1 June 02
'ALL-OUT KASHMIR WAR "COULD KILL 12m"
'Between nine and 12 m[illion] people would die in an all-out nuclear war between India and Pakistan, according to a classified assessment by the US Defence Department.
'Pentagon analysts believe even a more limited exchange would kill up to 3m.
'The leaking [!] of the assessment coincided with a warning by Secretary of State Colin Powell about the "horrific' consequences of all-out war.
'Whoever was responsible would be condemned around the world, he said.'
(BBC Ceefax at 2:30 a.m. BST, p.104)
2 June 02
'NUCLEAR WARNING FROM INDIA
'India will retaliate against a nuclear strike by Pakistan, and is prepared for "mutual destruction" on both sides, India's defence secretary has said. ...' (ITV Teletext, p.304)
'Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf insists his nation will not start a war with India over ... Kashmir ...' (Ibid., p.305)
Meanwhile, in the latest of a growing international list of such incidents:-
MILITARY HELICOPTER CRASHES IN ANGOLA
'Twenty-five high-ranking Angolan army officials and journalists have been killed in a helicopter crash.
'The Russian-made helicopter came down in bad weather in the northern Angola province of Guanga-Norte.
'All 25 people on board were reportedly going to a demobilization camp set up for Unita rebel soldiers in Mussabo.
'They were supposed to be attending a ceremony for the rebels to hand over their weapons.
(BBC Ceefax, 2 June 02, p.111)
'... Regional commander Lieutenant-General Jose Domingues Ngueto died when the Soviet-built helicopter went down.
'It apparently struck a tree near the Kwanza North city of Ndalatando. ...'
(ITV Teletext)
This has become a favoured method of getting rid of undesirable military leaders. Within the past couple of months it has been used in Venezuela, Tunisia and Russia. More generally there have been a fair number of crashes of military helicopters resulting in military fatalities -- some of them American.
3 June 02
'"NO COMMENT" ON CIA CLAIMS
'The CIA has declined to comment on a report claiming it knew two of the September 11 hijackers were in the US and were connected to al-Qaeda.
'Newsweek has said the intelligence was never passed along to the FBI — which now claims it could have uncovered the plot if it had known.
'The CIA allegedly became aware of one of the men in January 2000.'
(ITV Teletext at 2 a.m. BST, p.305)
'TELEGRAPH[:] The US must launch pre-emptive strikes at terrorists, President Bush has declared.' (Ibid., p.326)
'CIA CHIEF RESUMES MID-EAST PEACE EFFORT
'American CIA director, George Tenet, is due in Jerusalem to resume his efforts to end the Middle East conflict.
'One of his aims is to move forward plans for a regional conference.
'Palestinian suicide attacks and retaliatory operations by the Israeli army have stalled the proposals.
'EU [European Union] foreign policy chief Javier Solana said he hoped the conference might be held next month, following talks with Israeli officials on Sunday [2 June].
(BBC Ceefax, 3 June 02 at 5:20 a.m, p.109)
4 June 02
CIA KNEW OF HIJACKERS
'US officials have acknowledged that the CIA learned of two of the September 11 hijackers in early 2000 but failed to alert domestic authorities.
'Malaysian authorities gave intelligence to the CIA on Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, two of the hijackers who flew an aircraft into the Pentagon. Their names were not put on a security list before they entered the US.'
(ITV Teletext at 2:30 a.m. BST, p.310)
Seven Pakistani and three Indian civilians have been killed have been killed, in heavy shelling, on their respective sides of the Kashmir dividing line. (BBC Ceefax, 4 June 02, p.107)
'RUMSFELD MISSION TO CALM ASIAN TENSIONS
'US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is expected to meet [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair in a bid to defuse tensions over Kashmir ...
He is thought to be heading for Brussels to meet Nato chiefs before coming to Britain for talks with Mr Blair and Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon.
'The discussions will cover the Kashmir crisis and the war on terror.
'Mr Rumsfeld is then set to visit three Gulf states and then India and Pakistan.'
(Ibid., p.108)
like Colin Powell before him and the latter's 'peace mission' to Israel and Palestine (that too at an apparently critical conjuncture between the two states), Rumsfeld is taking the slow way, stopping off at various 'ports of call'. Powell didn't in the end visit Palestine (because of the virtual state of war which Israel had imposed on it), but made various other undoubtedly useful contacts 'on the way'. Like Powell, and Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld is cementing support for the War Of Terror and perambulating the boundaries of the US cabal's prospective Middle Eastern oil empire. It is in the cabal's interest that Palestine and Pakistan are battered into the ground by the cabal's allies-of-convenience, Israel and India, to pave the way for securing the western and eastern flanks of this projected empire.
Meanwhile, in other threads of the plan,
'CIA director George Tenet continues his peace mission with talks in Ramallah with the Palestinian leader [Arafat]. Israeli premier Ariel Sharon is due to meet President Bush in the US on Monday.' (BBC Ceefax, 4 June 02, p.118)
Israel is to build a fence along one-third of its border with the West Bank to try to keep 'Islamic militants' out. (It has already split the Gaza Strip in two with one.)
'CONGRESS STARTS SEPTEMBER 11 HEARINGS
'The US Congress is beginning hearings into possible intelligence failures in the run-up to the September 11 attacks.
'The FBI and the CIA have been accused of missing clues prior to the incidents.
'"We need to be aggressive and rigorous in this inquiry, asking the right questions like who knew what?" Senator Barbara Milulsk said.
'President Bush said it was clear the agencies had not been communicating properly prior to the attacks.'
(BBC Ceefax at 2 a.m. BST, p.118)
Whatever the truth of the stories of CIA 'intelligence failures', they are being used as cannon fodder to reshape these organizations (and merge them?); to end the 'separation of powers'.
'EGYPT[:] President Mubarak has claimed his intelligence agents infiltrated al-Qaeda before September 11 and warned the US of a possible attack.' (ITV Teletext, 5 June 02, p.318)
--As French intelligence was also said to have done.
A dam has collapsed in Syria causing 'widespread flooding and casualties'.
Tenet in Palestine, 17 killed in suicide bombing in Israel. The kind of correspondence we have come to expect. The attack was at Megiddo junction, on the West Bank border. (BBC Ceefax, 5 June 02, p.110)
'US IN MUSLIM FINGERPRINT PLAN
'The US government is planning a new law requiring tens of thousands of Muslims and Mid East visa holders to register fingerprints, it has been reported. ...
'It would cover about 100,000 people and include visa holders from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and many other Muslim nations.'
(ITV Teletext, 5 June 02, p.314) 'BUSH CONDEMNS BOMBING ATTACK IN ISRAEL
'... He also urged the Palestinian Authority to overhaul its security forces to prevent future attacks. ...'
