1 Oct. 02
'WEAPONS CHECKS DEAL STRUCK
'The chief UN weapons inspector [Hans Blix] and Iraq have struck a tentative deal to allow the hunt for illegal nuclear, chemical and biological weapons to resume.
'But it is unlikely to satisfy George Bush or Tony Blair as Saddam Hussein's representatives refused to allow [unrestricted] access to his vast presidential sites. ...'
(ITV Teletext, p.307)
US officials have said they intend to "thwart" this deal. America could do this by witholding financing. Colin Powell said a new Security Council resolution is needed before the inspectors go back, one with "teeth" to meet obstruction with armed intervention.
'US TO REGISTER MUSLIM, ARAB VISITORS
'The fingerprinting and photographing of thousands of visitors to the US from selected Arab and Muslim countries is to become routine under new regulations.
'Men from countries including Ian Iraq, Libya, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan will be formally registered on arrival.
'They will have 30 days to report where they are living, working or studying.
'The anti-terror measures have angered Arab Americans, who say people will be targeted because of race or religion.'
(BBC Ceefax, 1 Oct. 02, p.142)
3 October 02
'IRAQ COULD ARRANGE "PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE"
'US intelligence has raised fears Saddam Hussein could give a terrorist group chemical or biological weapons as a way of pre-empting any US attack on Iraq.
'An official told the BBC an attack by such a group somewhere would be aimed at distracting attention away from Iraq.
'However, the official did not offer any evidence that such a move was likely.
'The US says it has seen signs of Iraq making new efforts to try to hide its suspected weapons of mass destruction.'
(BBC Ceefax, p.106)
In The Nightmare Years, the American former news reporter, William Shirer, described how the Nazis staged a "Polish" military cross-border attack, and shot German Jews as the victims of the "Poles". This was to be the pretext for an invasion of Poland. Our hero Shirer mercilessly barracks and exposes Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels at a press conference.
Now we have returned to the Nightmare Years, with our former US heroes transformed into the villans.
'The French and German leaders [Chirac and Schroeder] have reaffirmed their opposition to military action in Iraq, after talks in Paris. ...'
'CONGRESS PAVES WAY FOR WAR
'President George Bush has secured the backing of the US Congress for possible military action against Iraq.
'Minority leader Dick Gephardt announced the agreement after a White House breakfast with Mr Bush.
'The deal allows Saddam to be dealt with "diplomatically if we can, militarily if we must" and follows condemnation of a UN deal to resume arms inspections.'
((ITV Teletext, 3 Oct. 02, p.308/1)
'Iraq has dismissed Britain's dossier on its weapons of mass destruction as "empty propaganda".' (Ibid, p.308/2)
'ALLIED JETS HIT IRAQI TARGET
'Allied aircraft launched an airstrike in the southern no-fly zone over Iraq after Iraqi aircraft penetrated the restricted area, US officials said.
'It brought to 45 the number of strikes reported this year by the US and British coalition ...
'Allied planes targeted a mobile radar at Al Kut, 160 miles south of Baghdad.'
(Ibid, p.309)
'Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix has said he is ready to delay a visit to Iraq while the UN Security Council deliberates a new resolution. ...' (BBC Ceefax, 3 Oct. 02, p.104)
'A man has been arrested after shots were fired outside the UN building in New York during a meeting of the Security Council. ..
'Demonstrators opposed to military action had been picketing the building.'
(BBC Ceefax, 3 Oct. 02, p.106)
'BREAKTHROUGH IN [Castlereagh] BURGLARY PROBE
'New evidence has been found to bolster police claims the IRA was involved in a break-in at Special Branch offices in Northern Ireland, it has been revealed.
'It is understood forensic evidence ["fibres ..."] has been obtained as part of a probe into the St Patrick's night theft from the Castlereagh station in East Belfast.
'Files on informers went missing during the raid.'
(ITV Teletext, 3 Oct. 02, p.311)
It has been previously suggested that British intelligence was responsible for the break-in. It seems likely that this is a fit-up against the Sinn Fein / IRA terrorists, probably with some degree of liaison with the US cabal. Part-and-parcel of the grand global War Of Terror. See also tomorrow's item.
'CIVILIANS KILLED IN AIR RAID, IRAQ SAYS
'...[at] a military air defence centre near Baghdad ...
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld last week ordered an increase in attacks on air defence sites. [my emphasis]'
(BBC Ceefax, 3 Oct. 02, p.107)
Five people have been shot dead in a series of apparently random killings in a prosperous Washington suberb. Each was killed by a single shot. (A sixth shot, fired through a shop window, missed its apparent target.) The FBI and Secret Service have been called in. (BBC news)
Why the Secret Service? They're traditionally the guard for top government men.
(The Times, 4 Oct. 02, p.1)
Of course, mass shootings can and do occur periodically in the USA (being a by-product of the Great American Freedom From Gun Control). But in this county and at this time? And with a trained marksman ... You have to wonder if the CIA has had its anthrax supply cut off, and has to resort to a bit of old-fashioned gunplay for "background" political terror. See tomorrow for the jacking-up of the terror campaign.
See also:-
'Police Searching for Montgomery Shooter', Washington Post online, 3 Oct. 02 at 7 p.m. EDT;
map of shootings, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 02
4 Oct. 02
Blix is to holds talks with Condy and Powell. France has copied Russia to say that a new resolution is unnecessary. Bush is to make a TV address to the USA on the "threat" posed by Iraq. A US defence spokewoman has said that Iraq is trying to conceal VX and sarin nerve gases. Ashcroft has called today a "defining day" in the War Of Terror, in regard to six men arrested in the US in connection with "al-Qaeda terrorism". A day also on which "shoe bomber" Richard Reid pled guilty to all charges and "laughingly admitted" he was an enemy of the US at his hearing. (Ceefax + Teletext)
All stops out, once again. But the cabal is being driven by the carrot of empire and the stick of exposure.
Northern Ireland police have raided Sinn Fein offices in Belfast after an offical in N.I. Secretary John Reid's office was "caught leaking documents" to Sinn Fein. (Channel 4 news, 4 Oct. 02)
Whether this is connected to yesterday's "forensic breakthrough" in the Castlereagh case doesn't yet appear. But it's certainly a nice little follow-on to it.
