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"The 10 bloggers who can make or break Hillary" Times Online UK

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The 10 bloggers who can make or break Hillary

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So are bloggers really the big new political voice? Mystery Pollster argues that this Presidential election is a big one for bloggers.

His theory is that Democrats like Hillary Clinton but activist bloggers, for one reason or another, don't. So what matters more? The campaign will tell.

And here is Comment Central's list of the ten bloggers who can make or break Hillary Clinton.

10. Matt Drudge: It's hard to imagine a Clinton campaign without at least one scandal or pseudo-scandal. And Drudge seems the likeliest route. How she responds will decide a great deal.

9. Duncan Black: His Atrios blog has a huge left-wing readership. But that's not all. His speciality is scrutinising the mainstream media for bias against liberals. Given the huge pressure that will be put on a Hillary campaign, she could use this independent war room operation, I'm sure. He could be the anti-Drudge.

8. Arianna Huffington: In the top ten because she's hard to ignore. Doesn't accept that Hillary is a shoo-in as the nominee. Writes for the moneyed establishment so her view could impact the race for cash.

6=. Jay Cost: One of Hillary's biggest problem is that Democrats fear that if nominated she will lose, or worse, that she simply can't win the presidency. So an important determinant of the outcome of the primaries will be astute judgement about the truth of that claim. The Real Clear Politics site will set out the polling evidence. It will be unmissable. And Jay Cost, recruited after his superb Horserace Blog in 2004, will provide analysis. His speciality is using polling to produce probabilities of different results.

6=. Mark Blumenthal: The Mystery Pollster is one of the most respected sources of polling analysis on the web. And his readiness to question the conventional wisdom will make him important to Hillary. He may help her puncture the idea that she can't win.

5. Joshua Micah Marshall: His Talking Points Memo blog is justly popular. His cool style isn't designed to rouse rabble, but his quiet influence will help the undecided Democrats work out whether to go with Hillary or Obama.

4. Andrew Sullivan: The classic swing-vote blog. He voted for Bill and also for George W. first time out. Andrew is a moderate conservative who has lately turned against the Republicans because he finds the party too extreme. If Hillary can't keep him, that suggests she can't hold together the coalition that produced the mid-term victory. This is critical, hence Andrew's high place.

2=. Markos Moulitsas Zúniga: On a given weekday his Daily Kos site has 500,000 hits from people eager to read about Democratic politics. Has a reasonable record of endorsing candidates who win primaries although some, like Ned Lamont, fall at the general election. The problem for Hillary is that Markos prefers insurgent candidates to the establishment. He's already given her both barrels in the Washington Post.

2=. Jerome Armstrong: Markos's comrade in arms, the founder of Direct Democracy and a netroot campaigner. Obama more to his taste than Hillary really, mainly because he likes something fresh each time. All in all Hillary would probably prefer the netroot campaigners to disappear into a big hole. If they don't, she's in trouble.

1. Mickey Kaus: Is Hillary a new Dem or a traditional liberal? Kaus, one of the first to consider himself a new Dem, will read the speeches and help make the call. My judgment? It may not help in the primaries, but only if Hillary steers hard toward the centre can she be President. If she is going to win the swing states, she needs to take the Mickey. I think that matters more than anything. I think confusing the liberal bloggers with the base is the worst possible error a candidate could make. So Kaus is number one.

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Ask Your Senator and Congressman: Is It Alright That "Iran Is Arming Iraqi Militias"? And What Is The "New" Congress Going To Do About It?

 "Iran’s plan, as outlined by the ambassador, carries the potential to bring Iran into further conflict here with the United States, which has detained a number of Iranian operatives in recent weeks and says it has proof of Iranian complicity in attacks on American and Iraqi forces."   New York Times

General says U.S. has proof
Iran arming Iraqi militias

BAGHDAD — Iran is supplying Iraqi militias with a variety of powerful weapons including Katyusha rockets, the No. 2 U.S. general in Iraq said Tuesday.

"We have weapons that we know through serial numbers … that trace back to Iran," Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno said in an interview with USA TODAY.

His comments came as the Bush administration has been taking an increasingly tough stance against what it alleges is Iranian meddling in sectarian violence in Iraq. Last week, the White House confirmed that the president had authorized U.S. troops to take action against Iranian agents in Iraq who present threats.

On Tuesday, President Bush vowed to crack down on those who supply Iraqi insurgents with arms, though he denied any plans to invade Iran.

"We'll deal with it by finding their supply chains and their agents and … arresting them. … In other words, we're going to protect our troops," Bush told ABC News.

Odierno did not provide further details on how weapons were linked to Iran. The Iranian government has denied providing weapons to Iraqi militias.

Most weapons supplied by Iran end up in the hands of Shiite extremists, Odierno said.

He said the weapons include:

•The RPG-29, a rocket-propelled grenade that can fire armor-piercing rounds. It is larger and more sophisticated than the RPG-7 more commonly found in Iraq.

•Katyusha rockets, so large they are generally fired from trucks.

•Powerful roadside bombs, known as explosively formed projectiles, which can pierce armor. The technological know-how and "some of the elements to make them are coming out of Iran," Odierno said.

Several Iranians have been detained in raids inside Iraq, and some remain in custody. The arrests have provided clues about Iranian operations, Odierno said.

"Every time you pick up individuals, you learn about how they facilitate themselves within a country," he said.

He did not specify whether the Iranians in custody are cooperating or whether evidence was seized during the arrest.

Iran's ambassador to Iraq told The New York Times this week that Iran was taking steps to expand military and economic ties with Iraq.

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http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070131/1a_offlede31_dom.art.htm
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From The New York Times

January 29, 2007

Iranian Reveals Plan to Expand Role in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Jan. 28 — Iran’s ambassador to Baghdad outlined an ambitious plan on Sunday to greatly expand its economic and military ties with Iraq — including an Iranian national bank branch in the heart of the capital — just as the Bush administration has been warning the Iranians to stop meddling in Iraqi affairs.

Iran’s plan, as outlined by the ambassador, carries the potential to bring Iran into further conflict here with the United States, which has detained a number of Iranian operatives in recent weeks and says it has proof of Iranian complicity in attacks on American and Iraqi forces.

The ambassador, Hassan Kazemi Qumi, said Iran was prepared to offer Iraq government forces training, equipment and advisers for what he called “the security fight.” In the economic area, Mr. Qumi said, Iran was ready to assume major responsibility for Iraq reconstruction, an area of failure on the part of the United States since American-led forces overthrew Saddam Hussein nearly four years ago.

“We have experience of reconstruction after war,” Mr. Qumi said, referring to the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. “We are ready to transfer this experience in terms of reconstruction to the Iraqis.”

Mr. Qumi also acknowledged, for the first time, that two Iranians seized and later released by American forces last month were security officials, as the United States had claimed. But he said that they were engaged in legitimate discussions with the Iraqi government and should not have been detained.

Mr. Qumi’s remarks, in a 90-minute interview over tea and large pistachio nuts at the Iranian Embassy here, amounted to the most authoritative and substantive response the Iranians have made yet to increasingly belligerent accusations by the Bush administration that Iran is acting against American interests in Iraq.

President Bush has said the American military is authorized to take whatever action necessary against Iranians in Iraq found to be engaged in actions deemed hostile.

The Iranian ambassador abruptly agreed to a longstanding request for the interview — made repeatedly after the first American seizure of Iranians here on Dec. 21 — and seemed eager to rebut the accusations.

The political and diplomatic standoff that followed the Dec. 21 raid until the Iranians were released nine days later has contributed, along with a dispute over the Iranian nuclear program, to greatly increased tensions between the United States and Iran. This month, American forces detained five more Iranians in a raid on a diplomatic office in the northern city of Erbil.

While providing few details, the United States has said that evidence gleaned in the Baghdad raid, made on an Iraqi Shiite leader’s residential compound, proves the Iranians were involved in planning attacks.

How much direction, if any, Mr. Qumi was taking from his government was unclear in the interview, in which he showed disdain for the American accusations as well as a few flashes of restrained sarcasm.

He ridiculed the evidence that the American military has said it collected, including maps of Baghdad delineating Sunni, Shiite and mixed neighborhoods — the kind of maps, American officials have said, that would be useful for militias engaged in ethnic slaughter. Mr. Qumi said the maps were so common and easily obtainable that they proved nothing.

He declined to say whether he believed the maps bore sectarian markings or address other pieces of evidence the Americans said they had found, like manifests of weapons and material relating to the technology of sophisticated roadside bombs. But that is not why the Iranians were in the compound, he said.

“They worked in the security sector in the Islamic Republic, that’s clear,” Mr. Qumi said, referring to Iran. But he said that the Iranians were in Iraq because “the two countries agreed to solve the security problems.” The Iranians “went to meet with the Iraqi side,” he said.

In a surprise announcement, Mr. Qumi said Iran would soon open a national bank in Iraq, in effect creating a new Iranian financial institution right under the Americans’ noses. A senior Iraqi banking official, Hussein al-Uzri, confirmed that Iran had received a license to open the bank, which he said would apparently be the first “wholly owned subsidiary bank” of a foreign country in Iraq.

“This will enhance trade between the two countries,” Mr. Uzri said.

Mr. Qumi said the bank was just the first of what he said would be several in Iraq — an agricultural bank and three private banks also intend to open branches. Other elements of new economic cooperation, he said, include plans for Iranian shipments of kerosene and electricity to Iraq and a new agricultural cooperative involving both countries.

He would not provide specifics on Iran’s offer of military assistance to Iraq, but said it included increased border patrols and a proposed new “joint security committee.”

Any Iranian military assistance to Iraq would be fraught with potential difficulties. Aside from provoking American objections, such assistance could further alienate Sunni Arabs, many of whom already suspect that Iran, overwhelmingly Shiite, is encouraging Iraq’s Shiite-led government in persecuting them.

A number of American and Iraqi officials said Sunday that it was difficult to respond to Mr. Qumi’s statements until they had been communicated through official routes. A spokesman for the American Embassy in Baghdad, Lou Fintor, declined to address the statements.

Sean McCormack, a State Department spokesman, said Sunday that the United States had a significant body of evidence tying Iran to sectarian attacks inside Iraq. “There is a high degree of confidence in the information that we already have, and we are constantly accumulating more,” Mr. McCormack said.

He did not address any of the specifics of Mr. Qumi’s comments about plans for stronger economic and security ties, but said that Iran currently plays “a negative role in many respects” in the country.

Iraqi officials also said that they could not comment on specific programs until they had seen the details, but expressed a range of views on the wisdom of expanding ties with Iran.

“We are welcoming all the initiatives to participate in the process of reconstruction,” said Qasim Daoud, a former national security adviser who is now a secular Shiite member of Parliament. “My belief is that our strategic alliance is with the Americans, but at the same time we are looking for the participation of any country that would like to participate,” Mr. Daoud said.

Barham Salih, a deputy prime minister who is Kurdish and whose duties include economic matters, took sharper issue with Mr. Qumi’s criticism of the American presence.

“Iraqi national interest requires seeking good neighborly relations with Iran as with other neighbors, but that requires respect for Iraqi sovereignty,” Mr. Salih said.

Mr. Qumi spoke largely in Persian during the interview, but he occasionally broke into English when he wanted to be certain that a point had been conveyed forcefully.