(BBC Ceefax, 5 June 02)
'ISRAELI TANKS ENTER JENIN IN WEST BANK
'Dozens of Israeli tanks have rolled into Jenin firing their machine-guns. ...
'The incursion followed firing into the West Bank town by helicopter gunships. ...'
(Ibid., p.111)
'RUSSIA PRESSES PALESTINIANS TO REFORM ...' (Ibid., p.112)
and how long will it be before the cabal is pressing the Russians to reform, and sending their CIA chief to help them do it?
'CYANIDE ATTACK ATTEMPT [in Israel] FAILED
'Israel's military intelligence chief has revealed Palestinian militants tried to release lethal cyanide gas as part of a suicide bombing in March.
'Major General Aharon Zeevi said that due to a technical mishap the poison gas was not released.
'The March 27 bombing at the Park Hotel in Netenya still killed 29 Israelis, and sparked a six-week military backlash.'
(ITV Teletext, 5 June 02, p.306/2)
'USA[:] Air Force Colonel Steve Butler has been suspended for accusing President Bush of allowing [the] September 11 attacks to happen.' (Ibid., p.318)
That was the least of the cabal's purposes.
CIA boss Tenet has told Arafat that if he doesn't effectively respond to the latest suicide bombing, no more confidence can be placed in his leadership. (BBC Newsnight, 5 June 02)
6 June 02
'Israeli tanks have opened fire [on Arafat's HQ in Ramallah,] Palestinian sources said. ... The Palestinian authority has rejected Israel's charge that Arafat is behind the attack, [responsibility for which was] claimed by Islamic Jihad.' (ITV Teletext at 1 a.m, p.305)
Presumably George Tenet had left before the attack! ... Dovetailed actions, no doubt.
British counter-espionage service MI5 has drawn up a secret list of up to 350 potential terrorist targets, the 'critical national infrastructure', including nuclear power stations, oil refineries and communications centres. (Ibid., p.308)
'BUSH PLANS [DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY]
'President Bush is to propose a new department of homeland security to focus on protecting the US from future attacks, the White House has said.
'Spokesman Ari Fleischer said the agency would focus on areas such as border and transport security, bioterrorism and emergency preparedness and response.
'It was the "biggest restructuring" to the government since 1947, he said.
'The new department's creation is subject to Congressional approval.'
(BBC Ceefax, 6 June 02 at 6 p.m.BST, p.106)
There is a disturbing story that Congress itself supports this move, and that Bush was 'reluctant' to pursue it. If true, it would auger ill for that last thread of political hope for liberty in the USA. Hopefully this is cabalistic misrepresentation. Bush would look better (well, less bad) if he and his were not seen to be always the ones to be pushing authoritarian measures, and if it were the 'other side' (specifically the Congress, in this case) that were sometimes seen to be proponents of them.
American and British troops could be sent to patrol the Indo-Pakistani dividing line in Kashmir, US Defense Secretary Rumsfeld has proposed, seconded by British Defence minister Geoff Hoon. (ITV Teletext at 11:30 p.m. BST, p.303; BBC Ceefax, 7 June 02 at 12:30 a.m. BST, p.105)
In like Don.
7 June 02
The cabal is now overtly tilting towards both Israel and India; why has it chosen not to 'come out' before? Why pretend to support a Palestinian state in the first place? Because it wants one, but only as a puppet of itself? It needed a pretended alliance with Pakistan, of course, to get into that region in the first place.
The Department of Homeland Security will have 170,000 personnel (who currently mostly work for other agencies). It will have a $37bn budget. Its creation will be 'the greatest government reorganization since 1947' (when the CIA and the National Security Agency were created).
For a table outlining the Department's prospective structure, see 'A Single Roof for Homeland Security' (Washington Post; drawn from the Department of Homeland Security Book.)
'[British] POLICE SEEK EXTRADITION OVER FILE THEFT
'Detectives investigating the theft of police Special Branch files in Northern Ireland are seeking the extradition of a chef from the United States.
'The man, who worked at [the] Castlereagh police complex, left for New York after confidential document on informants were stolen in March.
'None of the missing papers has been recovered and nobody has been charged.
'The chef is believed to have already been quizzed by police about the theft.'
(BBC Ceefax, 7 June 02, p.105)
It could have been a CIA black-bag job after all. But not by a professional agent; leading them back to his lair.
'NO CALENDAR FOR PALESTINIAN STATE — US
'George Bush has rejected calls from Arab leaders for him to propose a timetable for the creation of a Palestinian state.
'"We're not ready to lay down a specific calendar," Mr Bush said after talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
'However the US President added that the task should begin soon.
'Mr Mubarak went to the talks at Camp David hoping to presuade Mr Bush to back an early declaration of statehood.'
(BBC Ceefax, p.112) <
This shows Bush's true intentions, behind the facade of 'desire for a Palestinian state'.
9 June 02
'OBSERVER[:] Millions of personal emails, other internet information and phone records are to be made accessible to the police and intelligence services.' (ITV Teletext, p.318)
'The Observer reports the "fury" over Europe's plan to allow police and intelligence agencies to access e-mail and telephone records.' (BBC Ceefax, p.148)
'ISRAELI PM HEADS FOR WASHINGTON TALKS
'Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is on his way to the United States for his sixth meeting with President George W. Bush since taking office in March 2001. ...'
(BBC Ceefax, 9 June 02 at 3:50 a.m., p.108)
'RUMSFELD LANDS IN KUWAIT ON GULF TOUR
'The US Defence Secretary has begun a tour which may play a strategic role in any bid to topple Iraq's Saddam Hussein.
'Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Kuwait for the tour of Arab region [sic], which will also take in Bahrain and Qatar.
'diplomats said he is expected to set out why the US singled out Iraq as a "state sponsor of terrorism".
'The US views Iraq as a threat to oil-rich Gulf allies such as Kuwait, and a danger to national security.'
(BBC Ceefax, 9 June 02, p.121)
To which may be added, it is central (literally) to the cabal's prospective M.E. oil empire (and itself has considerable oil reserves, c.100bn barrels). The extreme nature of its Soviet-style police state provides a better excuse for attack than, say does Iran.
Under US and Israeli pressure, Arafat has reshuffled his cabinet, reducing it from 31 to 21 ministers; he has replaced himself as interior minister (who oversees the security forces) with General Abdel-Razzaq al Yahya. (BBC Ceefax, p.111; ITV Teletext, p.306)
Pakistan agrees with India and Richard Armitage that tensions are easing (after Armitage's visit); Musharraf said the chances of war are now 'minimal'. But cross-border shelling is continuing.
Cabalistic manipulation at both ends of their prospective oil empire.
10 June 02
'6,000 ANTI-TERROR VOLUNTEERS [to be set up in Britain]
'Six thousand Forces volunteers are to be trained to form an anti-terror reaction force, it has been claimed.
