea<br />the Killer, who did not hesitate in murdering his own brother in law,<br />in front of his son, blowing his brains out... , Amine Gemayel who at<br />the behest of CIA, ordered the terror car bomb of Bir El-Abd, targeting<br />Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah in 1985, killing 85 innocent civilians<br />in the process, in retaliation to the Marine Barracks bombing of 1983.<br />A storm ensued in USA at the time, hence the charade of the Book: VEIL<br />authored by Bob Woodward, another CIA asset...<br />This was another extra-judicial assassination attempt ordered by the US<br />government in the 80s. The tools were Lebanese Military Intelligence and<br />Amine Gemayel. http://newhk.blogspot.com/<br /><br />The Lebanese people are still not fully aware, that there is absolutely<br />no free press in Lebanon whatsoever. ALL the Media in Lebanon are<br />completely and utterly manipulated to serve specific interests and ALL<br />these interests are not Lebanese in any way shape or form.... so far...<br />No rude awakening as of yet ???<br />Subsequent "extension" of the UN so-called commission<br />investigating the Hariri Murder, have been carefully and deliberately<br />crafted by USA and its Chief Neocon and friend of Karl Rove, Jeffrey<br />"Neozionist" Feltman, to hide the obvious link between the two terror<br />bombs of Hobeika and Hariri , & make sure any attempt at investigating<br />" political Murder " in Lebanon starts from October of 2004 and beyond,<br />to avoid at ALL cost getting to Elie Hobeika's Murder, which is ,<br />MADE IN USA... It is even forbidden to talk about the Elie Hobeika<br />murder in Lebanon's Media and official circles, thanks to the growing,<br />direct and overwhelming influence of the US Government agencies in this<br />"particular" Sinniora shadow of a government, filled with weak cronies,<br />made to measure in USA's Neocons Dark rooms of Condi Rice and<br />Dick Cheney & Elliot Abrams ,to obediently serve American Neocons<br />Interests in the " New Middle East...".<br /><br />http://newhk.blogspot.com/<br /><br />According to high level European intelligence officials, Bush's counselor,<br />Karl Rove, used the new presidential authority to silence a popular Lebanese<br />Christian politician who was planning to offer irrefutable evidence that<br />Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon engineered the massacre of hundreds of<br />Palestinian men, women, and children in the Beirut refugee camps of Sabra<br />and Shatilla in 1982. In addition, Sharon provided the SLA forces & IDF who<br />carried out the grisly task. At the time of the massacres, Elie Hobeika was<br />intelligence chief of Lebanese Christian forces in Lebanon who were battling<br />Palestinians and other Muslim groups in a bloody civil war. He was also the<br />chief liaison to Israeli Defense Force (IDF) personnel in Lebanon. An<br />official Israeli inquiry into the massacre at the camps, the Kahan<br />Commission, merely found Sharon "indirectly" responsible for the slaughter<br />and fingered Hobeika as the chief instigator, while in fact Mr. Elie Hobeika<br />was never anywhere near Sabra or Shatila in Sep. 82, he was very busy<br />investigating the assassination of President elect Bashir Gemayel .<br />The Sabra and Shatila Massacre was planned within the Invasion plans<br />of the IDF in 1982 when it invaded Lebanon, and it appears under the<br />name of Operation Spark, and Operation Iron Brain.<br />Its finer details were worked out between the 1st of September when the<br />alliance with Bashir collapsed, and the 12th of the same month when Sharon<br />met with Bashir. The LF was perceived as unreliable and that the mopping up<br />of the camps was to proceed with or without them. AMAN could rely on the<br />SLA to get the job done, and it would assist them with IDF Special Forces,<br />or Sayerets as they are called in Hebrew. It is quite clear that the<br />Sayerets were in the camps as the former fighters in the camp have told us<br />repeatedly . But the presence of the Sayerets indicates clearly that the<br />Massacre was what is called in intelligence lingo a Black Operation, which<br />is a secret operation that is carried out by the intelligence agents and<br />special forces upon a decision taken by the Chief Executive and a few of his<br />ministers. Israeli Secret Services and the Sayerets have carried out many<br />Black Operations, including the Qibya Massacre of 1953, the attack on the<br />Beirut International Airport in 1968, and the assassination of Abu Jihad in<br />Tunisia, 1988. During the 1982 Invasion, and according to IDF historian<br />Samuel Katz, the Sayerets were deeply involved in the military operations.<br />These forces,which like all Special Forces in the world, are made up of hard<br />brutal killers, who volunteer for the job and know exactly what it entails.<br />In short, Israel's Secret Services' role in Sabra and Shatilla Massacre is<br />not only undeniable, but is far more involved than what "Kahan Commission"<br />stated. One day when Appendix B finally comes to light, this theory will<br />be proven, although it is clear that there is enough evidence to back it up.<br />As an epilogue, Israel's secret services, CIA & the Mossad, assassinated<br />Elie Hobeika in Beirut in 2002, using CIA & local witting proxies, in what<br />is obviously an attempt to conceal the truth about the Massacre. If anyone<br />doubted the involvement of the Israeli intelligence, this should silence the<br />naysayers. Mr. Elie Hobeika Never set foot at Sabra & Shatila in September<br />of 1982, nor had anything to do with that horrible crime, in any way shape<br />or form. It was an IDF operation with AMAN and MOSSAD at the Helm.<br />Besides Sayyeret Metkal's units in the camps, there were three additional<br />units which came from 3 different entrances to the camps, and the SLA<br />forces of Saad Haddad, brought into Beirut by IDF.<br /><br />ALL these units were under direct orders of IDF officers, and IDF troops<br />were totally occupying Beirut militarily .<br />The First unit was lead by Z.M. , The second unit was lead by M.M. and<br />the 3rd by C.G. It is noteworthy to say that M.M. had met and had dinner<br />with B.N. in his home in west Beirut, before entering the camps, he dined<br />and spent the night there....but these units were brought in the camps on<br />the last day of the operations, to set them up for the world media to see<br />and portray as if they were the instigators. Combatants who were there said<br />that upon arrival to the camps, they were shocked to see all the killings,<br />because ALL of these units arrived there when the Sayyarets had finished<br />the job completely with the SLA forces of Saad Haddad. These are eye witness<br />accounts. Those LF will be forced into the mountain war within few months,<br />and a new trap will be set up for them by IDF, whereby eye witness accounts<br />say that every time they advanced into a new village, winning a very bloody<br />battle with casualties, orders will come for them to retreat from IDF<br />officers.<br />In some cases IDF artillery were shooting at both sides,reigniting the<br />battles again and again. Thousands of Christians were massacred, their<br />villages in ruins in a futile fight until exhaustion and complete retreat.<br />This is the legacy of IDF in Lebanon over 40 years.<br />The Kahan Commission never called on Hobeika to offer testimony in his<br />defense. However, in response to charges brought against Sharon before a<br />special war crimes court in Belgium, Hobeika was urged to testify against<br />Sharon, according to well-informed Lebanese sources. Hobeika was prepared<br />to offer a different version of events than what was contained in the Kahan<br />report. A 1993 Belgian law permitting human rights prosecutions was unusual<br />in that non-Belgians could be tried for violations against other<br />non-Belgians in a Belgian court. Under pressure from the Bush<br />administration, the law was severely amended and the extra territoriality<br />provisions were curtailed. http://newhk.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Hobeika headed the Lebanese forces intelligence agency since the mid- 1970s<br />and he soon developed close ties to the CIA. He was a frequent visitor to<br />the CIA's headquarters at Langley, Virginia. After the Syrian invasion of<br />Lebanon in 1990, Hobeika held a number of cabinet positions in the Lebanese<br />government, a proxy for the Syrian occupation authorities. He also served in<br />the parliament. In July 2001, Hobeika called a press conference and<br />announced he was prepared to testify against Sharon in Belgium and revealed<br />that he had evidence of what actually occurred in Sabra and Shatilla.<br />Hobeika also indicated that Israel had flown members of the South Lebanon<br />Army (SLA) into Beirut International Airport in an Israeli Air Force C130<br />transport plane, in full view of dozens of witnesses, including members of<br />the Lebanese army and others. SLA troops under the command of Major Saad<br />Haddad were slipped into the camps to commit the massacres. The SLA troops<br />were under the direct command of Ariel Sharon and an Israeli Mossad agent<br />provocateur named Rafi Eitan. Hobeika offered evidence that a former U.S.<br />ambassador to Lebanon was aware of the Israeli plot. In addition, the IDF<br />had placed a camera in a strategic position to film the Sabra and Shatilla<br />massacres. Hobeika was going to ask that the footage be released as part of<br />the investigation of Sharon.<br />After announcing he was willing to testify against Sharon, Hobeika became<br />fearful for his safety and began taking precautionary moves. Hobeika was<br />not aware that his threats to testify against Sharon had triggered a series<br />of fateful events that reached well into the White House and Sharon's<br />office. http://newhk.blogspot.com/<br />On Jan. 24, 2002, Hobeika's car was blown up by a remote controlled bomb<br />placed in a parked Mercedes along a street in the Hazmieh section of Beirut.<br />The blast was a "cone-shaped charge" that used "moldable high explosives<br />such as SEMTEX H," shaped to create a high-speed, high temperature blast<br />wave. The blast took place in two stages over a fraction of a second.<br />During the first stage, the blast "forces all the air out with tremendous<br />force, " creating a vacuum, but as air rushes back in, it creates another<br />tremendous force that causes further damage. "It's a trademark of bombs<br />made by CIA and the Pentagon", in their regular training of proxy forces<br />over the years, in various exchanges of military expertise with Lebanese<br />Army Intelligence, and the Lebanese forces in the 1980s, and elsewhere<br />in the world.<br />Such expertise was deliberately aimed at eliminating Sheikh Muhammad<br />Hussein Fadlallah, the chief interpreter of Islamic law for the Shia'.<br />An attempt was made on Fadlallah's life on March 8, 1985, when an<br />explosive-packed car was driven into a Beirut suburb about 50 yards from<br />Fadlallah's residence. The car disappeared in a blinding blue flash that<br />killed 85 people and wounded 200 more. Longs weeks of training were<br />carried out in various places, including Safra, where Israeli and American<br />expertise was also brought to bear, in order to insure success for this<br />major operation of CIA and MOSSAD, with Lebanese Army Intelligence,<br />and it was supposed to be a revenge for the Marine Barracks Bombing<br />of 1983, in which 241 service members died in a suicide operation,<br />believed to have been carried out by Hizbullah in its infancy....<br />This operation was a total failure, and Sheikh Muhammad Hussein<br />Fadlallah survived miraculously, but the whole neighborhood was<br />devastated. http://anaconda-manifesto.blogspot.com/<br />CIA scrambled in Washington Dc and elsewhere to cover their tracks<br />and hide all evidence of their DIRECT involvement in this operation<br />from the US Congress, hence a book was written then, by BOB<br />WOODWARD, "VEIL" to fabricate a story about this US/Israeli<br />operation. It is interesting that Sheikh Fadlallah read Woodward's<br />book and cites its content in some of his interviews....<br />Hizbullah tracked several of the "executors" of the operations,<br />and at least 2 of them were executed....<br />A former State Department official said that the group behind the bombing<br />had been trained in the United States, and that there was direct American<br />involvement in the assassination attempt, CIA and Lebanese Army<br />Intelligence, headed then by Officer Johnny ABDO, during the tenure<br />of Amine Gemayel, and on direct orders from President Amine Gemayel.<br />Both Johnny Abdo and Amine Gemayel were/are, the Darlings of all<br />American Administrations until today....<br /><br />The bomb exploded when Hobeika and his three associates, Fares Souweidan,<br />Mitri Ajram, and Waleed Zein, were driving their Range Rover past the<br />C4-laden Mercedes at 9:20 am Beirut time. The Range Rover's four passengers<br />were killed in the explosion. In case Hobeika's car had taken another route<br />through the neighborhood, two additional parked cars, located at two other<br />choke points, were also rigged with C4. The powerful bomb wounded a number<br />of other people in the vicinity. Other parked cars were destroyed and<br />buildings and homes were damaged. The Lebanese president, prime minister,<br />interior minister and the Military Prosecutor, all claimed that Israeli<br />agents were behind the attack, which was partially true, but they also<br />knew this to be, a CIA operation par excellence, since the Chief Architect<br />of the "Local" plans, timing , etc. was Jamil El-Sayyed , the head of the<br />Surete Generale, with direct assistance from Lebanese Military Intelligence,<br />and some latitude for the "end users" in the area of the crime... in a<br />specific building, with 3 floors...ideally situated for the surveillance and<br />execution of the crime... etc.<br /><br />http://hk-elie-hobeika.blogspot.com/<br /><br />The IED in the Bomb laden Mercedes, was a "Shaped Charge " with a very<br />specific signature, hence the immediate arrival of large water tanker trucks<br />of the civil defense, to cleanse the area with high powered water guns for a<br />long long time... with specific direct orders from Baabda & Anjar and the<br />infamous Interior Minister Elias MURR, who will be given TOP honors from<br />Richard Noble of Interpol & FBI for a job well done in removing any traces<br />of the American/Israeli assassination of Hobeika, courtesy of AZAR...<br />Ghazi Kanaan will do the rest to cover ALL tracks and " reassure " the<br />grieving folks and relatives of his "deepest sorrow" and close this chapter<br />securely, in order to forbid any official investigations for Good, for he<br />was to serve his AMERICAN HANDLERS... well, very well , until 2005.<br />It is noteworthy that the State Department's list of global terrorist<br />incidents for 2002 worldwide failed to list the car bombing attack on<br />Hobeika and his party. The White House wanted to ensure the attack was<br />censored from the report. The reason was simple: the attack ultimately had<br />Washington's fingerprints on it...<br />http://anaconda-manifesto.blogspot.com/<br /><br />http://newhk.blogspot.com/<br /><br />A U.S. intelligence source revealed to me, that in the world of intelligence<br />"carve out" subcontracts such confusion is often the case with "plausible<br />deniability" being a foremost concern in ALL covert operations, especially<br />in Elie Hobeika's case on January 24th 2002, & Hariri's Feb. 14th 2005...<br />Notwithstanding Jacques CHIRAC's gesticulations and false sorrow for<br />the loss of his "friend" Rafic HARIRI, he has been regularly organizing<br />official meetings in Paris for Asef Shawkat with his services to secure<br />SYRIA for and with Asef Shawkat,hence,In a series of secret meetings<br />in Israel and Europe, between 2000 and July 2006, Syrians, Americans<br />and Israelis formulated understandings for orchestrating several murders<br />in Lebanon ...and were executed well, with great precision and excellent<br />timing like clock work, the extreme sophistication of Hariri's MURDER<br />is a case in point for later comments in due course...<br />High level European intelligence sources now report that Karl Rove<br />personally coordinated Hobeika's assassination. The liaison with American<br />Intelligence was done through Bahjat Suleiman from Syrian Intelligence.<br />French DGSE played a major role in Paris, by helping in the " orchestrated "<br />attack on Mr. Elie Hobeika , with various shady books and publications, and<br />by giving refuge in France & sanctuary to criminal elements directly linked<br />to MOSSAD and CIA who authored these phony publications .<br />This help was provided prior to the murder, by tolerating a full fledged<br />smear campaign, orchestrated by intelligence operatives preparing the<br />grounds for a horrendous murder, and help continued after the murder has<br />been well executed , and after ALL the facts were available to the French<br />Government and DGSE, and even more phony publications by the same<br />individuals were willingly nurtured and publicized.<br /><br />French DGSE knew full well the criminal history of these individuals,&<br />French DGSE knew full well that those guys were proven LIARS, but still<br />gives them sanctuary, help, assistance and more... in France today.<br />It is well established that CIA has a MAJOR base of operations in Paris,<br />together with DGSE , since Sep. 11th 2001, against the so-called war on<br />" Terror ", despite the highly publicized positions of Jacques Chirac,<br />critical of the Iraq invasion, prior to 2003 and beyond....<br />The hit on Hobeika was sold by CIA through a tortuous web & employed<br />Lebanese CIA agents. Syrian President Bashar Assad was trying to<br />curry favor with the Bush administration in the aftermath of 9-11 and was<br />more than willing to help the White House, and Ghazi Kanaan did everything<br />he could to help CIA in this Murderous Endeavour to assassinate Mr. Elie<br />Hobeika, and did ALL he could after the Murder to cover ALL tracks and<br />wash the crime scene with high powered water guns in the hour that followed<br />the Terror Car Bomb in Hazmieh...<br />Syria believed that the massive support it gave Washington in the<br />investigation of Al-Qaeda activists - "after September 11, the Syrian<br />leader, Bashar Assad, initiated the delivery of Syrian intelligence to the<br />U.S. The Syrians had compiled hundreds of files on Al-Qaeda, including<br />dossiers on the men who participated, and others who wanted to participate,<br />in the September 11 attacks," Seymour Hersh wrote in the July 28 issue of<br />The New Yorker - it would be able to "protect itself" in the face of<br />American pressure. http://hk-elie-hobeika.blogspot.com/<br /><br />According to Sy Hersh, he uncovered close ongoing relations developed<br />between Syria , the CIA and FBI, in the course of which Syria transmitted<br />information that saved many American lives. "In one instance," Hersh writes,<br />"the Syrians learned that Al-Qaeda had penetrated the security services of<br />Bahrain and had arranged for a glider loaded with explosives to be flown<br />into a building at the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet headquarters there." Thanks to<br />Syria's help, the operation was thwarted. Agents of the CIA and FBI were<br />allowed to conduct "intelligence-gathering operations" in Aleppo, where they<br />questioned people who knew Mohammed Atta, one of the planners and<br />implementers of the September 11, 2001, attacks, and the family of bin<br />Laden, in Latakia. George Tenet, the director of the CIA, was a frequent<br />visitor to Syria and received full cooperation. At one stage, the CIA wanted<br />to establish a permanent "back" channel with Damascus but apparently ran<br />into some obstacles: the State Department, which didn't want the CIA poking<br />around in foreign policy...<br />CIA has prevailed over the state department, and CIA has now a permanent<br />base in Syria. Syria is still providing precious help to CIA on Al-Qaeda,<br />and this has been confirmed this summer by none other than the DCI<br />Michael Hayden himself, when he said specifically that Syria's information<br />on Al-Qaeda and other intelligence matters provided to the USA, are<br />Indispensable for CIA, and he refused to sign on the attack by Israel<br />on Syria ..... It seems that Syria still has a lot of information up its<br />sleeves on the Various assassinations in Lebanon, which are without a<br />shadow of a doubt, A joint Venture and a Joint US/SYRIAN operation with<br />Israeli blessing and tacit approval and logistical support, whenever this<br />is needed.... to further the technical skills of the Syrian Intelligence<br />apparatus of Asef Shawkat and other " penetrated bodies of Intelligence "<br />in Damascus and Lebanon....<br /><br />Hafez Assad, had been an ally of Bush's father during Desert Storm, a period<br />that saw Washington give a "wink and a nod" to Syria's occupation of<br />Lebanon. Rove wanted to help Sharon avoid any political embarrassment from<br />an in absentia trial in Brussels where Hobeika would be a star witness. Rove<br />and Sharon agreed on the plan to use Syrian Military Intelligence agents to<br />assassinate Hobeika. Rove saw Sharon as an indispensable ally of Bush in<br />ensuring the loyalty of the Christian evangelical and Jewish voting blocs in<br />the United States. Sharon saw the plan to have the United States coordinate<br />the hit as a way to mask all connections to Jerusalem.<br />Turning a blind eye was ordered by Assef Shawkat, the number two man in<br />Syrian military intelligence and a good friend and brother in law of Syrian<br />President Bashar Assad. Assad's intelligence services had already cooperated<br />with U.S. intelligence in resorting to unconventional methods to extract<br />information from al Qaeda detainees deported to Syria from the United States<br />and other countries in the wake of 9-11.<br />It is noteworthy here to disclose to the world, that Asef Shawkat had<br />arranged for the "Car accident"/assassination of Basil Al-Assad in 1994,<br />in order to pave the way for his marriage with Bushra Al-Assad. Basil was<br />adamantly opposed to this relationship and Asef knew that the only way to<br />get his way, is to KILL Basil Al-Assad....which he did.... !<br />The security was ordered to be completely removed , months before, from<br />Hobeika's neighborhood by General Raymond AZAR, the head of Lebanese<br />Military Intelligence and his deputy. CIA "arranged with their KILLERS"<br />remote controlled cars to be parked along Hobeika's route in Hazmieh; only<br />few hundred yards from the Barracks of Syrian Special Forces which are<br />stationed in the area near the Presidential palace , the ministry of Defense<br />and various Government and officers quarters. The KILLERS were CIA<br />operatives who got DIRECT operational help from the Deuxieme Bureau,<br />the Lebanese Army's Military Intelligence Arm.<br />This particular area is covered 24/7, by a very sophisticated American<br />multi-agency surveillance system to monitor Syrian and Lebanese security<br />activities, and is a " Choice " area to live in for its perceived high<br />security, [Courtesy of the Special Collections Services "SCS" , which is a<br />joint CIA & NSA & DIA team endeavor worldwide .]<br /><br />The plan to kill Hobeika had all the necessary caveats and built-in denial<br />mechanisms. If the Syrians were discovered beforehand or afterwards, Karl<br />Rove and his associates in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans would be<br />ensured plausible deniability, given the professional denigration effort<br />started in earnest, years ahead, in USA,Israel,France,Lebanon,using multi<br />layered organizations to denigrate Mr. Elie Hobeika in books and shady<br />publications, in print and on the Internet. The operation took years in<br />planning, but succeeded in eliminating a Lebanese Icon, using Syrian,<br />and Lebanese operatives, with the full "tacit" agreement of a complex<br />web of actors, after years of intense covert disinformation, an Operation<br />run by highly skilled professionals, who use "witting" and "unwitting<br />elements"...a Classic Black operation for the people in the "Know"....<br />From David Halevy in Time Magazine in 1982, to Barbara Newman, & from<br />USCFL to local and other International creepy actors and seedy players,<br />Mr. Elie Hobeika bore the brunt of a skilled disinformation machine,<br />single-handedly, for well over 20 years. In other words, during Times of<br />WAR, and in "Peace Times" of the NEOCONS.,(FDDC),& DOD's OSP,<br />THE TRUTH will always be the first Victim.<br /><br />Hobeika's CIA'S SHADOW.... in Beirut, a man only referred to as "Jason" by<br />Hobeika, was a frequent companion of the Lebanese politician during official<br />and off-duty hours. During Hobeika's year 2000 election campaigns for his<br />parliamentary seat, Jason was often in Hobeika's office offering support and<br />advice. After Hobeika's assassination, Jason became despondent over the<br />death of his colleague. Eventually, Jason disappeared abruptly from Lebanon<br />and reportedly later emerged in Pakistan. Jason was very close to Hobeika.<br />Karl Rove's involvement in the assassination of Hobeika may not have been<br />the last "hit" he ordered to help out Sharon. In March 2002, a few months<br />after Hobeika's assassination, another Lebanese Christian with knowledge of<br />Sharon's involvement in the Sabra and Shatilla massacres was gunned down<br />along with his wife in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A bullet fired at Michael Nassar's<br />car flattened one of his tires. Nassar pulled into a gasoline station for<br />repairs. A professional assassin, firing a gun with a silencer, shot Nassar<br />and his wife in the head, killing them both instantly. The assailant fled<br />and was never captured. Nassar was also involved with the Phalange militia<br />at Sabra and Shatilla. Nassar was also reportedly willing to testify against<br />Sharon in Belgium, as a nephew of SLA Commander General Antoine Lahd,<br />may have had important evidence to bolster Hobeika's charge that Sharon<br />ordered SLA forces into the camps to wipe out the Palestinians.<br />But further detailed Investigations proved that the HIT on Nassar was<br />only a Diversion ordered by CIA and carried out by Ghassan Touma , Ragi<br />Abdo, Alias "Al-Capitaine" - Naji Najjar & their Killers in Brazil... and<br />elsewhere! More Later... on a related topic and Robert Nassar ???<br />Based on what European intelligence claims is concrete intelligence on<br />Rove's involvement in the assassination of Hobeika, the Bush administration<br />can now add political assassination to its laundry list of other misdeeds,<br />from lying about the reasons to go to war to the torture tactics in<br />violation of the Geneva Conventions that have been employed by the Pentagon<br />and "third country" nationals at prisons in Iraq , Guantanamo Bay,<br />Morocco, and various East European locations, among others....<br /><br />Given the actual climate of political cacophonies, deceit,<br />deception and intrigue in Lebanon of today, Lebanon of<br />the LIARS of NEOCONVILLE, it has been<br />proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Mr. Elie Hobeika<br />was a visionary Leader . http://hk-elie-hobeika.blogspot.com/<br />Despite the horrendous Fabrications, LIES , False Flag operations,<br />by CIA and MOSSAD, to discredit Mr. Elie Hobeika,<br />It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt,<br />that ALL stories which came out immediately<br />after the Assassination of Mr.Elie Hobeika, Fares Sweidan,<br />Dimitri Ajram, and Waleed El-Zein, were completely &<br />utterly FALSE. It was a pure fabrication by the KILLERS;<br />AND the DOD'S Foreign Denial and Deception Committee (FDDC),<br />to cover their tracks. Standard operating procedure.<br />I mean by that, the stories relating to Elie trying to find<br />IMAD Moughnieh, the alleged attempted contacts with CIA,<br />MOSSAD, etc. , the missing Iranian diplomats, the 9 most<br />wanted by CIA, whose names have been circulated then,<br />on purpose by CIA, to 7 ministers in the actual Lebanese<br />Government, etc. [ which CIA has completely forgotten now,<br />one of them has proven since to be a CIA asset himself...]<br />ALL these were a tortuous web of lies to cover the<br />tracks of the Murderers of CIA, MOSSAD, and their Syro-Lebanese<br />tools. http://anaconda-manifesto.blogspot.com/<br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br />This is some of the evidence ...article&sid=1052<br />************************************************************************<br />~encrypted/logs/access ====>> INTELLIGENCE Agencies Servers footprints.<br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br />Not to mention hundreds of private companies and governments........!<br /><br />See Below : INTELLIGENCE Agencies , INTELL. :<br />*************************************************************************<br /><br />Lines 10-36 of my logfiles show a lot of interest in this article: =1052<br /># grep sid=1052 /encrypted/logs/access_logawk '{print$1,$7}'sed-n'10,36p'.<br />spb-213-33-248-190.sovintel.ru /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1052<br />Soviet/Russian Intelligence services...<br />ext1.shape.nato.int /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1052<br />NATO Intel.<br />server1.namsa.nato.int /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1052<br />Nato Intel.<br />ns1.saclantc.nato.int /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1052<br />Strategic Air Command US Intel.<br />bxlproxyb.europarl.eu.int /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1052<br />European Parliament Intel. 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OSIS.<br />bouncer.nics.gov.uk /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1052<br />British Intel.<br />beluha.ssu.gov.ua /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1052<br />Ukrainian Intelligence.<br />zukprxpro02.zreo.compaq.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1052....<br />Intel....<br /><br />http://anaconda-manifesto.blogspot.com/<br /><br /><br /><br />----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Why Nemesis is at the US's door.<br /><br />By Chalmers Johnson.<br /><br /><br /><br />History tells us that one of the most unstable political combinations is a<br />country - like the United States today - that tries to be a domestic<br />democracy and a foreign imperialist.<br /><br />Why this is so can be a very abstract subject. Perhaps the best way to offer<br />my thoughts on this is to say a few words about my new book, Nemesis, and<br />explain why I gave it the subtitle The Last Days of the American Republic.<br /><br /><br />Nemesis is the third book to have grown out of my research over the past<br />eight years. I never set out to write a trilogy on America's increasingly<br />endangered democracy, but as I kept stumbling on ever more evidence of the<br />legacy of the imperialist pressures we Americans put on many other countries<br />as well as the nature and size of our military empire, one book led to<br />another.<br /><br />Professionally, I am a specialist in the history and politics of East Asia.<br />In 2000, I published Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American<br />Empire, because my research on China, Japan and the two Koreas persuaded me<br />that US policies there would have serious future consequences. The book was<br />noticed at the time, but only after September 11, 2001, did the Central<br />Intelligence Agency (CIA) term I adapted for the title - "blowback" - become<br />a household word and my volume a best-seller.<br /><br />I had set out to explain how exactly the US government came to be so hated<br />around the world. As a CIA term of tradecraft, "blowback" does not just mean<br />retaliation for things the government has done to, and in, foreign<br />countries. It refers specifically to retaliation for illegal operations<br />carried out abroad that were kept totally secret from the US public.<br /><br />These operations have included the clandestine overthrow of governments<br />various US administrations did not like, the training of foreign militaries<br />in the techniques of state terrorism, the rigging of elections in foreign<br />countries, and interference with the economic viability of countries that<br />seemed to threaten the interests of influential US corporations, as well as<br />the torture or assassination of selected foreigners. The fact that these<br />actions were, at least originally, secret meant that when retaliation does<br />come - as it did so spectacularly on September 11, 2001 - the US public is<br />incapable of putting the events in context. Not surprisingly, then,<br />Americans tend to support speedy acts of revenge intended to punish the<br />actual, or alleged, perpetrators. These moments of lashing out, of course,<br />only prepare the ground for yet another cycle of blowback.<br /><br />A world of bases<br />As a continuation of my own analytical odyssey, I then began doing research<br />on the network of 737 US military bases maintained around the world<br />(according to the Pentagon's own 2005 official inventory). Not including the<br />Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, the US now stations more than half a million<br />troops, spies, contractors, dependants and others on military bases in more<br />than 130 countries, many of them presided over by dictatorial regimes that<br />have given their citizens no say in the decision to let the US in.<br /><br />As but one striking example of imperial basing policy: for the past 61<br />years, the US military has garrisoned the small Japanese island of Okinawa<br />with 37 bases. Smaller than Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands, Okinawa is home<br />to 1.3 million people who live cheek-by-jowl with 17,000 US troops of the<br />3rd Marine Division and the largest US installation in East Asia - Kadena<br />Air Force Base. There have been many Okinawan protests against the rapes,<br />crimes, accidents and pollution caused by this sort of concentration of US<br />troops and weaponry, but so far the US military - in collusion with the<br />Japanese government - has ignored them. My research into America's base<br />world resulted in The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of<br />the Republic, written during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.<br /><br />As the US occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq turned into major fiascoes,<br />discrediting America's military leadership, ruining its public finances, and<br />bringing death and destruction to hundreds of thousands of civilians in<br />those countries, I continued to ponder the issue of empire. In these years,<br />it became ever clearer that President George W Bush, Vice President Dick<br />Cheney, and their supporters were claiming, and actively assuming, powers<br />specifically denied to a president by the constitution. It became no less<br />clear that the Congress had almost completely abdicated its responsibilities<br />to balance the power of the executive branch. Despite the Democratic Party's<br />sweep in last year's congressional election, it remains to be seen whether<br />these tendencies can, in the long run, be controlled, let alone reversed.<br /><br />Until the 2004 presidential election, we ordinary citizens of the United<br />States could at least claim that our foreign policy, including our illegal<br />invasion of Iraq, was the work of George Bush's administration and that we<br />had not put him in office. After all, in 2000, Bush lost the popular vote<br />and was appointed president thanks to the intervention of the Supreme Court<br />in a 5-4 decision. But in November 2004, regardless of claims about voter<br />fraud, Bush actually won the popular vote by more than 3.5 million ballots,<br />making his regime and his wars ours.<br /><br />Whether Americans intended it or not, we are now seen around the world as<br />approving the torture of captives at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, at Bagram<br />Air Base in Kabul, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and at a global network of<br />secret CIA prisons, as well as having endorsed Bush's claim that, as<br />commander-in-chief in "wartime", he is beyond all constraints of the US<br />constitution or international law. We are now saddled with a rigged economy<br />based on record-setting trade and fiscal deficits, the most secretive and<br />intrusive government in our country's memory, and the pursuit of<br />"preventive" war as a basis for foreign policy. Don't forget as well the<br />potential epidemic of nuclear proliferation as other nations attempt to<br />adjust to and defend themselves against Bush's preventive wars, while our<br />own already staggering nuclear arsenal expands toward first-strike primacy<br />and we expend unimaginable billions of dollars on futuristic ideas for<br />warfare in outer space.<br /><br />The choice ahead<br />By the time I came to write Nemesis, I no longer doubted that maintaining<br />America's empire abroad required resources and commitments that would<br />inevitably undercut, or simply skirt, what was left of our domestic<br />democracy and that might, in the end, produce a military dictatorship or -<br />far more likely - its civilian equivalent.<br /><br />The combination of huge standing armies, almost continuous wars, an ever<br />growing economic dependence on the military-industrial complex and the<br />making of weaponry, and ruinous military expenses as well as a vast, bloated<br />"defense" budget, not to speak of the creation of a whole second Defense<br />Department (known as the Department of Homeland Security) has been<br />destroying our republican structure of governing in favor of an imperial<br />presidency. By republican structure, of course, I mean the separation of<br />powers and the elaborate checks and balances that the founders of the United<br />States wrote into the constitution as the main bulwarks against dictatorship<br />and tyranny, which they greatly feared.<br /><br />We Americans are on the brink of losing our democracy for the sake of<br />keeping our empire. Once a nation starts down that path, the dynamics that<br />apply to all empires come into play - isolation, overstretch, the uniting of<br />local and global forces opposed to imperialism, and in the end bankruptcy.<br /><br />History is instructive on this dilemma. If we choose to keep our empire, as<br />the Roman republic did, we will certainly lose our democracy and grimly<br />await the eventual blowback that imperialism generates. There is an<br />alternative, however.<br /><br />We could, like the British Empire after World War II, keep our democracy by<br />giving up our empire. The British did not do a particularly brilliant job of<br />liquidating their empire and there were several clear cases where British<br />imperialists defied their nation's commitment to democracy to hang on to<br />foreign privileges. The war against the Kikuyu in Kenya in the 1950s and the<br />Anglo-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956 are particularly savage<br />examples of that. But the overall thrust of postwar British history is<br />clear: the people of the British Isles chose democracy over imperialism.<br /><br />In her book The Origins of Totalitarianism, political philosopher Hannah<br />Arendt offered the following summary of British imperialism and its fate:<br /><br />On the whole it was a failure because of the dichotomy between the<br />nation-state's legal principles and the methods needed to oppress other<br />people permanently. This failure was neither necessary nor due to ignorance<br />or incompetence. British imperialists knew very well that "administrative<br />massacres" could keep India in bondage, but they also knew that public<br />opinion at home would not stand for such measures. Imperialism could have<br />been a success if the nation-state had been willing to pay the price, to<br />commit suicide and transform itself into a tyranny. It is one of the glories<br />of Europe, and especially of Great Britain , that she preferred to liquidate<br />the empire.<br /><br />I agree with this judgment. When one looks at British Prime Minister Tony<br />Blair's unnecessary and futile support of Bush's invasion and occupation of<br />Iraq, one can only conclude that it was an atavistic response, that it<br />represented a British longing to relive the glories - and cruelties - of a<br />past that should have been ancient history.<br /><br />As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of<br />the governed. It is a pure form of tyranny. The US attempt to combine<br />domestic democracy with such tyrannical control over foreigners is<br />hopelessly contradictory and hypocritical. A country can be democratic or it<br />can be imperialistic, but it cannot be both.<br /><br />The road to imperial bankruptcy<br />The US political system failed to prevent this combination from developing -<br />and may now be incapable of correcting it. The evidence strongly suggests<br />that the legislative and judicial branches of the US government have become<br />so servile in the presence of the imperial presidency that they have largely<br />lost the ability to respond in a principled and independent manner. Even in<br />the present moment of congressional stirring, there seems to be a deep sense<br />of helplessness. Various members of Congress have already attempted to<br />explain how the one clear power they retain - to cut off funds for a<br />disastrous program - is not one they are currently prepared to use.<br /><br />So the question becomes, if not Congress, could the people themselves<br />restore constitutional government? A grassroots movement to abolish secret<br />government, to bring the CIA and other illegal spying operations and private<br />armies out of the closet of imperial power and into the light, to break the hold<br />of the military-industrial complex, and to establish genuine public financing of<br />elections may be at least theoretically conceivable. But given the<br />conglomerate control of the US mass media and the difficulties of mobilizing<br />America 's large and diverse population, such an opting for popular<br />democracy, as we remember it from our past, seems unlikely.<br /><br />It is possible that, at some future moment, the US military could actually<br />take over the government and declare a dictatorship (though its commanders<br />would undoubtedly find a gentler, more user-friendly name for it). That is,<br />after all, how the Roman republic ended - by being turned over to a populist<br />general, Julius Caesar, who had just been declared dictator for life. After<br />his assassination and a short interregnum, it was his grandnephew Octavian<br />who succeeded him and became the first Roman emperor, Augustus Caesar.<br /><br />The US military is unlikely to go that route. But one cannot ignore the fact<br />that professional military officers seem to have played a considerable role<br />in getting rid of their civilian overlord, secretary of defense Donald<br />Rumsfeld. The new directors of the CIA, its main internal branches, the<br />National Security Agency, and many other key organs of the "defense<br />establishment" are now military (or ex-military) officers, strongly<br />suggesting that the military does not need to take over the government to<br />control it. Meanwhile, the all-volunteer US Army has emerged as an ever more<br />separate institution in US society, its profile less and less like that of<br />the general populace.<br /><br />Nonetheless, military coups, however decorous, are not part of the US<br />tradition, nor that of the officer corps, which might well worry about how<br />the citizenry would react to a move toward open military dictatorship.<br />Moreover, prosecutions of low-level military torturers from Abu Ghraib<br />prison and killers of civilians in Iraq have demonstrated to enlisted troops<br />that obedience to illegal orders can result in dire punishment in a<br />situation where those of higher rank go free. No one knows whether ordinary<br />soldiers, even from what is no longer in any normal sense a citizen army,<br />would obey clearly illegal orders to oust an elected government or whether<br />the officer corps would ever have sufficient confidence to issue such<br />orders. In addition, the present system already offers the military high<br />command so much - in funds, prestige, and future employment via the famed<br />"revolving door" of the military-industrial complex - that a perilous<br />transition to anything like direct military rule would make little sense<br />under reasonably normal conditions.<br /><br />Whatever future developments may prove to be, my best guess is that the US<br />will continue to maintain a facade of constitutional government and drift<br />along until financial bankruptcy overtakes it. Of course, bankruptcy will<br />not mean the literal end of the US any more than it did for Germany in 1923,<br />China in 1948, or Argentina in 2001-02. It might, in fact, open the way for<br />an unexpected restoration of the US system - or for military rule,<br />revolution, or simply some new development we cannot yet imagine.<br /><br />Certainly, such a bankruptcy would mean a drastic lowering of Americans'<br />standard of living, a further loss of control over international affairs, a<br />sudden need to adjust to the rise of other powers, including China and<br />India, and a further discrediting of the notion that the United States is<br />somehow exceptional compared with other nations. We will have to learn what<br />it means to be a far poorer country - and the attitudes and manners that go<br />with it. As Anatol Lieven, author of America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of<br />American Nationalism, [1] observes:<br /><br />US global power, as presently conceived by the overwhelming majority of the<br />US establishment, is unsustainable ... The empire can no longer raise enough<br />taxes or soldiers, it is increasingly indebted, and key vassal states are no<br />longer reliable ... The result is that the empire can no longer pay for<br />enough of the professional troops it needs to fulfill its self-assumed<br />imperial tasks.<br /><br />Last February, the Bush administration submitted to Congress a US$439<br />billion defense appropriation budget for fiscal year 2007. As the country<br />enters 2007, the administration is about to present a nearly $100 billion<br />supplementary request to Congress just for the Iraq and Afghan wars. At the<br />same time, the deficit in the country's current account - the imbalance in<br />the trading of goods and services as well as the shortfall in all other<br />cross-border payments from interest income and rents to dividends and<br />profits on direct investments - underwent its fastest ever quarterly<br />deterioration.<br /><br />For 2005, the current-account deficit was $805 billion, 6.4% of national<br />income. In that year the US trade deficit, the largest component of the<br />current-account deficit, soared to an all-time high of $725.8 billion, the<br />fourth consecutive year that America 's trade debts set records. The trade<br />deficit with China alone rose to $201.6 billion, the highest imbalance ever<br />recorded with any country. Meanwhile, since mid-2000, the US has lost nearly<br />3 million manufacturing jobs.<br /><br />To try to cope with these imbalances, last March 16, Congress raised the<br />national debt limit from $8.2 trillion to $8.96 trillion. This was the<br />fourth time since George W Bush took office that it had to be raised. The<br />national debt is the total amount owed by the government and should not be<br />confused with the federal budget deficit, the annual amount by which federal<br />spending exceeds revenue. Had Congress not raised the debt limit, the US<br />government would not have been able to borrow more money and would have had<br />to default on its massive debts.<br /><br />Among the creditors that finance these unprecedented sums, the two largest<br />are the central banks of China (with $853.7 billion in reserves) and Japan<br />(with $831.58 billion in reserves), both of which are the managers of the<br />huge trade surpluses these countries enjoy with the United States. This<br />helps explain why America's debt burden has not yet triggered what standard<br />economic theory would dictate: a steep decline in the value of the US dollar<br />followed by a severe contraction of the US economy when Americans found we<br />could no longer afford the foreign goods we like so much. So far, both the<br />Chinese and Japanese governments continue to be willing to be paid in<br />dollars to sustain US purchases of their exports.<br /><br />For the sake of their own domestic employment, both countries lend huge<br />amounts to the US Treasury, but there is no guarantee of how long they will<br />want to, or be able to do so. Marshall Auerback, an international financial<br />strategist, says the US has become a "Blanche Dubois economy" (so named<br />after the leading character in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named<br />Desire) heavily dependent on "the kindness of strangers". Unfortunately, in<br />America 's case, as in Blanche's, there are ever fewer strangers willing to<br />support our illusions.<br /><br />So my own hope is that - if the American people do not find a way to choose<br />democracy over empire - at least our imperial venture will end not with a<br />nuclear bang but a financial whimper. From the present vantage point, it<br />certainly seems a daunting challenge for any president (or Congress) from<br />either party even to begin the task of dismantling the military-industrial<br />complex, ending the pall of "national security" secrecy and the "black<br />budgets" that make public oversight of what the government does impossible,<br />and bringing the president's secret army, the CIA, under democratic control.<br />It's evident that Nemesis - in Greek mythology the goddess of vengeance, the<br />punisher of hubris and arrogance - is already a visitor in the United<br />States, simply biding her time before she makes her presence known.<br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br />May 28-29, 2007 -- Neo-con cabal born in treason in the late 1970s. Lying, massive fraud, illegal weapons smuggling, forged documents . . . all sound like a description of the lead-up to the war in Iraq. However, this same situation existed in the late 1970s. Some of the same players who got this nation into the bloody quagmire of Iraq also criminally conspired to bring down the administration of President Jimmy Carter. President Carter's indignation about the neo-cons -- their blind support for Israel, their whittling away of our Constitution, our neo-con foreign policy -- is rooted in the treason they committed against the United States during his administration. There is no statute of limitations on treason and the neo-cons should face double barrel treason charges from incidents a generation apart.<br /><br />The neo-con attacks on President Carter were planned in the office of the late Democratic Senator from Washington, Henry "Scoop" Jackson. Jackson was the Joe Lieberman of his day -- more concerned about representing the interests of a defense contractor, Boeing (Lieberman represents the interests of General Dynamics), and the expansionists and military-intelligence complex of Israel (as does Lieberman). Jackson's treason against the United States is honored today in Britain, where the Henry Jackson Society pushes the neo-con agenda in the British Parliament and media. Jackson, his chief assistant, Richard Perle, and foreign and defense policy aides Frank Gaffney, William Kristol, Douglas Feith, and Elliott Abrams, as well as unofficial Jackson adviser Paul Wolfowitz, did everything possible to derail U.S.-Soviet detente and arms limitation treaties, including the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II). Jackson and Perle helped initiate sanctions against the USSR, at the expense of American farmers, with the help of Ohio Democratic Rep. Charles Vanik (the Jackson-Vanik sanctions act). Jackson's Coalition for a Democratic Majority (CDM) was the "Democratic Leadership Council" of its time. CDM worked tirelessly to damage President Carter and among its ranks were, in addition to Jackson, Texas Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen, Oklahoma Senator David Boren, Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, Louisiana Senator J. Bennett Johnston, Ben Wattenberg, Irving Kristol, Max Kampelman, Richard Pipes, John Roche, Samuel Huntington, and James Woolsey. In 1976, the CDM helped form the Committee on the Present Danger, reactivated in 2004 by Lieberman, Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl, Laurie Mylroie, Norman Podhoretz, Frank Gaffney, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Boeing, American Enterprise Institute, and the Heritage Foundation.<br /><br />The treason committed by these neo-cons against the Carter administration centered on machinations in Rome (Rome was also at the center of the later conspiracy to drive the United States into war in Iraq). Arch neo-con and foreign policy adviser to Karl Rove, Michael Ledeen, served as the Rome correspondent for The New Republic from 1975 to 1977 and a journalist for the right-wing Milan newspaper Il Giornale. In Rome, Ledeen cultivated close ties with neo-fascist groups.<br /><br />Jackson's and his staff's first documented case of treason against the United States concerned the leak of a Top Secret CIA report on the SALT talks by CIA nuclear weapons analyst Daniel S. Sullivan to Jackson and Perle in 1978. Sullivan, believing the Soviets deceived the U.S. in SALT talks, took it upon himself to pass Top Secret information to Jackson and his band of neo-cons. However, rather than being prosecuted, Sullivan was permitted to resign due to "insubordination," not illegally passing classified information to unauthorized persons. Sullivan later joined the staff of Senator Bentsen and received another Top Secret clearance as a member of Bentsen's staff. The conspiracy by Sullivan, Jackson, and the neo-cons to derail a major policy initiative of President Carter was not the only act of treason by these early neo-cons.<br /><br />However, the leak of the Top Secret SALT CIA document to Jackson may not have been the only leak to have taken place. In February 2005, the Everett (WA) Herald reported that five federal agents from the Departments of Defense and Energy removed several documents from the archived papers of Jackson housed at the University of Washington's Suzzallo-Allen Library. The seized documents were re-classified by the government. The retention by Jackson and his staff of top secret documents is reminiscent of the Larry Franklin-AIPAC case, in which Franklin, opposed to U.S. policy on Iran, passed a number of classified CIA documents to AIPAC and the Israeli embassy's Mossad station in Washington.<br /><br />Rather than being treated as the traitor he was, Jackson is today lauded by Democrats of various political stripes. His ideological descendants are at the core of the Republican pre-emptive strike foreign policy machinations.<br /><br />In 1976, two years after Secretary of State Henry Kissinger threatened then-Italian Foreign Minister Aldo Moro against forming a coalition with the Communists, Jackson, on a trip to Italy, issued a similar warning to Moro. In Phillip Willan's Puppetmasters, Moro's widow recounted Kissinger's warning, which was undoubtedly echoed by Jackson: "You must abandon your policy of bringing all the political forces in your country into direct collaboration . . . or you will pay dearly for it." Moro was kidnapped for 55 days by so-called Red Brigades, who were later found to be in the service of Italian fascists, Italian intelligence, the P-2 Masonic Lodge, a parallel SID [Italian Defense Intelligence Service], and the CIA. Some of these same elements would be behind the infamous Niger yellowcake forgeries used by the neo-cons to prove a case for war against Iraq.<br /><br />The same neo-con network would alter Mehmet Ali Agca, the would-be assassin of Pope John Paul II, from a right-wing member of the Turkish Gray Wolves to a Communist in the employ of the KGB and Bulgarian intelligence. The Judith Miller-like journalist in those days who spun the story about Agca's Soviet Bloc connections was Claire Sterling, whose disinformation was quickly picked up by The Reader's Digest, New York Times, NBC News, and other mainstream media outlets. Sterling's fellow disinformation journalist was Ledeen.<br /><br />Agca told a fantasy story about his orders to kill the Pope coming from a Bulgarian "control officer" and that he had also been involved in a plot to kill Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, and Malta's Prime Minister Dom Mintoff. In fact, there was a plot to overthrow and possibly kill Mintoff, Allende-style, but it was being crafted by U.S. Navy intelligence in conjunction with the neo-fascist and renegade Italian intelligence elements in Rome. The U.S. Navy wanted to overthrow Mintoff to gain access to its former NATO base on the island nation off the Libyan coast. Bourguiba was not popular with the neo-cons because he allowed Yasir Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization to maintain its headquarters-in-exile in Tunis.<br /><br />The Turkish Gray Wolves and the pan-Turkic National Action Party (NAP) made common cause with the neo-cons and their Israeli friends. The Wolves and the NAP considered the peoples of Soviet Central Asia to be "captive Turks." The Turkish right-wing nationalists foresaw a nuclear-armed Turkey extending from Thrace to the central Asian steppes. The anti-Soviet concordat between the Turkish right (and the Turkish intelligence agency MIT) and the neo-cons in America, Israel, and Italy would later serve as a basis for the political alliance between AIPAC and the American Turkish Council.<br /><br />Ledeen operated a right-wing cell in Rome that included Francesco Pazienza, an Italian businessman linked to P-2, Italian SISMI military intelligence chief General Giuseppe Santovito, and the mafia; P-2 "Venerable Master" Licio Gelli; and Banco Ambrosiano chief Roberto Calvi (later murdered Masonic ritual-style in London on Blackfriar's Bridge). Ledeen provided a conduit between this group and Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State Alexander Haig.<br /><br />In an attempt to embarrass President Carter during the 1980 presidential race, Santovito, Pazienza, and Ledeen conspired to entrap Bill Carter, the president's brother, into a business relationship with Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi. La Repubblica reported on the Italian investigation into the conspiracy:<br /><br />"The scandalous material was gathered mostly by Pazienza and by his American friend Michael Ledeen . . . Pazienza availed himself of SISMI both for the use of some secret agents and for the expenses of organizing the scandalous plan. It seems that the organizers got a huge payoff for "Billygate." Moreover, Santovito and Pazienza got great advantage in return from American officials, in fact, may have been helped in other obscure affairs. The "Billygate" operation did not come from SISMI's institutionally mandated task, and for that reason Judge Sica brought charges of pursuing private interests through official activities." [Translated in Diana Johnstone, "The Ledeen Connection," In These Times, Sept. 8-14, 1982].<br /><br />Rather than being charged and prosecuted for treason against the United States, Ledeen was rewarded with a consulting job for the State Department and Pentagon in the Reagan administration, a position from which he was free to continue his anti-American activities with fellow traitors from the Henry Jackson staff.<br /><br />While the traitors in the Washington office of Jackson and Ledeen in Rome were conspiring against President Carter, George H. W. Bush, Carter National Security Council staffer Robert Gates, and William Casey criminally conspired with the Ayatollah Khomeini's government to keep 52 hostages held in Tehran captive in return for the shipment of weapons. A meeting between Casey, Gates, and Bush and Iranian agents was held on October 19, 1980 in what became known as the "October Surprise." The deal was worked out using As WMR has previously reported, the CIA arranged a pre-election weapons shipment, unknown to President Carter, to Iran on the SS Poet from Chester, PA to Iran. The Poet was later disposed of along with its American crew by U.S. intelligence or those in its service. And what magazine later debunked the "October Surprise" story of a Bush-Casey treasonous deal with Iran? None other than Ledeen's old employer, The New Republic.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmNnHdYSu7Aa0dUuJKvAvk4_hqDePyqCkx6f6-hcNbLhq3SLxlueCraC6oLRWNbzPSyQ-Fw5I5WTvZ2ml8LOvoel5TFkS6Xgq0FFmSsEyoPfsZy_8_GileUpqGHTN2MHMbsqFHODl9AojC/s1600-h/bush-sr++CREEP.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmNnHdYSu7Aa0dUuJKvAvk4_hqDePyqCkx6f6-hcNbLhq3SLxlueCraC6oLRWNbzPSyQ-Fw5I5WTvZ2ml8LOvoel5TFkS6Xgq0FFmSsEyoPfsZy_8_GileUpqGHTN2MHMbsqFHODl9AojC/s400/bush-sr++CREEP.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5069641154553044386" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMIsfXOD1U_8IweLMWs-4CLwP7KcqAP0uRhM5zKxwIzFBvH6C_q-gqbmT0EDEk91ZCKUABpriw1mVfhHDOgRHoE6vZJoeEGYyp7e3HkNxdtMg8czOy6Z8VAFXaw1mXIdUsukgrtO0rqAmE/s1600-h/perle++R.+++MOSSAD.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMIsfXOD1U_8IweLMWs-4CLwP7KcqAP0uRhM5zKxwIzFBvH6C_q-gqbmT0EDEk91ZCKUABpriw1mVfhHDOgRHoE6vZJoeEGYyp7e3HkNxdtMg8czOy6Z8VAFXaw1mXIdUsukgrtO0rqAmE/s400/perle++R.+++MOSSAD.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5069640729351282066" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLTAOQt9FOKLq3Ls-DQX62ikwwMGCM5nn9u1f6PwoIoyZR5Gcfxbf8d2WrZnhvJbxyCra290S7cJsC-wU21rMqrrZU6wS_gymGSFm9dlgDih9jZouVQ454hvjy4nZQnceowsO6mNDLFkos/s1600-h/M.+Ledeen++MOSSAD.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLTAOQt9FOKLq3Ls-DQX62ikwwMGCM5nn9u1f6PwoIoyZR5Gcfxbf8d2WrZnhvJbxyCra290S7cJsC-wU21rMqrrZU6wS_gymGSFm9dlgDih9jZouVQ454hvjy4nZQnceowsO6mNDLFkos/s400/M.+Ledeen++MOSSAD.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5069640621977099650" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />1970s traitors to their country : Michael Ledeen as a P-2 fascist MOSSAD agent in Rome, Richard Perle, MOSSAD. George H. W. Bush... Creep in Chief<br /><br />May 28, 2007 -- Memorial Day. We, the American people, no longer have control over our elected officials. Republicans and Democrats have voted for war. We should give them no peace....<br /><br />There seems to be a common factor between these events, however, one can say that there are three substantial crises in which the world has been severely embroiled since the beginning of the new millennium. The current year that is about to end has been a milestone in the dynamics that can be summarized in: the crisis of the global financial system, the crisis of the international security system and the crisis of universal democratic expansion.<br />The first crisis, which is symbolized by the collapse of the monetary unit of the global capitalist economy, namely the dollar, in reality, exceeds being an important indicator and reflects a deep structural deadlock that has plagued the capitalist system from within. A set of successive studies had elaborated upon the magnitude of the threat that endangers the world economy. These studies include distinguished French economist Patrick Artus’ book ‘Le capitalisme est en train de s'autodétruire’ [Capitalism will Destruct Itself] and ‘Les Incendiaires’ as well as works by American economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz.<br /><br />I believe that the world today is on the brink of a crisis that would be worse than the crisis of 1929. Some of the indicators of this include: the rise of American debt to a rate of 230% of the Gross National Product, the financial collapse caused by the separation of financial liquidity from economic activity (the first signs of which appeared in the terrible experiences of Latin America in the eighties and in Asia in the nineties) as well as the simultaneous rise in the prices of oil and food that leads banks to raise interest rates, in addition to serious social ramifications.<br />I believe that the three mechanisms that allowed capitalism to contain its internal crises over the past sixty years are no longer effective. These three mechanisms include the social security system, the policy of monetary intervention that was developed by [John Maynard] Keynes to absorb external shocks and the policy of intensifying consumption by raising the wages of workers that was developed by the American Industrialist Ford.<br />As for the security crisis, it seems evident on three distinct levels, which are:<br />- The strategic impasse that was generated by the failure of traditional mechanisms to administer the international system and the inability to replace these mechanisms with effective ones so as to control new international relations that are no longer determined by the logic of the balance of power and the dualism of ally versus enemy.<br />- The failure of the strategy used in combating terrorism, which formed the theoretical and normative framework of the American vision that was aimed at combating the so-called balanced conflicts, in other words the structural link between religious extremism, rogue regimes and weapons of mass destruction.<br />- The international failure to contain internal conflicts that now form the most dangerous security challenge in most parts of the world. These conflicts have an obvious disastrous impact upon the nature of national entities and the relationship within nationalities, cultures and sects in a way that allows for discussion on the growing threat of “universal civil conflict”.<br />As for the crisis of democratic expansion, this is evident through the failure of various attempts of transformation and political openness that once appeared to be promising in the post-Cold War era, which was widely considered the era of democracy’s triumph and the defeat of tyranny and totalitarian regimes.<br />What we are clearly witnessing today is the emergence of new models of governance that use the mechanisms of free elections and open media to tighten the unilateral grip on power by focusing upon the wealth brought in from revenues from raw materials and oil, as is the case in Putin’s regime in Russia and Chavez’s regime in Venezuela. These regimes may also depend upon security-financial networks that establish new forms of oligarchic regimes which in turn are not impeded by the democracy’s formal mechanism of transformation of power, as is the case with a number of regimes in Eastern Europe and Africa. Such transformation poses fundamental questions over the efficacy of the procedural dimension of democracy in ensuring public freedoms outside the context of liberal environments. This in turn could result in the emergence of patterns of “soft” dictatorships as expressed by great French philosopher Jacques Derrida who asserted upon the automatic tendency of democracy to deconstruct.<br /><br /><br /><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Frenzy in France Over "Iranian Threat"</strong></span><br /><br /><strong>By Diana Johnstone<br /><br /></strong>http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/424/2/<br /><br /><em>For a long time, there has been an unwritten law that only Jews (at risk of being called "self-hating") may criticize Zionism. But things have gone too far. This aggressive paranoia of Israel is not just a "Jewish question", it is dragging the whole world into disaster. </em><br /><br /><strong>02/07/06 "<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/johnstone02062007.html">Counterpunch</a>" --- - F</strong>our years ago, French President Jacques Chirac saw the Iraq disaster looming and openly warned against it. It was by far the best thing he ever did in his political life, and he is not to be allowed to do it again.<br /><br />Today another, potentially even greater disaster is looming as Israel and the United States ostentatiously prepare to bomb Iran on the pretext of preventing "a second holocaust". But this time around there is a curious absence of the public opposition and mass protest demonstrations that preceded the 2003 invasion of Iraq.<br /><br />It is as though the enormity of events and the comforts of daily life have caused the Western world to give up thinking about grave matters and to take refuge in officially inspected and approved platitudes. Debate is replaced by an alarm system that sends up cries of scandal at any deviation from the accepted discourse.<br /><br />In France, where people pay a lot of attention to words, the denunciation of verbal heresy even goes so far as enacting laws punishing politically incorrect speech.