Although Mr. Qumi was not given specific questions before the interview, he was made aware of the general topics that would be covered and seemed prepared with detailed answers in many cases. He seemed keen to give his government’s view of what occurred in the early morning of Dec. 21, when American forces raided the Baghdad compound of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, one of Iraq’s most powerful Shiite leaders, who had traveled to Washington three weeks before to meet President Bush.

Within the compound, the Iranians were seized in the house of Hadi al-Ameri, who holds two powerful positions: he is chairman of the Iraqi Parliament’s security committee and leader of the Badr Organization, the armed wing of Mr. Hakim’s party, which spent years in exile in Iran.

Although the Americans have suggested that the Iranians were providing support for militias like the Badr Organization, Mr. Qumi said that his countrymen were dealing with Mr. Ameri in his government capacity.

The Iranians would not even have stayed the night in the compound except, in a situation faced by many Baghdad residents, their business lasted beyond the early-evening curfew and they were forced to spend the night, Mr. Qumi said.

Mr. Qumi also warned the United States against playing out tensions in what he called “the nuclear file” in Iraq. “We don’t need Iraq to pay the cost of our animosity with the Americans,” Mr. Qumi said.

As the interview was breaking up, Mr. Qumi made one last stab at the Americans. If Iran is allowed to undertake reconstruction activities in Iraq, he said, all international construction companies would be welcome. “Urge the American companies to come here,” he said.

Abdul Razzaq al-Saiedi contributed reporting from Baghdad, and Mark Mazzetti from Washington.

All Credit Given To: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/29/world/middleeast/29iranians.html?ex=1170651600&en=78765303b16c9562&ei=5065&partner=MYWAY
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AT WAR?


The U.S. vs. Iran
One side is playing for real, the other only for time.

BY MICHAEL RUBIN
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT

The Iranian government continues to enrich uranium despite Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's generous package of incentives--and in defiance of the U.N.'s Aug. 31 deadline. Still, European officials hold out hope for the success of diplomacy. On Sept. 15, Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy chief, said, "We are really making progress. Never before have we had a level of engagement . . . as we have now." Diplomats will look for any hopeful sign from Iranian President's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's forthcoming U.N. speech. But can talk work? Successful diplomacy requires that both sides negotiate in good faith and honor commitments. That Tehran's track record undercuts confidence should not surprise. From its very inception, the Islamic Republic has eschewed diplomatic norms.

On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, holding 52 hostages for 444 days. Warren Christopher, deputy secretary of state during the crisis, called the Iranian move a "flagrant violation" of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. But Iranian officials endorsed the seizure. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini praised the students. His successor as supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, showed support with a visit to the embassy soon after its seizure. Ironically, while the Iranian leadership often demands apologies for transgressions both real and imagined, it continues to uphold the righteousness of hostage seizure, underscoring official contempt for diplomatic convention.

Still, the embassy seizure might be long forgotten had Tehran's disdain for diplomatic norms been the exception rather than the rule. In 1986, former U.S. national security advisor Robert McFarlane's traveled to Tehran. While the Iran-Contra Affair is remembered today for the Reagan administration's attempts to circumvent Congressional prohibition of funding of the Nicaraguan resistance, it also illustrates the inadvisability of trusting Tehran. President Reagan sought to win the release of American hostages in Lebanon but, as soon as Washington compensated Tehran for its bad behavior, its militias accelerated hostage seizure. Diplomatic enticement--bribery by another name--backfired. But diplomacy is not just about incentives; it is also about trust. What could have been just a failed initiative turned to scandal when, on the seventh anniversary of the embassy seizure, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, today the chairman of the Expediency Council, broke a pledge of secrecy and revealed the meetings to the international press.

Iranian authorities showed diplomatic duplicity once again after Khomeini issued a declaration calling for author Salman Rushdie's death. Four months before Khomeini's death, then-president Khamenei demanded that Mr. Rushdie apologize in exchange for cancellation of a religious edict ordering his murder. Mr. Rushdie apologized, but the Iranian government nevertheless kept the bounty in place. President Khamenei was insincere, his diplomacy was a tactic. By winning an apology, he confirmed Mr. Rushdie's guilt.

Iranian lying should not surprise; what should is how often Western governments fall prey to it. The British government demanded that Tehran lift the bounty on Mr. Rushdie's head as a precondition to re-establish relations. On Sept. 24, 1998, the Iranian government said it would do nothing to harm Mr. Rushdie. No sooner had London and Tehran exchanged ambassadors, than Iranian authorities once again reversed themselves.

For U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, the cost of Iranian lying is high. While Iranian diplomats pledged not to destabilize Afghanistan and, indeed, cooperate in its reconstruction, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps sent in operatives disguised as school teachers to further instability. As Afghan President Hamid Karzai struggled to wrest control away from warlords, Afghan commanders intercepted a dozen Iranian agents and proxies organizing armed resistance.

In Iraq, too, Iranian diplomacy has been duplicitous. Prior to the Iraq war, Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi and U.N. Ambassador Mohammad Javad Zarif, pledged Iranian noninterference to British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook and Zalmay Khalilzad, then President George W. Bush's envoy to the free Iraqis. But, Iranian journalists now describe how, days after Saddam's fall, the Iranian leadership dispatched 2,000 Revolutionary Guards replete with radio transmitters, money, and supplies. On Nov. 18, 2003, Mr. Kharrazi again pledged good behavior. He lied outright; his promise coincided with a new deployment of Iranian intelligence across Iraq. The Revolutionary Guard stepped up its training of Muqtada al-Sadr's militia. Hasan Kazemi Qomi, previously Iran's liaison to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, became Tehran's top diplomat in Baghdad. Mr. Qomi assured diplomats that "Iran will not accept anything that destabilizes Iraq." Four months later, Iraqi forces captured 30 Iranians fighting alongside Sadr's militia.

Earlier this month, I traveled to the Middle East to meet Shiite tribal leaders and urban notables from southern Iraq. They described how Iran has transformed its consulates in Karbala and Basra into distribution points for everything from money to shaped charges. That Tehran uses diplomatic pouches and protocols to safeguard its network reflects their insincerity. While the West approaches diplomacy with sincerity, the Islamic Republic mocks diplomatic convention to shield subversion.

Iran's nuclear program raises the stakes of its deceit to U.S. national security. There is little doubt that Tehran's nuclear program is not peaceful. On Feb. 14, 2005, Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer Kharrazi, secretary-general of Iranian Hezbollah, promised, "We are able to produce atomic bombs and we will do that." In February 2006, Mohsen Gharavian, a Qom theologian well-connected to the Islamic Republic's staunchest ideologues, called Iran's possession of nuclear weapons "natural."

Iran's nuclear program has advanced through the trust of diplomats and their willingness to provide hard currency in the name of dialogue and engagement. Between 2000 and 2005, European Union trade with Iran almost tripled. Tehran invested much of this money in arms and nuclear infrastructure. For more than a decade, through both the Rafsanjani and Khatami administrations, Iranian authorities hid the existence of a uranium enrichment plant at Natanz and a heavy water plant at Khondab. That Western diplomats label Mr. Rafsanjani a pragmatist and Mr. Khatami a reformer underscores the danger of judging Iranian officials by style rather than action.

In February 2003, the Iranian authorities opened the secret plants to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors. Their subsequent report was damning: Not only had the Iranian government designed the Natanz facility to house at least 50,000 centrifuges, but Tehran had the import of almost a ton of uranium from China, and could not account for missing processed uranium. During subsequent inspections, Iranian authorities repeatedly changed their stories when asked about the origin of weapons-grade uranium traces. Subsequent inspections exposed other lies. Finally, on Sept. 24, 2004, the IAEA Board of Governors, after recalling a litany of Iranian mistruths, found Iran in breach of its Non-Proliferation Treaty Safeguards Agreement. While Iranian officials have made many subsequent pledges to cooperate, their actions belie their words. They have yet to abide by the Additional Protocol's inspection standards and, earlier this year, turned away IAEA inspectors from Natanz in violation of the NPT.

While diplomacy necessarily involves talking to adversaries, Washington should not assume that the ayatollahs operate from the same set of ground rules. During his long exile in Najaf, Khomeini endorsed taqiya, religiously sanctioned dissembling. From his perspective and that of his followers, the ends justify the means. Hence, Khomeini saw nothing wrong when he told the Guardian newspaper, just months before his return to Iran, "I don't want to have the power of government in my hand; I am not interested in personal power." Tehran may still conduct diplomacy to fish for incentive and reward but, at its core, Iranian diplomacy is insincere. The Iranian leadership will say anything and do anything to buy the time necessary to acquire nuclear capability. That Foggy Bottom still advises against any strategy that might undercut the possibility of some illusionary breakthrough signals triumph not of realism but of negligence. Diplomacy cannot succeed if one side is playing for real and the other only for time.

Mr. Rubin, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is co-author, with Patrick Clawson, of Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos (Palgrave, 2005).

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It'sThe War On Terror Stupid! Iran Included Itself A Long Time Ago, Now The US's Gloves Come Off!
Saturday, January 13, 2007 2:24 PM

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Insurgencies Rarely Win – And Iraq Won’t Be Any Different (Maybe)
By Donald Stoker
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Posted January 2007
Vietnam taught many Americans the wrong lesson: that determined guerrilla fighters are invincible. But history shows that insurgents rarely win, and Iraq should be no different. Now that it finally has a winning strategy, the Bush administration is in a race against time to beat the insurgency before the public’s patience finally wears out.

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Not invincible: The that insurgents can’t be beaten is a myth, because history shows otherwise.

The cold, hard truth about the Bush administration’s strategy of “surging” additional U.S. forces into Iraq is that it could work. Insurgencies are rarely as strong or successful as the public has come to believe. Iraq’s various insurgent groups have succeeded in creating a lot of chaos. But they’re likely not strong enough to succeed in the long term. Sending more American troops into Iraq with the aim of pacifying Baghdad could provide a foundation for their ultimate defeat, but only if the United States does not repeat its previous mistakes.

Myths about invincible guerrillas and insurgents are a direct result of America’s collective misunderstanding of its defeat in South Vietnam. This loss is generally credited to the brilliance and military virtues of the pajama-clad Vietcong. The Vietnamese may have been tough and persistent, but they were not brilliant. Rather, they were lucky—they faced an opponent with leaders unwilling to learn from their failures: the United States. When the Vietcong went toe-to-toe with U.S. forces in the 1968 Tet Offensive, they were decimated. When South Vietnam finally fell in 1975, it did so not to the Vietcong, but to regular units of the invading North Vietnamese Army. The Vietcong insurgency contributed greatly to the erosion of the American public’s will to fight, but so did the way that President Lyndon Johnson and the American military waged the war. It was North Vietnam’s will and American failure, not skillful use of an insurgency, that were the keys to Hanoi’s victory.

Similar misunderstandings persist over the Soviet Union’s defeat in Afghanistan, the other supposed example of guerrilla invincibility. But it was not the mujahidin’s strength that forced the Soviets to leave; it was the Soviet Union’s own economic and political weakness at home. In fact, the regime the Soviets established in Afghanistan was so formidable that it managed to survive for three years after the Red Army left.