'The UN's chief weapons inspector [Hans Blix] has backed US calls for a new resolution on arms inspections in Iraq. ...' (BBC Ceefax, 4 Oct. 02, p.104, at 11:30 p.m. BST)
5 Oct. 02
One of the six "al-Qaeda conspirators" (see yesterday) is a US army reservist. A top law official said that they are "the tip of the iceberg" (or something of the sort), and we could expect many more to be exposed in the military, mosques, etc. (BBC News 24)
Uncle Joe would be proud!
'BUSH WARNS OF IRAQ'S "GROWING THREAT"
'President Bush has warned of the "massive and sudden horror" Iraq could unleash if it is not forced to disarm.
'In his weekly radio address, Mr Bush said: "The danger to America from the Iraqi regime is grave and growing."
'He added the US would help Iraq rebuild "should force be required to bring Saddam to account". ...'
(BBC Ceefax, 5 Oct. 02, p.105)
They couldn't churn out this bullshit unless they KNOW that there's no real threat from Iraq. (A genuine Iraqi threat/attack would interfere with their schemes.) But what they're really doing is threatening the world at large — and this is a resumption of their "inferential gangster-threatenings" of last autumn.
'IRAQ WAR MAY BE UNAVOIDABLE, BUSH WARNS
'... Speaking at an election meeting in New Hampshire, he said there was no room for negotiations with Saddam Hussein.
Delaying an attack was not an option if the Iraqi leader was to be prevented from inflicting what Mr Bush called "massive and sudden horror". ...'
(BBC Ceefax at 3:30 a.m. BST, p.105)
Sudden Horror is what Bush sees in the shaving mirror first thing in the morning.
A French oil tanker off the coast of Yemen has caught on fire after an explosion. The owners, Euronav SA, say they believe it was a terrorist attack. They say a boat was seen approaching the tanker at high speed just before the explosion.
'Last month, the US navy warned of an attack on oil tankers in the Gulf.'
(BBC Ceefax + ITV Teletext, 6 Oct. 02)
The French, who are opposing the Anglo-American "tough resolution" on Iraq. US cabal's War Of Terror on its world opponents already started?
Osama bin Laden has threatened to strike US economic targets unless Washington stops preparations to attack Iraq, the Qatari satellite TV channel al-Jazeera has reported.
Not so much Qatari satellite TV, more CIA puppet theatre.
'1,117 BELGIAN BOMB PROTESTERS ARRESTED
'Belgian police have arrested more than 1,000 people taking part in a protest at an airbase allegedly used for storing US nuclear bombs.
'Officers in riot gear seized 1,117 of the 1,700 people taking part in the annual demonstration at Kleine Brogel near the Dutch border, police said.
'The Belgian Government has neither denied nor admitted the bombs are there.
'The protesters were released soon after the peaceful demonstration.'
(BBC Ceefax, 6 Oct. 02, p.142)
7 Oct. 02
'WAR FOR IRAQ REGIME CHANGE "UNLAWFUL"
'Tony Blair has reportedly been warned by his senior law officers that a war waged to bring about a regime change in Iraq would be illegal.
'The Financial Times said Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith and Solicitor-General Harriet Harman both warned such action would breach the UN charter.
'Military action was only permitted in support of UN resolutions.
'A resolution being proposed by the US and UK would allow action to be taken.'
(BBC Ceefax at 1:30 a.m, p.104)
At least 10 civilians were killed in the Gaza Strip by an Israeli army rocket.
The Israeli military-intelligence complex is using indiscriminate terror/provocation against Palestinians.
'The US Federal Aviation Administration has ordered US airlines to install new rudder control systems on Boeing 737s. ...' (ITV Teletext, 7 Oct. 02, p.314)
8 Oct. 02
'DISARM OR WE ACT — BUSH TELLS SADDAM
'George W Bush has said war against Iraq is not "imminent or inevitable", but the US will lead a coalition [!] against Saddam Hussein if he fails to disarm.
'If the US had to act, "We will act with the full power of the United States military", the president said on US TV*.
'He told Iraqi generals that they would face war crimes trials [that must be a big deterrent!] if they obeyed "cruel and desperate" orders [sc. to use "weapons of mass destruction"].
'Saddam may attack the US by providing weapons to terrorists, he claimed.'
There was little new in the speech, BBC news commented. But it was tunefully recited to a ring-a-ring-of-roses of sniper-fire around the American capital.
'UK PLANNING FOR SMALLPOX "MASS VACCINE"
'The [British] Government is planning for the possibility of mass vaccination in the event of a smallpox attack, the Chief Medical Officer has told the BBC.
'Sir Liam Donaldson said the Government had carried out "intensive planning" into a possible bioterrorist attack.
'Plans to contain a limited outbreak were being examined, as was vaccination "on a mass population basis".
'Key health workers are to be vaccinated soon as a precaution, he added.'
(BBC Ceefax, 8 Oct. 02, p.112)
This mass-agitprop contribution mimics and reinforces its American Big Brother's version.
Bush plans to use legal emergency powers to reopen the West US ports; the first time for 25 years they will have been invoked. Employers have locked out workers for working to rule.
'SECRET SERVICE JOINS HUNT FOR SNIPER
'The secret service and the FBI have joined police in Washington hunting a sniper who has shot eight people, killing six, since last week.
'Police said the attacker, or attackers, had been using a high-velocity army or hunting rifle to shoot from a distance [and that the sniper appeared to be a trained marksman]. [This is open-secret terror (like Stalin's).]
'They admitted they had few clues or witnesses in a case which has left local people terrified. [We already see the "inability to solve" of the anthrax attacks being repeated.]
'The latest victim, 13, was shot as he arrived for school on Monday morning.'
(BBC Ceefax, 8 Oct. 02, p.119)
Constitutional government has been replaced by government by sneak-terror (at least on key policies).
9 October 02
'IRAN SNUBS STRAW PLEA ON IRAQ
'Iran has followed Egypt's lead to deliver a snub to Jack Straw's bid to rally support for action against Iraq. [Egypt followed Russian and France in saying a new UN resolution was unnecessary.]
'America's go-it-alone attitude in its self-proclaimed war on terror has led to "deep hatred" in the Islamic world, the Foreign Secretary was told.
'His counterpart in Iran — the final stop on his regional [Middle-eastern] tour — told him the US approach was creating tension.'