'Under plans believed to be published by the MoD [Ministry of Defence], the force will assist the police and civil authorities in the event of a September 11-style attack.
'Volunteers would remain with normal units but [be] earmarked for availability in the event of a terrorist attack.'
(ITV Teletext, p.306)
'AL-QAEDA BOMB ATTACK ON US "THWARTED"
'An attack on the US with a radioactive "dirty" bomb has been prevented, US Attorney-General John Ashcroft has said.
'An al-Qaeda operative who was planning to "build and explode a radiological dispersion device, or dirty bomb in the US" had been captured, he said.
'"Known terrorist" Abdullah al-Mujahir [an alias, see below] was arrested on May 8 as he flew from Pakistan into Chicago O'Hare airport.
'Mr Ashcroft was speaking in a televised announcement from Moscow [!].'
(BBC Ceefax, 10 June 02, p.112)
Al-Mujahir 'is now in military custody after officials determined he was an "enemy combatant" who posed a serious threat.' (ITV Teletext, p.303)
His real name is said to be José Padilla, a former Chicago 'street-fighter', who has converted to Islam. He is a US citizen, but has been classed as an 'enemy combatant', and (presenter John Snow suggested) was liable to be tried by a military tribunal. (British Channel 4 news at 7 p.m.)
The cabal is apparently trying to extend the tribunals' jurisdiction to US citizens. Snow talked sceptically of the 'revelation's' political convenience, but didn't pursue this to what seems the visible conclusion — that the affair was 'got up' for this purpose. He noted that the 'revelation came at a time when a Hollywood movie with just such a theme — a terrorist radiological bomb — is no. 1 in box-office America.
Bush has spoken supportively of the latest Israeli assault against Arafat, saying it was a limited operation with specific targets (viz. particular terrorists) and that Israel has a right to defend itself. The Palestinians say instead that it is (a continuation of) the destruction of the Palestinian Authority.
'India is reopening its airspace to Pakistani flights ...[,] will send an ambassador to Islamabad ... [and] may also pull back five warships from waters close to Pakistan ...' (BBC Ceefax, 10 June 02, p.104)
How to conduct war in the age of nuclear weapons: cold war. We will probably find out sooner or later what the Americans and Indians have extracted from Pakistan in return for these 'concessions'.
Moroccan police have arrested three Saudi al-Qaeda agents planning suicide operations against British and US ships in the Strait of Gibraltar, Moroccan officials said. This was after Moroccan collaboration with other 'friendly' intelligence agencies. (ITV Teletext at 11:30 p.m, p.304)
Doubtless the CIA was first-and-foremost among these 'friendly' agencies; the announcements of these arrests and that of 'dirty bomber' al-Mujahir seem to be coordinated.
The cabal may be tilting toward targeting Saudi Arabia. Cf. tonight's BBC Newsnight interview with a US State Department official.
11 June 02
'British police are to be given more power to spy on private e-mails and text messages than any other EU [European Union] country.
'Civil rights campaigners are outraged that the Government will be able to pry on our private correspondence. [These powers are apparently being extended to various government departments, etc.]
(ITV Teletext, p.141)
'BOMB SUSPECT "KEY AL-QAEDA PLOTTER"
'The US believes the American suspected of plotting to detonate a "dirty bomb" was a key al-Qaeda agent with important information about the terror network.
'Jose "Pucho" Padilla, also known as Abdullah al Mahajir, was "involved in very serious terrorist plots", US Attorney-General John Ashcroft said.
'His detention is seen as a major blow against Osama bin Laden's terror group.'
President Bush has warned that terror groups 'could wield "catastrophic power" with the spread of nuclear and biological technology.' (BBC Ceefax, 11 June 02, p.104)
Bush has said a world manhunt is being organized re. the 'dirty bomber' (and the Moroccan 'ship targeters')
Ashcroft has defended the indefinite detention without access to a lawyer of the 'dirty bomber'; Bush says there will be more such arrests.
The Democrats (if we believe the news) abjectly knuckle under whenever the cabal applies the pressure and the agitprop.
'TERROR SUSPECT TO AVOID TRIAL
'The us citizen who allegedly planned to explode a "dirty bomb" in Washington may never face trial, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said.
'authorities have no plans to press criminal charges on suspected al-Qaeda operative Jose Padilla.
'He [Rumsfeld] said: "Our interest is not in trying him and punishing him. Our interest is in finding out what he knows.'
(ITV Teletext, 11 June 02 at 9:45 p.m, p.304)
'SAUDI ARABIA[:] A huge fire in the kingdom's largest private museum has destroyed many pieces of art, police have said.'
(Ibid., p.318)
'LIBERTARIANS FEAR ONLINE PRIVACY ABUSES
'Plans to increase those [departments] allowed to look at what people do online could lead to abuse, experts have warned.
'The Foundation for Information Policy Research said legislation opening up access to people's web and email habits would be difficult to police.
'Confidential information could end up in the wrong hands, it added. ...'
(BBC Ceefax, 11 June 02, p.154)
12 June 02
'Spain's El Pais finds it "strange" the plot to set off a radioactive device was made public a month after the main suspect was arrested in Chicago.
'It also criticises the Bush government for "fuelling public alarm" by repeating "on a daily basis" that al-Qaeda will strike again.
'However, the paper admits the risk of an attack is "feasible".
(BBC Ceefax, p.147)
The timing of this 'information release' is of course part of the cabal's political struggle with Congress. Public 'terror-stoking' has become an established technique of the cabal since Sept. 11, and is periodically wheeled out (especially on monthly anniversaries) whenever the cabal deems it opportune or feels the need to combat opposition to them divert attention from investigations of them. Another attack will occur whenever the cabal gets up its nerve for it -- or the cabalistic hawks prevail.
13 June 02
After meeting Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee in New Delhi (yesterday), US Defense Secretary Rumsfeld claimed he had seen evidence of al-Qaeda 'near the line of control' in Kashmir. (BBC World Service News at 1 a.m.) But after protests from Pakistan (where Rumsfeld is today) that there is no such presence, he backtracked on this statement. Following Deputy Secretary of State Armitage to the subcontinent, has Rumsfeld contracted 'Armititus' (viz. an ability to find al-Qaeda in the most unlikely places)? Of course, he's just practising the usual cabalistic method, of setting up excuses for American intervention in places even indirectly useful to the cabal's projected oil empire. (But he's yet to top Armitage's 'discovery' (itself quickly retracted) of a Qaeda and Hezbollah presence in Ecuador's oil-rich Amazon region (see diary for April 2002, under 20 April).
'COLORADO FOREST FIRE ADVANCES ON DENVER
'A state of emergency has been declared in Colorado as a huge forest fire threatens the city of Denver.
'Some 5,500 people have been evacuated and 40,000 more are preparing to leave. ...
