Gregory, Stephanopoulos ignored, downplayed NBC report that U.S. officials rushed UK to make terror arrests

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Gregory, Stephanopoulos ignored, downplayed NBC report that U.S. officials rushed UK to make terror arrests In Terrorism On the August 13 edition of NBC's Meet the Press, guest host and NBC News chief White House correspondent David Gregory interviewed Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff about the recently foiled British terror plot, but Gregory failed to question Chertoff about an August 12 report by his own network that, while British officials had intended to continue surveillance on the suspected plotters, U.S. authorities had pressured them to arrest the suspects sooner. Meanwhile, on the August 13 edition of ABC's This Week, host George Stephanopoulos noted this report, but left the false impression that the allegations were the product of the "blogosphere," rather than of a major news outlet. In an August 12 article on the NBC News website, the network's investigative unit, including reporters Aram Roston and Lisa Myers, reported that U.S. authorities had objected to a plan by the British police to "continue to run surveillance for at least another week to try to obtain more evidence" on the terror suspects. They attributed the story to a senior British official: NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the alleged plot to bring down trans-Atlantic airliners bound for the United States. A senior British official knowledgeable about the case said British police were planning to continue to run surveillance for at least another week to try to obtain more evidence, while American officials pressured them to arrest the suspects sooner. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the case. In contrast to previous reports, the official suggested an attack was not imminent, saying the suspects had not yet purchased any airline tickets. In fact, some did not even have passports. [...] At the White House, a top aide to President Bush denied the account. "There was unprecedented cooperation and coordination between the U.S., the U.K. and Pakistani officials throughout the case," said Frances Townsend, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, "and we worked together to protect our citizens from harm while ensuring that we gathered as much info as possible to bring the plotters to justice. There was no disagreement between U.S. and U.K. officials." Another U.S. official, however, acknowledges there was disagreement over timing. Analysts say that in recent years, American security officials have become edgier than the British in such cases because of missed opportunities leading up to 9/11. In his 12-minute interview with Chertoff, Gregory brought up the issue of "our coordination with British authorities," asking, "What worked here?" But Gregory failed to question Chertoff regarding the reported disagreement, despite the fact that his own network had broken the story a day earlier. From the August 13 interview: GREGORY: Let me ask you about our coordination with British authorities. What worked here? CHERTOFF: Well, what worked is deep relationships; trust -- the fact that we did not have leaks prior to the takedown. You know, that's one of the critical lessons out of this whole thing. The British trusted us with very sensitive information, and they were able to do it because they were confident we weren't going to leak. That's why leaks are so pernicious. Not only do they actually reveal secrets, but they undercut the basis of trust, which is the foundation of our whole international effort. On the August 13 edition of ABC's This Week, Stephanopoulos noted the allegations that the United States had rushed the United Kingdom to make the arrests while "the Brits wanted to wait," but he left the impression that the story had been reported by bloggers. Stephanopoulos brought up the report after syndicated columnist George Will said, "I'm sure somewhere out in that fog of paranoia we call the blogosphere, there are all kinds of people writing that the British police ... and the Bush administration timed this all to counter" the political fallout from Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's loss in the August 8 Connecticut Democratic primary to anti-Iraq war candidate Ned Lamont. Stephanopoulos responded, "[T]here certainly is," and noted, "There was one report that said the United States ... rushed this -- the Brits wanted to wait." But Stephanopoulos failed to mention that this report had come from NBC News, not the blogosphere. From the August 13 edition of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos: WILL: I'm sure somewhere out in that fog of paranoia we call the blogosphere, there are all kinds of people writing that the British police and the Pakistani police and the Bush administration timed all this to counter the Lamont -- STEPHANOPOULOS: I was reading -- I was reading on the internet last night -- there certainly is. MARTHA RADDATZ (ABC News chief White House correspondent): Funny about that conspiracy, huh? STEPHANAPOULOS: There was one report that said the United States rushed -- rushed this -- the Brits wanted to wait. I'm not verifying this. I'm just reporting it.