<br /><br />But the more commonplace type of censorship was illustrated this week by an essentially trivial incident. During a presidential press briefing at the Elysée palace devoted to the Paris conference on climate change, a New York Times journalist changed the subject to ask the French President about the Iranian nuclear threat. Chirac began with the standard official "International Community" line, namely that Tehran's refusal to give up its uranium enrichment program was "very dangerous". But then, Chirac (thinking, he explained later, that he was speaking off the record) gave in to the temptation to speak honestly. For Iran to have a nuclear weapon was not really so dangerous, he said. To make his point, he asked rhetorically what good it would do Iran to have a nuclear bomb, or even two. "Where would it fire that bomb? At Israel? It wouldn't have traveled 200 meters through the atmosphere before Tehran would be razed."<br /><br />The real danger was nuclear proliferation, he added.<br /><br />Chirac even went so far as to suggest that Iran had a motive for its nuclear research, including its fear of being "challenged or threatened by the international community. And the international community, who is that? It's the United States."<br /><br />The alarm bells went off. The "scandal" of Chirac's politically incorrect remarks was the top front page news story in both U.S. and French newspapers.<br /><br />In themselves, Chirac's remarks hardly merited such a fuss. But the reaction was significant.<br /><br />First of all, it showed that the French President, a lame duck in the midst of an election campaign to replace him, is too isolated to be able to oppose war against Iran as he opposed war against Iraq. The media are there to shoot him down before he gets off the ground, first of all the newspapers that continue to enjoy the label "leftist", "left-leaning" or "center-left" -- mainly Libération and Le Monde -- but which in reality have become the guardians of Atlanticist orthodoxy (devotion to a "European unity" closely tied to the United States). Chirac's own political party was snatched away from him by his ambitious enemy Nicolas Sarkozy, who has publicly criticized Chirac's departure from the American fold over the war against Iraq. Sarkozy's demonstrations of devotion to Washington and Tel Aviv have won him the enthusiastic support of the organized Jewish community, increasingly inspired by the U.S. pro-Israel lobby.<br /><br />Deeply distrustful of Gaullism, the French Jewish community has traditionally been close to the Socialists. It was indeed a Socialist government whose secret cooperation with Israel's nuclear program was discovered, and terminated, by de Gaulle when he took office in 1958. But Ségolene Royal was not the Socialist Party candidate favored by major Jewish organizations (they preferred the very pro-Israel Dominique Strauss-Kahn) and will have a hard time competing with Sarkozy for their favors on the Middle East issue, even though she has declared that Iran has "no right" not only to a nuclear bomb, but even to civilian nuclear power plants.<br /><br />The Socialists can find nothing better to do than to crow over Chirac's "blunder". The French left in general has never seen the point of supporting Chirac's action in keeping France out of the Iraq quagmire. From the viewpoint of the sectarian left (and the French left, in its countless splinters, is incurably sectarian), what matters is not to do the right thing but to do whatever one does for the right motives -- and a conservative politician like Chirac is by definition incapable of doing anything for the right motives.<br /><br />Four years ago, there were huge demonstrations against the impending war against Iraq. Today, as Israel and the United States gear up to attack Iran, nothing.<br /><br />Four years ago, the German Chancellor was Social Democrat Gerhard Schroeder who did the right thing, for whatever motives, so that the core of "old Europe" (Germany, France and Belgium) was able to take a united stand against the U.S. war plans. Today, the German Chancellor is Angela Merkel, who is as devoted to Washington as she was to Moscow when she began her political career in East Germany before the wall came down.<br /><br /><br /><strong>No debate on Iran</strong><br /><br />Not only is there no audible or visible movement of opposition to war against Iran, there is no real debate or discussion that does not rest on the officially approved assumption that Iran's nuclear program is a "threat". If there were such a discussion, it could include reference to the following elements:<br /><br />1. Possible Iranian motives for nuclear development other than unleashing a holocaust. These would be similar to those of the late Shah of Iran, an ally of Israel, who was eager to develop nuclear power. Iran might well wish to use its oil revenues to prepare for power needs once the oil boom is over. This is all the more plausible amid recent reports of declining output in the Iranian oil industry. And today, faced with global warming, nuclear power, like it or not, can be defended as ecological.<br /><br />2. The role of nuclear deterrence. Chirac's remarks were merely a reminder of France's own nuclear defense doctrine: deterrence. The old Cold War doctrine of "mutually assured destruction" (MAD) was never a popular favorite, but it nevertheless worked. Since Israel possesses a considerable nuclear arsenal, if Iran had nuclear weapons too, Israel would lose its advantage, but the result would reasonably be merely another case of mutual deterrence. That is what Chirac was driving at. But this cannot be discussed.<br /><br />3. The significance of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "threats to Israel". This has two sides, the actual meaning of Ahmadinejad's words, and the way they are exploited by Israel and its champions.<br /><br />(1) The first part has been thoroughly analyzed by the Iranian artist Arash Norouzi, a political opponent of Ahmadinejad, on his web site The Mossadegh Project. The statement and its word for word English translation are as follows:<br /><br />"Imam (Khomeiny) ghoft (said) een (this) rezhim-e (regime) ishghalgar-e (occupying) qods (Jerusalem) bayad (must) az safheh-ye ruzgar (from page of time) mahv shavad (vanish from)."<br /><br />So, Ahmadinejad was quoting a statement made by his mentor Imam Khomeiny, who died in 1989 without ever lifting a finger to destroy Israel. It should be obvious that the statement is an opinion, not a threat, and addresses not the people who live in Israel but the Zionist "regime" which occupies Jerusalem. Coming from a Muslim religious leader, this opinion is doubtless based on objection to Jewish monopoly of a city considered holy by all three of the Abramic monotheisms.<br /><br />Ahmadinejad seems to enjoy verbal provocation, but words, however offensive, are only words. The fact is that Iran has not attacked another country in over 250 years and shows no interest in doing so. As for the United States and Israel...<br /><br />(2) Now to the second part: the receiving end of these "threats". Ahmadinejad is portrayed as the latest "Hitler" determined to wipe poor little Israel off the map in order to kill all the Jews and then, who knows, conquer the world. A little bit more uranium enrichment, and we'll all be dead.<br /><br />It is difficult to believe that anyone takes this seriously, but just about everyone in public life in the West feels obliged to act as if this were real.<br /><br />Why?<br /><br />A cynical answer could be that U.S. and Israeli leaders are looking for another pretext to start another war aimed at renovating the Middle East in ways that ensure eternal control of petroleum resources as well as the regional supremacy of Israel as the only country in the neighborhood still left intact.<br /><br /><br /><strong>A dangerous persecution complex</strong><br /><br />This may be a factor, but there is another factor, less material and more psychological, that increasingly invades political life in Europe and the United States: a certain spreading pathology of persecution in what is called "the Jewish community", meaning a part of the Jewish population, and in particular the organizations that claim to represent it. The Jewish population of France, which has played an important role in the country's intellectual, economic and political life for centuries, has been shifting politically from the left to the right, mainly because of its attachment to Israel. Given the community's vitality and influence, this has an impact on the political life of the country as a wholeThis mutation is noticeable at all levels of society. It is a cause for concern among many who do not dare to mention it, for fear of being stigmatized as anti-Semitic. But is it "anti-Semitism" to try to tell Jewish people that they are not hated, that they are appreciated and even loved, and that the notion that non-Jews are just waiting for the next opportunity to exterminate them is both unjust to others and harmful to themselves?<br /><br />The hysteria over Iran, which may lead to a disastrous war that will be lost by everyone, reminiscent of the First World War of 1914-1918, is visibly fed by the dominance within the Jewish community, and indeed beyond it in the West as a whole, of the "duty of memory", meaning, to be precise, a constant, repetitive recollection of the holocaust as the defining moment of the twentieth century, and perhaps even of human history.<br /><br />It is enough to attend a meeting of moderate, middle class Parisian Jews to perceive this transformation. The same sort of educated, well-to-do people who not so long ago were at the forefront of universal social concern, are now centering their political preferences on the question: what is best for Israel? The terrible irony is that the more brutal Israel's policies become, provoking growing hostility to Israel, the more these good people feel not only that they must defend Israel tooth and nail, but that every criticism of Israel is a threat against themselves.<br /><br />This is dividing French society itself. The vast majority of the non-immigrant French population, especially on the left, feel close to Jewish friends, admire the many outstanding Jewish people in all fields, consider Jewish people so much a part of France that they usually neither know nor care who is Jewish and who is not -- and if ever they retain an atavistic trace of ancestral anti-Semitism, this is extinguished by reminders of guilt for the holocaust.<br /><br />Reminders of guilt abound. As a recent example, although the majority of French Jewish children were saved from Nazi deportation, plaques are being placed on schools as a reminder of the number of Jewish children who were deported. In these same schools, the commemorations of the annual holocaust day become increasingly elaborate.<br /><br />What is the effect on the children? This sets Jewish children apart in a way that is likely to give them a sense of insecurity and distrust. As for the children of immigrants from African and Arab countries, this stimulates an unhealthy competition in victimism. The reflection is almost inevitable: so Jews suffered over sixty years ago, but today, Arabs are suffering in Palestine and in Iraq, and who cares? Why are some people eternal victims while others don't count?<br /><br />As the official Jewish community has moved to the right, the right has moved toward the community. On the far right, the "vieille France" candidate Philippe de Villiers attempts to outdo Jean-Marie Le Pen by denouncing "the Islamization of France" and ardently courting the Jewish community, whose right wing also benefits from the flattering attentions of Le Pen's daughter and possible successor Marine. Such positioning stimulates anti-Jewish resentment among immigrant youth in the disinherited banlieues. One form of paranoia leads to another.<br /><br /><br /><strong>What is the danger?</strong><br /><br />To get back to the supposed threat to Israel from Iran, a most interesting comment from Israeli Deputy Defense minister Ephraim Sneh was cited by Seymour Hersh in his November 21, 2006 piece in The New Yorker on the possibility of a U.S. attack on Iran. Expressing skepticism about the possibility of influencing Iran by diplomatic means, Sneh said:<br /><br />"The danger isn't as much Ahmadinejad's deciding to launch an attack but Israel's living under a dark cloud of fear from a leader committed to its destruction... Most Israelis would prefer not to live here; most Jews would prefer not to come here with families, and Israelis who live can live abroad will... I am afraid Ahmadinejad will be able to kill the Zionist dream without pushing a button."<br /><br />This is truly an amazing statement that deserves careful attention. The Israeli official is suggesting that a war should be launched against a country, not because of what it may do, but because the fear of what it may do risks "killing the Zionist dream". This suggests that the fear of another holocaust, which has been the main argument for Zionism for half a century, is turning around to destroy Zionism itself.<br /><br />But are we to plunge the world into war to "save the Zionist dream"? Isn't there some other way for Jews to live in the world without fear of genocide? Indeed, hasn't Zionist Israel become the greatest threat to Jews, by attaching them to the fate of a brutal state which is arousing the growing indignation of the world by its treatment of the Palestinians?<br /><br />For a long time, there has been an unwritten law that only Jews (at risk of being called "self-hating") may criticize Zionism. But things have gone too far. This aggressive paranoia of Israel is not just a "Jewish question", it is dragging the whole world into disaster. Those of us who are not Jewish also have to speak up and say to our Jewish friends:<br /><br />"We don't want to kill you, but we don't want to die for your Jewish State either. We are all human beings, and we refuse to plunge the world into war to preserve distinctions of identity that may mean a lot to you, but don't mean much of anything to us."<br /><br />Diana Johnstone lives in Paris. She can be reached at dianajohnstone@compuserve.com<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>Link to this page: http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/424/2/</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><!-- JOM COMMENT START --><!-- Trackback Title--><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />*******************************************************************<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Examples of grieving Brave American Soldiers, Defying BUSH's Orders.</span><br />*******************************************************************<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Maronite Patriarch Elias Hoyek, a man of Honor, Integrity, dedication and courage.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLDfxS5JQYMoqIFomH_PcjSXK3s_jXqKbi_Xz44hxZc63ushVIJjI0HU_YA01PkFHPKoSIdV3VS9LCf5oJZlMIucJN8tB9WJHtGUSNLAMCJgX15fnxnkpl14wsosD4DEban5GLiVXL4Z4/s1600-h/Maronite+Patriarch+Elias+Hoyek.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjve2XFMUmf4qhQge61YIZzD78ui81R8xvnRRF8ZR_ev0qXA9p0ggE6PJc7zUVVWs8suKE5I35R6Bcn0BhWlCAYvqu4qHh72k-B1lRFeQh5cfelHjB6PKj6TACvtNg88WjtokuO8LYtSDY/s400/Imperial+Hubris.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060269310816469602" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Truthout - Feb 12, 2007<br /><a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021207S.shtml">http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021207S.shtml</a><br /><br /><br />Watada Follows Military Rules on Dissent<br /><br />Mistrial declared as Army's case flounders<br /><br />By Colonel (Retired) Ann Wright<br /><br />Courage is not only shown on the battlefield by military personnel.<br />It takes guts and courage for a soldier to refuse to deploy to Iraq with<br />one's unit because he believes the war is illegal. Very few in our<br />country resign from their careers, much less risk imprisonment, on a<br />point of principle and conscience.<br /><br />First Lt. Ehren Watada is the latest in a series of war resisters.<br />He went in front of a military court-martial for his belief that the war<br />in Iraq is a war of aggression based on untruths told to the American<br />public and Congress. As a war of aggression, Watada has characterized<br />the war as a crime against peace, and hence, according to international<br />law, a war crime. Going to Iraq would make him complicit in a war crime.<br />Two other US Army soldiers will be court-martialed within the next month<br />for their opposition to the Iraq War, making seventeen who have faced<br />jail rather than compromise their conscience.<br /><br />I attended Lieutenant Watada's general court-martial February 5, 6<br />and 7, 2007, at Fort Lewis, Washington. The military law judge, Lt. Col.<br />John Head, declared a mistrial on the third day of the trial before the<br />defense had presented its case. While Watada stipulated the fact that he<br />missed his unit's deployment to Iraq, he pled not guilty to the charge,<br />as he maintained he did not have criminal intent in refusing to deploy,<br />but instead his refusal was to prevent his complicity in a war crime. As<br />to the stipulation of fact that he had spoken in a public forum in June<br />and August, he would argue that his statements about the illegality of<br />the war were based on facts provided by international law experts,<br />Congressional testimony and comments by retired general officers.<br /><br />The defense was to consist of only two witnesses, one of whom was to<br />be Watada himself. Eight witnesses, including leading international war<br />experts and analysts, had been struck from the defense witness list by<br />the judge in a January 2007 pre-trial hearing. The judge ruled that<br />evidence concerning the legality of the war on Iraq was off-limits<br />during the trial. As one can imagine, the courtroom dance of not<br />mentioning the "ultimate question," of whether a soldier can question<br />the legality of a war, proved to be an incredible obstacle to justice in<br />the case of a military officer facing prison time for his beliefs.<br /><br />The US Army prosecution called only three witnesses to meet its<br />burden of providing evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Lieutenant<br />Watada had failed to deploy to Iraq and had committed conduct<br />"unbecoming an officer" for public statements about the war on Iraq he<br />made in June and August 2006.<br /><br />Ironically, in my opinion, the testimony of the prosecution<br />witnesses underscored Lieutenant Watada's professionalism, dedication to<br />duty and respect for the chain of command as he attempted to resolve his<br />ethical and moral concerns about the war. In effect, prosecution<br />witnesses undercut the prosecution's own case against Watada before the<br />jury panel of seven US Army officers.<br /><br />Prosecution witness Richard Swain, a retired US Army colonel and<br />currently professor of "Officership" at the US Military Academy, West<br />Point, said that an officer is under no obligation to obey unlawful<br />orders. An officer is charged with the responsibility of making a<br />determination whether an order is lawful or unlawful. According to<br />Swain, when an officer believes that an order conflicts with his<br />responsibility as an officer, he must do what his conscience tells him.<br />But, the officer must be willing to be held accountable if he is wrong<br />in his analysis of the order. Swain said that the military teaches<br />officers to be "creative and critical thinkers." He also said that an<br />officer takes an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States,<br />not a particular person or policy.<br /><br />Swain said in one's career, an officer may come to different<br />conclusions than his/her commander on an issue. Swain said that military<br />tradition requires that the officer attempt first to work out the<br />difference with his commander. Swain added that an officer may get<br />advice from his peers, officers he respects, mentors and military<br />lawyers on the issue under debate. He may also go to the next higher<br />commander for resolution of the differences or to the Inspector General.<br />If none of those attempts to resolve the differences are successful,<br />Swain said, the officer may "appeal for redress" or submit his<br />resignation. If an officer offers to resign on principle on a particular<br />issue and the resignation is not accepted, then, Swain noted, the oath<br />continues.<br /><br />It appears to me that Lieutenant Watada explicitly followed the<br />principles of "officership" as described by Colonel Swain, the<br />prosecution expert witness.<br /><br />In the autumn of 2005, upon learning of his unit's scheduled<br />deployment to Iraq in June 2006, Watada, on the advice of his commander,<br />began reading about Iraq and the war. As more and more information<br />emerged in late 2005 on the history of the Bush administration's<br />decision to wage war on Iraq, Watada became convinced that the war was<br />illegal. He talked with his battalion and brigade commanders about his<br />concerns in January 2006 and sent them a formal letter of his views on<br />January 25, 2006, six months before the unit's scheduled deployment to<br />Iraq. His commanders advised him, that despite his concern on the<br />illegality of the war, the unit's deployment orders were lawful. Watada<br />respectfully disagreed with his superiors' assessment and twice<br />submitted requests for resignation. Because of the strength of his<br />concerns about the war, his commanders reassigned him from his platoon<br />in anticipation that he really would refuse to deploy with the unit.<br />After his second request to resign was denied by his commanders and his<br />request to be assigned to a unit in Afghanistan was denied, he decided<br />he must make his concerns public.<br /><br />His commanders told him they would rather he not make public<br />statements, but if he did, he could not make statements in uniform or<br />on-base, and that he must be respectful of the chain of command.<br />Additionally, they told him he must talk with the public affairs officer<br />at Fort Lewis. After the conversation with his commanders, Watada went<br />directly to that office for further guidance.<br /><br />In his testimony for the prosecution, Watada's battalion commander,<br />Lieutenant Colonel Antonia, said that "a soldier has an obligation to<br />determine if an order is unlawful, a criminally illegal order." He added<br />that "the chain of command looks at an order and makes a decision on<br />whether it is legal or not. If the chain of command says the order is<br />legal, then the officer must obey." Antonia said when Watada went<br />public, he, Antonia, was "angry and felt betrayed by Watada's opinions<br />and his statement that he would rather go to jail than serve in an<br />illegal war." Antonia questioned how a lieutenant in the Army would know<br />whether the president made a decision to go to war based on lies. When<br />defense attorney Eric Seitz asked Antonia if Watada was citing the same<br />evidence about the war that was being publicly discussed by retired<br />generals, congressmen and women, the judge told Seitz to "move on," that<br />he was bringing up an issue too close to the "ultimate question."<br /><br />Despite his concerns about the war from July 2005 to June 2006, his<br />battalion and brigade commanders said he performed his duties in a<br />professional manner, including participating in his unit's<br />pre-deployment training at the National Training Center (NTC) in March<br />2006. He had followed the instructions and advice provided by his<br />command. He was speaking publicly, but under the guidance of the Fort<br />Lewis public affairs officer.<br /><br />After returning from training at NTC, the Army recognized that<br />Watada was serious and sincere in his decision not to go to Iraq. His<br />unit commander had him reassigned from a platoon leader position to a<br />staff job so that Watada's platoon would have time to bond with its new<br />leader.<br /><br />Watada's battalion and deputy brigade commander said that Watada's<br />actions did not negatively affect the unit, although there was much<br />discussion in the unit about Watada's decision not to deploy and his<br />public statements. No other soldier in the unit followed Watada's<br />example to decide not to deploy with the unit to Iraq. No other soldier<br />went public with concerns about the war. As happens in every war, for<br />most soldiers, bonds among friends going to war overcome whatever<br />political discussions and debates rage about the war itself. Only<br />seventeen military personnel will have been court-martialed for refusing<br />to deploy to Iraq. Hundreds have been administratively discharged, and<br />over 300 soldiers are in Canada in protest of the war in Iraq.<br /><br />The Army's case against Lieutenant Watada is a mess. The testimony<br />of the prosecution's own witnesses made a strong case for Lieutenant<br />Watada's professionalism and respect for military customs, courtesy and<br />traditions when one dissents from a policy.<br /><br />As an old soldier with nearly three decades of service, I suggest<br />that the "good order and discipline" of the Army has not been negatively<br />affected by Lieutenant Watada's actions. Until his unit deployed to Iraq<br />on June 22, Watada had not disobeyed an order from his command. He did<br />not go AWOL. After he was charged, he worked professionally and<br />diligently everyday while awaiting his court-martial.<br /><br />I urge the Army to let the lieutenant, who has acted in good faith,<br />with courtesy and respect for the military and responsibility for his<br />oath to the military and to the country, resign.<br /><br />[US Army Reserves (Retired) Colonel Ann Wright served 13 years on<br />active duty and 16 years in the reserves. She was a US diplomat who<br />served in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan,<br />Micronesia, Sierra Leone and Mongolia. She helped reopen the US Embassy<br />in Kabul, Afghanistan in December, 2001. She resigned from the US<br />diplomatic corps in March, 2003 in opposition to the Bush<br />administration's war on Iraq. Her letter of resignation can be read at<br /><a href="http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0303/032103wright.htm">www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0303/032103wright.htm</a> ]<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">An Oath Every Soldier Swears To God With.<br />*************************************************<br />{ Beware of crude language } copied as is .<br />**************************************************<br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />/ / she told The Nation. "If I contribute to the Army's<br />prosecution of Lieutenant Watada on speech-related charges, I<br />will have colluded in suppression of speech. What could be<br />more hostile to the ideas of a free press than that?" \ \<br /><br />Again a Patriot Soldier whose only crime is that he refuses to<br />commit a crime in Your name. Do something about it. You<br />defend this Patriot American Citizen as if Your America<br />depends upon it. The "Judge" who publicly forbids to hear<br />Watada's freedom defense, an Oath every Soldier swears to God<br />with, is a "Judge" who needs to be privately arrested for<br />treason against YOURSELF. Support my call to demand our<br />voices heard for Just causes, or go die silently to the grave<br />prisonized in a military dictatorship your 'neighbor' will say<br />quietly of, (under his bushite breath,) good riddance to<br />caring where my pusher's overdue payment goes to??. who the<br />kcuf are you?? ... Eiiiaaahh!<br /><br /><br />I am the real thing,<br /><br />President and CEO of Shareware Earth Co.,<br />King Johnny Wizard<br /><br />-<br /><br />- On yet another, praise be with US, Alex Jones News Podcast -<br /><br />Bob Watada: "He did his own research, and he found that there<br />was not only deception, but clearly lying by the commander.<br />Now if YOUR boss lied to you, and put YOU out on the line, so<br />that you can get KILLED, what would you do? You know, your<br />certainly not going to walk out there... and this is what<br />[Patriot] Aaron is saying, hey look Our Commander lied, and<br />he's lying to the People. and We, the Soldiers, can not go<br />out there and put OUR lives at risk for the oil-barons."<br /><br />..by enforcing the irrationalities of 'who needs evidence'<br />tyranny against the innocent as America Dreams. [I shouldn't<br />have to tell you anyway, but, freedoms are crying due to The<br />People's in-action to defend US innocent. And we wonder why<br />repuglicons put themselves greater than our, no greater<br />Taliban.. Corporate News Americans who are, in silence, not<br />taking sides regarding American Women, [MY BABES], acquiescing<br />to accept these mercury vaccines without filling questions.<br />Without QUESTIONS! Your Loves, my Loves, God's Loves.<br />Support my calls to be heard yourself. If your a Male, and<br />confusedly dumbfounded as I am on the mystery, just think of<br />yourself perhaps as a, free as a bird lesbian with rights to<br />be respected too - through the foolish spots with lost<br />yourself cycles on who truly Masters our Universe slaveboy,<br />[i know women can be intimidating. (especially.. the Black<br />Widow and old re-runs of the Shirley Temple.)] and get US<br />personally in the what is again, Our still hanging on<br />international News already! We all can agree, we love women.<br />Let's go Coast to Coast man! On CNN! CBC!! FOXNEWS!!!<br /><br />The Fight for Survival slog match between, Johnny 'just tying<br />his shoes' America, and Warmonger Liar, Sean Hannity -<br />televised World-Wide!!! With Cheerleaders, beer, pizza, and<br />beer! YEAH WAY!!!<br /><br />Who's with Me?<br /><br /><br />(chirp chirp)<br /><br />It has been reported that some special ops out of Britain are<br />paying for terrorist attacks to happen in Iraq to insure more<br />Americans give their lives in praise - as criminally<br />sacrificed - to the demon antichrist, Our Mr. bush Jr.. All<br />unjustly suffering because corporate news america cowardly<br />refuse to defend freedom, by defending the truly innocent.<br />Nor, will Coast to Coast allow me to speak on "American"<br />radio. Let's change that. Will you make it so Commander?<br /><br />Cause I'm ready.<br /><br />-<br /><br />A Public Letter to the "American" Coast to Coast Radio Network:<br /><br /><br />1. We, as the People, demand you allow US, the human species<br />to openly discuss the public evidence on who funded the<br />terrorist acts of 911 according to the FBI. And full<br />disclosure on the science of building Seven.<br /><br />2. That the Iraq war never had, nor ever will have a<br />justification, concluding Naturally, that all stolen Iraqi<br />money must be returned by the will of GOD to the victims; with<br />those responsible for stealing it, made to pay US back, with<br />the true American Patriots to be found, backing US up 100<br />percent. The bush administration has teamed our kids to<br />mercenary forces who have no loyalty to freedom but to freely<br />die another Marine for more dying stolen values. While<br />successful at it corporate America, just lies and lies and<br />lies without shame, nor apology for the death of your poor<br />cowardly kin.<br /><br />3. Also, that mercury tainted vaccines are deadly stupid.<br />Mercury is scientifically understood, without question, (no<br />doubt) to be a neural-toxin, and, Influenza is a constantly<br />mutating virus. So, pre-determining which 'deadly' strain is<br />going next, is only because the WHO wants to continue killing<br />US for huge cash profit. With cult slaves, like those who<br />forced Jones Towners to drink at gun point, are the same as<br />those who now demand we give our girls of America from Texas<br />such. It seems the magic TV news people don't want to trouble<br />us on this matter of our actual survival.<br /><br />You must wake up to life's demand for you to defend our dying<br />lives my friend. Please? Make the call, be a man to defend<br />our women. Be a man to protect our children.<br /><br />(all aside; just because a virus is found present in a form of<br />cancer inflicting our loved women, does not make that virus<br />the cause without question. Life is multi-dimensional. (Not<br />Art Bell "multi-dimensional", but actual.) Otherworld: Johnny<br />Wizard wants the time to see the 'science' of such claims<br />before God's girls are put in un-necessary jeopardy by the<br />deviant mind of the evil neoconistic Zionist betrayers to<br />Human Life.<br /><br />Support our call to be heard my brother.<br /><br /><a href="http://twincities.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/christ_wars_bushite_enemies_for_the_love_of_our_living_god.mp3">http://twincities.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/christ_wars_bushite_enemies_for_the_love_of_our_living_god.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://nhindymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/christ_wars_bushite_enemies_for_the_love_of_our_living_god.mp3">http://nhindymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/christ_wars_bushite_enemies_for_the_love_of_our_living_god.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://newmexico.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/02/christ_wars_bushite_enemies_for_the_love_of_our_living_god.mp3">http://newmexico.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/02/christ_wars_bushite_enemies_for_the_love_of_our_living_god.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://neworleans.media.indypgh.org/uploads/2007/02/christ_wars_bushite_enemies_for_the_love_of_our_living_god.mp3">http://neworleans.media.indypgh.org/uploads/2007/02/christ_wars_bushite_enemies_for_the_love_of_our_living_god.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://pr.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/02/christ_wars_bushite_enemies_for_the_love_of_our_living_god.mp3">http://pr.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/02/christ_wars_bushite_enemies_for_the_love_of_our_living_god.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://richmond.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/christ_wars_bushite_enemies_for_the_love_of_our_living_god.mp3">http://richmond.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/christ_wars_bushite_enemies_for_the_love_of_our_living_god.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://arkansas.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/christ_wars_bushite_enemies_for_the_love_of_our_living_god.mp3">http://arkansas.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/christ_wars_bushite_enemies_for_the_love_of_our_living_god.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/uploads/christ_wars_bushite_enemies_for_the_love_of_our_living_god.mp3">http://melbourne.indymedia.org/uploads/christ_wars_bushite_enemies_for_the_love_of_our_living_god.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://imctj.espora.org/uploads/2007/02/christ_wars_bushite_enemies_for_the_love_of_our_living_god.mp3">http://imctj.espora.org/uploads/2007/02/christ_wars_bushite_enemies_for_the_love_of_our_living_god.mp3</a><br /><br />That's all.<br /><br />Johnny Wizard<br /><br />-<br /><br />Iran prepares first nuke strike<br /><a href="http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2007/january/01_15_2.html">http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2007/january/01_15_2.html</a><br /><br />See?, demons exist!<br /><br />-<br /><br />/ / State Department spokesman on 24 January, "that Iranian<br />agents are involved in these networks and that they are<br />working with individuals and groups in Iraq and are being sent<br />there by the Iranian government." \ \<br /><br />We all know Iran has been trying to help Iraqis openly, so<br />then, what does such willful contempt for your life grant this<br />'spokesman'? Or, how about when Bush stated Iranians in Iraq<br />deserved to be murdered? (Later, the demon re-worded<br />himself in attempt to conceal HIS true evil identity.)<br /><br />Remember the Bathists actually warred to kill and won against<br />al-CIA-duh forces that were caught hiding in Kurdish<br />territory. Killed "bin Laden"/bushite forces! Now, bushite<br />tell US Sunni is in kahoots with Laden. (In otherwords, Kill<br />a cowardly enemy of Life bushite for America to defend Iraqis<br />as a godly act.) Death to the bushite, death to our enemies.<br /><br />/ / Tariq Aziz, the Christian Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister<br />said in mid September that Baghdad had provided assistance to<br />America's Kurdish allies, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan<br />(PUK), when forces supported by al Qaeda attacked them. He<br />said, ``We gave [Jalal] Talibani [leader of the PUK] weapons<br />and ammunition, we helped as much as we could. We are not<br />allowed of course to go into what is called the<br />semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan physically, but the help<br />we gave helped Talibani in his fight for it.'' In fact, added<br />Aziz, ``Talibani was among the opposition leaders who went to<br />Washington and spoke to Dick Cheney [US Vice-President] and<br />Rumsfeld. He told them what had happened, so they [US<br />government officials] must know.'' [Independent 9/23/02] \ \<br /><br /><br />-<br /><br />/ / The truly most as the living god King of all as Creator,<br />your servant and trying to be friend, a wizard and Thor,<br />the Secret Flower and Odin, Allah, Omega, Adam, Alpha,<br />Krishna, Shiva, Mithra, Mahdi, Anu and Yahweh. And even<br />a blade of grass, a snake and a elephant, a lion, rat,<br />monkey, giraffe, spider, shark, wolf, and bat, Lucifer<br />Morningstar, Jesus Christ, Oberon, an all mighty nobody<br />kinda even all ready. \ \<br /><br />-<br /><br />/ / Google bombs are one thing, delisting web sites for their<br />political content is quite another. For instance, take Google<br />delisting the Italian web site Uruknet as a news source, thus<br />removing it from the Google News page. According to Alexa,<br />the web-ranking organization, Uruknet is highly rated as an<br />Iraqi news source. "URUKNET is and has been the most<br />consistent, credible, and powerful web-based source of News<br />and Information on Iraq during the last 4 years. They have<br />incomparable lines of communication direct from inside Iraq<br />that fly in the face of the lies of the Global Corporate<br />Empire. \ \<br /><br />Reject censorship of the news! Let Google know what you think!<br /><a href="http://www.uruknet.de/protesta-google.php">http://www.uruknet.de/protesta-google.php</a><br /><br />-<br /><br />Why Can't Americans See It?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts193.html">http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts193.html</a><br /><br />/ / General Ivashov presented the neoconservative reasoning<br />that is the basis for the attack and concluded that the<br />world's protests cannot stop the US attack on Iran. \ \<br /><br />Unless, snobby nazi corporate elites in America, get on their<br />princely phones, and start demanding Justice for the<br />nationally broadcasted LIAR Hannity, along with the rest<br />neocons responsible for the implementation of the 911<br />terrorist attack against Our interests. Bill those on<br />American radio who advocate the torturing and murder of the<br />innocent in God.<br /><br />-<br /><br />The Latest Hoax : The real origin of `Iranian' produced IED<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cloakanddagger.de/CLOAKANDDAGGER.DE_TOM%20HENEGHAN/cloak_BB_nov14.htm">http://www.cloakanddagger.de/CLOAKANDDAGGER.DE_TOM%20HENEGHAN/cloak_BB_nov14.htm</a><br /><br /><br />-<br /><br />Light and Shadow<br /><br />We need to publicly devise some real-world strategies to defeat<br />the ungodly enemy, the bushite neocon zionist traitors to Life.<br /><br /><a href="http://newmexico.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/light-and-shadow.mp3">http://newmexico.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/light-and-shadow.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://neworleans.media.indypgh.org/uploads/2007/01/light-and-shadow.mp3">http://neworleans.media.indypgh.org/uploads/2007/01/light-and-shadow.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://cleveland.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/light-and-shadow.mp3">http://cleveland.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/light-and-shadow.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://media.indypgh.org/uploads/2007/01/light-and-shadow.mp3">http://media.indypgh.org/uploads/2007/01/light-and-shadow.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://miami.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/light-and-shadow.mp3">http://miami.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/light-and-shadow.mp3</a><br /><br />-<br /><br />Death to our indiscriminately murderous thieving enemies of<br />God's Creation, who war Creation for bush's personal escape<br />for the crimes of 911 Christ would say right, wouldn't you say<br />so likewise my brothers and sisters, of the Muslim, Christian,<br />and Jewish religions in belief?<br /><br /><a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/4/1_news-tunes.mp3">http://rochester.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/4/1_news-tunes.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://boston.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/5/1_News-Tunes.mp3">http://boston.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/5/1_News-Tunes.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/news-tunes.mp3">http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/news-tunes.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://istanbul.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/news-tunes.mp3">http://istanbul.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/news-tunes.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://www.stlimc.org/usermedia/audio/3/news-tunes.mp3">http://www.stlimc.org/usermedia/audio/3/news-tunes.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://baltimore.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/3/news-tunes.mp3">http://baltimore.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/3/news-tunes.mp3</a><br /><br />-<br /><br />Great words from the lawyer of the thieving bushite child killers of<br />Haditha<br /><br />/ / "There were Harriers dropping 500lb bombs on buildings.<br />If they're dropping 500lb bombs without knocking on the door<br />first, how can you argue the troops on the ground did anything<br />wrong?" \ \<br /><br />2000lbs of radio-active toxic waste that will murder for years<br />more like, while after, then striking again to get the god<br />helpers and screaming children, then even, as in Fallujah,<br />going house to house to murder every one, young and old as the<br />truly Satanic. Just obeying lawless orders to thieve from<br />Humanity as bushite for neocon zionist traitors of G-D doesn't<br />fly in the big book. When anyone kills a bushite, all<br />humanity benefits truly from the defense. You defend a real<br />suffering God by ending a soulless bushite threat against our<br />species.<br /><br />Bill Sattler.<br /><br />Defend Universal Freedom by defending US innocent from the<br />ungodly murderous bushite torturers, rapists, and thieves to<br />God as Your Humanity. My hands are tied, all because<br />"Americans" refuse to take ANY action. 300 million people and<br />not one dare challenges corporate zionist nazi whores by making<br />a call to "talk" radio themselves. My friends, be Human<br />helpers to the struggle against the antichrist tyrannies<br />of INJUSTICE. God as ourselves, the innocent. Again, kill<br />a bushite, and all day long you'll have praise from the<br />Son of God. That is me with all the answers to questions<br />Americans don't even bother to ask of themselves.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://imctj.espora.org/uploads/2007/01/law_of_the_land_-_we_rule.mp3">http://imctj.espora.org/uploads/2007/01/law_of_the_land_-_we_rule.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/uploads/law_of_the_land_-_we_rule.mp3">http://melbourne.indymedia.org/uploads/law_of_the_land_-_we_rule.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://austin.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/7/law_of_the_land_-_we_rule.mp3">http://austin.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/7/law_of_the_land_-_we_rule.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://arkansas.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/7/law_of_the_land_-_we_rule.mp3">http://arkansas.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/7/law_of_the_land_-_we_rule.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://pr.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/law_of_the_land_-_we_rule.mp3">http://pr.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/law_of_the_land_-_we_rule.mp3</a><br /><br />-<br /><br /><a href="http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=19646">http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=19646</a><br /><br />/ / to think that these could have been just dumb ideas or<br />incompetence. (L. Paul Bremer, for instance, who made the<br />"dumb" decision about dismantling the Iraqi army, prior to<br />becoming Iraq's occupation viceroy, had headed the nation's<br />leading risk assessment consultancy, and surely knew what all<br />the risks were of his various decisions.) \ \<br /><br />Bushite TRAITORS got rid of the ORHA plan.<br /><br />-<br /><br />Sir Ken, head of the Crown Prosecution Service<br /><br />"The fight against terrorism on the streets of [..] is not a<br />war. It is the prevention of crime, the enforcement of our<br />laws and the winning of justice for those damaged by their<br />infringement."<br /><br /><br />You got that right. So, join US in demanding the quick<br />trials, and public executions of known bushite enemies who<br />murdered Americans on 911 with general Ahmad, and who with<br />Peter Powers, murdered the innocent in Britain for more stolen<br />goods against God. And anyone in the air force as bushite<br />bombers should be a great joy for US all to hunt for<br />prosecuting too. The bushite dumfuk is an enemy to our lives,<br />with it's blantant naked contempt for the innocent, who like<br />the demon liar THEIVES at CJOB, George Norry, or Hannity, will<br />forbid ANY human defenses of the lawless dictate of the<br />IRRATIONAL tyrannical demon antichrist, all so to victimize<br />more of You as the censored forsaken.<br /><br />REPENT. The TRUE Son of Man Johnny HATES godless 'lawless'<br />bushite enemies of Life.<br /><br />-<br /><br /><a href="http://xml.nfowars.net/Alex.rss">http://xml.nfowars.net/Alex.rss</a><br /><br />Use this address in Firefox to get daily podcast of Alex Jones.<br />[won't work with explorer.]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/">http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/</a><br /><br />-<br /><br />Death to our indiscriminately murderous thieving enemies of<br />God's Creation, who war Creation for bush's personal escape<br />for the crimes of 911 Christ would say right, wouldn't you say<br />so likewise my brothers and sisters, of the Muslim, Christian,<br />and Jewish religions in belief?<br /><br />-<br /><br />Exit strategy to save the lives of dying Americans:<br /><br /><br />War bushite LIAR zionist repuglicons who did God wrong on 911<br /><br />War bushite who LIE to American Sons and Daughters to not hunt<br />those who stole billions with ear-marks, Social Security,<br />no-bid contracts, Iraqi oil, ect.<br /><br />War those who stole the Iraq Development Fund, and the<br />emergency monies left to save the lives of our dying children<br /><br />War bushite who feed soldiers radio-active toxic waste as harmless<br /><br />War bushite who support torturing the innocent to death<br /><br />War bushite who sing about the joys of murdering Iraqi children<br /><br />War bushite who beat to death barefoot Iraqi children<br /><br />War bushite who beat lamed dogs for fun<br /><br />War bushite who claim they are lawlessly un-accountable as liars.<br /><br />War bushite in the air force who target bombing innocent People<br />like in Fallujah or Somalia with land mines and mini nukes<br /><br />The godless as lawless bushite is the enemy to America, kill<br />it proudly for freedom, as an undying love for a real God and<br />Humanity.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />-<br /><br /><a href="http://arkansas.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/4/us-vs-them.mp3">http://arkansas.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/4/us-vs-them.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://austin.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/4/us-vs-them.mp3">http://austin.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/4/us-vs-them.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://chicago.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/4/us-vs-them.mp3">http://chicago.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/4/us-vs-them.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://dc.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/4/us-vs-them.mp3">http://dc.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/4/us-vs-them.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/us-vs-them.mp3">http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/us-vs-them.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://maineindymedia.org/usermedia/audio/4/us-vs-them.mp3">http://maineindymedia.org/usermedia/audio/4/us-vs-them.mp3</a><br /><br />-<br /><br /><br />/ / she told The Nation. "If I contribute to the Army's<br />prosecution of Lieutenant Watada on speech-related charges, I<br />will have colluded in suppression of speech. What could be<br />more hostile to the ideas of a free press than that?" \ \<br /><br />Again, a Patriot Soldier whos only crime is that he refuses<br />to commit a crime in Your name. Do something about it.<br /><br />George Norry and Art Bell are enemies of American chances for<br />survival of our dying teens. Their contempt for Justice in<br />America is blatantly EVIL, and worth killing before they do<br />another dumfuk, they hate US, zionist demon broadcast.<br />Traitors to God and Country George Norry and Art Bell are.<br />They'll laugh, sing, and cheer while KILLING your CENSORED<br />forsaken Son or Daughter, needlessly trapped sacrificing with<br />the ungodly 'lawless' bushite zionist enemies, all before<br />allowing any REAL Americans to SIMPLY discuss evidence as a<br />requirement to convince ourselves of something. Norry, that<br />demon fucker, has an endless supply of bush whore callers,<br />that'll tell him, he doesn't have to read the news, read his<br />email, or hear the screams of dying innocent murder victims.<br />Sure, once a year, maybe, we'll get the Patriot popular Alex<br />Jones, but he's too terrified of me as Puppet Master, or US,<br />or talking about the NO CAUSE Iraq war, that Iran doesn't have<br />an ability to create weapons grade uranium, or that General<br />Ahmad funded 911's Atta. Just the way TRAITOR George Norry<br />DEMANDS it. For, truly there is no defense for 'lawless'<br />bushite, but by an ungodly tyrannical censorship. Because YOU<br />fear me, or refuse to demand Justice truly, You'll DIE as<br />bushite victim, but Norry and Bell plan to live on 'escaping'<br />as multi-millionaires, broadcasting on to further destroying<br />freedom for others to 'cash in' with Your worthless forsaken<br />soul. Now, I'm the Son of Man who can only do so much. If<br />you won't speak for our dying freedoms, what do you expect me,<br />or an all powerful G to do even? No... Really? What? I<br />could ask all Universal species to assist US here on earth by<br />hunting to kill bushite everywhere, but chances of 'them'<br />getting here in time listening, seems rather unlikely. But<br />maybe.<br /><br />Death to the murderous bushite, death to our enemies, so says<br />Johnny.<br /><br />-<br /><br />Well, gee, Iran has no nuke program, in anyway, shape, or<br />form, but Israel wants to murder more of humanity for their<br />ungodly lies anyway. The enriched uranium Iran is making, can<br />not be used for a bomb because it's only enriched to 2<br />percent, and to get the bomb making stuff, you need a<br />COMPLETELY different technology. But science?, in bushite<br />america? Nazi America would rather be nazi chauvinist pigs,<br />before admitting the Son of Man exists, or to go to the<br />trouble of phoning someone who refuses to take our public<br />calls for Justice. What religion is this America?, where<br />Human life has little of no value? And Johnny's love means<br />nothing?<br /><br />How is a Zionist Jewish?, I, the King of the Jews Messiah ask<br />my fellow brothers and sisters everywhere.. How? A million<br />land mines in Lebanon a godly act is it? Jew only roads not<br />Apartide?, nor stealing a Christian's Home I suppose..? How?<br />++++++++++++++++<br />Let me state the following "advise" to DAGAN "the gun":<br />*********************************************************<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ulPXImsZHhva2lmppq1mpEuwf4LmJhSwsxr9hXmnl2AQVc0_TS2L6LuTGKxmH3atU3MojObVa33bIQPtYXagMFpRzm3xDF6BCtwHMbhhj3Mpy5fiEL4cfD9l_ICCAMkfhwgYNfK1hFsT/s1600-h/Dagan&Sharon007!1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ulPXImsZHhva2lmppq1mpEuwf4LmJhSwsxr9hXmnl2AQVc0_TS2L6LuTGKxmH3atU3MojObVa33bIQPtYXagMFpRzm3xDF6BCtwHMbhhj3Mpy5fiEL4cfD9l_ICCAMkfhwgYNfK1hFsT/s400/Dagan&Sharon007!1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064372735473371090" border="0" /></a><br /><br />"Going into negotiations with Syria when we have no intention of negotiating in good faith is damaging to Israel, because the weakness of our position will become obvious to all. Better to refuse to enter talks, because then nobody sees how naked our desire for keeping the Golan for ever and Shebaa farms really is, nor how duplicitous is our demand that Syria make peace when we are unwilling to make any concession in return...." So , we keep Syria stuck and busy with Murders and UN inspired so-called pressure with an International court, and a desire to recapture Lebanon, in order to keep them away from focusing on Israel and its deceit, deception and lies.... and we have great Lebanese/American allies helping us in the March 14th pawns.<br /><br />The problem with Mossad and the CIA is that they don't consider what's the other options? if we change the Assad regime, the only alternative is the Sunni brotherhood, in other words a future Al-Qaeda or Syrian Hamas. In your struggle to fight Iran and Hizbullah, you are building the path to Sunni brotherhood rule in the ME, and you are ignoring the danger of already existing Pakistani nuclear bombs.<br />It's amazing when LF Veteran killers of Samir Geagea and Walid Joumblatt ,who live in opulence and stolen wealth, in Beirut, in Canada, Paris, London and the US starts to talk about international community, tribunals and murder!!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ulPXImsZHhva2lmppq1mpEuwf4LmJhSwsxr9hXmnl2AQVc0_TS2L6LuTGKxmH3atU3MojObVa33bIQPtYXagMFpRzm3xDF6BCtwHMbhhj3Mpy5fiEL4cfD9l_ICCAMkfhwgYNfK1hFsT/s1600-h/Dagan&Sharon007!1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ulPXImsZHhva2lmppq1mpEuwf4LmJhSwsxr9hXmnl2AQVc0_TS2L6LuTGKxmH3atU3MojObVa33bIQPtYXagMFpRzm3xDF6BCtwHMbhhj3Mpy5fiEL4cfD9l_ICCAMkfhwgYNfK1hFsT/s400/Dagan&Sharon007!1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064372735473371090" border="0" /></a><br /><br />SYRIA IS AND HAS ALWAYS ALWAYS BEEN DOING AMERICA'S BIDDING SINCE EARLY 1960S.... MURDERS, ASSASSINATIONS AND ALL ELSE.<br />THESE TWO ARE JUST PLAYING ENEMIES COVERTLY. PERIOD. LEBANESE INTELLIGENCE IS A FARCE....PAWNS OF CIA & DIA....<br />Compared to the rest of the dictators . Yes, Syria is as bad but it still retains some principles over who is truly a friend and ally and who is an enemy, unlike our US doormats in the Gulf region .... SYRIA IS AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN A US ALLY AND PARTNER SINCE THE 1960S.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ulPXImsZHhva2lmppq1mpEuwf4LmJhSwsxr9hXmnl2AQVc0_TS2L6LuTGKxmH3atU3MojObVa33bIQPtYXagMFpRzm3xDF6BCtwHMbhhj3Mpy5fiEL4cfD9l_ICCAMkfhwgYNfK1hFsT/s1600-h/Dagan&Sharon007!1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ulPXImsZHhva2lmppq1mpEuwf4LmJhSwsxr9hXmnl2AQVc0_TS2L6LuTGKxmH3atU3MojObVa33bIQPtYXagMFpRzm3xDF6BCtwHMbhhj3Mpy5fiEL4cfD9l_ICCAMkfhwgYNfK1hFsT/s400/Dagan&Sharon007!1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064372735473371090" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The same shrill voices are calling out that Syria has done nothing<br />positive.<br />Starting with being a US ally in the First Gulf War, Syria has been more and more compliant with international decisions than ever before.<br />Syria withdrew all their soldiers and intelligence officers from Lebanon, but the shrill voices claim that was nothing.<br />Syria resolved their border disputes with Jordan, giving back land Assad's father had taken. Again the shrill voices think this is nothing.<br />Even the ultimate War Hawk Dick Cheney recently said that Syria was doing a good job at securing the border between Iraq and Syria. The shrill voices claim this is nothing.<br />And here is Assad openly calling for peace talks, something that he risks assassination just to say out loud, and the shrill voices say it is nothing and bad-talking his offers.<br />Meanwhile, Israel can't even manage to run a bus between Gaza and the West Bank despite promising Bush. Who is it that is doing nothing towards peace?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ulPXImsZHhva2lmppq1mpEuwf4LmJhSwsxr9hXmnl2AQVc0_TS2L6LuTGKxmH3atU3MojObVa33bIQPtYXagMFpRzm3xDF6BCtwHMbhhj3Mpy5fiEL4cfD9l_ICCAMkfhwgYNfK1hFsT/s1600-h/Dagan&Sharon007!1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ulPXImsZHhva2lmppq1mpEuwf4LmJhSwsxr9hXmnl2AQVc0_TS2L6LuTGKxmH3atU3MojObVa33bIQPtYXagMFpRzm3xDF6BCtwHMbhhj3Mpy5fiEL4cfD9l_ICCAMkfhwgYNfK1hFsT/s400/Dagan&Sharon007!1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064372735473371090" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I never thought that I would hear SUCH CRAP again. You still seem to be wedded to the art of the dialectic. If the choice is between Assad and the Muslim Brotherhood, chances are Assad is the choice, provided you stop arming him with all manner of advanced weapons. I cannot forget that you almost sent in your troops against ??? during the various Wars of the 20th century. That was not very comradely of you. It is too late now to lament the Paki bomb. Your job now is to help prevent Iran from getting a similar bomb. You should also do something about your Neo-Israeli thugs. If your dialectic is correct, eventually they just might turn against you.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ulPXImsZHhva2lmppq1mpEuwf4LmJhSwsxr9hXmnl2AQVc0_TS2L6LuTGKxmH3atU3MojObVa33bIQPtYXagMFpRzm3xDF6BCtwHMbhhj3Mpy5fiEL4cfD9l_ICCAMkfhwgYNfK1hFsT/s1600-h/Dagan&Sharon007!1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ulPXImsZHhva2lmppq1mpEuwf4LmJhSwsxr9hXmnl2AQVc0_TS2L6LuTGKxmH3atU3MojObVa33bIQPtYXagMFpRzm3xDF6BCtwHMbhhj3Mpy5fiEL4cfD9l_ICCAMkfhwgYNfK1hFsT/s400/Dagan&Sharon007!1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064372735473371090" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Although a catastrophe for Israel, the wanton destruction of Lebanon last summer was a gentle warning to Assad that his fragile state would be pulverized within hours if he dared to repeat the aggressive actions of his father - or even if he dared to retaliate against unprovoked aggression.<br /><br />It really beggars belief that the leaders of the Israeli security state cannot see what is plainly obvious to the rest of the world, namely that the territory which the settlers have occupied illegally is the source of the conflict.<br /><br />Solution: make them give it back!<br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br /><br />-<br /><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/dn2007-0122/dn2007-0122-1_64kb.mp3">http://www.archive.org/download/dn2007-0122/dn2007-0122-1_64kb.mp3</a><br /><br />SEN. BERNIE SANDERS ! ! !<br /><br />/ / I happen to believe that we are reaching a moment when<br />critical mass is kicking in. \ \<br /><br />-<br /><br />Real Americans are those of US as humanity that believe<br />in liberty as Justice for all. Demon bushite nazi<br />whores, don't like those principles of freedom through<br />evidentiary findings though, for their false deity,<br />George W. bush Jr, wouldn't be stealing from the honest<br />hard working blokes who live for a better day that way.<br /><br />-<br /><br />'A military judge ruled last week that Watada cannot base his<br />defense on the war's legality.'<br /><br />Telling US what?, that it is a crime to not commit a crime?<br />It isn't only high treason against America the ungodly bushite<br />are guilty of, but of a madness held by those truly Satanic..<br /><br />-<br /><br />/ / Four US oil companies, namely Conoco, Chevron, Amoco and<br />Philips have concessions in nearly two thirds of Somalia.<br />This quartet of oil conglomerates was granted these contracts<br />in the final days of Somalia's deposed dictator, Siad Barre.<br />The US first military engagement in Somalia was fully<br />supported by Conoco. \ \<br /><br />In the new world, these soulless bomber bushite of the air<br />force, responsible for blatant first degree acts of murder<br />against the innocent, would be hunted down by Humans, tried,<br />then executed gloriously in the defense of our living justly.<br /><br /><br />-<br /><br />/ / Al-Maliki has promised he will no longer block action<br />against the Mahdi Army militia \ \<br /><br />So, is the block head saying American soldiers so far have<br />died for lawless tyranny? Kill a bushite, to protect the lives<br />of us as innocent victims in other words, right?<br /><br />-<br /><br />/ / And the Iraqi people owe us a debt of gratitude?<br /><br />Bush continued, "I believe most Iraqis express that. I mean,<br />the people understand that we've endured great sacrifice to<br />help them. That's the problem here in America. They wonder<br />whether or not there is a gratitude level that's significant<br />enough in Iraq." \ \<br /><br />Is Bush saying US dumb bastards don't give enough in<br />sacrifices to himself as the demon antichrist?<br /><br />-<br /><br /><a href="http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/the_king_of_the_jews.mp3">http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/the_king_of_the_jews.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://neworleans.media.indypgh.org/uploads/2007/01/killing_christians.mp3">http://neworleans.media.indypgh.org/uploads/2007/01/killing_christians.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://newmexico.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/killing_christians.mp3">http://newmexico.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/killing_christians.mp3</a><br />-<br /><br />The Resurrection<br /><br /><br />What are you then, some kinda Jesus freak?<br /><br />You are standing in defense for your own rights as you<br />see ourselves. For me, I got some real troubles<br />scrounging my next meal as nature's King and Lord of all<br />creation, but for you, this should be something of a<br />dream almost, eh?<br /><br />Worshiping bush in a delusional cult like, TV trance<br />without any thought to care about our actual criminal<br />behavior, is not a good philosophy to practice as a<br />living world body, i do believe. For bush is an<br />irrational murderer of innocent good Americans as<br />soldiers alike, a psychopathic depiction to his true<br />evil self as US played intolerantly ignorant, while he<br />bares false witness against our eternal family of all<br />being humanity. Is not what you too perceive of our<br />world?, a reflection of your own conclusion? If we<br />believe we are of life when perceiving an injustice, are<br />we not moved to do something in favor of our remedy? To<br />challenge bush's contempt for ourselves as the Public,<br />is to demand nothing less than known facts to conclude<br />our guilty verdicts, as otherwise, bush would be<br />prosecuting US innocent as God is US included, thank<br />youself. And for what? All for our failure to<br />communicate concern about falling further as dying<br />bushite victims. It has been reported bush doesn't want<br />to be accountable to the American tax payer regarding<br />the pilfering of America's Social Security, like he<br />wasn't to follow the criminal leads of 9/11<br />perpetrators, and too, surprise suprise, the allocation<br />of public funds for his secret planned, not public<br />bidded for best price on every Iraqi Peoples contract,<br />(you know, the repaying for bush's needless war tolls<br />waged against your world as innocent victim), payed for<br />by the American tax payer getting further swindled with<br />the pretension, that robbing from humanity, does not<br />include themselves represented politically. Our Mr.<br />bush Jr. has decided not to do good for Iraq by opening<br />our floor to offers the world over, but instead has<br />decided to go with top secret banned bushmob embezzlers<br />to risk more American soldiers by lying to their<br />surviving siblings. Charading for US they are,<br />preparing to sacrifice more Americans without a thought<br />to Your cost. With strangely, no one at corporate<br />control assessing yet, "Hey! Wouldn't it be the Iraqi<br />people who would most benefit for being contracted in<br />the cost benefit analysis?", and, "Okay, so where didn't<br />American tax paid for lawless destruction of our Iraqi<br />public infrastructure occure?"<br /><br />Why is CNN not defending Our Mr. bush regarding<br />torture? Is the bush demon threatening US by his<br />non-committal on Our issue as ancient Civilization<br />included? Arron Brown? Why can not CNN be also of our<br />artists, wise guys, best sellers, or elected officials?<br />When has CNN ever tackled Social Security on behalf of<br />the Democrats, or privatized corporate swindles by<br />Republicans who argue their ineptness is on the level?<br />What are Our priority issues to resolve, if we have the<br />stage for speaking as the global community? Justice for<br />all, would be in whose favor?, when understood by anyone<br />as unbiased? We are of the order to the cosmos, and, as<br />so, a good way can have an even better way when we plan<br />for results. Justice is freedom, and needs not murder<br />to resolve conflicts peacefully as dialoging persons.<br />Iraq People can testify to their humanity, but CNN isn't<br />listening for questions, or asking for solutions for<br />fear they may be wrong about everything we are together<br />as imbeciles under bush as unjust dictator. All is<br />right. Still, we must quickly teach that Justice is<br />ours, and injustice practiced, is an injustice earned<br />politically. Wether bush knows it or not. An injustice<br />against any, truly, is also, an injustice against<br />yourself as God is good. God can not save our world you<br />perceive without seeing God as a victim to our ignorance<br />under bushite losers. A tyranny through censorship of<br />criminal misconduct. Example: Walter Issacson advised<br />CNN story writers to not report on Afghanistan death<br />squads, under a pretext that followed, don't forget all<br />who died in the towers. Forget what? That their lives<br />were halted by acts of murder? What is murder advocate<br />Issacson, getting at about himself as unqualified to<br />decide our important to everyone matters?<br />In the whole big show Johnny, is there, inside everyone,<br />a potential cause for caring about our world as actually<br />worth something, I mean, to ourselves personally? Yes,<br />a potential, however, we're suffering for our contempt<br />of seeking for know how through rewarding info. We are<br />all descendent to be Universal in our own makings if we<br />work for success together at our national levels,<br />instead of as bush failures, by conforming criminality<br />against our living names politically, as the pirated<br />without equal representation, left to be victimized as<br />dumdum bushite whores, falling to a tyranny of blatant,<br />naked injustice falsely guised in the corruption of the<br />bush administration as your intention for personal<br />enslavement.<br /><br />What is as known, is where we can only hang our beliefs<br />of what have we. The FBI tell US that bush's business<br />partner, the unarrested General Ahmad financed 9/11's<br />Atta. Seven of the alleged nineteen 9/11 highjackers<br />were found to be alive, as some, American trained Saudi<br />national pilots with no evidentiary terrorist<br />connections made to back up the therefor fraudulent<br />allegations. Why would a would be terrorist steal such<br />identification to not be discovered being so? (Or, how<br />then were the names found in waiting as researched<br />material?(Remember: evil is dumb.)) Why would Atta pack<br />his final draft suicide letter for the important<br />flight?, of which as bushmob mastermind, would have been<br />aware of what was outlaid in his own words? Why would,<br />would be terrorists, publicly bicker in a restricted<br />lot, parking spot they snuck into at the airport that<br />was running rampant with bush stooges?, right before a,<br />why they were there, secretly planned criminal mission?,<br />as devote Muslims?, holy warriors of the studious, God<br />what were you thinking about Quran?