'fanned by high winds, [the fire] has destroyed 51 homes and almost 90,000 acres of forest ...'
(BBC Ceefax, p.108)
'KARZAI ELECTED NEW AFGHANISTAN LEADER
'Interim leader Hamid Karzai has become Afghanistan's new head of state after winning the backing of two-thirds of the country's main assembly.
'Some 1,050 delegates of a total of more than 1,500 in the loya jirga endorsed the US-backed Pashtun leader.
'A number of powerful Pashtun warlords stepped forward to support Mr Karzai.
'Some had threatened to boycott the assembly after ex-king Mohammed Zahir Shah said he would not seek office.'
(BBC Ceefax, 13 June 02, p.116)
Karzai thought he had already been 'elected' at the beginning of the Loya Jurga's sitting — on a 'show of hands', presumably — when he received a round of applause from the delegates. This alone says much about the 'democratic process' in Afghanistan. As does the fact that the ex-King said he wouldn't stand against Karzai in the election was announced by the American ambassador three hours before he said so himself.
14 June 02
'10 KILLED IN SUICIDE BLAST [by US consulate in Karachi]
'A suicide bomber has killed himself and 10 others and injured 45 in an attack on the US consulate in Karachi.
'No Americans were among the dead, but a marine guard suffered slight injuries when he was hit by flying debris.
'It was the fourth attack aimed at foreigners in Pakistan since January and prompted the US government to consider scaling back diplomatic staff.'
(ITV Teletext, p.303)
'NEW TERROR GROUP CLAIMS KARACHI BOMBING
'a previously unknown Pakistan group called Al-Qanoon says it carried out the ... attack ...'
(BBC Ceefax, p.106)
Al-Qaeda, al-Qarea, al-Qanoon ... There's a little man (or woman, we musn't be sexist) in CIAgitprop running his finger over the "Qa's" in his Arabic ABC book ...
(For 'al-Qarea', see 2001 Diary, under 22 Dec.)
POTTER'S BAR CRASH — RAIL WORKERS SOUGHT
'British Transport Police are trying to trace five "mystery" railway workers seen on the track about four-and-a-half hours before the Potters Bar rail crash.
'Maintenance firm Jarvis has said none of its staff was there at the time.
'Seven people died [in the crash] on May 10 [2002].
'Preliminary investigations revealed the crash may have been caused by loose nuts on a nearby set of points.'
(BBC Ceefax, 14 June 02, p.113)
Jarvis has previously suggested sabotage as the reason for the crash, probably to divert attention from shoddy maintenance. The company hasn't yet suggested al-Qaeda, but (inspired by the US cabal's catch-all, blame-all bogeyman) they might do so any day now.
We are degenerating to the level of Stalin's Russia, where blame for accidents (due to shoddy workmanship) was routinely placed on counter-revolutionary saboteurs backed by hostile foreign (in this case Western 'imperialist') agents.
16 June 02
Tens of thousands have demonstrated against President Chavez in Venezuela's capital Caracas. Rumours that another military coup is in the offing have been spread in opposition emails. (BBC World Service news at 1 a.m.)
'CIA "POWERS BOOSTED" TO TAKE ON SADDAM
'President George Bush has authorised the CIA to use lethal force to capture Saddam Hussein or to kill him in self defence, [!] a US newspaper has reported.
'The CIA has been given extra powers for covert operations aimed at removing the Iraqi leader, the Washington Post said. [See below for refs.]
This includes the use of small special forces teams inside Iraq, it said.
'A CIA source was quoted as saying such action would be mainly preparation for a full-scale military attack.'
(BBC Ceefax, 16 June 02, p.113)
See 'President Broadens Anti-Hussein Order', Washington Post, 16 June 2002, p.A01;
cf. '[Capitol] Hill Leaders Back Bush Order on Hussein', Washington Post, 17 June 2002, p.A13.
17 June 02
SADDAM A MAJOR THREAT TO WORLD — US
'US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said that Saddam Hussein poses a greater threat to the world with each day that he remains as President.
'Iraq was still developing weapons of mass destruction, he said. ...
'Iraq responded saying the US has been conspiring against Baghdad for 30 years.'
(BBC Ceefax, p.110)
They'll huff and they'll puff; but they won't bring Hussein's house down by hot air alone. Still, it keeps the military-industrial complex in business. But sooner or later the cabal will have to cut the crap and do something, if it wants to stay credible. I'd prefer that it was incredible; a broken-down Little Stalin By The Oilfields is preferable (for all except Iraqis) to a world-guzzling Big Brother version in Washington.
Dan Eggen (in his article 'Ashcroft's High Profile, Motives Raise White House Concerns', Washington Post, 17 April 2002, p.A04) makes some notable if relatively mild criticisms of this key cabal officer. Some extracts (emphasis is mine throughout):-
'The series of dire announcements last Monday about the alleged "dirty bomb" plot began, as these things often do, with Attorney General John D. Ashcroft.
'Peering grimly into a Russian camera and bathed in an eerie red glow, Ashcroft broke away from meetings in Moscow to announce that the United States had "disrupted an unfolding terrorist plot" that could have caused "mass death and injury."
'Only after Ashcroft's initial statement did Americans learn that Jose Padilla, arrested on May 8, was alleged to be merely in the initial planning stages of a plot and would not be charged with any crime. His research on radiological weapons, U.S. officials said, consisted largely of surfing the Internet.
'The handling of the announcement earned Ashcroft a rare rebuke in the form of leaks from the White House -- where surprised aides viewed his remarks as alarmist -- and crystallized an issue that has simmered for months in the Bush administration and the Justice Department.
'Is Ashcroft's profile too high? [Eggen phrases this question diplomatically!]
'"The idea has been for the attorney general to be the bull's-eye for the administration, where he's doing things for the administration and he's willing to take the heat," said an administration official. "But the complaint is that he tends to announce every little thing. --- It's not clear whether that should continue."
'In the Bush administration's war on terrorism, Ashcroft has served as the de facto minister of fear, issuing dire warnings of terrorist threats and announcing stringent new security measures with whirlwind frequency.
...
'But Ashcroft's consistently high visibility ... has increasingly troubled some aides in the White House and other parts of the administration, who fear the attorney general is stealing attention from President Bush, several sources said.
...
'Ashcroft's visibility has also fed speculation, denied by aides, that he is eyeing another run for [presidential] office. ...'
'ARAFAT SLAMS ISRAELI FENCE [not literally, I hope for the old guy's own sake!]
'Yasser Arafat has blasted Israel for erecting a £300m electric fence along the West Bank border to keep out Palestinian suicide bombers.
'He also said US security adviser Condoleeza Rice should not dictate the shape of a future Palestinian state.
'Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres later said such a state could start operating within eight weeks.'