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South Tower Fly-By in Both "Live" 2nd Hit Videos By Spooked In an earlier analysis of 2nd hit videos, I found that the plane position in the "CNN wide" video did not line up at all with the plane in another 2nd hit video-- the "blue plane" FOX video. I also found, somewhat unexpectedly, that the plane in the "CNN wide" video was much further away from the towers than I expected. In fact, in retrospect, I didn't even need Flight Simulator to tell me this. If one simply looks at the picture here: you can see the plane is still a way from the towers, particularly given the distance of the camera and the resulting perspective. This finding made me wonder if other 2nd hit videos showed a similar phenomenon. So I looked at this famous ABC "live" shot, that I have discussed in the past. I modeled this shot as carefully as I could using flight simulator-- in particular I tried to get the right angle of the building and the right size of the plane: Interestingly, though, this plane is also quite a ways off from the towers as judged by the "blue plane" video angle: And way off, according to the "CNN wide" video angle (note, the plane should be on the other, west, side of the building) And looking from above, the plane is not so far from the south tower, but clearly is not on the right trajectory for the tower. Keep in mind, that for the simulations above, I have not changed the plane position AT ALL, merely changed the camera angle. So this finding suggests that the plane is actually MISSING the towers, and flying to the east of the towers. This is actually consistent with the CNN video (as shown in the link above) and with the Blue plane video. Now, let's look at the other video of the 2nd hit that was shown live, the so-called Salter video (named for who it came from): Here's the plane coming into this video: As you can see, the towers are in near profile, as is the plane. We know the width of the towers: 208 feet. And a Boeing 767-200 is 160 feet long. Since the plane came in at almost a perpendicular angle to the tower, there should be little foreshortening of the plane, and the ratio of the plane to the towers should be about 0.77. The ratio of the plane to the towers here is 0.69, when only the west wall is measured (the towers show a little bit of northern wall in the photo). This suggests the plane is in fact a bit further away than it should be to hit the towers, and thus is smaller. I did some modeling of this shot, but going about it a different way than above: Here is the camera view-- very far away to the west as in the video: Here is a zoom-in, showing the plane close to the towers, similar to the shot from the video: You can see the trajectory is just right to hit the south tower in this modeling: Now, what is the ratio of the plane length to the tower width in this simulation? Keep in mind we are measuring just the west wall width, not the complete width of the towers. The ratio is 0.8-- close to the 0.77 ideal ratio. This indicates that the smaller ratio in the ACTUAL video indicates that the plane was either farther away than it had to be to hit the building-- or the wrong plane was used, or the video was faked somehow. What is we keep the plane where it is and compare it to the ABC live shot I analyzed above: It looks very similar! But what about the plane size? The ratio of the plane to the overall building width here in this model is: 0.37 The ratio of the plane to the overall building width here in the actual video is: 0.34 (in other words, smaller). In the ABC "live" model from above, the ratio of the plane to the overall building width here in the actual video is: 0.33-- fairly close to the video shot. Taken together, we have four videos of the 2nd hit now, that were shown early on the morning of 9/11, that show the plane missing the towers and going off to the east. This suggests either: 1) the plane that hit the towers was not a Boeing 767-200, but a smaller plane, or 2) the videos filmed a Boeing 767-200 flying past the towers then manipulated the video to make it seem as though the plane hit (i.e. vut out the plane continuing on past the towers), or 3) the videos show a computer generated image that is too small for a Boeing 767-200. My guess is a plane did fly past the towers at some point, and this was spliced into footage of the towers exploding. This would be somewhat easier than completeley generating plane video from scratch. The question is WHEN did the plane fly past?

