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[911InsideJobbers] Walter/Rodriguez Kuala Lumpur 9/11 conference

...this circulated today in some inboxes  from correspondents,
f.y.i.  (dunno what to think about schedule, content and speakers yet, also didn't read the whole thing yet...

Actually funny, i still also 'run' a symbolical 911wasAnInsideJob 9/11 meetup list in Kuala Lumpur and one member once signed in...)


Reopen 9/11 at the International Islamic Fair, Kuala Lumpur

Reopen 9/11 will be represented by Jimmy Walter and William Rodriguez at the annual International Islamic Fair,

June 9-10, to be held in Kuala Lumpur.

Jimmy Walter, founder of Reopen 9/11, will speaking on "What Americans Know about 9/11." 

William Rodriguez, last survivor of 9/11 and a nationally recognized hero, will be sharing his extraordinary

experiences and accusations of “media reporters” in a talk called "The Day I Thought I Died." He will also conduct

interviews for Venezuela’s Official Television Channel (Venezolana de Television)

This year's International Islamic Fair will also be addressed by the noted American author/activist Michael Collins

Piper, whose topic will be "The High Priests of War."  Barrister/author Matthias Chang will also be speaking on

"The Killing Machine."

The conference will addtionally hear from prominent Islamic bankers, economists, scientists, professors, authors

and high government officials on a variety of subjects focused on the Islamic world.


IIF 2006 Officiating & Conference
PROGRAM AGENDA
(9th & 10th June 2006, PWTC, KL)




DAY 1
Friday, 9thJune 2006
MORNING 
OFFICIATING OF IIF 2006
Theme: ISLAMIC Products & Services for ALL
8.30 – 9.00 am Registration & Breakfast Coffee
 
9.00 – 9.30 am Arrival of Guests & Media
 

9.45 am Arrival of Guest of Honour
YB Dato’ Seri Najib Abdul Razak
Dep. Prime Minister of Malaysia
 

10.00 – 10.20 am

  Welcome by MC,
Quran Recital by Abdul Wasei Kimura
- English, Malay, Chinese, Tamil, French, Japanese translations.
 
10.20 – 10.35 am Welcome Address by  Yg Bhg Puan Sabariah Abdullah
Chairperson, INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC FAIR 2006
 
10:35 – 11.00 am Officiating Speech by YB Dato’ Seri Najib Abdul Razak , Dep. Prime Minister of Malaysia.
 
  Official launching of  INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC FAIR 2006
  
11.00 – 11.10 Doa’
  
  Presentation of  Momento to YB Dato Seri Najib Abdul Razak, Dep. Prime Minister of Malaysia
 
  Photography Session
 
11:10 – 11.30 pm Press Conference
 
11:30 – 12.00 pm Dep. Prime Minister’s  visit to the exhibition at Hall 4
 
12:00 – 1.00 pm LUNCH BREAK
 
1.00 – 2.00 pm Break for Solat Jumaat
 

DAY 1
Friday, 9thJune 2006
AFTERNOON 
IIF 2006 CONFERENCE
Theme: ISLAM, Humanity & World Peace
 
2.00 - 2.30 pm REGISTRATION
 
2.30 – 2.45 pm Multimedia Presentation
 
2.45 – 3.00 pm Welcome (to IIF 2006 Conference) Speech by:
Chairperson of IIF 2006
 
3.00 – 3.25 pm Key Note Address by :
Tun Dr Mahathir  Bin Mohammad
Former Prime Minister of Malaysia
Theme : Islam, Humanity & World Peace
 
3.25 – 3.35 pm WORLD AFFAIRS & GLOBAL ISSUES
Moderator Session1: Prof. Datuk Dr. Osman Bakar
 
3.35 – 3.55 pm Mr Michael Collins Piper
Activist, Author USA
Paper 1: The High Priests of War
 
3.55 – 4.15 pm Mr Matthias Chang
Barrister of Law, Author & PA to Tun Mahathir Mohammad
Paper 2: The Killing Machine
 
4.15 – 4.35 pm Mr Jimmy Walter
Producer of DVD “Sept 11 – Reopen Investigation”, USA
Paper 3: What Americans Know about Sept 11
 
4.35 – 5.00 pm Mr William Rodriguez
Last Survivor of    9/11
Paper 4: Sept 11 - The Day I thought I had Died – The truth behind 9/11 and the media control of it. He will name

persons and events related to this tragedy. A must see for all.
5.00 – 5.20 pm BREAK
 
5.20 – 5.40 pm Mr Fadel Soliman
Bridges Foundation, Egypt
Paper 5: Islamophobia in USA post-September 11
 
5.40 – 6.30 pm WORLD AFFAIRS & GLOBAL ISSUES – SUMMARY  and  Q&A (by Moderator Session1)
 

DAY 2
Saturday, 10thJune 2006
WHOLE DAY 
IIF 2006 CONFERENCE
Theme: ISLAM, Humanity & World Peace
8.30 am REGISTRATION
9.00 – 9.10 am ISLAMIC FINANCE, BANKING & INVESTMENTS
Moderator Session2: 
9.10 – 9.30 am Tan Sri Dato' Dr. Zeti Akhtar Aziz
Governor Bank Negara Malaysia
Paper 6: Islamic Banking – Reality & Possibility
 
9.30 – 9.50 am Encik Md. Azmi Abu Bakar
Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Takaful Malaysia
Paper 7: Islamic Insurance – Current & Future
 
9.50 – 10.10 am Hj. Abdul Aziz Hassan
Advocate Aziz Hassan & Co.
Paper 8: Islamic Inheritance – The Untapped Potential
 
10.10 – 10.30 am Dr Ahmed Kameel Mydin Meera
Dean, Post-Graduate Studies Center, IIUM
Paper 9: Gold Dinar – What & Why
 
10.30 – 10.50 am En Zahimi Chik
MD of Swarnabhumi International Holdings Sdn Bhd.
Paper 10: Gold Dinar – The Emerging Picture
 
10.50 – 11.20 am ISLAMIC FINANCE, BANKING & INVESTMENTS – SUMMARY and Q&A (by Moderator Session2)
 
11.20 – 11.40 am BREAK
11.40 – 11.50 am MUSLIMS AND MEDIA
Moderator Session3: 
11.50 – 12.10 am Professor Dr Amin Rais
Former Speaker, House of Representatives, Indonesia.
Paper 11:  Mainstream Media’s Role in Oppression
12.10 – 12.30 pm Ms Yvonne Ridley
Journalist, UK
Paper 12: Islam & Freedom of Expression
12.30 – 12.50 pm Mr Mohammad Ali
CEO Islam Channel UK
Paper 13: Islamic Journalism
 
12.50 – 1.20 pm ISLAM & MEDIA – SUMMARY and Q&A
(by Moderator Session3)
 
1.20 – 2.20 pm LUNCH BREAK
2.20 – 2.30 pm ISLAM AND MODERN SCIENCE
Moderator Session4: 
2.30 – 2.50 pm Prof. Dr. Mohammad Al-Mahdi
Founder Khalifah Institute Malaysia, Physicist & Scientist
Paper 14 : Modern Science finds God
Represented by Azra Bano
 
2.50 – 3.10 pm Prof. Datuk Dr. Osman Bakar
Professor, ISTAC
Paper 15 : Science and Technology in 21st Century
 
3.10 – 3.40 pm ISLAM AND MODERN SCIENCE – SUMMARY and Q&A (by Moderator Session4)
 
3.40 – 3.55 pm COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION
Moderator Session5:
3.55 – 4.15 pm Yg Bhg En Yusri Mohamad
President ABIM Youth Movement
Paper 16: Empowering Today’s Youth – the Islamic Way
 
4.15 – 4.35 pm
  Yg Bhg Tn Hj Nasharudin Mat Isa
Vice President PAS
Paper 17: Muslim / Non-Muslim Relation - East Coast Peninsular Malaysia Scenario.  
4.35 – 5.00 pm TEA BREAK  
5.00 – 5.20 pm Yg Bhg Dato Hj Mustapha Ma
President Malaysian Chinese Association of Malaysia
Paper  18: Islam – Guiding, not Eliminating Culture
 
5.20 – 5.40 pm Prof. Dr  Malik Badri
Professor  IIUM  Malaysia
Paper 19: Islamic Psychology & Nation Building
 
5.40 – 6.00 pm Datuk Dr. Jemilah Mahmood
President, MERCY Malaysia
Paper 20: Humanitarian Work & Islam
 
6.00 – 6.20 pm Prof. Dr. Kamar Oniah
Prof. UIA
Paper 21: Living in a Just world
6.20 – 6.50 pm COMMUNITY & EDUCATION  – SUMMARY and Q&A (by Moderator Session5)
 
6:50 – 7.00 pm Conclusion and end of  IIF 2006 Conference
(by Conference MC)
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1. Meet the World Money Power: The Pilgrim Society
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Date: Sat Jun 3, 2006 10:57 am (PDT)
From: "norgesen" norgesen@yahoo.com
Subject: Meet the World Money Power: The Pilgrim Society

MEET THE WORLD MONEY POWER

Charles Savoie

On November 24, 1980, the Associated Press quoted Leonard Bernstein, a
globally prominent musical conductor, as saying in reference to the
Kennedy assassination, �We don�t dare confront the implications. I think
we�re all agreed there was a conspiracy and we don�t want to know. It
involves such a powerful high force in what we call the high places, if we
do know, everything might fall apart.�

This is when I start to deliver what I�ve been hinting at for months as I
have referred to the World Money Power or the Society. I say start,
because a series will be necessary to convey the complete picture. In
order for a few people to exercise the colossal power they do, secrecy is
crucial. That�s why so few outside the Society ever heard of it, or if they
saw references to it, the meaning would not register. There is indeed a
powerful high force in the high places! You must know about them
because their existence governs your future to a disturbing extent. They
are the source of fiat money; the powers behind central banks;
international financiers; warmongers; globalists; cartel monopolists; and
the force suppressing precious metals. JFK, whose father was a member,
strayed from the plan! As Zad Rust commented in �Teddy Bare, The Last
of the Kennedy Clan� (1971)---