(ITV Teletext, p.306/1)
Which makes you wonder what Colin Powell, Tony Blair and the rest are doing on their tours. Are they living in a fools' paradise of their own making? Or are they quietly using other methods (bribery, blackmail) to "convince" other countries to acquiesce in an Iraq attack?
'[English] BISHOPS WARN AGAINST IRAQ WAR
'Church of England bishops have warned of the dangers of a war against Iraq, saying that such a conflict could cause immense and widespread suffering.
'A report from the House of Bishops — representing all 46 diocesan bishops — said there was no conclusive evidence of a specific threat from Iraq.
'It also questioned the morality and legality of a war against Iraq.'
(Ibid, p.306/2)
'IRAQ[:] US war planes bombed missile launchers in the northern no-fly zone after military officials judged them a threat to allied air patrols.'
(ITV Teletext, 9 Oct. 02, p.318)
'White House "exaggerating Iraqi threat'
Bush's televised address attacked by US intelligence
(
'Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday October 9, 2002
The Guardian
)
'President Bush's case against Saddam Hussein, outlined in a televised address to the nation on Monday night, relied on a slanted and sometimes entirely false reading of the available US intelligence, government officials and analysts claimed yesterday.
'Officials in the CIA, FBI and energy department are being put under intense pressure to produce reports which back the administration's line, the Guardian has learned. In response, some are complying, some are resisting and some are choosing to remain silent.
'"Basically, cooked information is working its way into high-level pronouncements and there's a lot of unhappiness about it in intelligence, especially among analysts at the CIA," said Vincent Cannistraro, the CIA's former head of counter-intelligence. ...
'... some of the key allegations against the Iraqi regime [in Bush's TV address] were not supported by intelligence currently available to the administration. ...
'There is already considerable scepticism among US intelligence officials about Mr Bush's claims of links between Iraq and al-Qaeda. ... [A scepticism not shared by CIA boss Tenet, who made efforts last March to "show linkages"'. ('CIA chief accuses Iraq of links with al-Qaeda', Financial Times, 19/20 March 02.)]
'Mr Cannistraro said the flow of intelligence to the top levels of the administration had been deliberately skewed by hawks at the Pentagon.
'"CIA assessments are being put aside by the defence department in favour of intelligence they are getting from various Iraqi exiles," he said. "Machiavelli warned princes against listening to exiles. Well, that is what is happening now."'
And the CIA undoubtedly knows Machiavelli like the proverbial back of its hand. A warning from the CIA about the administration's dastardly dealings is like one from the Devil about the evil perpetrated by some lesser demon. The oh-so-convenient post-9/11 "intelligence" about al-Qaeda was mainly or wholly spewed out by the CIA, paving the path for the first Middle-eastern military intervention. The "list of 19 hijackers" promptly coughed up by FBI director Mueller included 15 Saudi Arabians, but no Iraqis. Bush & Co. have attempted an somewhat different approach, directed at Iraq in particular. This is like Pinocchio trying to cut Gipetto's strings and dance by himself. Evidently there are divergent attitudes among the cabal and its front-men.
And from the CIA boss himself we have the "implicit criticism" that sleeping dogs should be left to lie:-
Alison Mitchell and Carl Hulse, 'C.I.A. Warns That a U.S. Attack [on Iraq] May Ignite Terror', New York Times, 9 Oct. 02;
based on the letter "by George J. Tenet" to Senator Bob Graham, ibid.
10 October 02
The Pentagon has said that it carried out tests of chemical weapons in four US states (Alaska, Maryland, Florida, Hawaii) and in Canada and Britain in the 1960s. The report was issued in response to veterans' concerns ...
(BBC World Service news at 3 a.m. BST)
Cf. 'Senate to probe secret biological tests at old Boca airfield [Florida]', Sun-Sentinel.com, 24 June 02.
'"GHOST" PLANES AT CONTROL CENTRE [— Britain]
'A series of "ghost" planes have appeared on air traffic control computer screens in the latest problem to hit a new £623m centre.
'Garbled radar data has led to some screens at the centre in Swannick, Hampshire, showing non-existent aircraft in the North Sea area.
'Staff are told to keep planes further apart than normal if the ghosts appear.'
(ITV Teletext, 10 Oct. 02, p.311)
'BUSH GRANTED IRAQ WAR CONSENT [by House of Representatives]
'... Members have voted 296-133 for the resolution that calls on Bush to pursue efforts through the United Nations to disarm Iraq before resorting to war.
'The Democrat-led Senate is expected to follow suit later.'
(ITV Teletext, 10 Oct. 02, p.307)
P[olice] C[onstable] AND TEACHERS HELD OVER CHILD PORN [— Britain]
'Twenty people, including a police officer and two teachers, have been arrested in Cumbria as part of a UK-wide inquiry into internet child porn.
'Cumbria police said the officer, a police constable from Barrow, and one of the teachers,also from Barrow, have been charged with offences.
'Sixty computers were seized as part of the investigation.
'The operation involved information obtained from the FBI in the US [my emphasis].'
(BBC Ceefax, 10 Oct. 02, p.119)
It is simply a matter of using the most effective tools to achieve a given goal. The campaign must be still semi-experimental. But it is targeting the Catholic Church and the police in particular. The initiative is not coming from the old FBI (which by now has been thoroughly purged and has practically ceased to exist) but from what were originally just a core of Ashcroft men — the like of which now permeate the entire upper ranks of the FBI. (See FBI essay on this website.)
Ashcroft is said to be a Pentacostalist who would be inimically opposed to Catholicism as 'antichristianity', but from his methods it is more apt to term him (and his proteges) antichristian.
11 Oct. 02
Vincent Cannistraro has spoken on ABC News Tonight (10 Oct.) in support of the "intelligence" view that a new wave of "al-Qaeda terror" is beginning.
Cannistraro is the former head of CIA counterintelligence. Apparently the CIA favours a variant path to the Bush administration's.
'US CONSIDERS IRAQ "MILITARY OCCUPATION"
The Bush administration is considering plans for what amounts to a [long-term] military occupation of Iraq, the New York Times has reported. [Surprise surprise!]
'It said one plan being considered will be based on the occupation of Japan after World War II.