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Stan Goff: Air Travel Under Orange Alert By Stan Goff on Iraq August 10, 2006 was my mom's 81st birthday. I hadn't seen her in over two years, so last month I booked a flight from my home in Raleigh, North Carolina to Little Rock, Arkansas. Mom lives in Hot Springs, where there is a big sign at the city limits that says "The Boyhood Home of President Bill Clinton," with an amusement park roller coaster track in the background. I reserved tickets to fly to Arkansas on August 9th, with a return flight August 12th. My relatives are all busy Arkansans, mostly watching their household budgets, with family dramas that sprout like dandelions. The only internet hook-up is my sister's dial-up that takes around 45 minutes to load anything with an image. The legions of dusty, abraded grandkids and great-grandkids, who are rotated among the family to accommodate work schedules, like kids throughout the US of A, watch neuron-sedating television cartoons while they ingest sugar and food dye. My mom watches a channel with black-and-white movies. The fact that a raccoon tipped over the trash last night has a lot more currency than anything Wolf Blitzer might have to say. My point is I was cut off, thankfully, from what passes for news. I did not know that the ersatz journalists of print and airwave were, in their usual hyperventilative way, attempting to put the whole world on tenterhooks about some alleged plot to blow up airplanes with hair gel and Game Boys. It was my mother, who is attracted to any whiff of the apocalypse like a Bedouin to an oasis, heard about it on her car radio (yes, she still drives... often for thousands of miles... mostly by sense of smell). In the spirit of Arkansas tale-telling, by the time she relayed the terrifying news to me, it was clear that I would board the plane without bags and probably be disrobed, hermetically sealed in non-flammable plastic, and drugged before I was allowed to take my assigned seat. So I tuned in to Mom's television, as sticky great-nieces and great-nephews clambered over me. The high-priests of paranoia gushed away on CNN and MSNBC (FOX still causes me to experience unwelcome mortar-firing fantasies). The usual parade of know-nothing terrorism experts came aboard to answer questions designed to render the reality of the plot axiomatic. There was even an appearance -- I swear this is true -- by some macho-bizarro caricature who calls himself "Dog the Bounty Hunter." Dog's appearance can only be described as retro-mescaline. He was presented as "a terrorism expert." I was completely frustrated, however, in any attempt to understand what the sources were for this story, and what actual evidence had been collected to support the nefarious plot's existence. I know these are pedestrian concerns in times of such mortal peril. Perhaps I have become as lunatic as those people who refuse to leave their homes before volcanoes and hurricanes, though at least they seem to be warned by geologists and meteorologists. From what I could discern, we were being warned by governments -- by the governments of George W. Bush and Tony Blair, no less. Is it really too irascible of me to point out a fairly consistent history of co-conspirator delinquency here? That they were aided by the government of... uh, Pervez Musharraf? Now the same "news" media are branding those if us who still have a shred of skepticism as conspiracy theorists. That's a good one, especially from people who claim to have uncovered a plot by dozens of people to blow up an untold number of airplanes using toothpaste, hair cream, or root beer floats. From a government, in our case at least, that now claims it was tracking the case "for weeks," but that is just now warning the public that we were moments away from (oh, no hyperbole here) "mass murder on an inimaginable scale." Time Magazine wrote that script, carefully coached, no doubt, by whomever is doing Scooter Libby's job these days with whomsoever is the equivalent of Judith Miller. Unimaginable? That means... what? More than Iraq? Dresden? Auschwitz? Native America? The Middle Passage? Hiroshima? But back to my flying story... I left Hot Springs for Little Rock, a one-hour drive, at noon in order to be ahe4ad of time for a 4 PM departure. I'm always compulsively early, a holdover from my years in the Army, but I had no idea what kind of "security" buffoonery I might encounter on this trip, so I brought along a copy of the latest Adbusters magazine, a 1997 Maize Magazine published by Arkansas Land Lesbians (yes, there is such a thing), and Alice Walker's "Anything We Love Can Be Saved" to help me wile away my temporal extension in Fluorescent Hell. My expectation, based on Mom's interpretation of unfolding events, was that all baggage would have to be checked. I seldom check bags these days, even if it means wearing my socks for two days, because there is a special order by the government out to all airlines to misplace my luggage. So I stuck a strip of masking tape on every conceivable side of my old backpack and my rollaway mini-suitcase with the flight numbers and final destination as insurance against them disappearing in to some kind of corporate-bureaucratic ditch. My suitcase was full of documents related to an investigative venture, and the marginal notes that were accumulated therein were pretty much irreplaceable. When I arrived at Little Rock Airport it was swarming with underpaid, non-unionized TSA people who'd been posted in squads in front of the x-ray conveyors, at the usual posts, albeit in larger numbers, with the metal detectors, and even in front of some of the boarding gates. I asked one of the people at the ticketing desk if all baggage had to be checked, and she explained the rules. Nothing soft and wet... not even the half-gallon bottle of water I was drinking. "If I drink some of it in front of them," I asked, "can I keep the bottle of water?" "No," she explained patiently. "You'll have to drink it before you go in. You can buy more water once you are inside, but you can't take that on the airplane." Made sense to me. If I were a suicide airplane bomber, I'd have no problem chugging my gasoline or peroxide or botulinum toxin in front of TSA officials and pretending it was as smooth as Mountain Valley spring water. At least I didn't have to relinquish custody of my documents. Only my potential bomb-making material would have to be checked... toothpaste, shampoo, antiseptic cream. The slackers at Homeland Security had not considered the possibility that I might construct a slow chemical time-fuse to ignite a tube of fuselage-melting mousse. When I was checked again at the gate, they rummaged through the redacted government papers and my subversive literature, overlooking the sedition right there in front of them in their obsession to identify bathroom bombardiers. They even allowed me on board with a pack of chewing gum, never suspecting that it might be C-4 plastic explosive. One gentleman, taken by surprise at the prepare-to-board call, was forced to gulp a huge milkshake. I almost got a brain-freeze from watching him. My layover was in Memphis, where I tried hard to focus on Alice Walker's poetry as a defense against the incessant CNN drivel that is pumped out at all airline passengers in the United States. Gone were the internecine battles within the Republican Party. Gone was the defeat of Lieberman over the war. Gone was the destruction of Lebanon. Gone was Tony Blair's crooked fund-raiser. Gone was Iraq... Gone, gone, gone... There was an Orange Alert, and those of using the nation's airports were gulping, gulping, gulping down liquids to satisfy Michael Chertoff that we wouldn't smuggle mass death aboard disguised as a latte. As always, however, the press was vigilant. The flagship New York Times had written on the 11th (at least in its on-line version), "Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said new restrictions imposed on travelers reflected a belief that the plotters planned to use liquids, 'each one of which would be benign, but mixed together could be used to create a bomb.'" As the public began to comment on how vague this seemed as the basis for wasting milkshakes and bottled water, the wording was changed to "Mr. Chertoff said the attackers planned to carry explosive material and detonation components disguised as beverages, electronic devices and other common objects' onto the planes." Judith Miller worked for the Times, too. But I suppose I am just a conspiracy theorist... an odd one, however, that is saying "be less afraid," lest we all allow ourselves to be made bigger nitwits than Dog the Bounty Hunter or Tony (the poodle) Blair. Link

Miri Eisen, Mother For Peace, Justifies Killing Arab Kids And Arab Bloggers See the Light