<br /><br />Mr. bush Jr. must be immediately impeached, arrested,<br />or executed for treason against Ourselves as a<br />degenerating anti-American mass murdering, terrorist<br />plotter. While the UN is the closest thing we have to<br />world representation, and should help devise an Iraqi<br />Iraqi government of "The People", for Iraq. Uncertainty<br />has it's advantages, but we, as "The People", have to<br />start somewhere on our journey to wherever, and learning<br />of our true strengths this way, seems like the higher<br />ground to begin communicating from. Communicating on<br />the Nature of wisdom as ultimate foreseen prevailer, is<br />this dream of being one with creation and giving to the<br />cause by helping out yourself to be a blessing included.<br />(Not much for a paycheck though I'm afraid.). Anyway,<br />take to mentioning this public work where ever you may<br />choose, for I think someone should be running for new<br />office maybe if the chance presents Ourselves. Have<br />faith that as the Universe revolves around all things to<br />be known of, so too, is Life's true magnificence an<br />honor to honor for. Wow! You are a living God!<br />Thank you,<br /><br />Johnny Wizard<br /><br />-<br /><br /><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.tv/audio/110107taylor.mp3">http://www.prisonplanet.tv/audio/110107taylor.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://www.worldcantwait.org/">http://www.worldcantwait.org/</a><br /><br />-<br /><br />New Recruit<br /><br />Destroying enemy bushite is a gift to Humanity, it is<br />saying you care for the lives of the innocent a bush<br />bitch nazi grunt freely confesses to targeting for<br />murder. Liars are the bushite, who steal Iraqi<br />resources, allow racists and rapists to commit their<br />demon crimes in America's name un-challenged, and who<br />absent mindedly bomb the innocent without just reason<br />given. All the while, labeling themselves, "pro-Iraqi".<br />The mindlessly evil attack against the Turks recently<br />with an ordered bombing campaign that actually murdered<br />people, sighted yet another, example of the bushite's<br />idiotic ungodly satanic barbarity against us the Humans<br />as INNOCENT. After the carnage, the war criminalizing<br />America into bushite commanders were advised, it would<br />be better to pick other completely innocent families to<br />indiscriminately murder while lying, for the demon<br />bushite provisions come through that big ol' Turkey, and<br />if the Middle Easterners eventually learned together of<br />their fellow Turks who were murdered by ungodly enemy<br />nazi forces for admittingly doing nothing worth noting,<br />with the middle east's indirect help with essential<br />supplies coming from somewhere in that surrounding<br />billion man vicinity, you know, I know, we all know,<br />"Americans" as NAZI war criminal enemy bushite, would<br />massively die as the immediately recognizable to most<br />everyone, and rightly too as leaderless cowardly, dumb,<br />and real sadistic evil, dying at the hands of all US<br />Family men. Being as bushite, the enemies to everyone,<br />including themselves we've witnessed them already dying<br />as nazi dumfuks who eat plutonium. Or, IED? They mean<br />"sexy" rummy cluster dud land mine more like! (Just<br />where is the Middle of East anyway?) History HAS learned<br />these lessons already, while the corporatist bushite<br />plays US just dumb enough through malicious censorship<br />for plunder by parasitic bushite suicide, for a bushite<br />has no soul worth defending. See?, the committed nazi<br />automaton bushite enemy of America soldier has no mind<br />to know freedom for the individual. Therefor my friend,<br />kill the evil nazi George W. bush Jr. not just for me<br />as Johnny, but for US all man who refuse to be subjected<br />further as only counted by the corporate dictums to<br />pronounce "pro-American": as those that go silently<br />rooted backing "un-accountable" rapists and torturers of<br />the innocent, the innocent, that the bushite OPENLY rob<br />from with American's hard earned tax dollars funding.<br />Funding through leadership directed towards their very<br />own self destruction. See bushite, kill bushite, at<br />least until we are granted living access to OUR<br />corporate dead end news media to speak FREELY for<br />ourselves without bushite lies tying US down for<br />furthering that demon's hellish ungodly tyranny as an<br />enemy to all our Humanity and Royal King Johnny.<br /><br />Real Americans are those of US as humanity that believe<br />in liberty as Justice for all. Demon bushite nazi<br />whores, don't like those principles of freedom through<br />evidentiary findings though, for their false deity,<br />George W. bush Jr, wouldn't be stealing from the honest<br />hard working blokes who live for a better day that way.<br /><br />The Iraqi children did nothing to deserve such awful<br />suffering and fright and death at the hands of the enemy<br />bushite. The bushite: who the demon anti-Christ<br />states, are un-accountable to any rules of law in this<br />Universe, like with his extremely foolish criminal<br />decree, 13303. I kill mindless parasite bushite nazi<br />enemy soldiers just for that alone as eternal defender,<br />and I do it for to win some mercy for a real living God,<br />who the fascist enemy bushite hold in their ungodly<br />contempt as LIARS.<br /><br />I have the backing of every real man alive on this<br />planet, and we all know it. No voices of reason have<br />apposed my factual claims in FREE Usenet, and Art Bell<br />makes no attempt to defend himself as internationally<br />painted enemy traitor, and that says a whole lot to Talk<br />America. Why? Because Mr. Bell, the bushite<br />propagandist, knows too, I speak and act truthfully,<br />honorably, and righteously, while the talk radio<br />american bushite lies, cheats and steals from America's<br />America, that as bushite, leave undefended for criminal<br />plunder in Your name call censored from classed<br />enrollment. You have just as much a right to be here as<br />I do, and the demon bush, he ain't no better than any of<br />US when he is "excused" for the murder of well more than<br />a hundred thousand confessed as completely innocent<br />people on this planet called Earth.<br /><br />The fascist control bushite, don't like You to think<br />independently for Yourself, for we independents out here<br />make them look as stupid as they are. Thank you very<br />much for that not so secret info.<br /><br />Through the pronounced bush demon's gaffes,<br />embarrassments, and told complete total ignorance on<br />subjects like the science of economics, the whys of<br />constitutional law, or when the bushite takes credit for<br />indiscriminate killing of our families and friends while<br />parading it's all done in bush's name for our freedom,<br />or for 9/11, doesn't fool me, and should get you<br />thinking about reaching for your guns too, for bushite<br />rapists and torturers will not walk this world freely<br />un-accountable, for as long as we remain alive to hunt<br />them down and kill them if so be. As the soulless<br />disciples of the enemy anti-Christ, Our Mr. bush Jr.,<br />their "officially" granted legal immunity from all<br />prosecution means nothing to me as a honorable man<br />defending my humanity, or as living Creator, who brought<br />all into this new world to be free, and can just as<br />soon, take you all nazi bushite out the old school way.<br /><br />REMEMBER: Demon bush is stupid, yaw, but he knows that<br />he and rumsfeld with condi planned and carried out the<br />crimes of 9/11 with likely cheney orchestrating, don't<br />ever forget that part when attempting assessment how<br />good four more years in going to do for the state of<br />freedom in Your dying world. Serious this situation<br />truly is for everyone. Everyone.<br /><br />Now, what are You going to do about this, DEMON George<br />W. bush Jr. actually playing US like he would like to<br />continue victimizing our dying world as ENEMY for four<br />more years towards furthering lawless tyranny? Don't we<br />already have it bad enough, that corporate journalists<br />think there is actually some merit to George bush's<br />re-election bid? Especially after that 9/11 thang?<br />Then there is the needless criminal wars, fraught with<br />embarrassing massive billion dollar criminal frauds as<br />.oops, more government fuk ups? Then of course all the<br />bushite thefts. I did a Internet Google search of<br />"Tiger Team" and I found next to nothing in all the<br />professional media corporate news outlets we have<br />advertising on our information service providers top<br />notched list as best sourced material. And that should<br />say as much or more to you too, about who's really<br />conning who. So, who cares about where this world is<br />going? I do, and so should you too.<br /><br /><br />----------<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />How The Demon Bush Misled God's World<br /><br />How Bush misled the world<br /><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/handheld/articles/2004/02/05/1075853996640.html">http://www.theage.com.au/handheld/articles/2004/02/05/1075853996640.html</a><br /><br />/ / Once the document was declassified after the war it became<br />known that it contained 40 caveats - including 15 uses of<br />"probably", all of which had been removed from the previously<br />published version. Tenet further ingratiated himself by<br />remaining silent about the OSP. "That's totally unacceptable<br />for a CIA director," said Thielman. \ \<br /><br />Thielman meant "totally unacceptable" as in HIGH TREASON.<br />Could it be any higher? Deliberately caught misleading<br />whore-dumb Congress to wage his immoral neocon 'escape' with a<br />unjustified criminal brutality against God as all of our<br />Humanity. A great deal more than a million innocent people<br />have been victims to the 'targeted' Zionist killings of the<br />irrational bushite enemy. Lawless enemies to Creation,<br />spreading their toxic waste who thieve, rape and murder<br />without reprimand from corporate news america, shall, I pray<br />daily, die justly in vengeances by the will of a real undying<br />Love for our victimized innocent family. Justice for Humanity.<br /><br />Please, help US.<br /><br />The guilty party of Haditha have confessed that targeted<br />killing of innocent children is fair game in their worlds, and<br />as confessed, they 'got away' committing the same Satanic acts<br />- going house to house in fallujah murdering more than two<br />hundred thousand innocent folks for LIAR E-N-E-M-Y Sattler.<br />Bushite corporate america, has stated in silence, the bushite<br />enemies of Haditha will never face public execution for such<br />offences, YOU apparently WILL NOT GRANT IT, too cowardly, and<br />in all likelihood, (like those of the Saudi Blount's third<br />infantry) will be allowed to walk freely down american streets<br />after being found guilty as politically supporting the robbing<br />and murder of innocent men, women, and children all because<br />we're rag-heads or niggers. The, deserving to die as<br />illiterately intolerable bushite drone soldiers HAPPILY,<br />WITHOUT QUESTION, co-operate with ANY lawless mercenary forces<br />such as south african death squad goons in finding the enemies<br />of themselves. Purposelessly ungodly bushite soldiers are<br />told they are DYING to defend Iraqis, while breaking out of<br />prison, mercenaries caught trying to kill innocent Iraqis for<br />fun and profit. While, at the same time, actually having<br />SLAVES from India preparing their lunches!!! And guess what?<br />they're coming to live bushite america as the patriots after<br />they get killed you're forsaken American Son or Daughter teen!<br />With millions of stolen American dollars to set up new<br /><br />'freedom' operations.<br /><br />Shirley, bin Laden would be sided with the fundamentalist<br />Shiites, before, everyone-is-an-equal Sunnis, who as Bathists,<br />had no problem WARRING al-Qeada, while counting as members of<br />their party, Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Atheists. But<br />corporate bushite liar america says no, bin Laden supports<br />Sunni IRRATIONALLY, and that is why bushites have to sacrifice<br />in partnership with those who blow up PEOPLE indiscriminately<br />as the 'good guy' 'heroes'. Similarly like in Somalia, where<br />bushite forces are working to directly arm those who murdered<br />American GIs during Clinton. Those war criming repuglicons<br />responsible for the bombing need to be tried and executed for<br />committing first degree acts of mass murder in America's name.<br />CBC, in Canada reported that Pentagon sources allege their<br />isn't any evidence whatsoever to what bushite news america has<br />reported to the dumfukked populace. [Peter Lance will tell<br />you [mind you, half assly] on behalf of investigating officers<br />of our LAWS, it was a dishonorable LIAR Green Beret actually,<br />a Green Beret who set the bombs and blew them up to KILL<br />AMERICANS, but says Laden ordered him to it though, so he gets<br />to go free on his own apparently. An individual EVERY<br />AMERICAN should hunt to kill with Americxan Law firmly<br />established already. Why? Zionists murder Americans for<br />profit, by simply lying un-challenged through corporate mind<br />control, and culted soldiers to this day, would thoughtlessly<br />call the ungodly lawless bushite traitors to freedom, 'good<br />guys' and 'heroes'.<br /><br />If your a Cop in Winnipeg, don't be stupid, support defending<br />my right to speak in our defenses. Support the return of my<br />rights in respect to my stolen property, taken through a<br />fencing operation run out of the Winnipeg police Department's<br />"exploitation Unit" run by two or three "cops", who while<br />cashing in on selling stolen merchandise, STOLEN themselves<br />from law abiding Winnipeg citizens, work unjustly to undermine<br />our National Security interests in Canada by expressing care<br />for Canadian soldiers to Forward NO interests in defending<br />their falling lives with lies no longer in disguise. [bushite<br />would bushite for a stolen nickel, for there is no honor among<br />thieves.] Instead they fight with flagrant lies to demonize my<br />better name, in a, never to succeed attempt to silence my<br />cries for real Justice for our forsaken dying selves.<br /><br />And, then, the rest of you, join me in concluding, America's<br />TREEASONOUS Art Bell and George Norry seriously suck when they<br />refuse US to openly discuss such subjects - such as - our<br />evidenced conclusions in defending our honorable police<br />officers who actually protect our lives for freedom's struggle<br />from godless bushite tyranny.<br /><br />G.W. Bush, the actual for real antichrist recently stated<br />Iraqis owe him gratitude for instituting the theft of all our<br />Emergency Aid monies, Iraqi Development funds, natural<br />resources, while raping and torturing the INNOCENT by lawless<br />dictate, and, or course, indiscriminately bombing at least<br />700,000 People loved by God. Please, I beg YOU, help<br />yourself. See an air force bushite enemy, kill it for God's<br />love for America. Please, be a man, not a bush-whore nazi<br />fascist enemy of Life Yourself.<br /><br /><br />I am America,<br /><br />Johnny Wizard<br /><br /><br /><br />-<br /><a href="http://www.thestream.com/">http://www.thestream.com/</a> (religious programming, but good!)<br />-<br /><br />Further for Winnipeggers:<br /><br /><br />In Winnipeg, we have a radio station called CJOB. That<br />CRIMINALLY thieve from our poorest neighborhoods with the<br />lotteries, literally millions. Now as a local Cop, you can<br />review Johnny's "Stand Together, or Don't", then call the RCMP<br />on this issue, and they will tell you as a Winnipegger, they<br />can't go in and arrest the seriously murderous enemies of our<br />communities at CJOB et al. because, the Premier needs to<br />formally institute the criminal investigation in Parliament.<br />While the Premier will tell you as he did me, he can't because<br />our People of the Province ONLY has fascist pro killing<br />Christian Zionists at CJOB and the Winnipeg Free Press<br />Editorials, as outlets that allow our political "realities" of<br />the VLT's to be discussed. The Lottery pays both criminal<br />operations STOLEN millions in advertising, so as a result,<br />managements, from both agencies forbid Manitobans to know the<br />true mathematical scam/losses. As propagandists who LIE<br />routinely to Our teen Soldiers about dying for Enron in<br />Afghanistan, our Premier fears their contempt for our lives<br />would continue with more viciously evil lies, (like<br />democratically elected eight times Socialist Chaves is an<br />"evil" "totalitarianist" giving out care to raise the poor,<br />blind bushite war bad guy terrorists, and, Israel is Jewish!)<br />so as a result, Doer fears another Filmon could be brought in<br />with CJOB propaganda to rob further worst than we already are.<br />[Filmon's private company responsible for selling reduced cost<br />shares of stolen MTS was caught by the RCMP (as reported by<br />CKY) buying social insurance numbers from the homeless in<br />Winnipeg for ten dollars, so to NAKEDLY steal hundreds of<br />millions, holding with CJOB and the WFP, our ability to demand<br />Justice - in total contempt. (They choose not to cover it<br />still.)] My fears of CJOB's pro-bushite enemies, stealing our<br />entire Universe is non-existent. Let US demand open radio<br />communications on the mathimatical facts to save our own<br />selves further victimhood to their personal contempt for the<br />true value of YOUR life. Thanks.<br /><br />Can you help us speak this outrage to your local media outlets?<br /><br />thanks again bud.<br /><br />-<br /><br />Blood Meridian: Bush's High Crimes of Torture and War<br /><a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/floyd/floyd54.html">http://www.lewrockwell.com/floyd/floyd54.html</a><br /><br />/ / "sacred duty as Commander-in-Chief to protect the nation,"<br />which, in his mind, means waging aggressive war, torturing<br />people, spying on us all and looting the treasury on behalf of<br />his cronies. The only possible way to derail his destructive<br />and criminal course is impeachment. \ \<br /><br />-<br /><br />Impeach for Peace!<br /><br /><a href="http://impeachforpeace.org/index.php">http://impeachforpeace.org/index.php</a><br /><br />-<br /><br /><a href="http://neworleans.media.indypgh.org/uploads/2007/01/battle_plan_of_christ.mp3">http://neworleans.media.indypgh.org/uploads/2007/01/battle_plan_of_christ.mp3</a><br /><br />I HATE bushite with everything I am.<br /><br />Johnny America - The Free World President and CEO of Shareware Earth<br />Co.<br /><br />Join the cause!<br /><br />P.S. Before it's too late, do you have a few tens of<br />thousands of dollars to front me, so I can afford to survive<br />this onslaught of wars against my Humanity? ... I have huge<br />responsibilities to defend myself judicially through our<br />supreme Justice system here in Canada, all for the defense of<br />the truly innocent, YOU, while I'm paid not a thin dime from<br />anyone to work now YEARS non-stop just too keep myself from<br />starving broke, so please, if you Companies out-there can give<br />to a good cause this new year, think of me on international<br />radio!!!. Billion dollar love boom in the entertainment<br />circles Shirley, and think of all the good things we have<br />waiting, that could come about if such wisdom was understood<br />to be wiser than what we have currently? And no, I'm not<br />stupid. Look, George Norry and Art Bell, I'm asking you to<br />defend American interests by supporting the evidenced arrest,<br />evidenced trial, and evidenced sentencing of those who<br />committed the treasons of 911 through lying THEY did. To US.<br /><br />Welcome Home,<br /><br />Johnny America<br /><br />-<br /><br /><a href="http://newmexico.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/battle_plan_of_christ.mp3">http://newmexico.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/battle_plan_of_christ.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://nhindymedia.org/usermedia/audio/11/battle_plan_of_christ.mp3">http://nhindymedia.org/usermedia/audio/11/battle_plan_of_christ.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/battle_plan_of_christ.mp3">http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/battle_plan_of_christ.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/battle_plan_of_christ.mp3">http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/battle_plan_of_christ.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://istanbul.indymedia.org/uploads/battle_plan_of_christ.mp3">http://istanbul.indymedia.org/uploads/battle_plan_of_christ.mp3</a><br /><br />-<br /><br /><a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/AAafghanwar.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/AAafghanwar.html</a><br /><br />- "The months preceding September 11 [see] a shifting of the<br />US military's focus ... Over several months beginning in<br />April [2001] a series of military and governmental policy<br />documents [are] released that [seek] to legitimize the use of<br />US military force in the pursuit of oil and gas." Michael<br />Klare, an international security expert and author of Resource<br />Wars, says the military has increasingly come to "define<br />resource security as their primary mission." In April, Tommy<br />Franks, the commander of US forces in the Persian Gulf/South<br />Asia area, testifies to Congress in April that his command's<br />key mission is "access to [the region's] energy resources."<br />The next month US Central Command begins planning for war with<br />Afghanistan, plans that are later used in the real war.<br />[Sydney Morning Herald, 12/26/02]<br /><br />See? It's admitted that the zionists planned to STEAL the<br />rights of Afghans for Enron, by LYING to SOLDIERS to get them<br />killed as the American Pension thieving bad guys. Too<br />COWARDLY parasitic to hunt those responsible for murdering<br />thousands of "Americans". 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Killing a THIEVING bushite is to save the lives<br />of the innocent they target for murder. The cowardly bushite,<br />dies sacrificed - all to help IT slavishly escape those<br />responsible for 'getting away with' murdering thousands of<br />Americans in New York City on 911. Sorry George W. Bush and<br />company, enemy traitors to God and America, not under our<br />eternal watch. The People has spoken forever on this subject<br />of direct accountability. Bush told us we didn't need any<br />evidence, well, I know that WE DO, so, fuck you too George<br />Bush Jr.. This is my World..<br /><br />Demon bush told us Saddam wouldn't let inspectors in, and<br />that's why he irrationally started this war against God<br />conflict. Impeach him, then have him PUNISHED for high<br />treason against a further dying as truly unheard from America<br />- for that lie alone - we ALL could/should stand together as<br />equals demanding re-dress for the innocent murder victims<br />who've suffered for such contempt, and belligerence for the<br />basic precepts of freedom as Justice, or G-D as Johnny.<br /><br />-<br /><br />No evidence against an accused is US being truly abused<br /><br />"These are not terrorists, they are not al-Qeada, they are<br />ordinary innocent men, women and children."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.tv/audio/131206rivero.mp3">http://www.prisonplanet.tv/audio/131206rivero.mp3</a><br /><br />-<br /><br />"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President<br />to explain to us what the exit strategy is."<br /><br />- George W. Bush, discussing Kosovo, Houston Chronicle, 04-09-99<br /><br />-<br /><br />"First we sent Americans to their deaths for your lie, Mr.<br />Bush, now we are sending them to their deaths for your ego.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/01/02/olbermann-special-comment-on-sacrifice/">www.crooksandliars.com/2007/01/02/olbermann-special-comment-on-sacrifice/</a><br /><br />-<br /><br /><br />Death to the godless bushite, death to America's lawless enemies<br /><br />DUMFUK BUSHITE ENEMY OF GOD "This is not a job in anyway<br />shape or form, this is not a job. this is a lifestyle. and<br />we choose this type of lifestyle."<br /><br /><br />Traitor LIAR Hannity "Knowing the danger?"<br /><br />DUMFUK BUSHITE ENEMY OF GOD "Yeah."<br /><br />Traitor LIAR Hannity "Well, isn't that the definition of Bravery?"<br /><br />The DUMFUK ENEMY OF CHRIST "Uhhuh."<br /><br />See, TRAITOR Hannity [who deserves to be executed for the<br />treasonous DOCUMENTED lies he tells America almost daily]<br />would claim any and all serial murderers and rapists in<br />America are the definition of bravery. Bushite dumfuks<br />deserve to die as enemies of America because they openly,<br />purposefully target the innocent to rob from and murder, as<br />bushite did on 911. They bomb cities. Thus is why Christ<br />[ME] tells loving children to gladly help Life kill their own<br />godless fathers or brothers who CHOOSE to commit these war<br />crimes against our humanity with their contempt for Justice,<br />Johnny and America. {Especially those in George W. Bush's<br />air force.] A bushite's hatred for America is blatant with<br />every monosyllabic grunt they make. In nazi zionist america,<br />they have a Zionist national radio program that forbids the<br />nation to know they're presently being victimized for criminal<br />sacrifice, and apparently, Americans would rather DIE, than<br />hunt George Norry, or Art bell for questioning. A nation of<br />fascist nazi cowards, who go silently to their graves in their<br />support of torturing innocent people to death for the thieving<br />EVIL bushite's pleasure.<br /><br />Death to the godless bushite, death to America's lawless enemies.<br /><br />Bushite Zionist atheists believe that I, as the Son of Man,<br />Couldn't be anything but their worst nightmare. No, WE, as<br />Humanity, will religiously really kill bushite continuously to<br />hasten the day when America actually fights to win, free<br />communications for Justice's claim. General Ahmad funded<br />911's Atta.<br /><br />Die bushite die. Die bushite die. die bushite die.<br /><br /><br />/ / "How could I order men to die for something I believe is<br />wrong?" \ \<br /><br />Bushite aren't human as disciples of the for real antichrist<br />enemy of Creation. They eat radio-active toxic waste before<br />asking, why would we eat radio-active toxic waste without<br />thinking?<br /><br />-<br /><br />/ / We are reminded today of how far the Iraqi people have<br />come since the end of Saddam Hussein's rule - and that the<br />progress they have made would not have been possible without<br /><br />the continued service and sacrifice of our men and women in<br />uniform. \\<br /><br />Progress? Fuck don't you too hate bushite with everything YOU<br />are? Iraqis had public health care, and University prior to<br />the bushite stealing everything they could as sworn enemies to<br />progress. Had a justice system that Bush never aired any<br />concern regarding the evidence requirement to form our<br />conclusions. kill a bushite and all day long you win God's<br />praise as a bonafide, as honorable, freedom fighting<br />liberator.<br /><br />-<br /><br />"For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal<br />shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's<br />just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it."<br />- George W. Bush<br /><br />Kill a bushite and God wiill love you for<br />defending US, the innocent in war time.<br /><br />-<br /><br />LISTEN CAREFULLY<br /><br />"The truth of that matter is, if you listen carefully, Saddam<br />would still be in power if he were the president of the United<br />States, and the world would be a lot better off." George W.<br />Bush<br /><br />SADDAM'S HANGING VERDICT IS ILLEGAL AND UNJUST<br /><a href="http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m29377&hd=&size=1&l=e">http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m29377&hd=&size=1&l=e</a><br /><br /><br />America, the ungodly<br /><br /><a href="http://www.stlimc.org/usermedia/audio/8/america_the_ungodly.mp3">http://www.stlimc.org/usermedia/audio/8/america_the_ungodly.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://baltimore.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/america_the_ungodly.mp3">http://baltimore.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/america_the_ungodly.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://istanbul.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/12/america_the_ungodly.mp3">http://istanbul.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/12/america_the_ungodly.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://cleveland.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/12/america_the_ungodly.mp3">http://cleveland.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/12/america_the_ungodly.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://dc.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/america_the_ungodly.mp3">http://dc.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/america_the_ungodly.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/12/america_the_ungodly.mp3">http://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/12/america_the_ungodly.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://miami.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/12/america_the_ungodly.mp3">http://miami.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/12/america_the_ungodly.mp3</a><br /><a href="https://israel.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/america_the_ungodly.mp3">https://israel.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/america_the_ungodly.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://www.phillyimc.org/media/2006/12//35295.mp3">http://www.phillyimc.org/media/2006/12//35295.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://media.indypgh.org/uploads/2006/12/america_the_ungodly.mp3">http://media.indypgh.org/uploads/2006/12/america_the_ungodly.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://www.ntimc.org/attachments/dec2006/america_the_ungodly.mp3">http://www.ntimc.org/attachments/dec2006/america_the_ungodly.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://newmexico.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/12/america_the_ungodly.mp3">http://newmexico.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/12/america_the_ungodly.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://buffalo.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/america_the_ungodly.mp3">http://buffalo.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/america_the_ungodly.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://newjersey.indymedia.org/media/2006/12//12910.mp3">http://newjersey.indymedia.org/media/2006/12//12910.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://boston.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/america_the_ungodly.mp3">http://boston.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/america_the_ungodly.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/12/america_the_ungodly.mp3">http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/12/america_the_ungodly.mp3</a><br /><br /><br />BUSH TO GENERALS: GET LOST<br /><a href="http://movies.crooksandliars.com/SC-Bush-GeneralsGetLost.wmv">http://movies.crooksandliars.com/SC-Bush-GeneralsGetLost.wmv</a><br /><br />/ / Yes, those words coming from the man who's decided the<br />only way to turn things around in Iraq is by sending in more<br />troops. Despite being told by the Joint Chiefs, Colin Powell<br />and the man running the Iraq war, General Abizaid, that<br />sending more troops to Iraq would only get more Americans<br />killed Now, seeming to confirm his opponent's worst suspicions<br />that this president does not value the opinions of those with<br />whom he disagrees, Mr. Bush has now decided to go it alone in<br />Iraq against the wishes of his allies, against the desires of<br />his fellow countrymen, and yes, even against the advice of his<br />own generals. \ \<br /><br /><br />The demon enemy of America, Our Mr. bush Jr., responsible for<br />911, creates hope in God that honorable men of this Earth,<br />will assist the Humans in hunting to kill bushite enemy<br />terrorists who support torturing and thieving from US, the<br />godly as innocent. Every time we hear of another bushite<br />death, god celebrates OUR wins over the ungodly demon<br />antichrist forces. Death to the bushite, death to our enemies<br />who murder innocent people with LIES against America and GOD.<br /><br /><br />/ / The Crown would suggest her ignorance on such subjects is<br />irrelevant to her case against me, for those children's lives,<br />and others like them, are not who she is working to protect.<br />So, where I demand is a crime against our real God occurring I<br />ask the hiding in darkness Crown to explain herself publicly<br />in the light of these proceedings to our Honorable Lord. \ \<br /><br /><br />-<br /><br />LET IT BE KNOWN<br /><br />Let it be known, that the senior management national news<br />reducers of CBC and CNN, know full well, they would rather<br />watch American Soldiers die as the thieving bad guys, than to<br />defend God's America by reporting that the demon enemy George<br />W. Bush, and his business partner General Ahmad, committed<br />the terrorist acts of 9/11, along with Rumsfeld, Rice, Cheney,<br />and Myers.<br /><br />We shall, start there, and continue on until we've nabbed<br />every last treasonous culprit found at the ends of the ample<br />crimes scene leads. Propagandized stupider than the fates<br />will allow, an American is universally recognizing itself as<br />an enemy to their own cowardly dying selves. For, my friend,<br />America's America will not stand undefended with these beliefs<br />of mine I give freely. Soldiers along with honorable Police<br />officers I would ask, to bravely/politely demand our time<br />on national broadcasts for the spoken defense of Justice for<br />America. For, Johnny wants to debate the bushite publicly on<br />the validity of the Iraq war, considering that it has no true<br />justifiable cause. Meaning: all stolen revenues will be<br />returned to the Iraqi people, with interest, paid for by those<br />responsible for stealing it. Justice Johnny has now<br />officially arrived on the scene to hunt bushite down to the<br />ends of life - to teach'em with kind words, or the other way<br />with graver sentences handed down by us believers in freedom<br />from tyranny. Hint: Don't fuck with the real People of God<br />who are refusing to take more chances with enemy bushite<br />neo-con bullshit. An innocent person shall not be imprisoned<br />in my name, nor shall they be tortured, robbed, or murdered.<br />Bushite enemies that don't like that arrangement, we arrest,<br />try, and if convicted on the war crime capital offenses of<br />first degree mass murder, such as we will find regarding<br />Mattis, Blount, Russell, and Sattler, Allawi and Doud, then,<br />and only then, we together will joyously have them publicly<br />executed for the good of the entire human species. In the<br />name of Jesus, Allah has spoken for life in which all are<br />granted equal privilege to love with everything we are<br />together alone with the stars. Death to the ungodly bushite,<br />instead of the innocent they target for plunder with<br />treasonous lies as a betrayal to our real names. God and the<br />Great America.<br /><br />---<br /><br />Realize, CNN and CBC have received this post, yet, continue to<br />lie to dying soldiers for the unholy benefit of the enemy<br />neo-con.<br /><br /><br />The "Shock and Awe" Gallery©<br /><a href="http://www.marchforjustice.com/shock&awe.php">http://www.marchforjustice.com/shock&awe.php</a><br /><br />/ / "The children seem to be the most openly enthused.<br />They are getting a chance at a future the likes of which<br />would never have been possible under the oppressive<br />regime..." \ \<br /><br />---<br /><br />When we cancel other people's human rights, we cancel our own.<br /><br />= Highwater =<br /><br /><br />---<br /><br />The Verdict<br /><br />The Winnipeg Police Department is running a fencing operation<br />out of their "Exploitation" Unit. Disclosed by a current<br />serving officer in the Unit during the preliminary. In one<br />case used as an example, a law abiding Winnipeg business owner<br />had 50,000 dollars worth of business equipment stolen, and if<br />he wanted it back, he would have to make costly "legal"<br />efforts through a corrupted Justice system in Winnipeg that<br />holds Canadian Soldiers in complete contempt by "Law". The<br />Crown is not only refusing to co-operate with defending<br />Winnipeg citizenry, in relationship to the, National problem<br />of fencing through bad lawed Police action operations, and the<br />lotteries [information forwarded in part by the elected<br />Premier of our Province], but also, in respect to our<br />sacrificing soldiers. Soldiers who Canada now knows without<br />shadow of doubt, are being maliciously propagandized through<br />the corporate mouth pieces of the most heinous war criminal of<br />history, the ungodly enemy of Creation responsible for<br />instituting the terrorist crimes of 9/11. Obstructing Justice<br />by aiding and abetting the terrorist crimes of first degree<br />mass murder in New York City is suppose to be a serious<br />offence in Canada. So, as treasonous to Canadian Liberty, the<br />Crown in my case is refusing to have the police chief, or<br />other Crowns look into this matter. [I suggested by my Court<br />motion to our Court system to consider contacting another<br />office from a different province perhaps.] While the Judge,<br />publicly for the Winnipeg record, agreed to side with the<br />Crown instead, without stating the whys - that Justice for<br />Canada would not be served under his rule on my suggestion.<br />Just put a soldier in prison if they should dare stand up in<br />defense with their lives for Canada is what this unjust case,<br />yet to be reported on by our national press, is turning out to<br />be actually. I would ask you once again, to please make some<br />effort to get on local Winnipeg Radio, or Coast to Coast to<br />plead for some defense on this matter of morality. You know,<br />this Freedom thing does involve you too. So, George Norrie<br />and the rest of you lot, listen, I think you've made some<br />horrible judgment calls, and I'm asking you now, to live up<br />to your responsibilities to my America, and invite me on for<br />free discussions on these matters.<br /><br />All I want is to challenge the man.<br /><br /><br />Merci.<br /><br /><br />---<br /><br />A Soldier's Life Held in Contempt<br /><br /><br />The way I see it, is that I am completely documented correct<br />on who was responsible for the terrorist crimes of 9/11. I<br />have my own theories on why our media and police services have<br />failed our Soldiers by refusing to support my cause directly<br />thus far, but I am far without hope.<br /><br />I believe the failures of me gaining direct wide support<br />through our police services and the Court of Queen's Bench, is<br />much more so for fear of uncertainty, and lack of leadership,<br />than a general, across the board support of furthering Bush's<br />war crime sprees by going still silent while Canadian soldiers<br />are left forsaken. I speak out publicly often regarding the<br />911 evidence in America, and email campaigns of my writings,<br />done for public recognition, I'm told, continue to swell to<br />near epic proportions. Intelligence officers the world over<br />most certainly know of my position on this matter. Those who<br />may support the fight for Bush rule in our police services,<br />can mostly only do so, risking in dishonorable blind personal<br />fear of the great unknown I figure. And, crazy as this may<br />sound, I believe there is a spooky cool God, for I'm walking a<br />groove most all of the time.<br /><br /><br />The affidavit that starts "1. National Security Issues" was<br />submitted in conjunction with my motion to request assistance<br />from the Court. The additional paper "Stand Together or<br />Don't", was an added part of the same affidavit.<br /><br />The affidavit with 38 positions was submitted with the two<br />motions, "Order of Production" and "for the Crown to Stay<br />Proceedings". Duplicate copies of the same affidavit were<br />submitted in each respect.<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------<br /><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25177-2004Mar25.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25177-2004Mar25.html</a><br /><br />"Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage contradicted<br />Rice's claim that the White House had a strategy before Sept.<br />11 for military operations against al Qaeda and the Taliban."<br /><br />This indicates that with the foreknowledge gained through<br />prior experiences of Muslim fundamentalists, such as the<br />Taliban, being forbidden by their religion [Jihad] to<br />persecute the innocent, left the Bush Administration with only<br />needing to do, and had officially done, was to use no evidence<br />to back up allegations to insure invasion plans, and as a<br />result, a deliberate treasonous criminal strategy to not<br />follow the crime scene leads at the real murder scene to nab<br />to true evil doers. For otherwise - spoil the top secret<br />plot.<br /><br /><br /><br />--<br /><br />/ / In another characteristic incident, Bush asserted, as he<br />has repeatedly, that any decision on withdrawal of American<br />troops from Iraq "will be made by military commanders, not by<br />politicians in Washington DC." Congressional Republicans gave<br />a standing ovation to this remark, which amounts to a<br />declaration that, in the war for "freedom" and "democracy" in<br />Iraq, there is no room for such trifles as control over the<br />military by the civilian authorities, and subordination of<br />decisions on war and peace to the democratic will of the<br />American people. \ \<br /><br />Exactly. The demon enemy of life itself, Our Mr. bush Jnr.,<br />who publicly parades his contempt for freedom and God, must<br />be stopped for all costs, that include for sure, your own<br />as reader.<br /><br />Realize, CNN and CBC have received this post, yet, continue to<br />lie to dying soldiers for the benefit of the enemy neo-con.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.indybay.org/uploads/news-tunes.mp3">http://www.indybay.org/uploads/news-tunes.mp3</a><br /><br /><a href="http://newmexico.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/01/news-tunes.mp3">http://newmexico.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/01/news-tunes.mp3</a><br /><br />These are the motions than were filed on behalf of Johnny<br />Wizard's defense in Winnipeg. A man arrested for threatening the<br />continuing existence of the lawless demon anti-Christ, Our Mr.<br />bush Jnr. The demon nazi who murdered thousands in New York<br />City as God's enemy. I, beg and plead my case to ALL that<br />will listen. The tyrannies of suffering on our God happen<br />when good people go silent in the face of evil. Please do not<br />forsake all that is good within yourself, by leaving my call<br />unheard from.<br /><br />---<br /><br />/ / Color me naive, but when I hear talk of cages, detention<br />and/or concentration camps, my mind usually wonders in devious<br />directions. I haven't seen anywhere in history where detention<br />centers and so forth were used as freedom enhancing tools.<br />View this anyway you wish, but do so at your own peril. \ \<br /><br /><br />--<br /><br />AFFIDAVIT<br /><br />AFFIDAVIT OF JOHNNY WIZARD<br /><br /><br />I, Johnny Wizard, in the city of Winnipeg, Province of Manitoba<br />MAKE OATH AND SAY:<br /><br /><br />1.<br /><br />Pakistani ISI Director General Ahmad orders an aide to wire<br />transfer about $100,000 to hijacker Atta. Ahmad later resigns<br />after the transfer is disclosed in India and confirmed by the<br />FBI. [Dawn, 10/8/01, Times of India, 10/9/01, Wall Street<br />Journal, 10/10/01, AFP, 10/10/01] The individual who makes the<br />wire transfer at Ahmad's direction is Saeed Sheikh, later<br />convinced for kidnapping and murdering reporter Daniel Pearl<br />in February 2002. ABC News later reports, "federal<br />authorities have told ABC News they've now tracked more than<br />$100,000 from banks in Pakistan to two banks in Florida to<br />accounts held by suspected hijack ringleader Mohamed Atta."<br />[ABC News, 9/30/01] CNN also reports the $100,000 transfer,<br />and the New York Times specifies that it came in 2000. [CNN,<br />10/1/01, CNN, 10/6/01, New York Times, 7/10/02] Ahmad's order<br />must have preceded June 2000, since that's when Atta and<br />others started opening bank accounts and receiving the money<br />($109,910 is received by Atta and Marwan Alshehhi between June<br />19 and September 18). [MSNBC, 12/11/01]<br /><br />2.<br /><br />On March 3, 2002, MSNBC's Jim Miklaszewski reported that he<br />had received anonymously, top secret presidential war strategy<br />documents dated September 9th, 2001, originating from<br />Condolezza's office, outlining a strategy to invade<br />Afghanistan premised on blaming bin Laden a terrorist, but<br />providing no evidence to back up the allegations, thereby<br />guaranteeing criminal invasion. Only workable if Laden pleads<br />innocence to a crime that hadn't yet taken place, a crime<br />serious enough to "justify" sacrificing American GIs truly for<br />a liquefied natural gas pipe line for pension thieving Enron.<br />["The Dahbol Working Group" and Bridas] Any evidence for any<br />offense would have been sufficient to have Muslim<br />fundamentalists hand Laden immediately over, as they had<br />offered [as others of other nations had also] repeatedly<br />during the Clinton years.<br /><br />CBC and CNN have still, to this day, consciously refused to do<br />any follow up on the intelligence, deciding instead on behalf<br />of dying people everywhere, our public devolvement of a just<br />society.<br /><br />3.<br /><br />RTÉ News - US rejects Taliban bin Laden evidence calls<br />21 September 2001 17:41<br /><br />The White House has rejected requests from Afghanistan's<br />ruling Taliban for proof that Osama bin Laden was responsible<br />for last week's attacks. According to the US Secretary of<br />State, Colin Powell, the United States has enough evidence to<br />try bin Laden in an American court.<br /><br />The US Government said there would be no negotiations.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />4.<br /><br />[This following document was the official damning account]<br /><br />Responsibility for the terrorist atrocities in the United States<br />4 October 2001<br /><a href="http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/page3554.asp">http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/page3554.asp</a><br /><br />[This Internet Domain is Britain's Prime Minister's]<br /><br />"This document does not purport to provide a prosecutable case<br />against Usama Bin Laden in a court of law."<br /><br />The document doesn't hold ANY case, as that was the strategy.... See?<br /><br />5.<br /><br />Investigating the Investigation<br /><a href="http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17816">http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17816</a><br /><br />After playing a tape of Cheney's statement, Russert asked<br />Daschle, "Did the vice president call you and urge you not to<br />investigate the events of Sept. 11?" Daschle flatly<br />contradicted Cheney: "Yes, he did, Tim, on Jan. 24, and then<br />on Jan. 28 the president himself at one of our breakfast<br />meetings repeated the request."<br /><br />...."[T]hat request was made" by Cheney not only on Jan. 24<br />and by Mr. Bush four days later, but "on other dates<br />following" as well.<br /><br />6.<br /><br />ABCNEWS.com : FBI Called off Terror Investigations<br /><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/DailyNews/FBI_whistleblowers021219.html">http://abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/DailyNews/FBI_whistleblowers021219.html</a><br /><br />Two veteran FBI investigators say they were ordered to stop<br />investigations into a suspected terror cell linked to Osama<br />bin Laden's al Qaeda network and the Sept. 11 attacks...<br /><br />`You Will Not Open Criminal Investigations'<br /><br />7.<br /><br />October 9 2001 - The Times of India<br /><br />"While the Pakistani Inter Services Public Relations claimed<br />that former ISI [the "Pakistani CIA"] director-general Lt-Gen<br />Mahmud Ahmad sought retirement after being superseded on<br />Monday, the truth is more shocking. Top sources confirmed<br />here on Tuesday that the general lost his job because of the<br />"evidence" India produced to show his links to one of the<br />suicide bombers that wrecked the World Trade Center. The U.S.<br />authorities sought his removal after confirming the fact that<br />$100,000 were wired to WTC hijacker Mohammed Atta from<br />Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh [Omar Saeed] at the instance of<br />General Mahmud [Ahmad]. Senior government sources have<br />confirmed that India contributed significantly to establishing<br />the link between the money transfer and the role played by the<br />dismissed ISI chief. While they did not provide details, they<br />said that Indian inputs, including [Omar Saeed's] mobile phone<br />number, helped the FBI in tracing and establishing the link."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />8.<br /><br />No evidence was brought against Laden for nine eleven, none.<br />[So according to Bush's official top secret Presidential<br />directives] While Laden himself claimed he played no part in<br />911. Still, to save the lives of third worlders on the brink<br />of starvation, Laden agreed to hand himself over, but Bush<br />refused the offer, while CBC and CNN denied to report on that<br />fact for the behalf of now dying dismembered American GIs.<br />Once the indiscriminate bombing began, targeting almost every<br />building in the country of Afghanistan, Laden then claimed he<br />had no choice but to fight back to defend US innocent from the<br />ungodly enemies of Creation/Freedom. Then the clear to all<br />fake video came out with an actor who's face wasn't even close<br />to looking remotely like Laden, but for almost the facial<br />hair. [Bridge of the Jamaican actor's nose is HALF as long in<br />proportion to Laden's for example, and surely frightfully<br />shocking for some, the actor doesn't even take blame for 911<br />either!] Photos comparing the two faces never aired on CBC and<br />CNN available in about twelve seconds with the power of the<br />Internet.<br /><br />9.<br /><br />former FBI deputy director and murder victim John O'Neill<br /><br /><br />"the main obstacles to investigating Islamic terrorism were<br />U.S. oil corporate interests and the role played by Saudi<br />Arabia."<br /><br />10.<br /><br /><br />Alex Jones interviewing Former German Defense Minister Andreas Von<br />Buelow<br /><br />"Bush signed W199I months before 911 ordering the FBI not to<br />stop Al-Qaeda. They threatened to arrest FBI agent Robert<br />Wright if he tells us what he knows."<br /><br />11.<br /><br />Mr. Bush was quoted somewhere regarding Mr. Laden's guilt of<br />complete innocence with "We don't need any evidence, we know<br />he's guilty."<br /><br />12.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.govexec.com/column/forwardTodaysColumn.cfm?sectionID=14">www.govexec.com/column/forwardTodaysColumn.cfm?sectionID=14</a><br /><br />" [FBI's] Edmonds concluded that documents clearly showed that<br />the Sept. 11 hijackers were in the country and plotting to<br />use airplanes as missiles. She said documents also included<br />information relating to their financial activities. "<br /><br />13.<br /><br />The honorable Argentinean oil company Bridas' relationship can<br />not be understated as the Bush Administration's primary motive<br />on criminal invasion of Afghanistan to save his biggest<br />corporate backers, the American pension thieving Enron.<br /><br /><br />>From "An American demands the truth from you" by Karl W. B. Schwarz<br /><br />" I demand to know what energy companies were in that Cheney<br />Energy Task Force meeting and what discussions there were as<br />to the steps that would be taken to remove the Taliban and<br />Bridas Corporation as the last remaining obstacle to the<br />United States controlling the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline. I<br />met that company in 1999 and have known since then about the<br />Bridas v Unocal, $15 billion interference of contract lawsuit<br />in US District Court, Southern District of Texas. I also know<br />about the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision on September<br />9, 2003 that upheld the Bridas $500 million arbitration<br />settlement and the March 22, 2004 denial of Writ of Certiorari<br />at the United States Supreme Court, Case 03-1018, Turkmenneft<br />v Bridas."<br /><br />14.<br /><br />>From "Fresh Memories of War" by Kandea Mosley, The Ithaca Journal (New<br />York), 25 May 2002:<br /><br />"We were told there were no friendly forces," said [Army<br />Private Matt] Guckenheimer, an assistant gunner with the 10th<br />Mountain Division at Fort Drum. "If there was anybody there,<br />they were the enemy. We were told specifically that if there<br />were women and children to kill them."<br /><br />15.<br /><br />Quote from "A Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial<br />Bombing of<br />Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Accounting"<br /><br />by Professor Marc W. Herold Ph.D., M.B.A., B.Sc.<br />Departments of Economics and Women's Studies McConnell Hall<br />Whittemore School of Business & Economics University of New Hampshire<br /><br />When U.S warplanes strafed [with AC-130 gunships] the farming<br />village of Chowkar- Karez, 25 miles north of Kandahar on<br />October 22-23rd,killing at least 93 civilians, a Pentagon<br />official said, "the people there are dead because we wanted<br />them dead." The reason? They sympathized with the Taliban.1<br />When asked about the Chowkar incident, Rumsfeld replied, "I<br />cannot deal with that particular village."<br /><br />16.<br /><br />US TROOPS ADMIT SHOOTING IRAQI CIVILIANS<br /><a href="http://www.veteransforpeace.org/us_roops_admit_061903.htm">http://www.veteransforpeace.org/us_roops_admit_061903.htm</a><br /><br />"American troops today admitted they routinely gun down Iraqi<br />civilians - some of whom are entirely innocent.<br /><br />And in an admission that directly contrasts with the line<br />coming out from the Pentagon's spin doctors Specialist<br />Corporal Michael Richardson added: "There was no dilemma when<br />it came to shooting people who were not in uniform, I just<br />pulled the trigger."<br /><br /><br />The Crown would argue this issue isn't in her jurisdiction,<br />however, it is in mine as a expressive communicator fighting<br />for freedom from real tyranny. An irrational tyranny that<br />only stands exercised by corporate "news bite" censorship, and<br />false imprisonments. An American Prosecutor put Sergeant<br />Benderman in prison for refusing to kill God's children. Now,<br />what do you really think America would do, if "they" knew that<br />too?<br /><br />17.<br /><br />Bush demands total impunity on the war crimes he is personally<br />responsible for<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/oct2002/icc-o12.shtml">http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/oct2002/icc-o12.shtml</a><br /><br />18.<br /><br /><a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FD57CF75-62E8-4C43-BF2D-2D0F0F89437B.htm">http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FD57CF75-62E8-4C43-BF2D-2D0F0F89437B.htm</a><br /><br />"Marines said the men fired on them. A senior officer said<br />they had no weapons, but that with shots coming in the men<br />were legitimate targets because they ran."<br /><br />19.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1872">http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1872</a><br /><br />CAIR also wants the Pentagon to investigate a photograph<br />circulating the Internet of two Iraqi boys and a U.S.<br />soldier. A smiling soldier stands besides the two boys who<br />are giving a "thumbs up" sign, as one of boys holds a sign<br />written in English that reads, "Lcpl Boudreaux killed my Dad,<br />th[en] he knocked up my sister!"<br /><br />(Link to photo: <a href="http://www.cair-net.org/images/lcpl11.jpg">http://www.cair-net.org/images/lcpl11.jpg</a>)<br /><br />20.<br /><br />Guardian Wednesday 7, 2001 - "FBI claims bin Laden inquiry was<br />frustrated"<br />[this story was on Bush's top secret W199i directive]<br /><br />This information would take a well paid intelligence officer,<br />or CBC reporter no more that thirty seconds to look for follow<br />ups. For, I know, the BBC did also a national news report on<br />it.<br /><br />21.<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: Are you aware that this tank is contaminated with<br />radiation?<br /><br />SOLDIER: No, it isn't radioactive.<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: But we have measured it.<br /><br />SOLDIER: No, it isn't radioactive, not this tank.<br /><br /><br />"Basra is on a river," he noted. "A DU shell poisons the<br />water in a river. It poisons the grasses and the grains. It<br />sinks into the ground and poisons the water table. When it<br />gets into the body, it does incredible damage. The<br />combination of radioactivity and heavy metal toxicity is such<br />that it affects the DNA in such a way that you get genetic<br />alterations."<br /><br />[thousands of tons of measured radio-active toxic waste, heavy<br />metals, oxidized to microscopic particles as small as a tenth<br />of a micron have been deposited in our airspace, however, CBC<br />and CNN have refused to inform ourselves on the scientifically<br />measurable extremely serious health concern issue..]<br /><br />22.<br /><br />Justice Department lawyer John Yoo, "In the exercise of his<br />plenary power to use military force," Yoo insisted, "the<br />President's decisions are for him alone and are unreviewable."<br />Yoo was also quoted recently on CBC national news report<br />regarding the torturing of innocent people to death, to state<br />something like "President Bush doesn't have to justify his<br />opinions to Canada or even to the United States for that<br />matter."<br /><br />23.<br /><br />The incriminating FBI email dated 22 May 2004, indicates that<br />president<br />Bush personally<br />signed off on certain interrogation techniques in an executive order."<br />(See original at<br /><a href="http://globalresearch.ca/articles/FBI.121504.4940_4941.pdf">http://globalresearch.ca/articles/FBI.121504.4940_4941.pdf</a>)<br /><br /><br />24.<br /><br />U.S. deserter 'didn't want to have to kill babies'<br /><br />"Mr. House will argue that American soldiers are guilty of<br />war crimes and that forcing Mr. Hinzman to fight in Iraq<br />would have made him a war criminal.<br /><br />He will call as a witness former U.S. Marine Staff Sergeant<br />Jimmy Massey, who is expected to testify that he and other<br />soldiers shot more than 30 unarmed Iraqis, including women and<br />a six-year-old child, at a U.S. military checkpoint."<br /><br />25.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45373-2004Dec7.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45373-2004Dec7.html</a><br /><br /><br />that a clandestine military task force in Iraq was beating<br />detainees, ordering Defense Intelligence Agency debriefers out<br />of the room during questioning, confiscating evidence of the<br />abuse and intimidating the debriefers when they complained."<br /><br />26.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/printer_121004W.shtml">http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/printer_121004W.shtml</a><br /><br />A sacked CIA official is reportedly suing the agency for<br />allegedly retaliating against him for refusing to falsify his<br />reports on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to support the<br />White House's pre-war position.<br /><br />27.<br /><br />``I was faced with being deployed to Iraq to do what the<br />infantry does, kill people, and I had no justification for<br />doing so,'' he testified. ``This was a criminal war. Any act<br />of violence in an unjustified conflict is an atrocity.''<br /><br />28.<br /><br />Williams's squad stopped a dump truck, and an Iraqi climbed<br />out. "Light him up!" the sergeant ordered, according to<br />testimony, and the squad opened fire, killing the unarmed man.<br />Williams and a squadmate reportedly got into an argument over<br />which of them had scored Company C's first kill.<br /><br />29.<br /><br />It gets worse. We already knew about the Franklin County,<br />Ohio, precinct that tallied 4,258 votes for Bush when only 638<br />people had actually voted.<br /><br />30.<br /><br /><a href="http://middleeastinfo.org/forum4970">http://middleeastinfo.org/forum4970</a><br /><a href="http://wallofhate.com/">http://wallofhate.com/</a><br /><br /><br />Israeli Soldiers Going In For The Kill: A 13 year old<br />Palestinian [JEWISH] school girl is about to die<br /><br />"It's a little girl. She's running defensively eastwards, a<br />girl of about 10. She's behind the embankment, scared to<br />death."<br /><br />"Anyone who's mobile, moving in the zone, even if it's a<br />three-year-old, needs to be killed."<br /><br />31.<br /><br />US forces unleashed more than 20 air strikes and some 60<br />artillery rounds on Monday, said Major Todd Desgrosseilliers.<br />[...] An AFP reporter in the Jolan district said one building<br />in every 10 had been flattened. As US-led troops closed in on<br />the neighborhood overnight, at least four 900-kilogram bombs<br />were dropped in the city's northwest.<br /><br />[destructive radius of a 900-kilogram bomb is half a<br />kilometer, and all TRUE accounts of death rates for Fallujah<br />alone, a city where the population was forbidden to leave,<br />exceed two hundred thousand innocent souls.]<br /><br />32.<br /><br />The Bush Administration<br />In rush to defend White House, Rice trips over own words<br />Friday, March 26 @ 10:12:40 EST<br /><br />By Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank, San Francisco Chronicle<br /><br />"Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage contradicted<br />Rice's claim that the White House had a strategy before Sept.<br />11 for military operations against al Qaeda and the Taliban.<br />The CIA contradicted Rice's earlier assertion that Bush had<br />requested a CIA briefing in the summer of 2001 because of<br />elevated terrorist threats. And Rice's assertion this week<br />that Bush had told her on Sept. 16, 2001, that "Iraq is to<br />the side" appeared to be contradicted by an order signed by<br />Bush on Sept. 17 directing the Pentagon to begin planning<br />military options for an invasion of Iraq."<br /><br />[ And...]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25177-2004Mar25.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25177-2004Mar25.html</a><br /><br />"Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage contradicted<br />Rice's claim that the White House had a strategy before Sept.<br />11 for military operations against al Qaeda and the Taliban."<br /><br />This indicates that with the foreknowledge gained through<br />prior experiences of Muslim fundamentalists, such as the<br />Taliban, being forbidden by their religion [Jihad] to<br />persecute the innocent, left the Bush Administration with only<br />needing to do, and had officially done, was to use no evidence<br />to back up allegations to insure invasion plans, and as a<br />result, a deliberate treasonous criminal strategy to not<br />follow the crime scene leads at the real murder scene to nab<br />to true evil doers. For otherwise - spoil the top secret<br />plot.<br /><br />33.<br /><br />Blix nor Elbaradei, nor Kofi, suggested, implied, or stated,<br /><br />that Iraq had failed to comply with the newest U.N.<br />resolution: 1441.<br /><br />HANS BLIX: "And at this juncture, we are able to perform<br />professional no-notice inspections all over Iraq and to<br /><br />increase aerial surveillance..."<br /><br />With complete, one hundred percent access to go where ever the<br />Bush Administration pleased without delay, left a situation of<br />an unjust war only detrimental to an ability to bring about<br />any good or better thing. American soldiers are being<br />sacrificed for no better good or reason understood, for if<br />progress will ever be made, it will be when they work to bring<br />about a political situation that was there in Iraq before the<br />Bush Administration starting murdering innocent people for<br />nothing . Well, not completely, for Bremer shipped 19 billion<br />to Greenspan early on, then, hundreds of millions were sent<br />back.<br /><br /><br />34.<br /><br />Professor Steven E. Jones, a tenured BYU professor, went<br />public several weeks ago after releasing a 19 page academic<br />paper, essentially showing how the laws of physics do not<br />support the WTC's freefall and, consequently, the official<br />government story. It should be known that World Trade Center<br />Building Seven was not struck by an airplane, yet fell exactly<br />the same as the two towers.<br /><br />Below both towers were found pools of molten steel, only<br />creatable with the heating by high explosives.<br /><br />Excerpts from "Me, Art Bell, and 9-11 by Lisa Guliani"<br /><br />The official version of the WTC collapses defy both Galileo's<br />Law of Falling Bodies, and also Isaac Newton's First Law of<br />Motion.<br /><br />..if we know that hydrocarbon fires can only reach a maximum<br />temperature of 1517 degrees Fahrenheit, how could they<br />possibly have melted this steel, when the melting point of<br />steel is 2,795 degrees and the boiling point of steel (when it<br />becomes a molten liquid) is 5,182 degrees Fahrenheit.<br /><br />The existence of these burning pools of molten steel were confirmed<br />by:<br /><br />- Mark Lorieux of Controlled Demolition, Inc<br />- Peter Tully, President of Tully Construction<br />- and the American Free Press newspaper<br /><br /><br />35.<br /><br /><br />"To be truthful about it, there was no way we could have got<br />the public consent to have suddenly launched a campaign on<br />Afghanistan but for what happened on September 11..."<br /><br />Tony Blair Speaking To House of Commons Liaison Committee<br /><br />36.<br /><br />The Washington Post, 23 September 2001.<br /><br />At American urging, Ahmed traveled ... to Kandahar,<br />Afghanistan. There he delivered the bluntest of demands.<br />Turn over bin Laden without conditions, he told Taliban leader<br />Mohammad Omar, or face certain war with the United States and<br />its allies.<br /><br />Mahmoud's meetings on two separate missions with the Taliban<br />were reported as a "failure." Yet this "failure" to extradite<br />Osama without providing a shred of eidence was part of<br />Washington's documented design, providing a pretext for a<br />military intervention which was already in the pipeline. If<br />Osama had been extradited, the main justification for waging a<br />war "against international terrorism" would no longer hold.<br />Nor would the ready to go Patriot Act. Incidentally, when<br />MSNBC contacted the Whitehouse regarding the top secret<br />invasion of Afghanistan plan, it was confessed that the plan<br />had been "fully implemented"<br /><br /><br />38.<br /><br />"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it<br />is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it<br />is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it<br />is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or<br />a communist dictatorship ... Voice or no voice, the people<br />can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is<br />easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being<br />attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism<br />and exposing the country to danger." -- Hermann Goering, Nazi<br />leader, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II<br /><br />39.<br /><br />On the wall of the National Holocaust Museum: " Thou shall<br />not be a victim, thou shall not be a perpetrator, and thou<br />shall not be a by-stander"<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />----------------<br /><br /><br /><br />When we cancel other people's human rights, we cancel our own.<br /><br />=Helen & Harry Highwater=<br /><br />---<br /><br />HELP ME FOR CHRIST SAKE!<br /><br />Please, I beg you to assist me in this cause immediately!<br /><br />Ack! It turns out that there IS a criminal conspiracy run out of the<br />Winnipeg Police Department's Exploitation Unit!<br /><br />Ack!! It turns out that the Crown IS aiding and abetting the<br />terrorist crimes of first degree mass murder!!<br /><br />Ack!!! It turns out the Judge threw this whole Revelation thing out<br />without any consideration offered, while the Crown is currently<br />working on a public ban of disclosure in Winnipeg on these<br />continuing documented crimes!!!<br /><br />50,000!! a pop! Stolen from law abiding business owners!!!<br /><br />Crimes forwarded to the public in part by the concern of Manitoba's<br />Premier!!!!!<br /><br /><br />SEND THIS TO EVERY RCMP OFFICER OR SOLDIER OF FORTUNE YOU CAN FIND!