Of course, history is not without genuine insurgent successes. Fidel Castro’s victory in Cuba is probably the best known, and there was the IRA’s partial triumph in 1922, as well as Algeria’s defeat of the French between 1954 and 1962. But the list of failed insurgencies is longer: Malayan Communists, Greek Communists, Filipino Huks, Nicaraguan Contras, Communists in El Salvador, Che Guevara in Bolivia, the Boers in South Africa (twice), Savimbi in Angola, and Sindero Luminoso in Peru, to name just a few. If the current U.S. administration maintains its will, establishes security in Baghdad, and succeeds in building a functioning government and army, there is no reason that the Iraqi insurgency cannot be similarly destroyed, or at least reduced to the level of terrorist thugs.

Insurgencies generally fail if all they are able to do is fight an irregular war. Successful practitioners of the guerrilla art from Nathanael Greene in the American Revolution to Mao Zedong in the Chinese Civil War have insisted upon having a regular army for which their guerrilla forces served mainly as an adjunct. Insurgencies also have inherent weaknesses and disadvantages vis-à-vis an established state. They lack governmental authority, established training areas, and secure supply lines. The danger is that insurgents can create these things, if given the time to do so. And, once they have them, they are well on their way to establishing themselves as a functioning and powerful alternative to the government. If they reach this point, they can very well succeed.

That’s why the real question in Iraq is not whether the insurgency can be defeated—it can be. The real question is whether the United States might have already missed its chance to snuff it out. The United States has failed to provide internal security for the Iraqi populace. The result is a climate of fear and insecurity in areas of the country overrun by insurgents, particularly in Baghdad. This undermines confidence in the elected Iraqi government and makes it difficult for it to assert its authority over insurgent-dominated areas. Clearing out the insurgents and reestablishing security will take time and a lot of manpower. Sectarian violence adds a bloody wrinkle. The United States and the Iraqi government have to deal with Sunni and Shia insurgencies, as well as the added complication of al Qaeda guerrillas.

But the strategy of “surging” troops could offer a rare chance for success—if the Pentagon and the White House learn from their past mistakes. Previously, the U.S. military cleared areas such as Baghdad’s notorious Haifa Street, but then failed to follow up with security. So the insurgents simply returned to create havoc. As for the White House, it has so far failed to convince the Iraqi government to remove elements that undermine its authority, such as the Mahdi Army. Bush’s recent speech on Iraq included admissions of these failures, providing some hope that they might not be repeated.

That’s welcome news, because one thing is certain: time is running out. Combating an insurgency typically requires 8 to 11 years. But the administration has done such a poor job of managing U.S. public opinion, to say nothing of the war itself, that it has exhausted many of its reservoirs of support. One tragedy of the Iraq war may be that the administration’s new strategy came too late to avert a rare, decisive insurgent victory.


Donald Stoker is professor of strategy and policy for the U.S. Naval War College’s Monterey Program. His opinions are his own. He is the author or editor of a number of works, including the forthcoming From Mercenaries to Privatization: The Evolution of Military Advising, 1815-2007 (London: Routledge, 2007).
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What Happened At Three Ex-Terrorists Speaking Event At University of Michigan Last Night.

 "We should raise our flag, our American flag, and say, Allah bless America," Saleem said. "Because - after all - if we don't like her, we should leave her."  Kamal Saleem, One of Three Ex-Terrorists Speakers. 

The three men billed as ex-terrorists - Walid Shoebat, Zachariah Annani and Kamal Saleem - speak in Rackham Auditorium last night.
(DEREK BLUMKE/Daily)


LSA junior Hanan Dakhlallah protests the speakers. (PETER SCHOTTENFELS/Daily)


Department of Public Safety officers remove a heckler during last night's speech by three men billed as ex-terrorists in Rackham auditorium. (DEREK BLUMKE/Daily)


From: The Michigan Daily
A fury over 'ex-terrorists'

Protesters say event promotes intolerance

Lisa Haidostian and Daniel Trump

Posted: 1/31/07

More than 300 people - including both students and non-students - protested an event last night organized by the University's chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom called "Terrorism: The World's Greatest Threat."

Billed as a lecture by three ex-terrorists, the event drew opposition from several student groups and the Michigan office of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

A large crowd gathered outside of the Rackham Building an hour before the event's scheduled 7 p.m. start. Flashes of yellow shirts worn by the protesters showed through the winter coats of many in the crowd.

A half hour before the event, YAF Chair Andrew Boyd shouted "We're ready!" and the doors to the auditorium opened. The aisles filled immediately with people in yellow shirts, who had gathered early for the event.

As the protesters rushed to fill seats, already-seated YAF members stuck their feet out into the aisles.

After the initial surge, seats continued to fill steadily.

By the time the event began, protesters make up about a quarter of the audience.

Once the auditorium reached capacity, YAF Vice President Ryan Fantuzzi took the microphone.

"I ask those who would like to disrupt this event to leave as soon as possible," he said. "There are many who support peace and freedom who would like your seat."

But the protesters didn't get up.

The first speaker was Kamal Saleem, who said he was recruited by the Palestine Liberation Organization when he was 7 and trained with live weapons to fight Israelis.

A website for the three speakers says Saleem converted to Christianity after being treated by a Christian doctor.

"We should raise our flag, our American flag, and say, Allah bless America," Saleem said. "Because - after all - if we don't like her, we should leave her."

As Saleem finished this remark, much of the crowd roared with applause while others were silent or voiced their disapproval.

"If we don't like her we should change her," a woman in the back of the auditorium yelled.

After 15 minutes of Saleem's speech, the heckling intensified to the point where Saleem stopped speaking and asked the woman to "shut up."

"Why aren't the moderate Muslims protesting about the extremists of their faith?" he asked the crowd again prompting loud applause.

After 30 minutes, the protesters in yellow stood up and walked out. There was some jeering from the remaining audience, but the exit went off with little incident.

Roughly a quarter of the seats in the auditorium emptied during the walkout.

After an hour, Fantuzzi took to the stage and issued a warning to the same woman who had continually heckled the speaker. She ignored the warning, and Department of Public Safety officers escorted her from the building.

Sirene Abou-Chakra, one of the organizers of the protest, condemned the woman's behavior.

Walid Shoebat, the last speaker, drew cheers from the remaining members of the audience with his final remark.

"We will have peace when we love our children more than we love peace," he said.

After the event, about 30 people lined up to meet the three men.

While the speakers at the root of the controversy were answering questions, the protesters were holding a meeting of their own.

The swarm of protesters, mostly students, made their way to the Michigan League Ballroom to discuss the protest and the goals of the Arab and Muslim community.

"The main purpose of the protest is to really call out the fact that this program is generalizing an entire group of people and saying the actions of a few represent everyone," Abou-Chakra said in an interview before the event.

Muslim Student Association Vice President Abdul-Rahman El Sayed, who spoke at the protester's counter event, said he was elated at the success of the walkout.

"We've done something good today, and we need to keep that going in the future," he said.

Some in the audience, however, found the walkout disruptive and ineffective.

"The protesters deprived themselves of a voice," said LSA junior Jasper Kigar. "They should not have walked out. "

The event's purpose was to educate the campus community about the dangers of Muslim extremism, not promote intolerance, Boyd said in an interview before the speeches.

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January 31, 2007   Ann Arbor

Panel on terrorists draws crowd, protests

Some have called three speakers at U-M fakes; organizers says they wanted to improve cultural climate.

Marisa Schultz / The Detroit News

ANN ARBOR -- Amid hecklers, an apparent death threat and a staged walkout, a panel discussion by three self proclaimed "ex-terrorists" managed to carry on at University of Michigan's Rackham Auditorium on Tuesday night.

"Yes, we confess we were terrorists, but by confession we can begin to heal," said Walid Shoebat, one of those who spoke at the event marked by outbursts, protests and disappointed students turned away from the auditorium crowded with more than 1,000 people.

The men, who say they committed acts of terror against Jews, were invited to speak by the conservative student group Young Americans for Freedom, which wanted to discuss differences between the extremist Muslims and the vast majority of peaceful Muslims, according to group co-chairman Andrew Boyd.

However, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and at least one expert on jihad have called the men fakes.

"Without doubt, the threat from political extremism is serious, and the threat of homegrown jihadism is growing, but this type of extremist language is as much a threat to stability as a bomb attack itself," said Tom Quiggin, an expert on global jihadism who has researched one of the ex-terrorist's stories.

Shoebat, who is American, was joined by Kamal Saleem, another U.S. citizen, and Zachariah Anani, a Windsor resident. Anani was recently targeted by Islamist groups, which threatened his life if he spoke at U-M, according to his representative.

Shoebat and Saleem say they are former members of the Palestine Liberation Organization, according to their Web site. Shoebat said he participated in acts of terror against Israel and was later imprisoned in Jerusalem.

Anani was a teen militia fighter, where he was trained to kill Jews, according to www.3xterrorists.com. He says he killed 223 people.

Students opposed to the speakers wearing maize walked out of the event midway as a way to symbolically to protest the message. Once the 200 students left, scores waiting outside were refused entry.

U-M freshman Kamelya Youssef, who helped organize the symbolic protest, said if the true intention of Young Americans for Freedom was to improve the cultural climate on campus, then the group should have worked with the Muslim and Arab groups.

"This is something that we feel will provoke discrimination, and this is something that is not going to improve the campus climate," she said. One heckler was removed by police, which led to a standing ovation by the crowd.

Young Americans for Freedom sparked controversy in October when it sponsored "Catch an Illegal Immigrant."

"I get so upset that people are all so politically correct, especially on this campus," Boyd said in an interview last week. "I think it's at times necessary to be more outspoken."

The ex-terrorists said they risk their lives to spread what they consider an important message.

Robert Birach, an immigration law attorney in Detroit, said the men would have had to have disclosed their affiliation with the PLO on their applications to become U.S. citizens if what they claim is true.

"Failure to list the affiliation on the citizenship application is enough to go back and open the file and charge them with fraud and perjury," Birach said.

"And now they are admitting to being former terrorists. So under the Real ID Act, that's enough for their removal from the United States."

You can reach Marisa Schultz at (313) 222-2310 or mschultz@detnews.com.

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Three Ex-Terrorists: 'I'll give you a hundred dollars for every peace sentence in the Quran, and you give me five dollars for every hate sentence."

"Anani cited an incident in Ottawa during which he said a Jewish girl stood up and defended the Quran at one of his speeches."

"I asked her if she had ever read it and she said no," Anani said. "I told her, 'I'll give you a hundred dollars for every peace sentence in the Quran, and you give me five dollars for every hate sentence. You'll pay me a fortune.' "
 


From the Michigan Daily

An Update on Three Ex-Terrorists to Speak In 2 Hours on University of Michigan's Ann Arbor, Michigan Campus
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The Michigan Daily is a student run newspaper serving the University of Michigan

Event billed as speech by ex-terrorists draws ire

Daniel Trump, For the Daily

Posted: 1/30/07

Although Zachariah Anani is being billed as one of three ex-terrorists who will speak at 7 p.m. in Rackham Auditorium tonight, he said the label doesn't apply to him.

"I wasn't a terrorist," he said. "I was only a militant fighter in a civil war."

The University's chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, a right-wing student group, is sponsoring the event. In promotional materials for tonight's event, Anani, Walid Shoebat and Kamal Saleem are referred to as former terrorists.

"They created this picture," Anani said.

The event has drawn allegations of hate speech from the Michigan office of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, whose representatives asked the University administration to block it.

Members of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee met with University administrators to voice their concerns yesterday afternoon. But the event will go on as scheduled.

Imad Hamad, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's state director for Michigan, said he is worried about the effect this event will have on the public impression of Islam.

