3 November 2006
Israeli forces, continuing their operation in the northern Gaza Strip, opened fire on a "human-shield" group of Palestinian women and children, killing two. The group was protecting armed militants in a mosque, who got away.
Israel said there were armed men among the women. Some may have disguised themselves as women.
5 November 06
The Iraqi tribunal trying former dictator Saddam Hussein has sentenced him to death by hanging. He has thirty days to appeal.
I look forward to they day when Henry Kissinger, George Tenet, Cofer Black, Dick Cheney et al are on trial regarding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks — the foundation-stone of the now-foundering petro-imperialism.
6 November 06
The Inner London Court has heard how Dhiren Barot, a "leading Qaeda figure", planned exploding limousines and dirty bombs in London. Barot has pleaded guilty.
A Hindu convert to Islam, Barot became a trainer in Afghan/Kashmiri terror camps. He originally planned to blow financial targets on the US east coast, but switched his focus to London after 9/11. When he told his masters his plans, he was arrested.
Perhaps because his masters were the US and UK "security"/intelligence services.
The spoonerization of Borat makes the whole thing an open joke ...
(Duncan Gardham, "The British fanatic who plotted to kill thousands", Daily Telegraph (UK), 7 November 06, pp.1, 2)
Born in Gujarat, India (next to Pakistan), parents moved to Britain in 1972 when he was 1. Converted to Islam, was trainer in Kashmir in 1990s, probably met KSM, in Sept. 1999 went to Philippines "to be trained in firearms, munitions and explosives handling (so what was he teaching in Kashmir?)
'American intelligence sources believe he met the al-Qa'eda planner Hambali in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, just as the September 11 attacks were being finalised.
'Barot travelled to Karachi in January 2000 and the Americans say he went from there to Kuala Lumpur [and so "hot-on-the-heels" of Nawaf al-Hazmi] with Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard Walid bin Attash, known as "Khallad".
'It is also possible that he met two of the men who were to become hijackers on September 11, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, who were meeting Hambali in Kuala Lumpur around the same time [viz., early in Jan. 2000].
'Hambali, who is in American custody [by which the Telegraph conveys that he was the guest of CIA torture-interrogations] has said he gave Barot contact addresses in California and South Africa and the California address may well have been the one used a few months later by the two hijackers. [See "The Core Hijackers".]'
(Ibid, pp. ...)
Thus "Barot" appears part of the key CIA conspiracy-conjuncture of late 1999/early 2000.
Did Barot actually kill anyone? Did we hear a word from him spoken at his trial, apart from "Guilty"? ...
7 November 06
Dhiren Barot has been sentenced to forty years.
8 November 06
Eighteen Palestinians have been killed in Beit Hanoun, n. Gaza Strip, including 13 members of the same family, by Israeli artillery.
Hamas
In the US congressional mid-term elections, the Democrats have won control of the House of Representatives, and the Senate is in the balance.
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigned.
In the UK, three men have been found guilty of a racially-motivated murder.
Well, ... No ...
The three perpetrators are "Asian", i.e. ethnic Indian, and the victim, Kriss Donald, was white.
9 November 06
With its petro-imperialist policy in apparent meltdown,
The Evil Empire's British minions strike back ...
Evil agitpropnitsa Eliza Manningham-Buller, MI5's spokeswoman, recited the dangers of homegrown chemical, biological and nuclear Islamist terrorism. MI5, she says, has thwarted five plots since the London Underground bombings of 7 July 2005; about thirty more are being monitored. About 200 dangerous groups and 1,600 individuals are being tracked, many of them British; the danger from radicalized young Muslims (echoing her American masters) will last a generation.
Nick Griffin, head of the extreme-right British National Party, has been found not guilty of inciting racial hatred. In a pub speech of 2004, covertly recorded by BBC reporters, he called Islam a "wicked and vicious faith", and called Britain a multi-racial hellhole.
12 November 06
Four British soldiers killed and three seriously injured in an "improvised-explosive-device" (IED) attack on a patrol boat on the Shatt-al-Arab waterway "in Basra". The bomb exploded on the bank as the patrol went past.
Elsewhere in Iraq, over fifty people died in violence, including about 35 queueing for work in Baghdad. 1,600 bodies came into the Baghdad morgue in October.