'Japan was run by the US military for more than six years before being handed over to a democratic government. [It might be added that Gen. MacArthur played a key role in shaping the Japanese post-war constitution.]
'Members of President Bush's staff have insisted no decision has been taken.'
(BBC Ceefax, 11 Oct. 02, p.106)
Channel 4 News (7 p.m.) adds that Gen. Tommy Franks may be made Iraq's "governor". (Pro-consul, as they used to call the post in the Roman empire. "Middle-Eastia" is to be the first province of the American world empire.)
12 October 02
The Bush administration has thrown innumerable technical obstacles in the way of the proposed special commission to investigate "intelligence failures" over the September 11 attacks:-
'Bush Doubted on 9/11 Panel: Lawmakers Say He Doesn't Want New Commission', Washington Post, 12 Oct. 02, p.A06.
Many democrats have sold out to the right-wing imperial movement; many too are not averse to the setting up of a police state, as long as they have a say in it. Crazy! Whoever heard of a "Democratic" police state?!
13 October 02
The death toll in the Bali explosions has now been tallied at 187. Politicians are already speculating about al-Qaeda, that catch-all comic-strip front for the CIA.
14 October 02
Archbishop George Pell, the head of the Catholic church in Australia, has been "cleared" of sex abuse allegations, but this isn't convincing because it was a church court that "cleared" him. Former judge Alec Southwell said he was influenced by "some valid criticism of the complainant's credibility". For the accusations, see Sept. 02 diary, under 30 Sept.
"Global terrorism, extremism and fundamentalism know no boundaries — they have no respect for human life or democratic values", said Tony Blair in another worthy post terrorist-attack speech (this time about the Bali bomb).
I couldn't agree more. The whole world is menaced by the ravening dragon of American cabalistic totalitarian imperialism, which includes such "Christian" extremists as Attorney General Ashcroft, now developing himself as Himmler of the Soul Police.
Indonesia's Defence Minister and George W Bush are the latest worthies to "tend to blame" al-Qaeda. The CIA and extreme right are evidently unhappy with the US administration's concentration on an Iraq-attack agenda (see above). Have they decided to underline their "broader-canvas" approach by staging terrorist attacks on Westerners in general?
An Indonesian Islamic radical, himself under suspicion for the Bali bomb, has in turn claimed that America was behind the bombing, as an excuse to increase US influence in the region. Indeed, the US has lost influence in Indonesia since the overthrow of Suharto, its satellite dictator.
'"BIN LADEN" PRAISES ANTI-WEST ATTACKS
'A written statement said to bear Osama bin Laden's signature has praised last week's attacks on US Marines in Kuwait and on a French supertanker off Yemen.
'The operation in Kuwait, in which one Marine died, had been "heroic", it said.
'The statement was broadcast by Al Jazeera in the Gulf state of Qatar.
'Al Jazeera gained world fame when it screened exclusive footage of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network after the September 11 attacks on the US.'
(BBC Ceefax, 14 Oct. 02, p.117)
The CIA, via its al Jazeera mouthpiece, is now reduced to phony letters, obviously having decided that it can't get away with any more fake videos.
The supertanker "attack" was originally just an accident. The "suicide boat", said to be full of — explosives!, wasn't even heard by the crew on the far side of the ship ("it was a large ship"!!). But now US and French intelligence have modelled it into a terrorist attack and, we need not doubt, one by the ubiquitous al-Qaeda.
'UK, US PROBE IRAQ RADAR SALE ALLEGATION
'British and US investigators have met senior officials in Ukraine as part of an inquiry into claims that the country sold a military radar system to Iraq.
'The investigators say they have some evidence that the sale was approved personally by the Ukrainian president.
'President Leonid Kuchma's chief of staff has said Ukraine is very worried about the charges.
'The alleged sale would be in breach of United Nations sanctions against Iraq.'
(BBC Ceefax, 14 Oct. 02, p.142)
Or, how to use Iraq to bash the rest of the world into submission to the American world empire.
15 October 02
'BASHIR BLAMES AMERICA FOR BALI ATTACK
'The alleged leader of a radical Islamic group [in Indonesia] has rejected claims that al-Qaeda was behind the Bali bomb carnage, blaming the US for the atrocity instead.
'Abu Bakar Ba'sasyir, the alleged leader of Jemaah Islamiah which is said to be linked to al-Qaeda, condemned the bombing for killing innocent civilians.
'He told the BBC that several factors pointed to US involvement in the attack.
'These included warnings to US citizens not to go to Indonesia, he said.
(BBC Ceefax, p.105)
We have heard similar tales of US "private" warnings to officials before September 11, 2001.
'In an interview with the BBC in the central Java city of Solo where he runs an Islamic boarding school, he rejected allegations that he had links with al-Qaeda and denied that al-Qaeda was to blame, saying that he did not think the group even existed in Indonesia.
'Instead he said there were a number of factors pointing to American involvement in the bombing.
'The kind of explosive used was not available in Indonesia, he said; there were very few Aemricans among the casualties; and the attack followed a series of warnings from Wahington for Americans not to go to to Indonesia, he said.' [ Not convincing as stated, but ... ]
'... Mr Baasyir's links with ['radical group'] J[emaah] I[slamiah] have not been clearly proven, but he is acknowledged as being widely influential among radical Muslims. ...'
('Spotlight turns on radical cleric', BBC news online, 15 Oct. 02)
'PENTAGON JOINING HUNT FOR US SNIPER
'The Pentagon has agreed to join the hunt for the sniper who has killed nine people in the Washington suburbs.
'It will provide reconnaissance aircraft capable of responding immediately in the case of further attacks.
'Linda Franklin, 47, [of the FBI,] became the latest victim of the sniper when she was shot dead in Falls Church [emerging from a supermarket, one of the sniper's favourite tactics].
'Eight other people have been killed and two more injured during the two-week shooting spree.'
(BBC Ceefax, 15 Oct. 02, p.109)
Another of the functions of the Belt Bandit, besides sowing general background terror, is to provide another excuse to militarized the capital.
In Last Action Hero, a comic-strip hero is by magic brought out of a film into the real world. A reverse
16 October 02
'Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is holding talks with President Bush at the White House over possible US military action in Iraq. ...' (BBC Ceefax, p.116)
'The Financial Times focuses on reports that the Bali bombing may have been linked to a Saudi spiritual leader.