"We can't take terrorists and put them through rehab and make them role models," Hamad said. "We can't do extreme makeover on terrorists."

Anani was born in Lebanon. When he was a teenager, he joined a small, local group of militant youths at the age of 13, supported by the Palestinian Liberation Organization, he said. Anani claims to have killed 223 people by the time he was 17, when he converted to Christianity.

University spokeswoman Kelly Cunningham said in written statement that the administration acknowledged the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's concerns.

"Both the (American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee ) and the University agreed on the importance of the free expression of ideas in an academic community," Cunningham said.

Anani said he cooperated with law enforcement authorities in Canada to secure asylum, but in an interview he downplayed the degree to which he participated in terrorist activities.

"I was in battlefields, not stopping people on streets like they do now," he said. "Today, when you think of a terrorist, you think of a suicide bomber. In my time, suicide meant you're outnumbered and you go out and fight and die."

Hamad questioned Anani's claims.

"Where is the FBI? Where is the (Immigration and Naturalization Service) to strip his citizenship, as they did with so many others with so fewer allegations?" he asked.

In response to the allegations that Anani is not a former terrorist, YAF Vice President Ryan Fantuzzi said, "(The allegation) sounds absurd to me. I know nothing about it. Why would someone be making death threats against him if he wasn't a terrorist?"

After a speech in Windsor last week, Anani reported receiving death threats and having his car vandalized.

"That's the story of my life. When they will take me out, they will take me out," he said.

He is now an advocate against what he calls "the violent doctrines of Islam," which he says are followed by "radical, orthodox Muslims."

When asked if those radical clerics who advocate violence have an incorrect interpretation of Islam, Anani said, "Unfortunately, no."

Anani cited an incident in Ottawa during which he said a Jewish girl stood up and defended the Quran at one of his speeches.

"I asked her if she had ever read it and she said no," Anani said. "I told her, 'I'll give you a hundred dollars for every peace sentence in the Quran, and you give me five dollars for every hate sentence. You'll pay me a fortune.' "

That's the sort of message that students like Kamelya Youssef, co-founder of a new University student group called the Arab Unity Movement, oppose.

"It's not correct," she said. "They're giving terrorism a religion. Terrorism is a concept, you can't put a face or a religion on it."

Youssef is part of a coalition of student groups planning a walkout during the event.

"We all agreed that this event won't improve the campus climate with regard to Arab and Muslim students," she said.

The protesters are planning their own alternative event to take place after the walkout.

Both sides of the issue claim to have the same purpose - to teach people.

"We're here to educate," said Keith Davies, director of the Walid Shoebat Foundation, a small Christian Zionist organization that promotes the three speakers and their message.

"It's not about hate," Davies said. "We love Muslims, we love Hindus, we love everybody. It's the ideology we oppose."

The protesters and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee said they respect the speakers' First Amendment rights.

"The point is not to censor," Hamad said.

Another member of the Arab Unity Movement, Sirene Abou-Chakra, was also planning to walk out of the event.

"We obviously promote freedom of speech," she said. "But we feel that this event is very inflammatory."

Fantuzzi said he wasn't worried about the protesters.

"As long as everyone follows the rules, and no one violates our freedom of speech … we'll be fine," he said.

Hamad said he hopes people won't listen to the speakers.

"They have nothing to say except to spread hatred, division, animosity and hostility against Islam," he said. "This is a show. They are acting."

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Weekend Anti-War Protest: Peace? "Violence"? Anarchy?

"These anarchists enjoy joining a rally of sheep (maybe most are sheep) and then running off to some area and acting the fool with their "revolutionary", willing to make a "real" statement actions. What kind of actions? Spray-painting some steps or breaking a window? An 11-year old juvenile delinquent could do more "revolutionary" activity. Until you show the ones that hold power that you are willing to give up your *life* for what you believe in, like Malcolm X, then you're just a clown in black, not fooling anybody. How about doing something really revolutionary like staying away from the next sheep rally? Create your own actions. Don't associate yourself/smear others (sheep as you call them) with your clownish, pathetic acts. Sadly the CIA doesn't have to pay you, you're such tools you do it for free."    "Peace? "Violence"? Anarchy?    Comment by sheep   in DC Indymedia.com


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Crowds on Both Coasts Protest Iraq War

Saturday, January 27, 2007

By CALVIN WOODWARD and LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writers

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WASHINGTON — 

Convinced this is their moment, tens of thousands marched Saturday in an anti-war demonstration linking military families, ordinary people and an icon of the Vietnam protest movement in a spirited call to get out of Iraq.

Celebrities, a half-dozen lawmakers and protesters from distant states rallied in the capital under a sunny sky, seizing an opportunity to press their cause with a Congress restive on the war and a country that has turned against the conflict.

Marching with them was Jane Fonda, in what she said was her first anti-war demonstration in 34 years.

"Silence is no longer an option," Fonda said to cheers from the stage on the National Mall. The actress once derided as "Hanoi Jane" by conservatives for her stance on Vietnam said she had held back from activism so as not to be a distraction for the Iraq anti-war movement, but needed to speak out now.

The rally on the Mall unfolded peacefully, although about 300 protesters tried to rush the Capitol, running up the grassy lawn to the front of the building. Police on motorcycles tried to stop them, scuffling with some and barricading entrances.

Protesters chanted "Our Congress" as their numbers grew and police faced off against them. Demonstrators later joined the masses marching from the Mall, around Capitol Hill and back.

About 50 demonstrators blocked a street near the Capitol for about 30 minutes, but they were dispersed without arrests.

United for Peace and Justice, a coalition group sponsoring the protest, had hoped 100,000 would come. They claimed even more afterward, but police, who no longer give official estimates, said privately the crowd was smaller than 100,000.

In California, smaller rallies were held in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento.

At the rally, 12-year-old Moriah Arnold stood on her toes to reach the microphone and tell the crowd: "Now we know our leaders either lied to us or hid the truth. Because of our actions, the rest of the world sees us as a bully and a liar."

The sixth-grader from Harvard, Mass., organized a petition drive at her school against the war that has killed more than 3,000 U.S. service-members, including seven whose deaths were reported Saturday.

More Hollywood celebrities showed up at the demonstration than buttoned-down Washington typically sees in a month.

Actor Sean Penn said lawmakers will pay a price in the 2008 elections if they do not take firmer action than to pass a nonbinding resolution against the war, the course Congress is now taking.

"If they don't stand up and make a resolution as binding as the death toll, we're not going to be behind those politicians," he said. Actors Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins also spoke.

Fonda was a lightning rod in the Vietnam era for her outspoken opposition to that war and her advocacy from Hanoi at the height of that conflict. Sensitive to the old wounds, she made it a point to thank the active-duty service-members, veterans and Gold Star mothers who attended the rally.

She drew parallels to the Vietnam War, citing "blindness to realities on the ground, hubris ... thoughtlessness in our approach to rebuilding a country we've destroyed." But she noted that this time, veterans, soldiers and their families increasingly and vocally are against the Iraq war.

The House Judiciary Committee chairman, Rep. John Conyers, threatened to use congressional spending power to try to stop the war. "George Bush has a habit of firing military leaders who tell him the Iraq war is failing," he said, looking out at the masses. "He can't fire you." Referring to Congress, the Michigan Democrat added: "He can't fire us.

"The founders of our country gave our Congress the power of the purse because they envisioned a scenario exactly like we find ourselves in today. Not only is it in our power, it is our obligation to stop Bush."

White House spokesman Trey Bohn responded that Conyers "needs to learn the difference between fact and fable, between a soundbite and a slur." He said Conyers' "assertion that the president fires generals with whom he disagrees is flat wrong."

On the stage rested a coffin covered with a U.S. flag and a pair of military boots, symbolizing American war dead. On the Mall stood a large bin filled with tags bearing the names of Iraqis who have died.

A small contingent of active-duty service members attended the rally, wearing civilian clothes because military rules forbid them from protesting in uniform.

Air Force Staff Sgt. Tassi McKee, 26, an intelligence specialist at Fort Meade, Md., said she joined the Air Force because of patriotism, travel and money for college. "After we went to Iraq, I began to see through the lies," she said.

In the crowd, signs recalled the November elections that defeated the Republican congressional majority in part because of President Bush's Iraq policy. "I voted for peace," one said.

"I've just gotten tired of seeing widows, tired of seeing dead Marines," said Vincent DiMezza, 32, wearing a dress Marine uniform from his years as a sergeant. A Marine aircraft mechanic from 1997 to 2002, he did not serve in Iraq or Afghanistan.

About 40 people staged a counter-protest, including Army Cpl. Joshua Sparling, 25, who lost his leg to a bomb in Iraq.

He said the anti-war protesters, especially those who are veterans or who are on active duty, "need to remember the sacrifice we have made and what our fallen comrades would say if they were alive."

Bush reaffirmed his commitment to his planned troop increase in a phone conversation Saturday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The president was in Washington for the weekend. He is often is out of town during big protest days.

"He understands that Americans want to see a conclusion to the war in Iraq and the new strategy is designed to do just that," said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council.

Protest organizers said the crowd included people who came on 300 buses from 40 states.

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Associated Press writers Stephen Manning and Kasie Hunt contributed to this report

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Anti-war protesters spray paint Capitol building

Anti-war protesters were allowed to spray paint on part of the west front steps of the United States Capitol building after police were ordered to break their security line by their leadership, two sources told The Hill.

According to the sources, police officers were livid when they were told to fall back by U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) Chief Phillip Morse andDeputy Chief Daniel Nichols.  "They were the commanders on the scene," one source said, who requested anonymity. "It was disgusting."

After police ceded the stairs, located on the lower west front of the Capitol, the building was locked down, the source added.

A second source who witnessed the incident said that the police had the crowd stopped at Third Street, but were told to bring the police line in front of the Capitol. 

Approximately 300 protesters were allowed to take the steps and began to spray paint "anarchist symbols" and phrase such as "Our capitol building" and "you can’t stop us" around the area, the source said.

Morse responded to these claims in an e-mail Sunday afternoon explaining that the protesters were seeking confrontation with the police.

"While there were minor instances of spray painting of pavement by a splinter group of Anarchists who were seeking a confrontation with the police, their attempts to breach into secure areas and rush the doors of the Capitol were thwarted," Morse said. "The graffiti was easily removed by the dedicated [Architect of the Capitol] staff, some of whom responded on their day off to quickly clean the area."

He added, "It is the USCP's duty and responsibility to protect the Capitol complex, staff and public while allowing the public to exercise their First Amendment rights … at the end of the day, both occurred without injury to protestors or officers."

Yet, the sources who talked to The Hill were furious that protesters were not stopped before reaching the Capitol.

"To get that close to the Capitol building, that is ridiculous," the second source said. "[Police] were told not to arrest anyone."

The second source added that police had to stand by and watch as protesters posed in front of their graffiti.

Tens of thousands of people rallied on the Mall and the Capitol complex Saturday in protest of the increased troop deployments and the war in Iraq.

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Protestors lay seige to US Capitol, smash window at military recruiter

Congress and military recruiters both got a small sample of what will happen if the US invades Iran, brings back the draft-or maybe just stays in Iraq two more years-from anticapitalist marchers during the larger Jan 27th antiwar mobilization.
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At the start of the march I joked that SDS, the organizers, would have to "make their bones or leave their bones." Well, they've made their mark in a big way today!

The march from Dupont Circle started out with 150 people or so, but grew as reinforcing contingents joined in at seveal points. In front were "tower" shields like those used by Roman soldiers or riot cops today.