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Miri Eisen, Mother For Peace, Justifies Killing Arab Kids And Arab Bloggers See the Light Friday, August 11, 2006 And here we have two North American chicks coming "home" to Israel. These are the type of gals with whom naive Arab bloggers, self-professed "moderates," swap hummus recipes. Or used to...Lebanon has been a wake-up call. The Christian Science Monitor writes that the Arab and North American transplant Zionist bloggers aren't seeing eye-to-eye so much nowadays. Pity that they no longer will be used by Zionist propagandists to put a good face on Israel. Like Miri Eisen, a transplanted American, who is hailed as a "Mother For Peace," along with Vichy Palestinian Noni Darwish, who comes on CNN to put a nice face on Israel's slaughter of handicapped Lebanese kids. At least Rosemary Church of CNN International didn't let her get away with it (this is a great video). And, we have a family of Lebanese refugees, fleeing Southern Lebanon, to make Israel a safe place for transplant American yuppies. My letter to Christian Science Monitor re the above linked story: Dear Editor: Jews and Arabs co-existed for centuries before the onslaught of political Zionism. So-called "moderate" Arab bloggers who pride themselves on forging on-line relationships with Israeli bloggers, many of them transplants from North America, are naively allowing themselves to be used to put a good face on Israel. Israel's barbarism in Lebanon has perhaps opened their eyes once and for all to the effects of political Zionism. No one should feel good about comparing hummus recipes with privileged Americans who transplant themselves to Israel to live in historic Palestine, ninety-two percent of which was usurped by Israel from its rightful owners, who were expelled by Israel in 1948 and now are bombed in their Lebanese refugee camps. # posted by umkahlil @ 1:23 PM http://umkahlil.blogspot.com/2006/08/miri-eisen-mother-for-peace-justifies.html Comments

TERROR PLOTTERS HAD NEITHER TICKETS OR PASSPORTS

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TERROR PLOTTERS HAD NEITHER TICKETS OR PASSPORTS By cosmici I knew something like this would come out, but we'll see whether it gets any play. MSNBC: ...In contrast to previous reports, the official suggested an attack was not imminent, saying the suspects had not yet purchased any airline tickets. In fact, some did not even have passports.... [*] So.... like the Toronto and Florida "plots" could be just another far-fetched fantasy perpetuated by government agents? Could it be like the article below says, "induced, controlled terror for political purposes"? No, no, it couldn't be -after all, agent provocateurs don't get paid for hatching plots, do they? And counter-intel folks don't get promoted for busting them. And the government doesn't get to look good in the war on terror. And the media doesn't get increased viewers and advertising. And the governing party doesn't swiftly increase fundraising. No, no. None of these things happen in this best of all possible worlds.

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[UrukNet] - [Daily Information from Occupied Iraq] - [newsletter 12 Aug 2006 - Part two]