(ITV Teletext, 17 June 02, p.311)
'ISRAEL WORRIED BY CHEMICAL WAR THREAT
'Commentators in Israel have expressed concern at a reported threat by Hamas ... to use chemical weapons in attacks on Israel.
'Israeli TV quoted a Hamas statement as saying when problems with the chemical bombs had been tackled, "the gates will be opened to develop suicide attacks".
'Political commentator Ehud Ya'ari told the TV Hamas had already tried to use cyanide and rat poison in attacks. [Cf. above, under 5 June, the claims of Israel's military intelligence chief.]
'But this specific threat of chemical bombs "calls for a response", he said.'
(BBC Ceefax, 17 June 02, p.143)
The Israeli 'cabal' mimics its US counterpart with its own diddy version of terror-warning terrorism, in respect to 'weapons of small-mass destruction'.
The US cabal still strives to pick a fight with China. It failed to do so with its first couple of attempts: that plane given to the Chinese leader with 27 bugs -- before the Chinese stopped counting; and the cabal probably had their fingers in the incident where a North Korean 'fishing boat' was machine-gunned out of the water by the Japanese 'coastguard'. The Third Way is to exploit the wave of North Korean defections to various embassies in China. Chinese police have apparently illegally pursued defectors into embassy compounds, committing great international outrages in the process, such as tearing one diplomat's jacket, and bruising another's nose, or something of the sort. The US has expressed its interest in this matter.
18 June 02
'A suicide bomber has killed 19 people and injured more than 40 in an attack on a Jerusalem bus ...' (ITV Teletext, p.303)
By another 'neat coincidence',
'BUSH TO "PROPOSE PALESTINIAN FRAMEWORK" ... It is likely to recommend moving beyond Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority.' (BBC Ceefax, 18 June 02, p.109)
'AL-QAEDA SUSPECTS ARRESTED [in Saudi Arabia]
'Saudi Arabia has arrested a number of men suspected of planning al-Qaeda terror attacks in the kingdom.
'Among them is a Sudanese man suspected of being a cell leader who claimed to have fired a missile at a US warplane at a Saudi air base.
'The interior ministry was quoted as saying several Saudis, a Sudanese and an Iraqi national have been arrested.'
(ITV Teletext, 18 June 02, p.307)
Nice of the Saudis to co-operate in cutting their own throats.
'"SNOOPERS' CHARTER" POSTPONED [in Britain]
'Plans to widen access to private phone calls and e-mails have been shelved as Home Secretary David Blunkett said his department "blundered" on the issue.
'Critics who named the plan a "snoopers' charter" will be consulted in the hope of reaching consensus before proposals return to Parliament, he said.
'The Lib-Dems [Liberal Democrats] called it a "humiliating climbdown" for Mr Blunkett.'
(ITV Teletext, 18 June 02, p.307)
Israeli right-wingers, as well as Palestinians, are unhappy about the new 'Great Wall' being erected to separate Israel and the West Bank, which both sides say will isolate them. It is promoted by Israeli government 'moderates' from the Labour Party.
The Israelis can (and no doubt have in mind to) prevent this 'symmetry' by subdividing the West Bank with internal fencing. A start has already been made in Gaza, which was already surrounded by a security fence; now it has been cut in half by a further fence.
As the 'conventional warfare' British finally beat the 'guerrilla' Boers by 'sectioning up' their entire land with a network of barbed-wire fences, so the Israelis may do the same to the Palestinians. They may drive the population into a series of concentration camps, as the British did the Boers, perhaps to be accompanied or followed by ethnic cleansing (said to now be acceptable to many Israelis).
And it's just three years since the West nobly fought against this very thing in Kosovo. Now, with the hard right in power, America may tacitly support their strategic allies the Israelis in this very thing.
US Attorney General Ashcroft is now using the War of Terror to attack 'opposition lawyers'. Lynne Stewart, lawyer for the 'Blind Sheikh' (acquitted of Sadat's assassination, etc). She's being prosecuted for remarks with her client picked up by FBI bugging. (BBC Newsnight, 18 June 02)
19 June 02
'ISRAEL TO RE-TAKE TERRITORY
'Israel is to retake parts of the West Bank and hold them for as long as terror attacks continue, its government says.
'Israel now plans [to] respond to terrorism by "capturing Palestinian Authority territory. These areas will be held by Israel as long as terror continues". ...'
(ITV Teletext at 1:30 a.m. BST, p.303)
This policy is not new of course; the Israeli's established technique is to generate such attacks to provide a pretext for the gradual conquest and ruin of the Palestinians.
This 'gradualism' is of course much too slow for the US cabal, who hoped to conquer (with initial help from its allies and minions) the entire world within a couple of years. This was never, I suppose, realistic. But it represents the spirit — the evil spirit — of this fundamental turning-point in the history of the Western Civilization — the victory of force-politics over money, with (in this case) an accompanying rapid world-empire-formation.
'At least seven people have been killed and dozens injured in a Palestinian suicide attack in Jerusalem, Israeli officials have said. ...
'Yasser Arafat called for a "complete halt" to attacks on Israeli citizens.'
(BBC Ceefax, p.104)
Poor old codger.
'LATEST BOMBING DELAYS BUSH PEACE PLAN ...'
No!
'Sept. 11 Plot Likely Hatched in '98, Tenet Says', Washington Post, 19 June 2002, p.A10
Yes, and by him and his.
'Homeland Security Dept. Could Receive Raw FBI, CIA Data; Bush Still Opposes Merging FBI', Washington Post, 19 June 2002, p.A08
extract:- 'Although some members of Congress are exploring the idea of moving the FBI into the new department, the [unnamed] White House official said that Bush believes "the organizational integrity of the FBI needs to be maintained."'
Has Bush learned the gentle art of being seen to oppose the measures he really supports, and making it seem that they are being pushed on him from elsewhere? Or at least, his puppet-masters are familiar with this technique. Cf. above, 6 June: Bush was then said to have 'reluctantly' accepted proposals from Congress to soup up Homeland Security into a Department.
'Senators slam U.S. agency [NSA] on lapses', miami.com (Miami Herald online), posted 19 June 2002.
20 June 02
'TERROR ATTACK MESSAGES "NOT TRANSLATED"
'Two messages intercepted by US agents [the National Security Agency (NSA)] on September 10 could have suggested a major event was taking place the next day, reports have claimed.
'The messages, which were in Arabic, were not translated until September 12, sources told the Washington Post. [Shades of Pearl Harbor!]
They allegedly said: "The match is about to begin" and "tomorrow is zero hour", the newspaper claimed.
'Officials said the messages would not have provided enough information.'
(BBC Ceefax, p.113)
The 'football' message could have been inspired by the soccer world cup on now, a fact not so painfully obvious to Americans as it is to the British nation of soccer fanatics. (The American soccer team had just beaten Mexico, to reach a level 'unmatched' since before WW2 — an event which many Americans may still not have taken notice of.)