We passed through the shopping area in Chinatown on the way to the Capitol, and all the yuppies there wer reminded that children are being killed in Iraq while they shop and dine.

The real action begain at the US Capitol, where Congressional Democrats are trying to shirk their responsabiity to block the surge, cut off funding for the war, and impeach buth Bush and Cheney. These are the things they were elected to do, ant ALL parts of today's action are a reminder that they had better get in the fight.

At the Capitol, police tried to block anyone from going past Third St, but were quickly bypassed by goign between parked cars. Capitol police then tried to hold the line, but a bulge formed and their lines collapsed under the sheer weight of hundreds of furious people with tower shields in front.

The cops were pused back, the crowd turned the corner and flanked them, and finally they abandoned the reflecting pool and fell back to 1st st. The crowd soon followed, and police lines wer pushed back again, with resistance stiffenign at the Capitol steps. We got the plaza ther but no further-so people flanked out again, finally laying seige to the south entrance(House side) of the Capitol.

Here things stabilized, and eventually marchers moved on as the main march got going.

It appeared that when the main march lead elements got back to the mall, others were still elaving the mall, thus surrounding the entire US capitol with hundreds of thousands of protestors. This in combination with the earlier action amounted to a true seige of Capitol Hill!

When the main march ended, anticapitalist proestors moved back into the streets of NW, and decided to protest at the military recruiters at 14th and L sts. Once there, someone threw a rock, smashing the recruiter's window damned good.

At this point, cops boiled up like angry hornets-onloy to be told by someone that mass arrests wer out of the question. Nobody was arrested but several people were punched.

AN INDEPENDANT REPORTER WAS PUNCHED IN THE FACE BY A COPT FOR TAKING NOTES ON THIS INCIDENT-interview included in the audio piece.

Unable to make mass arrests after setting their perimeter, cops had to let everyone elave, at which point people headed back to the Mall-and again to the US Capitol.

At the Capitol for the second time, there were repeated threats of mass arrest, and people wer forced off the Capitol grounds, but no arrests reported as of 6PM Jan 27.

This is but a tiny taste of what will happen if the tens of millions of people who voted NO on Republican rule in November are betrayed by Nancy Pelosi or Hillery Clinton.

WE'LL BE BACK!

AUDIO:

First piece is stirring "New Hope-Surge of Resistance" intro

Second piece is Seige of the Capitol coverage

Third is coverage of the march on the recruiting center


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THEY'RE 'THREE EX-TERRORISTS' STUPID! It's Beyond Ridiculous When 3 Ex-Terrorists Can't Speak At An American University In The US.

"The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee has asked U-M to reconsider allowing "such hateful discussion" to take place at the university's Rackham Auditorium in Ann Arbor. Meantime, one of the former terrorists has received death threats warning him from speaking at the university, according to his representative." Detroit News

'Ex-terrorists' event at U-M stirs outrage

Planned Tuesday discussion by 3 former extremists upsets Arab-American group.

Marisa Schultz / The Detroit News

Controversy is brewing over a presentation scheduled for Tuesday night at the University of Michigan by three self-proclaimed "ex-terrorists."

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee has asked U-M to reconsider allowing "such hateful discussion" to take place at the university's Rackham Auditorium in Ann Arbor. Meantime, one of the former terrorists has received death threats warning him from speaking at the university, according to his representative.

U-M senior officials will meet with members of the ADC on Monday, said university spokeswoman Julie Peterson. However, the university didn't invite the group, she said.

The conservative student group Young Americans for Freedom is sponsoring the discussion called "Terrorism: The World's Greatest Threat."

But canceling such an event does not coincide with the school's mission, according to U-M officials. U-M's policy is to allow invited guests to express their views regardless of whether others disagree.

Andrew Boyd, co-chair of Young Americans for Freedom, said the three men were invited to spark dialogue on campus.

"There's a misconception about the event," Boyd said. "It's about showing the difference between Muslim extremists and the average everyday Muslim who is peaceful."

The men are Zachariah Anani, a Windsor resident, and Walid Shoebat and Kamal Saleem, who are both U.S. citizens. Anani was recently targeted by Islamist groups who have mounted a witch hunt against him, according to his spokesperson.

According to their Web site, Shoebat and Saleem are former members of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Shoebat participated in acts of terror against Israel and was later imprisoned in Jerusalem. Saleem completed his first mission to Israel at age 7.

Anani was a teenage militia fighter, where he was trained to kill Jews, according to http://www.3xterrorists.com. He says he killed 223 people. The ADC doubts the men's stories for "the simple fact that if they were ... 'ex-terrorists' they would all be in federal custody," according to a letter ADC sent to U-M.

The men are not swayed.

"In order to understand the negative effects of narcotics, reformed drug addicts are often called upon to talk about their experiences," Shoebat said in a statement.

"It is the same situation here. Three former terrorists are educating the world on the phenomenon of terrorism, so that people can understand."

This will be the third speaking event by the trio. The first was at Princeton University, where it had to be relocated off campus, and the other was in Philadelphia, said Keith Davies, director of the Walid Shoebat Foundation.

You can reach Marisa Schultz at (313) 222-2310 or mschultz@detnews.com.

 
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Three Former Terrorists to Speak on World's Greatest Threat at University of Michigan

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire- USNewswire/ --

Three former terrorists will give "Terrorism: The World's Greatest Threat" presentation at University of Michigan event:

WHO: Three Former Terrorists

WHERE: University of Michigan

Rackham Auditorium
915 East Washington Street (between South Thayer and Fletcher
Streets) Ann Arbor, Michigan

WHEN: Tuesday, January 30 at 7:00 p.m.

Zachariah Anani, a former terrorist-militant and refugee from Lebanon, will join two other former terrorists, Walid Shoebat and Kamal Saleem for "Terrorism: The World's Greatest Threat," a presentation at the University of Michigan on Tuesday, January 30 at 7:00 p.m.

All three former terrorists risk their lives daily to relay their  important message. Recently, Anani has been targeted by Islamist groups because he lives near the event. These groups
have mounted a public witch hunt against him.

Prior to the highly publicized controversy surrounding his recent talk at the Campbell Church in Windsor, Ontario, (across the border from Detroit), Anani received death threats warning him against speaking at the
university.

The controversy at the church in Windsor is a reaction to billboards placed in the Detroit Metro area, which advertise his participation in the university event.

Walid Shoebat believes that the extremists who are trying to stop Anani's freedom of speech are also seeking to stifle the important education Anani and his colleagues have to offer on terrorism.

"In order to understand the negative affects of narcotics, reformed drug addicts are often called upon to talk about their experiences, " says Shoebat. "It is the same situation here.

Three former terrorists are educating the world on the phenomenon of terrorism, so that people can
understand." The event is free and open to the public.

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Link to video of an interview

Three Ex-Terrorists make their first TV appearance together on CN8. (WMV, 16:32, 19MB)

If you're on broadband and want a preview. Former terrorists speak

http://www.shoebat.com/cn8.php
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Videos
Interview with Former Terrorists Walid Shoebat, Ibrahim Abdullah and Zak Anani on Your World CN8 New Jersey
(2006) [Windows Media Video, 16min 25sec, 17.8MB]
Walid Shoebat Interview on Zola Levitt Presents (02-25-06)
Walid Shoebat Finally Makes Fox News (March 2005) [Windows Media Video, 4min 11sec, 15.1MB]
Walid Shoebat Confronts Islamic Supporters of Terror on Irish National TV, Exposes Their Hatred!
[Windows Media Video, 21min 57sec, 79.9MB]
A Palestinian's Journey [QuickTime Video, 10min 33sec, 37.5MB]
Capital News 9 Interview [Windows Media Video, 4min 2sec, 10.1MB]

Articles
MUST READ: It's a dead heart that thinks only of the dead and forgets the living by Walid Shoebat (05-21-06)
From PLO Terrorist to Lover of Zion by Israel National News (02-27-04)
Palestinian militant turned peacemaker by BBC (01-26-04)  
Former Terrorist Speaks by Alyssa A. Lappen and Jerry Gordon (04-02-04)
The Ravages of the Jihad-Occupied Mind by Alyssa A. Lappen (02-17-04)
One Palestinian’s ‘Brain Change’ by Stewart Ain (03-12-04)
A former terrorist repents and discusses his metamorphosis on six-city speaking tour.
The unmaking of a terrorist by Joseph Farah (01-23-04)
Palestinian blows whistle on culture that turned him toward Jew-hatred
Walid Makes New Headlines in UK by London Sunday Telegraph (06/20/04)

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Ex-terrorists to speak
at new venue

Princeton University canceled event because 'too inflammatory'


Posted: December 8, 2005
2:00 p.m. Eastern


© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Three former terrorists will speak today at a new location after their event was canceled by Princeton University because the term terrorist reportedly was deemed "too inflammatory."

A press conference is scheduled for 6 p.m. tonight at the Radisson Hotel, 4355 Route 1 at Ridge Road, in Princeton, N.J., followed by a lecture and question-and-answer session.

The speakers will discuss the terrorist mindset and how they were indoctrinated and instructed to kill and maim.

The event originally was to be held at Princeton University's McCosh 50 Lecture Theatre.

After learning of the cancellation, the organization sponsoring the event, the Walid Shoebat Foundation, claimed Princeton was violating the free-speech rights of the speakers.

Participants in the event are:

Walid Shoebat, who came from a prominent family in Bethlehem. After joining the Palestinian Liberation Organization, he took part in numerous attacks against Israel, including a bank bombing. He also was involved in the attempted lynching of an Israeli soldier.

Zak Anani was a leader of the most notorious Arab gangs prior to the Lebanese civil war. Before turning 16, he killed numerous Arabs in gang warfare and hated the West and Israel.

Ibrahim Abadallah was born and raised in Dearborn, Mich., to a Jordanian father. At 17, he emigrated to Israel, where he joined the PLO. He injured many Israelis while rioting and throwing Molotov cocktails.


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Friday, December 9, 2005

Reporting Live from the Princeton Ex-Terrorist Event

The full context of this story is here: Princeton Censors Ex-PLO Speakers; Likely to Hire PLO Professor


The full context of this story is here: Princeton Censors Ex-PLO Speakers; Likely to Hire PLO Professor

I am currently at the Princeton Radisson press conference with the panel of three ex-terrorists (Walid Shoebat, Zak Anani and Ibrahim Abadallah).

It is chilling. I have just shaken the hand of a man who has killed 223 people during Lebanon's militia violence. Hearing them talk about what they have done and the zeal with which they recount their former Jew-hatred is completely unsettling.

Each of the ex-terrorists have either killed or seriously injured people. Each of the ex-terrorists has had attempts on his life. One of the panelists mentioned he has been attacked 15 times and has had his daughter injured as a retaliation for his speaking. One of the panelists (Ibrahim Abadallah) was born and raised in Dearborn, Michigan.

Each of the panelists agree that recruitment by terrorist organizations was not significant to their having become terrorists. Rather, terror is part of the "fiber of the culture" and joining terror organizations was organic and natural. They agreed that terror indoctrination permeates Muslim society. Fortunately, they were all able to deprogram themselves, primarily through conversion to Christianity.

Here are some quotes from the panelists:

Walid Shoebat: "There is no wall in the area where I grew up that was not filled with grafitti, with slogans such as 'we knock on the gates of heaven with the skulls of Jews.'"