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Fighting Jim Crow in Israel Mike Whitney Ideas have consequences, and the effects of a racist ideology are suffering and destruction. The growing similarity between the debris-strewn Levant and the Gaza Strip are not accidental; they are the predictable results of a world-view which places the value of one people above another. In Israel, there is a two-tiered system of justice; one for Jews and another for non Jews; full-citizenship for Israeli-Jews and "Jim Crow" for Arabs. Is that acceptable Property rights,! marriage, citizenship and nearly every other area of legal protection are corrupted by the effects of institutionalized racism. We believe that there are no "second class" citizens, that every man deserves equal protection under the law. That is the fundamental principle of democracy. Israel calls itself a democracy, but its prevailing ethos of Zionism precludes an evenhanded application of the law... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25708 Reflections on the Israeli holocaust in Lebanon Khalid Amayreh The month-long Nazi-like Israeli blitz in Lebanon, which has destroyed the bulk of the country’s civilian infrastructure and killed and maimed thousands of Lebanese civilians is probably redefining and morphing our world in many respects. Indeed, while Lebanon was being raped and decapitated, the world watched helplessly, silently even gleefully, as Israel’s diabolical war machine annihilated innocent civilians by the thousands and utterly destroyed h! omes, bridges, schools, mosques, power stations, airports as well as entire neighborhoods... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25714 Video Israel Doesn’t Want You to See Sabbah's blog The Israeli army has expressed a note of contrition after a television station aired a videotape showing an army assault on a Palestinian home in which a mother of five children died (...) Huda Hawarjeh was one of seven people to die in the Bethlehem area that day. The Israeli army allows the media such close access on the understanding it can embargo anything it doesn’t want broadcast. The tapes of the assault on the Hawarjeh home fell into that category. But Ch! annel 2 broke the embargo anyway. The army, government and many Israeli citizens didn’t like what they saw. Channel 2 showed Hawarjeh begging soldiers to allow an ambulance through. The camera captured the terror of the woman’s daughter, and her brother’s attempt to stop her from showing the soldiers her fear... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25713 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 12 August 2006. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. ...In a dispatch posted at 5:05pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US occupation troops shot and killed in cold blood a 15-year-old Iraqi boy in ar-Ramadi, about 110km west of Baghdad Friday morning. The ar-Ramadi correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported al-Hajjah Khalidah Faraj al-'Alwani as saying, "The American forces e! xecuted my son behind the city courthouse," without providing any further details as she collapsed before the body of her son. Neighbors of the victim, however, explained that the boy had been arrested two days earlier by the Americans during a campaign of arrests in the city... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25712 SNAPSHOTS OF THE CASUALTIES The Voice of Cornwall The child on the hospital bed was no more than a skeleton with a parchment of skin stretched over him. When I placed my palm on the hollow of his stomach there was no response. When I looked close into his dilated eyes, not a flicker. They were dead, brown orbs in their sockets. The doctor at the El Wafa hospital in Gaza explained that the boys in this room were almost entirely brain-dead. The medical staff cared for them as best they could. But soon they would di! e, in their vegetative state, from the head wounds they had suffered from Israeli mortars, shells and bullets. The impression of that boy flickered over my mind this week. The pity and the pitilessness of it all. Yet he and the others were only a few of the child casualties. Multiply them many times over. Magnify the extremities of their wounds. And then fast forward a few years... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25711 Is an Armament Sickening U.S. Soldiers? Deborah Hastings, AP It takes at least 10 minutes and a large glass of orange juice to wash down all the pills — morphine, methadone, a muscle relaxant, an antidepressant, a stool softener. Viagra for sexual dysfunction. Valium for his nerves. Four hours later, Herbert Reed will swallow another 15 mg of morphine to cut the pain clenching every part of his body. He will do it twice more before the day is done. Since he left a bombed-out train depot in Iraq, his gums bleed. T! here is more blood in his urine, and still more in his stool. Bright light hurts his eyes. A tumor has been removed from his thyroid. Rashes erupt everywhere, itching so badly they seem to live inside his skin. Migraines cleave his skull. His joints ache, grating like door hinges in need of oil (...) "I'm just a zombie walking around," he says. Reed believes depleted uranium has contaminated him and his life... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25709 Descent Into Moral Barbarism Should Alan Dershowitz Target Himself for Assassination? NORMAN FINKELSTEIN As Israel's military bravely fires away shells and missiles to lay waste the fragile human and physical infrastructure of Lebanon, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, waging battle on a second front to legitimize Israel's criminal aggression, bravely fires away op-eds from his foxhole at Martha's Vineyard to lay waste the fragile infrastructure of international law. These are but the latest salvo! es in Dershowitz's long and distinguished career of apologetics on behalf of his Holy State. Since becoming a born-again Zionist after the June 1967 war Dershowitz has justified each and all of Israel's egregious violations of international law. In recent years he has used the "war on terrorism" as a springboard for a full frontal assault on this body of law... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25704 Letter from Lebanon The Proximity of Death BARUCHA PELLER Death is close here. And some of us are not as close to death as others. The south of Lebanon is cut off from humanitarian aid. Here on the north side of the Litani River, the people in the south, taking the worse of the missiles and mortars of the Israel aggression, are always on our minds. There are whispers in the back of our thoughts: "How long do they have? How can we possibly get to them?" The roads and the bridges are bombed, cut and scar! red. Israel has banned movement south in the south. Any car that's on the road can be hit. UN convoys, ambulances, the BBC, the big names and those with Israeli clearances, have been hit. Now hunger hits bellies in the south. Their thirst must fit the water. There is no more. No medication for chronic illness, or for sicknesses caused by drinking polluted tap water in desperation, sicknesses that twist your intestines and swiftly take the lives of children... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25703 The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned Chris Floyd In the oceans of newsprint and tsunamis of pixels expended on the London bomb plot stories over the last two days, I don't recall seeing -- anywhere, either in the US or UK media -- that one little word which differentiates honest journalism from the noxious regurgitations of state propaganda: "alleged." Everywhere, you read that a "bomb plot was thwarted" -- not an alleged bomb plot. Everywhere, you read that the plotters (or most of them) have been captured -- no! t the "alleged" plotters. Everywhere, whatever line is being laid down by "intelligence officials" and government poo-bahs is accepted uncritically and megaphoned out to the public. Everywhere the presumption of innocence -- one of the bedrock liberties of the "way of life" that we are supposed to be defending -- is gleefully tossed aside... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25702 WAR NEWS FOR SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 2006 Today in Iraq In Amara, a town in the mainly Shiite southern region, gunmen killed two former members of the Baath party. Two U.S soldiers were killed Saturday when their foot patrol was hit by a roadside bomb south of Baghdad. In central Baghdad, police said two civilians were killed and three wounded in a roadside bomb attack aimed at a police patrol on one of the city's main highways. One body was discovered in Baghdad on Saturday. A roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi a! rmy patrol west of Baghdad, killing two Iraqi soldiers. An Iraqi police captain was shot dead as he was going to work in Baquba... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25701 www.uruknet.info: a site gathering daily information concerning occupied Iraq: news, analysis, documents and texts of iraqi resistance available in Italian and English.   You receive this newsletter because you subscribed it. If you think it was an abuse, or simply if you don't want to receive it any more, click here to unsubscribe from the newsletter.