'A Kuwaiti al-Qaeda captured by US forces in Afghanistan was said to have made the revelation.'
(BBC Ceefax, 16 Oct. 02, p.148)
This is what the CIA/far right are driving directly at: Saudi Arabia.
'... Traces of a powerful plastic explosive, C4, ... have been found at the [Bali bomb] site. ...' (Ibid, p.104)
17 October 02
'N KOREA HAS NUCLEAR PROGRAMME'
(ITV Teletext, p.303)
US Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly visited the North Korean capital Pyongyang from 3 thru 5 October, and there "presented irrefutable evidence" that N Korea "had secretly continued with its nuclear programme", despite having signed the 1994 treaty with the US Clinton administration not to do such a thing. Whereupon, to the US delegation's "surprise", their hosts "admitted to it". They also allegedly said that they "no longer recognised" the 1994 agreement".
This story comes from "anonymous senior officials" in the US State Department.
(BBC radio World Service news; BBC TV News 24 news)
And not, despite the ITV Teletext headline above, from North Korea itself. And Teletext and BBC Ceefax presented this story as fact!
If the Bush administration or its masters said that the Sun had risen in the east, it would need to be independently checked before being believable.
They are obviously trying to make another Iraq of N Korea, and are perhaps relying on the ultra-secretive Communist state not releasing its own account. They can't get away with this, can they?
Why would North Korea "admit" it had violated the 1994 treaty, and then say that it will no longer recognize it? Are we supposed to believe that the regime has a death wish, that it wants to be made into a second Iraq?
The fact that it is the 40th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis may have a bearing on the matter. In 1962 President Kennedy presented the Soviets with "irrefutable photographic evidence" of their missile bases in Cuba, whereupon they admitted it. The Bush administration has got hold of the idea to ape this.
'AL-QAEDA "SENT EXPLOSIVES CASH" TO BALI
'... a UK terror expert has claimed.
'Omar al-Faruq said £50,000 was sent to Jemaah Islamiya [Islamiah] leader Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, Dr Rohan Gunaratna said.
'According to Dr Gunaratna, Al-Faruq told US interrogators in Afghanistan about the cash.
'Al-Faruq was Al-Qaeda's senior member in south-east Asia, said Dr Gunaratna.'
(BBC Ceefax, 17 Oct. 02, p.106)
Bush says he would expect Ariel Sharon (who has been visiting Washington) to respond appropriately if Iraq launched a surprise attack on Israel. (BBC World Service news at 3 am)
Which shows that Israel is a key ally in America's campaign to conquer the Middle East.
India says it will begin pulling back troops from the Pakistani border. (Ibid)
'ANGER OVER CONFUSION ON BALI WARNINGS
'The [British] Tory leader has demanded that the Government end confusion over warnings of potential terrorism on Bali.
'Iain Duncan Smith said mixed messages had been sent out.
'Downing Street has said the intelligence services received a warning from US sources about several Indonesian "hotspots" — including Bali.
'But Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the best information available suggested Bali was a low crime area [sic].'
(BBC Ceefax, 17 Oct. 02, p.107)
'MORE CHARGES LAID AGAINST SOHAM POLICE [in Britain]
'Two police officers who served on the Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman murder inquiry have been charged with a further 15 child pornography offences.
'Brian Stevens was charged with three counts of making indecent images of children and two counts of indecent assault on a 13-year-old girl.
'Antony Goodridge was charged with 12 counts of making indecent images.
'None of the charges relates to the deaths of the two Soham 10-year-olds.'
(BBC Ceefax, 17 Oct. 02, p.112)
We are expected to believe that this is just an amazing coincidence. Or are most British police officers involved in the production of child pornography?! No, we shouldn't encourage Attorney-General Ashcroft and his demonic followers with such an idea. They are making enough progress already in their experiment to destroy the credibility of both the police and the Catholic Church, in the USA and the UK alike.
'Eight Palestinians were killed and 40 injured when Israeli tanks opened fire in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian medical staff. ...' (Ibid, p.108)
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has now said he believes that North Korea has several nuclear bombs. (TV news)
And how sincere he is, is evident from the way he puts his hand in front of his face, pushes his glasses up, and various other "psychological gestures" which continually and transparently give away his mendaciousness.
18 October 02
'POLICE ACCUSE VICAR, 62, OF MALE RAPE
'An Anglican vicar in south Wales has been charged with serious sex offences, a church spokesman has said.
'Church officials said Reverend Canon Lawrence Davies, 62, Vicar of St Pauls, Grangetown, Cardiff, had been arrested.
'A spokesman said Canon Davies had been suspended from his clerical duties.
'Police have confirmed a 62-year-old man from Grangetown had been accused of rape of a male over the age of 16 and of gross indecency with two boys.'
(BBC Ceefax, p.111)
Most such homosexual and/or paedophile accusations against the clergy are against Catholics, and many if not all have, since Sept. 11, 2001, stemmed from the FBI. This is only the second accusation I have heard of against the Anglican clergy, and the first of direct accusations of sexual abuse. Late last year came an "indirect" one against the Anglican Archbishop of Australia, who was accused of covering up for paedophile priests when he was a bishop.
There's no statement in the current case that the FBI instigated it. In any case it's not clear that American "Christian" extremists (represented by Attorney-General Ashcroft) would have an interest in attacking the Anglican Church. Unless they're attacking Christianity in general.
In a curious sidelight on false accusations of paedophilia,
'A female police constable is being investigated for allegedly making up a child abuse case in order to meet the celebrities David and Victoria Beckham.
'Rhonda McGrea, from the Thames Valley force, asked the pair to see a friend's daughter, the Daily Mirror paper says. ...'
(BBC Ceefax, 18 Oct. 02, p.114)
'Indonesian President Megawati Sukharoputri has signed two emergency anti-terrorism decrees. ...' (BBC Ceefax) (Including, apparently, long-term detention without trial for terror suspects.)
Indonesia, which freed itself from its pro-American military dictatorship in 1998 (but only partly from the influence of the military), is now being forced back along the path of repression, and is following in the footsteps of America's "Patriot Act" (already copied in different degrees by Britain and India, for example).