�The Warren Commission had no other mission than to conceal the
truth, and it was relentlessly helped in this mission by many official
agencies and by some powerful organized Force of universal scope and
character. This Force of Darkness has already brought the world very
near to the point of no return on the road to total annihilation of the
liberties of man and the independence of nations, and to the
enthronement of the Antichrist.�

This is an organization with two branches, the London branch
founded in 1902, the New York branch in 1903. As rule #1 of their
bylaws states, �The name of the society shall be The Pilgrims.� This is
what they call themselves---The Pilgrims. They may also be referred to
as The Pilgrims Society; Pilgrim Society; Pilgrims of America; Pilgrims
U.S.; Pilgrims of United States; Pilgrims of Great Britain; Pilgrims
(London); Pilgrims (New York) or other slight variants such as Pilgrims
(NYC). The name doesn�t exactly sound menacing, does it? Probably less
so than Skull & Bones Society (Yale University), which has had some
furor raised over it in recent years. The two organizations are
interrelated, with The Pilgrims in much the dominant position, as it is
with other groups with which it is interlocked. Francis F. Randolph of
The Pilgrims, Wall Street financier born in 1889, was treasurer of the
Russell Trust Association for many years, the corporate name of Skull &
Bones, named after the Russell that founded Bones in 1832. The Yale
�secret five� (including Wolf�s Head Society; Book and Snake Society;
Berzelius Society; Scroll & Key Society) were founded as British fronts for
sons of wealthy Americans who were in league with the British Empire
and its World Money Power. Russell & Company was granted opium-
trading concessions in China, by the British East India Company. The
BEIC didn�t have to give any territory away---it did so in exchange for
buying influence in America. Yale University itself is named after Elihu
Yale of the British East India Company, who ran an opium-trading fort in
India! You see, the British Royalty and their allied bankers NEVER give
up trying to control Planet Earth!

While Alexandra Robbins made a stink about Skull & Bones with her
recent book, she neglected to point out that Paul Mellon of Scroll & Key,
by himself, was probably wealthier than half the Bones members
combined. And while Mellon listed his Scroll & Key membership in
Who�s Who, he remained silent about his Pilgrim Society membership to
the end. His name appeared in a 1969 list, the only known year a list was
leaked to the outside world. I reviewed the list at length and concluded
its authenticity from other facts available. Skull & Bones is not equal to
The Pilgrims for several reasons. The most obvious reason is, reins of
power are not turned over to 19 year old boys. When they get to Yale,
they are inducted immediately. There is a 10-year waiting list for joining
The Pilgrims---after the person is selected (by invitation only). A death
has to occur, or by a measure within the organization, decision to
increase its numbers is reached. According to current figures (700), there
is about a one in 410,000 chance of any American being a member. It is
probably rare for a man to become a member before age 40. Also, what
about the powerful people of the country who didn�t attend Yale at all?
Do we just paint them out of the picture because it doesn�t fit into some
thesis by Alexandra Robbins or Antony Sutton? Sutton, by the way,
spent time at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at
Stanford University---of which Pilgrim Society members are trustees.
Esquire magazine, September 1977 ran an article on Skull & Bones,
starting on page 84. WHY haven�t they had one about The Pilgrims?

There are many indications that David Rockefeller, at age 89, remains the
most powerful man in the country, and he came from Harvard. Ms.
Robbins claimed Skull & Bones �controls the Rockefeller fortune,� but
gave no documentation. Societies such as Bones are indeed important but
must not be equated to �the senior, Anglo-American Society,� which is
The Pilgrims. Not only is The Pilgrim Society exponentially the most
powerful organization the world has ever known; it is relatively speaking,
the most secretive; and certainly the most dangerous! The sheer network
of thousands of interlocking connections is enough to overwhelm one
person trying to research them. Referring to the power of the
organization, in a speech at the House of Commons on August 20, 1941,
Winston Churchill (a member) said, �No one could stop it. Let it roll on
in full flood, inexorable, irresistible.�

I believe the reason why the name Pilgrims was chosen is an open secret,
like their very existence. The original Pilgrims, who came over on the
Mayflower centuries earlier, left the old world to found a New World
where they believed they could live life their chosen way. These other
Pilgrims, whose Royal roots trace back at least to early medieval times in
Britain and Europe, are leaving the present world system and gravitating
towards a New World---a New World Order. I have compiled enough
information on these men to write millions of words length. That won�t
be possible here. I intend to give a summary as best I can. If anyone
wishes to employ the term �conspiracy,� I have no quarrel with that.
This is precisely what we are examining. To believe otherwise is the
summit of childish naivet�. Use the word intrigue instead if you
assimilate it easier. Other applicable terms such as �Illuminati,� dating to
an Austrian professor on May 1, 1776---Mayday--- are heard. They are
elitists who know how the world should be ordered, the rest of us are
clueless. And they will do anything to achieve that order, even if it calls
for the extermination of half the world�s population---which appears to
be part of the plan.

As to which of its members are most powerful, is subject to conjecture,
and no absolute conclusion can be reached---that�s all known only on the
inside. What is obvious is that the British Royal family was involved
with the founding of the organization, and remains involved to this
moment. Also obvious is that a front man for Lord Rothschild, diamond
cartelist Cecil Rhodes, provided the framework or concept for the Society
in the wills he left. Americans involved in the founding included Joseph
Wheeler, an ex-Confederate general (the British built a lot of war vessels
for the South), and financiers and empire builders like John D.
Rockefeller; Andrew Carnegie; the Vanderbilts, Mellons and Du Ponts.
This plan started with the British, to preserve and increase their Empire.
They realized that they needed powerful allies in their drive to control
the world. The chosen allies became the North American �Robber
Barons,� empire builders including the Astors; Vanderbilts; Rockefellers;
Harrimans; Du Ponts; Mellons; Whitneys; Harknesses and others. We
can assume that however they were approached and drawn into the plan,
the offer went along the lines of �you�ve built an empire, join us if you
want to share in a World Empire!� And like a corporation with shares,
the world is to be divided up according to �shareholdings� within The
Pilgrims organization. I reluctantly call your attention to Revelation
13:16-18 which speaks of everyone being given a number, without which
we cannot buy nor sell. If it happens it will originate from within this
Society. You don�t seriously believe that one man alone could rise to
world prominence, without the concerted efforts of hundreds of powerful
men across a span of many years, do you?

It may be recalled that Rothschild emerged as the richest man in Britain
at the close of the Napoleonic Wars when the Duke of Wellington won at
Waterloo, Belgium in 1815. Assuming that he did become the wealthiest
due to his buying shares on the exchange at collapsed prices in the panic--
word was spread falsely that Napoleon won---, do not lose sight of the
fact that the Royal Family still controlled the military forces of Great
Britain, and if they took too strong a dislike to you, your head could come
off. Also, the Royals of Britain and Europe have been at the wealth
accumulation game for centuries longer than names like Rothschild and
Warburg. The Bank of England came into existence decades before the
Rothschilds became powers. Additionally, the British Empire controlled
immense territories, from whence fantastic wealth was siphoned back to
England and Europe, notably from China and India. Major Canadian
banks of today, including Royal Bank of Canada; Canadian Imperial Bank
of Commerce; and Toronto Dominion Bank, all contain words that point
to ownership by Royal interests, then there�s the Royal Bank of Scotland,
of which the huge (70,000 + employees) National Westminster Bank is a
subsidiary. That it shares its name with the Duke of Westminster is no
accident---the current Duke, Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, one of the
Royals, owns over 300 acres of the choicest property in downtown
London, plus immense land holdings in Canada, Australia, Hawaii and
elsewhere. He is a leading member of The Pilgrims of Great Britain
(below)---

The Pilgrims organization is a cluster of intermarried old-line rich,
Royals and robber barons who have created the world�s financial
structure. Graphics herein are presented for educational purposes. I am
most assuredly not the first outsider to become aware of the Society.
Psalms 44:21, �Shall not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets
of the heart.� There must be a fair number of individuals who knew
something about them, yet without realizing their significance and their
intentions. Do they have a website? Not that I have found. The first I
ever heard of them was in the 1971 book, �Nixon, The Man Behind The
Mask� by Gary Allen. That was the same author who wrote the widely
known, �None Dare Call It Conspiracy,� which I thought was an
extremely good effort. On page 223 of his unauthorized Nixon
biography, Allen wrote---

�Bobst is listed as a member of the highly secret Pilgrim Society, which is
even closer to the inner circle of the conspiracy than the CFR.�

He was referring to one of Nixon�s friends, Elmer Bobst, then head of
Warner-Lambert pharmaceutical company. There were no other
references in the book to The Society. I was ablaze with unending drive
to discover more; like a starvation victim suddenly finding himself in a
supermarket! Except in this case, facts are dispersed across millions of
pages of reference material. In �Nixon�s Palace Guard� (1971) also by
Allen, we find on page 146---

�Burns belongs to the Pilgrim Society, a secret group of leftist
international financiers and one-world intellectuals dedicated to reuniting
the United States and Great Britain.�

He was referring to Arthur Burns, head of the Federal Reserve System.
His predecessor was William McChesney Martin Jr., of The Pilgrims,
who chaired the Federal Reserve, 1951-1970 (�underground� in �Who�s
Who,� meaning, he declined to state the fact!) Afterwards, Martin, who
married Cynthia, the daughter of the founder of the Davis Cup (tennis),
was appointed chairman of the Committee to Reorganize the New York
Stock Exchange (increase the �Pilgrimization�) in 1971. (The head of the
exchange from 1951-1967, George Keith Funston, was another member).
Martin became the youngest president ever of the New York Stock
Exchange in 1938 at age 32, a post he held into 1941. From 1946-1948
Martin chaired the Export-Import Bank of the U.S.; assistant Treasury
Secretary in 1949; and a World Bank director, 1949 through 1952, along
with Pilgrim Society member Eugene R. Black Jr. of Chase National
Bank. After reorganizing the New York Stock Exchange in 1971, the
inner core Pilgrim Society members placed him on boards including
United States Steel; Freeport Minerals Company; Scandinavian Securities
Corporation; Riggs National Bank; American Express; Caterpillar Tractor;
Dow Jones & Company; Eli Lilly & Company; General Foods; and Royal
Dutch Shell Petroleum. He became a trustee of Yale University. His
father was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis, 19361941,
and a trustee of Washington & Lee University. Yes, The Pilgrims
control the world�s money! Not Bilderberg! We will look at some
history and other matters establishing this reality. American Opinion,
October 1970, �Who Controls The Press,� by Gary Allen, page 22,
speaking of William Paley, then head of CBS Incorporated, said---

�Paley is a member of The Pilgrim Society, sometimes called the world�s
most secret organization, which has as its goal the reuniting of England
and America.�

That was William Paley of The Pilgrims (above 1901-1990). Completing
the thought, the goal is to reunite the two countries as a basis for world
government. After losing control of such immense land areas as India;
China; Burma; the American Colonies; South Africa and so forth, they
mean to covertly take it all back through a supranational world
government. On page 27 the article, Gary Allen commented---

�David Sarnoff is a member of the super-secret Pilgrim Society, whose
official logo is entwined American and British flags. This group, which is
dedicated to merging Britain and America, has a number of
internationalist members like Paley, Sarnoff, and John Schiff whose
ancestors were not British.�

Sarnoff was at that time, chairman of RCA (Radio Corporation of
America) and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). The European
connections of the London branch amply represent old-line continental
wealth. In American Opinion, September 1970, page 15, Allen said---

�The mysterious Lord Thomson of Fleet (Roy Thomson of Toronto) has
added to his international publishing empire some fifty-six American
papers. Thomson is also owner of the London Times, traditional voice of
the British Establishment---where the Royal Institute for International
Affairs is controlled by the same people who control our C.F.R. Thomson
is a member of the elitist Pilgrim Society, which seeks to merge the
United States into the British Commonwealth as a base for World
Government. The major international banking firms on both sides of the
Atlantic are well represented in the Pilgrim Society, and recently made it
easy for Thomson to lay out $72 million for a dozen Busch-Moore
newspapers in America.�

Who controls the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA) in
London and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York? The
Pilgrim Society, that�s who, and nobody but them. The proof is simple
enough, besides the fact that the same bunch was involved in founding
the three organizations. The board of directors and upper management
of the Council on Foreign Relations have ALWAYS been members of The
Pilgrims. We will do an examination of that item later. Before going
any farther be advised that this Society refuses to release current
membership lists. What do these highly placed individuals have to hide?
Why do they wish to conceal the fact that they are members of a specific
organization? Will it take a Congressional subpoena to pry a list out of
their grasping hands? Those in Congress who are members, and those
within their influence, which appear to be the majority, wish the cover-
up to continue. I received this reply, dated December 18, 1973, signed by
assistant secretary Mrs. E. M. Simpson---

�The Pilgrims of the United States is not a secret society. It is the senior,
Anglo-American society. There is no other information available.�

Those were her central remarks, and that�s where I first encountered
their logo (the crossed British and American flags Allen mentioned aren�t
the logo, they do accompany it at meetings.) Take a look and try to sense
the dreadful power the Society represents---

The eagle represents the United States, the lion represents Great Britain.
Hic Et Ubique, old Latin, means, �Here And Everywhere.� That�s a
reference to their holdings, which are worldwide; and to their influence,
which is virtually everywhere. They are the �powerful organized force of
universal scope.� Even Bilderberg has attendance lists which can be
accessed; the same for the Trilateral Commission and the Council on
Foreign Relations. But NOT The Pilgrims. It calls to memory a quotation
from �Proofs Of A Conspiracy� (1798) by Scotsman Professor John
Robeson---

�The Order will thus work silently, and securely; and though the
generous benefactors of the human race are thus deprived of the applause
of the world, they have the noble pleasure of seeing their work prosper in
their hand.�

much more at: http://www.silver-investor.com/charlessavoie/cs_dec04.pdf
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WORLD MONEY POWER II

�There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.�

This was President Woodrow Wilson�s description of The Pilgrims! No other organization remotely approximates such a description. We continue now making the acquaintance of The Pilgrims, New York and London, the two-branch secret Society that dominates world finance through central banks, large commercial and investment banks and multi-governmental banks; and has manipulated silver and gold prices. In the event you missed the introduction to the Society, I strongly urge you to read that first (December 2004, Archives). I am told the article drew some negative comments. I expected as much, since there is in all societies an element who cannot accept that anything takes places behind the scenes. To those trusting folks I say, disprove what I said or hold your peace. If you aren�t going to disprove it please don�t annoy the website operator. Prove that any facts or references were invented and I�ll retract all I said. The critic is defeated before he starts, the facts stand, I have seen them at great length and presented a fraction of them. I assure you the organization of which I am critical of is not going to issue any refutation, since it would bring into wider view the details presented. It can only function as long as no significant number of Americans know of its existence. It could not survive intense public pressure for Congressional investigation. Before we go any further allow me to present you with a quotation from Pilgrim Society member John Martin Cates Jr. who was based in London (Who�s Who, 1981, page 578)---

�I also believe strongly in international cooperation and the stark necessity of a one-world society without national borders.�

continued...

http://www.silver-investor.com/charlessavoie/cs_jan05.htm

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WORLD MONEY POWER III
�Moore has the fastest financial mind in existence. He can take a complex financial problem and do it in his head without drawing a breath while talking.�

This was spoken by second-generation Pilgrim Society member Walter Bigelow Wriston, chairman of Citibank-Citicorp, 1970-1984, about Pilgrim Society member George Stevens Moore, his predecessor as chairman of the huge bank. The quotation appeared in Fortune, January 1976, page 123. At that time Citicorp had branches in 104 countries. Moore was a director of Credit Suisse White Weld, and of the Harriman-Rockefeller Union Pacific Railroad. Wriston was a director of General Electric; Rand Corporation; Chubb Corporation (insurance); United Meridian Corporation; Fremont Group; York International; ICOS Corporation; AEA Investors; Sequoia Ventures and others. Wriston�s father, who was president of Brown University from 1937-1955, was a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1943-1954, and president of the Pilgrim Society run Council on Foreign Relations, 1953-1964. I would have no definite way to establish membership of any of these three in The Pilgrims, save for the leaked 1969 list! Two of the biggest bankers on planet earth were important enough to hold membership in this organization, and it was too blasted secret for the public to know about! And we know how these megabankers detest metallic money, since they cannot create it!

There is far more to be detailed about The Pilgrims---London and New York, than can be done in 2 dozen lengthy articles. However it won�t take so long to examine the most relevant points. If you read the first two articles, you understand that The Pilgrim Society came about as an alliance of big monopolistic rich in the United States and Great Britain. The driving force for the creation of the Society appears to be the British Crown. If you saw �Braveheart� (1995) by Mel Gibson, you saw the King of England reaching out to powerful nobles to make secret alliances with them. England used to own the American Colonies. The fact is it has never given up a disgusting dream of bringing us back under Crown rule. The world is currently locked in a struggle between the forces of �created� money issued by central banks, and a movement to return to the use of true money---gold and silver. The Pilgrims surely own huge amounts of physical gold and in the case of Warren Buffet---very likely a member---physical silver, so that no matter which way the outcome goes, they expect to dominate.

continued...

http://www.silver-investor.com/charlessavoie/cs_jan05_worldmoneypower3.htm

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Pilgrims Society:

Author: Jo�l van der Reijden

Note beforehand: Since this article first appeared knowledge about this group has greatly expanded. Therefore I suggest you also take a look at the introduction page and appendix B where the origins of this group and its influence is discussed in more detail. In past front page articles more information can be found on the templar, Rosicrucian, and Masonic influences within this group. I also suggest you take a look at this chart, which has been put together by looking at the individual biographies of the Pilgrims Society members.
Even today it's members consist of the wealthiest businessman and the most influential politicians. It was erected over a century ago and meets at least 2 or 3 times a year. Still, 99% of the world has never heard of it. We're talking about the Pilgrims Society. An aristocratic Anglo-American dining club who's members keep themselves informed by inviting politicians to make a speech. The primary purpose of this club is to keep the ties between the United States and Britain as strong as possible. The official reason was, and is, that the forefathers of most Americans from the Virginia and New York area emigrated from the British Isles, therefore they share a common heritage. They are blood brothers so to speak. Of course, the obvious reason was to form an unofficial alliance with the United States to improve the strained relations and to vastly increase the powers of the dwindling British empire. The heart of the British empire and the later British Commonwealth became the Pilgrims Society, it's philosophies dominated by the executives of the upcoming mega corporations, largely located in the City of London and the city of New York.

continued...

http://home.planet.nl/~reijd050/organisations/Pilgrims_Society.htm

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Message: 2
Date: Sat Jun 3, 2006 11:26 am (PDT)
From: "norgesen" norgesen@yahoo.com
Subject: P.I.L.G.R.I.M.$.