Zak Anani: "The problem is not land. It is generations of hatred passed from one generation to the next."

Ibrahim Abadallah: "My hatred for the Jews permeated my heart. I hated the Jews with all my heart, my soul and my passions. Anything I could do to harm the Jewish state, the Jewish people, I would do."

[Ironically, Abadallah had attended a Quaker school in Dearborn.]

"The text [Koran] tells you who your enemy is. The Jew first, then the Christian. Hence the hatred for America."


I just asked a question to the panel about the recent reports of the Palestinian election of a Fatah member named "Hitler" in Jenin and the fact that at least 25 PLO members go by the name of Hitler or Abu Hitler. Could any of them comment personally about how Nazism was perceived?

Walid Shoebat: "Mein Kampf has been a best-seller throughout the Muslim world. Haj Amin Husseini, who was a guest in my family's home, was nicknamed the Fuhrer of the Muslim World."

"There was never any excuse given for Nazis for their hatred of Jews. When it comes to Islamic terrorists, we make all the excuses in the world"

Ibrahim Abadallah: "Most Arabs consider Hitler a hero precisely because he killed 6 million Jews."

Shortly after the press conference was a lecture. I will hopefully write up my notes later. Right now, however, I am feeling shock over what I witnessed and amazement that such people have the possibility of redemption.

Update (Dec. 9): Now that I have been able to sleep, I am still in shock, but I have had time to figure out why. I have been intimately involved with the Middle East for all of my adult life. I understand the problem of Islamic extremism intellectually, but I am at heart a Westerner. My core belief in living a constructive life is reflected throughout Western society. In years of living in Israel I have never had a serious encounter with anyone who does not want to peace for the benefit of Arabs as well as for Jews.

Over and over, the speakers emphasized that they were entirely suffused with hatred and motivated by the desire for vengeance. While Shoebat was a polished speaker, it was the American Abadallah who was the most disturbing. His English was obviously perfect and he spoke in a reserved way using Western terms like "belief system." At times, though, he would switch to talking about his former hatred and he would appear possessed by a different spirit entirely. The words were, of course unsettling. Over and over he would say some permutation of "I hated the Jews with all my heart, my soul and my passions." But the experience of seeing how his body behaved when he said those words was thoroughly disturbing, because they were totally foreign.

Walid Shoebat gave many disturbing examples, including a long list of names of his extended family members who were involved in terrorism. On the day that his cousin had been killed by Israeli security in foiling his attempt to bomb the Ben Yehuda Street pedestrian mall, his Aunt Fahima distributed the traditional wedding candies to celebrate her dead son's marriage to the 72 virgins awaiting him.

Walid related how, as children, they were taught in a mosque about teachings of a great war in the "end of days." The boys asked many questions about the details of raping the women who would be captured, and the imam calmly reassured them repeatedly of its permissibility.

He described how one night a man announced to his neighbors that he would "cleanse the honor of his family" by killing his wife in public. Many people arrived at the appointed time to witness the murder. He related how his friends were giggling in school the next day as they related the details of her decapitation, including how the head was only connected to the body by a small strip of skin. After the Israelis arrested the man, his entire community contributed to a fund to bail him out of prison.

The highlight of the evening was during the question period. Walid Shoebat dealt with the pre-written question:

What can be done? What can we do? How can we live in peace?
He said to the diverse audience: "This question could have only been written by a Jew." The author admitted that was true and everyone laughed. He answered that it is a Jewish tendency to rush to seek a peaceful solution, but that he felt the question was backwards. He admonished the audience to stop asking what the solution is and to start seeking to understand the problem. The problem has never been understood, which is why the attempted solutions have failed. The problem is Islamofascism, he explained. The problem is the utter brainwashing, the hatred that is literally taught from birth. The problem has nothing to do with land, or with jobs, or any of the other explanations that he heaped contempt upon throughout the presentation. I, who understand that problem better than most, can never understand the problem at an emotional level. And that frightens me.


http://www.iris.org.il/blog/archives/745-Reporting-Live-from-the-Princeton-Ex-Terrorist-Event.html
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Biography
of Walid Shoebat


Born in Bethlehem of Judea, Walid's grandfather was the Muslim Mukhtar (chieftain) of Beit Sahour-Bethlehem (The Shepherd's Fields) and a friend of Haj-Ameen Al-Husseni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and notorious friend of Adolf Hitler.

Walid's great grandfather, Abdullah Ali Awad-Allah, was also a fighter and close associate of both Abdul Qader and Haj Amin Al-Husseini, who led the Palestinians against Israel. Walid lived through and witnessed Israel’s Six Day War while living in Jericho.

As a young man, he became a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and participated in acts of terror and violence against Israel, and was later imprisoned in the Russian Compound, Jerusalem's central prison for incitement and violence against Israel.

After his release, he continued his life of violence and rioting in Bethlehem and the Temple Mount. After entering the U.S, he worked as a counselor for the Arab Student Organization at Loop College in Chicago and continued his anti-Israel activities.

In 1993, Walid studied the Tanach (Jewish Bible) in a challenge to convert his wife to Islam. Six months later, after intense study, Walid realized that everything he had been taught about Jews was a lie. Convinced he was on the side of evil, he became an advocate for his former enemy.

Driven by a deep passion to heal his own soul, and to bring the truth about the Jews and Israel to the world, Walid shed his former life and his work as a software engineer and set out to tirelessly bring the cause of Israel to tens of thousands of people throughout the world: churches and synagogues, civic groups, government leaders and media.

Walid has written several online books including "Dear Muslim, Let Me Tell You Why I Believed" and "Israel, And The World's Mock Trial”, where he exposes anti-Semitism and the hatred of Jews in both the Islamic Christian and secular worlds.

Walid is an American citizen and lives in the USA with his wife and children, under this assumed name.

Engagements:

Walid has spoken all over America and the world including Chile, Mexico, Canada, UK and South Africa. He has appeared on national television also all over the world including CNN, CNN International, FOX News, ITN, RTE, NBC, CBS, and ABC. He has also been featured on BBC radio 4 and 5.



http://www.shoebat.com/bio.php
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Biography of Kamal Saleem

Kamal Saleem was born in the Middle East to a large Sunni Muslim family who still reside in the Middle East. Kamal was recruited by the PLO and completed his first mission to Israel at the age of seven years old. He was trained in every form of offensive and defensive weapon assault terrorist tactics.

Kamal came to the United States as a young man with a mission to covert Americans both Christian and Jews for the glory of Allah.

In 1985, Kamal’s world changed when he was injured in a serious automobile accident. At that accident scene a Christian man tended to Kamal and made sure he got the medical treatment he needed. Kamal had a spiritual journey and eventually converted to Christianity.

Kamal has great insight into the world situation around us, and a wealth of knowledge concerning the true culture and agenda of radical Islam. He is well versed in both the Koran and Holy Bible. Kamal believes radical Islam is the most clear and present danger to both Christians and Jews in the world today as we know it. 

Kamal and his wife have been married for sixteen years. They have three children and five grandchildren. He currently teaches and speaks all over America in Churches, Universities and High Schools, as well as Radio, Television interviews.



http://www.3xterrorists.com/saleem.php_______________________________________________________


Biography of Zachariah Anani

Zachariah Anani was a teenage militia fighter. Born into a family of Muslim clergy in Beirut, Lebanon, he began Islamic school at age three. His grandfather and great grandfather had been imams (religious authorities), and his family expected him to follow in their footsteps.

At 13, he joined one of the many military groups that existed in the early '70s. "All the religious fragments had their own secret militia," Anani says. "I was trained to fight and kill Jews, and to hate Christians and Americans."

His family was pleased with his decision because according to Islamic teaching, those who die in battle against "unbelievers" are assured of reaching heaven. Ironically, Anani faced the Israelis only once. Most of the time, though, the Muslim groups fought among themselves.



Soon after enlisting, he made his first “kill.” By the time he turned 16, "life meant nothing," Anani says. "Every time I killed someone and two or three fighters witnessed it, they would give me a point on my chart. I carried 223 points."

Even his comrades feared him. "Although we had a sense of loyalty to each other," he says, "we were ready to take out enemies or friends." When a fanatical Muslim joined his regiment and began knocking on doors to wake the others for prayer at 3 A.M., Anani warned him: "I don't want to pray. Don't come and wake me." When he heard the knock early the next morning, Anani picked up his gun, shot him, and went back to sleep.

Anani was soon promoted to troop leader and then formed his own regiment. But "life seemed painful and empty," he says.

Anani met a Christian missionary, embarked on a spiritual journey and converted to Christainity which became a turning point in his life.

Anani initially tried to keep his new faith secret. Apart from one professor, no one at his university suspected he was a Christian. But in the Muslim neighborhood where he grew up, everyone knew it and he was harassed and persecuted. He moved to the city's Christian sector, but the persecution continued. Even his father hired assassins to kill him.



Finally church leaders convinced him to leave Lebanon because his presence endangered others. In 1996 Anani entered Canada as a refugee. It took another three difficult years before his wife and three children could join him. After Anani debated with a Muslim scholar in the United States, his family was attacked in Lebanon. Two of his children required surgery.

Zak has been attacked numerous times for his faith as a Christian, even in Canada.

When in Lebanon, he was nearly beheaded and was only saved when an army patrol came by and the Islamist gang dispersed leaving Zak with a huge wound on his neck. Zak nearly bled to death and was actually technically dead for 7 minutes, before being revived.

In Canada, where he now lives, his house and car have been burnt, his family attacked physically and Zak himself has been attacked.

Speaking out in a free country is sometimes not as safe as it should be.


http://www.3xterrorists.com/zachariahbio.php 

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Articles From Militant Islam Monitor.Org

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  January 7, 2007
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Irvin J. Borowsky and the CSID: How a militant Islamist think tank exploits interfaith to promote Islam   January 3, 2007
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Holland's Post -Secular Future - Joshua Livestro on why Christianity's revival may be the antidote to Europe's Islamisation   January 1, 2007
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Death Threats Against Anani: A Prelude to Upcoming University of Michigan Event

"Three Former Terrorists to Speak on World's Greatest Threat "

 

Press release for Three Ex Terrorist Event


Reply to: see below
Date: 2007-01-25, 7:40PM EST


Press release for Three Ex Terrorist Event


Below is National Press Release. Please all those withing 100 miles of Ann Arbor please support these brave men and advise your Pastors and Rabbis in the Ann Arbor area to announce the event and request support at thier Churches and Synagogues.


Death Threats Against Anani: A Prelude to Upcoming Michigan Event


Three Former Terrorists to Speak on World's Greatest Threat

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire- USNewswire/ -- Three former
terrorists will give "Terrorism: The World's Greatest Threat" presentation
at University of Michigan event:

WHO: Three Former Terrorists

WHERE: University of Michigan

Rackham Auditorium
915 East Washington Street (between South Thayer and Fletcher
Streets) Ann Arbor, Michigan

WHEN: Tuesday, January 30 at 7:00 p.m.

Zachariah Anani, a former terrorist-militant and refugee from Lebanon, will join two other former terrorists, Walid Shoebat and Kamal Saleem for "Terrorism: The World's Greatest Threat," a presentation at the University of Michigan on Tuesday, January 30 at 7:00 p.m.

All three former terrorists risk their lives daily to relay their  important message. See: http://3xTerrorists .com. Recently, Anani has been targeted by Islamist groups because he lives near the event. These groups
have mounted a public witch hunt against him.