(BBC TV news, 12 November 06)
13 November 06
"Fifth anniversary" of Afghan invasion. British Channel 4 News doing a week of special reports from Afghanistan. Today broadcast interview with NATO commander there, Lieutenant-Colonel David Richards, claiming the troops have taught the Taliban a lesson and are still popular. Contradicted by mass killings of people (same report), and BBC TV news's reports of ongoing "heavy fighting".
Blair says something about Iran and Syria in London speech. Tomorrow to talk to America by videophone.
14 November 06
In Baghdad, over one hundred staff have been kidnapped from the Ministry of Higher Education by "men dressed in police uniforms". People from top officials to cleaners were put in handcuffs and taken away. Seven policemen were later arrested in connection.
How much of the terror, how many of the mass killings are due to the US puppet state?
Mansoor Khan, the biggest opium businessman in Afghanistan, appeared on British Channel 4 News.
Helmand province produces 20 percent of the world's opium.
BBC Newsnight reports on the "radicalizing" activities of Hizb ut Tahrir in the UK. The group "Vigil" investigated the online activities of Omar Bakri Mohammed, banned from Britain and now in Lebanon, but now running an "online mosque" ...
A group of lawyers in Germany is attempting to bring former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former CIA chief George Tenet, and several other figures, to justice over the use of torture in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.
The largest mosque in Wales, in Cathays, Cardiff, has been gutted in an evident arson attack. South Wales police, who arrested one man and are looking for another "Asian", say the attack probably wasn't racially motivated.
The mosque was a converted warehouse, and a purpose-built mosque was to replace it.
16 November 06
BBC Newsnight devoted its whole programme tonight to the story of "Omar Nasiri" (as Newsnight itself cover-named him), a jointly-run British-French intelligence recruit in al-Qaeda in the later 1990s. "Nasiri" first worked with the Algerian GIA, filched the equivalent of about £500 from them, then went to intelligence to protect himself (thus making him a poor man's Jamal al-Fadl). He was sent to Qaeda's training camps in Afghanistan, where he enjoyed himself with religious and arms training.
Also commenting in the programme was Mike Scheuer, head of the CIA's bin Laden unit 1996-99. Perhaps his most sincere remark was that Qaeda training programmes were based on those of US and UK special forces. He also reiterated the drivel that the US had been lured into Iraq by Qaeda disinformation, in the shape of "an al-Libi claim" that Saddam's regime had colluded with Qaeda in producing WMD.
To call this insult to injury is wholly inadequate. As Newsnight itself revealed last 26 October (see October 2006 diary under that date), after the US invasion of Afghanistan, Al-Libi (as well as others) was interned at Bagram (apparently by the CIA), in boxes the size and shape of coffins, was periodically taken out to be tortured under interrogation, and later became clinically insane. Unlike other Qaeda leaders transferred to Guantanamo, al-Libi has now disappeared. (Incidentally, at least some of this information came from Jack Cloonan, FBI special agent 1977-2002, and Scheuer's deputy in the bin Laden unit.)
Tonight, with breath-taking audacity, Scheuer remarked that data from interrogations may thus be unreliable. Petro-imperialism's weapon-lies, derived in part from CIA torture-interrogations, are now being excused by a further, switcheroo perversion.
But it illustrates once more than in describing Qaeda, the CIA simply put on display their own image in the mirror.
17 November 06
Today we revisited the "Islamist threat from our university campuses" (featured up front in tonight's Newsnight).
MI5 agitpropnitsa Eliza Manningham-Buller has visited the United States.
And, crowning a week of CIAgitprop (see-eye-AYE-jitprop) (in cooperation with their Brit sidekicks),
Al-Jazeera's English-language service got underway today. Its employees include the BBC's Ragi Omar, and Sir David Frost. It kicked off with Frost interviewing UK PM Tony Blair, and Blair agreeing that the Iraq situation was "disastrous". (Downing Street, according to BBC Newsnight, explained that Blair was politely agreeing at this point; he didn't really mean it.)
US troops are mounting a search-and-rescue mission for some Americans (contractors) kidnapped at a "fake" police checkpoint in southern Iraq. The kidnappers wore the same up-to-date and "hard to duplicate" uniforms as those worn by the perpetrators of the recent mass kidapping from the Baghdad university records building (see above, under 14 November 06).
In the latest case, Moqtadr al-Sadr's Shi'ite militia have had the finger pointed at them. ...