P.I.L.G.R.I.M.$.
Copyright May 2005 Charles Savoie

�The mysterious, super-elite Pilgrim Society.�

�The most illustrious world-wide personalities.�

�The most distinguished international organization in the world.�

�The Pilgrims Society remained hidden until relatively recent years, to identify the apex of power.�
(referenced towards end of document)

Plundering International Looter$ Gaining Riche$, Injuring Megamillion$ $ecretly = PILGRIMS! If this is your first read on this organization, I suggest you obtain the introductory background first by reading the December 2004 item in the Archives. (For the rest of you, take note---silver and silver mining will be mentioned around 50 times). If you have followed the series to date, I have other disturbing case material with which to inform you. There is a boatload of fascinating material I hope to acquaint you with. And you should be fiercely interested in this Society---the rich families behind central banking---because they are interested in you, to your great detriment! And they do not wish their identities known; else they�d release a membership list. A movie quote (�They Live� 1988)---

�We could be pets, we could be food, but all we really are is livestock!�

The Pilgrims could protest, if they chose to, that I class them as a secret society. Actually they don�t meet the criteria for that definition by every measure that exists. No elitist organization appears to meet that standard, but these things are a matter of relative basis. When not one person in 10,000 has ever heard of an organization that dominates their destiny, it�s secret. The Pilgrims do fulfill the definition of secret society by the most important test which is, as I say, they refuse to release a roster. Some will say, why should a private organization have to release a membership list? Do we demand the local Rotary Club or Lions Club to release members� names? The difference is one of degree. Since we�ve already seen that the President, Secretary of State, and Ambassador to Great Britain are always �honorary� members; and that this fact fails to appear in any known textbook on government or political science---this is sufficient to need to know who all the members are. These are far from ordinary people. They are those who can and do powerfully influence events at the highest levels.

Exactly with which globalist financiers, warmongers and international cartelists do our highest officials run with? Additionally, I have noted that over the decades, numerous Ambassadors to many different nations have been members; also Generals; Admirals; Senators; Congressmen; Treasury Secretaries; Federal Reserve officials and so forth. Since these men are in control (presently) of our national destiny, it is urgently necessary to know who they all are. As a few examples, if a list were accessed, names likely to be encountered would include representatives of the traditional big rich---Rockefeller; Mellon; Du Pont; Whitney; Vanderbilt; Harriman; Pyne; Pitcairn; Pew; Phipps; Pratt; Harkness; Aldrich; Weyerhaeuser; Duke; Reynolds; Cullman; Dorrance; Schiff; Folger; Field; Fisher; Flagler; Roosevelt; Guggenheim; Gould; McCormick; Berwind; Lehman; Stillman; Baker; Livingston; and others. Top executives and directors of Citigroup; JPMorganChase; BankAmerica; Bank of New York; Wells Fargo; Mellon Bank; American Express; Merrill Lynch; Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (oversees electronic exchange of shares); Goldman Sachs; Morgan Stanley; Lehman Brothers; Prudential Financial; Aetna; New York Life; IBM; Exxon Mobil; Chevron Texaco; Conoco Phillips; Schlumberger; Halliburton; Duke Energy; El Paso Corporation; Bechtel Corporation; Alcoa; Newmont Mining; Phelps-Dodge; Microsoft; General Electric; General Motors; Ford; Goodyear; Du Pont; Dow Chemical; Eastman Kodak; Union Pacific; Wal-Mart; Coca-Cola; Philip Morris; Procter & Gamble; Unilever Bestfoods; Berkshire Hathaway; Washington Post; New York Times; Tribune Company; Time Warner; Verizon Communications; Johnson & Johnson; Pfizer; Eli Lilly; Warner Lambert; Merck & Company; Bristol Myers Squibb; Astra Zeneca; Schering Plough; Glaxo Smith Kline; Pharmacia & Upjohn; United Technologies; Raytheon; Lockheed Martin; Boise Cascade; International Paper; Federal Reserve; Treasury Department; World Bank and very many others would be found represented in The Pilgrims.

much more at:

http://www.silver-investor.com/charlessavoie/cs_may05_pilgrims.htm

More Charles Savoie writing at:
http://www.silver-investor.com/archives/index.html

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The Pilgrims Society is the organization which consistently recruits only very elitist members of society, many with nearly endless resumes. Le Cercle is more mixed, but all participants are intelligence insiders. The 1001 Club recruits the most influential businessmen from all over the world, but also some lower level WWF employees. The WWF is very tight-lipped about this club though, as you can see in the 1001 Club article on this website.
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[imra] Daily digest - Volume: 2 Issue: 1408 (15 messages)

imra Sun Jun 4 00:30:02 2006 Volume 2 : Issue 1408

In this issue of the imra daily Digest:

Chinese Project to provide Syria 1 million IDCL internet lines
Excerpts: OPEC internal dispute on output levels.
Persistent corruption in Jordan.1 June 2006
Abed Rabbo: Preparations for Palestinian
Referendum Completed
Hizbollah Rejects Every Bid to Disarm the Resistance
COS Halutz: Classroom of kids almost murdered
by rocket doesn't matter since no deaths?
01 June, 2006 17:44
Column One: Israel's premeditated market failure
BBC back in Beirut after 15-year hiatus
Fateh Central Committee Agrees upon
Conducting General Referendum
Head of The PFLP Infrastructure in Nablus Arrested
Syria concluded what termed a major military exercise
U.S. DELAYS IRAN STRIKE FEASIBILITY TEST
PALESTINIANS RISE IN SUNNI INSURGENCY
Hamas demands amendments on the Arab peace
initiative
Terrorists Captured In Syria Got Weapons
from Neighboring Country

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Chinese Project to provide Syria 1 million IDCL internet lines

Syrian, Chinese Project to provide 1 million IDCL internet lines
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 08:05 PM
DAMASCUS, (SANA - Syrian news agency)
www.sana.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&newlang=eng&sid=38274&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Ministry of Communications and Technology on Wednesday signed a Memo of
Understanding with a Chinese company to establish a joint company that
provides quick internet lines (IDCL) in 2007 in Syria.

The Memo plans to provide 1 million internet lines in order to cover the
Syrian market and facilitate information services to a greatest number of
citizens in low prices.

According to the Memo, the number of IDCL gates will be increased by 300.000
lines during the year 2006, this includes expanding the international
circuits necessary for the net.

Minister of Communications and Technology Amro Nazir Salem said in a
statement to SANA reporter that through this project Syria will shift from
6000 circuit meantime to 300.000 circuit during the coming 6 months, so it
will become the first Arab country in rapid communications and low costs.

The Chinese investment in this project is estimated more than $100 millions.

Mazen

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Excerpts: OPEC internal dispute on output levels.
Persistent corruption in Jordan.1 June 2006

Excerpts: OPEC internal dispute on output levels.Persistent corruption in
Jordan.1 June 2006

+++THE DAILY STAR (Lebanon) 1 June '06:"Flush OPEC expected to leave well
enough alone" , Jitendra Joshi, Agence France Presse AFP)
QUOTES FROM TEXT:
"OPEC cartel appears set to maintain its oil output leves ... a bonanza
of petrodollars"
" 'As long as prices are hovering above $70 a barrel, the likelihood of
a production cut is virtually zero' '". . ." 'the countries who are above
quotas will blissfully ignore the formal levels' "
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EXCERPTS:
WASHINGTON: The OPEC cartel ...to maintain its oil output levels ...,
reluctant to rock a high-flying market that is reaping its 11 members a
bonanza of petrodollars. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
will hold its latest talks in Caracas on Thursday - giving Venezuela's
firebrand President, Hugo Chavez, a high-profile stage to exhibit his
anti-US rhetoric. ... Venezuela, backed by Iran, its fellow US adversary
in the group, is likely to persist with proposals to price oil in euros
rather than dollars ... .. "As long as prices are hanging above $70 a
barrel, the likelihood of a production cut by OPEC is virtually zero,"
analyst Phil Flynn said. . . .OPEC's member countries - Algeria,
Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the
United Arab Emirates and Venezuela - hold about two-thirds of the world's
oil reserves.
They supply 40 percent of the world's oil production and half of its
exports. Sudan has now been invited to join OPEC. , the cartel is under
pressure from the world's most powerful economies to do more to bring down
record-high oil prices and so limit the potential of a marked deterioration
in global growth. . . ..Increasing demand for energy from fast-growing
China and India has also played a role in the oil market's startling rally
of recent years.
... OPEC members with the exception of Saudi Arabia are pumping out all the
crude they can. Many are flouting the cartel's official quotas so that they
do not lose out on the market boom, analysts say. "With prices so high now,
the countries who are above quotas are going to blissfully ignore the formal
levels," said James Williams, energy economist at WTRG Economics.

+++JORDAN TIMES 1 June '06: " 'Still corruption' " Randa Habib's corner
QUOTES FROM TEXT:
"no Jordanian will dispute the fact that we are far from reaching the
goal of
uprooting this vice"

"some of those who call for a cleanup are themselves corrupt"
===============================================
FULL TEXT:
Every consecutive government has repeatedly pledged to eradicate corruption
from the country.
We believed some and cast doubts on the ability to do so of others. But on
the whole, no Jordanian will dispute the fact that we are far from reaching
the goal of uprooting this vice.
We are told by some officials that very serious efforts are being exerted,
that even a suspicion of corruption on the part of any member of government
will lead to his dismissal ... and that is comforting.
However, what is shocking, stunning and even disgusting is to find out that
some of those who call for a clean up, are themselves corrupt.
Using one's position to channel business to one's benefit, or to that of a
member of one's family, is corruption.
Contacting foreign companies and asking them to dismiss their consultants
and choose a member of one's own family instead because one has the power
and the authority to make their business flourish, is corruption.
To stand in a position of authority and turn a blind eye to cases of fraud
and abuse is still corruption.