Prior to the highly publicized controversy surrounding his recent talk at the Campbell Church in Windsor, Ontario, (across the border from Detroit), Anani received death threats warning him against speaking at the
university.

The controversy at the church in Windsor is a reaction to billboards placed in the Detroit Metro area, which advertise his participation in the university event.

Walid Shoebat believes that the extremists who are trying to stop Anani's freedom of speech are also seeking to stifle the important education Anani and his colleagues have to offer on terrorism.

"In order to understand the negative affects of narcotics, reformed drug addicts are often called upon to talk about their experiences, " says Shoebat. "It is the same situation here.

Three former terrorists are educating the world on the phenomenon of terrorism, so that people can
understand." The event is free and open to the public.

For directions go to:
http://www.ums. org/s_tickets/ directions_ parking.asp
Walid Shoebat is the author of "Why I left Jihad." His new book, "Why
We Want To Kill You!" will be released in February. See:
http://shoebat. com.
Contact: Maria Sliwa of M. Sliwa Public Relations for the Shoebat
Foundation, +1-973-272-2861 or msliwa@msliwa. com

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/pol/268478283.html

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Link to video of an interview

Three Ex-Terrorists make their first TV appearance together on CN8. (WMV, 16:32, 19MB)

If you're on broadband and want a preview. Former terrorists speak

http://www.shoebat.com/cn8.php________________________________________________

'Ex-terrorists' event at U-M stirs outrage

[...]Planned Tuesday discussion by 3 former extremists upsets Arab-American group.

Marisa Schultz / The Detroit News

Controversy is brewing over a presentation scheduled for Tuesday night at the University of Michigan by three self-proclaimed "ex-terrorists."

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee has asked U-M to reconsider allowing "such hateful discussion" to take place at the university's Rackham Auditorium in Ann Arbor. Meantime, one of the former terrorists has received death threats warning him from speaking at the university, according to his representative. (Excerpted)
Go To http://gabriellecusumano.townhall.com/g/32ce38e7-ba58-402d-850f-610625ed52e6   for more on this article and more information
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http://www.3xterrorists.com/

Three former terrorist campaign for freedom and expose the agenda of Radical Islamism, which permeates the Muslim world and Western societies.



The 3 Ex-terrorists appear on CN8 together
Watch the video (WMV, 16:32, 19MB)

They convey their life experiences.

They confess to the world why they were terrorists.

They will give insight into the real causes of terrorism.

Promoting freedom, equality and tolerance for all, the three ex-terrorists will speak to the people of Michigan on the root cause of terrorism and its proliferation.

 

http://www.3xterrorists.com/ 

 

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"In October, a 14-year-old boy in Albasra was crucified and stabbed in the stomach in mockery of the death of Christ."

"Another 14-year-old boy in Baquba was decapitated in his workplace by veiled Muslims chanting "Allahu, Akbar! Allahu, Akbar!" Also that month, a priest was kidnapped, tortured and beheaded, supposedly over the Pope's comments critical of Islam. "


 
Christians Thrown To The Lions In Iraq 
By JOHN GLEESON   December 21, 2006

While Canada's self-appointed guardians of Christmas dig up new evidence of persecution -- a tree moved down the hall, a greeting without "merry" dutifully attached -- real persecution against Christians is going on daily and is being largely ignored.

Nowhere is the situation as grave as in Iraq.

Since the U.S. invasion in 2003, Iraq's one million Assyrian Christians -- the oldest sect in Christendom -- have been the target of a campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing at the hands of Islamic extremists and Kurdish nationalists. Tens of thousands have fled the country for Syria, Jordan or Turkey.

This year has been the worst since the invasion. Church bombings, car bombings, kidnappings and killings have become commonplace.

In August, 13 Assyrian women in Baghdad were kidnapped and murdered. In October, a 14-year-old boy in Albasra was crucified and stabbed in the stomach in mockery of the death of Christ. Another 14-year-old boy in Baquba was decapitated in his workplace by veiled Muslims chanting "Allahu, Akbar! Allahu, Akbar!" Also that month, a priest was kidnapped, tortured and beheaded, supposedly over the Pope's comments critical of Islam.

Indeed, in the wake of Benedict XVI's September speech, extremists threatened to kill all Christians in Iraq unless the Pope apologized.

Except for a few Christian relief agencies and the Assyrians' own news service, the bloodletting has been virtually unreported -- lost in the sea of carnage that is today's Iraq.

Assyrians themselves are calling on the western world to create a "safe zone" for Christians on the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq (the Canadian-based Council of Assyrian Research and Development has posted a petition at www.cardonline.org). The European Parliament passed a resolution to that effect in April, but so far nothing has been done.

Meanwhile, Christmas has understandably gone underground in Iraq.

Due to "the grave security situation in the country," Iraq's Chaldean patriarch Emmanuel Delly has "appealed on safety grounds to Christians ... to refrain from any public celebrations for Christmas."

Christians hide in their homes and pray in secret. Priests are afraid to appear in public in their clerical robes, lest they be indiscriminately attacked. Schoolgirls have been warned by Muslim extremists to wear the hijab, and boys to dress in a "sombre manner," or face the consequences under sharia law.

Truly a sad fate for a Christian community that traces its foundation back to 33 AD and St. Thomas and where most of the people still speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus and the Apostles.

It's ironic, but not really surprising, that the American-led occupation under President George W. Bush would usher in an era of atrocities against Iraq's Christian minority. They were an easy revenge target for the majority Muslims, who have only been emboldened by the U.S. government's apparent disregard for the Assyrians' plight.

With more important geopolitical alliances to forge with the warring Muslim factions and the Kurds, you could say the Americans have thrown the Christians to the lions.

And remember, the same calamity could befall Pakistan's three million Christians, already a persecuted minority, if things were to get really ugly in neighbouring Afghanistan.

Persecution? We don't know the half of it.
All Credit Given to John Gleeson and the Winnipeg Sun.com
http://winnipegsun.com/News/Columnists/Gleeson_John/2006/12/21/pf-2913180.html


Unholy Month of Ramadan: Persecution of Assyrians Increases in Iraq

Fasting from sunrise to sunset is a struggle for Muslims during this month of Ramadan. The month will present a more dangerous struggle for non-Muslims in Iraq, against whom Islamic terrorists promise to increase their violence.

On Thursday, October 12, Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan of Mosul, Saliba Chamoun, buried one of his priests, the latest victim of violence targeting Christians and other minorities in Iraq during Ramadan. Father Boulos Iskander had been kidnapped the previous Monday by an unknown Islamic extremist group. Family and church authorities negotiated with the abductors, who demanded $350,000 in ransom, but later promised to reduce the amount to $40,000 if Pope Benedict XVI's reference to historical Islamic violence was publicly condemned.

The ransom was raised and paid. St. Epharim's parishioners dutifully posted 30 large signs on walls around the city repudiating the Pope's statements. They awaited word of Fr. Iskander's promised release. On Wednesday in the Tahir City District, a mile from the Mosul city center, the priest's body was found. Fr. Iskander's severed head lay atop his chest. His severed arms and legs were placed around his head.

The same day as Fr. Iskander's kidnapping, the leader of the Mandaean religious community (followers of John the Baptist), Sheikh Raad Mutar Saleh, was assassinated in Suweira, 35 miles southeast of Baghdad.

Also, during that same violent week, there were reports that a 14-year-old boy was crucified in the Christian neighborhood of Albasra. Unfortunately, the killing of children is not a new tactic of Muslim insurgents targeting Christians; nor is its practice limited to Ramadan.

In June, Rosie Malek-Yonan, Christian Assyrian author of The Crimson Field, recounted additional cases of murdered Christian children to the U.S. House International Relations Committee. Two years ago, a 15-year-old boy, Fadi Shamoon, was riding his bicycle in the Assyrian district of Baasheeqa, when he was kidnapped by Kurdish Islamists. His body was found along a roadside, cut into pieces and burned. Similarly, another Assyrian boy, 14-year-old Julian Yacoub, was knocked unconscious by a concrete block, then set afire in a Islamist-inspired attack in the same district.

On October 4, an Assyrian Christian neighborhood in Camp Sara was devastated by a bomb that killed nine persons. The week before, two similar explosive devices were used in an attack on the Assyrian Cathedral of the Virgin Mary in Baghdad. Islamists also targeted a Dominican convent. Two days later, during the second week of Ramadan, the Church of the Holy Spirit in Mosul was attacked. In the past two years, over 27 churches have been attacked or bombed. Reports of kidnappings and rape of young girls are widespread. A Syriac-Orthodox priest living in Sweden described the Ramadan campaign against Christians as pure terror: "Now only hell is expected for the Christians of Iraq."

Other minorities have also suffered at the hands of Islamists. The Shabak community (a minority Muslim sect) has claimed that 100 of their followers have been murdered by Muslim extremists since June. The Yazidis (an ancient pre-Christian community) have undergone a mass exodus from Mosul during the past year, driven away by Islamic violence and intimidation.

ChaldoAssyrian Christians comprise less than 5 percent of the population of Iraq. However, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that between October 2003 and March 2005, 36 percent of those fleeing Iraq for Syria were Christians. In 1987 the Christian population of Iraq was 1.4 million; today, it is estimated to be between 600,000 to 800,000. The Mandaean faith community adheres to pacifism, yet their numbers in Iraq have been reduced from 30,000 to 5,000 during the past three years. According to community leaders, most Iraqi Mandaeans have been murdered or fled to Jordan.

Shiites and Sunnis are in open warfare against each other in Iraq. Leaders from both sects are meeting in Mecca to endorse a call to end the sectarian bloodshed between the two groups. According to Iraq's foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, if there is a call to stop shedding Muslim blood, especially during Ramadan and initiated in Mecca, it may influence actions on the ground. This could be a positive development for both sides. But, who in the Muslim community will call to end the violence against the others, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Mandaeans, Turkomen, Yazidis, and Shabak, whose blood is also flowing freely in Iraq? There are currently two Christian members of the 275 member Iraqi Parliament, a sparse number that will not be heard or heeded by Sunni and Shiite counterparts.

The London Times recently reported that the Iraq Study Group, chaired by former Secretary of State James Baker III, was prepared to recommend to President Bush the division of Iraq into three autonomous regions. The proposal was offered by Senator Joseph Biden, a member of the group. Opponents worry that dividing along ethnic lines would lead to all-out civil war.

On paper, there are already provisions for creating autonomous administrative districts for ethnic/religious minorities in Iraq. Chapter 4, Article 121, of the Iraqi Constitution, "Local Administrations," does guarantee the administrative, political, cultural, and educational rights for ethnic minorities. However, Assyrian activists argue that the law stands in theory but not in practice.

The Iraqi parliament narrowly approved a law allowing the country's 18 provinces to hold referendums in order to create federal regions in Iraq. Sunnis opposed the legislation because such a division would leave them without a source for oil revenues. The move is the beginning of a process of federalism process that will likely lead to self-governing regions more autonomous from Baghdad. The ethnic and religious minorities, so vulnerable from Islamists in the larger Shiite, Sunni, and Kurdish communities, should be integrated into the federal process.