'SIX KILLED IN WEST BANK GUNMEN ATTACK
'... including three children and their mother ...
'... In Itamar, near the City of Nablus, ...
'The militant Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said they had carried out the attack.'
(Ibid., p.104)
'Thousands of Palestinians have been arrested in areas including Bethlehem, Jenin, Deheisheh refugee camp and Betounia since the attacks'; 'In Jenin, Israeli forces rounded up 2,500 Palestinian men and boys for questioning'. (Ibid., p.105; ITV Teletext, 20 June 02, p.307)
'Germany's Frankfurter Rundschau says the US's latest action in detaining a German al-Qaeda suspect in Syria is further proof it has "lost all sense of moderation".
'Contrary to international law, the German authorities were not informed US investigators were questioning him.
'"It could hardly be made clearer that in its fight against al-Qaeda the US is destroying what it is supposed to protect — freedom, human rights, the law-based state," the paper concludes.'
(BBC Ceefax, 20 June 02, p.147)
21 June 02
'FOUR KILLED IN WEST BANK
'Three Palestinian children were among four people who died when Israeli tanks and troops broke combat rules and fired on civilians in a West Bank market. [A teacher was reported to be the fourth. Two tank shells and a heavy machine-gun were fired into the crowd.]
'The victims in Jenin wrongly thought an army curfew had been lifted, and they left their homes to look for food.
'The army denied the curfew was lifted, but said an initial inquiry "indicates that the force erred in its action".'
(ITV Teletext, p.306)
This is clearly a tit-for-tat reprisal for the mother and her three children killed in a West Bank Jewish settlement yesterday. Though the Western media have so far reported the Israeli version of events without uncritically.
Revenge is a potent control mechanism, for individuals and societies geared to it. This is why suicide pilots are a more reliable device than computer/remote-controlled aircraft, for example. (But we've only got the FBI's word for the 19.)
'FBI IN NEW TERROR WARNING
'The FBI has told security agencies throughout the USA to be on the lookout for terrorists who may use fuel takers to attack Jewish schools or synagogues.
'The warning is not based on a specific threat — to a place or time — but interviews with captured al-Qaeda and Taleban fighters, officials said.
'Last month a gas truck was blown up near a synagogue in Tunisia.'
(ITV Teletext, 21 June 02, p.310)
--not to mention a fuel tanker which blew up in Afghanistan a couple of days ago, originally said to be a terrorist attack, but afterwards played down.
This will help galvanize Jews and Israelis in support of the cabalistic cause.
22 June 02
'GUARDIAN[:] [British] Security and police sources believe the break-in at Castlereagh complex in Belfast was an "inside job".' (ITV Teletext, p.326)
British-born militant Omar Sheikh, accused of kidnapping and murdering US journalist Daniel Pearl, said in a Pakistani court yesterday that 'the evidence against him had been fabricated "in order to please America", ... that a video delivered to the US consulate of Pearl's killing by hidden assailants was a fake ... and said that his three co-defendants ... had been tortured to extract confessions.'
('Pearl case faked, says Briton', The Times (London), 22 June 2002, p.18)
23 June 02
'AL-QAEDA BEHIND TUNISIA ATTACK — REPORT
'An al-Qaeda spokesman ['Sulaiman Abu Ghaith'] has reportedly claimed the group was behind an attack on a synagogue in Tunisia.
'Arabic TV station al-Jazeera [in Qatar] broadcast an audio tape of what it said was the spokesman saying al-Qaeda carried out the attack, in which 19 people died.
'The man also denied Osama bin Laden had been killed, saying he planned to make a television appearance soon.
'The recording also reiterated threats to attack US targets.'
(BBC Ceefax, p.106)
The Tunisian 'attack' was a fuel-truck explosion outside a synagogue. The al-Jazeera report is evidently co-ordinated with the FBI's latest 'terror-warning' that fuel tankers may be used to attack synagogues, etc. (The FBI say they got their information from Taleban and al-Qaeda prisoners.) Is this a case of al-Qaeda jumping on the bandwagon or of an agitprop campaign with a common origin? I'll leave the judgement as an exercise for the reader.
In claiming bin Laden is alive, the 'al-Qaeda spokesman' follows the recent US government trend to state the same. Another instance of common origin? (Another reader exercise.) Perhaps Osama will be a surprise guest on the Larry King show.
'ANTHRAX IN LETTERS "WAS FRESH"
'Scientists say anthrax sent through the US mail last year was less than two years old, implying whoever sent the germs could make more, a report says.
'The age of the strain that killed five people gives credence to the idea that the person who sent anthrax letters is connected to a microbiology lab.
'A government official speaking off the record said it could be grown again.'
(ITV Teletext, 23 June 02, p.310)
Aside from the US government's established routine of scaring the population (and they're used to it, so it doesn't any more). The first investigations into the anthrax attacks seemed to be genuine, for the reason that it was homing in on army and CIA sources. But cabal-man Mueller has by now (presumably) brought the FBI sufficiently to (his criminal) heal to queer the investigation, divert it into blind alleys. But there isn't sufficient evidence given in the above report to pronounce on this for sure.
'IRAN DENIES AL-QAEDA SANCTUARY CLAIMS
'The Iranian ministry has denied several US accusations that Tehran has been al-Qaeda activists.
'Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Iran had expelled anyone suspected of links with al-Qaeda, and that the US had no documents to prove the contrary.
'US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the US envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmy Khalizad, have both said recently that Iran has allowed in al-Qaeda fighters.
'They said the fighters had fled during the US campaign against the Taleban.'
(BBC Ceefax, 23 June 02, p.143)
The US cabal has probably installed into its targets of conquest a set of ambassadors who are directed agents of its preparatory psywar, who may be of the ethnic background of the targets and thus having a more intimate knowledge of them. The embassies may be becoming (or may have already become) bases of the platoons of agents required for the prior undermining of the targets' key structures -- as Soviet embassies had been in their targets during the Cold War.
'BOMB FAMILIES MAY BE DEPORTED
'Israel is considering the possibility of deporting families of Palestinian suicide bombers from the West Bank, according to a Cabinet member.
'Cabinet Secretary Gideon Saar said: "The terror of suicide bombers ... obligates the use of unconventional means."
'But Mr Saar said Israel would not act unless the action was deemed to be legally justifiable by the courts.'
(ITV Teletext, 23 June 02, p.316)
'SAUDI ARABIA[:] One person was killed and several injured when a ship with 896 people on board caught fire shortly after leaving the Red Sea port of Diba.' (ITV Teletext, 23 June 02, p.318)
24 June 02
'Al-Qaeda appears to be regrouping as a lethal threat — with or without Osama bin Laden — US Congress leaders said.
'Lawmakers cited a bin Laden spokesman [see above, 23 June] to stress the continuing danger from terrorists chased from Afghanistan.