Sue Lerner - Associate - IMRA

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Abed Rabbo: Preparations for Palestinian
Referendum Completed

Abed Rabbo: Preparations for Palestinian Referendum Completed
Egypt, Saudi Arabia Weigh in on Hamas to Accept Arab Peace Initiative
01/06/2006

Palestine Media Center - PMC [Official PA website]
www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp?cat=1&id=1150

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has the jurisdiction and The Palestinian
National Authority (PNA) has completed "administrative preparations' for
holding a referendum on a two-state solution of the conflict with Israel,
despite Hamas' opposition, member of the PLO Executive Committee, Yasser
Abed Rabbo, announced on Wednesday.

Abbas, as an elected president and accountable to people, has the
jurisdiction and is fully competent to consult the people on issues of
fateful and national dimensions, Abed Rabbo told reporters.

Abbas reportedly met with the head of the Central Elections Commission (CEC)
last Friday to discuss the referendum, said chief Palestinian negotiator,
Saeb Erakat.

Abed Rabbo, a former cabinet minister of culture and information, said the
referendum would be held even if Hamas continues to oppose it.

"The referendum is a duty whether we reach an agreement [with Hamas] or the
dispute continues," Abed Rabbo said, adding that the results of the
referendum would be seen as a vote of confidence or non-confidence in
Abbas's policies.

A legal team had been set up to prepare for the referendum, the chairman of
the Palestinian Peace Coalition (PPC) and co-author of the Geneva Initiative
told reporters.

According to a poll by Near East Consulting, conducted from May 19 to May
21, 2006, 81 per cent of respondents supported Mahmoud Abbas' call for a
referendum and only 19 percent opposed it.

A survey taken by Palestinian pollster Khalil Shikaki two months ago on the
eve of the inauguration of the Hamas government found that two-thirds of
Palestinians support mutual recognition with Israel and a two-state
solution. Some 75 percent wanted Hamas to negotiate with Israel.

A Role for Palestinian Diaspora?

There were protests that the Palestinian Diaspora should not be excluded
from a referendum that decides a national strategy. Leader of the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), Ahmad
Jibril, said recently that Palestinian refugees in exile should have a say
in deciding such a strategy.

Abed Rabbo said that Abbas was not opposed to the idea of including
Palestinians living abroad in the proposed referendum. "Our only condition
is that the referendum abroad be held under the supervision of the
Palestinian CEC," he said. "The host countries also have to agree to such a
move because we don't want to infringe on their sovereignty."

Abed Rabbo represents the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the
ongoing "national dialogue" talks, which concluded a two-day session last
Friday.

The first two days of the dialogue have produced no agreement. On Tuesday,
the parties decided, upon Hamas' insistance, to move the talks from the West
Bank city of Ramallah to Gaza when Abbas returns from a three-day visit to
tunisia on Friday.

Hamas cited the Israeli occupation's restrictions on the movement of its
cabinet ministers and leaders as the reason for requesting the dialogue to
be held in Gaza.

"Holding the national dialogue in the (West) Bank or in Gaza makes no
difference to us," said Abed Rabbo.

He said Fatah was ready to join a Hamas-led government on condition that the
Islamic Resistance Movement accepted the prisoners' document. 'We are ready
to go to a national unity government to break the siege imposed on our
people, to destroy Ehud Olmert's plan for unilateral measures and to show
the world that there is a Palestinian partner that is prepared to
negotiate," the veteran peace advocate indicated.

However Abed Rabbo said that Hamas has informed the Palestinian leadership
that they are preparing a formula to deal with all the items of the national
dialogue agenda, but "we are still waiting for the proposed formula from our
brothers in Hamas."

He warned against not reaching a national accord and highlighted the
importance of the referendum in light of the grave risks facing the national
program.

"The Palestinian people face big questions that should be answered . Either
we head for an independent state or for the second Nakba (catastrophe)," he
added.

Hamas Rejects Referendum

Hamas reacted angrily to Abed Rabbo's statements, saying he was trying to
impose his policies on the Palestinians.

Abu Zuhri said that making the referendum a must meant that the dialogue was
not intended as a mean towards national understanding.

"These remarks are very dangerous," said Hamas spokesman, Sami Abu Zuhri.
'They refer to the referendum as fait accompli, regardless of whether the
national dialogue fails or succeeds. This means that the dialogue is not
aimed at reaching understandings, but imposing political concessions on the
Palestinians."

The Hamas spokesman criticized Abed Rabbo personally and expressed
"astonishment" at the fact that Abbas had chosen Abed Rabbo to represent him
at the discussions with Hamas.

"He's (Abed Rabbo) threatening a government that won the majority of 60
percent of the people that the president will dismantle it if it does not
accept the prisoners' document."

He added, in a press release distributed to reporters, that the Abed Rabbo's
statements revealed that the PNA was not concerned with success of the
dialogue but rather was interested in bypassing the Hamas-led government.

Abed Rabbo however said that, "the referendum should not be seen as a
challenge, and (we could) resort to referendum even if a national accord is
concluded." Referendum could be conducted in both cases to assert the
national unity and the unified national platform, he added.

Referring to Abbas' 10-day deadline on Tuesday, Palestinian Prime Minister
Ismail Haniyeh said: "Time should not be a sword directed at the
participants. Enough time should be given to reach the expected results from
this dialogue."

Abbas and Palestinian faction leaders have agreed to 10 days of intensive
talks aimed at resolving critical differences and avoiding a national
referendum on a two-state solution.

Similarly, Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar on Monday issued
the strongest rejection yet by a senior Hamas official. "Nobody will
recognize Israel, there is no need for a referendum. It's a waste of time
and money," he said during a visit to Malaysia.

The Palestinian government has been internationally isolated and suffering a
crippling economic boycott since Hamas won January 25 legislative elections.
The United States and European Union demand the Islamic group renounce
violence, commit to signed Palestinian-Israeli agreements and recognize
Israel if it wants aid restored. Hamas has refused.

Egypt, Saudi Arabia Weigh in on Hamas

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabian King Abdullah and Egyptian President Mubarak,
meeting in the Red Sea Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Wednesday,
called on Hamas to accept the Arab peace initiative adopted by the Arab
League summit in Beirut in 2000.

"Egypt and Saudi Arabia call on Hamas to recognize the Beirut Arab
initiative," Egyptian presidential spokesman Soliman Awad told reporters
after the meeting between the two leaders.

Urging Palestinian unity, Awad added: "Egypt sees that the coming critical
phase requires the cessation of any escalation among the Palestinian
factions."

There is an urgent need now for all the heads of the Palestinian factions to
be aware of the higher interests of the Palestinian people and their desire
for an independent state," he said.

The Arab Initiative was based on a Saudi calling for a "land for peace"
formula. It stipulates that if Israel withdraws from all territory the
Jewish state occupied in 1967, all the Arab states will normalize their
relations with Israel.

The so-called "National Accord Document (NAD)," drafted by senior
Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails, is based on the Saudi-initiated
peace plan of 2002, which received widespread international support at the
time.

Should the Palestinians accept the NAD, analysts believe there could be
strong international pressure on Israel to engage in peace talks on the
basis of the Saudi plan. In this way, they say, Abbas hopes to re-establish
the Palestinians as players and peace partners, and undercut Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert's unilateralism.

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Hizbollah Rejects Every Bid to Disarm the Resistance

Hizbollah Rejects Every Bid to Disarm the Resistance
Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 10:30 AM
www.sana.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=38339&newlang=eng

DAMASCUS , (SANA - Syrian news agency)- Hizbollah Deputy Secretary General
Sheikh Naim Qassem rejected Wednesday every attempt to disarm the Lebanese
national resistance, saying that the resistance is always ready to defend
Lebanon.
"There are two different parties in Lebanon , the first one is
trying to cancel the resistance's weapon while the other one considers this
weapon a necessary to protect the country," Qassem said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Lebanese Parliamentarian Mohammed Raad considered the
Lebanese resistance weapon's as a guarantee for protecting Lebanon.

In a statement, Raad called for establishing a national
defensive strategy to protect the country, noting "the Israeli enemy which
constitutes a great danger against Lebanese takes no consideration to the
international agreements or the UN resolutions".

A.Zeitoun / Idelbi

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: COS Halutz: Classroom of kids almost murdered
by rocket doesn't matter since no deaths?

COS Halutz: Classroom of kids almost murdered by rocket doesn't matter since
no deaths?

[IMRA: A week ago a classroom full of kids in Sderot were not killed when a
rocket made a direct hit on the classroom because the kid's morning prayers,
held in another room, ran a minute late.

If the terrorists had waited another 90 seconds Halutz would not have been
able to proclaim that "The main parameter is that there have not been any
Israelis killed since we left Gaza" because there would have been a score
dead.

Again: the reason "there have not been any Israelis killed since we left
Gaza" isn't because the IDF succeeded in stopping the rockets. It doesn't
reflect some logic in the retreat. It only reflects the simply fact that
morning prayers ran a minute longer than usual at a Sderot school that day.

Dan Halutz used to be in the Air Force. In the IAF a near miss is treated
with the same severity as the real thing. A pilot who recklessly almost
hits another jet can find himself facing the same investigation and
consequences as a pilot who crashes.

But now Halutz is part of the regular IDF (and in many respects a vocal
politician) and near misses are just another soon to be forgotten blip on
the newswire.]

Security and Defense: Halutz says Islamists are rising
David Horovitz and Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 1, 2006
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1148482085834&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
....
Q: Did our withdrawal from Gaza strengthen Hamas?

Chief of staff, Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz: We need to decide which parameters to
check that question against. Hamas would have won even if we had not left
Gaza. The main parameter is that there have not been any Israelis killed
since we left Gaza. This is not [necessarily] the main consideration but
this is a fact. Since we left there have only been two Bedouin kids killed
after picking up a mortar shell.