<br /><br />Send this post for me to also Winnipeg media persons or to anyone who<br />will listen. If you don't, then, you ain't my friend. Come on! Do<br />something for us, and I promise to help you out later if I can.<br />Help me through the goodness of your heart, so we won't get<br />railroaded into prison fraudulently by those that hide in darkness<br />as pirates of our human will. The will to be free.<br /><br /><br />The Crown's interpretations of my possessions are not my expressions!!<br /><br />I AM INNOCENT.<br /><br />The Judge through this whole thing out for the defense<br />without any consideration offered to OUR COURT!<br /><br />HELP!!!<br /><br />---<br /><br />Since I am representing myself on these particular criminal<br />matters, Legal Aid is not required to lend assistance on the<br />grounds that I'm not co-operating with the system as it<br />operates through professional Barred representations. [I am<br />eligible for walk in consultations but nothing of the sort of<br />assistance I am requesting] Considering the complexity of my<br />judicial matter, I would request legal assistance from the<br />Court in these following areas.<br /><br />1. National Security Issues<br /><br />I need assistance in understanding the legal statutes that our<br />national security services are obligated to practice under, to<br />insure our national security matters are being truly defended<br />in my respect. No change in summation of my character was<br />altered, after they were granted a search warrant to verify it<br />was me who publicly spoke out for honorable FBI officers<br />denied their rights to speak freely, then as the Court knows,<br />instead of doing what they argued to grant such privilege to<br />infringe on my personal liberty, enforced a less than perfect<br />law that most others would buckle under, even if they harbored<br />no criminal intent, and would never do anything to infringe on<br />the rights of any child. For I challenge; it does not serve<br />Canada's interest (in particular our teen soldiers) to<br />knowingly have Canada propagandized under the serious failures<br />of CBC and the National Security Services to lend no wanting<br />cry to hear REAL FBI officers who factually allege, with<br />evidence and everything, President Bush's business partner,<br />(who was at the Whitehouse Sept. 9th working on the top<br />secret invasion of Afghanistan strategy to heavily arm heroin<br />pushers who war to keep women as slaves while weaponizing<br />children - done all for a liquefied gas pipe line to profit<br />his darling dear Enron) funded 9/11's "mastermind"<br />"ringleader" Mohammad Atta. Inside sources from the RCMP have<br />notified me, that in the last four years, Section D's salaried<br />employees, have done practically nothing to serve Canada's<br />interest in this respect. While Canada's CSIS does not have<br />the legal ability to speak out publicly regarding the criminal<br />transgressions of President Bush, and because of this nature<br />of CSIS's position, they have almost only fears to live with<br />by trying. A CSIS officer told me, many were completely aware<br />of President Bush's criminality regarding his hugely<br />treasonous actions of mass murder on 9/11, but could do<br />practically nothing about it outside of filing the reports<br />with the federal government, or maybe anonymously sending<br />something to CBC, with no promises that anyone would actually<br />read it. All the while, the senior CSIS boss brags<br />contemptuously in public about his ties and commitment to his<br />friends in the ISI. Perceived easily/mistakenly I'd imagine<br />as a threat to all of Canada's Honorable police officers and<br />Judges. [General Ahmad was the Bush junta's appointed head of<br />the ISI.] I think Canada's Prime Minister Paul Martin is<br />genuinely a good man, but it is hard to see him publicly take<br />a stand on this issue, [if he even received said reports] on<br />behalf of honorable police officers and soldiers everywhere,<br />in defense of the human race, risking everything, considering<br />he already does bring about a great deal of good for Canadians<br />where he stands. [Compared to you know, a let's send the kids<br />to war for whatever Harper, or nobody in Winnipeg<br />("officially" 86%) wants us to give away the public assets so<br />let's do it anyway for ourselves privately Filmon] But to know<br />the RCMP's Section D, sides that they can't tell us the top<br />secret reason they have not perused Justice for the sake of<br />Canadian soldiers who bravely put their lives on the line, of<br />which some have already died, is a situation no Canadian would<br />tolerate if they knew these freely available facts to decide<br />for themselves. Sure we can be counted lucky that only so few<br />Canadians have died thus far, but when will the sacrifice of<br />Americans, Afghanis, Iraqis, and soon to be Iranians with the<br />Syrians, along with more than fifty other countries officially<br />marked for death by the lawlessly irrational bushite<br />terrorists, be more than YOUR willing to bare? As publicly<br />reported repeatedly in European press, Mr. Sattler ordered<br />the bombing of health care clinics in Fallujah as first strike<br />targets because he didn't want doctors or nurses to "falsely"<br />report that his forces target primarily the innocent to steal<br />more from America in blood and treasure. Then under Sattler's<br />command, they proceeded to monstrously murder more than two<br />hundred thousand innocent souls, while covering the region in<br />radio-active toxic waste that will continue to kill for a<br />scientifically estimated billion or two years. Hell on Earth<br />is what un- arrested Sattler represents as an enemy to all<br />living things. God included. An aside: Did you know the<br />commander of the Third Infantry, Maj. Gen. Buford 'buff'<br />Blount III, is truly a Saudi Wahhabist in disguise, who took<br />up the job at the request of the Bush junta, and subsequently<br />left near 170 tons of plastic explosives unprotected for<br />looting in Qaqaa? Why? Well when asked why he commanded to<br />leave the weapons unattended to instead, go carnage Baghdad,<br />with, I'm serious, sanctioned thieving expeditions, he<br />replied, he just wanted to let us know he was there. "We just<br />wanted to let them know that we're here.'' In Basra, the<br />coalition is still leaving as of last week, more than 30 known<br />weapons storage facilities unprotected. See, the neo-con<br />peenacker gang can't steal everything without a stupid man war<br />going. Left continuing unattended without national<br />discussions, leaves further in it's wake, more innocent<br />victims of war crimes fallen undefended. I would ask that<br />instead of me seeking to find where it is written, that the<br />RCMP must be committed to getting the man for nine eleven,<br />perhaps I can just request we work together, for a national<br />CBC radio forum kicked off by some kinda joint, international<br />press release acknowledging briefly our failures to<br />communicate in the past, and politely request where Canada<br />could go through open line discussions on these very serious<br />matters. We must not allow our soldiers to be made<br />misinformed by CBC's unwillingness to bravely with honor,<br />defend our great Nation. Or, perhaps, Canada might want to<br />consider hiring me on as, we'll see how it goes honorary RCMP<br />spokesperson?, a paid consultant for my expertise in<br />recognizing the real bad guys, and then I'll go out there, and<br />win the good fight by using praise with fewer insults. If we<br />stay committed to defending freedom by defeating war<br />criminals, we all will be the better for it. Now, take me to<br />your leader.<br /><br />2. Local Police Issues<br /><br />As so was brought to the attention of the Courts in the<br />previous motions, through considering the charge that was<br />brought against me, (where no criminal intent in alleged, and<br />nobody can possibly see a digital image until it is already at<br />least in one's possession, case closed, I'm free to go still<br />without my stolen computer gear.) I discover, the child<br />exploitation unit is not operating in a manner that would<br />effectually reduce the proliferation of truly illegal<br />materials. They have included images to demonize me that they<br />must know are left legal to distribute, or for those couple<br />images categorized as for sure illegal unto themselves, are<br />left publicly unhindered when it comes to Police questioning<br />in a manner that would concern illegal public expressions.<br />Now, I personally don't believe the Courts are consciously<br />operating in a nefarious manner deliberately to steal computer<br />gears to sell as sadomasochists who enjoy seeing lovers of<br />life go to prison falsely for five year stints, but come on,<br />something seriously needs to be done in how things there are<br />run. I believe the failures are, in part, do to the personal<br />fears officers have of the information universe; for to<br />acknowledge information sharing through p2p networks or<br />Usenet, would be to witness criminal code violations by the<br />score going corporately unaddressed. Like Bush being guilty<br />for high treason in God's America for example, Iraqi church<br />goers slaughtered by faithful Bush lovers, women raped by<br />"freedom fighting" GIs, the sex slave trade, or that VLT's are<br />being run criminally (section 209, 380(1) 380(2), 181, 52(1-4)<br />with a math game scam that even a sixth grader can figure, but<br />not the "Free Press" editor, or commercial savvy CJOB's Vic<br />G-----. Being our city's big Bush backers, where our dying<br />universe is simpler, like "we don't need any evidence, we know<br />he's guilty", refuses a, trying to be responsible citizen to<br />formulate their own conclusions through our media on why we<br />have laws. Anyway, I need to have some one to cross check the<br />"illegal" images through recorded internet domains, to see<br />which ones are/were located in Canada and elsewhere, and what<br />if any attempt the exploitation unit tried to limit found<br />providers. I suspect many providers they would claim they<br />can't do anything about, are so not because a crime is<br />occurring, but in that respect, actual evidence of criminal<br />conduct would be required before an internet provider, server,<br />or site owner could be recommended for censorship. Not this,<br />twenty year olds look like they could be ten year olds, or<br />that, simply naked children being human should not be viewed<br />in their/our minds as something youthfully beautiful.<br /><br />To Police effectually, I would suggest a public domain<br />transparently coded checksum program checker to automatically<br />recognize, known illegal materials made available free, with a<br />downloadable database updated by the work of one or two<br />officers monitoring currently available internet image traffic<br />- classifiable almost near the speed of electricity across the<br />country. This action is good to take despite my personal<br />innocence or fraudulent guilt, for media labelings are<br />completely impossible to designate content/control, but as<br />such, shouldn't forbid Police services from locating where<br />possibly actual hugely offensive content is being distributed<br />through. With volunteer co- operation of programming, a user,<br />server, or internet service provider could be warned of<br />material almost in their possession as expression is<br />classified criminal so then simply delete it, and carry on.<br />I'm confident such Police planning with open for public<br />appeals to fine tune further, would end putting the hugely<br />profitable exploitation units across the continent almost<br />completely out of business. Now, who truly wants that?<br /><br />3. Constitutional Challenges<br /><br />This possession charge absent intent, where everybody is auto<br />guilty to lose all their stolen computer gear through<br /><br />fraudulent demonization of the innocent included, is a for<br />sure, crime in progress. I'd imagine if we had a public<br />inquiry, we'd find what the exploitation crews are doing, is<br />needing to locate only a small few arguably illegal<br />depictions, then trumping up a lot of fraudulent totals.<br />Figuring, I'd imagine, if they openly started convicting<br />individuals for a couple of images they perhaps deleted when<br />witnessed, people might begin to ask, just how much money is<br />the unit taking in sold stolen merchandise? Perhaps 50,000<br />dollars in a single case where the business owner of said<br />stolen property wasn't even charged for a criminal offense!<br />No troublesome Court appearance required to protect your<br />public business image even! Generally, in cases that do reach<br />trial, all images are seldomly reviewed by the Courts, and at<br />the "professional" porno viewers discretion, or the Crown, a<br />small sample is only offered. [The professional naked people<br />person they have in my case I suspect is lost somewhere in<br /><br />bushville as the clinically insane, or just extremely helpful<br />to my Judicial cause, thanks big guy, either way.] This has<br />worked largely unhindered because lawyers for the defense<br />wouldn't generally see a connection. For only one freely<br />available image that you couldn't see until you already had<br />it, is all that is needed to put a, loss for words Canadian,<br />in prison for half a decade. Not only that, but such<br />convictions insist irrationally that the guilty must also be<br />sexually deviant and require professional counseling. The law<br />enforced absent rights infringed needs to be Constitutionally<br />challenged as clearly unjust, and the sentencing structure as<br />being seriously cruel. [What does one guilty of an actual<br />assault for comparison get, or better yet, threat of assault<br />that was never truly made?] So, as a result, I need the<br />assistance of Constitutional lawyers who would provide me<br />consultations on prepatory requirements and on the relevant<br />Constitutional questions regarding this specific challenge.<br />And maybe co-operation with the Crown or Police chief to tally<br />records and total sales figures on cases under similar<br />circumstances to consider the exploitation unit for<br />re-evaluation. [Example: The foolish, faith in ignorance<br />argument given by all similar units, is that nothing can be<br />securely deleted from a hard drive is assuredly patently<br />ridiculous. Truly indicative however, that we do indeed have<br />a real hidden problem here regarding their/our intelligence<br />gathering capabilities.] While maybe supporting public<br />discussions on how to even improve further, the valuable work<br />that the exploitation unit surely does do already somewhere<br />I'm sure to operate for our interests. We may together have<br />to overthrow CJOB with our human skills at demanding some<br />space to talk about bettering our lives by communicating<br />without two minute commercials every five minutes, and opening<br />up the phone lines to talk about whatever. They take too much<br />from us as the clearly disenfranchised already. Like, so<br />who's talk radio station is it anyway?<br /><br />4. The Crown's Crown<br /><br />I have concerns regarding the job requirements that our<br />community asks a Crown to bravely achieve. One, would be to<br />pursue Justice for the principled betterment of our society.<br />It is clear to anyone familiar with my case, that our<br />corporate media managers have decided for one fear or another,<br />that such noble reaches must be left from the grasp of<br />Canadian soldiers and their loving giving families. This<br />place the Court holds of a principle that all people should be<br />treated fairly, includes those we know Bush has already had<br />murdered in America under these left silenced demands for a<br />true accounting by good police work completed already. The<br />fear that every criminal Court Crown shrugs off when proudly<br />defending the innocent in our legal challenges, seems thus<br />far, absent in support of Justice for Johnny. When I read<br />statements from the Crown stating, John's legal arguments<br />against traitor Bush is irrelevant to the case our Crown<br />holds against myself, in our name as Canadians, smacks of an<br />unjust and blind totalitarian state. Corporately broadcasted<br />uncertainty is forsaking the innocent lives of Bush's<br />continuing real murder victims. Certainly, the Crown has a<br />responsibility to pursue just causes, and granted, can falsely<br />suspect I don't hold the best of intentions towards life with<br />everything I am. However, the Crown's summations of my<br />character will never change the official FBI's conclusions<br />arrived at by following the crime scene leads, at the real<br />murder scene, to discover who personally is still escaping<br />arrest for mass murder of our good friends in New York City on<br />9/11. A crime who's principle perpetrators obviously<br />faithfully count on this form of injustice to dictate<br />continuous failures by our Crown to serve our public interest.<br />For whatever reason, my case documents a corporate news agenda<br />of non-committal in our pursuit of Justice for ourselves as<br />the little people. Ourselves, including the Crowns of all<br />Canada, are, without doubt, denied fair representation by CBC<br />standards. Canada is being left not defending honorable<br />American police officers, doing their jobs to the best of<br />their ability, should not leave too, our Public's Crown<br />unrepresented. (If the Crowns of Canada so willed it in our<br />names.) So, I would ask that the Crown's refusal to speak out<br />for Canada, while fighting to silence my cries with an unjust<br />as cruel prison sentence, be investigated for obstructing<br />Justice, and therefore, aiding and abetting the terrorist<br />crimes of first degree mass murder. Now, how to do this...<br />I'm not sure. Perhaps the Court's assistance of aid in the<br />form of one or two Crown offices from a different province in<br />Canada could be considered, or a Constitutional Law firm more<br />up on what all I got to work with here. Look, somebody has<br />tricked my nation, and subsequently our naiver youths, into<br />excepting Canadians can not hear the silenced screams of<br />global tyranny. If soldiers the world over need to die for<br />Bush, let it be for something worth fighting. Freedom must be<br />Canada, a Canada that would go if asked, in favor of Universal<br />Justice always. Just ask US.<br /><br /><br />Your Friend,<br /><br />John W.<br /><br />-----------------<br /><br />I know I'm innocent under the law as it currently stands, and<br />in addition, I wished to teach our Courts why the law stands<br />unjust against our public in other respects. With no criminal<br />intent to obtain or distribute something illegal alleged<br />against myself, and the simple truth that one can not perceive<br />an image until it is at the very least, already in one's<br />possession, says enough by itself. But most importantly, the<br />Crown's interpretations of my possessions are not my<br />expressions. Example: I could have in my possession a<br />written work from one who espouses the glories of war criming,<br />but I, personally, am diametrically opposed to it's unwise<br />declarations.<br /><br /><br />---------------<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />THE QUEEN'S BENCH<br /><br /><br />WINNIPEG CENTRE<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />NOTICE OF MOTION<br /><br /><br />For an Order of Production<br /><br /><br /><br />BETWEEN:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN,<br /><br /><br /><br />and<br /><br /><br /><br />JOHNNY WIZARD<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Accused.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This Notice of Motion regarding an Order of Production is to<br />have disclosed to the defense, the complete evidence without<br />undue hindrance, evidence the Crown holds against the accused<br />as a member of our public. These following arguments are the<br />reasons why Justice must prevail in these proceedings:<br /><br /><bigsnp><br /><br />In conclusion, I need to show where my outstanding character<br />was at, by indicating exactly what I spent my free time on, to<br />illustrate for our Court, my TRUE intent as motive on this<br />matter.<br /><br /><br />Yours truly,<br /><br />JOHNNY WIZARD<br /><br /><br />------------------------------------<br /><br /><br /><br />THE QUEEN'S BENCH<br /><br />WINNIPEG CENTRE<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />NOTICE OF MOTION<br /><br />for the Crown to Stay Proceedings<br /><br /><br /><br />BETWEEN:<br /><br /><br /><br />HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN,<br /><br /><br />and<br /><br /><br />JOHNNY WIZARD<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Accused.<br /><br /><br /><br />The Validity of the Law<br /><br /><big-snp><br /><br />Why?<br />Because you wont speak out for anyone else's rights to be<br />heard publicly - the bushite enemy trust to figure. Justice<br />is Freedom, and to have a real concern for another's lost<br />rights to freely be, is to be truly concerned with your very<br />own in serious jeopardy. I wouldn't lie to you. Believing,<br />as the bushite do, willfully deceitful corporate news<br />propaganda excuses the Bush Administration's rampant<br />criminality against the innocent as God is, truly, excuses<br />nothing, especially if I have something to say on the subject<br />of accountability.<br /><br />This final Court challenge against my Freedom to be myself,<br />that the bush administration attempted firstly to do top<br />secretly, has now been laid publicly at our door step as a<br />blatant threat to everyone of us as a member of the Canadian<br />Public. Will you help me politely address my false accusers<br />on our public airwaves? Will you help speak for freedom from<br />tyranny is this question riddled, or will you deny yourself my<br />generous helping?<br /><br />The reasons why such abhorrent behaviors continue unaddressed<br />in our Police Force actions will be documented fully with<br />remedies offered during the second part of the third phase of<br />the upcoming Question Period press conferences - press<br />conferences running during the available down times of The<br />Trial of<br /><br />JOHNNY WIZARD<br /><br /><br />--<br /><br /><br /><br />/ /And that of course gives the bushites and CBC and CNN their<br />implausible deniability, where they can say their remaining<br />neutral, by not providing us the facts to allow us to decide<br />for ourselves. Because otherwise, we wouldn't kill ourselves<br />to profit the bushmob cabal of God haters. Who victimize<br />innocent Christians for no other reason but for to profit off<br />our suffering.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />Think of all those people in that situation as God. And<br />these, the bushite nazi grunts, have positions that are<br />completely irrational, they're making no sense, your fuking<br />up. It's like a cancer that God of that whole situation, is<br />inflicted with. They're lying to themselves. If your there<br />to fight on behalf of Iraqis, you take a position to demand<br />all the money that has been taken through this Iraq<br />Development Fund, be returned. \ \<br /><br /><br />--<br /><br /><br />/ / What is particularly disturbing is how the administration<br />misused intelligence information to make its case for war and<br />failed to plan competently for the postwar period. \ \<br /><br />What seems even more disturbing, to me, and PBS' FRONTLINE, is<br />that there was a "State" plan, the ORHA plan to prevent<br />looting and carnage, but it was sabotaged by rumsfeld and<br />franks, so the bushmob could try to make some sense of<br />needlessly bombing the country for our labored dollars, while<br />robbing the central bank and museum by mopping up the mess<br />with the bodies of American Patriots still dying as da' dumfuks.<br /><br />-----------------<br /><br />you know what is right, though you may still be blind, never<br />too late to change your mind, we are all in agreement, in<br />truth we rise, evil is just the deceived disguised...<br /><br /><br />STAND TOGETHER, OR DON'T<br /><br />Our Gambling Problem<br /><br /><br />Instead of our government deciding what services we need and<br />are willing to pay for, they'll have us think that by actively<br />promoting gambling to those we can take advantage of, somehow<br />serves them right, and us well. This abnormal behavior is not<br />only destructive to many cheated players, their families and<br />friends, but also to our institutions, government, and<br />economy. You may have heard some say, that gambling is a tax<br />on stupidity, and here are only some of the reasons why. This<br />information is for you to judge, think freely, ask the<br />questions, then pray your wrong. The whole VLT system our<br />government uses is so deeply flawed it's beyond belief. They<br />count credits as dollars, reporting to trusting economists and<br />reporters, a payout of 96%. They will tell you they're needed<br />because otherwise the victims of manipulation would travel to<br />the states before the local state casinos to spend their last<br />two bucks, and they should, their odds are a real deal better.<br />There are no checks and balances in place as there is normally<br />to regulate tax revenues. Nobody in the corrupt gaming<br />commission, MLC, AFM in fact Canada has looked at the computer<br />code, and in Montana where they have, they've made them<br />illegal to operate. They're not stupid. Some of the possible<br />new car owners at the MLC, state that the machines run on a<br />random basis. They have deduced this by testing that they are<br />computers and can simulate a random number concluding<br />presumably that every computer program is just an act of<br />chance. I guess the free cars to some in management make this<br />easier. If this is true, how come no one ever wins more than<br />a $1000? If, as they claim, it is random, occasionally one<br />might win $33 billion by starting at 125 credits doubling 30<br />times. Get a deck of cards and a calculator and try! Your<br />odds are slim, but at least you have a chance. If this type<br />of psychological manipulation is to be allowed, why not<br />physiological as well. Why not put an odorless chemical right<br />on the pay slips that would leach through the players skin,<br />causing them to act against their better judgment? Body and<br />mind? Here's a tip: Bar owners are privy to much statistical<br />information, that we, the general public are not. If they<br />play, your being really stupid. Also the machines are filthy,<br />wash your hands. You see, they're trying to turn us against<br />each other, into one of them, blinding us, making us lash out<br />and cheat our weaker brothers and their families, if it means<br />we can drink their blood (190+ suicides last year). But in<br />truth, we are all being bled. BAH HA! It is a pure<br />regressive tax, no attached goods or services! Billionaires<br />own freezers and stacks of paper! These players are REAL<br />consumers, shopping and moving the economy, if they hadn't<br />lost all our money. Filmon was right wing when he called in<br />gambling for the stupid. Was not the reason for forcing the<br />VLT's into our homes to protect us from casinos? Were we not<br />warned that if you remove what would normally be consumer<br />dollars from an economy, there would be less there? If you<br />call the gaming commission they take 4%, Manitoba lottery<br />books say 30%, but in truth they take all they take. They<br />pull in 191,000,000- (not mentioning 92% casinos and the shut<br />down of Crystal, not enough money in an honest game of cards,<br />and all those losing free $2 ticket tickets) in revenues each<br />year. If you divide revenues by 4813 odd machines, 313 odd<br />days a year, holy Christmas, if they return 96%, that's close<br />to a payout of $3000 every day, every machine! Why don't we<br />take 40%? We could advertise the best odds in North America!<br />It works well in Vegas, where they actually give players a<br />chance with games of chance, and because more than 50% of the<br />players are from out of state. In Oct 97, Nova Scotia gaming<br />Corp. head Ralf Fisk quit claiming his concerns were ignored,<br />and his power was stripped. In Dec 97, 5 of 6 B.C. gaming<br />commissioners quit stating they felt they were made redundant<br />and could provide no significant contribution. I guess the<br />major media doesn't think this is worth knowing! If your<br />lucky enough to get a hold of any of the receipts that come<br />out when the machines are opened, or tilted, you'll see that<br />if you count actual game-ply, some bars, are taking 70%+ of<br />the games and giving you all the credit. Churning of credits<br />with many NON- random events, and prize amounts are critical<br />in determining how much is actually removed and returned to<br />our communities. Why don't we promise a payout of 99.9%, we<br />can still take the same amount of the dollar. Couple extra<br />play 5 win 5 backs, walla! Some gaming (don't say lottery!<br />VGT's?) information is classified information, so there are<br />only a small tiny few, who might know all the details, but<br />refuse to tell anyone, some by law or maybe threat. They<br />destroy "gaming operations" records (VLT's and casinos)<br />yearly, but keep employee's names for fifty! (under MLF0028)<br />Their argument, that makes it illegal, for anyone to publicly<br />disclose the actual dollars, on a site by site basis was<br />"site-holders could gain an unfair advantage if they knew what<br />their competitors were taking in" How? Don't they already<br />have one? If you average it out, bars are making close to ten<br />grand a machine per year, Just provide an addict a seat, and<br />you can still pay your waitresses minimum wage. People can be<br />addicted to many things like VLT's or peanuts, and they can be<br />equally motivating, but they have different consequences.<br />It's nearly impossible to consume 500 dollars worth of peanuts<br />in 2 seconds, and how many entertaining peanuts are there,<br />that leave you smiling and filled with glee? Mr. dealer will<br />you help these addicts see? If you deposit a hundred thousand<br />and then cash out without playing, it's now short four<br />thousand, and the bars, more flesh for the pound. If these<br />bars were ever caught committing such an act, they'd get a<br />wink and 2 days of profits taken, instead of time in Stony<br />Mountain. If Stephenson did it, who would know! They paid<br />out 2.6 billion in credits, and took 191 in cash! Should we,<br />the fascists (look it up), support a predominantly VLT<br />infested NDP riding with provincial funding, nothing wrong<br />with that, right? When Stephenson (the same who told us no,<br />we would never sell MTS, then sold it way below value,<br />hundreds of employee's fired, rates etc.) was asked way back<br />on June 24/95 in the Sun, why some areas such as Carman,<br />Morden, Thompson, and The Pas, were losing as much as 1.4<br />million yearly after counting provincial grants Stephenson<br />quipped "We have to make an assessment to make sure the<br />project makes economic sense for the area" the same story also<br />informs us, we guarantee a 10% return of gambling profit to<br />our communities. So I guess that means we're really stealing<br />as much as 90%?#! Also in conjunction, we threaten<br />communities that don't want the machines, saying they wouldn't<br />get "revenues". Then shouldn't those that do, get theirs?<br />Even if they did, how would they? Would it be like the "well<br />advertised" $25,000 VLT hearings held between 1 and 4 on a<br />weekday, where apparently only something like six from<br />Manitoba showed up, with nothing important to say. Is that<br />imp lying a thread to 1,043.863- of us, which of at least 96%,<br />want to know where in hell they are going. Can they be that<br />stupid? Can we? We'd bet er.. not. If we were misled, we<br />should be outraged! There is nothing wrong with earning<br />money, but this is a great deal of money stolen off the backs<br />of the sore, the desperately poor, grocery stores and many<br />many more. Is it because we think we're only illegally<br />(section 209, 380(1) 380(2), 181, 52(1-4) etc.) ripping off<br />evil welfare mothers with too much money in their pockets, or<br />those sinister seniors on some mental incomes? Many in the<br />media mistakenly think that if we cheat the poor and stupid<br />into paying more in taxes, theirs will equally go down. That<br />is misguided, this regressive tax doesn't simply work in this<br />manner. In addition, the lotteries claim that 300 mill is<br />spent in salaries to less than 10000 employees. We know it's<br />not into the workers at the casinos or bars. Just what is the<br />going rate for paper shredders? Are there any other sides<br />that should be at issues? Would you like all information to<br />make a sound right decision? Why would one would not? A<br />crucial trust is clearly being violated. I would suggest<br />showing prudence with where you place your full page ads until<br />some of these serious questions are addressed. Nobody is<br />watching, nobody is really regulating, where are we? Your<br />dream of utopia? You'll have us pay huge taxes, take away tax<br />benefits from all renters($?) and single mothers, infants,<br />create monopolies for your sympathizing fascist supporters<br />knowingly against the interests and wishes of the vast<br />majority, cut back on provincial welfare if necessary,<br />liquidate assets, screw the schools (you certainly don't need<br />to be educated), hospitals, breed a judicial system to keep us<br />reminded while you drain the entire economy, and if there's<br />anything left over you'll give it to a private Bank. Then<br />blame the transfer reductions of 250 mill, call it billions,<br />not telling that your including all of Canada when your good<br />for nothing, black sheep brother comes beggin for a nickel.<br />Better yet, you'll lock him up. With faith that most<br />!private! media won't bring up the fact that you pulled in an<br />extra 900, that social programs have been continually cut for<br />the last twenty years when compared to the GDP, that we don't<br />even have to be borrowing from American private banks, that we<br />are in fact being robbed, or that your brother was just hungry<br />and hurt. How does anyone buy this? On credit? Things are<br />changing from bad to worse, and everybody appears, from one or<br />two media accounts, to think, so what or, whatever. Don't<br />drink the water! A part of the problem is the journalists who<br />are in fact just trained reporters, who take all the perks and<br />none of the responsibilities. Selling off themselves to<br />something they have written, for them to read. Told what is<br />cover, where is resources, drawing our pictures with their<br />color crayolas. Telling themselves there must be a good<br />reason why no one is doing the story! Or they'll take any of<br />a 1000, why think if you don't have work to? They know the<br />scores, much more money in advertising. The odds would also<br />dictate a small tiny informed few who have their minds made<br />closed, polluted by greed, and lack of power, looking at<br />another side, pleading ignorance, they didn't see anything at<br />all, and say you won't either. Exercising power the only way<br />they can, draining from all, including themselves. Can you<br />believe it? This is our government re-appropriating billions<br />of our dollars, causing economic destruction and death!<br />Leading the way to the misled and cheated is the well paid<br />AFM, advising us to only blame ourselves, and the best thing<br />we could do for ourselves is to drink at the bar/casino. It's<br />akin to the schoolyard heroin dealer paying some chump to<br />quickly get help to misguided children by selling them crack.<br />Why bite the hand that stuffs you? Do you wonder what<br />happened to all our money? The truth is out, the lies are<br />old, but the blind idiots directing your show, don't want to<br />see, you know. Do 300,000+ petition signing Albertans,<br />incidentally more than register to vote, know something you<br />don't? Studies galore! Watch what you support with money,<br />and with your thoughts. Do your own polls! Did you know<br />we're planning to take away your fundamental democratic right<br />to put up garage, and election signs freely? How do they win<br />elections, if nobody put up any signs? How will we ever get a<br />honest deal? Is lying and cheating just endemic with this<br />communist government? Is anyone making money on all these bad<br />business investments? Pool the legislature transcripts! Take<br />a day on, call your grand mother, vote! But just how many<br />"obscured ballots" are there, phone and see. Do you think in<br />a democracy this information should be open to the public? Do<br />you own thinking! Why not? Also what's a public voters list<br />good for? Did you know since '95 votes have been tallied by<br />computer, coded in Texas? Now carefully in a measured way,<br />ask yourself, just who is foolish enough to be manipulated by<br />the machine? Having themselves, their family and just about<br />everyone else punished for it? Send for the facts, over the<br />lines, face the truth, you're living, alive! Horrors<br />committed before your eyes, n your name, are you justified?<br />If this is allowed to continue to grow, it can only turn into<br />something much worse. Slowly, your freedom will further<br />become chained, and the only thing you'll wish for is that you<br />had taken the time to take action while you had the chance.<br />Just what are the chances? Unless you think you don't count?<br />Better by golly, you sure as do so Bobby! Petitions<br />delicious! Or do nothing, continuing on going backwards,<br />selling yourself short. You know who you are, it's made up<br />for you, you don't have to go far. Just don't sit on the<br />sidewalk or leave a ticket unpaid, or beg for justice of the<br />wounded dying or dead. Blame the weak and disabled, you'll be<br />so strong, living in your fable. Then when they come for you,<br />you'll say something must be wrong, but who cares? Your not<br />listening. You'd know if you were being deceived. 1000 of<br />beer in one small sip, remove all your regulations, they're<br />just there to keep us in, and privatize always, right.. ya..<br />that's thinking. We want to sell Winnipeg Hydro, it's working<br />making a profit. All we need now are private prisons and the<br />economy will really take off screaming! The one only reason<br />people commit crimes is cause, they know we don't have guns.<br />Bombs don't kill people that are killing people! The sky<br />isn't falling, the sky isn't falling. Something to consider,<br />what's the cause-like symptom and how do you treat it? Like<br />an infection? As a matter of truth, it is completely without<br />question, there it is no such thing, as deception. Now you<br />know the rules, your losses, odds and stakes. What's your<br />limit? Can you stop? Are you feeling okay buddy? Let us get<br />out of here, and go to talk.<br /><br /><br />------<br /><br />HERO<br /><br /><a href="http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/hero.mp3">http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/hero.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://arizona.indymedia.org/uploads/hero.mp3">http://arizona.indymedia.org/uploads/hero.mp3</a><br /><br />/ / That is a high act of treason. And it's not,<br />"oh well, but maybe it's not true.." No, we have<br />the two documents of question. \ \<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />What is the Coast to Coast radio network Head talking<br />about tonight?, the re-re-re-hashing of the "Allaways<br />Interslinging" Bigfoot phenomenon? Where was I...<br /><br />Look, you're not going to go to hell for not giving me a<br />couple of dollars to further my cause, but it sure<br />couldn't help to leave me without any support here<br />whatsoever.<br /><br /><br /><br />--<br /><br />White House keeps dossiers on more than 10,000 'political enemies'<br /><br /><a href="http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7625.shtml">http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7625.shtml</a><br /><br />---<br /><br />The United States of America v. Adam Vaughn<br /><a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/kidporn.html">http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/kidporn.html</a><br /><br />He was a stand-up Marine, a beloved cop, and a local hero<br /><br />/ / Vaughn was accused of possessing child pornography on<br />the basis of images in his browser cache and downloaded<br />photos he had deleted from his hard drive long before the<br />accusations. Although Vaughn says he never sought out or<br />wanted to keep pornographic images of children, he's<br />serving four and a half years in jail. \ \<br /><br />--<br /><br /><a href="http://ww.alternet.org/columnists/story/15407/">http://ww.alternet.org/columnists/story/15407/</a><br /><br />/ / It's as if our government is telling us that if we're<br />going to look at porn, we'd better pay for it. Otherwise,<br />we might get branded pedophiles. How many innocent lives<br />will be destroyed before the child porn wars are over? \ \<br /><br /><br />---<br /><br /><br /><br />WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?<br /><br />/ / Specialist Damien "Monster" Corsetti--known<br />affectionately as the "King of Torture" among his Bagram<br />colleagues--was later fined and demoted for forcing an<br />Iraqi woman to strip during an interrogation at Abu<br />Ghraib. Yet Corsetti remains a free man. \ \<br /><br /><br />Will America hunt to kill the un-arrested bushite cancer<br />that knows thyself as the "King of Torture"? Who's<br />blasphemous open contempt for all that is God doesn't even<br />earn him a spot on America's Most Wanted?<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/bush_not_concerned_about_laden_walking_away">http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/bush_not_concerned_about_laden_walking_away</a><br />.wmv<br /><br /><br />--<br /><br /><a href="http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/another-lob.mp3">http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/another-lob.mp3</a><br /><br />/ / Why would God promise you in the Bible, go hurt myself<br />purposefully. And steal something from someone you didn't<br />earn. And be a dishonest lying bastard, just to be an<br />asshole you like to be. \ \<br /><br />--<br /><br /><a href="http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/somebody16.mp3">http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/somebody16.mp3</a><br /><br />/ / He figured anybody who committed the acts of torture<br />against the innocent, needed to be publicly executed for<br />America, by America, as America, and I, am totally in<br />agreement with that. \ \<br /><br />--<br /><br />Bush Jnr. is sure wicked evil song<br /><br /><a href="http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/bush_jnr._is_sure_wicked_evil_song.mp3">http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/bush_jnr._is_sure_wicked_evil_song.mp3</a><br /><br />--<br /><br /><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10785.htm">http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10785.htm</a><br /><br />/ / an epic study that documents the systematic nature of<br />torture by the Americans, and how casual it is, even<br />enjoyable. [...] as the head of Reuters said recently,<br />it is out of control. It is destroying lives in industrial<br />quantities when compared with the violence of the<br />resistance. \ \<br /><br />Godless bushite enemy thieves, are enemies of innocent men<br />women and children as they live and die in undefended America<br />measured worthless to the neocon traitor's bottom line.<br /><br />If YOU, personally make no effort to confront millionaire talk<br />radio hosts who insist America's more concerned with<br />discussing the importance of aliens and vampires than the<br />sacrifice of liberty for tyranny, America will die. Anti-cop<br />Coast to Coast hosts deliberately forbid Americans to learn<br />about who personally is responsible for the crimes of 911, or<br />that the war in Iraq has no rational justification whatsoever.<br />Nazi bush bitch George Norrie would happily watch your<br />American children die for the treasonous bushmob, before<br />allowing any Patriot on Your radio to discuss these serious<br />matters that confront us all. Help me gain a public voice on<br />our air waves, please.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp</a>-<br />dyn/content/article/2005/10/25/AR2005102501388.html<br /><br />/ / Mr Cheney told several Republican senators that<br />President Bush would veto the annual defense spending<br />bill if it contained language prohibiting the use of<br />cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by any U.S.<br />personnel. \ \<br /><br /><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10362.htm">http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10362.htm</a><br /><br />/ / Col. Robert Bowman: As other speakers have said,<br />they knew the American people wouldn't stand for it, and<br />they said so in their documents, and they said, unless<br />there's that new Pearl Harbor.<br /><br />[...] and it is treason. [...]<br /><br />1. We give up all rights to Iraqi oil 2. We give up<br />all rights to the rebuilding contracts- if Halliburton<br />wants a contract from you, they have to bid on it like<br />anybody else, and they have to hire Iraqis to do the work<br />for a change. 3. We give up all rights to those 14<br />permanent military bases we're building in Iraq at this<br />time. And the people in the Whitehouse are not going to<br />make those committments and so they have to go and all<br />the puppeteers with them. \ \<br /><br />/ / Rove told Cooper that further information<br />discrediting Wilson and his findings would soon be<br />declassified and ended the phone conversation by saying<br />"I've already said too much. \ \<br /><br />/ / · less than one per cent of the population believes<br />coalition forces are responsible for any improvement in<br />security; \ \<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />(Don't miss "Johnny Wizard Vs. the bushmob")<br /><a href="http://mailgate.supereva.com/soc/soc.culture.pakistan.politics/">http://mailgate.supereva.com/soc/soc.culture.pakistan.politics/</a><br /><br />(on bush's behavior during the school book 9/11 incident.)<br /><br />/ / Stuck he was then, with no mind to ruse, er.. time to<br />snooze, Arg! What was the cue? Errrch... If he moves<br />with priority interest as concerned openly honest public<br />figure, as he knows a legitimate President would have<br />been to first learn of such carnage,<br /><br />THE MONTH BEFORE IN AUGUST,<br /><br />why not previous before he left his Hotel room with a<br />television? Outside the Hotel? In the motorcade? With<br />school staff as you'd figure would have been present too<br />laughing, no? Instead he stayed as he had been to give<br />no orders publicly, nor attempt to make public inqiries,<br />but to listen with such unbelievable absolute devotion,<br />equating a beautiful child's story, as if it were Jesus<br />from the heavens himself, speaking directly on the<br />living Nature of our Universe.. \ \<br /><br /><br />>From the Johnny Wizard work - "Wait a Moment"<br /><br />[The Son of Man asks:]<br /><br />/ / Who cares about yourself if you won't listen as reason<br />to? What can you lose when you have granted to be<br />blindly stolen from? \ \<br /><br />-<br /><br />/ / An editorial appearing Wednesday in the Washington<br />Post did not mince words in denouncing Cheney's<br />intervention. His actions, the newspaper declared,<br />demonstrated that ``this vice president has become an<br />open advocate of torture.'' \ \<br /><br />/ / The War Crimes Act of 1996, a federal statute set<br />forth at 18 U.S.C. § 2441, makes it a federal crime for<br />any U.S. national, whether military or civilian, to<br />violate the Geneva Convention by engaging in murder,<br />torture, or inhuman treatment. \ \<br /><br />/ / Making a potential prosecutor's job easier, U.S.<br />Attorney General Alberto Gonzales wrote a memo in January<br />2002 to President Bush saying that America should opt out<br />of the Geneva Convention because top officials have to<br />worry about prosecutions under 18 U.S.C. § 2441. By<br />attempting to sidestep the Geneva Convention, Gonzales<br />created a document trail that can be used to prove that<br />top administration officials knowingly created a policy<br />of torturing prisoners \ \<br /><br />/ / Entitled ``The Torture Question,'' the report makes<br /><br />clear that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld bears direct<br />responsibility for the brutal methods of interrogation<br />used against US prisoners. \ \<br /><br />--<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=10136">http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=10136</a><br /><br />/ / What is happening is that Ms. Davidson and Lawyers Against the<br />War have laid charges against George Bush Jr; accusing him of<br />aiding, abetting, and counseling the commission of torture. \ \<br /><br /><br />/ / "Many Canadians don't realize that we have not only the right<br />but the responsibility to pursue these charges, it is a<br />responsibility that the Canadian government owes not only to the<br />people of Canada, but to the people of the world. \ \<br /><br />/ / "The American legal system seems incapable of bringing him to<br />justice and there are no international courts with jurisdiction.<br />So it's up to Canada to enforce the law that everybody has signed<br />on to but nobody else seems willing to apply." \ \<br /><br />/ / Irwin Cotler's credo is supposed to be "Justice, justice shall<br />you pursue" not ingratiation with superpowers who practice torture. \<br />\<br /><br /><br />---<br /><br />/ / [...] talk your arguments to 18 USC 794 anti-treason law.<br />and if he [bush] goes by hanging I buy the rope. \ \<br /><br />--<br /><br />/ / o Where the HELL is YOUR proof that Dick Cheney was NOT<br />conducting drills on 9/11 that paralyzed Air Force responses to the<br />real attacks?<br /><br />o Where the HELL is YOUR proof that Tower 7 collapsed as a result<br />of the attacks?<br /><br />o Where the HELL is YOUR proof that `put' orders placed on the two<br />Airlines involved in the attacks were mere coincidence?<br /><br />o Where the HELL is YOUR proof that Porter Goss knew nothing about<br />$100,000 that was wired to Mohammed Atta?<br /><br />o Where the Hell is YOUR proof that Donald Rumsfeld did not<br />organize an illegal military group that would ``provoke terrorist<br />attacks which would then require `"counter-attack" by the United<br />States? \ \<br /><br />---<br /><br />"THEY SAY THEY TOOK OUR LAND. BUT WHERE DID THEY TAKE IT?"<br />--DAVID MONONGWE (Hopi)<br /><br />--<br /><br />/ / The Nazis in the 1930s were forced to waste precious time and<br />money on the inoculation of the German citizenry, too well-educated<br />for its own good, against the infections of impermissible thought.<br />We can count it as a blessing that we don't bear the burden of an<br />educated citizenry. \ \<br /><br />--<br /><br />>From "Epiphany"<br /><br /><a href="http://ntimc.org/newswire.php?story_id=308&media_type=TEXT">http://ntimc.org/newswire.php?story_id=308&media_type=TEXT</a><br /><br /><br />/ / What can bush or rumsfeld do now in Iraq, outside of criminally<br />stealing our assets, that they couldn't do before a single innocent<br />Iraqi person was murdered by heinous traitor buford blount? Look I<br />am serious about this: read... What can bush or rumsfeld do now<br />in Iraq, outside of criminally stealing our assets, that they<br />couldn't do before a single innocent Iraqi person was murdered by<br />heinous traitor buford blount? \ \<br /><br /><br />/ / In fact, as they made clear on page one, the authors had<br />stripped out Falluja; their estimate of 98,000 deaths would<br />otherwise have been much higher. \ \<br /><br />Repeat after me:<br /><br />Coast to Coast hosts are leaving us listeners out here<br />with the impression, that neither hosts have<br />heard of the National Intelligence Estimate,<br />or the NIE, that was created by pressure through<br />congress just prior to the war, by the cia, state<br />department, and eight other American intelligence<br />agencies, of which, the bush administration got<br />caught misleading the verdicts by censorship,<br />and outright re-writing, then bald faced lying.<br />Subsequently causing the creation of an<br />investigation by the Senate, who's conclusion stated<br />that the bush administration "..provided [Americans]<br /><br />with an incomplete picture of the nature and extent<br />of the debate within the intelligence community<br />regarding these issues."<br /><br />----<br /><br />F R E E E N E R G Y<br /><br />It's the simplest idea. All you gotta do, is get a couple large<br />buoys, that let's say take maybe a twenty foot square space, maybe<br />a foot or two thick, and they contain air, made of some strong<br />plastics. You just take that, anchor it stationary to the ocean<br />floor, and have it situated on a gear system where, even though the<br />buoy moves up and down slightly, there is such a tremendous amount<br />of force on it, through the rising of the tides, that through gear<br /><br />ratios, you could easily get some turbines going for a thousand<br />bucks or something. Not a big investment to give you free energy<br />endlessly.<br /><br /><br />/ / Do not put any effort into thinking out your own opinions.<br />Create doubt on anything any true liberator, would try to<br />convey to you as important for your life. Never mind. Watch<br />your son or daughter be sacrificed, and just lie to yourself,<br />and tell us all how your so proud of your dead son or<br />daughter, "because they were fighting for liberty." And we<br />just got to just keep bullshiting you because you're an enemy<br />to God. An enemy to true freedom, when you demand truth not<br />be spoken for the innocent being persecuted, as Christ was.<br />Where is Christianity in America? Call your Church now! \ \<br /><br /><br />----<br /><br />/ / Why does any American think that spying without a warrant<br />has any more effect in reducing the threat of terrorism than<br />spying with a warrant? \ \<br /><br /><br />Yet, FOX, CNN and CBC silently plead ignorance when<br />broadcasting for bushite favor on this rights issue. He wants<br />to pursue terrorists they'll tell us, but CNN, CBC, FOX and<br />others, won't tell us why Bush secretly feels FISA would<br />jeopardize such claimed inquiries? Sure, bushites are dumb,<br />but we're not that dumb to except this without knowing. It's<br />similarly like, Bush can't be my Chief because, Congress<br />didn't declare war like the Constitution Laws. So, what's he<br />going by then?, right?<br /><br /><br />bLeEplap!<br /><br />Look up in your mind, across the sky!, it's the glorious sign<br />that says things couldn't be much worse under the watchful<br />gaze of the Supreme Commander. It's like, Bush can't be my<br />Chief because, Congress didn't declare war like the<br />Constitution Laws.<br /><br />The, in league with evil tresspass of George Walker Bush only<br />has the rights that are protected by any civilized American.<br />The lying demon enemy has no power of illusion over me, for<br />he, I have concluded with in discussions about Satan, is<br />truly, no honorable god fearing American.<br /><br />Help me to gain some international say, and our world will<br />fair brighter at becoming, this fool's play/tragedy.<br /><br />bLeEplAb! bLeEplAp! bLeEplAb! bLeEplAp!<br /><br /><br />----<br /><br />God or no God, I hate the demon antiChrist, corporate<br />america's false-deity, Your unelected Mr. bush Jr., as<br />much as any real Creator of this world, or any other<br />should.<br /><br />With such real inaction on old promises [lies] made by<br />the dishonorable and dishonest leaderless bushite nazi<br />savages, while desecrating all of Humanity by fighting<br />against a just rule of Law, (instead of protecting<br />America's America), forces the continued REAL WORLD<br />sacrifice of true Liberty, until the bushmob gang is<br />brought up by US for war crimes., as the 9/11<br />perpetrating, super evil as ungodly, demon antiChrist in<br />disguises. (I very much would feel welcomed to play my<br />part in those public proceedings.) Hmmm.. maybe CNN or<br />CBC can become publicly convinced we should have our own<br />news programs on what's truly happening?, to compete<br />against the 'evil bushites' in this competitive free<br />market place of ideas? Who knows..<br /><br />Take care of the business, by getting US in on our<br />news-casts., as these principles here standing in words,<br />are a dreamers dreams, just waiting for You to bring to<br />reality., by standing proud, strong, and forever free as<br />a, truly, super awesome Human Being.<br /><br /><br />True Blue American Jew<br /><br /><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25994">http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25994</a><br /><br />/ / Jimmy Carter tours America with a new book that describes<br />Jews as racists and oppressors, and suggests they are also a<br />conspiratorial mafia that intimidates ``critics,'' [...] In<br />other words, Americans beware of the Jew in your midst. [...]<br />When hundreds of millions are calling for the extermination of<br />the Jews of Israel this is more than a lie; it is a blood<br />libel. \ \<br /><br />What is wrong with this ungodly stupid zionist demon nazi fuk<br />eh? Does he want us to think he has some secret club of<br />"ungodly liars" who could hide among themselves in a dark room<br />and not destroy themselves willingly? (The Devil's in the<br />details) I'm King of the Jews, and I'd kill bushite thieves<br />for America anyday, any REAL JEW who defends the lives of the<br />innocent, who the bushite targets for murder would do so<br />likewise.. I mean, come on, seriously, who wouldn't.<br />bushites are evil, and evil is dumb. A zionist THIEF is a<br />soulless enemy of Life, as a un-American, God hating, pro<br />Christian/Arab/Jew killer. In other words, Americans beware<br />of the Zionist in your midst who LIES to cheat and steal from<br />the innocent true blue American Jew included.<br /><br />Johnny America - presently on his theatrical, Wizard's World<br />Wide Work of Wonder Word spectacular Tour production with the<br />personally staged adaptation of, "Hello", now playing<br />everywhere.<br /><br />P.S. can you spare a few tens of thousands of dollars so I<br />can afford a fair defense in my court battle against the<br />demonic enemy forces of life as we know it? Or, well, I guess<br />I'll lose unfairly, and go to prison as an innocent god loving<br />man, the "Top Cop" of our Universe dying actually. Don't let<br />them do this to my America friends.. my friend, don't let<br />them do this to anyone. Make the call. Be a man.<br /><br />/ / An AMERICAN CITIZEN that ALL found leaderless bushite<br />dumfuk anti-American terrorist forces act nothing for defense<br />in. An American!!! \ \<br /><br />-<br /><br />Now that atheist THIEF Israel has 'legalized' MURDER,<br /><br />/ / "Israel is embarking upon a more aggressive approach to<br />the war on terror that will include staging targeted killings<br />in the United States and other friendly countries, former<br />Israeli intelligence officials told United Press<br />International. \ \ The zionist criminal element can't call<br />OUR COPS we see... and with enemies like these... We should<br />don our stars an crosses, load our guns, and hunt to kill<br />every last 'escaped' first degree murderer zionist,<br />no...?<br /><br />-<br /><br />/ / ``This is simply not right,'' Layton told a news<br />conference. ``There is no evidence that Mr. Arar's name<br />should be on such a list. We held a whole inquiry here in<br />Canada on this question. \ \<br /><br />-<br /><br />The Voice of Reason, NewsTalk 1270 is Off the Air<br /><br />/ / it's almost unheard of for a start up to launch a station<br />with a format as expensive as the news/talk format. And it's<br />extremely rare for local investors to buck the trend of the<br />corporate consolidation and launch an independent locally<br />controlled broadcast outlet. \ \<br /><br />-<br /><br />Johnny's Flying Jalopy<br /><br />Corporate America's contempt for Justice is STILL killing<br />American teens un-necessarily. All religions are in agreement<br />- God is just - and if there is to ever be a heaven granting<br />freedom to all, it's a world that treats all people equitably,<br />like Mohamed, Hillel, and Jesus with Confucius, Buddha, and so<br />on preaches to real believers... While evil bushite liars<br />tell our children we're blaming the innocent as God's will for<br />their 'escaping' criminality. Murderous! Art Bell again,<br />told his viewers he didn't support starting the war against<br />the innocent in Iraq, but he did relentlessly. I survived<br />through that well recorded international challenge. The demon<br />forbade any discussions on the matter, but for a rare seldom<br />talk with someone who wanted to nuke somwheres else. The<br />demon would screen his calls, privately during commercials,<br />and anyone who wanted to bring up an American soldier's<br />interest in why we were all pro-war with those who directly<br />carried out 911 AS DOCUMENTED, he'd just hang up on before<br />broadcast. Despite MILLIONS marching. So AMERICANS wouldn't<br />know: George W. Bush actually is the 911 master mind of this<br />journey into hell by his criminal ineptness to plan an<br />effective exit strategy for him, and his dishonorable ungodly<br />servants, like the bushite terrorists Cheney, Rumsfeld, task<br />group 626. Sattler, Blount, Mattis, Russell, Allawi, Aegis,<br />and now,.. PUBLIC admissions of the bush administration<br />taxing "Americans" for death squads against the INNOCENT by<br />their "democratic" constituency. Gifts from America to you<br />freedom lovers! See the bushite, you kill it for America, you<br />kill it for children, you kill it for the love of GOD left<br />forsaken by corporate 'for profit' zionist news directors, who<br />TRULY hold YOUR life in contempt. Hate me? okay, f--k you<br />too then, HATE GOD as 'defenseless' by supporting these<br />continuing indiscriminate al-cia-duh bombing attacks against<br />our Humanity, and I'll personally hunt the offensive liar<br />bushite down religiously for judicial prosecutions as OUR<br />enemy. Join me in ridding Humanity of the enemies to American<br />freedom, the bushite terrorists.<br /><br />Bush signed the top secret war strategy, to ignore all<br />relevant evidence for a crime that hadn't just yet taken<br />place, on September 9th, 2001. [Jim at MSNBC] A top secret<br />criminal plan to close inquiries carried out after the<br />catalyst terror event of 911. The General who provided the no<br />evidence argument to the Taliban at Bush's request, was found<br />also responsible by the FBI for funding the same terrorist<br />offence in question. A terrorist crime that the bushmob has<br />taken a huge killing in GOD with. wAllah, George W. Bush is<br />the for real antichrist. No escaping it my friends, no<br />escaping it. Fight for Freedom, or die a loser to bush's<br />genius. Support me, or fail to recognize true wisdom when it<br />speaks to you of need for desperate change to save your dying<br />selves.<br /><br />Do YOU have any idea how truly evil Art Bell appears when he<br />says, of course America was lied to through corporate news<br />censorship in regards to the WMD questions, but that's because<br />it was all for stealing Iraqi property to benefit no-national,<br />bottom lining by jack bribing, - bush's - pro-military<br />dictatorship oil companies after all is dead and gone, that's<br />what death Your American Son is good for. And why isn't Art<br />Bell mad about what he did to you?, at least near half the<br />angry of how much, still locked in the trunk Daddy G is?<br />No,.. in shock!, he's sounding as chipper as ever! That is<br />what Art Bell actually said last Saturday night to God and<br />Country.<br /><br />So listen: Art Bell and George Norry won't allow Americans to<br />set a HIGH PRIORITY in solving any American crisis, and<br />instead, we'll get the regular, who cares about the dying<br />poor, needless American teen sacrifices done for a better life<br />it was not thought. Art Bell will likely never be able to<br />stand up proud as a real American man, unless he allows US to<br />form his good defense on fears of wisdom existing beyond his<br />stupid man comprehensions along with likewise traitor Norry.<br />Only way for that to happen, is if he, as the other radio<br />celeb happy happy cultists, are forced by LAW, to have<br />broadcasted on every private radio station of OUR Planet, a<br />full hour of open lines calls to talk about whatever as the<br />disgruntled, but loving, immediate community, perhaps sharing<br />recipes. Then, if America is still then a wasteland of<br />worthless words trumpeting a bushite's proud barbarity for<br />ungodly zionism as death of the Jewish religion, continually<br />committed to the further enslavement of the Human condition,<br />by thieving, and torturing as proud boastful bushites do,<br />WE'LL ALL know it, and consider demanding Justice then on OUR,<br />not so out there old country radio stations, all so THEY can<br />then, as offending war criminals, go it alone without<br />ourselves. Like an old "All in the Family" episode I saw<br />once, or thrice. Where Archie gets to makes a community<br />member statement on his local TV station!!! Wow eh? How far<br />we've come...<br /><br />Jesus, hell no, I ain't going down that blind delusion of what<br />infinite Justice means. Tell George Norry, Ahmad funded Atta.<br />Despite the FACT that he will likely again, personally<br />determine, DYING American SOLDIERS must be FORBIDDEN such<br />knowledge as understood in context. Then, get him to invite<br />US on as a very controversial guest. What a show that would<br />be! Wouldn't it be a great novelty that would eventually wear<br />off with something even more curiously interesting in a<br />million to two years? Or, die tomorrow as a forsaken American<br />Patriot soldier. It's all up to YOU. Do the right thing by<br />supporting me, Creator of the Universe, with answers to<br />EVERYTHING. Or, die with evil genius Bush, as your blind<br />tyrant war bringer, against everything good in purgatory.<br /><br /><br />American!<br /><br /><br />Johnny America<br /><br />-<br /><br />/ / Lord Justice Richards, sitting with Mr Justice Forbes and<br />Mr Justice Mackay, ruled it was a "reasonable" decision for<br />the Director of Public Prosecutions and the CPS not to order<br />prosecutions on the basis that they were "likely to fail". \ \<br /><br />These three will be tried for blatant treason, when found<br />easily guilty, Britain will consider temporarily bringing back<br />the death penalty, by having these three, along with the<br />murderous pro cop killers, gloriously executed for God and<br />country. The fellow murdered was working for a security firm,<br />likely, Peter Power. And the murderers were caught repeatedly<br />LYING to the British populace. Repeatedly. Now, ask<br />yourself, why such lies to cover up such a serious crime of<br />FIRST DEGREE MURDER of an innocent British citizen? "Likely<br />to fail"?, that's not Justice, likewise, not freedom, as no<br />way to deal with the continuing terrorist threat found<br />discovered there years and years ago. Do you think these<br />treasonous "Judges" are not aware of the mass killings in<br />Britain committed, as confessed PUBLICLY IN BRITIAN, by<br />government agents posing as the still silent on the issue IRA?<br />LEARN: these once fearful officers will tell you, if they<br />don't talk to plead Justice, the "British" government has them<br />murdered. (Their best buds actually from back at the office<br />are only 'IN IT' for their own preserved criminal gain you<br />see, so... why take the risk that Johnny'll get you in the<br />end? SEE? A bushite kills bushite for a stolen nickel they<br />likely stole from their OWN grand parents to give to<br />Halliburton, because truly, bushite soldiers are godless nazi<br />traitors who cowardly bomb the innocent with their personal<br />contempt for God and Life, or go silent over such atrocities<br />committed in our names by LIARS.) This pattern is Universal,<br />so, my hands are tied. There is truly no honor among bushite<br />thieves, like in the Third Infantry or Elvis desecrator Aegis.<br />Death to our indiscriminately murderous thieving enemies of<br />God's Creation, who war Creation for bush's personal escape<br />for the crimes of 911 Christ would say right, wouldn't you say<br />so likewise my brothers and sisters, of the Muslim, Christian,<br />and Jewish religions in belief?<br /><br /><br />/ / Jonathan Crow QC, acting for the CPS, said he sympathised<br />with the family but that the police believed at the time Mr de<br />Menezes posed a threat and they were acting in self defence. \ \<br /><br />According to whom?, certainly not by the statements made by<br />the demonic bushite liars who war Britain to assist in the<br />escape of Peter Power and company.