'They seem to be more capable of attacks than they were a month or two ago, said Bob Graham, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.'
(ITV Teletext, 24 June 02, p.303)
This is bad news. The al-Jazeera TV (of Qatar) report yesterday is evidently part of the US cabalistic agitprop campaign. Graham is a Democrat. Have some Congressional Democrats thrown in their lot with the cabal's empire-building campaign?
Israeli tanks have surrounded Arafat's compound. (BBC Ceefax, 24 June 02 at 2:50 a.m, p.107)
The Israeli military leadership (including military intelligence) seems to be the real policy-making driving-force now. (Subject to the will of their cabalistic Elder Brothers in the USA, of course.) Will they be satisfied to keep Sharon as a front-man? Or will turn out in the end too much of a pinko for them, perhaps to be replaced by Netenyahu — or an overt military figure?
Two forest fires in Arizona have merged into a 50-mile front. 'Forest fires are also raging in Utah, Colorado [where the threat to Denver has apparently passed], California and New Mexico.' (Ibid., p.114)
--The situation is unprecedented. Little rain has fallen.
Meanwhile, the assault on the US Catholic Church continues apace, with talk of criminal charges against Cardinal Law, accused of shifting paedophile priests from parish to parish.
'BUSH CALLS FOR NEW PALESTINIAN LEADERS
'President Bush has backed the creation of a provisional Palestinian state, but said a "new and different leadership" must be found first.
'The US would support a state when the Palestinian people had "new leaders, new institutions and new security arrangements" with their leaders.
'He called on them to elect new leaders not compromised by terror". [Guided democracy?]
'Mr Bush was outlining his long-awaited strategy for peace in the Middle East.'
(BBC Ceefax, 24 June at 9 p.m. BST, p.104)
'... Senior [US] officials said Palestinians may get provisional statehood within 18 months and full permanent statehood in as soon as three years. ...' (ITV Teletext, 24 June 02, p.304)
Just like the Nazis were planning a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
If the American cabal can provoke war with the Arab countries over ethnic cleansing of Palestine, they will have an excuse to go in on the Israelis' side and conquer the Arabs. (One among their various irons-in-the-fire schemes.) A problem with this is that the Israelis have always been able to give a good solo account of themselves in conflicts with the Arabs. (But this is in large part because of America's massive military aid to them.)
'TANZANIAN CRASH DEATH TOLL PUT AT 200
'... as two trains collided in a remote area of central Tanzania, officials say.
Railway officials said a passenger train was climbing a steep hill when a mechanical failure caused it to roll backwards into an oncoming cargo train. ...'
(BBC Ceefax, 24 June 02, p.115)
25 June 02
'POLICE ALARM OVER UK'S ROLE IN AL-QAEDA
'Police are increasingly concerned about Britain's role in the development of al-Qaeda, Scotland Yard's top anti-terrorist officer has said.
'Assistant Commissioner David Veness said he did not believe the September 11 attacks were mounted in the UK.
'But he added that logistical support appeared to have come from Britain.
'And he said he wanted to find "tens" of people who were untraced after leaving the UK for Afghanistan.'
(BBC Ceefax, p.111)
The British police's concerns are presumably based on 'information' stemming (directly or indirectly) from the CIA, or perhaps from the FBI (now that that body's cabal-puppetization is more advanced).
Such techniques have already been used to conquer Afghanistan, to browbeat, menace and subvert further targets of conquest (e.g. Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Colombia, Venezuela — components of the US cabal's projected oil empire). The next stage of world empire already hovers on the horizon. Germany is supposed to have been a central host in the immediate planning of the Sept. 11 attacks; other West European countries also 'bear the fatal taint of al-Qaeda infection'. Their large Muslim immigrant populations provide the perfect excuse for pressure and/or action from the cabal to pressurize these countries, initially into servility, then into puppetdom, finally into direct administration ... by an American emperor?
'Bush has declared parts of Arizona a disaster area' because of the forest fires. (ITV Teletext, p.312)
26 June 02
'HEED BUSH'S CALL, US TELLS MIDDLE EAST
'The US has appealed to Middle Eastern states to heed President Bush's peace plan, including a change of leadership for the Palestinians.
'The plan is the best hope for the Palestinians, spokesman Ari Fleischer said on the way to the G8 summit.
'He also[!] stressed US support for a provisional Palestinian state.
'Mr Bush is worried about the viability of Israel unless a Palestinian state is created, said Mr Fleischer. [My emphasis]'
(BBC Ceefax, p.107)
This is the US cabal's key to the western flank of the Middle-eastern oilfields. Support Israel against (the manufactured, deliberately raked-up) Arab crisis. The cabal hopes that the rest of the Arabs will prove as 'unregenerate' as the Palestinians. And then — in like Flynn.
'Al Qaeda Tape Likely Real, U.S. Says', Washington Post, 26 June 2002, p.A18.
Yep, Johnnie Cabal is trying to benefit from the broadcast (by al-Jazeera TV in Qatar) — and is likely responsible for it in the first place. See above, under 23 and 24 June.
'A decade after his father alienated Jewish voters and paid the ultimate political price, President Bush demonstrated how far the Republican party has moved toward Israel. ...
'Jewish voters ... make up only 2 per cent of the [US] national electorate, but wield influence far beyond their numbers in campaign and vocality. ...
[various tactical and sympathetic reasons given for the pro-Jewish and Israeli turnabout of the last 10 years]
'... Florida, a state where elderly Jewish voters are particularly active. [Florida was the cliffhanger state in the 2000 presidential election.] ...
'Conservative Republicans like Congressman Tom DeLay, who was once considered on the extreme fringes of the party but is now a rising star, are very pro-Israeli and increasingly reflect the views of the majority of the Republican Party.
'"People who were once considered strident Republicans now own the party. The James Bakers [Bush senior's Secretary of State] are not important anymore," Ms Pletka said. ...
(from 'Influential US Jews like what they hear', The Times (London), 26 June 2002, p.5)
A number of turnabouts have occurred to the right-wing American party in the last decade, making it more suited as an agent of the emerging imperial role of the Rome of the Western Civilization. At the end of the Cold War it abandoned its previous hardline stance to become isolationist. This has since reversed again, this time to a purely opportunist 'world-as-spoil' mentality. At the same time the more extreme type of ('conservative') Republicanism has become the dominant trend in the party. Their is an 'imperial' advantage to pro-Judaism, too, since Israel is a key tool in the American right's Middle-eastern oil imperialism.
Stanley Hilton, a former aide to Senator Bob Dole, is suing the US administration for 'allowing' the Sept. 11 attacks to happen (the San Francisco Examiner reported on 11 June 02).