Before we left Gaza there were some 30 civilians and soldiers killed a year.
Now there are more Kassams fired than when we were in Gaza - less now than
in the beginning, but more than when we there. We do not have responsibility
over Gaza and our freedom of operation there has increased and we know how
to use more resources for a longer time against the Palestinians. We also
have wider international tolerance. One example of our freedom of operation
is artillery fire, which was not used when we were in the Gaza Strip. We
also did not allow sonic booms since this would have affected the [civilian]
Israelis and soldiers there.

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: 01 June, 2006 17:44

Column One: Israel's premeditated market failure
Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 31, 2006
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1148482085400&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

One of the foundations of the free market is rational choice theory. That
theory assumes that private individuals generally make decisions that
maximize their profits and utility and do so far better than any collective
organization or bureaucracy. Rational choice theory stands or falls on the
availability of information. Without the free flow of information, people
are unable to make rational choices.

In Israel, as the country's steady economic growth and high placement on
just about every significant global economic index shows, the economic
liberalization reforms enacted by former prime minister and finance minister
Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu have been a complete success. The Israeli
economy is the envy of a Europe that suffers from stagnation and decline.

Yet inside of Israel, the country's economic success is a well-kept secret.
Most Israelis operate under the impression that the country is on the verge
of economic ruin - that poor people are starving, that sick people are going
without proper medical care. The reason that most Israelis believe that the
country is teetering on the brink of an economic disaster is because the
Israeli media have consistently reported an economic narrative that has
absolutely no relationship with reality. So, while international investors
line up to invest in the Israeli economy, Israeli citizens look to socialist
politicians and pundits to save them from their capitalist nightmare of
success.

Just as they underplay Israel's economic success to advance their socialist
economic agenda, the Israeli media distort coverage of Israel's increasingly
dangerous strategic environment to increase public support for their
defeatist, left-wing world view. In both endeavors, the media are supported
and abetted by the legal system.

Events on the northern front and in Gaza over the past few days demonstrated
that Israelis are denied a free flow of accurate information regarding their
national security. On Monday, Ha'aretz reported darkly, "Iran has
transferred to Lebanon rockets that reach Beersheba." The report stated that
the Iranians recently provided their proxy Hizbullah with Zelzal-2 rockets
capable of hitting every major city in Israel.

Yet while this report is true, it is neither startling nor earth-shaking for
anyone who has been closely observing developments in south Lebanon over the
past few years. The recent shipment of Zelzal missiles does not constitute a
departure from well-formed Iranian, Syrian or Hizbullah policy patterns.

The first time that a shipment of Iranian Zelzal rockets to Hizbullah was
reported was in early 2003. Just as this week it took the media one day to
forget about this Zelzal shipment, in 2003, the reports received almost no
attention. At the time the Israeli media and the government were busy
convincing the Israeli public to support the road map which was then being
written by Yossi Beilin and Tony Blair.

Like the 2003 report before it, the meaning of this week's report is clear.
Iran today is perched on Israel's northern border.
Against the backdrop of Iran's nuclear weapons program and its ballistic
missiles capabilities, Iran's presence on the northern border dramatically
impacts Israel's national security posture. If before the IDF's withdrawal
from southern Lebanon in May 2000 Hizbullah and its state sponsor
constituted a challenging, bloody tactical threat to Israel, today they are
a strategic threat. In short, this week's story about the Zelzal missile
shipment reveals what a terrible mistake Israel's retreat from south Lebanon
was.

But the Israel media - which was the engine behind the Barak government's
decision to retreat from south Lebanon six years ago - have no interest in
informing the public of the magnitude of its error. So rather than provide
any context for Sunday's Katyusha rocket attacks on northern Israel, our
media luminaries argued among themselves about irrelevancies such as whether
the Iranian puppet Islamic Jihad or the Iranian puppet Hizbullah fired the
rockets on Sunday morning.

If the media had any interest in serving their primary function of informing
the Israeli public about its current situation, they could ask why Israel is
sitting back and allowing Hizbullah to acquire the means to attack all of
Israel's major cities. If we know that the missiles were delivered, why
didn't we blow them up at the airport or in their silos?

Since the 1950s, Israel's military doctrine has dictated that the IDF is
responsible for ensuring that our enemies do not acquire the means to cause
us strategic damage. This was the rationale that stood behind the Sinai
Campaign in 1956, the Six Day War in 1967, the strike at the Iraqi nuclear
reactor at Osirak in 1981 and countless other operations throughout the
years.

But rather than receiving context or meaningful debate, the public is fed a
diet of empty-headed drivel. Our media know-it-alls idiotically inform us
that far more IDF soldiers were killed in Lebanon when the IDF was deployed
in Lebanon than have been killed in Lebanon since the IDF withdrew from
Lebanon. No one bothers to explain that in the future many more soldiers
will likely be killed in Lebanon to neutralize the strategic threats that
have emerged in that area because soldiers who prevented the Lebanese
tactical challenge from becoming the current strategic threat were removed
from the country six years ago.

JUST AS the already forgotten report on the Zelzal missile shipment showed
how ill-advised the withdrawal from southern Lebanon was, this week two
reports revealed a no less disturbing situation in the abandoned Gaza Strip.
Tuesday, as the socialist economic gurus in the media and the government
argued in favor of slashing the IDF's budget in light of the withdrawal from
Gaza, we were informed that the IDF returned to Gaza two months ago.

Palestinian terrorists Tuesday morning videotaped Israeli forces in the
ruins of the Israeli community of Dugit attacking a Palestinian terror squad
as it prepared to launch a Kassam rocket on Ashkelon. On Wednesday the IDF
admitted that it has been deploying commandos in Gaza to prevent rocket and
missile launches for the past two months. That deployment had been kept
secret to prevent the public from learning just how ill-advised last year's
retreat was. The need to deploy ground forces in Gaza today proves
unequivocally that the only way to defend Ashkelon and the other communities
bordering Gaza from attack is by deploying IDF boots on the ground in Gaza.

Just as they distorted their coverage of the Katyusha attacks on northern
Israel on Sunday, to prevent the public from absorbing the significance of
the IDF ground operations in Gaza, the media concentrated its coverage of
the deployment of ground forces in Gaza on irrelevant side issues. All the
media turned their attention to the terror propaganda film. That film
regaled Israeli TV viewers with footage of poor terrorists dying of their
wounds just before they had the opportunity to attack Ashkelon with their
rockets.

Also on Tuesday, Channel 10 reported the unsurprising fact that the new
Hamas army that purportedly was raised to end the chaos on the streets of
Gaza, is actually devoted to fighting Israel. Channel 10 showed its viewers
a Hamas promotional video showing its terrorists graduating from basic
training.

The reporter made much of the fact that the terrorists were pictured
receiving orders from imams rather than their Iranian-sponsored Hamas
"military" commanders. It is not clear why we should care that the
terrorists giving the orders are wearing gowns rather than camouflage, but
one thing we should care about immensely was glossed over by Channel 10. The
announcer on the propaganda film declared that Hamas's allies in the east
and west are anxiously waiting for the Hamas soldiers to join them in
battle. The point of that statement is unmistakable: Hamas perceives itself
as part and parcel of the forces for global jihad and does not limit its
sites to waging war on Israel.

The fact that the same day the video was broadcast, Israel announced it had
arrested a British national who admitted to membership in Hamas demonstrates
that far from being a Palestinian nationalist group, Hamas is a member in
good standing of the global jihad army that takes its orders from Teheran.
But Channel 10 didn't think that aspect of the story held any interest for
its viewers.

PRIME MINISTER Olmert and his associates claim that in giving Kadima the
most seats in the Knesset, the Israeli public declared its support for
Olmert's plan to relinquish Judea and Samaria to Hamas. But when one
assesses the quality of the information that the public receives, the only
conclusion it is possible to reach is that Israel is suffering from market
failure in the realm of information flow and processing.

This market failure is exacerbated and maintained by constraints placed on
public debate by Israel's legal establishment. Two separate events this week
brought home this disturbing reality. First, on Monday, Attorney-General
Menachem Mazuz announced the opening of the trial of right-wing activist
Nadia Matar for the alleged crime of "insulting a public servant." Matar was
indicted after she sent a letter to Yonatan Bassi, the head of the
Disengagement Authority, where she compared him to the Judenrat in the
Holocaust. Mazuz's decision to indict Matar for her written expression
demonstrates how legal authorities have seized for themselves the power to
determine the limits of public debate in a manner unheard of in other free
societies.
In a related incident, President Moshe Katsav pardoned the heads of the now
banned Arutz 7 radio station for having committed the crime of broadcasting
without the approval of the Supreme Court. The media reacted to Katsav's
decision with hysteria and rage. Indeed, the media have reacted more calmly
to the government's decisions to release hundreds of convicted terrorists
from prison than to the president's decision to pardon Arutz 7's management
team.

The story of Arutz 7 is demonstrative of the legal system's willingness to
twist and distort law in order to make it impossible for alternative voices
to be heard by the public. In its ruling on Arutz 7 in 1998, the Supreme
Court dismissed a law passed by the Knesset that gave Arutz 7 a license to
broadcast. The Court argued strangely that by granting Arutz 7 the right to
broadcast, the Knesset had harmed regional radio stations that would have to
operate in a world in which Arutz 7 exists.
When one sees how news is distorted and truth is hidden from the Israeli
public; when one understands how the legal system in Israel constrains
permissible speech, one sees that while the Israeli economy may be chugging
along, the public consciousness of the Israeli body politic has fallen
victim to a premeditated failure of the marketplaces of information and
ideas. If the Israeli people wish to survive in an increasingly dangerous
strategic environment, ways must be found immediately for these failures to
be corrected or circumvented.

------------------------------

From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Column One: Israel's premeditated market failure

Column One: Israel's premeditated market failure
Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 31, 2006
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1148482085400&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

One of the foundations of the free market is rational choice theory. That
theory assumes that private individuals generally make decisions that
maximize their profits and utility and do so far better than any collective
organization or bureaucracy. Rational choice theory stands or falls on the
availability of information. Without the free flow of information, people
are unable to make rational choices.