<br /><br /><br /><br />Later Gaters,<br /><br />Johnny America<br /><br /><br />Crime News Journalist "Apoo, will you ever stop selling spoiled meat?"<br />Kwiki Mart Apoo Ahhasapeenapenluand "No. I mean yes. I mean.. Oh oh.."<br /><br />-<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Iraq Study Group finds "systematic" effort to cook the books.</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Bush's inevitable showdown<br />By Caroline B. Glick<br />Saturday, February 17, 2007<br /><br />It is impossible to guess the consequences of the approaching showdown between the US and Iran. But if the events of the past week are any guide, the future does not look promising.<br /><br />President George W. Bush asserted Wednesday that the deal the State Department achieved with North Korea in the six-party talks "will bring us closer to a Korea Peninsula that is free of nuclear weapons." But it is hard to see how this is so.<br /><br />Reached seven months after North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile and four months after it conducted an underground nuclear test, the accord makes no mention of Pyongyang's nuclear or missile arsenals. Indeed all it does is pay North Korea handsomely for a promise that within 60 days it will temporarily seal its nuclear installation at Yongbyon. For this promise, the Americans agreed to supply the North with 50,000 pounds of heavy fuel oil; conduct direct talks with the North Koreans towards the normalization of diplomatic ties; and cancel banking sanctions that have effectively barred the North Koreans from international capital markets.<br /><br />The last US payoff is the kicker. In 2006 the US Treasury took action against a bank in Macau that was laundering North Korean counterfeit dollars. That action was the first truly effective step the US has taken toward destabilizing Kim Jung Il's Stalinist regime.<br /><br />Kim understands that the only way he can remain in power is to force the international community to subsidize his tyranny. The only way he can get foreign powers to do that is by using nuclear blackmail. By removing its banking sanctions, the US effectively destroyed its only effective bargaining chip against North Korea and so ensured that Kim's brinkmanship will continue. In light of this, as former US ambassador the UN John Bolton's noted, the message the US sent by acceding to the agreement is that "if you hold out long enough and wear down the State Department negotiators, eventually you will get rewarded."<br /><br />Aside from capitulating to North Korea, this week the US took an initial step towards accepting Hamas as a legitimate actor. The unity deal between Fatah and Hamas negotiated under the aegis of the supposedly moderate Saudi King Abdullah is a stunning rebuke of US Palestinian policy. By effectively demoting Fatah to the status of junior partner to Hamas, the agreement is a slap on the face to the Bush administration which for the past four years has based its Palestinian policy on its blind faith in Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas.<br /><br />Since 2003 the administration has put all its eggs in Abbas's basket. No amount of evidence of Fatah's direct involvement in terrorism against Israel could convince Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to change their view that Abbas is a "moderate" who is willing to make peace with Israel.<br /><br />The US has showered him with money, arms and legitimacy and forced Israel to do the same. And in Mecca last weekend, Abbas showed that he has played Bush for a fool. Not only did he agree not to fight against Hamas or disarm it. By accepting an agreement which does not include recognition of Israel's right to exist, Abbas demonstrated that there is no significant difference between Fatah and Hamas in terms of their commitment to bring about Israel's destruction.<br /><br />Yet as with North Korea, here too, the Bush administration has chosen to pretend that in failing it has succeeded. Rather than distance herself from Abbas, Rice insists on going ahead with the scheduled three-way summit with Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday.<br /><br />It is possible that there is more here than meets the eye. It is possible for instance that the US is willing to take a few hits in order to clear its deck of nuisances so that it can concentrate on the greatest danger to global security. Perhaps the Bush administration is appeasing North Korea by buying it off and appeasing the Arabs and Europeans by being nice to the Palestinians in order to buy time to deal with Iran.<br /><br />But if this is the game that the Americans are playing, it is a dangerous one. In the first instance, there is no assurance that their concessions will buy them any time at all. The North Koreans have already disavowed their supposed pledge to seal the Yangbyon installation and allow free access to international inspectors. Similarly, by meeting with Abbas next week, Rice may be opening the US to Palestinian extortion.<br /><br />Thursday Abbas announced that he is postponing the public address that he was supposed to give describing the unity deal with Hamas until after the summit with Olmert and Rice. In so doing, he is paving the way for a post-summit public denunciation of the US and Israel which will seal his agreement to subordinate himself and Fatah to Hamas.<br /><br />BUT ASSUMING that the US is in fact playing for time, and assuming that it gets the time it seeks, it is far from clear that it will use that time wisely.<br /><br />Today positive and negative indicators regarding the nature and outcome of a US confrontation with Iran run together and so forecasting the likely form and outcome of the contest is all but impossible.<br /><br />On the one hand, the US is beginning to openly target Iranian agents and assets in Iraq. This limited move has been enough to unnerve Iranian leaders who apparently fear that it is but the first step towards an all-out American offensive against Iran.<br /><br />Their fears are also raised by the US naval buildup in the Persian Gulf, the Iraqi government's announcement that it is sealing its borders with Iran and Syria, and the build-up of NATO forces near the Afghan border with Iran.<br /><br />Economically, the pressure that the US has been exerting on European and Asian oil companies to curtail their operations in Iran is beginning to pay off. Tuesday The New York Times reported that the Iranian economy, which is completely dependent on oil and gas exports, is beginning to show signs of distress. Without foreign assistance, the Iranians cannot long maintain their current export rate or develop their reserve capacity. This shortfall will force the regime to curtail government subsidies of gas and oil prices and so encourage civil unrest.<br /><br />The regime's fear of unrest grows by the day as the regime itself shows increased signs of disintegration. With the supreme leader Ali Khamenei reportedly suffering from the late stages of cancer, Iran expert Michael Ledeen reported this week that factional fighting for succession between forces loyal to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and forces loyal to former president and leader of the powerful Guardians Council Hashemi Rafsanjani is gaining momentum. The succession battle has engulfed the ayatollahs who are themselves turning against one another.<br /><br />Furthermore, according to the Iran Press Service, the attack in Baluchistan that killed a dozen Revolutionary Guards troops on Tuesday was only one of many violent attacks against regime targets to have occurred in recent days. If the US and its allies act wisely, there is every reason to believe that they could successfully foment a revolution that would bring down the regime.<br /><br />Yet it is far from clear that the US is interested in bringing down the regime. This week Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn released a report on US Farsi language broadcasting into Iran. From an analysis of those broadcasts, Coburn reached the disturbing conclusion that far from working to advance the US's stated aim of overthrowing the regime, these US taxpayer-funded broadcasts "undermine US policy on Iran, often even supporting the propaganda of the Islamic Republic of Iran."<br /><br />Needless to say, this is not the sort of behavior one would expect from the US if the administration was seriously pursuing the overthrow of the mullahs or planning a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities.<br /><br />Then there is the leaked EU report that admits that its negotiations to date have had no impact on Iran's nuclear weapons plans and that any future negotiations will likewise have no impact on Iran's nuclear ambitions or activities. While it is possible to view this as an admission of failure which could pave the way to European support for a US-led military campaign against Iran's nuclear installations, it is more likely that the EU will decide that in light of the ineffectiveness of their negotiations with the Iranians to date that they have no choice but to continue with them.<br /><br />Indeed, this week Switzerland took it upon itself to offer the Iranians yet another package of concessions in exchange for their agreement to hold discussions. If Iran, as its press agencies have indicated, agrees to negotiate with the Europeans, it could very likely buy itself some time at the US's expense.<br /><br />For both Bush and Rice made it clear this week that they do still cling to the fantasy that diplomacy can carry the day with Iran. While touting her deal with North Korea on Tuesday, Rice said it should be viewed "as a message to Iran that the international community is able to bring together its resources, and that strong diplomacy has achieved results."<br /><br />YET WHETHER or not the US is planning for a confrontation with Iran and whether or not its deal with North Korea and its continued tolerance for Abbas is aimed at preparing the ground for a confrontation with the mullahs, that confrontation will occur.<br /><br />As the regime becomes less stable, the mullahs are becoming more extreme. They are ratcheting up their suppression of regime opponents throughout the country. There is little reason to doubt that they will seek to divert their people's attention from their failures by inciting hostilities against the US in Iraq or against Israel in Lebanon, Syria or the Palestinian Authority and expediting their nuclear program. Indeed, the Iranians have ample means at their disposal to initiate the confrontation with the US on a battleground most convenient to them.<br /><br />Whether the US arrives at its showdown with Iran from a position of weakness or strength, willingly or unwillingly, there is no doubt that the confrontation is approaching. And the difference between initiating the confrontation and allowing Iran to initiate it with a nuclear first strike is not a trivial question. It will make a difference of millions of lives. The question of the hour is therefore whether the little time left before the war is being used wisely.<br /><br />And here is the great failure. By sending a message of weakness now, in order to purchase maneuvering time that may not be obtained, the US this week has accelerated rather than distanced the moment of truth while doing nothing to build support or increase its chances of triumph when the inevitable occurs.<br />-<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">"My opponent says that going to war with the terrorists is<br />actually improving their recruiting efforts. I think the<br />logic is upside-down. I think that shows a misunderstanding<br />of the enemy." -- George W. Bush<br /><br />"I must tell you, I'm sleeping a lot better than people would<br />assume," -- George W. Bush</span><br /><br />---<br /><br /><br /><br />No evidence against an accused is US being truly abused<br /><br /><br />"These are not terrorists, they are not al-Qeada, they are<br />ordinary innocent men, women and children."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.tv/audio/131206rivero.mp3">http://www.prisonplanet.tv/audio/131206rivero.mp3</a><br /><br /><br />------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Ahmad funded Atta<br /><br />American soldiers are being terribly mislead by the Bush<br />administration to undermine freedom for Americans, by<br />suggesting an effective war strategy is to ignore all the 911<br />evidence, and go off instead to blindly blame bad Afghans or<br />badder Iraqis, is an insult to all honorable police services.<br />Services not left permanently perplexed by the onslaught of<br />repeatedly ignoring the same consequences where more innocent<br />people fall dead as bombing victims, while LIAR bushite<br />continue to charge/thieve from both, you as an American, and<br />me, a member of our victimized Humanity. You see, your demon<br />liar has ruled that all the Peoples of Earth have no legal<br />rights to exist freely in our public court rooms. Bad news<br />that is for OUR dying America my friend. Support my call for<br />an open dialog on returning a reason for believing, for<br />Freedom is Justice, not a censored world ruled by puppet<br />people in shadows without free will left un-accountable. On a<br />populated Earth exceeding six billion, you would find some<br />disagreement on our worths measured by the 'un-accountable'<br />bushite american ENEMY like the self described as enlightened,<br />pro Arab child killer George Norry I'd say. See, if you blame<br />someone for a crime without any evidence, then convict him,<br />how would you know that the individual that victimized your<br />Family actually got caught for harming YOU? Personally I'm<br />saying... .American. I mean - if you continue not demanding a<br />return to Justice, it will leave your life, and go far where<br />freedom's not. Believe me. I know these things,<br /><br />Support my cause as if it were your own, by chirping in to<br />help us out some man. Look out buddies, some thing wicked<br />this way comes and it's surprise!, Johnny Wizard President and<br />CEO of Earth Co.! Wow!, what a godsend that boy is eh? I'd<br />bet he's richer than everybody.. No, I've heard he's near<br />starving broke, no hey.. it's no joke.. I've heard he's<br />looking at prison time because nobody will lend him the time<br />of day to call up their radio station to demand Justice for<br />themselves., As Americans!. Nor, have any billionaires the<br />world over offered Johnny a penny in help to secure a proper<br />legal defense. Gee, it's just that he's hard of believing in<br />God I'd say. Perhaps..<br /><br /><br />Where did you get those shoes?,<br /><br />Johnny America - A Free World believer in something better.<br /><br />Puppet On A String: Hamas Dances To Israel's Tune<br /><a href="http://www.propagandamatrix.com/puppet_on_a_string.html">http://www.propagandamatrix.com/puppet_on_a_string.html</a><br /><br />P.S. Did you hear?, Israel's big G-D Court ruled that<br />committing State murder is what lawless Jews do to fight<br />'terrorism'? Legal to murder innocent People, but more<br />specifically, Religious People. "Fuck You Moses" the Israeli<br />ungodly zionist says, because they're better than US as<br />Zionist jews don't you know. The People's of Israel are being<br />victimized by the bastions of truly demonic lies told through<br />the sickening mouth pieces of the irrational zionist neocon<br />god betrayers. Believe me, I know these things, for I am the<br />Light of Life itself after all.<br /><br />Okay, I'm gone. .. er. .<br /><br />Chow.<br /><br />--<br /><br />Again, a un-American bushite is the enemy to Life as ungodly<br />disciples of the very real antichrist, believe me.<br /><br /><a href="http://movies.crooksandliars.com/hbo_maher_monolog_new_rules_061013a_320x240.wmv">http://movies.crooksandliars.com/hbo_maher_monolog_new_rules_061013a_320x240.wmv</a><br /><br /><br />/ / "And I reject those ideas," Bush said after meeting with<br />top generals and Defense Department officials at the Pentagon. \ \<br /><br />It looks like G.W. Bush is going to be a real bitch about all<br />this nasty business of his capacity to conceive what we're<br />saying actually as each other committed to reach beyond the<br />'grunt' stage in human development eh? Typical.<br /><br />"It's Bad-in-Iraq, Does that help heh-heh"<br /><br />/ / For if Iran should have learned anything from recent<br />history, especially from events on its own borders, it is that<br />as a tactic, whether offensive or defensive, threatening<br />Israel publicly is counterproductive in the extreme. \ \<br /><br />Blame a zionist for the criminal offences he or she is<br />personally responsible for as the guilty party, and the<br />'escaping' zionist claims through corporate 'for profit' media<br />mind control, your blaming Israel as an anti-Semite.<br />Anti-Semite! Semite, like umm... Moe, Ham, an Ed. You go,<br />Aukmaudinajad, let's get the truth out to let a free people<br />decide without NAZI censorship. However, I have seen<br />incinerators filled with corpses, and Hitler's Reich marching<br />anywho citizens into a hole, where with women and babies, they<br />were then all summarily shot, then buried, all the while<br />soldier's chatted about how great they were, all high quality<br />digital formats available, some even IN COLOR!, so, convincing<br />me that godless bushites have existed, that would murder<br />anyone for a stolen nickel as pro-bush rapists, pro-bush<br />torturers, and pro-bush thieves of the Iraqi Development Funds<br />is goin' be, next near to impossible. But, I'm the guy you'd<br />want in your corner, never the less. "King of the Jews",<br />that's me. Oh, oh, oh, oh,.. pick me! picck ME! PICK ME!!!<br /><br />'We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a<br />holy religion. We only have problems with Zionist circles in<br />Israel which we hold responsible for the suppression of the<br />Palestinian nation.'<br /><br />P.S. I'm not gay that way okay, and I'm most definitely a<br />man's man when it comes to the female gender, but I really do<br />love Ourselves man, and if you guys don't start offering me<br />some support, a couple of disgruntled bushite brethren are<br />going to pirate our Justice system, by putting me, an innocent<br />man behind OUR bars UNJUSTLY. Support Yourself by calling up<br />CJOB here in Winnipeg to demand they start broadcasting in<br />favor of our freedoms, not to lie our naiver teens into dying<br />for something they understand nothing of. Well, it's no<br />wonder. Make the calls. Be a friend, if not a blind enemy to<br />everything. For our Life's survival needs your input/help.<br />Don't die in silence for Bush, fight for America to come back<br />to being America. Get on the radio. YOU can make a real<br />difference if you'd only try. Realize, very few actually do,<br />we need YOU. Now, Coast to Coast hosts deny US this<br />privilege, this must change for thee better. The sooner we<br />succeed in defeating George Norry and Art Bell's censorship of<br />the American endeavor, the more American teen lives are<br />potentially spared through a dying bushite's commander's<br />CRIMINAL contempt for Humanity, just like Our Mr. bush IS.<br />For, REAL freedom is protected through just acts made for our<br />measured benefits. A country, or city, or person accused of a<br />criminal offense without any evidence made in the Public Trust<br />is innocent. PERIOD. Hammurabi suggested to just PROUDLY<br />kill any false capital accuser [a bushite] who tries to<br />tell/teach our suggestible children otherwise. Real people<br />have to die in defense for escaping the support of torturing<br />innocent people to death, for their is NEVER any reason, just<br />costly time to explain the whys, that bushites lie, while<br />American national radio propagandists, who like Art Bell, are<br />pouring poisonously chauvinist, and openly, willingly working<br />to undermine the audience, all to lawless traders of freedom<br />for tyranny. Senators that supported the Military Commissions<br />Act need to be thought for as TREASONOUS. Better for Christ<br />to judicially halt/kill a thieving bushite, than allow it to<br />continue lawlessly murdering more left undefended for further<br />victim hood as God's America. No evidence against an accused<br />is US being truly abused. (Senators have STOLEN literally<br />billions from a helpless GOD through ear-marking from an<br />un-accountable America left to die as the actually forsaken.)<br />Smart guy that Hammurabi fellow was, on combating ungodly<br />terrorism in a new world's Age.<br /><br />Alex Jones "Alarming words for our time."<br /><br />-<br /><br />UNDERSTANDING THE KOORAN - Death of a President<br /><br /><a href="https://israel.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/understanding_christ.mp3">https://israel.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/understanding_christ.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/understanding_christ.mp3">http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/understanding_christ.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/11/understanding_christ.mp3">http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/11/understanding_christ.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/11/understanding_christ.mp3">http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/11/understanding_christ.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://boston.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/understanding_christ.mp3">http://boston.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/understanding_christ.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://baltimore.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/understanding_christ.mp3">http://baltimore.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/understanding_christ.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://www.stlimc.org/usermedia/audio/8/understanding_christ.mp3">http://www.stlimc.org/usermedia/audio/8/understanding_christ.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://buffalo.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/understanding_christ.mp3">http://buffalo.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/understanding_christ.mp3</a><br /><br />Exit strategy: Outlaw lawlessness. Murder, rape, and the<br />thieving of billions from America as STILL wrong.<br /><br />Johnny America "Death to the bushite, death to our enemies."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A Look Back and Ahead In An Age of Neocon Rule<br /><br />/ / [...] like the Law of Suspects, were earlier versions of<br />our Patriot I and II and Military Commission Acts today. The<br />Revolutionary Tribunal, with no chance for justice or right of<br />appeal, was no different than our military courts today, and<br />too many civil ones, in which any US citizen may now be tried<br />anywhere in the world, with no habeas right of appeal or hope<br />for due process and from which those sent there won't fare any<br />better than the French did, doomed to meet their unjust fate -<br /><br />[...] \ \<br /><br />Unjust?, perhaps. Remember, these bushites CHOOSE to support<br />the rape and torture of the innocent in God. Knowing the<br />bushmob STOLE all Iraqi wealth, AND LISTEN, they speak near no<br />words in defense of ourselves. While, I, as I'm certain any<br />real family man would also, take GREAT pleasure in killing<br />bushites. Anyone in George W. bush's Air Force for example.<br />They are soulless cowards who drop bombs on innocent families<br />running for their lives from a Church, or as children, hiding<br />under our beds praying to God for help. Simply put: A<br />bushite terrorist is a lifeless enemy of Life, better dead,<br />than still breathing I tell all children of creation to kill<br />their very own fathers or brothers if they express any blind<br />pride whatsoever in these indiscriminate attacks against<br />freedom. Or just spend stolen loot like from in Blount's<br />Third Infantry. (Blount commands the third infantry as a<br />Saudi Wahhabist, no shit, a BILLIONIARE Saudi commanding<br />American soldiers to OPENLY thieve and murder from Iraq. If<br />Saddam only knew, he'd be up in arms over it I'm sure.)<br /><br />All I personally need to hear, is that bushite cheering from<br />his bomber at the murdering of innocent screaming women and<br />children, in Afghanistan, or any of the near thousand tapes<br />from Iraq, or perhaps, re-reading the comments of the not yet<br />PROUDLY EXECUTED 3 year old killers of Haditha, who told US<br />ALL, murdering helpless children not guilty of ANYTHING was<br />their regular fair all through the criminal command of<br />Sattler, where as Satanic, they murdered more than two hundred<br />thousand of OUR innocent family members to die sacrificed for<br />the demon LIAR ANTICHRIST enemy thieves. Oh god yah, killing<br />a bushite, is to defend the innocent lives they target to<br />thieve from themselves as ENEMIES TO EVERYTHING. God yeah, I<br />know I'm doing Humanity GOOD by ending a first degree<br />murdering bushite THIEF, who wars Our innocent Humanity to<br />help escape the TRAITOR bushmob for 911, back in New York<br />City, where thousands of AMERICANS WERE MURDERED. With George<br />W. bush's 'top secret' anti-American plan, don't you know..?<br />Surely, FOXNews would care for the lives of Americans who<br />state FOXNews is the best for not making them think they know<br />nothing as true to dead or dying dumfuk enemies of the Marine<br /><br />Sean Hannity must be tried for treason for LYING DIRECTLY to<br />America repeatedly. Why? Becasue nobody can be that stupidly<br />evil by accident.<br /><br />I am, seriously, Death to the enemies of Christ, and I hope,<br />you can find The honor to serve America in the same respect<br />for soldiers who have fallen Before US, who died TRULY warring<br />against a bushite's irrational tyranny. While these Nazi<br />bushite fucks tell US openly, they lawlessly rape, torture,<br />and steal from God as 'defenseless'. Leaves me to ask YOU,<br />what are you going to do about it?<br /><br />Live free, or die in chains?<br /><br /><br />Johnny America "Death to the bushite, death to our enemies."<br /><br />-<br /><br />/ / "the Zionists make a great issue of the Holocaust in order<br />to further their illegitimate [ungodly as anti-Human]<br />philosophy and aims," \ \<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://baltimore.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/2/the_king_of_the_jews.mp3">http://baltimore.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/2/the_king_of_the_jews.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://www.stlimc.org/usermedia/audio/2/the_king_of_the_jews.mp3">http://www.stlimc.org/usermedia/audio/2/the_king_of_the_jews.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/understanding_christ.mp3">http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/understanding_christ.mp3</a><br /><a 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href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/uploads/christ-crossed.mp3">http://melbourne.indymedia.org/uploads/christ-crossed.mp3</a><br /><br />Re: An INTERNATIONAL Public Letter to the "American" Coast to Coast<br />Radio Network: 1. We, as the People, demand you allow US, the human<br />species to openly discuss the public evidence on who funded the<br />terrorist acts of 911 according to the FBI.<br /><br /><br /></big-snp></bigsnp>Expanding the Envelope-<br />***************************<br /><br />Stealth and Other Strike Roles......<br /><br /><br />The advent of combat aircraft possessing Low Observable (LO)<br />characteristics has revolutionised many well established roles,<br />yielding an unprecedented reduction in combat loss rates. Low<br />Observables have returned, for the first time since the introduction<br />of radar, the advantage of surprise to the attacking bomber.<br /><br />The Lockheed F-117A, Northrop B-2, Lockheed-Martin/Boeing F-22 and<br />planned multi-service JSF are all intended to exploit their LO<br />characteristics in penetrating defended airspace to strike surface<br />targets.<br /><br />Hitherto the focus in developing strike capabilities in these types<br />has been upon the strategic strike, lethal defence suppression and<br />fixed battlefield target interdiction roles. The target set for these<br />roles encompasses primarily non-moving, high value, land based<br />assets.<br /><br />The primary guided weapon used by the F-117A is the laser guided bomb,<br />and both the Raytheon built GBU-27 and older GBU-10 weapons have been<br />used operationally. Both weapons provide precision and the choice of<br />the unitary Mk.84 warhead or the concrete piercing BLU-109/B. The<br />limitation of both weapons is the need for a clear line of sight to<br />the aimpoint to ensure that the laser reflections off the target can<br />be seen by the bomb seeker. Ongoing development of GBU-24/27 includes<br />incorporation of a GPS receiver to improve weapon flightpath<br />management, and provide a backup guidance mode if the laser paint is<br />lost.<br /><br />The primary guided weapon for the B-2A is the Boeing GBU-31 Joint<br />Direct Attack Munition (JDAM), which employs a guidance package built<br />around the HG1700 ring laser gyro and the GEM-III GPS receiver.1 It<br />supplants the earlier Northrop GBU-36 GAM weapon, which pioneered the<br />GPS/inertial bomb guidance principle.2 The tailkit can be fitted to<br />the Mk.84 or the BLU-109/B warheads. The GBU-32, is based upon the<br />1,000 lb Mk.83 warhead, and is intended to become the primary weapon<br />for the F-22A, and later the JSF. A 500 lb variant of these weapons,<br />using a Mk.82 warhead, has been recently tested by Boeing.3<br /><br />The baseline JDAM provides a genuine all weather day and night<br />capability, with a nominal CEP of about 40 ft, which makes it an<br />accurate rather than precision weapon. Should the USAF in the future<br />deploy an operational Wide Area Differential GPS (WADGPS) network,<br />based upon the technology developed in the EDGE and WAGE trials, the<br />JDAM will provide a genuine precision attack capability against fixed<br />prebriefed targets.4 Extant methods for improving accuracy also<br />include the use of pseudo-differential GPS techniques, such as the GAM/<br />GATS system on the B-2A, designed for use with the aircraft's APQ-181<br />radar and the GBU-36 weapon. This technique has yielded CEPs of about<br />16 ft.<br /><br />Fig.1 GBU-31 JDAM (Boeing).<br /><br />Other means of increasing the accuracy of the JDAM have been<br />investigated, of interest are the classified Orca and Hammerhead<br />programs, based upon the use of millimetric wave (MMW) radar and<br />synthetic aperture radar (SAR) autonomous terminal seekers,<br />respectively. These would supplement the GPS/inertial midcourse<br />guidance, providing a highly accurate terminal guidance capability.<br /><br />The JDAM was the primary weapon of the B-2A during the Allied Force<br />campaign. It is supplemented by the 4,700 lb GBU-37, which comprises a<br />modified GBU-36 tailkit and the deep penetration BLU-113 warhead<br />developed for the Desert Storm bunker busting effort.<br /><br />The limitation of the JDAM at this time is that it is not well suited<br />for attacks on moving surface targets, be they land based or other.<br />While precomputing a likely aimpoint may be a viable improvisation for<br />a low altitude drop, the time of flight of the weapon for a more<br />typical high altitude drop renders this approach inflexible.<br /><br />The outlook for the coming two decades is that of the JDAM family of<br />munitions supplanting the Paveway family and GBU-15/AGM-130 as the<br />USAF's primary guided bombs. The USAF MMTD development program, aimed<br />at producing a compact 250 lb class GPS/inertially guided weapon with<br />the lethality of established bombs, has proved to be very successful.5<br />Utilising experience gained during the EDGE trials, future production<br />derivatives of the MMTD will allow low observable fighters like the<br />F-22 and JSF to carry a respectable number of rounds, and emulate the<br />B-2A's capability to engage multiple aimpoints in a single pass.<br /><br />Figure 2. Northrop GBU-36 GAM (Northrop)<br /><br />The focus in the shorter term has been largely upon improving the<br />accuracy, lethality and operational flexibility of the GPS guided bomb<br />in the core role of strike against fixed targets.<br /><br />The question which arises now is that of how to best extend the<br />envelope of the Low Observable striker with its GPS / inertially<br />guided weapons, to encompass other target sets, and by default, other<br />more specialised strike roles.<br /><br />Prior to the advent of Low Observable strike aircraft, it was<br />customary to develop highly specialised weapons for such roles. The<br />USN developed AGM-84 Harpoon family was devised for antishipping<br />strike. A range of air delivered naval mines and modification kits for<br />the Mk.80 series bombs were developed and also widely deployed. The<br />CBU-97/B Sensor Fused Weapon was developed for destroying massed<br />formations of armour and soft skinned vehicles, and deployed as<br />payloads for dispensers and the AGM-154 JSOW glide weapon. For highly<br />precise strikes, the GBU-15 and AGM-130 glidebombs were developed,<br />using a combination of weapon mounted imager and datalink, to provide<br />man in the loop terminal guidance.6<br /><br />Figure 3. Boeing B-52H (USAF).<br /><br />Figure 4. Boeing AGM-84A Harpoon (Boeing).<br /><br />In the future environment of a USAF equipped with a top tier strike<br />force of B-2A, F-22A, JSF, and possibly a B-2 based or other<br />replacement for the B-52 and B-1B, many of these specialised weapons<br />will present difficulties as their delivery modes were conceived<br />during a period predating the need for internally carried weapons.<br />This will be a major issue for the F-22A and JSF.<br /><br />It is therefore prudent to explore some of the more specialised strike<br />roles and consider alternatives which are compatible with the delivery<br />environment.<br /><br />Maritime Strike and Aerial Naval Mining<br /><br />The efficacy of land based air power in maritime strike and the<br />delivery of naval mines is historically well documented. Land based<br />maritime strike aircraft played a decisive role during the Second<br />World War, operated by both Allied and Axis powers. The Battle of the<br />Atlantic, the Murmansk convoys, the Mediterranean war, the Japanese<br />advance on Malaya, the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, and the blockade of<br />Japan were all decisively shaped by land based air power. Indeed, Gen.<br />Curtis LeMay's B-29 force played a more important role in the mining<br />of Japanese home waters than the USN's submarine force did.7<br /><br />During the Cold War, the Soviet Aviatsiya Voenno-Morskovo Flota (AVMF<br />or SNA) fielded hundreds of Bear, Badger and Backfire bombers in this<br />pivotal role.<br /><br />In the Western community, the use of land based air power for maritime<br />strike and naval mining operations has been adopted on a large scale<br />by the USAF and other allies, the most notable being the Australians.<br />Australia's RAAF modified its force of F-111C aircraft to launch the<br />Harpoon, and deliver naval mines, in addition to its Harpoon capable<br />P-3C and F/A-18A force.<br /><br />In USAF service the B-52G/H is the primary maritime strike and mining<br />asset, with the B-1B also recently cleared for mine delivery.8<br /><br />Strategic bombers are an invaluable asset for strategic maritime<br />warfare, as they posses response times and flexibility which cannot be<br />matched by naval assets. The time to position a carrier battle group<br />may in many situations be too great to exploit a developing<br />opportunity to make a decisive strike, or close down an important<br />shipping lane or port before a hostile force sails.<br /><br />There are many other situations where land based air power is better<br />suited for maritime strike and mining. These arise where an opponent<br />has sufficiently strong land based air capabilities to challenge a<br />carrier battle group. If carrier based aircraft are mostly occupied<br />defending the carrier, little effort will be expended on the primary<br />offensive role.<br /><br />In maritime warfare, be it anti-shipping strike or mining, a Low<br />Observable capability confers the very same advantages it does in the<br />strategic penetration and interdiction roles. The ability to covertly<br />stalk a Surface Action Group, Carrier Battle Group, convoy or to<br />covertly lay a minefield, yields the decisive advantage of surprise<br />and minimises loss rates.<br /><br />Figure 5. CONOPS for AsuW JDAM (Author).<br /><br />The B-2A has tremendous potential in both of these roles. While its<br />APQ-181 attack radar possesses a maritime search mode, the demise of<br />the AGM-137 TSSAM denied the B-2A a suitable weapon for anti-shipping<br />strike.9 While in theory it could be adapted to deliver naval mines in<br />the manner performed by the B-52G/H and the B-1B, ensuring accurate<br />deliveries requires a low altitude drop with concomitant potential for<br />exposure, and a reduction in combat radius. The same difficulties<br />would also arise with carrying the AGM-84 Harpoon, which would also<br />require a weapon specific interface.<br /><br />While it may be argued that a low altitude delivery could be<br />tolerated, it is hardly the optimal strategy for solving the problem.<br />Indeed, a much better alternative exists - adaptation of the GBU-31<br />JDAM.<br /><br />For anti-shipping strikes, we propose the following adaption: the<br />GBU-31 is modified by the addition of a nose mounted terminal seeker,<br />and the autopilot software configured to fly the bomb over the<br />intended target and execute a vertical dive attack. The CONOPS is<br />illustrated in Figure 5.<br /><br />There are a number of choices available in seeker technology:<br /><br />Millimetric Wave Imaging (MMWI) techniques, whereby the seeker scans<br />the surface in the acquisition footprint to develop a height profile<br />of the surface. A naval vessel will produce a large and unambiguous<br />elevation profile, suitable for classification and aimpoint selection.<br />Techniques such as superstructure faceting are ineffective against<br />such a seeker, due to the large area of flat decks. MMWI techniques<br />have been used in anti-armour submunitions and the US Army's Hellfire<br />anti-armour missile seeker.10<br />Focal Plane Array Imaging Infra-Red (FPA-IIR) techniques, whereby the<br />seeker images the surface in the acquisition footprint and<br />autonomously identifies the shapes of naval vessels. Due to the large<br />thermal signature of naval vessels, even modest seeker resolution<br />would suffice for target classification and aimpoint selection. FPA-<br />IIR technology is employed in the USAF/USN AIM-9X and the UK AIM-132<br />ASRAAM seekers, using Indium Antimonide array technology.11<br />Scanning Infra-Red (SIR) or radiometry techniques, whereby a dual band<br />two element IR seeker scans the surface in the acquisition footprint<br />to develop a thermal profile of the surface and any naval vessels<br />present. By using two detector elements at different IR colours, the<br />seeker can estimate the blackbody temperature of every searched point<br />with reasonable accuracy, allowing the use of similar identification<br />and classification techniques to that in the proposed FPA-IIR seeker.<br />Experience with anti-tank submunition seekers suggests that the<br />infrared gradient across target edges can be exploited. This technique<br />is employed in the Norwegian developed Penguin anti-ship missile,<br />carried by their F-16s.12<br />While the infra-red seekers are passive, they are also weather<br />limited, and in the the author's view the MMWI seeker is the better<br />choice. Importantly, enough extant seeker technology exists that the<br />development of an anti-shipping seeker for the JDAM is a low risk and<br />low cost proposition.<br /><br />From the perspective of defeating shipboard defences, the vertical<br />attack profile is particularly attractive. This is because most<br />shipboard terminal defences, be they based upon SAMs or AAA, are<br />optimised for the detection and engagement of sea skimming missiles,<br />low flying aircraft, or shallow diving high speed missiles. Indeed,<br />many shipboard defensive packages will have a blind zone in a cone<br />above the vessel. Many search radars will have sidelobes in this area,<br />and the bomb's radar return may appear as a target in the mainlobe, at<br />a much lower elevation angle. Indeed the British ALARM missile,<br />equivalent to the AGM-88 HARM, exploits this very effect. The same<br />coverage issue will apply to many shipboard ESM systems, and the<br />emissions from the MMWI seeker will scatter off the structure,<br />producing spurious tracks. Even should shipboard defences be capable<br />of detecting and engaging the bomb, unless they can cause the weapon<br />to prematurely explode, it may still be capable of inflicting damage.<br /><br />From the perspective of lethality, the vertical attack profile is also<br />attractive. The historical track record of 1,000 lb class gravity<br />bombs delivered against shipping by dive bombers is impeccable, indeed<br />many vessels much better armoured than contemporary types succumbed to<br />the USN's SBD Dauntlesses, the Luftwaffe's Ju-87 Stukas and the JNAF's<br />D3A Vals.<br /><br />Lethality could be further enhanced by exploiting the BLU-109/B<br />warhead and the Hard Target Smart Fuse, devised for bunker busting. By<br />fusing the weapon to explode beneath the vessel, after penetrating<br />through the bottom, it is feasible to produce a similar effect to that<br />of a Mk.48 torpedo, and break the keel of a smaller combatant. Indeed,<br />the 600 lb class Tritonal filling of the BLU-109/B is similar in size<br />to the warhead of the Mk.48 series. Unlike the torpedo, the JDAM would<br />cause significant structural damage while penetrating through the<br />vessel, thereby weakening it prior to warhead initiation.13<br /><br />From a strategic perspective the B-2A armed with sixteen anti-shipping<br />GBU-31 weapons would provide the capability to destroy an eight vessel<br />strong SAG in a single pass, budgeting two rounds per target. A pair<br />of aircraft would be capable of sinking a convoy or a carrier battle<br />group.<br /><br />The economics of the B-2A and the proposed anti-shipping GBU-31<br />variant are also very attractive, since even with a $80k unit seeker<br />cost, and a $20k baseline weapon cost, each anti-shipping GBU-31 round<br />is about 25% the cost of an AGM-84 Harpoon, with more than twice the<br />warload per round.<br /><br />The JDAM also has much potential as the basis for an air delivered<br />naval mine. The extant USN Mk.36, Mk.40, Mk.41 Destructor and Mk.62,<br />Mk.63, Mk.64 Quickstrike naval mines are all based upon the Mk.80<br />series bombs, fitted with fusing kits.14 The Mk.62 was recently<br />cleared on the B-1B.<br /><br />The use of conventional aircraft for naval mine delivery introduces<br />several problems, especially if a major harbour or entry channel is<br />being mined. The aircraft are likely to be exposed to heavy defensive<br />fire, and radar tracks may be used to attempt to localise the position<br />of the mines for mine-sweeping operations. The use of the B-2A for<br />mine delivery avoids both of these problems.<br /><br />An optimal mine delivery is produced by an accurate low speed, low<br />altitude drop, conditions which are not compatible with a 40 kft<br />penetration altitude. The impact velocity and position drift incurred<br />with a high altitude drop are problematic.<br /><br /><br />Figure 6. JDAM Naval Mine CONOPS (Author).<br /><br />The use of the JDAM tailkit for an air delivered mine provides a very<br />simple and elegant solution to this problem. We propose that the JDAM<br />autopilot software be adapted to fly the weapon through a pull up<br />energy management manoeuvre prior to impact at the programmed GPS<br />coordinates. In this manner, the mine can be delivered with sufficient<br />accuracy to facilitate later removal, if so intended, yet impact the<br />surface at the optimal velocity and angle despite being dropped from a<br />high altitude.<br /><br />The strategic implications of such a weapon carried by the B-2A are<br />not trivial. This capability would allow the USAF to close any<br />defended port, channel or shipping lane with virtual impunity.<br />Moreover, the mines could be delivered covertly, and the opposing<br />party presented with a strategic fait accompli.<br /><br />As with the anti-shipping seeker equipped JDAM variant, the naval mine<br />variant is also an economical weapon. While it will be more expensive<br />than a conventional "dumb" Quickstrike mine, the cost overheads of a<br />fighter and SEAD escort during delivery will not be incurred. The<br />principal engineering issue will be repackaging the extant mine fusing<br />package in a manner compatible with the aerodynamics of the JDAM.<br /><br />Both of the proposed JDAM variants could in principle be carried by<br />any combat aircraft equipped to carry the baseline GBU-31 and GBU-32<br />weapons. Therefore neither are unique in application to the B-2A.<br />Indeed, the anti-shipping seeker equipped weapon would be an<br />attractive addition to the F-22A and the JSF armoury. Its low cost<br />also makes it a practical weapon for use by conventional strike<br />aircraft against undefended or lightly defended naval targets. A JDAM<br />based naval mine would allow the B-52G/H and B-1B to performing mining<br />from altitudes where they are not exposed to low level "trash fire".<br /><br />There is little doubt that both JDAM variants could significantly<br />broaden the range of roles which the B-2A can perform, and further<br />extend the capabilities of the F-22 and JSF.<br /><br />Battlefield Air Interdiction, Precision Strike and Related Roles<br /><br />The battlefield interdiction role has traditionally been very<br />demanding in terms of weapon accuracy, and the ability to engage<br />moving, and frequently fleeting targets. Recent experience during the<br />Desert Storm and Allied Force campaigns indicates that the political<br />costs of collateral damage incurred during battlefield interdiction<br />strikes, or related types of operations such as Scud hunting or the<br />interdiction of small unit ground forces, make this a potentially<br />decisive role. Indeed the political effects of blue-on-blue<br />engagements, or collateral losses of civilian or refugee life,<br />frequently produce political and public responses which are<br />disproportionate against the scale of the event itself.<br /><br />The historical evolution of BAI CONOPS' was shaped primarily by the<br />land warfare environment during and following the Second World War.<br />The emphasis in Wehrmacht and later Soviet models was always upon the<br />application of overwhelming mass of armour and motorised infantry.<br />Refinements in manoeuvre warfare doctrine and the emergence of assault<br />and attack helicopters reinforced this trend by increasing firepower<br />and mobility.<br /><br />These evolutionary pressures led to the development of guided weapons<br />intended to break up massed land warfare manoeuvre forces. The first<br />generation of guided weapons intended for this purpose is typified by<br />the AGM-65 family of imaging guided missiles, and the Pave Tack or<br />Lantirn targeting pods used with the Paveway family of laser guided<br />bombs. All of these weapons performed admirably during the Desert<br />Storm campaign.<br /><br />The second generation of guided weapons developed to break up massed<br />armour is typified by the use of multiple guided or unguided<br />submunitions, dispensed by a guided or unguided free fall or glide<br />weapon, or a ballistic or cruise missile. The SUU-65/CBU-97/B SFW, the<br />WCMD variant, the US AGM-154 JSOW family or European PDWS/KEPD-350 are<br />all current examples of this design philosophy, pioneered almost two<br />decades ago in the DARPA/USAF Assault Breaker program.<br /><br />Second generation submunition based anti-armour weapons are extremely<br />potent, and capable of rapidly inflicting massive casualties against<br />armoured and soft skinned mobile targets. Therefore they represent at<br />this time the best available means of dealing with large scale<br />armoured assaults.<br /><br />Figure 7. Raytheon GBU-27 Paveway III (Raytheon).<br /><br />Figure 8. Boeing GBU-15 (Boeing).<br /><br />However, experience during the Allied Force campaign suggests that<br />many scenarios will arise in which the ability to attack massed forces<br />is much less useful than the ability to individually identify hostile<br />armour and vehicles, and selectively destroy these. This is true also<br />of precision strike operations, insofar as collateral damage can<br />produce politically induced paralysis.<br /><br />The difficulty which arises in this context is that the accurate<br />identification of transient targets and the delivery of extant optical<br />imaging or laser guided weapons typically requires low altitude<br />flight, especially if cloud cover exists. This needless to say is an<br />environment where the survivability advantages of high altitude Low<br />Observable penetration are compromised.<br /><br /><br />Figure 9. CONOPS for Imaging/Datalink JDAM Variant (Author).<br /><br />The optimal solution to this problem is a weapon compatible with the<br />preferred delivery profile for aircraft like the F-22 and JSF, yet<br />providing the man-in-the-loop visual targeting capabilities of extant<br />laser guided and imaging weapons. Indeed, the AGM-130 proved to be one<br />of the most effective weapons employed during Allied Force, as its<br />combination of GPS / inertial midcourse guidance and datalink remote<br />controlled imaging terminal guidance provided the capability to<br />deliver from safe altitudes with the precision and discrimination<br />inherent in an optically guided weapon.<br /><br />It is not feasible to adapt the AGM-130/GBU-15 family to the F-22A or<br />JSF, as the weapon is far too large to fit into a fighter sized weapon<br />bay, and the external AXQ-14 or ZSR-1 datalink pod compromises stealth<br />through its shape and wide angle transmission pattern. Moreover, the<br />basic weapon is expensive.<br /><br />The natural candidate for a replacement weapon for the GBU-15, is an<br />adaptation of the GBU-31/32 JDAM family using a nose mounted imager<br />and two way datalink. A number of mature imaging seekers, developed<br />for the AGM-65 and GBU-15/AGM-130 families of weapons exist. A new<br />seeker, using Platinum Silicide or Indium Antimonide FPA technology is<br />also feasible. There are no fundamental technological challenges<br />inherent in fitting an imaging seeker to the JDAM.<br /><br /><br />Figure 10. F-22A Ventral Datalink Antenna Installation (Author).<br /><br />The difficult issue is that of the two way datalink. It must not<br />compromise the radar cross section of the fighter, nor can it employ a<br />fixed wide angle beam to flood the space in which the bomb is flying<br />with microwave transmissions, as this would compromise the fighter's<br />position to an ESM system.<br /><br />The problem of emissions can best be solved by the use of a narrow J<br />or K band pencil beam produced by a steerable antenna. A mechanically<br />steered planar array behind a bandpass window would largely meet this<br />requirement, but would occupy a prohibitive amount of internal volume<br />on airframes where spare volume is a precious commodity. The geometry<br />of the engagement precludes the use of the fighter's multimode radar<br />for this purpose, only a ventral antenna location is genuinely<br />compatible with the required antenna field of regard.<br /><br />Clearly the only viable technological solution is the use of an active<br />phased array, which antenna sizing constraints require to be in the<br />upper J band or the K band. Indeed, the choice of the K band places<br />the datalink out of the operating range of most extant warning<br />receivers.<br /><br />An active array antenna, smoothly embedded into a flat portion of the<br />lower fuselage, with its boresight pointing vertically down, addresses<br />the basic problems of signatures and engagement geometries.<br /><br />The choice of appropriate placement on the lower fuselage is another<br />problem, since both fighters are densely packed, and even should<br />volume be available, such a modification would require that the<br />complete lower fuselage RCS design be requalified, at considerable<br />expense. While the JSF could still be adapted at this time with<br />minimal expenditure, to accommodate this antenna, this is not true of<br />the F-22A which is for all practical purposes frozen in its basic<br />hardware design.<br /><br /><br />Figure 11. (Author).<br /><br />For the F-22A the best choice would appear to be the outer segments of<br />the main weapon bay doors, since these have adequate width to support<br />a flush embedded antenna array of modest thickness when open or<br />closed. It is unlikely that the antenna thickness would permit the<br />intended carriage of an outboard AIM-120C on a LAU-142/A launcher,<br />although careful design may permit this. There will also be a weight<br />penalty since the door will require additional structural stiffening<br />to accommodate the hole for the antenna. The advantage of the door<br />mounted antenna is that it represents an incremental modification, and<br />in theory could be structurally proven and qualified for RCS<br />performance separately from the airframe itself. Therefore it is a<br />significantly cheaper choice than an antenna buried elsewhere in the<br />lower fuselage.<br /><br />Given the modest range and bandwidth requirements for the datalink,<br />output power levels can be significantly lower than that required for<br />the radar arrays.<br /><br />Placement of the datalink antenna on the JDAM tailkit is an<br />interesting problem. The coverage required represents a conical volume<br />pointing aft of the bomb, which must be symmetrical. A wrap-around<br />endfire mode array would meet this basic requirement, and is not<br />geometrically incompatible with bomb aerodynamics. The use of flexible<br />printed circuit antenna technology would appear to be the best<br />strategy, in effect resulting in a conformal conical array.<br /><br />There is a well established base of transmission modulation schemes<br />with LPI characteristics which would be suitable for this application.<br />Importantly, the requirement for LPI is primarily confined to the<br />transmissions from the aircraft, permitting the use of much cheaper<br />albeit more detectable transmission technology for the bomb's side of<br />the datalink. Since the bomb is transmitting its signal away from the<br />earth, the odds of it being detected by a ground based system are<br />minimal. This is inherent consequence of combining the high altitude<br />delivery profile of the F-22A or JSF with this style of guidance.<br /><br />The pencil beam antenna mainlobe produced by the fighter's ventral<br />phased array will need to be steered to capture the position of the<br />bomb. A simple technique is to track the azimuth of the intended<br />aimpoint, and adjust the elevation of the beam with the anticipated<br />altitude of the bomb as it descends. With several degrees of<br />beamwidth, the width of the antenna transmission footprint is of the<br />order of several miles.<br /><br />The strategy of using a combination of imaging and datalink terminal<br />guidance for a precision variant of the JDAM is evidently technically<br />feasible and would appear to be relatively affordable.<br /><br />For strategic strikes or battlefield strikes against fixed targets,<br />the weapon would be used in a similar manner to the established GBU-15/<br />AGM-130 weapons, exploiting the high altitude supersonic delivery<br />profile of the F-22A and JSF. Both the Mk.83/84 and BLU-109/110<br />warheads would be used, as required.<br /><br />For strikes on highly mobile battlefield targets, especially where the<br />surface is obscured by a dense overcast, the fighter's datalink<br />antenna could be used to receive targeting data or a video imagery<br />feed from a loitering low altitude UAV or a ground observer with<br />suitable equipment. This information would be used for initial<br />targeting of the JDAMs, prior to release. Once the weapon approaches<br />the target, the datalink beam is switched to acquire and track the<br />bomb; the pilot would steer it to impact against the most suitable<br />aimpoint.<br /><br />This strategy would be particularly useful during sorties where highly<br />mobile SAM systems and ballistic missile launchers are being hunted.<br />An expendable UAV with folding wings could be delivered internally by<br />one fighter to loiter in the area of interest, and if a suitable<br />target is found a "shooter" CAP could be directed to engage the<br />target. Similarly offboard targeting data from satellites, JSTARS,<br />Rivet Joint or RQ-4A Global Hawk could be exploited to provide coarse<br />targeting for the fighter.<br /><br />Other alternative CONOPS exist. One is the use of the datalink<br />equipped F-22A as a "master bomber", leading a strike package of F-22A<br />or JSF without the datalink capability, but carrying the datalink<br />capable JDAM. The master bomber would locate targets and then capture<br />the JDAMs after they have been dropped to precisely guide them. In<br />principle this is no different to historically documented uses of<br />laser designator equipped lead bombers.<br /><br />This JDAM variant is also usable for maritime strike operations,<br />particularly for reducing or sinking larger combatants which have been<br />crippled by previous strikes.<br /><br />Figure 12. RF-22A (Author).<br /><br />A ventral active phased array has other potential uses. One is its use<br />as a synthetic aperture imaging radar for bomb damage assessment upon<br />egress following a strike. Whether the additional complexity in the<br />design justifies such a use remains to be determined.<br /><br />Performing the design changes to the weapon bay door does raise other<br />interesting possibilities. The aperture size of the hole in the door<br />is of the required order to fit an infrared transparent window<br />suitable for a reconnaissance camera, while the weapon bay is large<br />enough to accommodate an optical or solid state camera with a focal<br />length of several metres. Such a camera is suitable for high<br />resolution imaging from the cruise altitude of the F-22A. Such a<br />package would allow an RF-22A to fulfill the currently extant need for<br />rapid BDA and targeting reconnaissance in time periods between imaging<br />satellite passes, beyond the safe operating depth of standoff recon<br />assets such as the JSTARS, U-2 and Global Hawk.<br /><br />Conclusions<br /><br />In this paper we have explored a number of alternative growth variants<br />of the GBU-31/32 JDAM intended to expand the useful mission envelope<br />of the B-2A, F-22A and JSF aircraft. All of the proposed designs<br />represent low risk, low cost incremental extensions of extant and<br />planned technology. All provide for significant increases in lethality<br />and survivability over currently operational delivery system and<br />weapon equivalents.<br /><br />There can be no doubt there there is considerable growth potential in<br />the range of possible roles performed by the B-2A, F-22A and planned<br />JSF, and it is the author's intent to contribute to this growth with<br />these proposals. The currently popular argument in some circles, which<br />claims that the Low Observable bomber and GPS / inertially guided bomb<br />are a limited capability are without substance. Even modest additions<br />to this core capability yield weapons which are arguably superior or<br />at least equal in capabilities to currently operational weapons such<br />as the AGM-84, Mk.64 Quickstrike and GBU-15/AGM-130, yet are wholly<br />compatible with the high altitude delivery regime of the Low<br />Observable bomber.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Importance calls for IMPERTINENCE:</span></p><br /><p><br />When you see the White Rabbit, be sure to grab it, men!</p><br /><p>Tackle the Red Rabbit, and repeatedly stab it</p><br /><p>That rabbit might try to run, but we are going to nab it!</p><br /><p>Reevaluate everything! Evacuate everybody!</p><br /><p>For signal detection, use a secondary horseradish peroxidase-conjugated swine anti-rabbit antibody</p><br /><p>We need to form a Rapid, Anti-Rabid-Rabbit Response</p><br /><p>It chews on electrical wiring, as if a carrot</p><br /><p>The Rabbit must die, and we must not spare it</p><br /><p>Some of you might experience Poet-Traumatic Stress Syndrome</p><br /><p>Some of you may not be here, when the operation is over-</p><br /><p>Don't forget your protective, lucky rabbit's foot,your Celtic Knot and 4-leaf Irish clover</p><br /><p>We must get rid all the kwazy wabbits</p><br /><br /><p>so that we can have freedom, safely to indulge according to our customs, and traditional bad habits.....<br /><bigsnp><big-snp><br /></big-snp></bigsnp></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">America Allied With Arabs Against Iran?<br />2007 </span><br /><br />America isn’t the only nation seeking to contain Iran. But there is a danger in thinking that mutual mistrust would make a solid foundation for a dependable alliance.<br /><br />How to deal with Iran? This question is a foreign-policy nightmare that haunts Western leaders.<br /><br />America is at the forefront of a host of Western nations wringing their hands over how best to limit the destructive potential of this most powerful and perhaps least predictable entity in the Middle East.<br /><br />But the question also echoes within influential minds in other governments. In fact, among several nations the question is even more elemental and has still greater urgency than it does for the United States.<br /><br />It may surprise you, but Iran sparks some of the greatest concern among the leaders of Iran’s Muslim neighbors—specifically, of its Sunni Muslim neighbors.<br /><br />Not even 10 percent of the world’s Muslims today are Shiite—the sect of the majority in Iran. Fully 90 percent are Sunni. In addition to the larger nations of Saudi Arabia and Jordan, Sunni states also include a handful of other smaller Arabian Peninsula sheikdoms; these comprise the majority of the Gulf Cooperation Council (gcc).<br /><br />What is known as the Sunni-Shiite rift hearkens back to a seventh-century dispute over who would succeed the Prophet Muhammad. Yet the main issue dividing Sunnis and Shiites today is Iran’s power grabbing in the Middle East. Sunni leaders are deeply disturbed—even panicky—about the radical complexion of the Iranian-led Shiites.<br /><br />The U.S.—looking to exploit every possible option for containing Iran—sees in this Sunni anxiety an opportunity: the makings of a possible alliance. It is viewing states like Jordan and Saudi Arabia as potential partners in erecting a hedge around the Islamic Republic. You may already be reading headlines in your daily news about such efforts.<br /><br />As you do, remember this: There is a deadly flaw in this thinking.<br /><br />A shocking biblical prophecy explains why—a prophecy involving a number of Arab states, the U.S. and Israel, and, most intriguingly, Europe.<br /><br />Why the Panic?<br /><br />Arab leaders have good reason to panic over Iran. The Islamic Republic can export revolution to their countries just as it has undermined Lebanon through Hezbollah, the Fatah-ruled Palestinian territories through Hamas (which, incidentally, is a Sunni organization), and Iraq through Shiite militias and even some Sunni insurgents.<br /><br />Saudi Arabian fear of revolution is especially acute. Saudi Arabia’s eastern province is not only rich with oil, but also teeming with Shiites. According to Vali Nasr, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Saudi royal family believes Iranian operatives, with local Shiite help, have been behind many terrorist attacks inside the kingdom.<br /><br />Arab states also face the reality of Iran possessing nuclear weapons, which they have concluded poses a direct threat to their interests. In response, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman have all spoken openly about pursuing their own nuclear programs. Mustafa Alani, an analyst at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai, stated, “The Iranians left us no option, so this is our answer to them. Now Arabs have no option but to start a program under a civilian banner.” Washington has not objected to the Arab states developing nuclear power programs, having already offered to help Egypt with its nuclear technology.<br /><br />Alani also warned that escalating tensions in the Middle East could “trigger a race for arms.” Already, Arab states are sinking billions of petro-dollars into their militaries. According to Tim Ripley of Jane’s Defense Weekly, Gulf states have earmarked more than $60 billion for arms. Saudi Arabia has allocated close to $50 billion for fighter aircraft, attack helicopters, cruise missiles and some 300 new tanks. The United Arab Emirates has budgeted $8 billion for a rapid reaction force and missile defense.<br /><br />Another significant threat to Arab states is Iran’s ability to wreak havoc on world oil supplies. Iran borders the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most critical energy trade route. Forty percent of the world’s crude oil travels through Hormuz daily (including two thirds of Saudi oil); the U.S. Energy Department estimates that this figure will rise to 60 percent by 2025. The world depends on access to the Hormuz strait to gain Saudi, Qatari, Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil and gas, as well as other petroleum products from the uae. Lt. Col. Rick Francona wrote, “Threats to the straits are a ‘red line’ for these countries” (msnbc, March 19). Over this and other issues, Arab states are bracing themselves for a fight with Iran if necessary.<br /><br />Such concerns, so rife throughout the Arab world, would seem to provide plenty of common ground for an anti-Iran alliance with the United States. In fact, these concerns are taking on a heightened urgency at this time for one very interesting reason: These Arab states deeply fear that the U.S. is about to leave Iraq, and are begging it not to do so—for fear that this would leave Iran too strong.<br /><br />Given the attitude of the American anti-war left, it is not hard to see why the White House is considering aligning with these Arab states.<br /><br />Is the President Allying With Arabs?<br /><br />There is a “new strategic alignment in the Middle East,” U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January. Rice was referring to U.S. efforts to develop a new alliance with moderate Arab states to stop Iran’s power grabbing.<br /><br />Such an alliance would be built on mutual moderate Arab and American-Israeli interests. Rice identified Sunni Arab states as models of moderation while pointing to Iran, Syria and Hezbollah as being “on the other side of the divide,” adding that Iran and Syria “have made their choice and their choice is to destabilize.”<br /><br />Realizing that the war in Iraq has strengthened Iran, the U.S. administration appears ready to empower what it considers “moderate” Arabs in the region as a counterweight. It has been courting eight Arab states in particular since last September. Before that—tracing back even as far as the first Gulf War—Washington has made deals whereby Arab states purchase American arms and receive security guarantees. More recently, the U.S. has sought support for its anti-extremist, anti-proliferation agenda by offering a security umbrella to these states.<br /><br />Even Israel appears to be warming to the idea of a strategic alliance with Arab states based on mutual fear of Iran. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is now considering a five-year-old Saudi plan that could see Israel draw back to its 1967 borders in exchange for peace with some of its Arab neighbors.<br /><br />What will be the outcome of these efforts, to whatever degree they proceed? Just the visible facts are terribly problematic. Several of these Arab states, though their leaders may be comfortable in dialog with the United States, have populations that are repulsed by the idea of dealing with America; they are, in short, quite sympathetic to Iran’s radical agenda. The tentacles of terrorism extend deeply into Saudi Arabia, for example—one of the supposed “moderate” Arab states. Egypt shows signs of an imminent transition from the “moderate” Mubarak era into something far more dangerous and more closely aligned with Iran. As attractive as the idea of having strategic allies in the region may be, these states are deeply stained by radical leanings or even blood-guiltiness.