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Padilla case said to lack evidence In law A federal judge has expressed doubts about the strength of the government's terror conspiracy case against Jose Padilla and others, ordering prosecutors to provide more evidence of alleged violent activities overseas.

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The London Plot By Anwaar Hussain Something is Rotten in the State of DenmarkBy Anwaar HussainA huge ‘terrorist plot’ has just been uncovered in London. “This was intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale” say the London Metropolitan police. As the list of unanswered questions, irregularities, and discrepancies continues to grow with each passing hour, the obedient Western media in the meanwhile carry on splashing

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Randi Rhodes Owes Neal Boortz $5000 By Good Lieutenant ON CNN's Larry King Live, rambling liberal talker Randi Rhodes duked it out with libretarian powerhouse Neal Boortz. Per usual, Randi couldn't come up with substantive arguments to refute or invalidate any of Neal's positions or assertions, and quickly became domineering and obnoxious - King couldn't even keep her under control. One point of contention. Rhodes made a claim that Boortz called "all Muslims ragheads" on his show (around 3:26 in the video). Over the next minute or so, she insisted repeatedly that Boortz said this. She also told him to go to Media Matters (quite indignantly), a Soros-funded leftist clearing house of leftwing bias, to check it out. Neal bet her on air $5000 that he never called all Muslims "ragheads" (even repeating it for clarity) and Rhodes stupidly bragged that he should write a check to her chosen charity. I checked into that little challenge by Rhodes. Sorry, Randi, but you're completely wrong. Here's the transcrip from the audio clip (scroll down) so you can listen for yourself: Boortz: Well, I know you disagree with me. That's fine, you can disagree all you want. And I also believe that this Muhammad guy is just a phony rag-picker that created -- You lose, Rhodes. Not only did he not use the word "ragheads," but he was talking about Mohammed the prophet. The devil's in the details when you're betting, babe. Pay up. UPDATE: MK Freeberg at the House of Eratosthenes, an avid Boortz fan, picked up on this before I did. Had I read the blog that nobody reads before posting this post, I might have spared myself the work. Fweh.

Lying For Empire

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Mom, This is Mark Bingham

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Mom, This is Mark Bingham By James B. One of the subjects the 9/11 deniers frequently bring up is the Mark Bingham phone call. Jim Fetzer in particular seems to find this especially hilarious. As Loose Change says: A man claiming to be Mark Bingham called his mother, Alice, who was visiting his sister-in-law. The caller says, "Mom? This is Mark Bingham." When was the last time you called your mother and used your full name? Well, why don't they ask his mom? From a Discovery Channel interview with Mark's mother, Alice Hoglan: Hoglan: I was staying with my brother Vaughan on the morning of September 11th, and, uh, the phone rang. Bingham (reconstruction): Mom... Mom, this is Mark Bingham. Hoglan: Once in a while he would say that. He would call up, and he was, he was a young businessman, and used to, used to introduce himself on phone as Mark Bingham, and he was trying to be, uh, strong, and level-headed, and, and strictly business. "Mom, this is Mark Bingham". So how did the conspirators know that Mark Bingham would address his mother in this unusual way? Even more, how did they know to call his mom at her in-law's house? The "fake"Mark talked to three people, how was he able to tell who was who? How did he manage to fool all three of them in real time? Come on Dylan, you are claiming to be looking for the truth. Answer this. Or are you going to claim she had her son killed, just like you did to Bernard Brown Sr? Hat Tip to 9/11 Myths, where you can also find the video clip.

Is Anybody Really This Stupid?

Humint Events Online The 9/11 hijacking attacks were very likely facilitated by a rogue group within the US government that created an Islamic terrorist "Pearl Harbor" event as a catalyst for the military invasion of Middle Eastern countries. This weblog will explore the incredibly strange events of 9/11/01, and other issues of US government responsibility.

Is Anybody Really This Stupid? By Spooked In hour 2 of the Fetzer interview of Prof. Jones, both Fetzer and Morgan Reynolds called Jones to task, claiming that they have seen pictures of molten aluminum where it was glowing hot, just like - you guessed it: the molten metal pouring out of the south tower minutes before it's collapse. All this time I was under the impression that the video of the molten metal was definintely thermite, because molten aluninum is silvery, now I hear this. I have told numerous people about the video showing thermite, now it may turn out that the government was correct about it being aluminum after all. If this turns out to be the case, I don't know what to believe anymore. Could it be that we are all wrong about 911 being an inside job? We would certainly look foolish if that were the case. Jesus. windex | 08.11.06 - 8:06 pm | # This person needs to get a clue. The fact is, a good case for 9/11 being an inside job exists, without getting into demolition, cell phone calls or no-planes (the so-called physical evidence people avoided for so long). The stories of the hijackers alone, are HIGHLY suspicious. The hijackers are, in fact, greatly neglected by everyone on both sides of the 9/11 issue, and it is extremely clear the official story is simply wrong regarding the hijackers. It is really only in the last year or so, that demolition of the WTC towers has become a generally accepted fact among 9/11 skeptics. This was probably because early high profile 9/11 skeptics specifically avoided any physical evidence issues, for reasons that are not entirely clear (either they honestly thought it was too controversial or they were promoting a form of disinformation), and thus it took a while for people to learn about the demolition issue.