In Israel, as the country's steady economic growth and high placement on
just about every significant global economic index shows, the economic
liberalization reforms enacted by former prime minister and finance minister
Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu have been a complete success. The Israeli
economy is the envy of a Europe that suffers from stagnation and decline.

Yet inside of Israel, the country's economic success is a well-kept secret.
Most Israelis operate under the impression that the country is on the verge
of economic ruin - that poor people are starving, that sick people are going
without proper medical care. The reason that most Israelis believe that the
country is teetering on the brink of an economic disaster is because the
Israeli media have consistently reported an economic narrative that has
absolutely no relationship with reality. So, while international investors
line up to invest in the Israeli economy, Israeli citizens look to socialist
politicians and pundits to save them from their capitalist nightmare of
success.

Just as they underplay Israel's economic success to advance their socialist
economic agenda, the Israeli media distort coverage of Israel's increasingly
dangerous strategic environment to increase public support for their
defeatist, left-wing world view. In both endeavors, the media are supported
and abetted by the legal system.

Events on the northern front and in Gaza over the past few days demonstrated
that Israelis are denied a free flow of accurate information regarding their
national security. On Monday, Ha'aretz reported darkly, "Iran has
transferred to Lebanon rockets that reach Beersheba." The report stated that
the Iranians recently provided their proxy Hizbullah with Zelzal-2 rockets
capable of hitting every major city in Israel.

Yet while this report is true, it is neither startling nor earth-shaking for
anyone who has been closely observing developments in south Lebanon over the
past few years. The recent shipment of Zelzal missiles does not constitute a
departure from well-formed Iranian, Syrian or Hizbullah policy patterns.

The first time that a shipment of Iranian Zelzal rockets to Hizbullah was
reported was in early 2003. Just as this week it took the media one day to
forget about this Zelzal shipment, in 2003, the reports received almost no
attention. At the time the Israeli media and the government were busy
convincing the Israeli public to support the road map which was then being
written by Yossi Beilin and Tony Blair.

Like the 2003 report before it, the meaning of this week's report is clear.
Iran today is perched on Israel's northern border.
Against the backdrop of Iran's nuclear weapons program and its ballistic
missiles capabilities, Iran's presence on the northern border dramatically
impacts Israel's national security posture. If before the IDF's withdrawal
from southern Lebanon in May 2000 Hizbullah and its state sponsor
constituted a challenging, bloody tactical threat to Israel, today they are
a strategic threat. In short, this week's story about the Zelzal missile
shipment reveals what a terrible mistake Israel's retreat from south Lebanon
was.

But the Israel media - which was the engine behind the Barak government's
decision to retreat from south Lebanon six years ago - have no interest in
informing the public of the magnitude of its error. So rather than provide
any context for Sunday's Katyusha rocket attacks on northern Israel, our
media luminaries argued among themselves about irrelevancies such as whether
the Iranian puppet Islamic Jihad or the Iranian puppet Hizbullah fired the
rockets on Sunday morning.

If the media had any interest in serving their primary function of informing
the Israeli public about its current situation, they could ask why Israel is
sitting back and allowing Hizbullah to acquire the means to attack all of
Israel's major cities. If we know that the missiles were delivered, why
didn't we blow them up at the airport or in their silos?

Since the 1950s, Israel's military doctrine has dictated that the IDF is
responsible for ensuring that our enemies do not acquire the means to cause
us strategic damage. This was the rationale that stood behind the Sinai
Campaign in 1956, the Six Day War in 1967, the strike at the Iraqi nuclear
reactor at Osirak in 1981 and countless other operations throughout the
years.

But rather than receiving context or meaningful debate, the public is fed a
diet of empty-headed drivel. Our media know-it-alls idiotically inform us
that far more IDF soldiers were killed in Lebanon when the IDF was deployed
in Lebanon than have been killed in Lebanon since the IDF withdrew from
Lebanon. No one bothers to explain that in the future many more soldiers
will likely be killed in Lebanon to neutralize the strategic threats that
have emerged in that area because soldiers who prevented the Lebanese
tactical challenge from becoming the current strategic threat were removed
from the country six years ago.

JUST AS the already forgotten report on the Zelzal missile shipment showed
how ill-advised the withdrawal from southern Lebanon was, this week two
reports revealed a no less disturbing situation in the abandoned Gaza Strip.
Tuesday, as the socialist economic gurus in the media and the government
argued in favor of slashing the IDF's budget in light of the withdrawal from
Gaza, we were informed that the IDF returned to Gaza two months ago.

Palestinian terrorists Tuesday morning videotaped Israeli forces in the
ruins of the Israeli community of Dugit attacking a Palestinian terror squad
as it prepared to launch a Kassam rocket on Ashkelon. On Wednesday the IDF
admitted that it has been deploying commandos in Gaza to prevent rocket and
missile launches for the past two months. That deployment had been kept
secret to prevent the public from learning just how ill-advised last year's
retreat was. The need to deploy ground forces in Gaza today proves
unequivocally that the only way to defend Ashkelon and the other communities
bordering Gaza from attack is by deploying IDF boots on the ground in Gaza.

Just as they distorted their coverage of the Katyusha attacks on northern
Israel on Sunday, to prevent the public from absorbing the significance of
the IDF ground operations in Gaza, the media concentrated its coverage of
the deployment of ground forces in Gaza on irrelevant side issues. All the
media turned their attention to the terror propaganda film. That film
regaled Israeli TV viewers with footage of poor terrorists dying of their
wounds just before they had the opportunity to attack Ashkelon with their
rockets.

Also on Tuesday, Channel 10 reported the unsurprising fact that the new
Hamas army that purportedly was raised to end the chaos on the streets of
Gaza, is actually devoted to fighting Israel. Channel 10 showed its viewers
a Hamas promotional video showing its terrorists graduating from basic
training.

The reporter made much of the fact that the terrorists were pictured
receiving orders from imams rather than their Iranian-sponsored Hamas
"military" commanders. It is not clear why we should care that the
terrorists giving the orders are wearing gowns rather than camouflage, but
one thing we should care about immensely was glossed over by Channel 10. The
announcer on the propaganda film declared that Hamas's allies in the east
and west are anxiously waiting for the Hamas soldiers to join them in
battle. The point of that statement is unmistakable: Hamas perceives itself
as part and parcel of the forces for global jihad and does not limit its
sites to waging war on Israel.

The fact that the same day the video was broadcast, Israel announced it had
arrested a British national who admitted to membership in Hamas demonstrates
that far from being a Palestinian nationalist group, Hamas is a member in
good standing of the global jihad army that takes its orders from Teheran.
But Channel 10 didn't think that aspect of the story held any interest for
its viewers.

PRIME MINISTER Olmert and his associates claim that in giving Kadima the
most seats in the Knesset, the Israeli public declared its support for
Olmert's plan to relinquish Judea and Samaria to Hamas. But when one
assesses the quality of the information that the public receives, the only
conclusion it is possible to reach is that Israel is suffering from market
failure in the realm of information flow and processing.

This market failure is exacerbated and maintained by constraints placed on
public debate by Israel's legal establishment. Two separate events this week
brought home this disturbing reality. First, on Monday, Attorney-General
Menachem Mazuz announced the opening of the trial of right-wing activist
Nadia Matar for the alleged crime of "insulting a public servant." Matar was
indicted after she sent a letter to Yonatan Bassi, the head of the
Disengagement Authority, where she compared him to the Judenrat in the
Holocaust. Mazuz's decision to indict Matar for her written expression
demonstrates how legal authorities have seized for themselves the power to
determine the limits of public debate in a manner unheard of in other free
societies.
In a related incident, President Moshe Katsav pardoned the heads of the now
banned Arutz 7 radio station for having committed the crime of broadcasting
without the approval of the Supreme Court. The media reacted to Katsav's
decision with hysteria and rage. Indeed, the media have reacted more calmly
to the government's decisions to release hundreds of convicted terrorists
from prison than to the president's decision to pardon Arutz 7's management
team.

The story of Arutz 7 is demonstrative of the legal system's willingness to
twist and distort law in order to make it impossible for alternative voices
to be heard by the public. In its ruling on Arutz 7 in 1998, the Supreme
Court dismissed a law passed by the Knesset that gave Arutz 7 a license to
broadcast. The Court argued strangely that by granting Arutz 7 the right to
broadcast, the Knesset had harmed regional radio stations that would have to
operate in a world in which Arutz 7 exists.
When one sees how news is distorted and truth is hidden from the Israeli
public; when one understands how the legal system in Israel constrains
permissible speech, one sees that while the Israeli economy may be chugging
along, the public consciousness of the Israeli body politic has fallen
victim to a premeditated failure of the marketplaces of information and
ideas. If the Israeli people wish to survive in an increasingly dangerous
strategic environment, ways must be found immediately for these failures to
be corrected or circumvented.

------------------------------

From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: BBC back in Beirut after 15-year hiatus

BBC back in Beirut after 15-year hiatus
UK media giant seeds bureau with 2 local correspondents
By Lysandra Ohrstrom
Daily Star staff Wednesday, May 31, 2006
www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=24860

BEIRUT: The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) reopened its Lebanon
Bureau this month after a 15-year break that began in the early 1990s. Two
local correspondents - Kim Ghattas for the English news service and Nada
Abdel Samad for an Arabic news service to be launched in 2007 - will cover
Lebanon and Syria from the new downtown headquarters in Riad al-Solh square,
occupying the same building as the Associated Press.

In a homecoming of sorts, one of the BBC's most seasoned Middle East
correspondents, Jim Muir, will report regional politics from Beirut after an
almost three-decade hiatus. The peripatetic, self-proclaimed "Arabist" moved
on to stints managing the BBC's regional branches in Cairo and Tehran after
"it went quiet in the 90's around the time of Taif."