An interesting article in The Times today, 'Bin Laden contact to be Saudi's man in London') describes the Saudi prince Turki al-Faisal. He was the head of the Saudi Secret Service, and a key contact man between America and Osama bin Laden when the latter was part of the Mujaheddin resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. When US troops were stationed in Saudi Arabia during and after the Gulf War, bin Laden became hostile to America and Saudi Arabia.
'Prince Turki said that he had one final meeting with bin Laden in Saudi Arabia, when he asked for support to overthrow the Marxist government in South Yemen.'
According to the French journalist Richard Lebeviere, writing in Le Figaro last autumn, Turki al-Faisal's last meeting with bin Laden was in Pakistan, a couple of months before the Sept. 11 attacks on America. The Times article notes that Prince Turki was sacked as Saudi intelligence chief on 31 Aug. 2001 — just 11 days before the attacks.
Shades of Ahmad, the Pakistani ISI intelligence chief, who also 'retired', this time shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. The ISI, like Saudi intelligence, is said to have been an intermediary between American intelligence and al-Qaeda.
'[British Foreign Secretary] Jack Straw has said Britain and the US are prepared to go it alone on Iraq if a UN mandate on arms is not secured. ...' (ITV Teletext, 18 Oct. 02, p.307)
19 October 02
'BUSH CONSIDERS JOINT OPERATION [with Israel, against Iraq]
'The Bush administration is considering an Israeli plan to send US forces into Iraq's western desert to knock out missile sites in the event of war.
'Israel would furnish the US with intelligence about the sites and how to disarm them early in the conflict, revealed a Pentagon spokesman.
'PM Ariel Sharon aims to reduce the risk of an Iraqi attack on Israel.'
(ITV Teletext, 19 Oct. 02 at 2:30 am BST, p.309)
Pervez Musharraf angrily denied a story in the New York Times that Pakistan had helped North Korea with "its nuclear programme" in the late 1990s. (BBC News 24, 3 am)
More US cabalistic Pakky-bashing. And "North Korea's nuclear programme" is probably an invention of the cabal.
AP, 'U.S. Seeks to Withhold Information on FBI: Ashcroft Acts in Whistle-Blower Case', Washington Post, 19 Oct. 02, p.A14
20 Oct. 02
'Child porn swoop targets 90 police' (in Britain)
The Observer, 20 Oct. 02, pp.1, 3
'Hundreds of child welfare professionals, including police officers, care workers and teachers, have been identified as "extremely high-risk" paedophiles by an investigation into internet porn.
'The discovery came after US authorities passed on more than 7,000 names of UK subscribers to an American-based child porn website. ...
'Investigators now believe as many as 90 police officers have so far been identified from an initial trawl of 200 of the British names found in the US. Many of the other suspects work in other sensitive professions, often linked to the criminal justice system. ...
'British ... police set up Operation Ore to investigate all 7,200 subscribers [of specified child porn websites] in this country. ... Police believe that at least 5,000 could be considered "goers" and lead to arrests. ...
'The US investigation, Operation Avalanche, was set up by the United States Postal Inspection Service, which probes online porn. It began in Texas and has generated more than 75,000 identities worldwide. ...'
I have come across this "7,200" figure once before, but I tended to assume it was a mistake for the total number of investigatees arising from the US Operation Candyman (two-thirds of which were in the USA; the British figure is usually given as 2,400). "Ore" was said to be the British wing of "Candyman". But now we have a total figure over ten times bigger, at 75,000 worldwide. "Candyman" was and is run by the FBI, under the malevolent auspices of Attorney-General Ashcroft. "Avalanche", says the Observer, is run by the US "Postal Inspection Service". Is this fronting for Ashcroft's evil coterie?
Increasingly, people in positions of importance and trust are being targeted. This is the real aim of Ashcroft's Soul Police: to undermine personnel in key positions in the established administrations of the Anglo-Saxon core of the US cabal's prospective world police state, to clear the path for their own style of rule. and the numbers targeted seem to be ever expanding — as they will need to for this project to be successful.
21 October 02
'14 KILLED IN ATTACK ON BUS IN ISRAEL
'At least 14 people were killed and 30 injured in a suspected suicide attack on a bus in northern Israel.
'The bus was engulfed in flames when a car laden with explosives blew up next to it.
'The militant Palestinian group Islamic Jihad said it carried out the attack, Lebanon's Al Manar television reported. ...'
(BBC Ceefax, p.112)
Six citizens of Yemeni descent, from the Buffalo suburb of Lackawanna, have been indicted on terrorism charges. 'Prosecutors claim the group went to the Al Farooq training camp a few months before the September 11 terror attacks.' (BBC Ceefax, 21 Oct. 02, p.115)
This camp is no relation of "Omar al-Faruq" (see above), perchance? Or is the CIA getting its words mixed up?
Oppositionists in Venezuela staged a strike against Hugo Chavez's government. The strike was supported mainly by the middle class.
22 October 02
'US AGENCIES LINK UP [databases] TO FIGHT TERRORISTS
'US anti-terror agencies are linking up their intelligence databases in a bid to spot hints about future attacks.
'The pool will include text, video and audio gathered from a number of sources of information about terror groups.
'The groups [sic] will sift through it [the pool] hunting trends, key individuals or recurring phrases signifying coded messages.
'UK firm Autonomy is providing the technology to the US Department of Homeland Security.'
(BBC Ceefax, p.154)
'[British] GOVERNMENT INTERNET DATA PLAN REJECTED
'The internet industry has dealt a blow to Government plans to allow police to access information about users as part of the fight against terrorism.
'The Government wants internet providers to make the information available without the approval of a judge.
'But the Internet Service Providers Association has told its members not to comply with the request.
'The ISPA said it feels the proposal violates the 1998 Data Protection Act.'
(BBC Ceefax, 22 Oct. 02, p.117)
A survey has shown that, while Bill Clinton has an IQ of 186, George W Bush has one of 91. (BBC Ceefax, p.146)
23 October 02
'INTERNET COMPUTERS CRIPPLED BY ATTACK
'A powerful electronic attack briefly crippled nine of the 13 US computer servers [in fact 'only' 10 root servers are in the US] that manage global internet traffic this week, officials have said.
'But most users did not notice Monday's [21 Oct.] attack as it lasted only an hour.
'The FBI and the White House are investigating the incident.