Bloglines - Source: U.S., U.K. at odds over timing of arrests

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Source: U.S., U.K. at odds over timing of arrests By John Amato on Terrorism Anyone doubt the timing of this story now? British wanted to continue surveillance on terror suspects, official says. NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the alleged plot to bring down trans-Atlantic airliners bound for the United States. A senior British official knowledgeable about the case said British police were planning to continue to run surveillance for at least another week to try to obtain more evidence, while American officials pressured them to arrest the suspects sooner. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the case. In contrast to previous reports, the official suggested an attack was not imminent, saying the suspects had not yet purchased any airline tickets. In fact, some did not even have passports. Comments

Lies? Propaganda?

WorldNetDaily: Hezbollah claims spies inside Israeli intelligence

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CJR Daily: Parroting the Party Line

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Why do "respectable" journalists like Jim Leher parrot the party line without engaging their own mental faculties? 8/13

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Update on the terror [London] plot

CANNONFIRE Joseph Cannon (cannonfiremail@yahoo.com)

Update on the terror plot By Joseph Consider this post an addendum of sorts to the preceding one. The lead suspect in the recent terrorist investigation, Rashid Rauf, appears to be the owner of this web page. He also appears to be the proprietor of a Pakistani company called Heathwise, which distributes beauty and health products manufactured elsewhere, including Natural White toothpaste. The idea naturally suggests itself that this business may have some relation to the methodology ascribed to the plotters -- i.e., using everyday products to hide dangerous liquids. Rashid Rauf's father immigrated to the UK decades ago, which means that Rashid and his siblings are UK citizens. However, Rashid left the UK in 2002, after he was questioned by British police following the stabbing death of his uncle, a man named Mohammed Saeed. The Rauf family appears to be connected to a couple of well-regarded British restaurants. The German weekly Focus has linked one of the plotters with Said Bahaji, accused on being a member of the 9/11 "Hamburg cell." So far, we have neither confirmation nor additional details. In truth, this entire case needs confirmation. Although I would not be even slightly surprised to discover that Rauf family members really were involved in a vile scheme, we do not yet posssess sufficient evidence to discount allegations of a "wag the dog" scenario. All of our information derives from pronouncements by the British, Pakistani and United States governments. Four years ago, I would have taken such pronouncements at face value. Today, the phrase "consider the source" suggests itself. Two things are certain: 1. Bush has lied about a supposed connection between this plot and Hezbollah. Hezbollah is an Iranian-supported Shi'ite group; Al Qaeda supporters consider Shi'ism to be a kind of heresy, and they have no love for Iran. 2. Bush has actually weakened our security. From the AP (quoted by Buzzflash): "While the British terror suspects were hatching their plot, the Bush administration was quietly seeking permission to divert $6 million that was supposed to be spent this year developing new homeland explosives detection technology."

Aviation critic Michael Boyd on our Airport security

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Aviation critic Michael Boyd on our Airport security By John Amato on Homeland Security CTBlogger sent me this clip and writes. Boyd was on MSNBC and he carefully detailed the absolute stupidity regarding the new airport carry-on rules while rightfully blasting Bush Administration, Transportation Security Administration, and the Department of Homeland Security. It’s amazing that almost five years after 9-11, where still having to deal with these huge holes in security. After you hear what Boyd has to say, you’ll be really piss you off at the Bush administration (because it’s all true). …and don’t forget Joe Lieberman’s role with the Department of Homeland Security. Video-WMP Video-QT Comments