27 June 02
San Francisco appeals court judges have declared the oath of allegiance, recited by schoolchildren every morning in nine US states, to be 'unconstitutional', because it pledges loyalty to the USA 'under God', which the court ruled broke the rule of separation of church and state.
Needless to say, this has resulted in a great bru-ha-ha, with senators reciting the pledge, cross-hearted, on the Capitol steps, etc etc. The US government is expected to appeal against the ruling.
'US MILITARY AIRCRAFT IN DEATH CRASH
'a US military aircraft has crashed in a wooded region of eastern France, killing at least one person on board.
'The plane, a single-seat A-1_ "warthog" anti-tank aircraft, crashed in the Vosges region, near the town of Rambervilliers.
'French regional officials said two people died but the US Air Force said only one person had been on board.
'It was not known why the plane was over eastern France or why it crashed.'
(BBC Ceefax, 27 June 02, p.111)
ABC News reports that the FBI is 'very interested' in a report by a government scientist, produced in 1999, which describes how a terrorist should carry out anthrax attacks. It is said to fit in detail the pattern of the actual attacks (e.g. the quantity of powder in each mail packet should be not more than 2.5 grams so that the packet won't look suspiciously bulky). The scientist's home was searched on Tuesday (25 June). The scientist's name begins with 'H' (you must excuse my non-photographic memory here); the name Patrick William [must be 'Patrick, William'] also appeared on printed papers shown in the report.
--William Patrick's report, dated Feb. 19999, detailed scenarios for potential terrorist anthrax mail attacks, and 'He predicted that an envelope would hold 2.5 grams of anthrax, an amount strikingly close to what is thought to have been mailed to Senator Daschle'. (New York Times, 3 Dec. 2001)
So knowledge of the report is nothing new. It must be the latest scientist's name ('H...') that's new. [Steve Hatfill.]
William Capers Patrick III himself was interviewed for BBC Newsnight on 14 March 2002. He denies being the author of the report, or being behind the attacks ('I'm an American patriot'), but admits he could have known the person who was.
It may be a case of, 'OK, boys, who's gonna be a hero and take the fall for us?' This one will have to be the 'inadequate loner'.
28 June 02
'The Israeli army has stormed the Palestinian Authority's police base in Hebron, according to witnesses. ...' (BBC Ceefax, p.109)
The Israelis have now demolished it with explosives. (Ceefax, Teletext at 3:30 a.m. BST)
'KOREAN WARSHIPS EXCHANGE FIRE
'Four south Korean sailors have died and 18 have been wounded as warships from North and South Korea briefly exchanged gunfire near the western border.
'One South Korean ship was sunk and a North Korean ship was engulfed in fire during the gun battle in the Yellow Sea ...
'Two North Korean ships had briefly crossed the disputed maritime border.'
(ITV Teletext, 29 June 02, p.304)
The US cabal may well be encouraging the Japanese and South Koreans to stage incidents with North Korea so as to bring about war with it. Last December Japan machine-gunned a North Korean fishing boat out of the water (see Diary, 2001, under 26 Dec.).
'Ruling Extends Courts' Reach in Terrorism Lawsuits'
(Washington Post, 29 June 2002, p.A09)
extracts:-
'A federal appeals court ruled yesterday the U.S. courts have jurisdiction over nations accused of terrorist acts against Americans on foreign soil, rejecting Libya's contention that the Constitution bars such claims.
'The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit establishes for the first time that foreign nations may not invoke the Fifth Amendment's due process clause to protect themselves from lawsuits filed by U.S. citizens.
'"We hold that the Fifth Amendment poses no obstacle to the decision of the United States government to subject Libya to personal jurisdiction in the federal courts," Judge Harry T. Edwards wrote in a 27-page opinion, with Judge David B. Sentelle and Senior Judge Laurence H. Silberman concurring.
'Libya had argued that a key part of the Fifth Amendment -- which says that "no person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law" -- applied to foreign nations. Libya also said no "minimum contract" had been established between the U.S. federal courts and the northern African nation, meaning that the court lacked jurisdiction.
'The appelate panel rejected both arguments in the first such case to be argued in the U.S. courts.
...
'Nations traditionally have been immune from lawsuits under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. But in 1996, Congress passed an exception for nations found to be sponsors of international terrorism, opening a new branch of law and paving the way for several dozen lawsuits filed on behalf of U.S. citizens killed or injured by terrorist acts.
'The nations most targeted for lawsuits -- Iran, Iraq, Libya and Cuba -- seldom respond. ...'
By arrogating American jurisdiction to the non-American world, the US judiciary has given legal status to the new American drive of world empire building. The ruling is specifically in regard to terrorist actions, but it constitutes a breach in the dyke of the sovereignty of non-American nations. It may be aimed, at the moment, at the oil cabal's immediate targets of conquest -- the 'axis of evil'; but this is elastic and potentially ever expanding (North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Cuba, ?Venezuela ...)
The ruling continues a trend already established by the presidential decree on military tribunals, issued on 13 Nov. 2001. Section 2 of the decree specifies that anyone who is not a US citizen, and who is determined by President Bush to have been involved in 'international terrorism' against the interests of the US, is subject to the decree, i.e. to a military tribunal. Section 7 (b) arrogates superior jurisdiction to the military tribunals over all other world authorities (excluding the US president). It may be fairly remarked that the 'authority' of the decree extends over the large majority of the world's population.
Thus, in this legalistic way too, the 'War Against Terror' is an instrument of world conquest.
30 June 02
North Korea has 'angrily' rejected the South's claim that it provoked the Yellow Sea incident, and called the South's demand for an apology 'gross impudence'. The North says it was a brazen attempt by the south to undermine relations during the soccer World cup (hosted jointly by South Korea and Japan).
'North Korea has [also] rejected an appeal by the UN for talks to try to defuse the mounting tension with South Korea.'
(BBC Ceefax, p.104)
'ID CARDS "FACE CROSS-PARTY OPPOSITION" [in Britain]
'Backbenchers from all parties will oppose the introduction of ID cards, the Home Secretary has been warned.
'Labour commons Home Affairs Select Committee member David Winnick said the "entitlement" card for benefit claimants would be "a retrograde step".
'"Since 1952 we have managed successfully in peacetime conditions not to have such a decision," he said.
'Former Tory [Conservative] Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley earlier condemned the plan.'
(Ibid., p.106)
It may be the US cabal's intention to make Britain a laboratory for the conversion of a democracy into a police state, an experiment in which the British government seems only too willing to participate.
'US VETOS RENEWAL OF UN BOSNIA MISSION
'The US has vetoed a United Nations resolution to extend peacekeeping operations in Bosnia.
'The US's use of its veto follows a UN Security Council refusal to exempt US peacekeepers from prosecution by the new International War Crimes Tribunal. ...
'Almost all the other 14 council members voted to extend the mandate.'
(BBC Ceefax, 30 June 02, p.110)