<br /><br />Several of these governments are already in trouble with their more religious populations for being too friendly with the “infidel” West. Anti-Americanism and anti-Israelism are defining doctrines throughout much of the Middle East. Surveys by Zogby International and the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies have found that anti-American feelings are at an all-time high, even in “moderate” Arab countries. According to one poll, only 12 percent of those surveyed within America’s so-called allies in the Middle East—Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates—express a favorable attitude toward the United States. In Jordan, 65 percent have an unfavorable view; in Saudi Arabia, that figure is 79 percent, according to a London Times poll.<br /><br />Yes—even while the U.S. and Israel hope to develop a strategic relationship with moderate Arabs, they must know they are hated by these countries! This should serve as a warning that moderate Arab states should not be trusted to help America’s interests. Frankly, if Arab leaders begin to take the additional steps of helping the U.S. to fight the Islamic Republic of Iran—which, for many Muslims, is a symbol of what they believe to be the inevitable political ascendancy of Islam—it is not difficult to imagine great masses becoming even more agitated and radicalized.<br /><br />These are worrisome possibilities. That the U.S. would seriously contemplate such alliances indicates just how desperate it is becoming on the issue of how to deal with Iran. The degree to which it would seek help from Iran’s Arab neighbors in containing Iran would only be a measure of its enfeebled position in Iraq and diminished geopolitical stature.<br /><br />Nevertheless, we do not expect great things to come of these diplomatic efforts between the U.S. and Arab states.<br /><br />Yes, this world is likely soon to witness the development of an unusual alliance involving these Arab states. However, this alliance, the specific composition of which is strongly indicated in Scripture, will not be with the U.S. or with Israel. In fact, it will be an alliance against them!<br /><br />This prophecy reveals the deadly flaw in the notion that America can trust these states as allies!<br /><br />Renewing Old Friendships<br /><br />With whom can we can expect to see these Arab states develop an alliance in the near future? As we will see, prophecy says it will be Europe. Already we can see events bearing this out.<br /><br />With America weakened and moderate Arab states planning for its expected withdrawal from Iraq, Europe sees an opening to secure its own interests in the Middle East. Not since the German Erwin Rommel’s Middle Eastern desert campaign during World War ii has Europe, and particularly Germany, emerged with the potential to be such a powerful player in the region.<br /><br />Since the Israel-Hezbollah war, Germany has dramatically escalated its involvement in the Middle East. In Lebanon, Germany heads the UN naval force tasked by the Security Council to secure the Lebanese coastline. Other European states are part of a multinational task force acting as a buffer between Israel and southern Lebanon. On the Gaza-Egypt border, European observers monitor the volatile Rafah border crossing. Germany has also played an important back-channel role, negotiating on Israel’s behalf for soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Europe is also making headway with its relations with Arab states. The German foreign minister has visited the region several times, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel has held talks within the last few months with the Palestinian Authority president, the king of Jordan and president of Egypt—not to mention Israel’s prime minister. Germany seeks to become a key negotiating channel between regional players.<br /><br />In February, Chancellor Merkel toured the Middle East to discuss regional issues with Arab leaders. One issue under discussion, according to a February 6 Reuters report, was a free-trade zone between Gulf states and the European Union. Talk of a free-trade zone between the EU and gcc members began in the early ’90s, but withered on the vine because of irreconcilable differences. Now, it is back on the table. “There is a clear political desire on both sides to get a swift resolution to the disputed points,” one German official stated. Such a trade bloc may help jump-start a European-gcc partnership and strengthen German-Arab relations.<br /><br />During Merkel’s visit, the gcc’s secretary-general, Abdul Rahman Al-Attiyah, called on the EU to play a greater role in the Middle East. Indeed, having cleverly side-stepped involvement in the Iraq war, Germany is in prime position to lead the EU in significant diplomatic initiatives that affect the Middle East power equation.<br /><br />Are we witnessing the first steps of a new partnership within the Middle East—Europeans working with Arab states? We believe so.<br /><br />However, the prophecy that refers to this does not focus on it being an anti-Iran alliance, though that may play a role in its development. It is, in fact, an alliance formed for an entirely different and altogether more shocking intent!<br /><br />That is, to bring down the United States—as well as two of its key allies, Britain and Israel!<br /><br />Blueprints for Destruction<br /><br />Daniel 11:40-41 describe a Middle East power, called the “king of the south,” pushing at what the Bible terms the “king of the north.” As our free booklet The King of the South explains in detail, the king of the north is a revived Holy Roman Empire led by Germany, and the king of the south is radical Islam led by Iran. (Request a free copy of this for proof.)<br /><br />These verses portray the German-led European power swooping down and smashing Iran, along with some other countries in the Middle East, with blitzkrieg-style warfare.<br /><br />But notice: While certain nations, including Egypt (verse 42) will be subdued in this attack along with Iran, these verses show that other parts of the Middle East, including the area we know today as Jordan (Moab and Ammon) will not be conquered. As brutally destructive as Europe’s coming war in the Middle East is, this indicates that it will also be surgical in nature.<br /><br />Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry has written about a mysterious alliance discussed in Psalm 83. Knowing the modern descendants of the peoples spoken of in these verses is key to understanding this prophecy; though these names do not precisely coincide with modern nations, we can get a strong general idea of those to which they refer. According to this passage, Germany (“Assur,” or Assyria, verse 8) will ally with Turkey (Edom), Saudi Arabia (the Ishmaelites) Jordan (Moab and Ammon), Syria (the Hagarenes) and Lebanon (Gebal). For proof of these identities, request our free booklet The King of the South.<br /><br />What is the purpose of this alliance? Verse 3 says these peoples “have taken crafty counsel against thy people”—referring to the descendants of Israel. If you have never proven from your Bible and from history that America and Britain are the modern nations of Israel, you will find Herbert W. Armstrong’s book The United States and Britain in Prophecy a captivating study. We will send you a free copy upon request.<br /><br />Verse 4 shows far more explicitly what draws this unusual alliance together: “They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.” This German-Arab alliance forms for the specific purpose of totally destroying America, Britain and Israel—in an effort to forever erase the very name Israel!<br /><br />Such an alliance, not mentioned elsewhere in Scripture, never occurred in biblical history. That is because it is a prophecy for the end time—our day!<br /><br />Already you can see the seeds of these future earth-shaking events being sown.<br /><br />The Signs Are There Today<br /><br />The division in the Islamic world we see today portends this drastic split indicated in prophecy between those Muslim nations that a European superpower will ally itself with, and those Muslim nations it will utterly destroy. Watch that division grow more visible, and for the already apparent differences with which European nations treat these Middle East states to become even more stark.<br /><br />The anti-Americanism and anti-Israelism boiling throughout the Middle East today—even in those nations Western leaders consider “friendly” or “moderate”—is a precursor to the explosive ferocity with which these nations, having joined themselves with a German-led Europe, will attack the modern Israelite nations.<br /><br />Only armed with this knowledge can one understand just how dangerously misguided and foolhardy America’s strategy of seeking solutions to its troubles in the Middle East by cultivating alliances with Arab states truly is!<br /><br />But all this bad news turns into really good news. As these prophecies clearly show, this deceitful double-cross of America, Britain and Israel leads to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ! Men have long scoffed at the idea of Christ returning in all power and glory. But Jesus Himself said to watch! He gave specific, identifiable signs to help His people know when He was about to return. Among them is the prophecy of this double-cross—an event to unfold within the last days prior to the return of Jesus Christ to rule the Earth. We are drawing incredibly close to that spectacular reality!<br /><br />**************************************************************************<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Honeymoon's Over For Bush And The Saudis<br /></span><br />Monday 30 April, 2007 The Washington Post<br /><br />Martin Indyk - What has happened to the love affair between Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah and President Bush? Two years ago, down on the Texas ranch, they were photographed walking hand in hand. It was the beginning of a beautiful relationship: Bush dropped his demand for democratization in the puritanical kingdom,<br />and Abdullah did his best to moderate oil prices. The dowry was a new U.S. arms deal for the Saudis. A second honeymoon was scheduled for this month, when Bush planned to host Abdullah for his first state visit.<br /><br />So the White House was mightily perplexed when it was informed that the king's schedule didn't allow for a spring visit to Washington. Then, at an Arab League summit in Riyadh last month, Abdullah denounced the U.S. war in Iraq as an "illegitimate occupation." He also used the occasion to make up with Bush's bete noire, Bashar al-Assad, the brash Syrian president who had previously denounced the Saudi leader as "a dwarf."<br /><br />What was going on? Simply put, the Bush administration had been listening to the wrong Saudi. Keen for any signs of hope in the region as Iraq spiraled downward, Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other senior U.S. officials had grasped at a grandiose regional game plan being pushed by Prince Bandar bin Sultan, formerly the Saudi ambassador in Washington and now Abdullah's national security adviser.<br />But Bandar wasn't calling the shots; Abdullah was, and he has a very different way of doing business.<br /><br />Last summer, Bandar came knocking on the White House door, selling a new strategy for countering the threat from Iran, which had been made vivid when the radical Hezbollah militia, Iran's ally, triggered a full-scale war in Lebanon and fought Israel to a standstill. The Arab world's Sunni leaders, Bandar argued, were ready to forge an unusual alliance with Israel to confront their common foe: the Shiite mullahs in Tehran. Working in tacit cooperation, the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel would roll back Iran's regional influence by taking down the extremist Hamas Palestinian government in Gaza, containing Hezbollah's bid to control Lebanon and destabilizing Iran's main regional ally, Syria.<br /><br />To kick off his grand anti-Iranian design, Bandar encouraged the weak but moderate Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to confront Hamas. But Bandar's boss, Abdullah, had another idea: Instead of sending Abbas the fat aid check that Bandar had promised, Abdullah invited Hamas's leaders to Mecca to forge a new Palestinian unity government, to include the moderate Abbas and his challengers in Hamas. Bandar's plan was in shambles. The Bush administration, which had led a year-long boycott of the Hamas government, felt as though it had been sucker punched.<br /><br />And that was just the first blow. Abdullah also nixed Bandar's idea for direct engagement with Israel. For years, Israel had coveted such a relationship with the Saudis, which would have been an enormous psychological breakthrough and a rare Middle East achievement for the Bush team. Bandar promised to open Saudi-Israeli talks under the umbrella of an Arab League plan, in which all Arab states would offer Israel full peace if it pulled back to its pre-1967 borders and solved the problem of the Palestinian refugees. Rice hoped to convene a peace conference at which the Saudi foreign minister would announce this plan -- with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in attendance. But Abdullah wasn't buying. He believed that he had done his bit for Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking by producing a Palestinian unity government; now it was Bush's job to press Israel to negotiate a deal with it. Until then, Abdullah wouldn't be doing Washington any more favors.<br /><br />The Bush administration was furious about this seeming reversal, but it had largely itself to blame. It had been taken for a ride by the freelancing Bandar, and it should have known better. In Riyadh, at least, the king is still the decider. And the king's worldview differs importantly from Bandar's.<br /><br />Abdullah agrees with Bandar that their main challenge is the Iranian/Shiite threat to Sunni dominance of the Arab world. But where Bandar wants to confront Iran's Arab proxies, Abdullah seeks to wean them off their dependence on Tehran. That dictates engagement, however distasteful, with Hamas in Gaza and Assad in Damascus. It also requires distancing Saudi Arabia from Bush's ill-fated Iraq adventure, which in Abdullah's view is only strengthening a pro-Iranian Shiite government at Sunni Arab expense.<br /><br />If Bush wants to rekindle the U.S.-Saudi love affair, he needs to deal with the Saudi leader we have, not the one we'd like.<br /><br />That needn't mean total despair on the Arab-Israeli front. Peace with Israel is essential to Abdullah's anti-Iranian game plan because Tehran exploits the conflict to build its influence in the Arab world. But the Saudi king is not going to get into bed with Israel for a mere photo op. Abdullah will be ready to go to Washington -- and, eventually, perhaps even to Jerusalem -- when Bush, Rice and Olmert signal that they will accept his terms for a comprehensive Arab-Israeli settlement.<br /><br />His opening price is Bush's accommodation of Hamas and Syria as players in the peace process, and he'll settle in the end for Israel's withdrawal from the Golan Heights and the West Bank. If Bush wants that second honeymoon with Abdullah, he is going to have to renegotiate the terms of endearment...<br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br />One day I realized that those "private contractors" had ample<br />incentive to keep the pot boiling in Iraq. They have found a gold<br />mine there--we can be sure they are not anxious for the violence in<br />Iraq to end too soon. Since they are generously funded, generally<br />immune from prosecution, and since their activities are kept hidden<br />from the public in general, it would be pretty easy for those private<br />contractors to set a few roadside bombs, pick off a few American<br />soldiers with sniper rifles, and stir up sectarian strife at every<br />opportunity. It would be good for business.<br /><br />There are about 140,000 private employees, about 46,000 assigned to<br />private combat duty, just like American soldiers. They are assigned<br />to key areas and travel all over Iraq, just like American soldiers.<br />They drive vehicles, just like American soldiers. They travel Iraqi<br />roads, just like American soldiers.<br /><br />So why are they not being killed and maimed, just like American<br />soldiers? Some 30,000 young Americans have been seriously wounded and<br />crippled in Iraq. We don't seem to see any private contractors blown<br />to pieces and laying legless in hospital beds, just like American<br />soldiers. What could be the reason? Do they know where the bombs<br />are? Do they know where the attacks will occur? Are the "insurgents"<br />giving the private contractors a free pass?<br /><br /><br />Outsourcing the War - 126,000 private U.S. personnel in Iraq<br /><br />Jeremy Scahill, bestselling author and investigative reporter for The<br />Nation, testified May 10 before the House Appropriations Subcommittee<br />on Defense on the impact of private military contractors on the<br />conduct of the Iraq War.<br /><br />Watch/listen to his testimony - (it's not quite 6 mins).<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdk4dIXqs7s<br /><br />the full text of his testimony:<br />http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/12/1136/<br /><br />Below is an excerpt of his remarks:<br /><br />Outsourcing the War<br /><br />..there are at least 126,000 private personnel deployed alongside the<br />official armed forces. These private forces effectively double the<br />size of the occupation force, largely without the knowledge of the US<br />taxpayers that foot the bill.<br /><br />While tens of thousands of these contractors provide logistical<br />support, thousands are heavily armed private soldiers roaming Iraq. We<br />do know that there are some 48,000 employees of private military<br />companies in Iraq alone.<br /><br />These forces work for US companies like Blackwater, Triple Canopy and<br />DynCorp as well as companies from across the globe. Some contractors<br />make in a month what many active-duty soldiers make in a year. Indeed,<br />there are private contractors in Iraq making more money than the<br />Secretary of Defense and more than the commanding generals. The<br />testimony about private contractors that I hear most often from active<br />duty soldiers falls into two categories: resentment and envy.<br /><br />They ask what message their country is sending them. While many<br />soldiers lack basic protective equipment--facts well-known to this<br />committee--they are in a war zone where they see the private soldiers<br />whiz by in better vehicles, with better armor, better weapons, wearing<br />the corporate logo instead of the American flag and pulling in much<br />more money. They ask: Are our lives worth less?<br /><br />Of course, there are many cases where war contractors have hoarded the<br />profits at the top and money has not filtered down to the individual<br />contractors on the ground or the armor to protect them.<br /><br />The second reaction is that the active-duty soldiers see the "rock<br />star" private contractors and they want to be like them. So we have a<br />phenomenon of soldiers leaving active duty to join the private sector.<br /><br />There is slang in Iraq now for this jump. It is called "Going<br />Blackwater." To put it bluntly, these private forces create a system<br />where national duty is outbid by profits...<br /><br />Just as there is a double standard in pay, there is a double standard<br />in the application of the law. Soldiers who commit crimes or acts of<br />misconduct are prosecuted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.<br />There have been some 64 courts martial on murder-related charges in<br />Iraq alone. Compare that to the lack of prosecution of contractors.<br />Despite the fact that tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of<br />thousands, have streamed in and out of Iraq since March of 2003, only<br />two private contractors have faced any criminal prosecution. Two. One<br />was a KBR employee alleged to have stabbed a co-worker, the other<br />pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography images on his<br />computer at Abu Ghraib prison. In four years, there have been no<br />prosecutions for crimes against Iraqis and not a single known<br />prosecution of an armed contractor.<br /><br />That either means we have tens of thousands of Boy Scouts working as<br />armed contractors or something is fundamentally wrong with the system.<br />Brig. Gen. Karl Horst of the 3rd Infantry Division became so outraged<br />by contractor unaccountability that he began tracking contractor<br />violence in Baghdad. In just two months he documented twelve cases of<br />contractors shooting at civilians, resulting in six deaths and three<br />injuries. That is just two months and one general.<br /><br />They have not been prosecuted under the UCMJ, under US civilian law or<br />under Iraqi law. US contractors in Iraq reportedly have their own<br />motto:<br /><br />"What happens here today, stays here today."<br /><br />That should be chilling to everyone who believes that warfare, above<br />all government functions, must be subject to transparency,<br />accountability and the rule of law.<br /><br />These are forces operating in the name of the United States of<br />America. Iraqis do not see contractors as separate from soldiers--<br />understandably, they see them all as "the occupation." Contractor<br />misconduct is viewed as American misconduct.<br />...<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">HUNDREDS OF ISRAELI SPIES HELD BY USA....????</span><br /><br />In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, the FBI has stumbled on the<br />largest espionage ring ever discovered inside the United States. The U.S.<br />Justice Department is now holding nearly 100 Israeli citizens with direct<br />ties to foreign military, criminal and intelligence services.<br /><br />The spy ring reportedly includes employees of two Israeli-owned companies<br />that currently perform almost all the official wiretaps for U.S. local,<br />state and federal law enforcement.<br /><br />The U.S. law enforcement wiretaps, authorized by the Communications<br />Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), appear to have been breached by<br />organized crime units working inside Israel and the Israeli intelligence<br />service, Mossad.<br /><br />Both Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller were<br />warned on Oct. 18 in a hand-delivered letter from local, state and federal<br />law enforcement officials. The warning stated, "Law enforcement's current<br />electronic surveillance capabilities are less effective today than they were<br />at the time CALEA was enacted."<br /><br />The spy ring enabled criminals to use reverse wiretaps against U.S.<br />intelligence and law enforcement operations. The illegal monitoring may have<br />resulted in the deaths of several informants and reportedly spoiled planned<br />anti-drug raids on crime syndicates.<br /><br />Global Spy and Crime Network<br /><br />The penetration of the U.S. wiretap system has led to a giant spy hunt<br />across the globe by American intelligence agencies. U.S. intelligence<br />officials now suspect the spy ring shared and sold information to other<br />nations.<br /><br />"Why do you think Putin so nonchalantly and with such great fanfare<br />announced the shutdown of the Lourdes listening post in Cuba?" noted Douglas<br />Brown, president of Multilingual Data Solutions Inc. and program director at<br />the Nathan Hale Institute.<br /><br />"Besides the PR benefit right before his visit here, the Russians don't need<br />it anymore. They've scraped together a cheaper, more effective monitoring<br />system. Is the Israeli company an element of that system? I don't know,"<br />stated Brown.<br /><br />"With all the whining and crying about Echelon and Carnivore, critics,<br />domestic and foreign, of U.S. electronic eavesdropping vastly overestimate<br />our abilities to process and disseminate the stuff," noted Brown.<br /><br />"The critics also underestimated the incompetence and total ineptness of the<br />people running our intelligence and law enforcement services during the<br />Clinton-Gore years. One guy uses his home computer for storing top secret<br />documents; another high-tech guru guy can't figure out how to save and<br />retrieve his e-mail, and the guy in charge of everything is having phone sex<br />over an open line with one of his employees," said Brown.<br /><br />"On the other hand, the Europeans, including the Russians, have been much<br />more focused on the nuts and bolts of practical systems to process the<br />information they scoop up. The stories linking German intelligence and the<br />L&H scandal got very little play here but were widely noted in the European<br />software community," said Brown.<br /><br />"Except for a few Germans and an occasional Pole, nobody can match the<br />Russians in designing and developing algorithms. We may have some of the<br />world's greatest programmers, but the Russians and Europeans do a better job<br />of matching up linguists and area experts with their programmers," noted<br />Brown.<br /><br />The discovery of a major spy ring inside the United States is straining the<br />already tense relations with Israel. Although, Israel denied any involvement<br />with the penetration of the U.S. wiretap system, the CIA and FBI are<br />investigating the direct government ties to the former Israeli military and<br />intelligence officials now being held by the Justice Department.<br /><br />Israeli Company Provides U.S. Wiretaps<br /><br />One company reported to be under investigation is Comverse Infosys, a<br />subsidiary of an Israeli-run private telecommunications firm. Comverse<br />provides almost all the wiretapping equipment and software for U.S. law<br />enforcement.<br /><br />Custom computers and software made by Comverse are tied into the U.S. phone<br />network in order to intercept, record and store wiretapped calls, and at the<br />same time transmit them to investigators.<br /><br />The penetration of Comverse reportedly allowed criminals to wiretap law<br />enforcement communications in reverse and foil authorized wiretaps with<br />advance warning. One major drug bust operation planned by the Los Angeles<br />police was foiled by what now appear to be reverse wiretaps placed on law<br />enforcement phones by the criminal spy ring.<br /><br />Flawed laws Led to Compromise<br /><br />Several U.S. privacy and security advocates contend the fault actually lies<br />in the CALEA legislation passed by Congress that allowed the spy ring to<br />operate so effectively. Lisa Dean, vice president for technology policy at<br />Free Congress Foundation, delivered a scathing critique of the breach of the<br />U.S. law enforcement wiretap system.<br /><br />"We are exercising our 'I told you so' rights on this," said Dean.<br /><br />"From the beginning, both the political right and left warned Congress and<br />the FBI that they were making a huge mistake by implementing CALEA. That it<br />would jeopardize the security of private communications, whether it's<br />between a mother and her son or between government officials. The statement<br />just issued by law enforcement agencies has confirmed our worst fears,"<br />concluded Dean.<br /><br />"How many more 9/11s do we have to suffer?" asked Brad Jansen, deputy<br />director for technology policy at the Free Congress Foundation.<br /><br />"The CALEA form of massive surveillance is a poor substitute for real law<br />enforcement and intelligence work. It is an after-the-fact method of crime<br />fighting. It is not designed to prevent crime. Massive wiretapping does not<br />equal security. Instead, we have elected to jeopardize our national security<br />in exchange for poor law enforcement," said Jansen.<br /><br />"For example, FINCEN monitoring of all money transactions did not detect<br />al-Qaeda, nor did it find Mohamed Atta before he boarded his last flight. It<br />was an ATM receipt left in his rental car that led the FBI to the bin Laden<br />bank accounts," noted Jansen.<br /><br />U.S. National Security Compromised<br /><br />"The CALEA approach is the same approach law enforcement has been pushing<br />for a number of years. It's the same approach that was used to push<br />Carnivore, Magic Lantern, FINCEN and even the failed Clipper project. This<br />approach leads to a compromise in national security and in personal security<br />for the American public," said Jansen.<br /><br />"In addition, there is always government abuse of these kinds of systems,"<br />stated Jansen. "Law enforcement on all levels does a very poor job in<br />policing itself. We need to hold our police and government officials to the<br />highest standards."<br /><br />"This also hurts the U.S. economy when the whole world knows that our<br />communication systems are not secure. We cannot compete with inferior<br />products when other countries are exporting secure software and hardware.<br />New Zealand, India and Chile already offer security products that actually<br />provide real security," stated Jansen.<br /><br />"The current mentality of law enforcement is what failed to protect us from<br />9/11. CALEA wiretaps will not protect us from terror attacks in the future.<br />The system does not provide better intelligence information. It actually<br />leads to less security and more crime. We get the worst of both worlds,"<br />concluded Jansen.<br /><br />Story by Charles R. Smith (NewsMax.com)<br /><br /><br />http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/18/224826.shtml<br /><br />http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/61.html<br /><br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br />Watch/listen to his testimony - (it's not quite 6 mins).<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdk4dIXqs7s<br /><br />the full text of his testimony:<br />http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/12/1136/<br /><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Apostasy.</span><br /><br /> * <span style="font-weight: bold;">The apostle Paul, in his second letter to the Thessalonians, foretold<br />the great apostasy which would result in the establishment of the papal<br />power. He declared that the day of Christ should not come, "except there<br />come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of<br />perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God,<br />or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God,<br />showing himself that he is God." [2 THESS. 2:3, 4, 7.] And furthermore, the<br />apostle warns his brethren that "the mystery of iniquity doth already work."<br />[2 THESS. 2:3, 4, 7.] Even at that early date he saw, creeping into the<br />church, errors that would prepare the way for the development of the papacy.<br />{GC88 49.1}<br /><br /> Little by little, at first in stealth and silence, and then more openly<br />as it increased in strength and gained control of the minds of men, the<br />mystery of iniquity carried forward its deceptive and blasphemous work.<br />Almost imperceptibly the customs of heathenism found their way into the<br />Christian church. The spirit of compromise and conformity was restrained for<br />a time by the fierce persecutions which the church endured under paganism.<br />But as persecution ceased, and Christianity entered the courts and palaces<br />of kings, she laid aside the humble simplicity of Christ and his apostles<br />for the pomp and pride of pagan priests and rulers; and in place of the<br />requirements of God, she substituted human theories and traditions. The<br />nominal<br /> <br />50<br />conversion of Constantine, in the early part of the fourth century, caused<br />great rejoicing; and the world, cloaked with a form of righteousness, walked<br />into the church. Now the work of corruption rapidly progressed. Paganism,<br />while appearing to be vanquished, became the conqueror. Her spirit<br />controlled the church. Her doctrines, ceremonies, and superstitions were<br />incorporated into the faith and worship of the professed followers of<br />Christ. {GC88 49.2}<br /><br /> This compromise between paganism and Christianity resulted in the<br />development of the "man of sin" foretold in prophecy as opposing and<br />exalting himself above God. That gigantic system of false religion is a<br />masterpiece of Satan's power,--a monument of his efforts to seat himself<br />upon the throne to rule the earth according to his will. {GC88 50.1}<br /><br /> Satan once endeavored to form a compromise with Christ. He came to the<br />Son of God in the wilderness of temptation, and, showing him all the<br />kingdoms of the world and the glory of them, offered to give all into his<br />hands if he would but acknowledge the supremacy of the prince of darkness.<br />Christ rebuked the presumptuous tempter, and forced him to depart. But Satan<br />meets with greater success in presenting the same temptations to man. To<br />secure worldly gains and honors, the church was led to seek the favor and<br />support of the great men of earth, and having thus rejected Christ, she was<br />induced to yield allegiance to the representative of Satan,--the bishop of<br />Rome. {GC88 50.2}<br /><br /> It is one of the leading doctrines of Romanism that the pope is the<br />visible head of the universal church of Christ, invested with supreme<br />authority over bishops and pastors in all parts of the world. More than<br />this, the pope has arrogated the very titles of Deity. He styles himself<br />"Lord God the Pope," assumes infallibility, and demands that all men pay him<br />homage. Thus the same claim urged by Satan in the wilderness of temptation<br />is still urged by him through the Church of Rome, and vast numbers are ready<br />to yield him homage.<br /> <br />51<br />{GC88 50.3}<br /><br /> But those who fear and reverence God meet this Heaven-daring assumption<br />as Christ met the solicitations of the wily foe: "Thou shalt worship the<br />Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." [LUKE 4:8.] God has never<br />given a hint in his Word that he has appointed any man to be the head of the<br />church. The doctrine of papal supremacy is directly opposed to the teachings<br />of the Scriptures. The pope can have no power over Christ's church except by<br />usurpation. {GC88 51.1}<br /><br /> Romanists have persisted in bringing against Protestants the charge of<br />heresy, and willful separation from the true church. But these accusations<br />apply rather to themselves. They are the ones who laid down the banner of<br />Christ, and departed from "the faith which was once delivered unto the<br />saints." [JUDE 3.] {GC88 51.2}<br /><br /> Satan well knew that the Holy Scriptures would enable men to discern<br />his deceptions and withstand his power. It was by the Word that even the<br />Saviour of the world had resisted his attacks. At every assault, Christ<br />presented the shield of eternal truth, saying, "It is written." To every<br />suggestion of the adversary, he opposed the wisdom and power of the Word. In<br />order for Satan to maintain his sway over men, and establish the authority<br />of the papal usurper, he must keep them in ignorance of the Scriptures. The<br />Bible would exalt God, and place finite men in their true position;<br />therefore its sacred truths must be concealed and suppressed. This logic was<br />adopted by the Roman Church. For hundreds of years the circulation of the<br />Bible was prohibited. The people were forbidden to read it or to have it in<br />their houses, and unprincipled priests and prelates interpreted its<br />teachings to sustain their pretensions. Thus the pope came to be almost<br />universally acknowledged as the vicegerent of God on earth, endowed with<br />authority over Church and State. {GC88 51.3}<br /><br /> The detector of error having been removed, Satan worked according to<br />his will. Prophecy had declared that the<br /> <br />52<br />papacy was to "think to change times and laws." [DAN. 7:25.] This work it<br />was not slow to attempt. To afford converts from heathenism a substitute for<br />the worship of idols, and thus to promote their nominal acceptance of<br />Christianity, the adoration of images and relics was gradually introduced<br />into the Christian worship. The decree of a general council [SECOND COUNCIL<br />OF NICE, A.D. 787.] finally established this system of idolatry. To complete<br />the sacrilegious work, Rome presumed to expunge from the law of God the<br />second commandment, forbidding image worship, and to divide the tenth<br />commandment, in order to preserve the number. {GC88 51.4}<br /><br /> The spirit of concession to paganism opened the way for a still further<br />disregard of Heaven's authority. Satan tampered with the fourth commandment<br />also, and essayed to set aside the ancient Sabbath, the day which God had<br />blessed and sanctified, [GEN. 2:2, 3.] and in its stead to exalt the<br />festival observed by the heathen as "the venerable day of the sun." This<br />change was not at first attempted openly. In the first centuries the true<br />Sabbath had been kept by all Christians. They were jealous for the honor of<br />God, and, believing that his law is immutable, they zealously guarded the<br />sacredness of its precepts. But with great subtlety, Satan worked through<br />his agents to bring about his object. That the attention of the people might<br />be called to the Sunday, it was made a festival in honor of the resurrection<br />of Christ. Religious services were held upon it; yet it was regarded as a<br />day of recreation, the Sabbath being still sacredly observed. {GC88 52.1}<br /><br /> To prepare the way for the work which he designed to accomplish, Satan<br />had led the Jews, before the advent of Christ, to load down the Sabbath with<br />the most rigorous exactions, making its observance a burden. Now, taking<br />advantage of the false light in which he had thus caused it to be regarded,<br />he cast contempt upon it as a Jewish institution. While Christians continued<br />to observe the Sunday<br /> <br />53<br />as a joyous festival, he led them, in order to show their hatred of Judaism,<br />to make the Sabbath a fast, a day of sadness and gloom. {GC88 52.2}<br /><br /> In the early part of the fourth century, the emperor Constantine issued<br />a decree making Sunday a public festival throughout the Roman Empire. [SEE<br />APPENDIX, NOTE 1.] The day of the sun was reverenced by his pagan subjects,<br />and was honored by Christians; it was the emperor's policy to unite the<br />conflicting interests of heathenism and Christianity. He was urged to do<br />this by the bishops of the church, who, inspired by ambition, and thirst for<br />power, perceived that if the same day was observed by both Christians and<br />the heathen, it would promote the nominal acceptance of Christianity by<br />pagans, and thus advance the power and glory of the church. But while<br />Christians were gradually led to regard Sunday as possessing a degree of<br />sacredness, they still held the true Sabbath as the holy of the Lord, and<br />observed it in obedience to the fourth commandment. {GC88 53.1}<br /><br /> The arch-deceiver had not completed his work. He was resolved to gather<br />the Christian world under his banner, and to exercise his power through his<br />vicegerent, the proud pontiff who claimed to be the representative of<br />Christ. Through half-converted pagans, ambitious prelates, and world-loving<br />churchmen, he accomplished his purpose. Vast councils were held, from time<br />to time, in which the dignitaries of the church were convened from all the<br />world. In nearly every council the Sabbath which God had instituted was<br />pressed down a little lower, while the Sunday was correspondingly exalted.<br />Thus the pagan festival came finally to be honored as a divine institution,<br />while the Bible Sabbath was pronounced a relic of Judaism, and its observers<br />were declared to be accursed. {GC88 53.2}<br /><br /> The great apostate had succeeded in exalting himself "above all that is<br />called God, or that is worshiped." [2 THESS. 2:4.] He had dared to change<br />the only precept of the divine law that unmistakably points all mankind to<br />the true and living<br /> <br />54<br />God. In the fourth commandment, God is revealed as the Creator of the<br />heavens and the earth, and is thereby distinguished from all false gods. It<br />was as a memorial of the work of creation that the seventh day was<br />sanctified as a rest-day for man. It was designed to keep the living God<br />ever before the minds of men as the source of being and the object of<br />reverence and worship. Satan strives to turn men from their allegiance to<br />God, and from rendering obedience to his law; therefore he directs his<br />efforts especially against that commandment which points to God as the<br />Creator. {GC88 53.3}<br /><br /> Protestants now urge that the resurrection of Christ on Sunday made it<br />the Christian Sabbath. But Scripture evidence is lacking. No such honor was<br />given to the day by Christ or his apostles. The observance of Sunday as a<br />Christian institution had its origin in that "mystery of lawlessness" [2<br />THESS. 2:7, REVISED VERSION.] which, even in Paul's day, had begun its work.<br />Where and when did the Lord adopt this child of the papacy? What valid<br />reason can be given for a change which the Scriptures do not sanction? {GC88<br />54.1}<br /><br /> In the sixth century the papacy had become firmly established. Its seat<br />of power was fixed in the imperial city, and the bishop of Rome was declared<br />to be the head over the entire church. Paganism had given place to the<br />papacy. The dragon had given to the beast "his power, and his seat, and<br />great authority." [REV. 13:2; SEE APPENDIX, NOTE 2.] And now began the 1260<br />years of papal oppression foretold in the prophecies of Daniel and the<br />Revelation. [DAN. 7:25; REV. 13:5-7.] Christians were forced to choose,<br />either to yield their integrity and accept the papal ceremonies and worship,<br />or to wear away their lives in dungeons or suffer death by the rack, the<br />fagot, or the headsman's ax. Now were fulfilled the words of Jesus, "Ye<br />shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends;<br />and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. And ye shall be hated<br />of all men for my name's sake." [LUKE 21:16, 17.]<br /> <br />55<br />Persecution opened upon the faithful with greater fury than ever before, and<br />the world became a vast battle-field. For hundreds of years the church of<br />Christ found refuge in seclusion and obscurity. Thus says the prophet: "The<br />woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that<br />they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days."<br />[REV. 12:6.] {GC88 54.2}<br /><br /> The accession of the Roman Church to power marked the beginning of the<br />Dark Ages. As her power increased, the darkness deepened. Faith was<br />transferred from Christ, the true foundation, to the pope of Rome. Instead<br />of trusting in the Son of God for forgiveness of sins and for eternal<br />salvation, the people looked to the pope, and to the priests and prelates to<br />whom he delegated authority. They were taught that the pope was their<br />earthly mediator, and that none could approach God except through him, and,<br />further, that he stood in the place of God to them, and was therefore to be<br />implicitly obeyed. A deviation from his requirements was sufficient cause<br />for the severest punishment to be visited upon the bodies and souls of the<br />offenders. Thus the minds of the people were turned away from God to<br />fallible, erring, and cruel men, nay more, to the prince of darkness<br />himself, who exercised his power through them. Sin was disguised in a garb<br />of sanctity. When the Scriptures are suppressed, and man comes to regard<br />himself as supreme, we need look only for fraud, deception, and debasing<br />iniquity. With the elevation of human laws and traditions, was manifest the<br />corruption that ever results from setting aside the law of God. {GC88 55.1}<br /><br /> Those were days of peril for the church of Christ. The faithful<br />standard-bearers were few indeed. Though the truth was not left without<br />witnesses, yet at times it seemed that error and superstition would wholly<br />prevail, and true religion would be banished from the earth. The gospel was<br />lost sight of, but the forms of religion were multiplied, and the people<br />were burdened with rigorous exactions.<br /> <br />56<br />{GC88 55.2}<br /><br /> They were taught not only to look to the pope as their mediator, but to<br />trust to works of their own to atone for sin. Long pilgrimages, acts of<br />penance, the worship of relics, the erection of churches, shrines, and<br />altars, the payment of large sums to the church,--these and many similar<br />acts were enjoined to appease the wrath of God or to secure his favor; as if<br />God were like men, to be angered at trifles, or pacified by gifts or acts of<br />penance! {GC88 56.1}<br /><br /> Notwithstanding that vice prevailed, even among the leaders of the<br />Romish Church, her influence seemed steadily to increase. About the close of<br />the eighth century, papists put forth the claim that in the first ages of<br />the church the bishops of Rome had possessed the same spiritual power which<br />they now assumed. To establish this claim, some means must be employed to<br />give it a show of authority; and this was readily suggested by the father of<br />lies. Ancient writings were forged by monks. Decrees of councils before<br />unheard of were discovered, establishing the universal supremacy of the pope<br />from the earliest times. And a church that had rejected the truth, greedily<br />accepted these deceptions. {GC88 56.2}<br /><br /> The few faithful builders upon the true foundation [1 COR. 3:10, 11.]<br />were perplexed and hindered, as the rubbish of false doctrine obstructed the<br />work. Like the builders upon the wall of Jerusalem in Nehemiah's day, some<br />were ready to say, "The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and<br />there is much rubbish, so that we are not able to build." [NEH. 4:10.]<br />Wearied with the constant struggle against persecution, fraud, iniquity, and<br />every other obstacle that Satan could devise to hinder their progress, some<br />who had been faithful builders became disheartened; and for the sake of<br />peace and security for their property and their lives they turned away from<br />the true foundation. Others, undaunted by the opposition of their enemies,<br />fearlessly declared, "Be not ye afraid of them; remember the Lord, which is<br />great and terrible; [NEH. 4:14.] and they<br /> <br />57<br />proceeded with the work, every one with his sword girded by his side. [EPH.<br />6:17.] {GC88 56.3}<br /><br /> The same spirit of hatred and opposition to the truth has inspired the<br />enemies of God in every age, and the same vigilance and fidelity have been<br />required in his servants. The words of Christ to the first disciples are<br />applicable to his followers to the close of time: "What I say unto you I say<br />unto all, Watch." [MARK 13:37.] {GC88 57.1}<br /><br /> The darkness seemed to grow more dense. Image worship became more<br />general. Candles were burned before images, and prayers were offered to<br />them. The most absurd and superstitious customs prevailed. The minds of men<br />were so completely controlled by superstition that reason itself seemed to<br />have lost her sway. While priests and bishops were themselves<br />pleasure-loving, sensual, and corrupt, it could only be expected that the<br />people who looked to them for guidance would be sunken in ignorance and<br />vice. {GC88 57.2}<br /><br /> Another step in papal assumption was taken, when, in the eleventh<br />century, Pope Gregory VII. proclaimed the perfection of the Romish Church.<br />Among the propositions which he put forth, was one declaring that the church<br />had never erred, nor would it ever err, according to the Scriptures. But the<br />Scripture proofs did not accompany the assertion. The proud pontiff next<br />claimed the power to depose emperors, and declared that no sentence which he<br />pronounced could be reversed by any one, but that it was his prerogative to<br />reverse the decisions of all others. {GC88 57.3}<br /><br /> A striking illustration of the tyrannical character of this advocate of<br />infallibility was given in his treatment of the German emperor, Henry IV.<br />For presuming to disregard the pope's authority, this monarch was declared<br />to be excommunicated and dethroned. Terrified by the desertion and threats<br />of his own princes, who were encouraged in rebellion against him by the<br />papal mandate, Henry felt the necessity of making his peace with Rome. In<br />company<br /> <br />58<br />with his wife and a faithful servant, he crossed the Alps in midwinter, that<br />he might humble himself before the pope. Upon reaching the castle whither<br />Gregory had withdrawn, he was conducted, without his guards, into an outer<br />court, and there, in the severe cold of winter, with uncovered head and<br />naked feet, and in a miserable dress, he awaited the pope's permission to<br />come into his presence. Not until he had continued three days fasting and<br />making confession, did the pontiff condescend to grant him pardon. Even then<br />it was only upon condition that the emperor should await the sanction of the<br />pope before resuming the insignia or exercising the power of royalty. And<br />Gregory, elated with his triumph, boasted that it was his duty "to pull down<br />the pride of kings." {GC88 57.4}<br /><br /> How striking the contrast between the overbearing pride of this haughty<br />pontiff and the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who represents himself as<br />pleading at the door of the heart for admittance, that he may come in to<br />bring pardon and peace, and who taught his disciples, "Whosoever will be<br />chief among you, let him be your servant." {GC88 58.1}<br /><br /> The advancing centuries witnessed a constant increase of error in the<br />doctrines put forth from Rome. Even before the establishment of the papacy,<br />the teachings of heathen philosophers had received attention and exerted an<br />influence in the church. Many who professed conversion still clung to the<br />tenets of their pagan philosophy, and not only continued its study<br />themselves, but urged it upon others as a means of extending their influence<br />among the heathen. Serious errors were thus introduced into the Christian<br />faith. Prominent among these was the belief in man's natural immortality and<br />his consciousness in death. This doctrine laid the foundation upon which<br />Rome established the invocation of saints and the adoration of the virgin<br />Mary. From this sprung also the heresy of eternal torment for the finally<br />impenitent, which was early incorporated into the papal faith. {GC88 58.2}<br /><br /> Then the way was prepared for the introduction of still<br /> <br />59<br />another invention of paganism, which Rome named purgatory, and employed to<br />terrify the credulous and superstitious multitudes. By this heresy is<br />affirmed the existence of a place of torment, in which the souls of such as<br />have not merited eternal damnation are to suffer punishment for their sins,<br />and from which, when freed from impurity, they are admitted to Heaven. {GC88<br />58.3}<br /><br /> Still another fabrication was needed to enable Rome to profit by the<br />fears and the vices of her adherents. This was supplied by the doctrine of<br />indulgences. Full remission of sins, past, present, and future, and release<br />from all the pains and penalties incurred, were promised to all who would<br />enlist in the pontiff's wars to extend his temporal dominion, to punish his<br />enemies, or to exterminate those who dared deny his spiritual supremacy. The<br />people were also taught that by the payment of money to the church they<br />might free themselves from sin, and also release the souls of their deceased<br />friends who were confined in the tormenting flames. By such means did Rome<br />fill her coffers, and sustain the magnificence, luxury, and vice of the<br />pretended representatives of Him who had not where to lay his head. {GC88<br />59.1}<br /><br /> The scriptural ordinance of the Lord's supper had been supplanted by<br />the idolatrous sacrifice of the mass. Papist priests pretended, by their<br />senseless mummery, to convert the simple bread and wine into the actual body<br />and blood of Christ. With blasphemous presumption, they openly claimed the<br />power of "creating God, the Creator of all things." All Christians were<br />required, on pain of death, to avow their faith in this horrible,<br />Heaven-insulting heresy. Multitudes who refused were given to the flames.<br />{GC88 59.2}<br /><br /> In the thirteenth century was established that most terrible of all the<br />engines of the papacy,--the Inquisition. The prince of darkness wrought with<br />the leaders of the papal hierarchy. In their secret councils, Satan and his<br />angels controlled the minds of evil men, while unseen in the midst stood an<br />angel of God, taking the fearful record of their iniquitous decrees, and<br />writing the history of deeds too<br /> <br />60<br />horrible to appear to human eyes. "Babylon the great" was "drunken with the<br />blood of the saints." The mangled forms of millions of martyrs cried to God<br />for vengeance upon that apostate power. {GC88 59.3}<br /><br /> Popery had become the world's despot. Kings and emperors bowed to the<br />decrees of the Roman pontiff. The destinies of men, both for time and for<br />eternity, seemed under his control. For hundreds of years the doctrines of<br />Rome had been extensively and implicitly received, its rites reverently<br />performed, its festivals generally observed. Its clergy were honored and<br />liberally sustained. Never since has the Roman Church attained to greater<br />dignity, magnificence, or power. {GC88 60.1}<br /><br /> The noontide of the papacy was the world's moral midnight. The Holy<br />Scriptures were almost unknown, not only to the people, but to the priests.<br />Like the Pharisees of old, the papist leaders hated the light which would<br />reveal their sins. God's law, the standard of righteousness, having been<br />removed, they exercised power without limit, and practiced vice without<br />restraint. Fraud, avarice, and profligacy prevailed. Men shrank from no<br />crime by which they could gain wealth or position. The palaces of popes and<br />prelates were scenes of the vilest debauchery. Some of the reigning pontiffs<br />were guilty of crimes so revolting that secular rulers endeavored to depose<br />these dignitaries of the church as monsters too vile to be tolerated. For<br />centuries Europe had made no progress in learning, arts, or civilization. A<br />moral and intellectual paralysis had fallen upon Christendom. {GC88 60.2}<br /><br /> The condition of the world under the Romish power presented a fearful<br />and striking fulfillment of the words of the prophet Hosea: "My people are<br />destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I<br />will also reject thee; . . . seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God,<br />I will also forget thy children." "There is no truth, nor mercy, nor<br />knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and<br />stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth<br />blood." [HOSEA 4:6, 1, 2.] Such were the results of banishing the Word of<br />God. {GC88 60.3}<br /><br /></span><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http:///">http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/05/forum_features_.html#more</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Forum Features Larry Johnson & Patrick Lang<br /><br />[This transcript appears in the May 25, 2007 issue of Executive<br />Intelligence Review. ]<br /><br />Cheney's Impeachable Crimes Highlighted at UDC Forum<br /><br />On May 7, a group of leading U.S. intelligence and military veterans<br />joined investigative authors Peter Eisner and Knut Royce in a forum at<br />the University of the District of Columbia (UDC), that provided, among<br />many revelations, dramatic new evidence as to why Vice President Dick<br />Cheney should be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors."<br />Originally convened as a book-signing forum for Eisner and Royce's new<br />book, The Italian Letter: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake<br />Letter To Build the Case for War in Iraq (see review), an invaluable<br />documentary account of the Bush Administration lies that led the<br />country to war against Iraq, the authors decided to open the event to<br />a panel of leading retired intelligence officers, to comment on the<br />just-released memoirs of retired CIA Director George Tenet.<br /><br />The event, which drew over 100 students, faculty, and community<br />activists, provided one of the most damning indictments of the Bush-<br />Cheney Administration's manipulation of intelligence and other crimes.<br />The panelists who joined Eisner and Royce-former CIA officers Larry<br />Johnson and Mel Goodman; retired Defense Intelligence Agency Middle<br />East chief Col. W. Patrick Lang; and former chief of staff to<br />Secretary of State Colin Powell, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson-presented<br />such a significant amount of previously unknown documentation about<br />the crimes of Bush and Cheney, that EIR has decided, as a public<br />service, to publish an only slightly edited transcript of the entire<br />event.<br /><br />After a brief introduction by Dr. Bill Pollard, president of the<br />University of the District of Columbia, the forum began with an<br />introduction by Eisner, who served as the moderator for the panel<br />discussion.<br /><br />Bush's '16 Words'<br /><br />Eisner: We originally had thought that this was going to be a more<br />traditional book event, about The Italian Letter, which is the book<br />that Knut Royce and I have written, which talks about, especially, the<br />effort by the Bush Administration to sell the war in Iraq to the<br />American people and to Congress, focusing especially on evidence<br />about uranium supposedly having been purchased in Africa, and having<br />been sold to Iraq, which became known as-that claim became known as<br />the "16 words," President Bush's 16 words in the [2003] State of the<br />Union message.<br /><br />And we thought that that event, those 16 words, would encapsulate the<br />story of leading the United States to war, and how we got to that<br />moment.<br /><br />So we took a narrow approach toward telling the story of the march<br />toward war, by just focusing on that one event, from the first day at<br />least, if not earlier, the first days after 9/11, to the U.S. invasion<br />of Iraq in 2003. The difference today was, that we decided to put<br />together very suddenly, and quickly, a panel that could go beyond that<br />as well, and deal with the issues surrounding the recent release of<br />George Tenet's book [At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA],<br />his memoir of his time as Director of the CIA, and his version of the<br />lead-up to war in Iraq. And we're delighted, and thrilled, to bring<br />together a panel that rarely has just come together, such an eminent<br />panel, to say the least, and some of them have spoken to each other,<br />known each other for years, but hadn't even met....<br /><br />First, let me introduce Larry Johnson, who was an intelligence officer<br />with the CIA from 1985 to 1989; served in the State Department's<br />Office of Counter-Terrorism from 1989 to 1993; and who now provides<br />consulting services and helps the U.S. train military forces carrying<br />out counterterrorism missions.<br /><br />Next, let me introduce to you, Col. Larry Wilkerson, the Pamela<br />Harriman Visiting Professor of Government at the College of William<br />and Mary. And he raced back from the College of William and Mary,<br />today, where he was giving finals, to join us here at this panel. We<br />very much appreciate that. He, of course, was the former Chief of<br />Staff to the Secretary of State Colin Powell.<br /><br />Next, we have Mel Goodman, a 24-year veteran as a CIA analyst on the<br />Soviet Union, 18 years on the faculty of the National War College,<br />currently senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, and<br />adjunct professor of government at Johns Hopkins University, the<br />author of six books on international relations. The latest is The<br />Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA.<br /><br />And last and not at all least, among our special guests, Pat Lang, who<br />was head of the Middle East section with the Defense Intelligence<br />Agency, for seven years.<br /><br />My colleague is to his immediate left, Knut Royce. Knut, besides being<br />my friend for decades, is an eminent investigative reporter, has held<br />a share of at least three Pulitzer Prizes over the years; and it's a<br />pleasure to have worked with him to write this book.<br /><br />What we're going to do is, start with Knut. And this will more or<br />less, in my concept, make a link between what he and I have done,<br />again, focusing on the uranium story, and also comparing that uranium<br />story to the larger story of what George Tenet has been saying. From<br />there, I'm going to ask our guests to speak a bit toward those points,<br />and as we move along, ask them some questions. And then finally, we'll<br />open it up to the floor, as well.<br /><br />So, I want to ask Knut to start.<br /><br /><br />Royce: You know, as we look at what George Tenet has written about,<br />how do we compare what we see there, compared to what we found in the<br />course of our investigation?<br /><br />George Tenet devotes about half of his book to Iraq. He starts out, he<br />starts carrying on, we're in Iraq ... It's a pretty apologetic tack<br />and there are some obvious contrasts between what he writes about and<br />what we write about....<br /><br />Although Tenet does have some very interesting political tidbits in<br />there, they don't make a book. Tenet is apologetic. There are several<br />passages where he admits the CIA really screwed up-especially on the<br />weapons of mass destruction part-but nowhere does he mention the key<br />center at CIA for analyzing and publishing reports, and briefing<br />policy-makers on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. This was<br />critical. The largest center at CIA is called WINPAC, and that's the<br />Weapons Intelligence and Non-Proliferation and Arms Control division.<br />He mentions WINPAC-they're the ones who put together, who were<br />responsible for collating and analyzing the intelligence-in this book,<br />he mentions WINPAC just once.<br /><br />We devote at least a chapter, and probably more than that, because<br />WINPAC was such a key player in the bogus information that came out.<br />We devote at least a chapter, and actually more than that, to WINPAC,<br />and the head of WINPAC at the time, Alan Foley.<br /><br />Foley's a fascinating character, and one of the persons we interviewed<br />to get a sense of Foley, is sitting here on the panel, Mel Goodman.<br />Foley, we describe as somebody who, later in his career, decided that<br />fighting wasn't worth it. That-no, it wasn't worth it. He never fought<br />anything....<br /><br /><br />Goodman: He's a careerist.<br /><br /><br />Royce: He is a careerist.<br /><br />But we mention in the book, when he was asked by the Administration,<br />and when he was asked later on by the Senate Intelligence Committee,<br />which was conducting an investigation of what had gone wrong, he told<br />them he actually believed that Iraq had indeed tried to buy uranium<br />from Niger, from Africa. That was a key point. Because without uranium<br />from Africa, there was no mushroom cloud, and that was the main pitch<br />of the Administration.<br /><br />However, he told Mel, before the war started-Mel asked him: "So, what<br />do you think we're going to find in Iraq?" And Foley said, "Little, if<br />anything, of weapons of mass destruction." So, here was a guy who<br />would tell people different stories at different times.<br /><br />Again, WINPAC was the key agency, the key division within CIA, and<br />Tenet only mentions WINPAC once, and Foley twice, by name, and that's<br />only because he had to reach-. At one point, when everything was<br />falling apart after Ambassador Joe Wilson had published his letter in<br />the New York Times, that he thought the Administration knew there was<br />no [evidence] that Iraq had tried to purchase uranium, he tried to get<br />ahold of-and then the CIA and the White House had to get their story<br />straight, on whose fault was it that there was no uranium, and that<br />Iraq hadn't tried to get uranium. He had to try to track down Foley,<br />because it was Foley who had discussed the whole issue, the 16 words<br />that went into the State of the Union address in 2003. It was Foley<br />and Bob Joseph at the National Security Council....<br /><br />At any rate, he mentions him. He tried to get ahold of him before he<br />wrote a paper basically taking the blame for having screwed up.<br /><br />Again, that's the main highlight I wanted to touch on.<br /><br />'Mushroom Clouds on the Horizon'<br /><br />Eisner: What I'd like to do is just, ask Pat Lang, and some of the<br />other folks, a diverse number of types of questions. Question: From<br />your perspective, between 9/11 and the U.S. invasion of Iraq, what did<br />you hear, and what was received from your sources, about changes,<br />since the National Intelligence Estimate of 1998.<br /><br />Let's start from square one, which we did in our book. The United<br />States invaded Iraq because President Bush, the Bush Administration,<br />said that there was a clear and present danger for the United States,<br />if there's no action now. If the United States does not invade Iraq<br />now, mushroom clouds may be on the horizon.<br /><br />So, Pat Lang, first. What was your take on weapons of mass<br />destruction?<br /><br /><br />Lang: Well, I had the advantage of being around in DIA in the first<br />Gulf War, and for several years thereafter, before I left to go into<br />business, and I knew, with great certainty, having participated, along<br />with my friends and companions out at CIA, in the total destruction of<br />the Iraq nuclear program, to the point that-I won't say how we did<br />that, but it was a very thorough job. And that went on for a couple<br />years, and it wasn't any doubt at all, that it was just wreckage, and<br />the only thing left were a bunch of people, maybe 5,000 scientists,<br />engineers, technicians, who were very smart folks who had nothing to<br />work with. And we knew that was just gone.<br /><br />And then, if you talk about the biological weapons program, that was<br />never more than research, in my opinion. It was research... Every Arab<br />country plays around with biological warfare research. It's kind of a<br />prestige item. It shows "we're big people," you know that "we're doing<br />that kind of stuff."<br /><br />And then there was the chemical weapons thing. Well, you know, people<br />are frightened of chemical weapons with good reason. In this room<br />here, some sarin would wipe us all out easily. But this is not really<br />a strategic weapon. In fact, this is really a battlefield tactical<br />weapon. Even the most persistent kinds are not persistent for a very<br />great period of time. And it isn't the kind of thing you can threaten<br />the life of a great country with, really. It's harassment basically.<br />Even a real job in the subway in Tokyo, but you know, including in the<br />subway in New York City; yet this is not something which threatens the<br />life of the United States.<br /><br />So, people started talking about how this guy had these weapons<br />programs, I knew for a fact that the BW [biological weapons] thing,<br />and the chemical thing, even though I'd been away for a few years-I'd<br />been hanging around the Middle East all that time, since I left-and I<br />knew very well that these things did not fill the bill for the<br />terrible, terrible threat that was being portrayed. And the nuclear<br />program, we'd smashed it up so totally that I didn't see how they<br />could be doing more than maybe trying, after '98-that's when the<br />inspectors left. And after they'd left, maybe they were trying to<br />resume some kind of furtive thing. But this is a big enterprise,<br />making nuclear weapons. This is not something you do in your garage.<br />And you have to have an awful lot of equipment, and people, and stuff.<br /><br />So, my impression was, when I started to listen to this, and the<br />drumbeat got higher and higher, and heavier and heavier all the time,<br />that there's something really screwy about this. There's something<br />here that doesn't add up. In fact, in terms of what the realities<br />could possibly be, what they could be doing.<br /><br />So, I became increasingly suspicious as time went along after 9/11.<br />Here we kept hearing this more and more and more. And then it became<br />increasingly clear after a while, that the intelligence was being<br />driven, the analysis of information and the evaluation of the<br />information, was being driven by policy, rather than being a free-<br />standing object intended to limit policy, which is the way I always<br />did it. (People always thought I was pretty limited anyway.)<br /><br />And, in fact, I thought there was something very basically wrong. But<br />I'll shut up there, because other people will have other things to<br />say, and I could go on for a couple hours.<br /><br />The CIA Caved In to the Administration<br /><br />Goodman: Well, let me make three points, to join what Pat was saying.