Bloglines - Israel's War Crimes: NGOs Need to Get a Clue

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Israel’s War Crimes: NGOs Need to Get a Clue By Administrator on Uncategorized More useless hand-wringing from the humanitarian NGOs. “Humanitarian agencies sought ways to get aid to an estimated 100,000 people trapped in southern Lebanon on Friday and the mayor of Tyre said the port city could run out of food in two days,” reports ABC News. “United Nations and other convoys have been unable to deliver supplies to the region since an Israeli air strike destroyed the last bridge across the Litani river on Monday.” It is interesting to note that these humanitarian organizations refuse to admit the obvious and act upon it—Israel and its patron, the United States, are criminal organizations and unless there is political consciousness realizing this fact and political action on the part of the NGOs and, indeed, millions of citizens in these countries, nothing will change. Remarkably, International Committee of the Red Cross chief Jakob Kellenberger wasted a whole lot of precious time playing pattycakes in Jerusalem, attempting to convince the racist settler state to stop killing innocents in Lebanon. In other words, the good Mr. Kellenberger is a dupe for the Zionists, who have no intention of letting up on their diabolical ethnic cleansing and slaughtering of babies and grandmothers in Lebanon with depleted uranium and other illegal weapons. Kellenberger should refuse to talk with the Jabotinskyites and instead talk about organizing an economic boycott of the country. “The U.N. World Food Program, overseeing logistics for U.N. agencies, said a 15-truck convoy to the eastern town of Baalbek halted at the city of Zahle due to shelling on the road ahead,” ABC News continues. “It also received Israeli clearance for convoys to Nabatiyeh, a town north of the Litani, but could not reach Tyre, the biggest city south of the river, or border villages.” As we know, Israel not only purposely shells roads, preventing humanitarian assistance, but also targets ambulances and fleeing refugees, scurrilous war crimes all. It is all part of the Master Plan of “reshaping” the Arab and Muslim Middle East by way of mass murder and starvation, crimes reminiscent of the Nazis. In the short term, this plan includes ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon to the Litani and annexing hundreds of squares miles, much of it prime agriculture real estate and the crown jewel, the fresh water of the Litani River, a resource Israel sorely needs and has conspired to steal for decades. Israel, driven insane by its own hubris and racist religious precepts, fully intends to clear all Arabs, both Muslim and Christian, from this snatched “security zone,” an objective only its demented leaders and military strategists believe can be accomplished. Hezbollah, an entirely legal resistance movement (minus its ill-advised rocketing of Israel), knows differently. Hezbollah understands from personal experience that people will resist occupation and slowly, methodically take out brutal occupiers one troop at a time, as the Vietnamese and Algerians did before them. “It is now clear that Israel’s control over the occupied territories is, and has all along been intended to be, a drive to assert exclusive Jewish control, taming the Palestinians into submission and squeezing them into ever smaller, more disconnected segments of land or, failing that, forcing them to leave Palestine altogether,” write Kathleen and Bill Christison. “It is totally obvious to anyone who spends time on the ground in Palestine-Israel that the animating force behind the policies of the present and all past Israeli governments in Israel and in the occupied West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem has always been a determination to assure the predominance of Jews over Palestinians. Such policies can only be described as racist, and we should stop trying any longer to avoid the word.” Or for that matter, the predominance of Jews over Lebanese Arabs. Like a dim-witted fool who continually makes the same mistake over and over again, the ICRC and other humanitarian organizations seem dedicated to not solving the problem in Lebanon and Palestine, avoiding the obvious—Israel and its patron the United States are renegade, criminal nations and should be criticized at every turn, boycotted, shunned, and denounced. Otherwise, the insanity will go on indefinitely. Or until Newt Gingrich and the perfidious neocons realize their World War Three. On that day, as the nukes fly and the planet begins its descent into irreparable damage, it will be too late to save not only the Lebanese, but humankind as a whole. Comments

Certain Jewish folks and certain dubious activities

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Certain Jewish folks and certain dubious activities By aangirfan The sources for the following include: http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/09crime.htm 'The Sacred Chain - A History of the Jews' by Norman Cantor - Harper Collins, 1995 http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/capitalists.htm http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp414.htm "It was the Jews, by and large," says Norman Cantor, "not the Italians, who created what was later called the Mafia . "In the 1920s the Italians began to replace the Jews in the New York organized crime industry, but as late as 1940 if you wanted a spectacular hit you were looking for a representative of the Lepke Buchalter Gang, also known as Murder Inc. "Jews were also prominent in the gambling trade and developed Las Vegas in the 1940s. It was a Jewish gambler who fixed the 1919 baseball World Series - what became known as the Black Sox scandal." Marvin Kitman has written: "The Jews were the first ones to realize the link between organized crime an organized politics . They led the way in corrupting the police and city hall." Reportedly, the Seagram's alcohol fortune (the Canadian Bronfman family ) 'grew to power by getting their alcohol into criminal hands who smuggled it into the United States. Bronfman, who bristled when anyone called him a bootlegger, had a distribution deal for his booze with Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky.' David Ben-Gurion was jailed in Warsaw, Poland . "That was the first time," he said, "that I ever came into contact with the dregs of society. I was shaken to the core at the language and behavior. I never had the slightest notion that such people ever existed ... The thing that shook me most was that these criminals were Jews." In 1999, the ( London ) Daily Mail pointed out that the gangster Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, were "of Jewish... stock." According to the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September 15, 1999, "Between 50 and 80 percent of the Russian economy is said to be in Jewish hands, with the influence of the five Jews among the eight individuals commonly referred to as 'oligarchs' particularly conspicuous." Mark Rich Helped KGB Create Hidden Government, According to Newsmax, Saturday, March 31, 2001: "Mark Rich, the most-wanted fugitive pardoned by former President Clinton, was a key figure in the Communist Party and the KGB's creation of an underground government that survived the break-up of the Soviet Union and still rules Russia today behind the scenes." ~~

Deceit

The American Thinker: Gettting it wrong over and over again.

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Philadelphia Daily News | 08/11/2006 | BUSH AND CHENEY'S REIGN OF ERROR

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Must, Must Read Philadelphia Daily News: "THESE PEOPLE have no shame. Their contempt for democracy is so great they will stop at nothing to undermine it. Their adherence to fundamentalist beliefs that blinds them to reality is frightening. They must be stopped. And that's just the Republicans....The immoral and ridiculous claims coming out of the Bush administration's reign of error could ultimately be responsible for the kind of casualties that al Qaeda can only dream of." 8/12

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