(ABC News Tonight, 17 November 06)
US forces have recently begun a "final push" to secure Baghdad (again?!) and tackle hostile forces outside the city. Perhaps the kidnappings have something to do with it ...
20 November 06
BBC Newsnight piece on the assassination of Bobby Kennedy in 1968. Maker points finger at "David Morales" and two other "CIA operatives" seen on 20-minute police film made in convention hall while shooting took place. Morales, who had worked in CIA's Miami station, "hated" President Kennedy over failure to decisively attack the Castro regime. Think Operation Northwoods; Bay of Pigs.
Convicted assassin (still in jail) after forty years. He was standing in front of Bobby Kennedy; Kennedy shot from behind. Morales seen on film leaving with unidentifiable something in his hand. OK, we've seen a load of CIAgitprop (see-eye-AYE-jitprop) on Newsnight (etc) last week. They're making up for it this week. Or are they>
We've seen the one about planting false stories in the media from 2002. ... Very generous of them to announce in advance! Before, of course, reversing their position.
But, wasn't the object of this double exercise to make people doubt true stories that emerge, harmful to the cause of the Black Empire? (And currently, the colour refers as well to oil.)
In what threatens to turn into a fest of "conspiracy assassination", Newsnight also tackles the apparent assassination attempt on Russian spy-defector Alexander Litvinenko critical of Putin regime, and investigating murder of a female Russian journalist (who in turn had been investigating evil doings in Chechnya).
Either L. himself or someone else mentioned in the programme was digging into or criticising the 1999 apartment-block bombings in Russia, used as the pretext to crack down on Chechnya (which in turn boosted Putin's career, enabling him to win the presidential elections)). In one case, two agents of the FSB (the KGB's domestic successor) were caught red-handed planting a bomb, and produced only a feeble cover-story. Film of the aftermath of one bombing was shown on Newsnight: One section of a longer block had been demolished to the ground.
Strengthening the homology with 9/11 two years later. ...
21 November 06
A Lebanese government minister, Pierre Jamael, has been assassinated in a spray of bullets. The minister, a Christian, was killed in a Christian suburb of Beirut.
The hardline US UN ambassador, John Bolton, appears vocally in the media on this issue.
Two million people have left Iraq since the American invasion, because of the violence.
The depopulation of the persian-Gulf oil zone — a practical necessity for securing the fruits of empire — is already under way.
22 November 06
About 150 people killed and hundreds injured in three (or five) coordinated car-bombings of markets in Baghdad's Sadr City, the poor Shi'ite suburb. The bombs went off at 15-minute intervals. Reprisals mortars attacks against a Sunni suburb. "Qaeda" militants are also said to be attacking schools open on Thursdays, as they "want to make Thursday and Friday the weekend in place of Saturday and Sunday". #Thursday night's all right for fighting.# Perhaps it's coz its Thanksgiving. :)
A curfew has been declared in Baghdad; the air- and sea-ports in Basra closed, etc.
And all after the Americans started a special "securing operation" in Baghdad. Secure Iran. Secure Saudi Arabia. Secure special ops from the treason tree.
Qaeda, the CIA/SOCOM facade.
23 November 06
Russian spy-defector Alexander Litvinenko (see above, under 20 November) has died. Doctors treating him in London had said that ("radioactive") thallium wasn't the cause of his poisoning, and they may never know it.
24 November 06
The British Home Secretary, Evil John Reid, announced that Litvinenko was poisoned with a radioactive substance, later said to be polonium 210.
25 November 06
British police will ask Moscow for help with the Litvinenko poisoning.
29 November 06
Iraqi PM Nouri al-Malaki is to meet President Bush in Jordan. Vice-President Cheney, for his part, has visited Saudi Arabia.
In the UK, the News of the World's royal editor Clive Goodman has been convicted of hacking into the voicemail messages of royals and others, including a Liberal-Democrat MP.
Gone are references to hacking government ministers and a military chief, as also to an unnamed 50-year-old man arrested in connection at the same time. A third man, Glenn Mulcaire, an ex-footballer and director of a "crisis management company", was also charged.
The "plot to blow 10 Brit airliners out of the sky" materialized the day after the arrests. I wondered if it was timed to distract attention from what might have been more than a bit of royal hacking.
See August 2006 diary, under 8, 11 and 12 August.
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