<br /><br />Number One, you have to realize that the best source of intelligence<br />that the CIA had, was the fact that they had operational people on the<br />United Nations inspector teams. They had a significant number in every<br />round of inspection. And they were there to collect intelligence, not<br />only in terms of WMD, but on Saddam Hussein, and on a variety of Iraqi<br />chiefs.<br /><br />When the UN inspectors left, and tried to get back in after Desert<br />Fox, the Clinton bombing attack on Iraq in 1998, Saddam Hussein said<br />no. What that meant was the CIA lost the very best intelligence<br />collection, the clandestine collection that it had. The reason why<br />this is important, is, they went from 1998, when they had some<br />collection, and were very cautious about what they said about<br />chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons-and if you look at all of<br />their intelligence throughout the '90s, up to '98, they were extremely<br />cautious-they went in 2002, all of a sudden, with no additional<br />collection, the CIA claims they have high confidence-and Tenet talks<br />about high confidence in this book.<br /><br />So, I knew that was nonsense. They had no reason to be confident, and<br />they had no reason to claim that they had any specific information,<br />because for four years, they had nothing.<br /><br />The second point that's important-and remember I was at the War<br />College then, so I still had all the clearances I had when I was at<br />the CIA-I called up NSA colleagues from times past when I worked on<br />the Soviet Union, and I basically asked them, without telling me<br />anything in terms of sources and methods, what were they picking up<br />that would give them any indication that Iraq was working on either<br />chemical weapons, biological weapons, or nuclear weapons?<br /><br />Now, the background of that was, I knew from my Soviet experience,<br />there was no way that Iraq, or any other country, could be moving<br />things around without certain circuits pulsing, that NSA [the National<br />Security Agency] had access to, particularly in the Middle East. NSA<br />knew there was nothing in terms of nuclear weapons.<br /><br />So, if NSA says there was nothing-and I consider NSA a very fine<br />professional outfit, and in some ways, it's the most professional<br />outfit in the intelligence community-it was clear to me that there was<br />nothing there.<br /><br />Then, the third thing that's very important, and gets to the heart of<br />the corruption of the tradecraft of the CIA-and this is what I blame<br />Tenet for, as much as anything else: Not only did they politicize the<br />intelligence, but they didn't honor any of the basic tradecraft of how<br />you go about doing intelligence analysis. The fact of the matter is,<br />the CIA had made a decision-I think they made it in August/September<br />of 2002-basically to cave in to the Administration and to give them<br />what they wanted.<br /><br />The White House, according to the Downing Street memo, had decided to<br />fuse the issues of terrorism and WMD, to make a case for war, and<br />[then head of British MI6 Richard] Dearlove, the author of that memo,<br />has said that the agency was fixing its intelligence to that policy.<br />And the clearest indication of that was the very good intelligence the<br />CIA was collecting on the fact that Iraq had nothing. And that was<br />intelligence from Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, remember, who defected,<br />went out to Jordan in the middle of the 1990s, somewhere around '94 or<br />'95; he was debriefed by the Jordanians, and debriefed by the CIA, and<br />he told them, since he was the head of the Iraqi military mobilization<br />department, he was responsible for destroying a lot of the chemical<br />and biological stocks and missiles-they didn't have a nuclear program<br />after '91-and he told them all of this.<br /><br />The CIA didn't put any of this information in its finished<br />intelligence products.<br /><br />Number two, the CIA was doing a very good job in recruiting a former<br />foreign minister of Iraq by the name of Sabri, until the White House<br />said, lay off of Sabri, we don't want his information any more. As<br />Tyler Drumheller says in his very useful book, this isn't about WMD<br />any more, this is about regime change. Well, Sabri was telling us<br />everything we needed to know about what Iraq did not have.<br /><br />And also the CIA had a very curious character who I'm not going to get<br />into by the name of Charlie Allen, who's now over at the Department of<br />Homeland Security, who was very controversial at CIA, but he came up<br />with something very interesting in the 2002 period. It was Charlie<br />Allen's idea to go around the country, to find Iraqi-Americans who had<br />relatives in Iraq who worked in the weapons area, who were scientists,<br />engineers, technicians. Send them back to Baghdad and Iraq, before the<br />war started, to see what they could find out from family members, who<br />had access. These people came back, and they reported, and they said,<br />"All of these programs have been shut down."<br /><br />And again, the CIA had never printed any of this material in the<br />President's daily brief, in the National Intelligence Estimates, in<br />any kind of intelligence assessment.<br /><br />So, what the CIA did, and it's a violation of the Holy Grail-I mean,<br />this is the worst possible thing you can do, they ignored all of the<br />intelligence that you could argue, you could make one series of<br />assumptions from, and they trumped up the intelligence that for the<br />most part was single source, or primary source. And any good<br />investigator or reporter-Knut is one of the best investigative<br />reporters, and he'll tell you that you don't go into print with one<br />source-and that's exactly what the CIA did. They found the source that<br />told them what they needed to know. And when I testified against Bob<br />Gates in 1991, when he was confirmed as CIA Director, I said the CIA<br />and Gates and Bill Casey were guilty of judge-shopping in the<br />courthouse. That's what exactly what George Tenet did. It's what John<br />McLaughlin did. It's what Paul Pillar did, it's what Robert Walpole<br />did, and it's what Alan Foley did. And it's totally unconscionable,<br />and it needs to be corrected.<br /><br />Throwing a 'Curveball' at Powell<br /><br />Wilkerson: I come at this from a very different perspective, because<br />for some 35-36 years, I've been an intelligence user, not an<br />intelligence officer. Tactical-operational and strategic level in the<br />military, principally the strategic level at the State Department. And<br />like the other members of the panel, I could probably talk forever,<br />but I'm going to focus on George Tenet. Because I have grave concerns<br />about what he's written in his book, and what I saw him say on "60<br />Minutes," and other interviews that I've witnessed, over the last few<br />days.<br /><br />I also have grave concerns about John McLaughlin, the DDCI, his<br />deputy, because I spent five of the most intimate days of my life, and<br />five nights, without sleeping, as did my team, staring into George<br />Tenet's, and John McLaughlin's, and Robert Walpole's, and Larry<br />Gershwin's, and other people's faces, at Langley.<br /><br />And while I agree with my panel members up here, and I think I'm going<br />to hear the same thing over here, and Carl Ford, who is assistant<br />secretary for intelligence research at the State Department, and for<br />whom I have a great deal of respect, that this was one colossal<br />intelligence failure, my concern is even deeper than that. And my<br />concern has grown, and grown, as I have been able to do some research<br />since I left the State Department, and listened to people like this,<br />and others-investigative reporters, and so forth.<br /><br />And here's where my concern focuses: Either George Tenet is lying<br />through his teeth, or Tyler Drumheller is lying through his teeth-the<br />chief of the European division for CIA-with regard to one of the most<br />important pillars of Secretary Powell's presentation at the United<br />Nations: the mobile biological laboratories. One of the things<br />Secretary Powell and I told Mr. Tenet and Mr. McLaughlin at the outset<br />of our frenetic five or six days, trying to get ready for the UN, was<br />"multiple sources." We will not take anything and put it in this<br />presentation, unless there are multiple, independently corroborated<br />sources for the items we're putting in the testimony. That was the<br />going-in position.<br /><br />Now, I learn, I think-although George has again put some doubt in my<br />mind-that there was a single source for the mobile biological<br />laboratories; that his codename was Curveball; and that there were<br />several, some very key, dissents as to this individual's testimony,<br />during or before the preparation of the Secretary of State. None of<br />that, ladies and gentlemen, none of that was revealed to the Secretary<br />of State, or to me, or to any member of my team, by either John<br />McLaughlin or George Tenet.<br /><br />So, that's my first area of concern: Who's lying? This isn't an<br />intelligence matter. This is worse, far worse. This isn't just cherry-<br />picking, or political spin on intelligence. This is plain-out outright<br />falsehood to the Secretary of State.<br /><br />The second point is even more dramatic. Secretary Powell, on my advice<br />and others', was getting ready to whittle the terrorism portion of his<br />presentation, from 25 pages that had been given us by the CIA, down to<br />about 5; and then, about the third day, we were going to eliminate it<br />altogether, because frankly, it stunk.<br /><br />At the moment that we were having this discussion, about whether or<br />not we were going to include anything about Saddam's contacts with<br />terrorist groups and so forth, a dramatic thing occurred. All of a<br />sudden, we were told that a high-level al-Qaeda operative-I was never<br />told his name, I'm not sure that the Secretary was either, you'd have<br />to ask him-had been interrogated; and that that high-level al-Qaeda<br />operative had revealed that there was major training going on by the<br />Mukhabarat in Iraq-Saddam Hussein's people-of al-Qaeda operatives in<br />how to use chemical and biological weapons. This was quite a<br />revelation, and, as you can imagine, changed the Secretary's mind<br />about how much he was going to include about contacts between al-Qaeda<br />and Iraq in his presentation.<br /><br />I have subsequently learned, once again-as best as I can tell from<br />numerous sources-that this information was gained from a Libyan al-<br />Qaeda operative named al-Libi; that it was gained under torture, or<br />near-torture, waterboarding and other. It was gained in Egypt, and no<br />U.S. personnel were even present when this interrogation was going on.<br />Nonetheless, the moment the information came forth, if indeed it did<br />come forth, it was hurried to the appropriate authorities, and was<br />given to the Secretary of State, and created quite a dramatic moment<br />in Langley.<br /><br />I have subsequently learned that the DIA dissented, very quickly, on<br />this information. I was told that a "computer glitch" kept us from<br />seeing that dissent. I'm also told that even as we were in Langley,<br />and in New York, preparing the Secretary for his presentation, that al-<br />Libi himself recanted the entire confession-which you might say, "aw,<br />who'd believe al-Libi?" Nonetheless, it should have been known, and it<br />should have been delivered to the Secretary of State, that this had<br />happened, not to mention the DIA dissent.<br /><br />So, we went ahead with two central pillars of his presentation at the<br />United Nations, essentially based on information that I have every<br />reason to believe now, was known to be unreliable, and even false, by<br />the DCI George Tenet, and the DDCI John McLaughlin. And yet, I never<br />heard a single word of doubt on their part, as to these two pillars of<br />the presentation.<br /><br />Quite the contrary. I heard words to the effect of "slam dunk." As you<br />know, George Tenet is a real basketball fan, and so he uses terms like<br />that a lot. And I heard those kinds of terms, or similar phraseology,<br />a number of times, with regard to these kinds of points. Because<br />Secretary Powell was very skeptical about some of this stuff. After<br />all, we'd started out with a 48-page script handed to him by Scooter<br />Libby, chief of staff to the Vice President, which we had, within<br />eight hours of arriving at Langley, completely debunked and thrown<br />out, and turned to the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, in<br />lieu of that script, because that script was so full of holes, and<br />uncorroborated.<br /><br />So, we were highly skeptical as to what we were going to take, and<br />what we weren't going to take, and the Secretary laid down the law.<br />And as far as I'm concerned, the DCI and the DDCI, at a minimum, had a<br />responsibility to be as honest as possible with him, in following his<br />dictates. And I am increasingly of a mind that they didn't, and they<br />knew they weren't.<br /><br />'The Books Were Cooked'<br /><br />Johnson: Cooking the books is something I personally became acquainted<br />with back in 1986, as a new analyst at the Central Intelligence<br />Agency. I became the Honduran analyst, and Honduras was important in<br />the context of U.S. policy in Central America, because Honduras was<br />the aircraft carrier base for Contra forces attacking the Sandinista<br />government. And, being caught in that position, and learning how<br />intelligence analysis and politics at the White House, particularly in<br />terms of what the White House and the President want to say, it was an<br />important, let's say, it was a formative experience.<br /><br />I recall sitting in a morning meeting, where Bob Vickers, who was the<br />morning officer for Latin America at the time, and as I referred to<br />the Contras, he stopped me. He said, "You have to refer to them as the<br />Democratic National Resistance." And I said, "But the President calls<br />them the Contras!" And his response was, "Yes, but he's the<br />President." And that insight, how we start playing with words, where<br />you can no longer describe something for what it is, and you have to<br />make up euphemisms and other things, is one of the, if you will,<br />warning signs, or the canary in the mineshaft singing, that the oxygen<br />is running out quickly.<br /><br />In the lead-up to the war, I was constantly bouncing things off of Pat<br />[Lang], because, apart from his tenure with the Defense Intelligence<br />Agency, he set up the Arabic program over at West Point, and he had<br />basically trained every colonel, most of the Arabist colonels that are<br />running around the U.S. Army today, and had spent a lot of time out in<br />the field, and was a combat officer. So, he had a broad base of<br />experience. It struck us at the time, we talked on several occasions<br />and said, "they must have something else."<br /><br />And I recall during my time at State Department, when there was a<br />terrorist attack. And we put together a brief-that was the Tiny Star,<br />it was a maritime attack off the coast of Israel-we put together a<br />briefing team of NSA and CIA analysts who went around with a State<br />Department official to brief friends and foes in the Middle East, and<br />around the Mediterranean about, "here's the goods that we've got on<br />'em," and at that time, people said, "Okay, yeah, you got it."<br /><br />So, I was proceeding on the assumption. "Surely, they've got something<br />they're not telling us." I would like to say I was one of those who,<br />before the war started, said this is a crock. I didn't. However, I did<br />get fired from the Fox News network as a news analyst for having the<br />audacity in November of 2002 to say, that if we went into Iraq, it<br />would be a diversion in the war on terror. And in January of 2003, I<br />put together a paper-this was in my pre-blog days. I'm convinced, if<br />I'd known more about blogs then, and there were more blogs active, we<br />might have stopped the war.<br /><br />But, I wrote this paper. It was detailing Iraq's involvement, or lack<br />thereof, in terrorism. And I gave it to Jerry Bremer, L. Paul Bremer,<br />and my old boss at State Department, Morris Busby. Both Jerry and Buzz<br />had been coordinators of counterterrorism, and the thrust of the paper<br />was this: It is true that Iraq is a state sponsor of terrorism, or<br />was. But when you broke out and looked at what those acts were, Iraq<br />was not responsible for any mass-casualty attacks. Iraq's targets were<br />Israel and Iran, with the UN inspectors to a lesser extent. And it was<br />not terribly effective in using terrorism, and the last known attack<br />of its involvement against U.S. targets, was in February of 1993, when<br />they tried to blow up former President Bush-I think it was '95; no, '93<br />-in Kuwait.<br /><br />And I wish I would have saved the e-mail back from Jerry, but he<br />basically came back and said, "Hey! You're barking up the wrong tree<br />here. Nobody's interested in the facts. We're going to war."<br /><br />Our friendship, you'll be surprised to know, has evaporated in the<br />light of his excellent, and not-so-excellent, adventures in Iraq.<br /><br />In May of 2003, I got an e-mail from one of my former colleagues. Now<br />George Tenet has tried to run away from the letter that several of us<br />drafted decrying his book, and calling upon him to give back the<br />proceeds, at least some of the proceeds, from his advance, to the<br />soldiers, and the families of soldiers, who were killed or wounded in<br />Iraq. Because in my view, and our view, the man has blood on his<br />hands. He had a chance, if he would have spoken up, he could have<br />stopped this rush to war. He chose to remain silent, but not just<br />remain silent, he chose to be an active participant in a deception<br />that was carried out, not only against other U.S. government<br />officials, but against the American people.<br /><br />And it's not a matter of my word against his. The evidence is quite<br />clear.<br /><br />In May of 2003, I got a note from one of my former colleagues in the<br />CIA. A senior person. And this person said, "the books were cooked."<br />And I went, "Uh oh." And so at that point, I started looking back, and<br />pushing into other areas, and it became clear, that this was a<br />deception that was being carried out on the people of the United<br />States. So, if you haven't bought George Tenet's book, let me put in a<br />plug: Don't buy it. Don't give the bastard a dime. If you need to read<br />it, you can probably borrow Mel [Goodman]'s copy, or go to the<br />library. But for this man to now pretend-"Look, I had doubts from the<br />beginning"-and he said nothing.<br /><br />Mel's point, and Pat I know would endorse this, because as<br />intelligence professionals, your responsibility is not to take sides<br />in an issue; your responsibility is to tell what you know, it's to<br />tell what you don't know, and it's to give policy-makers at least a<br />range of options about other, be it different circumstances and<br />assumptions-what's the likely outcome.<br /><br />But George Tenet has now admitted that in saying "slam dunk," he was<br />signing on as the chief cheerleader for the Bush-for-war team. And he<br />was going to help lead the cheers to the American people. And if that<br />doesn't disqualify him for public service ever again in the United<br />States, I don't know what does.<br /><br />A Corruption of the Process<br /><br />Lang: I have a couple points I'd like to make. As I started to say<br />earlier, you know, at the strategic level one of the main functions of<br />intelligence production, analysis production, is to reduce policy<br />options from the level of fantasy, to that of extreme reality. In<br />order for that to work, the intelligence function has to have-its<br />products have to be respected, and they have to be given due weight by<br />policy-makers, the decision-makers, as to what you're actually going<br />to do.<br /><br />This is also true of the military, by the way, at a different kind of<br />level.<br /><br />But in fact, a problem arose in this Administration, which is inherent<br />in any administration, but it really got out of hand in this one, in<br />my opinion. I'm more or less retired now, so I can get to do just the<br />things that I feel like doing, pretty much. So I spend a lot of time<br />on things like academic panels, seminars, and boards of academic<br />people, things like that, foundations boards, you know. And I get to<br />associate with a lot of young fellows who were big-time staffers in<br />the first term of the Bush Administration, and now, a lot have<br />returned to academia, and I listened to what they say. And one of<br />things that's very noticeable here, that amongst these guys, there is<br />almost universally a great disdain for the functioning of<br />intelligence. As far as they're concerned, what the function of the<br />intelligence community, is to gather raw information, repeat it to<br />them, so that they apply to it their understanding of history, and<br />what the nature of history is, and where it's going, so as to say what<br />the meaning of that information is.<br /><br />Of course, I always resist that pretty strongly, and it gets fairly<br />heated at times. But in fact, the belief is, amongst folks like this,<br />that the old sweats in the intelligence community, the guys who apply<br />the tradecraft of analysis, as Mel says, are really people who are<br />kind of second- or third-rate people. Nothing like as grand as the<br />guys who've got two or three degrees from Ivy League universities or<br />Stanford, or someplace like that. And really, what you need to do is<br />you feed the stuff up-give us the raw data, and we'll tell you what it<br />means, we'll tell you what it means in every case.<br /><br />And that is a terrible corruption of the process of decision-making in<br />foreign policy, I think. Because if you do that, and you no longer<br />have an independent brake on the fantasies and the option generation<br />of the decision-makers, of their staffs-nobody tells them, this is a<br />crock, which is what they need to be told if it's a crock: that it's a<br />crock. So that tends to go down the drain in situations like this, and<br />it certainly did in this case, I think.<br /><br />The other thing I would like to make an observation about, is the fact<br />that most analysts in the community are people of some integrity,<br />varying integrity-and of course, there are always outright careerists,<br />as Mel would say. I know a few. But in fact, most people would like to<br />do the right thing. And they study very hard, and I think, as Ruskin<br />said, that the life's so short, the craft's so long to learn. Well,<br />it's just exactly like that. So, in fact, they want to do the right<br />thing.<br /><br />But when they go up to tell the policy-maker, "Hey, this is a crock,<br />you're full of it," right? Then this guy is going to push back,<br />because, as I said before, he and his kids-and they usually are kids-.<br /><br />And so, when that happens, and it always happens-it happened a lot at<br />the beginning of this administration; because my old friends,<br />colleagues, and subordinates used to come to me and say, "These guys<br />beating the bejesus out of us up at the Office of the Secretary of<br />Defense, and won't listen to us. They just say we're wrong, we're<br />stupid, they imply that we're stupid." And when that happens, then the<br />leaders of the analysts, the working-level analysts, have to go back<br />to the leadership, the real leadership, George Tenet, the Vice Admiral<br />Jacoby over in DIA, this one, that one there, and say: "Boss, you've<br />got to stand up for me. You got to back us up. Because the very thing<br />we do in life, is at stake here. And if you don't do that, then we'll<br />all be dead. We will all, as somebody said, 'have drunk the kool-aid.'<br />"<br /><br />And, in fact, that didn't happen. So, I don't give a damn about George<br />Tenet, personally. I hope he collects his royalties, and lives to be<br />miserable with them. But in fact, the problem is that it doesn't seem<br />that this process has ended, in fact. If you look around right now, as<br />to what the Administration is broadcasting, and there are a million<br />little signals everywhere about Syria and Iran-what you see is a<br />similar case being made against these places, by innuendo, half-truth,<br />exaggeration, refusal to interact with people who tell them the truth,<br />or even offer to cooperate, and things like that. The same kind of<br />case is being built. The underpinnings are the same.<br /><br />So I think you have to ask yourself, do we have better leadership now<br />in the intelligence community? Do we? I don't know. Maybe my friends<br />do.<br /><br />A 'Cabal' in the Administration<br /><br />Eisner: I have a question for everyone here. It's going to be moving<br />into a slightly different direction. As Colonel Wilkerson said, he has<br />a different position, has held a different position, was a customer of<br />intelligence during this whole period. He also was famously, I'm not<br />putting him on the spot, but he's famously known for saying, that<br />there was some form of cabal working in the Administration. When I am<br />asked the whys of this story, when I talk about the fact that the 16<br />words were well-known to be false before they were uttered by<br />President Bush, how the CIA almost, if not immediately after first<br />getting the information about nuclear weapons, didn't even investigate<br />very much, because many analysts discarded the information, because<br />Iraq didn't need uranium, because it already had it. Iraq had no<br />program to process uranium, because the act of obtaining uranium from<br />Africa, would have been very difficult. And beyond all those things,<br />the source for the information was highly questionable.<br /><br />So, adding that to everything that's been said so far, people then<br />come to the question: Why? What was the superstructure? Who was<br />cooking the books?<br /><br />You're talking about cooking the books, you're talking about the<br />hijacking of intelligence. Where did it come from? And why?<br /><br />Dick Cheney's War<br /><br />Goodman: I don't think that's a very difficult question to deal with.<br />I think the master of this war, and the one who outlined the strategy<br />for the war, and designed-and I agree with Larry [Johnson] that it was<br />just a classic case of agitprop: There was a propaganda campaign, and<br />we were taken in by it, and the press was taken in by it-but the chief<br />operator in all this, let's call him "Geppetto," was Dick Cheney. This<br />is Dick Cheney's war. It has always been Dick Cheney's war.<br /><br />Now the one thing that Dick Cheney needed to sell this war, to market<br />his war, was nuclear reconstitution. And remember, I think it was<br />September the 8th, [2002], when all of the high-level members of the<br />Bush Administration went on national television with "smoking gun" and<br />the mushroom cloud. And what Joe Wilson was threatening, was to take<br />down the argument about nuclear reconstitution, when he said, "I'll<br />tell you what I found in Niger. I found nothing."<br /><br />So, you had only two pins for nuclear reconstitution. It was Niger,<br />enriched uranium, and the phony 16 words; and you had the aluminum<br />tubes. And frankly, I'll pass the question to Larry, because people<br />feel that Tenet should have resigned. I've always thought that Colin<br />Powell should resign. Colin Powell is a hell of a lot more popular in<br />this country than George Bush. If Colin Powell had stood up, and said<br />what he thought, and told us what he knew, there would have been no<br />war.<br /><br />George Tenet is an apparatchik. I'm not impressed with George Tenet.<br />He should never have been CIA Director. But how did Colin Powell, a<br />military officer, a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, get taken in by the<br />aluminum tubes, which was driven by a kid, a young kid engineer by the<br />name of Joe Turner, at the CIA, who stood up somehow to all of the PhD<br />scientists of the weapons labs, and Department of Energy, because<br />Foley wanted this argument out there to make the case for war. I think<br />Powell could have stopped this.<br /><br />But that's why this was so important to Cheney. That's why they<br />desperately hounded Valerie Plame-and again, sorry Peter, but I'll go<br />after the Washington Post on this: I don't know why Fred Hiatt is so<br />convinced that Joe Wilson was lying about many of these issues. The<br />Washington Post owes Joe Wilson an apology. But Fred Hiatt continues<br />to write and sponsor op-eds and editorials about all of the misleading<br />advice that Joe Wilson gave the country. Joe Wilson was trying to get<br />in the way of this moving train, that was moving toward war in 2002.<br /><br />So, there are still a lot of things that we don't know. But I think<br />the key element in the question: This was Cheney's war, this was<br />Cheney's issue, and he had to run with it. He couldn't allow it to be<br />compromised.<br /><br /><br />Wilkerson: I don't disagree with that. I think my previous comments<br />about a cabal between the two Secretaries of Defense-one, then a Vice<br />President, the other, another Secretary of Defense-you watch the body<br />language around these two men, you wouldn't know which one was which.<br />I didn't know whether Rumsfeld was running things, or Cheney was<br />running things. On any particular issue, you could take your pick.<br /><br />But the Vice President, in my mind, is the person who ran this country<br />on a foreign policy perspective from 2001 to 2005, when I was at the<br />State Department.<br /><br />On the issue of the aluminum tubes: It's far more complicated than<br />these people know. Another dramatic moment occurred: If you go back<br />and review the Secretary's presentation, then you will see that he,<br />himself, qualified his comment at the UN about the aluminum tubes,<br />because his mind was not clear on it.<br /><br />When he was getting ready to toss it out completely, we suddenly got<br />another dramatic moment. This dramatic moment, I still can't say the<br />name of the country, but let's just say this-it was a well-respected<br />country, with one of the best intelligence services in the world-a<br />country suddenly reported to us that not only had it spun its<br />consignment of tubes-there were different consignments intercepted.<br />And they had spun them to 98,000 rpm, which means nothing to you, but<br />everything to someone that's looking at potential centrifuges, over an<br />extended period of time with no visible deterioration, etc., etc.,<br />etc. It was a very dramatic report. Not quite as dramatic as al-Libi,<br />but nonetheless dramatic.<br /><br />And we inquired, including the Secretary-if I recall right, I have to<br />go back and check my notes-but I think Dr. Rice may have been there at<br />that time, too; I think she inquired, too, as you might suspect, "Can<br />we use this?" And Mr. Tenet, with Mr. McLaughlin sitting beside him,<br />nodding his head up and down, said "Well, we're going to have to check<br />with our counterparts, because their political authorities might not<br />allow us to use this." Duh! Damage was done! The Secretary had<br />suddenly made up his mind that, at least, he was going to leave it in<br />his presentation and qualify it, to express the fact that he knew<br />there was debate still going on about the aluminum tubes.<br /><br />And, needless to say, the next morning, when Mr. Tenet came back and<br />said, reluctantly, the political authority would not allow that<br />intelligence service to let us use that information, because it had<br />been a commercial lab that had done this, and the bonds between this<br />commercial lab and this intelligence service were delicate, etc.,<br />etc., etc.-sort of like "sources and methods"-we couldn't use that in<br />the presentation specifically, but we didn't need to use it in the<br />presentation specifically. It convinced the Secretary that he ought to<br />leave that information, as has been said here, the only real<br />information that constituted any proof of an attempt to reconstitute a<br />nuclear program in Iraq.<br /><br />And so, it was a litte bit more complex. Carl Ford [head the Bureau of<br />Intelligence and Research (INR) in the State Department from 2001<br />until 2003, reporting directly to Powell] and I have argued about this<br />a lot-it's a little more complex than even Carl knew. And if I fault<br />myself for anything, in this particular instance, it's not calling<br />Carl and getting him over there, and fighting in front of Tenet over<br />this issue. Carl had decided, that the Secretary had access to him, I<br />had access to him-which was true-and that we didn't need him or any of<br />his people over at the CIA. The Secretary passed every script past<br />him, called him, talked with him, and so forth. But I wish now, that<br />I'd brought Carl over to the CIA with me, because he would have given<br />me some intelligence professionalism to push back at McLaughlin and<br />Tenet, when we doubted something.<br /><br />'A Finger in the Eye'<br /><br />Johnson: "Poking a finger in the eye": That's one of the phrases you<br />learn as an analyst. The process of writing, whether it's for the<br />Presidential Daily Brief, or the National Intelligence Daily, is, you<br />start off in the morning, sort of like a newspaper reporter dealing<br />with breaking news; we offer up a story-line; the section chief<br />carries it forward to a morning meeting. At the morning meeting, the<br />division chief says, "Yeah, I think we'll go with that." Then the<br />division chief has to go upstairs and present it to an office chief.<br />So it's very much a bureaucratic function, and it's amazing that<br />anything gets done, but somehow in that process, you're able to turn<br />these pieces out.<br /><br />So, anything that gets written like this, it's not just because<br />somebody is sitting there on their own saying, "Boy! I've got a great<br />idea for a story!" It is overseen, it is supervised; and in fact, my<br />understanding is, over the last seven years, they have actually added<br />layers of management review to the process. So the fact that someone<br />like this analyst Joe Turner, in WINPAC, was able to run amok, it was<br />not Joe Turner on his own: He was running amok with the witting<br />cooperation of senior CIA officials, with Jamie Miscik, the DDI, with<br />the people of Alan Foley who was in his chain of command. These people<br />participated in that, willingly. These are not ignorant, stupid<br />people.<br /><br />One of the things you learn as an analyst early on, is, you have to<br />properly present the information about what you know, and properly<br />source it. And if you are faced with a situation in which you are<br />dealing with only one source, then, that doesn't quite carry the<br />weight of, say, three or four independent sources that corroborate one<br />another.<br /><br />But the other thing, I'd like to bring this home to you, because<br />they're still saying it: George Tenet is out there saying, "Well,<br />everybody knew that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction." Most<br />people go, "Well, yeah, that's true." You gotta say, "Stop, right<br />there." Saying that, "Everybody in Virginia owns a firearm": Okay.<br />What's the nature of those firearms? If most of them are 19th-Century<br />or 18th-Century collectors' items, that's a far different problem than<br />saying, everybody's got an AK-47 or an automatic weapon, or a 50-<br />caliber Barrett rifle. What are those weapons? How are they used? And<br />this goes back to the point that Pat was making earlier: That it is<br />always the context of looking at Saddam, who used to have X amount of<br />weapons; a percentage of those were destroyed during the first Gulf<br />War; an additional percentage were destroyed in the subsequent<br />inspection period. And now, we're asked to believe that he's had this<br />many weapons destroyed through one fashion or another, but now poses a<br />greater threat? How does less become more? I've never understood it.<br /><br />And one last observation on this "friends and family program" that<br />became the Bush Administration. Dick Cheney got his job in Washington,<br />in part-well, not in part-because of Don Rumsfeld. I know the man, and<br />the man's a good personal friend of mine, who was called by Don<br />Rumsfeld in 1972, and he said to my friend, "Hey, I've got this young<br />man, his name's Dick Cheney, and he needs a job." So, my friend gave<br />Dick Cheney a job for two years, and at the end of that two-year<br />period, Cheney walked in and said, "Hey, I've been offered the Chief<br />of Staff job at the White House." So, this relationship between Rummy<br />and Cheney goes back 40 years. And when they bring up Paul Wolfowitz-<br />remember Wolfowitz was Under Secretary of Defense under Cheney. You<br />know, so when you start doing the wiring diagram relationships on<br />this, just like an anthropologist, you understand that you're dealing<br />with sort of an inbred tribe that would do a disservice to call it<br />"West Virginia inbreeding." [laughter]<br /><br /><br />Eisner: One other connection there, is that Colin Powell came into the<br />mix pretty close to that period, being brought into investigate the My<br />Lai incident, and is, I believe, widely recognized to have whitewashed<br />the My Lai incident, having said that it was an isolated case,<br />involving one person, one incident, and not anything broader than<br />that. And as a result of that report, he suddenly hopped over about<br />four levels of infantry officers, and found himself in the White<br />House.<br /><br />The Crucial Role of Colin Powell<br /><br />Wilkerson: I've got to say something here. I was out in Monterey,<br />California on Saturday at a conference, and Dr. Perry was in the<br />audience, and a host of other people. And I got asked a question, you<br />know, "Why didn't Colin Powell resign?" And I'll be very honest, as I<br />was honest with them: It would have lasted a month. It wouldn't have<br />any impact. It might have had a little bit of impact initially, maybe<br />a week's worth of impact, but then it would have faded. And he would<br />have been like any other Secretary of State, like [Cyrus] Vance or<br />whomever. We tend to think it would have been very powerful-it<br />wouldn't have done anything. In fact, Dick Cheney would have exulted<br />in his departure. And moved right out, just as ruthless, with the<br />vision that he has, as he had before.<br /><br />Here's the key, I think, and if I ever write a book, this is what my<br />book is going to be about: You would not have liked at all, to have<br />seen the first Bush Administration without Colin Powell. We would not<br />have relations with Germany, France, or probably any NATO country.<br />Turkey would have told us to go to Hell long ago, not just taken a<br />very close vote on whether they were going to be with us in the Iraq<br />War-they'd have told us the strategic relationship was at an end.<br /><br />We would have had a real mess. Colin Powell held [former German<br />Foreign Minister] Joschka Fischer's hand under the table; [former<br />French Foriegn Minister] Dominique de Villepin's hand under the table.<br />The French are the best counterterrorist people in the world. Donald<br />Rumsfeld is sticking his finger in their eyes in every conceivable way<br />he could, even to the nitty-gritty stuff, like telling the commandant<br />of the Marine Corps that he couldn't, for the 30th year in a row, go<br />and celebrate the birth of the Marine Corps with his French<br />counterpart. I mean, this was absurd! And every time something like<br />this happened, Colin Powell stepped in.<br /><br />Let me tell you something even more serious: The Defense Department,<br />with Feith, Cambone, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, was dispatching a person to<br />Taiwan every week, essentially to tell the Taiwanese that the alliance<br />was back on. Essentially to tell Chen Shui-bian, whose entire power in<br />Taiwan rested on the independence movement, that independence was a<br />good thing. We dispatched either our AIT [American Institute in<br />Taiwan] representative, or someone from the State Department right<br />behind that guy, every time they sent somebody, to disabuse the entire<br />Taiwanese national security apparatus of what they'd been told by the<br />Defense Department.<br /><br />This went on until George Bush weighed in, and told Rumsfeld to cease<br />and desist, told him multiple times to re-establish military-to-<br />military relations with China, one time in a raised voice that even<br />surprised Dr. Rice. And he fired the wife of Larry Di Rita, Therese<br />Shaheen, who was the Taiwan rep here in Roslyn, Virginia. Because she<br />went out, after the President finally rebuked Chen Shui-bian,<br />publicly, she went out and said the President of the United States<br />didn't really mean what he said.<br /><br />And so, Colin Powell had the U.S.-China relationship, with, I will<br />admit, strong backing from the President on occasion, in his hand, the<br />whole time, too: from the EP3-F8 collision in April 2001, till the<br />time he left the State Department. So, let me say again: You would not<br />have liked to have seen the first Bush Administration, without the<br />balanced voice of Colin Powell.<br /><br />Cheney: 'Truly Delusional'<br /><br /><br />Eisner: Let me ask a question about Dick Cheney: Pat Lang might have<br />one of the closer relationships with Dick Cheney over time; how has he<br />changed, and why is he doing what he's doing, to the degree that you<br />can analyze it?<br /><br />Lang: Well, I contemplated this issue a lot. When I was the head<br />Middle East/South Asia guy in the period of the first Gulf War, I used<br />to brief the man quite a lot, and he was not an inspiring student or<br />pupil, but he wasn't an offensive one. You know, he would listen<br />politely and impassively, and ask an occasional question. But he<br />didn't challenge anything you said, he didn't-he just asked for an<br />elaboration of points occasionally. And so, I thought he was a<br />reasonably balanced kind of guy.<br /><br />And then all of a sudden, in this Administration, starting in 2000,<br />you have this guy who is increasingly revealed as somebody who is<br />really destiny-driven or something, by some sort of deep-seated<br />animosity toward Iraq, especially, and has signed up to the historical<br />theorizations of a lot of people like Wolfowitz, and Feith, and people<br />like that. And the change-over is quite striking. You see, there<br />either was a change-over there, or I just missed it completely the<br />first time around. And a lot of people told me that. A lot of people<br />who knew him in earlier days, say that they do not, in fact, recognize<br />the man. Who was it who said famously, "I no longer know Dick Cheney?"<br /><br />[From the audience: "Brent Scowcroft."]<br /><br /><br />Lang: Scowcroft. And I remember I briefed him the morning that he went<br />to Saudi Arabia, under Bandar's supervision, I guess, to persuade the<br />King to let us in the Kingdom after the Iraqis had invaded Kuwait. And<br />he listened, listened, listened, and he talked, he looked at all the<br />pictures and everything, you know, he asked a couple of questions;<br />then, "Thank you very much," and left the room. And this is not-it<br />doesn't add up to the guy who's encouraged all these analysts to be<br />driven to the wall so that they had to fall back on their own<br />resources of courage, or roll over and play dead, in the run-up to the<br />Gulf War, and I think that that's a puzzlement. And I don't quite<br />understand the man at all.<br /><br /><br />Q: You described Cheney as delusional. Do you still believe he's<br />delusional?<br /><br /><br />Lang: Yeah. The evidence of Cheney number 2, or Cheney version 22, or<br />whatever it is-is that this man, I think, this man is truly delusional<br />in a lot of ways, and he doesn't in fact have a good grip on reality,<br />and is easily captive of various fantasies proposed to him about the<br />nature of reality and history, what the Middle East is all about, and<br />things like that. He seems to be very, very minimal in some ways, and<br />it fits in with a pattern of rigidity in his thinking, which is-I<br />think delusional would be still be my word.<br /><br />Bring In 'Team B'<br /><br />Goodman: Let me just tell one anecdote, because it shows there's been<br />no change whatsoever in Cheney on policy or intelligence matters, and<br />it also points to what Larry was talking about in terms of the<br />inbreeding, and the Cheney-Rumsfeld relationship, which was incredibly<br />tight, until I think Rumsfeld lost interest in this war, which was why<br />he was forced to resign-it had nothing to do with the election, as far<br />as I'm concerned.<br /><br />In the mid-1970s, when Cheney was Chief of Staff for [President<br />Gerald] Ford, and Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense, they wanted to go<br />after the CIA then. It was their idea to put together a "Team B" of<br />troglodytes: people like Paul Wolfowitz, Gen. Danny Graham, Bill Van<br />Cleave, people who were well-known as neo-conservatives, before we<br />used the term neo-conservative. He wanted to send this group out to<br />the CIA, but CIA Director Bill Colby, who I worked for for a short<br />period of time, wouldn't let them in the building. Bill Colby was<br />forced to resign.<br /><br />And in comes George Herbert Walker Bush, where Rumsfeld wanted to put<br />Bush in, because he thought Bush was a lightweight; but there's a<br />chance that Bush could become nominated as a Republican candidate for<br />President, something that Rumsfeld thought he deserved as the smartest<br />person in all of Washington. And of course, they go back to the CIA,<br />and George Herbert Walker Bush, says, "Yeah, bring in Team B."<br /><br />So, they bring in these troglodytes to try to push CIA analysis on the<br />Soviet Union to the right, at the very time, we're getting very<br />sensitive information, including very sensitive intercepted<br />information from NSA, about the efforts the Soviets now want to make<br />to try to move toward arms control and détente. And this was '77, when-<br />I don't want to get into the Kremlinology-the important Brezhnev<br />speech at Tula, and they were starting to cut back on the growth in<br />defense spending.<br /><br />So, the point I want to make, is, Cheney and Rumsfeld have never<br />wanted the kind of intelligence organization that Harry Truman wanted<br />to put together, and did put together, in 1947, in the National<br />Security Act: that is, an independent agency providing intelligence,<br />with the bark on, that was outside of the policy process; that would<br />hopefully be as objective and balanced as you could make it, and not<br />wedded to any specific policy. They wanted to end that role for the<br />CIA, and intelligence in general, and intelligence would serve the<br />same function that every other policy instrument serves: It would be<br />part and parcel of the White House.<br /><br />And just as this group now has politicized every agency in government,<br />from what I can tell-every regulatory agency, every key domestic<br />agency, the whole national security process has been militarized and<br />politicized under this regime: This, to me, is what this cabal is all<br />about. It's very serious. It won't easily be reversed. It has caused<br />incredible mischief and problems for American national security<br />policy.<br /><br /><br />Lang: Give me another shot at this, will you? I'd like to revisit what<br />I said, for just a minute here, thinking about that. When Wolfowitz<br />was Undersecretary of Defense for Policy under Cheney, in the early<br />'90s, working for him, of course, there were two deputy-deputies, were<br />Scooter Libby and Zalmay Khalilzad. Khalilzad had the portfolio for<br />strategy formulation, and that intersected with my job-even if they<br />had to talk to me about it, if they didn't want to have a mess and an<br />argument all the time.<br /><br />So, Zalmay Khalilzad drafted a policy statement to go into some sort<br />of defense document-I forget what it was-and it essentially said that<br />the United States should use its power to benevolently dominate the<br />world, and not hang back from use of force if necessary. And we had<br />several interesting dust-ups about that, because they kept saying if<br />DIA would support this, in its aspects with regard to the real<br />situation in the world, among others, I kept saying no.<br /><br />And this culminated one day, in a nasty scene in the dining hall in<br />the Army-Navy Club, downtown, in which Khalilzad got more and more<br />angry with me and finally yelled at me, so that every head in the room<br />turned around, and says, "The problem with you native Americans, is"-<br />and he didn't mean an Indian, either-"the problem with you native<br />Americans is that you don't understand your responsibility in the use<br />of power." And then, shortly after that, the Army General Staff leaked<br />the documents in the Washington Post and the scheme came to an end.<br /><br /><br />Goodman: Actually, the L.A. Times as I recalled, the L.A. Times, the<br />New York Times, and the Washington Post always felt that Scowcroft was<br />responsible for that. It was a document, a defense policy review, from<br />'91 to '92.<br /><br /><br />Wilkerson: I'd like to just say one thing here, as an academic: In<br />1963, in fact, Dec. 22, 1963, Harry Truman had an op-ed in the<br />Washington Post-go Google it, you can find it; go read it, I recommend<br />it to you-Harry Truman was accusing the CIA of being a beast,<br />something he didn't recognize, something he had not created, in 1963.<br />And who could blame him? A 1953 coup run by Kermit Roosevelt and Allen<br />Dulles, under John Foster Dulles, that overthrew the first<br />democratically elected Persian government, in Iran, and put us where<br />we are today; '54, coup in Guatemala. Need I say more? Harry, in '63,<br />was not happy with the CIA.<br /><br />Dialogue with the Audience<br /><br />Eisner: Let me see if there's questions from the floor. Yes.<br /><br /><br />Question: Yes, my name is Michele Steinberg with EIR magazine: I cover<br />U.S. policy in the Middle East. There's a very famous quote, beside<br />"slam dunk" which is, I think, from Secretary Powell. It's: "You break<br />it, you own it." And the thing that's broken more, in my mind, than<br />Iraq, is the United States of America. And right now, there is a<br />Congressional resolution on the table, H.R. 333: Rep. [Dennis]<br />Kucinich, Rep. [Janice] Schakowsky from Illinois, Rep. William Clay<br />from Missouri-and it's about impeachment. And it's not about<br />impeachment of Bush, it's about impeachment of Dick Cheney, and the<br />documentation which is about-oh, I'd say about 60 or 70 items long-is<br />on many of the issues that are addressed today, like the mushroom<br />clouds, aluminum tubes, all of that.<br /><br />Now, I wish that all of you folks were sworn-in witnesses before the<br />U.S. Congress right now, but inasmuch as Colonel Lang mentioned<br />something that is happening now, Syria and Iran, disinformation,<br />cooking the books, etc., would you say that this is appropriate to get<br />this kind of investigation going right now?<br /><br /><br />Wilkerson: I think that's an excellent question. I think our Founding<br />Fathers would be appalled, that in some 200-plus years, we never used<br />that clause they put in our Constitution, except fecklessly, and in<br />one case, successfully. The Articles of Impeachment that threatened<br />Richard Nixon certainly were the reason he decided to resign. I<br />believe, if you asked Hamilton, Madison, Monroe, even Washington, they<br />would probably say, "Yeah, probably about every 30 years, they'll take<br />somebody out." And if you look at Clinton, and the peccadilloes for<br />which they brought impeachment proceedings against him, as compared<br />with the "high crimes and misdemeanors"-and that's a direct quote from<br />Article II of the Constitution-with regard to Cheney and Bush, I think<br />there's a helluva lot better case, with regard to Cheney and Bush.<br /><br />Is it going to happen? I think it's a political impossibility right<br />now, and it's a political impossibility, partly because of what you<br />just said: Our political process, not just the Federal bureaucracy,<br />but our political process is broken. And somehow, we as Americans have<br />allowed that to happen. And I don't know what you think about it, but<br />I'm damned mad about it, and I'm doing everything I can, across the<br />country, to tell people that I believe this; to tell them how I think<br />the Federal bureaucracy needs to be repaired-including the Congress of<br />the United States; its committee relationship with the Executive<br />branch is absurd, it's an anachronism. The Congress needs to be<br />reformed, the Executive branch needs to be reformed.<br /><br />But the big problem we're confronted with is going to come to bear<br />again, very shortly: it's this insane process where you have less than<br />50% of Americans electing our President. And if you think about that,<br />that means one in four, actually elect him or her. And this insane<br />process of primaries, and factions, as Washington called it-not<br />parties; he called it "factions"-who go out there and appeal to their<br />extremes, and are successful in doing so! We have to do something<br />about that, and the only people who can do something about that, are<br />us.<br /><br /><br />Goodman: Just one quick point, because I agree with Larry so strongly:<br />[Rep.] John Conyers has been saying for the last couple of years, and<br />his [Judiciary] committee has written a wonderful report about the<br />Constitutional crisis: We face a Constitutional crisis! The Congress<br />doesn't work, oversight doesn't worked. The media didn't do its job<br />leading up to the war. The courts won't deal with national security<br />issues. The FBI is abusing National Security Letters. A general at NSA<br />approved warrantless eavesdropping, the CIA is still torturing and<br />abusing-and Tenet, one of the most disgusting and offensive charades<br />he went into was that nonsense about "we don't talk about it, and we<br />don't do it," when he referred to enhanced interrogation techniques.<br />Of course they do it! You had two CIA directors violating the charter<br />of the CIA, engaging in policy advocacy-both Goss and General Hayden,<br />asking for exemptions. I'm not a big fan of John McCain, but on this<br />issue, he is the leading authority, and he's totally right! And it's<br />got to be stopped!<br /><br />'The British Have Learned...'<br /><br />Jeff Stein (Congressional Quarterly): Colonel Wilkerson, I'd like to<br />hear you talk a little bit about your view of the uranium documents<br />escapade from the vantage point of the State Department. In<br />particular, do you think the SISMI, the Italian agents, were taking<br />off on their own, busting into the embassy, the Niger Embassy and get<br />these stamps and so on, to help fabricate these documents? Is there a<br />possibility in your mind? Did you discuss it at the State Department,<br />that [former Italian Prime Minister Silvio] Berlusconi might have put<br />this in motion?<br /><br /><br />Wilkerson: No, not in so many words, but I think there were a lot of<br />suspicions, especially around Rich Armitage's office. If you know Rich<br />at all, you know he's got his fingers in everything clandestine. And<br />thinking about it, and was on the phone with John [McLaughlin] or<br />George [Tenet] almost every day, multiple times. And probably had his<br />fingers stuck in things, as well as Carl Ford did, and maybe even<br />better.<br /><br />But I think the fact that it got said, the way it's said, that "the<br />British have learned," threw everybody off for a few minutes, maybe a<br />day or two. And you also have to remember, that until I insisted with<br />the White House cabinet secretary, that foreign policy speeches come<br />over to the State Department-we weren't even seeing the speeches. And<br />after those words appeared, my insistence was finally complied with.<br />And even then, I had to call the Under Secretaries and Assistant<br />Secretaries and other experts into my office, sit them down on my<br />couch, and let them read the speech in my presence, and then I had to<br />consolidate their comments and send them over to the White House.<br />That's how hard it was to get a speech out of the White House that the<br />Secretary of State could look at. That might mind-boggle you, but<br />that's the way it was.<br /><br />So, I don't remember any specific discussion. I do know there was a<br />lot of doubt and wonderment, as to how this was happening. Because<br />INR, and others in the State Department had already discounted that<br />information.<br /><br />For one reason, we knew the French controlled Niger, in terms of the<br />nuclear. And we knew the French were talking to us, and we were<br />talking to the French, despite Rumsfeld. And so, how could you get<br />that much out, without the French knowing about it? And they were<br />absolutely cold on it. So.<br /><br /><br />Royce: Could I comment? The French, by the way, the Administration has<br />insisted to this day, keeps insisting, that we weren't the only ones<br />who screwed up on weapons of mass destruction, that all the major<br />Western intelligence services also did.<br /><br />The French did not. The French intelligence service never believed<br />that Saddam, Iraq, was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, and it<br />passed its intelligence on to CIA, very clearly. That never got into<br />any of the reporting, that we've been aware of. The French didn't<br />believe it. The Italians didn't believe it. And Berlusconi, while he's<br />a very a good friend of Bush, didn't really believe that Iraq had<br />weapons of mass destruction. SISMI, as an organization, didn't believe<br />it, either.<br /><br />So, it's kind of hard, given that, to believe that Berlusconi somehow,<br />as a favor to his good friend G.W., ordered SISMI, the Italian<br />intelligence service, to come up with this phony story of uranium.<br />That's where it stands.<br /><br /><br />Lang: If you've ever been in the business of conducting liaison or<br />relationships with a bunch of intelligence services-you know, with the<br />exception of the French and maybe one or two others-most of these<br />outfits are fairly bush league organizations, in fact. They have very,<br />very limited means of collection; they may have some particular<br />mission in Africa, or someplace where they had colonial possessions<br />once or something like this, but they don't have anything like the<br />kind of availability of information and things like that the U.S.<br />intelligence community has. And the heads of these organizations are<br />under tremendous pressure from the heads of their governments, to play<br />up, to "be as good as the Americans, to give me something that I can<br />argue with, like I'm one of the big guys." So, the pressure to go<br />along with American positions, on the part of a lot of these services,<br />is-and then look who the boss, the head of the countries-is<br />tremendous. Of course, the French don't give a damn about that, which<br />is one of their strong callings, in my opinion.<br /><br />The Rose Garden Speech<br /><br /><br />Johnson: There was one nugget that did come out of Tenet, that we<br />noticed, and someone had asked me about it previously, which was: We<br />thought that the first time that Tenet dealt with pulling a reference<br />to uranium and nukes out of President Bush's speech, was the Oct. 7<br />speech that President Bush gave in Cincinnati. But Tenet speaks about<br />a Rose Garden speech on Sept. 26, 2002, which would have been two days<br />after the British white paper came out, mentioning this for the first<br />time. And interestingly enough, Condoleezza Rice apparently recognized<br />at that moment, that the material was questionable enough that it<br />should be pulled out of the speech. So the question would then be,<br />what's the track of the White House knowing whether or not there was a<br />question about uranium and nukes in Iraq?<br /><br /><br />Goodman: Well, here I think you have to give the CIA a certain amount<br />of credit: The White House knew, almost from the beginning, that these<br />documents were fabrications, they were forgeries, and could not be<br />used. When Condoleezza Rice said, and I remember she said it on<br />television, "Maybe someone lower down the chain knew, but no one told<br />me": That was a lie. And the person who told her was Jamie Miscik, who<br />was the deputy director for intelligence, and she reported back to<br />Tenet and McLaughlin that she had that conversation. So, Tenet wrote<br />letters and memos to Hadley that he conveniently forgot about, but<br />then I think in May, he suddenly remembered, "Yes, I do remember those<br />memos from the CIA."<br /><br />The point that I always make is, up until around the first or second<br />week in October, the CIA in some areas, was playing it straight. But I<br />think once Tenet was convinced that this administration was going to<br />war, regardless, and you weren't going to stop it, he had to face the<br />fact, "Am I going to play this game honestly? Am I going to tell truth<br />to power? Or do I want to put on my suit and tie every morning, and be<br />an important person in Washington?" And he decided on the latter<br />course: He wanted to be part of the team. And there's a certain<br />jocularity about this book and a sophomoric bent in this book, that is<br />almost-and I apologize for buying it [laughter], but I just couldn't<br />resist....<br /><br />It's what's so appalling about George Tenet. I mean, he is just, to<br />me, a low-breed apparatchik. But on the issue of this fabrication, the<br />White House knew everything they needed to know, and when Foley was on<br />the phone, more than once or twice with Bob Joseph at the NSC, working<br />out this language, all Foley wanted was a sentence in that State of<br />the Union that pinned it on something other than the CIA or the<br />intelligence community. Whoever came up with the formulation, "the<br />British have learned," which got Foley off the hook-but he stupidly<br />did not tell his boss; George Tenet did not know about any of these<br />negotiations, Foley really dropped the ball. But Jamie Miscik was<br />running this, and now, the number 3 man at the CIA, Mike Morrell, who<br />handled the October episode over the Cincinnati speech, and handled it<br />well, and made sure there was follow-up and policy process to get that<br />language out of the speech.<br /><br />But basically, the White House knew what they were doing, but that was<br />the case for war: It was a nuclear case. It was to scare the hell out<br />of us, because of our frail nature in the wake of 9/11. They took<br />advantage of us. But I agree with Larry: It's the American people.<br /><br /><br />Eisner: Well, again there, when you say the White House knew-I'm asked<br />that question-who in the White House knew? Are we talking Rice?<br /><br /><br />Speaker: Rice knew, Hadley knew, Cheney knew, Powell knew. Powell, I<br />believe, called the NCS and told them what to do about this, in<br />addition to the CIA telling them. I assume that Bush knew. If he<br />didn't know, then someone failed him. And I think Rice was a disaster<br />as the National Security Advisor anyway. She only has two jobs: One is<br />to keep her President informed of all the various policy options and<br />what you need to know about an option; and then two, to make sure that<br />the policy agencies then follow up with any decisions a President<br />makes. She couldn't do either one! So, now she's Secretary of State.<br /><br />Someone in Cheney's Office...<br /><br /><br />Johnson: Yeah, back to this "knowing," and put some of the activity<br />into context: I bring to the experience of having worked in the office<br />of the CIA Operations Center and knowing how the paper's generated and<br />forwarded to principals: When Dick Cheney saw that reference in a<br />Defense Intelligence Agency report, to the possibility of Iraq buying<br />uranium from Niger, and queried his briefer, we now know, basically-I<br />was in Valerie Wilson's training class, by the way, at CIA-we now know<br />from her testimony before Congress, that that very same day, somebody<br />in Cheney's office-and it had to be Libby; if it wasn't Libby, it was<br />Hadley-somebody called out and got a junior case officer in Valerie's<br />office on the phone, and said, "Hey! We really need this information!"<br /><br />So, on the question of any information dealing with Iraq, uranium,<br />Niger, that was on the radar screen for top-level officials. It's not<br />like we were talking, "What was banana production in Costa Rica?" Or,<br />"How many diamonds came out of Liberia?" You know, this was something<br />that was at the very top of their issue. It was at the White House<br />Situation Room there, it was at the top; the CIA Operations Center<br />there was at the top, because when you're sitting there as a watch<br />officer, when you see these topics come across your screen, you hit<br />the "print" button, and you make sure that certain critical documents<br />are available for the principals the next day.<br /><br />That's why I'm certain Dick Cheney saw Joe Wilson's report. Because<br />the White House Situation Room hit the "print" button. Dick Cheney<br />didn't like Joe Wilson's report that was generated based upon his<br />trip, because it didn't support the notions that they wanted. But the<br />knowledge at the White House level, just the way the bureaucracy<br />works, there is no way in Hell, that these people were not being<br />briefed on a regular basis on anything that had to do with Iraq<br />acquiring uranium, and the possibility of reconstituting the nuclear<br />program-no way.<br /><br /><br />Eisner: Is there any trail that could show that, in any possible way?<br /><br /><br />Wilkerson: I think there was another part to it, too, and I can't<br />confirm this. I wish I could. I think what happened, a lot of times,<br />is when Libby, John Hannah, two key players in the Vice President's<br />office, Hannah being sort of the pin and Libby being the orchestrator,<br />the hatchetman, if you will: When there was any debate over an<br />intelligence item, they call Feith's shop in the Defense Department.<br />Feith's shop was running an alternative intelligence operation. It was<br />kind of weird, because what they did, was produce, for example, that<br />48-page script that Libby handed to Secretary Powell to take to the<br />UN, or out to Langley, and then eventually to the UN. But whenever<br />they had a question over a particular item of intelligence, they got<br />confirmation, not from the intelligence analysts. They might check<br />with them, and see what happened. But they got their final<br />confirmation, and usually made the decision as to whether or not they<br />would run with a talking point, from Douglas Feith's shop, and from<br />Steve Cambone-not from the people at Langley.<br /><br /><br />Question: I'd like to ask a couple of questions. You've done a good<br />job of painting the culprits, identifying the culprits. But what were<br />their motivations to get up there? Why are we there? Was it to drum up<br />business for Halliburton? Was it oil? Was it Bush avenging his Daddy?<br />I mean, why are we there? That's Question #1.<br /><br /><br />Wilkerson: Let me take a shot at this, because this is what I'm<br />teaching right now. I usually can throw a heirarchy up on the board<br />for my students, and I say "Take a hit. And when you get through, I<br />want you to defend each one, and then I want you to put them in<br />priority." And what I throw up there, it depends on the individual<br />who's advising the President, and it depends on what the President<br />makes of that advice-but I throw up there everything from the military-<br />industrial-Congressional complex; have you seen what Lockheed's share<br />price is now? It went from $26 to about $98. Man, when war is<br />profitable, you have an influence!<br /><br />I throw up oil. If you look at Paul Wolfowitz's comments in Vanity<br />Fair, you'll see that Paul Wolfowitz said, very candidly, "this is all<br />because Iraq is floating on a sea of oil." I throw up there,<br />"democracy and freedom," the neo-con mantra: "We're going to bring<br />utopian society to the world or die trying." And I throw up there<br />other things, like Bush's psychology. This is a naive, untutored, not-<br />steeped-in-foreign-policy President! With all these pachyderms around<br />you, who are steeped in something! They're particularly steeped in the<br />militarization of U.S. foreign policy. We elected a defense contractor<br />Vice President of the United States! And a former Secretary of<br />Defense! And a former Secretary of Defense as a Secretary as Defense!