'Officials added that the attack was the "most sophisticated and large-scale assault on the computers" in the history of the internet.'
(BBC Ceefax, p.154)
See David McGuire and Brian Krebs, 'Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever', Washington Post online, 22 Oct 02.
And/Or was it an excuse to increase the cabal's influence over the internet? At about the same time (see above, 22 Oct.) it was announced that various agencies were linking up their databases "to fight terrorism". Under the umbrella of the glorious Department of Homeland Security. (The attack could have been an "external" terrorist riposte to this move, of course; but not apparently a successful one if it was.) Also, the Internet Service Providers' Association has refused to go along with a British government "request" to provide personal data about clients (again, "in the interests of fighting terrorism".) Was the attack staged partly to cajole them into it?
Dana Priest, 'CIA Is Expanding Domestic Operations: More Offices, More Agents With FBI', Washington Post, 23 Oct. 02, p.A02
'HOUSE SEARCH LINKED TO SNIPER INQUIRY
'US police have been searching a home on the West Coast in a move believed to be connected with the serial sniper who has killed 10 people.
'The search in Tacoma, Washington State, is 2,000 miles from the site of the attacks, around the Washington DC area in the states of Maryland and Virginia.
'FBI officials have released few details about the search.
'Tacoma is home to army and air force bases. [My emphasis]'
(BBC Ceefax, 23 Oct. 02, p.114)
24 October 02
'Hamburg's Die Welt details reported demands made by the US to Germany.
'It says all claims about the demands are denied by both the Foreign Ministry and the Chancellor's office.
'"But it is still clear that the US is exerting pressure ... mainly regarding political support for a possible US attack on Iraq," it said.
'It believes the US feels Germany could force the E[uropean ]U[nion] to provide Turkey with a date to start talks on EU membership.'
(BBC Ceefax, p.147)
SNIPER SUSPECTS ARRESTED
A SWAT team seized two sniper suspects while they were asleep in their car in Frederick county, Maryland. The men are John Allen Muhammed (or Williams) and his stepson Lee Malvo, of Tacoma, Washington state (see yesterday's entry). Muhammed is a black aged 42 who has recently left the army after a 10-year spell there (a neighbour claimed he was in the special forces). He coverted to Islam, and neighbours said he expressed sympathy for the 9/11 hijackers.
It is convenient for the US cabal's anti "al-Qaeda terrorism" agenda, whatever the facts of the case.
And hot-on-th-heels of these arrests:—
'AL-QAEDA MAY ATTACK US RAILWAYS — FBI
'... Citing information gleaned from detained al-Qaeda members, [the FBI] said the group had consideered directly targeting US passenger trains.
'The terror network may use agents of "western" appearance, the FBI warned.
'Al-Qaeda may also target hazardous-material containers, it said.'
(BBC Ceefax, 24 Oct. 02, p.111)
And pour a bucket of shit over us. For those suffering from nostalgia for the cabal's terror warnings, they're ba-ack! And taking up where the sniper terror left off, fostering a general background fear with a warning of "western-appearance" terrorists.
25 October 02
SENATOR DIES IN CRASH AHEAD OF ELECTION
'A US Democratic Senator has died in a plane crash in the midst of a fiercely contested mid-term election campaign.
'Paul Wellstone, who was 58, was among eight killed, including his wife, Sheila, and one of his three children.
'The campaign plane crashed en route from St Paul to Eveleth in Minnesota, the state he represented.
'His death could have an impact on the November 5 elections as Democrats control the Senate by just one vote.'
(BBC Ceefax, p.110)
'... the twin-engined plane went down in bad weather, near the Eveleth-Virginia airport. ...' (ITV Teletext, p.310)
Senator Wellstone was 'one of the Senate's leading liberals. ...
'... his neck-and-neck race for reelection against former St Paul mayor Norm Coleman was considered a key to holding the Democrats' one-seat margin of control. ...
'... Wellstone's willingness to cast lonely votes ...
'Recently, he was the only candidate with a tough reelection fight willing to oppose the congressional resolution authorizing military force in Iraq [which a majority of Democrats shamefully voted for] ...
'[The plane's pilot was] told before landing of the possible buildup of "moderate rime ice" [on the plane].'
('Wellstone Dies in Plane Crash', Washington Post, 26 Oct. 02)
So he would seem to have been a good candidate for assassination from the US cabal's viewpoint, both for his politics and the fact that his was a marginal seat. Do the cabal think that no-one of similar vote-winning abilities could replace him as Democratic candidate? (Like presidential candidate Edmund Muskie in 1972.)
The weather didn't seem that bad. Did they wait for a spell of (relatively) bad weather as "cover" before sabotaging his plane?
What's not clear to me is why, having "put up with" the Senate's one-seat Democrat majority since July last year, they would do this now, just before the elections. Any advantage might well be nullified by Democrat gains in other seats up for grabs — unless they reckon there are no such possibilities. And implicating themselves in a political murder is not something they can take lightly; unless they reckon in for a pound, in for a penny — that they may as well commit one more murder after the 3,000+ at the World Trade Center.
'The [British] Government has won the backing of the Court of Appeal over its detention powers in the Anti-Terrorism Act. ...' (BBC Ceefax, 25 Oct. 02, p.120)
'BIGGEST PROTEST YET AGAINST IRAQ WAR
'Tens of thousands of people [organisers said 100,000, police said 50,000] have marched on the White House in the biggest protest yet ...
'The Washington rally was organised by anumber of anti-war groups, including Palestinian and Muslim bodies. ...'
(BBC Ceefax, p.104)
Colin Powell has said that the next few days is critical for the UN in deciding on the Iraq-war issue; Bush has reiterated that the US will "go-it-alone" if "the UN" (i.e. France, Russia and China) doesn't agree. (TV news)
'US DIPLOMAT ASSASSINATED IN JORDAN'
Lawrence Foley, 62, who worked for the US Agency for International Development. The first Western diplomat to be assassinated in Jordan.
(BBC Ceefax, p.105)
'UN IRAQ TALKS "MUST REACH CONCLUSION"
'Britain is coming to the point where it will have to decide if the UN is the right vehicle for dealing with Iraq, Downing Street has said. [That's one way of expressing contemplated banditry!]
'Britain wanted to bring the issue "to a head," Tony Blair's spokeman said.