"I reported all major events in Lebanon in the 70's and 80's, but I had to
leave (for Cyprus) in 1980 because I was on a Syrian hit list," Muir told
the Daily Star at Tuesday's reception at the new headquarters.

"When I first came here in 1975, I landed behind the Cinema Orient and could
see immediately that Beirut was just so full of life, and then it became a
battle field obviously. Now the country has come back to life, and the new
downtown is a symbol of this," Muir said.

The BBC has continued to report from Lebanon despite the closure of its
Beirut offices through a combination of local and visiting journalists. Its
new Lebanon desk will be bigger than the Amman office, where it has a
minimal presence, but smaller that the regional hub in Cairo, and -
depending on the security situation - its branches in Baghdad and Jerusalem.
But Simon Wilson, the editor of the BBC's Middle East Bureau, aims to expand
the networks' Middle East operations eventually.

"My ambition in the future will be to open a bureau in Damascus for the
Arabic News Service, but at the moment this is the appropriate size for
covering the two countries, and if there is a big story other regional
correspondents can come to support Nada and Kim," he said.

Wilson acknowledged that the timing of the decision to reopen the BBC's
Lebanon desk was influenced by the political developments following former
Premier Rafik Hariri's assassination and the Syrian withdrawal, though he is
careful to emphasize that "we never completely left."

"This is a big vote of confidence in Beirut and our team here," Wilson said.

"We think Lebanon is at a crossroads right now, politically, socially, and
geographically."

------------------------------

From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Fateh Central Committee Agrees upon
Conducting General Referendum

Fateh Central Committee Agrees upon Conducting General Referendum
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=6454

TUNIS, June 1, 2006 (WAFA - PLO news agency)- Fateh Central Committee agreed
upon conducting general referendum on basis of the National Reconciliation
Document proposed by pioneer Palestinian prisoners, if National Dialogue did
not reach conclusion.

In presence of President Mamoud Abbas, the Central Committee held Wednesday
night a meeting at the residence of its Secretary Farouk Kaddomi in Tunis.

Fateh Central Committee member, Ahmad Qurei told Thursday WAFA, that the
committee thoroughly discussed the prisoners document, considering it as a
basis for the National Dialogue.

He added the Committee agreed upon reactivating the PLO, revealing that
there would be a meeting in the near future between Palestinian factions to
discuss the issue of reactivation.

(14:40 P) (11:40 GMT)

------------------------------

From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Head of The PFLP Infrastructure in Nablus Arrested

June 2nd 2006
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Attributed to "security sources" [Distributed by the IDF Spokesperson's
Office]

Head of the PFLP infrastructure in Nablus arrested

In a joint IDF and ISA operation early this morning, June 2nd 2006, security
forces arrested senior PFLP operative Jawwad Quabaya, in the Evangelistic
hospital in Nablus, where he was treated for an injury sustained during an
exchange of fire with an IDF force last week.

In the past several months Quabaya stood at the head of the PFLP
infrastructure in Nablus, and was responsible for recruiting many suicide
bombers. Quabaya also attempted to direct various terror attacks and was
involved in the manufacturing of explosives and explosive belts for the PFLP
infrastructure in the city of Nablus.

In the past year Quabaya had been involved in several attempts to carry out
attacks, including an attempt to blow up an IDF post in the village of Jit,
west of Nablus, which was thwarted due the soldierss' alertness.

In December 2005 he attempted to dispatch a car bomb attack into Israel.

In January 2006 Quabaya recruited several youths and minors in order to
carry out suicide attacks in Israel. These attacks were thwarted with the
arrest of the potential suicide bombers.

In addition Quabaya had been involved in dispatching shooting attacks at IDF
soldiers in the city of Nablus and attempts to detonate explosive devices on
main routs in the area surrounding the city.

Following his arrest this morning, Quabaya was transferred to an Israeli
hospital for further treatment.

------------------------------

From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Syria concluded what termed a major military exercise

Syria has concluded what was termed a major military exercise

NICOSIA [MENL] -- Syria has concluded what was termed a major military
exercise.

Western diplomatic sources said the Syrian Army concluded a live fire
exercise that featured main battle tanks and artillery. The sources said the
exercise took place in late May and was one of the largest maneuvers in
years.

"It was a show of force, that's for certain," a Western source said. "What
it demonstrated was not really clear."

The exercise was attended by Syrian President Bashar Assad. On May 29, Assad
told the military command to prepare to counter any foreign invasion. He did
not elaborate.
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Subject: U.S. DELAYS IRAN STRIKE FEASIBILITY TEST

U.S. DELAYS IRAN STRIKE FEASIBILITY TEST

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States, amid plans to negotiate with
Teheran, has delayed a test that could determine the feasibility of an air
strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.

The Defense Department has canceled a test meant to examine the use of huge
amounts of explosives to destroy underground bunkers of the type that
conceal Iran's nuclear weapons program. The U.S. Air Force test was to have
taken place on June 2 in the Nevada desert.

But two days before the exercise, termed "Divine Strake," the Pentagon said
the blast impact demonstration would not take place. No new date was set.

"The experiment, originally scheduled for June 2, 2006, will not be
conducted earlier than June 23, 2006," the Pentagon's Defense Threat
Reduction Agency said in a statement.
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Subject: PALESTINIANS RISE IN SUNNI INSURGENCY

PALESTINIANS RISE IN SUNNI INSURGENCY

BAGHDAD [MENL] -- The U.S. military has determined that Palestinians have
become senior operatives in the Sunni insurgency in Iraq.

Officials said an increasing number of Palestinians have joined Al
Qaida-aligned groups in Iraq. They said most of the Palestinians, estimated
at more than 100, entered Baghdad from Syria and Jordan over the last 18
months and helped plan suicide car bombings.

"They came into Iraq posing as students or those visiting family," an
official said. "We believe some of them were sent by Palestinian groups."

On May 30, Iraqi and U.S. troops captured three Palestinians identified as
leaders of insurgency cells in Baghdad. The Palestinians were said to have
recruited students from Baghdad Technical University and ordered them to
plant bombs near Iraqi police and army positions.
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Subject: Hamas demands amendments on the Arab peace
initiative

Hamas Demands Review on Arab Initiative
www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=16340

GAZA, Palestine, June 1,2006 (IPC+ Agencies) [Official PA website]- -In
response to Egypt and Saudi Arabia call for Hamas to recognize the Arab
Initiative, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas demanded amendments on
the Arab peace initiative embraced in Beirut 2002 to press on Israel to live
up with the Palestinian demands.

Hamas's spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri, said that Hamas will not change it
position regarding the initiative as long as the Israeli government did
disagree it.

Abu Zuhri added that should Israel accept it "each incident has a say."

Beirut peace initiative offered normalization of the Arab states ties with
Israel traded for Israel Israeli withdrawal from the entire Arab territories
occupied in June 1967 and the establishment of a Palestinians state.

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Saudi King Abdullah yesterday held talks
in Sharm el-Sheikh red resort on efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace
talks.

Ambassador Suleiman Awad , spokesperson of the Egyptian presidency, said
following the summit " Egypt , Saudi Arabia and all Arab inclination call
Hamas to recognize the Arab Beirut initiative , we do not speak about the
demands by the International community but about the Arab initiative
sketched out by Saudi Arabia and endorsed in Beirut summit and reaffirmed by
the consequent summits.'

Mr. Awad underlined on the desperate need for all the Palestinian factions
to handle issues of the Palestinian people interests with much more
discernment and his hope to establish a Palestinian state and cope with the
pretenses of no irrelevant Palestinian partners in peace process with much
more responsibility.

About efforts have been making to amend the Beirut Summit to bring Hamas to
recognize it, the Ambassador Awad that no way to do so as the initiative won
landslide endorsement by the Arab leaders and reaffirmed their firm stick
with it in the many Arab conferences the latest was Al Khartoum Summit.

He made clear that the initiative is no need to be resurrected as it did not
pronounce dead and still set forth as agreed upon Arab choice, looking at
peace as a strategic option.. Full peace traded for full recognition and
normalization.

About Egyptain efforts to prompt the USA administration and Israel to change
their stances and allow aid deliveries to the Palestinians, Awad said " it's
the only thing preoccupy our minds

Ambassador Awad explained that the mechanism has been formed by the European
Union guarantee re-flow of aids to the Palestinian people and should be
finalized as soon as possible.

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Terrorists Captured In Syria Got Weapons
from Neighboring Country

Terrorists Captured Got Weapons from Neighboring Country
Friday, June 02, 2006 - 10:15 AM
www.sana.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&newlang=eng&sid=38531&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

DAMASCUS, (SANA - Syrian News Agency) - Primary investigations into the
arrested terrorists who tried to infiltrate this morning into buildings
Western Damascus were provided with weapons from a neighboring country,
interior ministry said Friday.

An official source at the ministry said "primary investigations of the
arrested terrorists showed that until last Ramadan ( the fasting month in
Islam) last October; they were following one of the Sufi ways, then they
joined a Takfiri group ( Islamic fanatic militant group)."

The source noted that "arms were supplied to the group by a neighboring
country to stage sabotage acts aimed at vital targets and national
interests."

The source underlined that the arrested terrorists would be sent to the
specialized judiciary after completing the investigation.

The source clarified that an armed clash took place at 6,15 h this morning
among members of the fighting terror units froces and a terrorist group
including ten members when they tried to infiltrate into a deserted building
near the general customs headquarters Western Damascus.

" The clash led to the killing of four armed terrorists and the martyrdom of
a member of the fighting terror forces while the other terrorists were
arrested, two of them wounded," the source said.

It added that ten US guns were confiscated from the group with their
ammunition and an other ammunition in addition to locally made explosives
together with tapes recording including religious preaches and other arms.

Sawsan

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