<br />And a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the Secretary of State:<br />Talk about militarizing America! That's what we did. And we got war.<br /><br />The 'Doug Feith' Story<br /><br /><br />Lang: I decided, at the urging of my friends, to tell my Doug Feith<br />story. I've done this in print before, so I'm not shy about it.<br /><br />In the first year of the Bush Administration, I had a friend who's an<br />old Army friend, who was working for Rumsfeld in hiring seniors over<br />there. And so he called me up one day, and he asked me, I think you'd<br />make a wonderful Assistant Secretary of Defense for Whatchamacallit.<br />And I thought about that, and you know, I'm not a Republican.<br />Actually, I'm a helluva lot more conservative than these neo-cons,<br />that's for sure. So I thought, "that'd be interesting," so I said, "Go<br />ahead." So, he put my name in the hopper, and I ended up going around<br />the Stations of the Cross in the Pentagon, you know, you see all these<br />offices, all these people.<br /><br />And I finally end up one day, in the penultimate moment of this, in<br />Doug Feith's office. And he was sitting there munching a sandwich<br />while he was talking to me (which I thought was remarkable in itself),<br />but he also had these briefing papers-they always had briefing papers,<br />you know-about me. He's looking at this stuff, and he says, "I've<br />heard of you. I heard of you." He says, "Is it really true that you<br />really know the Arabs this well, and that you speak Arabic this well?<br />Is that really true? Is that really true?"<br /><br />And I said, "Yeah, that's really true."<br /><br />He says, "That's too bad." [laughter]<br /><br />That was the end of the interview. I'm not quite sure what he meant,<br />but you can work it out.<br /><br /><br />Speaker: Thank you. A lot of pieces of information, but it's largely<br />in response to the question the lady just had asked. It must have been<br />about three or four years, that I too kept saying "Why?" Because I had<br />come out of the former White House, you knew that White Houses don't<br />puff up overnight, and all of a sudden policy is made; that there is<br />history and research. And without it, you're going to be in a lot of<br />trouble with the Constitution and the country. And I would just like<br />to suggest that I have read most all of the books that were put out-<br />whether it was the CIA, what happened in Afghanistan, whether it was<br />Osama bin Laden; or all of the other ones.<br /><br />There was one book that goes, not back to Truman, but far enough back,<br />that gives us an answer to her question why. And it isn't just energy,<br />and it isn't just oil, and it isn't just Halliburton. But if you read<br />American Theocracy by [Kevin] Phillips, you'll understand how we have,<br />literally, from our complacency, from our interest in our own personal<br />lives-you want to call it a cabal, of a whole set of believers,<br />ideological believers, that you don't do research, you don't look at<br />history, they know what the Bible taught them, and they were going to<br />take over this country. And they did it, with patience, and with<br />people who had been in government and knew where they were going. And<br />Dick Cheney is one of them, and Rumsfeld was another one, and all of<br />them. And they had a very gullible guy, in the name of George Bush,<br />who was Mr. Happy-Guy in college, and if they'd just let him be a CEO-<br />not a President-but a CEO, he could do what they wanted him to do, and<br />he would give them the responsibility.<br /><br />And we do have a broken government: And until we realize how we got to<br />where we are, I believe that we will not be able to change.<br /><br /><br />Wilkerson: I think you're right, in many of your comments. I didn't<br />mention some of the other things I throw up for my students. One of<br />them, is, depending on if you believe Kevin, and I let them read some<br />of his books, especially the Financialization of America, which is<br />quite good. How many of you know we're in $42 trillion in corporate<br />and private debt, right now, for example? That's the largest debt in<br />human history. You can even do it in constant dollars, and it's still<br />the largest debt in human history, and we're talking Spain and the New<br />World, and gold and silver and so forth. So we're really walking down<br />a road that no one's ever been on before, and Kevin does a good job of<br />pointing that out.<br /><br />The evangelical/Pentecostal population in America, which is part of<br />the radical religion right, is astounding. When I tell my students<br />about it, when I show them the polling data; when I show them how many<br />Americans believe in the inerrancy of the Bible; how many Americans<br />don't believe in evolution; how many Americans don't believe in<br />science, unless it's supported by God-theory. And I'm a Christian: But<br />my grandmother didn't teach me this version of Christianity.<br /><br />You're stunned! By some accounts, and some polls, there's as many as<br />48 million Americans out there, who are actively, politically,<br />pursuing their agenda through people like Falwell, and Pat Robertson,<br />and so forth. And when I see Mitt Romney and John McCain and people<br />like that, go over and cater to these people, I understand why: It's<br />all about power-but it turns my stomach. I don't know about you. It<br />bothers me, because I don't see that as a reasonable, practical future<br />for this country.<br /><br />But there are other influences on decision-making. But I come back to<br />the bottom line, which I always try to convince my students of: This<br />is the most colossally inept, and incompetent administration in<br />American history. And even with all these other influences, that's the<br />real bottom line.<br /><br />9/11 Created the Opportunity<br /><br /><br />Question: I have a question. This question's for you, and you, sir:<br />How did the Bush Administration pull this whole thing off? How did<br />they sneak this by the press? It seems that everyone in Europe was<br />privy to information, that wasn't privy here? How did they pull it<br />off? These guys must be the most amazing people in the world.<br />Everything you're saying is true. I believe you. How did they pull it<br />off? How did the press not get wind of this? And how did they get into<br />this war?<br /><br /><br />Goodman: I mean, look, what you had take place-and I agree with Larry,<br />and what Larry said with reference to the incompetence of this<br />administration. On the one hand, they have carried out a covert<br />action, or-when I worked at the CIA, I participated in the Afghan Task<br />Force covert action to manipulate the press overseas, to help<br />accomplish foreign policy objectives, and in this case, the press<br />became both, in most cases, witting participants, and in some cases,<br />unwitting. But we saw that spectacle of Judith Miller, Michael Gordon,<br />being leaked information by the White House, and then the White House<br />fanning out very quickly with Condoleezza Rice and Dick Cheney, to<br />say, "Boy! Look what's in the press today!" Well, they knew how it got<br />in the press.<br /><br />And the ultimate irony here, is, on the one hand, the Bush<br />Administration is very aggressive about leaking information which will<br />help make their case; at the same time, they are pressing more<br />aggressively than any administration in recent memory, in trying to<br />shut down the press from reporting anything that is critical, whether<br />it's the Sy Hersh articles about Abu Ghraib, or the Washington Post<br />pieces about the secret interrogation and the torture. And, in this<br />case, we've had press become witting participants in it.<br /><br />9/11 created the opportunity: It opened the door. They took full<br />advantage of it. They used the fear factor to drive people forward,<br />and it worked.<br /><br />It's not that there was nobody out there trying to raise the warning<br />voice. Anthony Zinni was quite clear. Scott Ritter was quite clear.<br />There were some members of Congress, that were speaking out. But<br />people, by and large, chose not to be informed, not to listen, and now<br />we're in this mess that everyone recognizes, "Boy, wish we hadn't<br />driven off the cliff." But we have.<br /><br /><br />Lang: You're probably not going to like this, and that's what I'm here<br />for. You know, one of the things I learned from the aftermath of 9/11,<br />and Mel kind of touched upon it, but I'll touch on it too, is the fact<br />that the American people are amazingly fearful, really. And the level<br />of abject terror and unreasoning fear toward these jihadi networks<br />that had been sent into this country, you know, it's astonishing!<br />Really, astonishing!<br /><br />Like, a couple of days after 9/11, a friend of mine called me from<br />Chicago; he's a hugely rich guy. And he said to me, "Well, Pat," he<br />says, "you knew what kind of misspent life I've had." He said, "Now we<br />all live in your world." In other words, a world filled with fear and<br />danger, you see?<br /><br />And I must say, that one thing that I've learned, is that people in<br />this country didn't handle this all that well. They were easy to<br />bulldoze after this. And this administration was set up to do it, and<br />if you look at it in the aftermath, it's pretty obvious they had a<br />deliberate campaign to manipulate where people were going. How many<br />people here saw Bill Moyers' piece on PBS about manipulating the<br />press? Well, anybody who hasn't should go find it. How the press was<br />manipulated in the run-up to the war, because he's got it just about<br />right, and it's very obvious, that if you've dealt a lot with the<br />media, as many of us have here in last several years, you saw that the<br />modern generation of journalists are not like the old guys. They're<br />not this guy, the fellow down at the other end of the table there<br />[Royce]. You know, they're not like them, who are well educated men of<br />the world. In fact, you know, you got a whole bunch of new, young<br />people who are working the field, who are communications graduates,<br />and journalism graduates, who are terrific on process, but zero on<br />content. And they can be told anything, if they're told by a<br />sufficiently highly prized source, and it's said over and over again.<br /><br />And then, these news media are all really, large, corporate<br />structures. And you get down the ladder in someplace like this, what<br />goes on down there, that affects what happens in the news process, is<br />pretty astonishing stuff. There's great deal of pressure put on by<br />advertisers, things like this, to manipulate the content of the news,<br />things like this.<br /><br />So basically, folks: You've been had. You've been had, in a big way.<br />And you'll probably be had again, actually.<br /><br /><br />Goodman: I would just say one other thing about the media: There was<br />another period in my lifetime, and there are others who can look at<br />it, you can look at the Indian wars from 1866 to 1890 and see how the<br />politics of fear were exploited to kill Indians, Native Americans. But<br />the period that we look at extensively is the McCarthy period, where<br />you had a man with the stature of Dwight Eisenhower, for example,<br />actually refusing to defend a man with the stature of George Marshall,<br />because he needed some Wisconsin votes. And Eisenhower said,<br />afterwards, when he'd been on the stand in Wisconsin with McCarthy,<br />that it was the most revolting moment in his entire life-when he had<br />to cater to McCarthy. And Truman actually had to change personnel<br />policies and ruin countless American lives, because of the fear of<br />communism, and the ideology of the Soviet Union. And after '49, when<br />they exploded the bomb, it got worse.<br /><br />But we've had periods like this before. I'd just like to point out<br />that one of the agencies, the fourth estate in this case, that brought<br />McCarthy down, was Edward R. Murrow, and the kind of educated,<br />talented, intellectual, "I'm going to get you if you're abusing power"<br />press. And we just don't have that any more. We came to a peak, sort<br />of, with [Bob] Woodward and Watergate, and that sort of thing, but it<br />was more for entertainment purposes, and started sort of the<br />entertainment industry that the news has become, rather than for<br />"speak truth to power" purposes, and to keep the abuse of power from<br />plaguing people like you and me.<br /><br />When our Founders set this whole thing up, you know, they set up<br />understanding that we're all evil people, and if we get too much<br />power, we'll all abuse it. And so, what they did, was, they designed a<br />system where we'd abuse the power, and you'd abuse the power, but we'd<br />check each other. And we've let that get all out of kilter.<br /><br /><br />Eisner: We're just about out of time. One more question. - Congress<br />Was AWOL -<br /><br /><br />Question: I would like to hear you guys, some elaboration on who in<br />this entire process has earned your respect? And I haven't also heard<br />as much talk as maybe I would like, about how Congress plays games<br />with the whole story?<br /><br /><br />Lang: My hero in this whole deal, is a guy you've probably never heard<br />of, Gen. [David] McKiernan. He was the ground force commander for the<br />preparation for the invasion of Iraq, and I visited him and his staff<br />in Kuwait, shortly before the invasion, got to talk to staff, I talked<br />to various people. And I would say [about] that guy: He fought<br />Rumsfeld and those dumbbells in the office of the Secretary of Defense<br />every day. Every day! All the time! Over what the troop list was going<br />to be for Iraq.<br /><br />I went to see the famous John Hannah at OVP [Office of the Vice<br />President] one time, because somebody working there asked me to come<br />over and talk to him. And this guy, as we're sitting there, he says to<br />me, "Well, we're advised that all you need for this invasion is two<br />armored brigades." You know, I'm not a good soldier in the war, but I<br />know better than that. This is like 10,000 men, and 100 tanks or<br />something like this. And I just laughed, I thought it was a joke. And<br />then I saw it wasn't really a joke; they actually were thinking things<br />like that.<br /><br />When I got over to Kuwait, McKiernan's staff told me how they fought<br />every day, for every piece of everything, because Rumsfeld-not only<br />did he not accept the previously existing contingency plan for Iraq,<br />which was a really well-done thing; but in fact, he rejected the<br />entire process of planning! Of systematic planning that the Army had<br />for generating a force properly sized for this. Instead, he said, "You<br />tell me what you want, and I'll tell how much of it you can have, and<br />when I'll give it to you."<br /><br />Now, that's hard to run a war like this, on the basis like that, when<br />you've got to bring stuff 6 or 7,000 miles, to start. And McKiernan<br />and these guys, they fought that big fight all the way to the end, and<br />they managed to have a big enough force to do the job. And I nominate<br />McKiernan, as a hero.<br /><br /><br />Speaker: And the second part of your question was Congress, and<br />Congress was absent without leave. The seminal study, intelligence<br />study, about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction and what a bad guy<br />Saddam was and all that, was the October 2002 National Intelligence<br />Estimate. It was created at the insistence of Congress. Normally,<br />they're done at the insistence of the Executive. This one was unusual.<br />Tenet didn't want to have an NIE on Iraq, because, as he says in his<br />book, the administration just was bored about intelligence about Iraq.<br />But Congress ordered this. When it finally came out in October, before<br />Congress voted to authorize the war, six Senators and a handful of<br />Congressmen read the entire report. It's 90 pages.<br /><br />Now, here, they're preparing to vote on whether or not the United<br />States goes to war. They don't bother to read the National<br />Intelligence Estimate.<br /><br /><br />Wilkerson: I have to say, that, when I first started speaking<br />publicly, the main issue was detainee abuse, and the corruption of<br />your Armed Forces in this process. And so I got up-close and personal<br />with a couple of people as we worked, as Colin Powell put a letter,<br />for example, on the desk of every Senator, as John McCain was finally<br />able to get that 99-0 vote, to essentially stop the Armed Forces from<br />doing this kind of thing. And I'd known him before, and I know him<br />well, now. I told him one day, I'm talking about Sen. Chuck Hagel,<br />who's the only Republican I know who's really a Republican; and I told<br />him, I said, "You know, we ought to bring out Kennedy's book again,<br />Profiles in Courage and make an addendum for you." So, he's my hero in<br />this.<br /><br /><br />Johnson: I think Carl Ford over at INR, standing up-they have a good<br />track record. They were the intelligence analysts who got it right<br />more often than not. But out in the media, John Landay and Warren<br />Strobel at Knight Ridder; Sy Hersh-they were it. It was a lonely<br />group.<br /><br /><br />Goodman: I can't provide names, but if I had to put a medal on one<br />group, it would be the military lawyers, the JAGs, the Judge Advocates<br />General. I think they stood up for principle, they stood up for<br />military ethics, they stood up for the Uniform Code of Military<br />Justice; and I would compare them to the CIA lawyers who've been<br />trying to get exemptions for torture and abuse, who've been pursuing<br />ways to allow secret prisons to take place for conducting the worst<br />fascist policy I've ever heard of: "extraordinary renditions," which<br />has involved turning innocent people over to countries that practice<br />torture. It's kind of interesting, in the Tenet book, we talk about,<br />and everyone believes, that al-Libi recanted, because he had been<br />tortured and abused, and he recanted when he got out of prison. Tenet<br />is probably the only person in the world, who doesn't believe in the<br />recantation.<br /><br />So, to me, the JAGs have really represented the best of America.<br />They've understood what the Constitution is about, and they've<br />understood what the Founding Fathers wanted from this country. And I'm<br />sure there are some heroes on the Hill. Frankly, I'm not happy with<br />the Military Commissions Act of 2006. I think McCain and [Sen. John]<br />Warner and [Sen.] Lindsey Graham, in the end, caved in. I'm not<br />pleased with what they did with that bill. As always, we're continuing<br />to torture, to render, to use former Soviet Gulag institutions in East<br />Europe for our own CIA secret prisons: It means there's a disease in<br />this country. And we better find a way to treat it.<br /><br /><br />Eisner: I have three points to make, and then to thank everyone. One<br />is, that, in terms of nominating people, you've been-we've had the<br />rare opportunity to listen to the four gentlemen to my side, who<br />probably have about 100 years of intelligence and government<br />experience among them, if not more. And to be saying the things that<br />they're saying-you're hearing experience, you're hearing dedication to<br />careers, dedication to democracy, and positions that have not been<br />easily taken, and walking a road that's not been easy. But words that<br />need to be listened to, otherwise, to our peril.<br /><br />So, I'd nominate them in answer to the question, and like to thank<br />them all very much for coming to join us.<br /><br />And a shameless plug for the book that can be bought-The Italian Letter<br />-which attempts, in a nutshell, to tell you how we got to where we<br />are, by putting together a story of baked intelligence which led to 16<br />words that were known not to be true at all.<br /><br />Thanks very much for coming. We thank the University of the District<br />of Columbia and the staff for helping us. And good night.<br /><br />box QUOTES<br /><br />So, people started talking about how this guy had these weapons<br />programs, I knew for a fact that the BW [biological weapons] thing,<br />and the chemical thing, ... did not fill the bill for the terrible,<br />terrible threat that was being portrayed. And the nuclear program,<br />we'd smashed it up so totally that I didn't see how they could be<br />doing more than maybe trying, after '98-that's when the inspectors<br />left.... But this is a big enterprise, making nuclear weapons. This is<br />not something you do in your garage.... -Pat Lang<br /><br />I think our Founding Fathers would be appalled, that in some 200-plus<br />years, we never used that clause they put in our Constitution, except<br />fecklessly, and in one case, successfully. The Articles of Impeachment<br />that threatened Richard Nixon certainly were the reason he decided to<br />resign.... And if you look at Clinton, and the peccadilloes for which<br />they brought impeachment proceedings against him, as compared with the<br />"high crimes and misdemeanors"-and that's a direct quote from Article<br />II of the Constitution-with regard to Cheney and Bush, I think there's<br />a helluva lot better case, with regard to Cheney and Bush." -Lawrence<br />Wilkerson.<br /><br /></span><br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br />LIBERTY ATTACK PART OF GRAND SCHEME?<br /><br />Newly Uncovered Evidence Indicates Assault May Have Been Pre-Planned<br />‘Useful Disaster’<br /><br /><br />By Mark Glenn<br /><br />This June 8, 2007, marks the 40-year anniversary of Israel’s bloody<br />attack on the USS Liberty, a lightly armed U.S. Navy ship sailing off<br />the coast of Egypt at the time.<br /><br />Over the years, there have been numerous reports indicating that the<br />unprovoked assault caught the White House and the military by surprise.<br /><br />New information, however, reveals that officials in various agencies in<br />the U.S. government played a key role in setting up the Liberty for the<br />purpose of drawing the Soviet Union into a fight in the Middle East and<br />ultimately igniting World War III.<br /><br />For those who follow the intrigues and explosive events surrounding the<br />relationship between America and Israel over the last four decades it is<br />easy to “get into a rut” so to speak and blame every single catastrophic<br />event solely on the treachery of Israel. The tragedy though (and<br />certainly the hardest part to swallow by patriotic Americans who would<br />sooner take their own lives than betray their fellow countrymen) is that<br />there have been and are players on the American side of the equation<br />whose hands are just as dirty as those of their Israeli counterparts.<br /><br />Whether it was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the assassination of<br />JFK, the bombing of the twin towers in 1993, the bombing of the Murrah<br />Federal Building in 1995 or the events taking place on 9-11, the only<br />way these could have taken place is if elements within the U.S.<br />government cooperated with the planning, execution and subsequent<br />dissemination of propaganda in the aftermath of these operations.<br /><br />Now, a new and terrible tale has surfaced indicating yet again that<br />elements of the U.S. government were involved at the highest level in<br />even more criminal acts against the very same American people whom it is<br />charged with protecting. The case in question involves the June 8, 1967,<br />attack on the USS Liberty by the air and naval forces of the state of<br />Israel during the height of the Arab-Israeli war that led to the deaths<br />of 34 American servicemen.<br /><br />Long believed that players within the Johnson administration simply<br />assisted in the cover-up of the attack so as “not to embarrass”<br />America’s greatest ally, Israel, it now it appears that American<br />political, intelligence and military persons played a key role in<br />setting up the Liberty for the purpose of igniting WW III in what was<br />code-named “Operation Cyanide.”<br /><br />It was a heady time, to be sure. The United States and the Soviet Union<br />were neck-deep in the Cold War, and by all appearances it seemed that a<br />shooting match between the two superpowers was inevitable.<br /><br />The incident in question took place only a few short years after the<br />Cuban Missile Crisis and at a time when America seemed unable to stop<br />the spread of communism in Asia and other parts of the world.<br /><br />In the Middle East, states such as Egypt, with dynamic, fiery and<br />recalcitrant leaders such as President Gamal Abdel Nasser, were forming<br />strong bonds with the Soviets for military and economic aid. Using the<br />same rationale that led to America inserting itself militarily into<br />Korea and Vietnam, it was believed that, if not stopped, the Soviets<br />would entrench themselves in the Middle East to the point that America’s<br />access to the oil of that region would be directly jeopardized and that,<br />just as the communists had predicted decades before, the West would be<br />conquered “without a shot being fired.”<br /><br />It has long been assumed that Israel’s deliberate attack on the USS<br />Liberty was just another of Israel’s made-to-order false flag operations<br />done simply for the purpose of dragging an unwilling America into a<br />Middle East war on the side of the Jewish state. However, new<br />information uncovered by former BBC investigative journalist Peter<br />Hounam reveals that the U.S. government—and more specifically the<br />administration of Lyndon Johnson—was not as much the unsuspecting victim<br />in all of this that Israel has claimed these last 40 years.<br /><br />Based on relatively new evidence, the attack on the Liberty was actually<br />part of a much larger plan. The Liberty incident was just one domino in<br />a series that had as the ultimate goal a real live shooting war between<br />the United States and the Soviets. Had the Liberty been sunk with no<br />witnesses as planned, the world would be a much different place as a<br />result—and certainly not for the better.<br /><br />The plan for that awful day in American history was to sink the<br />defenseless, unarmed American ship sailing in international waters off<br />the coast of Egypt. The Soviets and their Arab allies (in particular<br />Egypt) would then be blamed for the event.<br /><br />As with the sinking of the USS Maine nearly 70 years earlier, the cry<br />would be “Remember the USS Liberty” and America’s “justifiable” response<br />to such a horrendous act would be the launching of nuclear weapons<br />against Egypt, an ally of the Soviet Union. Working in tandem with the<br />United States would be allies such as Israel, Great Britain and,<br />interestingly, Australia.<br /><br />The end result would be a Middle East free of any Soviet presence,<br />leaving America and her ally Israel in possession of Arab oil for the<br />foreseeable future and in a better position to dictate terms to the<br />communists. In the minds of powerful men such as these—men who sit in<br />comfortable offices and expensive chairs and who do not have to answer<br />to anyone for their actions, the rationale for such an act was simple:<br />It is better for 300 U.S. sailors to die in the service of their country<br />than have the “free world” fall into the clutches of Soviet communism.<br /><br />What prevented all of this from taking place was that—simply by the<br />grace of God—the Liberty did not sink, and the world was spared. Of<br />course, there is no official confirmation of Operation Cyanide. In fact<br />there is no mention of it at all. In various interviews that have been<br />conducted over the years, individuals from Secretary of Defense Robert<br />McNamara to Dean Rusk to Richard Helms to Mossad spy chief Rafael Eitan<br />have demonstrated great intellectual and verbal dexterity for men their<br />age when discussing various items. However, they clam up instantaneously<br />when Operation Cyanide is mentioned as if they were witnesses to an<br />organized crime hit and they feared for their lives.<br /><br />However, the smaller players involved at the time have a different tale<br />to tell. Piecing together all the small parts that they individually<br />bring to the table fleshes out a picture that, although not crystal<br />clear, is clear enough to suggest that America was involved in the<br />murder of 34 young men on that day in a much deeper fashion than<br />previously thought.<br /><br />For the sake of those men who died then, and for those who survived the<br />attack and who have endured the assault of lies that has been waged<br />against them these last 40 years, the truth concerning what took place<br />must be told.<br /><br />In the opinion of many, exposure of the Liberty incident may very well<br />hold the key to freeing America from the bondage it suffers under men<br />such as those who have murdered not only American citizens, but our<br />traditional political system as well.<br /><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://nafeez.blogspot.com/">http://nafeez.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br /><br />ANNEX: HK Notes and Diaries.<br />******************************<br /><br /><br />Hamas is a Palestinian group known both for charitable works benefiting the<br />Palestinian population and suicide attacks against Israeli targets. Hamas<br />was formed in 1987, after a Palestinian uprising began the year before. Some<br />claim that Israel indirectly supported and perhaps even directly funded<br />Hamas in its early years in order to divide the Palestinians politically.<br />For instance, a former senior CIA official will later claim that Israel's<br />support for Hamas "was a direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a<br />strong, secular PLO [Palestinian Liberation Organization] by using a<br />competing religious alternative." Hamas begins attacks on Israeli military<br />and civilan targets in 1989 and will begin suicide attacks on these targets<br />in April 1994. The US will not officially declare Hamas a terrorist<br />organization until 1995 (see January 1995). This means that funding Hamas is<br />not a crime in the US before that year, but knowingly participating in or<br />supporting a violent act overseas outside of the rules of war such as a<br />suicide bombing could still potentially result in criminal charges in the<br />US. [United Press International, 6/18/2002; Associated Press, 3/22/2004]<br />Mohammad Salah, a Palestinian-American living in Chicago as a used car<br />salesman, was reputedly trained by Hamas in terrorist techniques, including<br />the use of chemical weapons and poisons, in the late 1980s. Working on the<br />orders of high-level Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk, Salah leads a four day<br />Hamas training camp in the Chicago area in June 1990. According to one<br />trainee, the approximately twenty-five trainees study Hamas philosophy,<br />receive weapons training, and learn how to plant a car bomb. Two of the<br />trainees are ultimately selected to fly to Syria, where they undergo more<br />advanced training in making car bombs and throwing grenades. Ultimately,<br />they are sent into Israel to launch attacks. Similar training camps take<br />place in Kansas City and Wisconsin from 1989 through early 1991. Then, Salah<br />is told by Marzouk to change his focus from training to fundraising. In<br />early 1992, Salah receives about $800,000 from Saudi multimillionaire Yassin<br />al-Qadi, and he temporarily invests it in a BMI real estate scheme (see<br />1991). Between June 1991 and December 1992, Salah repeatedly travels to the<br />Middle East and spends more than $100,000 in direct support of Hamas<br />military activities. He attempts to spend the $800,000 that is still<br />invested in BMI, but BMI is unable to quickly liquidate the investment.<br />Marzouk sends Salah almost $1 million to spend. Salah goes to the West Bank<br />in January 1993 and begins dispersing that money, but he is arrested before<br />the end of the month. With Salah arrested, Hamas needs a new point man to<br />collect and transfer new money raised in the US. Jamil Sarsour, a grocery<br />store owner in Milwaukee, is chosen. It will be reported in 2003 that<br />Sarsour is still living openly in Milwaukee (see June 2-5, 2003) [Chicago<br />Tribune, 10/29/2001; LA Weekly, 8/2/2002; Federal News Service, 6/2/2003]<br /><br />Mercy International USA's logo. [Source: Mercy International USA]The 1999<br />book Dollars for Terror will allege that in 1989, Mercy International, a<br />"subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood, was able to establish its<br />headquarters in the United States, in the state of Michigan, with the<br />assistance of the CIA. The Agency provided significant logistical and<br />financial support to this 'humanitarian' organization, enabling it to act<br />clandestinely in the various Balkan conflicts as well as within the Muslim<br />communities of several Russian republics." [Labeviere, 1999, pp. 364] Mercy<br />International will later be tied to al-Qaeda in a number of ways. For<br />instance, in the mid-1990s its Pakistan branch will be headed by Zahid<br />Shaikh Mohammed, brother of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (see<br />1988-Spring 1995). [Los Angeles Times, 9/1/2002] Its Kenya branch will be<br />tied to the 1998 US embassy bombing there. Its Philippine branch is tied to<br />Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, bin Laden's brother-in-law. [Burr and Collins, 2006,<br />pp. 128, 188-189] Branches of this charity in different countries have<br />slightly different names such as Mercy International-USA and Mercy<br />International Relief Agency, and it has been claimed that the US branch has<br />no connection with the terrorism-related branches. However, a 2003 article<br />will draw links between the US branch and other branches. [National Review,<br />9/4/2003]<br /><br />Prior to this year, President George W. Bush is a failed oilman. Three<br />times, friends and investors have bailed him out to keep his business from<br />going bankrupt. However, in 1988, the same year his father becomes<br />president, some Saudis buy a portion of his small company, Harken, which has<br />never performed work outside of Texas. Later in the year, Harken wins a<br />contract in the Persian Gulf and starts doing well financially. These<br />transactions seem so suspicious that the Wall Street Journal in 1991 states<br />it "raises the question of. an effort to cozy up to a presidential son." Two<br />major investors in Bush's company during this time are Salem bin Laden and<br />Khalid bin Mahfouz. [Intelligence Newsletter, 3/2/2000; Salon, 11/19/2001]<br />Salem bin Laden is Osama's oldest brother; Khalid bin Mahfouz is a Saudi<br />banker with a 20 percent stake in BCCI. The bank will be shut down a few<br />years later and bin Mahfouz will have to pay a $225 million fine (while<br />admitting no wrongdoing) (see October 2001)).<br /><br />Al-Qaeda bomber Ramzi Yousef is said to be recruited by the CIA, though<br />details are not known. Author Richard Labeviere reported without elaboration<br />in a 1999 book, "A classified FBI file indicates that [Yousef] was recruited<br />by the local branch of the CIA." [Labeviere, 1999, pp. 220-221] In 1995,<br />Newsday will report, "FBI officials also are considering a probe of whether<br />the CIA had any relationship with Yousef, who fought with the CIA-financed<br />mujaheddin in Afghanistan in the 1980s." [Newsday, 4/16/1995] But there<br />appears to be no further reporting on whether such a probe was conducted.<br />Yousef is believed to have masterminded a series of bombings in the early<br />1990s, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the planned Bojinka<br />attack, before being captured in 1995 (see February 7, 1995). If Yousef was<br />recruited by the CIA, it may have been in the late 1980s when the CIA<br />recruited and trained thousands of people around the world to fight in<br />Afghanistan (see 1986-1992). In the late 1980s, Yousef was studying<br />engineering at a Wales college, but he'd also joined the Muslim Brotherhood<br />while there. During a break from school in 1988, he went to one of bin<br />Laden's<br />training camps in Afghanistan and spent several months honing his<br />bomb-making skills. [Miller, Stone, and Mitchell, 2002, pp. 78]<br /><br />The core of the future Philippine militant group Abu Sayyaf fights with bin<br />Laden in Afghanistan and its training there is paid for by the CIA and<br />Pakistani ISI. In 1986, the CIA agreed to support an ISI program of<br />recruiting radical Muslims from other countries, including the Philippines,<br />to fight in the Afghan war (see 1986). By one estimate, initially between<br />300 and 500 radical Muslims from the southern Philippines go to Afghanistan<br />to fight. [Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College,<br />/1/2005 ]<br /><br />In 1987 or 1988, bin Laden dispatches his brother-in-law Mohammed Jamal<br />Khalifa to the Philippines to find more recruits willing to go to<br />Afghanistan. It is estimated he finds about 1,000 recruits. One of them is<br />Abdurajak Janjalani, who emerges as the leader of these recruits in<br />Afghanistan. When the Afghan war ends in 1989 most of them will return to<br />the Philippines and form the Abu Sayyaf group, still led by Janjalani (see<br />Early 1991). [Contemporary Southeast Asia, 12/1/2002; Manila Times,<br />2/1/2007] Journalist John Cooley will write in a book first published in<br />1999 that Abu Sayyaf will become "the most violent and radical Islamist<br />group in the Far East, using its CIA and ISI training to harass, attack, and<br />murder Christian priests, wealthy non-Muslim plantation-owners, and<br />merchants and local government in the southern Philippine island of<br />Mindanao." [Cooley, 2002, pp. 63] After having read Cooley's book and<br />gathering information from other sources, Senator Aquilino Pimentel,<br />President of the Philippine Senate, will say in a 2000 speech that the "CIA<br />has sired a monster" because it helped train this core of the Abu Sayyaf.<br />[Senator Aquilino Q. Pimentel website, 7/31/2000]<br /><br />Sheikh Ahmed Yassin forms Hamas as the military arm of his Islamic<br />Association, which had been licensed by Israel ten years earlier (see<br />1973-1978). According to Charles Freeman, a former US ambassador to Saudi<br />Arabia, "Israel started Hamas. It was a project of Shin Bet, which had a<br />feeling that they could use it to hem in the PLO." [CounterPunch, 1/18/2003;<br />Dreyfuss, 2005, pp. 191, 208] Anthony Cordesman, a Middle East analyst for<br />the Center for Strategic Studies, states that Israel "aided Hamas<br />directly-the Israelis wanted to use it as a counterbalance to the PLO." A<br />former senior CIA official speaking to UPI describes Israel's support for<br />Hamas as "a direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a strong,<br />secular PLO by using a competing religious alternative." Further, according<br />to an unnamed US government official, "the thinking on the part of some of<br />the right-wing Israeli establishment was that Hamas and the other groups, if<br />they gained control, would refuse to have anything to do with the peace<br />process and would torpedo any agreements put in place." Larry Johnson, a<br />counter-terrorism official at the State Department, states: "The Israelis<br />are their own worst enemies when it comes to fighting terrorism. They are<br />like a guy who sets fire to his hair and then tries to put it out by hitting<br />it with a hammer. They do more to incite and sustain terrorism than curb<br />it." [United Press International, 2/24/2001 Sources: Larry C. Johnson,<br />Unnamed former CIA official]<br /><br />During a secret visit to Pakistan CIA Director William Casey commits the CIA<br />to support the ISI program of recruiting radical Muslims for the Afghan war<br />from other Muslim countries around the world. In addition to the Gulf<br />States, these include Turkey, the Philippines, and China. The ISI started<br />their recruitment of radicals from other countries in 1982 (see 1982). This<br />CIA cooperation is part of a joint CIA-ISI plan begun the year before to<br />expand the "Jihad" beyond Afghanistan (see March 1985). [Rashid, 2001, pp.<br />128-129]<br /><br />The CIA, ISI, and bin Laden build the Khost tunnel complex in Afghanistan.<br />This will be a major target of bombing and fighting when the US attacks the<br />Taliban in 2001. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/23/2001; Hindu, 9/27/2001] It<br />will be reported in June 2001 that "bin Laden worked closely with Saudi,<br />Pakistani, and US intelligence services to recruit mujaheddin from many<br />Muslim countries," but this information has not been reported much since<br />9/11. [United Press International, 4/10/2004] A CIA spokesperson will later<br />claim, "For the record, you should know that the CIA never employed, paid,<br />or maintained any relationship whatsoever with bin Laden." [Ananova,<br />10/31/2001]<br /><br />Quoting a French intelligence report posted by PBS Frontline, The New Yorker<br />reports, "During the nineteen-eighties, when the Reagan administration<br />secretly arranged for an estimated $34 million to be funneled through Saudi<br />Arabia to the Contras in Nicaragua, [Osama's eldest brother] Salem bin Laden<br />aided in this cause." [PBS Frontline, 2001; New Yorker, 11/5/2001]<br /><br />Afghan opium production rises from 250 tons in 1982 to 2,000 tons in 1991,<br />coinciding with CIA support and funding of the mujaheddin. Alfred McCoy, a<br />professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin, says US<br />and Pakistani intelligence officials sanctioned the rebels' drug trafficking<br />because of their fierce opposition to the Soviets: "If their local allies<br />were involved in narcotics trafficking, it didn't trouble [the] CIA. They<br />were willing to keep working with people who were heavily involved in<br />narcotics." For instance, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a rebel leader who received<br />about half of all the CIA's covert weapons, was known to be a major heroin<br />trafficker. Charles Cogan, who directs the CIA's operation in Afghanistan,<br />later claims he was unaware of the drug trade: "We found out about it later<br />on." [Atlantic Monthly, 5/1996; Star-Tribune (Minneapolis), 9/30/2001]<br />Salem bin Laden, Osama's oldest brother, described by a French secret<br />intelligence report as one of two closest friends of Saudi Arabia's King<br />Fahd who often performs important missions for Saudi Arabia, is involved in<br />secret Paris meetings between US and Iranian emissaries this month,<br />according to a French report. Frontline, which published the French report,<br />notes that such meetings have never been confirmed. Rumors of these meetings<br />have been called the "October Surprise" and some have speculated that in<br />these meetings, George H. W. Bush negotiated a delay to the release of the<br />US hostages in Iran, thus helping Ronald Reagan and Bush win the 1980<br />Presidential election. All of this is highly speculative, but if the French<br />report is correct, it points to a long-standing connection of highly<br />improper behavior between the Bush and bin Laden families. [PBS Frontline,<br />2001]<br />Journalist Simon Reeve will claim in the 1999 book The New Jackals that US<br />officials directly met with bin Laden in Afghanistan in the 1980s. He will<br />write, "American emissaries are understood to have traveled to Pakistan for<br />meetings with mujaheddin leaders. [A former CIA official] even suggests the<br />US emissaries met directly with bin Laden, and that it was bin Laden, acting<br />on advice from his friends in Saudi intelligence, who first suggested the<br />mujaheddin should be given Stingers." [Reeve, 1999, pp. 167, 176] The CIA<br />begins supplying Stinger missiles to the mujaheddin in 1986 (see September<br />1986). After 9/11, the CIA will state, "Numerous comments in the media<br />recently have reiterated a widely circulated but incorrect notion that the<br />CIA once had a relationship with Osama bin Laden. For the record, you should<br />know that the CIA never employed, paid, or maintained any relationship<br />whatsoever with bin Laden." [US State Department, 1/14/2005]<br /><br />Osama bin Laden begins providing financial, organizational, and engineering<br />aid for the mujaheddin in Afghanistan, with the advice and support of the<br />Saudi royal family. [New Yorker, 11/5/2001] Some, including Richard Clarke,<br />counterterrorism "tsar" during the Clinton and George W. Bush<br />administrations, believe he was handpicked for the job by Prince Turki<br />al-Faisal, head of Saudi Arabia's Secret Service. [New Yorker, 11/5/2001;<br />Sunday Times (London), 8/25/2002] The Pakistani ISI want a Saudi prince as a<br />public demonstration of the commitment of the Saudi royal family and as a<br />way to ensure royal funds for the anti-Soviet forces. The agency fails to<br />get royalty, but bin Laden, with his family's influential ties, is good<br />enough for the ISI. [Miami Herald, 9/24/2001] (Clarke will argue later that<br />the Saudis and other Muslim governments used the Afghan war in an attempt to<br />get rid of their own misfits and troublemakers.) This multinational force<br />later coalesces into al-Qaeda. [Clarke, 2004, pp. 52]<br /><br />The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan. The Russians were initially invited in<br />by the Afghan government to deal with rising instability and army mutinies,<br />and they start crossing the border on December 8. But on December 26,<br />Russian troops storm the presidential palace, kill the country's leader,<br />Haizullah Amin, and the invitation turns into an invasion. [Blum, 1995, pp.<br />342] Later declassified high-level Russian documents will show that the<br />Russian leadership believed that Amin, who took power in a violent coup from<br />another pro-Soviet leader two months before, had secret contacts with the US<br />embassy and was probably a US agent. Further, one document from this month<br />claims that "the right wing Muslim opposition" has "practically established<br />their control in many provinces. using foreign support." [Cooley, 2002, pp.<br />8] It has been commonly believed that the invasion was unprovoked, but the<br />Russians will later be proven largely correct. In a 1998 interview, Zbigniew<br />Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, will reveal<br />that earlier in the year Carter authorized the CIA to destabilize the<br />government, provoking the Russians to invade (see July 3, 1979). [Le Nouvel<br />Observateur (Paris), 1/1998; Mirror, 1/29/2002] Further, CIA covert action<br />in the country actually began in 1978 (see 1978), if not earlier (see<br />1973-1979). The US and Saudi Arabia will give a huge amount of money<br />(estimates range up to $40 billion total for the war) to support the<br />mujaheddin guerrilla fighters opposing the Russians, and a decade-long war<br />will ensue. [Nation, 2/15/1999]<br /><br />In the 1960s Osama bin Laden's brother Mahrous bin Laden joined a rebel<br />group opposed to the Saudi government. With his assistance, in 1979 the<br />rebels smuggle weapons into Mecca, Saudi Arabia, using trucks belonging to<br />the bin Laden family company. Five hundred rebels then seize the Grand<br />Mosque in Medina, Islam's holiest mosque in its holiest city. They try, but<br />fail, to overthrow the Saudi royal family. All the men who took part are<br />later beheaded except Mahrous. Eventually he is released from prison because<br />of the close ties between the bin Ladens and the Saudi royal family. Mahrous<br />apparently abandons the rebel cause and joins the family business. He is<br />eventually made a head of the Medina branch and a member of the board. He<br />will still hold these positions on 9/11. But a newspaper reports that "his<br />past [is] not forgiven and most important decisions in the [bin Laden family<br />business] are made without Mahrous' input." [Sunday Herald (Glasgow),<br />10/7/2001; New Yorker, 11/5/2001; Ha'aretz, 12/18/2002]<br /><br />At some point in the late 1980s or early 1980s while bin Laden is still<br />finishing his university degree, he apparently visits the US. Author Peter<br />Bergen will later claim, "Undoubtedly, bin Laden took his son for medical<br />treatment to a western country and it's either the United States or the<br />United Kingdom. There's some kind of controversy about that." Khaled<br />Batarfi, a close childhood friend to bin Laden, will later recall more<br />specifically, "In Washington airport, Dulles Airport, people were surprised<br />at the way he dressed, his wife dressed. Some of them were even taking<br />photos and he was kind of joking about it. We were like in a zoo." [CNN,<br />8/23/2006] Apparently, this is bin Laden's only known visit to the US.<br /><br />The CIA begins covert action against the Communist government in<br />Afghanistan, which is closely tied to the Soviet Union. Some time this year,<br />the CIA begins training militants in Pakistan and beaming radio propaganda<br />into Afghanistan. By April 1979, US officials are meeting with opponents of<br />the Afghan government to determine their needs. [Blum, 1995, pp. 344] Robert<br />Gates, who will become CIA Director in the early 1990s, will later recall<br />that in a meeting on March 30, 1979, Under Secretary of Defense Walter<br />Slocumbe wonders aloud whether there is "value in keeping the Afghan<br />insurgency going, 'sucking the Soviets into a Vietnamese quagmire.'" [Gates,<br />1996, pp. 145] In March 1979, there is a major revolt in Herat province, and<br />in June and August there are large scale army mutinies. [Cooley, 2002, pp.<br />5] President Carter will formally approve covert aid to opponents of the<br />government in July (see July 3, 1979), which will result in a Russian<br />invasion in December (see December 8, 1979).<br /><br />In 1977 Zbigniew Brzezinski, as President Carter's National Security<br />Adviser, forms the Nationalities Working Group (NWG) dedicated to the idea<br />of weakening the Soviet Union by inflaming its ethnic tensions. The Islamic<br />populations are regarded as prime targets. Richard Pipes, the father of<br />Daniel Pipes, takes over the leadership of the NWG in 1981. Pipes predicts<br />that with the right encouragement Soviet Muslims will "explode into<br />genocidal fury" against Moscow. According to Richard Cottam, a former CIA<br />official who advised the Carter administration at the time, after the fall<br />of the Shah of Iran in 1978, Brzezinski favored a "de facto alliance with<br />the forces of Islamic resurgence, and with the Republic of Iran." [Dreyfuss,<br />2005, pp. 241, 251 - 256]<br /><br /><br />ISRAELIS vs ARABS<br />WHO ARE THE REAL TERRORISTS?<br />By: Hal Turner<br /><br />North Bergen, NJ USA -- For years, we in America have supported Israel<br />both financially and militarily because we perceived they were the<br />innocent victims of hostile and violent neighbors. The US media has,<br />for years, provided extensive coverage of every incident involving<br />Arab-against-Israeli violence. From shootings, to car bombs to suicide<br />bombers, we in America have seen it all. Or have we?<br />Why would rational human beings, given a choice, choose to attack their<br />neighbors rather than live together in peace? More pertinent, why<br />would a rational human being choose to blow himself up rather than<br />live? The Israelis, the US media and our politicians would have us<br />believe that the Arabs are simply not rational. They routinely tell us<br />that Arabs are "religious fanatics" who "hate freedom" or "hate our way<br />of life" to quote George W. Bush. These arguments are fallacious and<br />intellectually bankrupt.<br />The reason for Arab against Israeli violence is simple: The Israelis<br />have been systematically repressing and brutalizing hundreds of<br />thousands of Arabs on a scale unparalleled since World War 2. I have<br />the proof.<br />Below are photographs of the victims of Israeli violence. They depict<br />brutal, violent death, horrific personal injury and devastation of<br />property which is simply unfathomable. ALL of it was perpetrated by<br />Israelis against Arabs. ALL of the victims are civilians.<br /><br />As you view these pictures ask yourself this question: What would YOU<br />or YOUR LOVED ONES do in retaliation for these things?<br />DANGER: SEVENTY-SEVEN GRAPHIC PICTURES OF BRUTAL<br />VIOLENCE, DEATH AND INJURY.<br />NOT FOR VIEWING BY PERSONS WITH WEAK HEARTS!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.halturnershow.com/IsraeliAtrocities.html">http://www.halturnershow.com/IsraeliAtrocities.html</a><br /><br /><br />Genocide Advocated by The Talmud<br /><br />Minor Tractates. Soferim 15, Rule 10. This is the saying of Rabbi<br /><br />Simon ben Yohai: Tob shebe goyyim harog ("Even the best of the<br /><br />Gentiles should all be killed").<br /><br />This passage is not from the Soncino edition but is from the original<br /><br />Hebrew of the Babylonian Talmud as quoted by the 1907 Jewish<br /><br />Encyclopedia, published by Funk and Wagnalls and compiled by<br /><br />Isidore Singer, under the entry, "Gentile," (p. 617).<br /><br />This original Talmud passage has been concealed in translation.<br /><br />The Jewish Encyclopedia states that, "...in the various versions the<br /><br />reading has been altered, 'The best among the Egyptians' being<br /><br />generally substituted." In the Soncino version: "the best of the<br /><br />heathens" (Minor Tractates, Soferim 41a-b].<br /><br />Israelis annually take part in a national pilgrimage to the grave of<br /><br />Simon ben Yohai, to honor this rabbi who advocated the<br /><br />extermination of non-Jews. (Jewish Press of June 9, 1989, p. 56B).<br /><br />On Purim, Feb. 25, 1994, Israeli army officer Baruch Goldstein,<br /><br />an orthodox Khazar from Brooklyn, massacred 40 Palestinian<br /><br />civilians, including children, while they knelt in prayer in a mosque.<br /><br />Goldstein was a disciple of the late Rabbi Kahane who has stated<br /><br />that his view of Arabs as "dogs" is "from the Talmud." (Cf. CBS 60<br /><br />Minutes, "Kahane").<br /><br />Univ. of Jerusalem Prof. Ehud Sprinzak described Kahane and<br /><br />Goldstein's philosophy: "They believe it's God's will that they commit<br /><br />violence against 'goyim,' a Hebrew term for non-Jews." (NY Daily<br /><br />News, Feb. 26, 1994, p. 5).<br /><br />Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg declared, "We have to recognize that Jewish<br /><br />blood and the blood of a goy are not the same thing." (NY Times,<br /><br />June 6, 1989, p.5).<br /><br />Rabbi Yaacov Perrin says, "One million Arabs are not worth a<br /><br />Jewish fingernail." (NY Daily News, Feb. 28, 1994, p.6).<br />------------------------------------<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A Dangerous Appointment: Profile of Douglas Feith, Undersecretary of<br />Defense under Bush<br /><br />------------------------- (April 18, 2001) Douglas J. Feith, the new<br />Undersecretary of Policy at the U.S. Department of Defense, believes<br />in "good" versus "darkness" duality. Defining Middle East conflict in<br />his absolute terms puts serious questions whether or not someone with<br />his views can fairly serve in his critical post asks James Zogby*.<br />Douglas J. Feith has been appointed Undersecretary of Policy at the<br />U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). This is one of the Pentagon's four<br />senior posts, charged with "all matters concerning the formulation of<br />national security and defense policy and the integration and oversight<br />of DOD policy and plans." Additionally, among his many areas of<br />responsibility according to the DOD, the undersecretary of policy has<br />the responsibility to:<br /><br />- "Develop policy on the conduct of alliances and defense<br />relationships with foreign governments, their military establishments<br />and international organizations;<br /><br />- "Develop, coordinate, and oversee the implementation of<br />international security strategy and policy...on issues...that relate to<br />foreign governments and their defense establishments; and<br /><br />- "Provide oversight of all DOD activities related to international<br />technology transfer."<br /><br />This is a powerful position with great influence. Feith's appointment<br />to this post is a matter of great concern.<br /><br />Feith has had a long career in both government service and the private<br />sector. During the Reagan Administration he served as the White House<br />National Security Staff and in the Defense Department as Deputy<br />Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy. He also served<br />as Special Counsel to Richard Perle, then Assistant Secretary of<br />Defense.<br /><br />Feith is an attorney with the Washington firm of Feith and Zell. His<br />own biography says that he specializes in "technology transfer, joint<br />ventures and foreign investment in the defense and aerospace<br />industries."<br /><br />On the political front, Feith has been associated with the Cold War<br />"neo-conservative" school of thought. What is of concern here is the<br />extent to which Feith has transposed the neo-conservative worldview<br />onto the Middle East. As his fellow cold warriors defined the world in<br />ideological dualistic terms-the forces of absolute good confronting<br />the forces of absolute evil-Feith defines the Arab-Israeli conflict in<br />similar terms.<br /><br />A prolific writer, Feith has left a long paper trail of anti-Arab<br />tracts and diatribes against those who challenge or seek to compromise<br />Israel's strength and as he defines it, "moral superiority" over the<br />Arabs.<br /><br />As was the case in the Cold War battle against Communism, in Feith's<br />view, there can be no place for compromise between Israel and the<br />Arabs. Since he defines the Middle East conflict in absolute terms,<br />the only option for Israel is to confront its Arab enemies until they<br />are defeated, which, in his worldview, means when they submit and<br />accept Israel's legitimacy and sovereignty over all of mandatory<br />Palestine.<br /><br />Since Israel represents the "good" and "our values," in Feith's view,<br />it is necessary for the United States to identify with Israel in its<br />struggle against the forces of "darkness," the Arabs. This means<br />providing Israel with superior military strength and political<br />support. It also means that the United States should never pressure<br />Israel either to surrender land or to compromise its hegemonic<br />position in the region.<br /><br />Throughout his career, Feith has articulated views such as these.<br /><br />In the late 1970s, for example, he criticized then President Jimmy<br />Carter's Camp David effort to bring about a "comprehensive peace"-a<br />concept he decried as false since it required Israel to weaken itself<br />by surrendering "Judea and Samaria" to the Arabs. Feith's logic was<br />that<br /><br />- Arabs have no legal rights in Palestine;<br /><br />- Palestinians are not a "national group as such" and, therefore, have<br />no special claim to Judea and Samaria;<br /><br />- Jordan is the Palestinian state for the Arabs; and<br /><br />- No pressure should be brought against Israel for building<br />settlements in Judea and Samaria, since it is their right to do so.<br /><br />Operating from this framework, Feith argues that the notion that "the<br />core of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the issue of the stateless<br />Palestinians" is a clever Arab trap designed solely to weaken Israel<br />by threatening its relationship with the United States and its hold<br />over Judea and Samaria.<br /><br />He, therefore, condemned the Carter Administration for its opposition<br />to Israel's settlement policy since, in his view, this "only<br />encouraged Arabs to believe that they could win benefits from the<br />United States by refusing to make concessions to Israel."<br /><br />For Feith, Arab objections to Zionism were at the core of the<br />conflict. Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories would not<br />solve the conflict, only Arab acceptance of and submission to Israel<br />would end it. Summarizing his recommendations to the Carter<br />Administration, Feith suggested in a 1979 article that they, "(1)<br />abandon the view that Judea-Samaria is the crux of the Arab-Israeli<br />conflict, (2) acknowledge that the crux is really the Arab refusal to<br />accept a Jewish state in Palestine, (3) renounce quarreling over<br />Israel's rights in Judea-Samaria, which encourages Arab inflexibility<br />and damages valuable U.S.-Israeli ties, (4) confine itself to the role<br />of mediator, rather than party, to the Arab-Israeli conflict, and thus<br />(5) inform Damascus, Amman, the Palestinian Arabs, and Riyadh that if<br />they want an alteration in Jerusalem's policies they had best start<br />negotiating with Jerusalem, as Sadat has done, and quit relying on<br />Washington to 'deliver' the Israelis."<br /><br />In the 1980s and 90s, Feith continued his criticism of any U.S. policy<br />that deviated from his view. He criticized the Bush Administration for<br />denying Israel loan guarantees and for pressuring the Shamir<br />government to come to the Madrid peace conference.<br /><br />His advice to the Bush Administration in 1991 echoed his earlier<br />recommendations to the Carter White House. The U.S. government should,<br />he suggested, require the Arabs to:<br /><br />- "Drop the slogan of 'land for peace,' which skeptical Israelis must<br />suspect is a program for dismantling Israel in stages, and simply<br />offer peace. That is, they could put forward an open, unqualified, non-<br />grudging and sincere acknowledgement that the Jewish people are<br />entitled to a state in a Jewish homeland;" and<br /><br />- "Abandon the name game by which they apply the label 'Palestine'<br />only to the 20 percent of the British Mandate Palestine that lies west<br />of the Jordan River. So long as one's goal is the elimination of<br />Israel, one does well to pretend that the Kingdom of Jordan, which<br />occupies the other 80 percent of Mandate Palestine, is not a<br />Palestinian state. That makes it possible to propagandize that the<br />Jews control all the land and the Arabs of Palestine are<br />'stateless.'"<br /><br />During the Clinton years, Feith continued to oppose any agreement<br />negotiated between the Israelis and Palestinians: Oslo, Hebron and<br />Wye.<br /><br />At one point he defined Oslo as, "one-sided Israeli concessions,<br />inflated Palestinian expectations, broken Palestinian solemn<br />understandings, Palestinian violence...and American rewards for<br />Palestinian recalcitrance."<br /><br />His objection to the Hebron and Wye understandings, however, is more<br />interesting because it was his ideological soul mate, then Israeli<br />Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had agreed to them.<br /><br />In 1996, Feith, together with Richard Perle wrote an advisory paper<br />for the newly elected Likud Prime Minister. In that piece, entitled "A<br />Clean Break: a New Strategy for Securing the Realm," they advised<br />Netanyahu to: "make a clean break from the peace process;" reassert<br />Israel's claim to its land by rejecting "land for peace" as the basis<br />of peace; strengthen Israel's defenses to better confront Syria and<br />Iraq; and forge a new and stronger relationship with the United States<br />based on self-reliance and mutual interest.<br /><br />Feith was, therefore, deeply disappointed when Netanyahu appeared to<br />accept the basis of Oslo and sign two additional agreements with the<br />Palestinians that turned more land over to them. In a lengthy piece<br />written in 1997 "A Strategy for Israel," Feith returned to his neo-<br />conservative roots arguing that "land for peace" was a fabrication<br />designed to weaken Israel. Peace would only come when Arab and<br />specifically Palestinian society was transformed into a democratic,<br />law-abiding and peaceful one. Since Oslo had created unrealistic<br />expectations and rewarded bad Palestinian behavior, the only solution<br />for Israel was to repudiate Oslo and "reestablish an effective<br />security and intelligence policy in the areas under Palestinian<br />Authority control" (i.e. reoccupy the West Bank and Gaza). He went on<br />to note that "the price in blood would be high," but would be, a<br />necessary form of "detoxification-the only way out of Oslo's web."<br /><br />Despite his apparent obsession with the Arab-Israel conflict, Feith<br />has written about a number of other Middle East-related topics. In all<br />cases, inspired by the same pro-Israel, anti-Arab Manichean<br />worldview.<br /><br />He has written condemning U.S. politicians for estranging themselves<br />from Israel in order to accommodate Arab oil states. He has associated<br />himself with a controversial strategy paper that suggested, among<br />other options, that the U.S. might lead a Kuwait-style invasion and<br />war of liberation to oust Syria from Lebanon. And he has been one of<br />Washington's strongest advocates supporting the Iraq Liberation Act.<br /><br />As disturbing as Feith's views may be, his political associations<br />cause even greater concern. In recent years, Feith has frequently been<br />featured in the activities of the Zionist Organization of America<br />(ZOA). Known for its virulent anti-Arab incitement, the ZOA regularly<br />attacks all Arab American political activity and demonizes politicians<br />who hire Arab Americans or even associate with community<br />organizations. The ZOA also frequently attacks American Jews whom they<br />feel are not in line with their extremist pro-Likud philosophy.<br /><br />In just the past few years, Feith was the Guest of Honor at ZOA's<br />100th Anniversary Gala Banquet. He served as Master of Ceremony at two<br />other major ZOA functions and has been a frequent participant at ZOA<br />sponsored policy briefings on Capitol Hill supporting that<br />organization's anti-Palestinian legislative initiatives.<br /><br />Feith's law practice in Washington sheds further light on the one-<br />sided nature of his work. His small law firm has one international<br />affiliate, in Israel. Over two-thirds of all their reported casework<br />involves representing Israeli interests. And, in light of Feith's new<br />appointment, one of these cases deserves some attention. As described<br />on the firm's website, Feith "represented a leading Israeli armaments<br />manufacturer in establishing joint ventures with leading U.S.<br />aerospace manufacturers for manufacture and sale of missile systems,<br />to the U.S. Department of Defense and worldwide."<br /><br />Feith has long been a strong advocate for Israeli military technology.<br />In a 1992 article, he wrote that the U.S. should deepen its military<br />cooperation with Israel noting that, "Israel has a number of unique<br />military technologies that it behooves the U.S. armed forces to<br />acquire, such as unmanned aircraft and air-to ground missiles. With<br />shrinking U.S. defense budgets, it is less expensive for the Defense<br />Department to acquire these technologies from the Israelis than to pay<br />to have them reinvented."<br /><br />He also observed in the same piece that, "It is in the interest of the<br />U.S. and Israel to remove needless impediments to technological<br />cooperation between them. Technologies in the hands of responsible,<br />friendly countries facing military threats, countries like Israel,<br />serve to deter aggression, enhance regional stability and perhaps also<br />promote peace thereby."<br /><br />In the private sector, Feith is free to hold whatever views he wishes<br />to hold, associate with whomever he wishes to associate, and do<br />whatever legitimate business comes his way. But serious questions must<br />be asked whether or not someone with his views and associations can<br />fairly serve in a critical post at the Department of Defense. I, for<br />one, am terrified at the prospect. He is ideologue with an extreme<br />anti-Arab bias, and his role in the sensitive position of chief<br />architect of U.S. defense policy can, I believe, have grave<br />consequences for the United States and its relations with the entire<br />Arab world.<br /></span><br />******************************************<div class="blogger-post-footer">CIA "blowback" .
refers to retaliation for illegal operations
carried out abroad, kept secret from the US public.
These operations included clandestine overthrow of governments, counterinsurgency militias,
, training of foreign militaries
in the techniques of state terrorism, rigging of elections in foreign
countries, interference with the economic viability of countries , as well as
the torture or assassination of selected foreign Leaders.
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