'He added that the Government still believed the UN was the "best way of delaing with the issue".
'His comments come after US officials warned the US may abandon the UN as a way of dealing with Saddam Hussein.'
(BBC Ceefax, 28 Oct. 02, p.106)
After which they will be overt war criminals, in violation of UN laws they themselves have been signatory to. (But breaking one's signatory agreement is no problem for the Bush administration, which has already done so over the International Court of Justice.)
29 October 02
'N KOREA REJECTS NUCLEAR PROGRAMME HALT [says Japan]
'North Korea has rejected Japan's demands that it scraps its nuclear weapons development programme, Japanese officials have said.
'The announcement came on the first day of talks between the two countries aimed at improving relations.
'North Korea has apparently [!] argued the scheme is a response to US policy.
'Earlier, Japan said progress would be limited unless North Korea agreed to dismantle its nuclear weapons programme.'
(BBC Ceefax, p.107)
This is what Japan says N Korea said. Japan, the American protectorate. Earlier, we heard what the USA said that N Korea said. Anonymous US State Department officials, 'at dead of night', informed the world that N Korea (its deputy prime minister?) had defiantly told the visiting US Secretary of State that it had a nuclear weapons programme. (See above, 17 Oct, and the Washington Post link there.)
Will we ever discover what N Korea itself says? Don't they have any history of announcing news to the world's media? Can the US cabal and its followers exploit this to say what they like about the state??
Looking back through my diary, I can find a couple of instances during the last year when North Korea's comments were apparently directly reported by British news media.
'GUARDIAN [newspaper:] Scientists warned the US is developing a new generation of chemical weapons that possibly violate international treaties. (ITV Teletext, 29 Oct. 02, p.326)
30 Oct. 02
Thirty people have been arrested so far in Russia in connexion with the Moscow theatre siege. They include members of the security forces and other officials, and are accused of helping the Chechen hostage-takers by supplying them with information. Some of them are said to have set up an 'analytical centre'.
(BBC World Service news at 1am GMT)
31 Oct. 02
'ISRAELI PM TURNS TO RIGHT-WING PARTIES [after coalition collapse]
'Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has contacted small far-right parties in an attempt to rebuild his government.
'Mr Sharon's ruling National Party coalition collapsed last night after Labour Party ministers resigned.
'The walkout, which followed a row over the budget, left Mr Sharon's Likud Party five seats short of a majority.
'A first reading of the budget was later passed in parliament with the help of the smaller right-wing parties.'
(BBC Ceefax, p.112)
'There is no doubt al-Qaeda was involved in the Bali bombing ... Australia's intelligence agency [chief, Denis Richardson,] has said.
'Comments attributed to Osama Bin Laden days before the blast pointed to the terror network's involvement, [he] said. ...'
(BBC Ceefax, 31 Oct. 02, p.113)
What we see is the emergence of an international network of "intelligence" agencies all playing the Qaeda game. Al-Qaeda, the fellow traveller, if not the outright creation, of the CIA. Al-Qaeda, the universal excuse for American world conquest. The CIA, the spearhead of this conquest, and with a number of "puppies" in tow: the British, German, and now we see the Australian "intelligence" services.
Yes, they have a cold, keen intelligence; and they must gather information for their purposes. But their primary function is action, and agitprop.
'TRAINING DELAY HITS [British] APACHES
'About half the Army's new £3bn Apache helicopters will have to be mothballed for up to four years because pilots cannot be trained in time to fly them.
'The National Audit Office blamed a £30m private finance deal to train aircrew, which is three years behind schedule.
'It said the Army faces a capability gap as the life of its helicopters cannot be extended beyond 2005.'
ITV Teletext, 31 Oct. 02, p.308)
The obvious thing to suggest is that this is the latest offering in the British deception campaign against Iraq, making the British armed forces look like a lot of Keystone Cops etc — and suggesting that Britain will play a relatively major role in the prospective Iraq attack (or whatever our American masters will aim them at). The National Audit Office itself was busy four months ago, alleging everything from broken-down tanks to melting boots in exercises in Oman last year. And everyone should be familiar with the rifle that gets "grit in its naval, and sand in its tea", which the army is still nevertheless supposedly using, after "improvements".
This "disinformation campaign" has now been going on for months (a lot longer than three months, if I remember correctly).
'ISRAEL EX-ARMY CHIEF TAKES CABINET SEAT
'A former Israeli army chief known for his tough tactics is the new defence secretary in Ariel Sharon's government.
'The Likud Prime Minister [Sharon] offered Shaul Mofaz the post as he reached out to right-wingers for help after a Labour walkout left him short of a majority.
'Mr Mofaz was Israel's military chief of staff until July.
'Palestinian and other Arab leaders have condemned his methods of combatting urban guerrilla tactics.'
(BBC Ceefax, 31 Oct. 02, later, p.112)
I'm now half-way through Richard Labévière's Dollars For Terror (Algora, USA, 2000; a translation of Les Dolleurs de la Terreur, Grasset, 1999). Amongst other things, the book charts the connections between the CIA and al-Qaeda during the latter's history from its beginnings during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan to the US embassy bombings in 1998. The motives as portrayed by Labévière seem a little fuzzy to me (but they've become abundantly clear since 9/11). The CIA decided that bin Laden's "Arab Afghans" was much too useful an ally to abandon after the Soviets left Afghanistan, and in a meeting at Green's Hotel, Peshawar, Pakistan, in late 1991, between their local representatives, Prince Turki bin Faisal (Fayçal) (head of the Saudi intelligence service) and the "Arab Afghans", they decided to continue links. The "strategic" position of Afghanistan vis-a-vis Central Asian oil was a factor in this decision. (Dollars for Terror, pp.104-5)
In chapter X, "The Privatization of U.S. Foreign Policy", Labévière describes how, having learned the lessons of the Iran-Contra scandal, the CIA and Pentagon have, in the ten years since, "contracted out" foreign special operations to "private companies". These companies are really only a front for these bodies; their personnel are often "former" employees of the CIA, the Pentagon, or the Special Forces. By this means they escape the oversight of Congress, which has no control over such companies. The Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is the Pentagon's "top secret ad hoc coordination group that supervises these 'private operations'; SOCOM "provides the interface" with the Special Forces required for these operations. (Ibid., pp.191-2, 194.)