The Iraq Sustainable Democracy Project noted in a policy brief earlier this year that implementing the "Local Administration" provision is a constitutional solution that promises safety, stability, and a solution to facilitate the return of tens of thousands of Assyrian Christian refugees. Michael Youash, the director of the organization, argues, "Formalizing an administrative unit for Assyrians makes them part of the federal system of Iraq, allowing them to play a moderating role…it provides those within it the opportunity to ensure their own safety, security, and ability to govern their local affairs." The group notes that the Nineveh Plains, the indigenous territory of Christians, along with other minorities such as the Yazidis and Shabak, would be a natural location for such a arrangement. The autonomous administrative unit of the Nineveh Plains would not end the attacks on minorities in the large cities of Mosul, Baghdad, or Basra. However, it may offer a place for these besieged minorities to flee for safety without giving up their national identity as Iraqis.

Western media outlets have been conditioned to call the Muslim month of fasting "the holy month of Ramadan." For many Iraqis, especially ethnic and religious minorities, Ramadan has been less than blessed this year. Murder, intimidation, rape, torture, and other forms of violence have increased during this "holy" month. Hope in Iraq's future cannot be found in the destruction of minority faith and ethnic communities. It must be discovered in the actions of those right-hearted and -minded persons who have courageously dedicated themselves to the creation of a truly pluralistic multi-ethnic/religious society in Iraq.

The fruits of Ramadan should not result in the further sowing of seeds of destruction in Iraq.

By Keith Roderick
National Review Online

Rev. Keith Roderick is Washington representative for Christian Solidarity International and secretary general of the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights.


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WAS U.S. TREAS SEC PAULSON ARRESTED IN EUROPE OVER WANTA FUNDS? WHAT'S UP WITH THE WANTA STORY AND WHY ISN'T THE MSM ON IT?

Also: Fitzgerald probe: Sen. Clinton withdrew stolen funds from Grenada bank

Prosecutor in possession of documents, numbered bank accounts, trusts—and alleged film evidence of Senator Hillary Clinton withdrawing stolen U.S. Treasury funds from bank in Grenada as Fitzgerald probe expands to $742 billion theft (Last article posted here in series)


U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY HENRY M. PAULSON HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN EUROPE


"ARREST CONFIRMED BY SEVEN SOURCES: KEY U.S. TREASURY OFFICIAL ORDERED TO GERMANY, SUBJECTED TO A GAG ORDER, AND INSTRUCTED TO TESTIFY AGAINST HIS OWN U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY. HE HAS BEEN IN GERMANY FOR THE PAST TWO WEEKS, TESTIFYING BEFORE THE TRIBUNAL, STAFF OF THE U.S. CONSULATE AND THE GERMAN ATTORNEY GENERAL (EQUIVALENT) ABOUT THE ENDLESSLY FRUSTRATED ATTEMPTS OF AMBASSADOR WANTA'S CORPORATION, TO OBTAIN RELEASE OF THE FUNDS, AND ABOUT ALLEGED CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS BY PAULSON, GOLDMAN SACHS AND COMPANY, ET AL."

"THE U.S. ‘MAINSTREAM MEDIA’ ARE WITHHOLDING THE BIGGEST SCANDAL IN WORLD HISTORY FROM THE MUCH-ABUSED AMERICAN PEOPLE."

Saturday 30 December 2006 20:05

U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY HENRY M. PAULSON HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN EUROPE
PAULSON AND CHENEY SUBPOENAED BY TRIBUNAL

SENTENCING INFLICTS EXTREME DISGRACE UPON THE UNITED STATES GENERALLY

U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY SEIZED AND BROUGHT BEFORE 'AD HOC' TRIBUNAL IN GERMANY ON A SUBPOENA HANDED OUT BY THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE [OR 'WORLD COURT'] ON CHARGES OF MONEY-LAUNDERING, NON-PAYMENT OF THE WANTA $4.5 TRILLION AND FOR MISAPPROPRIATION AND/OR DIVERSION OF COLOSSAL $ SUMS.

VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY LIKEWISE AT THE RECEIVING END OF PARALLEL SUBPOENA FOR SIMILAR CRIMINAL OFFENCE(S).

GERMAN AUTHORITIES EXERCISED THE INTERNATIONAL SUBPOENA, BRINGING PAULSON (AND CHENEY) UNDER GERMAN JURISDICTION, GIVEN THAT GERMAN BANKS TRYING TO MAKE THE WANTA PAYMENT WERE TWICE PREVENTED BY MR PAULSON FROM DOING SO. WHEN THIS HAPPENED THE SECOND TIME, PAULSON WAS ARRESTED.

PAULSON CHARGED WITH DIVERSION OF FUNDS AND WITH NON-PERFORMANCE OF WANTA’S $4.5 TRILLION: HE WAS ARRESTED AFTER SEEING MME ANGELA MERKEL, WHO WOULD OTHERWISE BE COMPLICIT IN THE $4.5 TRILLION THEFT (WHICH OF COURSE SHE IS NOT). BUT THAT WAS THE SITUATION.

ARREST CONFIRMED BY SEVEN SOURCES: KEY U.S. TREASURY OFFICIAL ORDERED TO GERMANY, SUBJECTED TO A GAG ORDER, AND INSTRUCTED TO TESTIFY AGAINST HIS OWN U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY. HE HAS BEEN IN GERMANY FOR THE PAST TWO WEEKS, TESTIFYING BEFORE THE TRIBUNAL, STAFF OF THE U.S. CONSULATE AND THE GERMAN ATTORNEY GENERAL (EQUIVALENT) ABOUT THE ENDLESSLY FRUSTRATED ATTEMPTS OF AMBASSADOR WANTA'S CORPORATION, TO OBTAIN RELEASE OF THE FUNDS, AND ABOUT ALLEGED CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS BY PAULSON, GOLDMAN SACHS AND COMPANY, ET AL.

THE U.S. ‘MAINSTREAM MEDIA’ ARE WITHHOLDING THE BIGGEST SCANDAL IN WORLD HISTORY FROM THE MUCH-ABUSED AMERICAN PEOPLE.

UPDATE NOTE, 1st January 2007: We have had a very large number of emails from the United States, mainly, and the question repeatedly asked is: WHY IS THE 'MAINSTREAM MEDIA' not covering this? DON'T ASK US: ASK THE 'MAINSTREAM MEDIA'. We are not in a position to answer this question. The other question asked is: Can you verify this? Excuse us? How can any of this be published if it is not accurate at the time of posting? Do not confuse this site with your familiar run-of-the-mill US intelligence diversion and disinformation website. Instead of asking us such crude questions, may we suggest that people who, without a cause, suggest we are liars, are laying themselves open to risk, since such allegations can be addressed in the English Court, where the laws of libel are much more stringent than in the United States. Finally, ALL the relevant documents and back-up information are available in
International Currency Review, Volume 31, Numbers 3 and 4 [December 2006], and also in International Currency Review, Volume 30, Numbers 2 and 3 [January 2005]. We are a UK commercial organisation and we will NOT provide free copies of these issues. We will accept and fulfil bona fide subscription/special issue orders. Criticism of what has been posted WITHOUT studying the FACTS published in International Currency Review is reckless and unwise. Neither is it to be recommended in this rapidly moving and unfolding crisis.


By
Christopher Story FRSA, Editor and Publisher, International Currency Review, World Reports Limited, London and New York: www.worldreports.org. Press CLICK HERE and the ARCHIVE Button on the www.worldreports.org Home Page for Wanta Crisis reports since
April 2006

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Spokesman For U.S. Treasury Secretary Denies He Was Arrested in Germany Over Wanta Funds
Treasury officials also claim they have never tried to steal or divert the $4.5 trillion Wanta money earmarked for the American people.
6 Jan 2007

By Greg Szymanski

A spokesman for the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, Henry M. Paulson, Jr., on Friday officially denied reports that Paulson was arrested by German authorities for trying to divert $4.5 trillion dollars, known as the Wanta funds, earmarked for the American people.

Earlier in the week Treasury officials neither confirmed or denied the story, but according to print journalist, Rob Walters, Paulson's assistant categorically denied being detained in Germany or having anything to do with stealing or diverting $4.5 trillion dollars.

"I picked up the "Paulson arrested in Germany" story over on Cloak the other day, and followed it to World Reports," said Walters, who contacted the Arctic Beacon with the latest Treasury information.

"Like many others, I was perplexed that nobody had much to say on the matter, not even a peep about it on Rense. A bunch of skeptics on "Amazing Randi's" blog all said it was a bunch of bull, without bothering to do any investigation.

"So just a few minutes ago, I went and called up the US Dept. of Treasury and got someone on the phone to officially deny the story. This call was recorded on my portable MP3 player, and I can make it available if you're interested. Paulson's spokeswoman says he wasn't arrested or detained, and that he didn't steal $4.5 trillion dollars.

"Nor did the spokesperson think Paulson had ever been arrested, although Paulson admits to being arrested (not convicted) back in the August 1969 for "pool hopping."

Regarding Paulson's pool hoping incident, he had this to say in June 2006 report in USA Today:

"In mid-August 1969, I climbed the fence of a swimming pool in West Lafayette, Indiana, and swam in the pool after hours. I was arrested for [criminal] trespassing and fingerprinted. Subsequently, all charges against me were dropped." -- Henry Paulson, Senate Finance Committee questionnaire (Reuters)

Earlier in the week reports surfaced that the German legal hammer has came down hard on Paulson, according to Michael C. Cottrell, treasurer of the Leo Wanta financial group trying to repatriate $4.5 trillion in off shore funds to the American people.

Cottrell said on Wednesday Paulson was recently held in custody and then subsequently released by German officials for trying to divert the Wanta funds and refusal to honor and agreement entered into with Wanta in May to repatriate the vast sum of money.

Concerning the recent incident in Germany, Cottrell told the Arctic Beacon Wednesday that Paulson was detained by German authorities since Paulson asked the German Chancellor personally to divert the Wanta funds, amounting to a fraudulent and illegal action.

"He was held and released," said Cottrell, "with the stipulation that if he releases the money to Ambassador Wanta as previously agreed upon, all charges will be dropped.

"This is a huge story in Europe as major banks are concerned of possible defaults that could worse than what happened in the 'Great Depression'. I want the American people to know that all the information released at worldreports.org comes from me. We chose to release it in diary form to let the parties know we are serious about getting the U.S. government to honor the $4.5 trillion agreement.

"We know where the money has been held and we know that the U.S. officials in the administration have been making about $4.5 trillion illegally every two weeks by holding back the funds and essentially using the money to make money for themselves.

"Leo has not been talking to anyone because he is under a gag order according to the agreement."

For those unfamiliar with the story, Wanta in May entered into an agreement with New World Order minions to get back only a portion ($4.5 trillion) of the estimated $27.5 trillion under his financial control according to the Reagan protocols.

However, the Bush administration under recently appointed U.S. Treasury Secretary, Henry M. Paulson, have stolen the Wanta money that Cottrell traced to being illegally transferred for New World profits in several large U.S. and German banks.

Once the money is released, if ever, approximately $1.5 trillion is earmarked for the U.S. Treasury for taxes and the remainder to be reinvested to jump start the American economy. But as the months pass Wanta and Cottrell have been unable to penetrate a media and Congressional black out on the massive theft by three presidential administrations, indicating both entities remain firmly in the pocket of the Vatican-led New World Order.

Wanta surfaced publicly in May, telling Americans about massive corruption by the last three presidential administrations. He said the corrupt former Presidents and officials pilfered hundreds of trillions of dollars, using the off-shore money for covert purposes instead of using it to protect and defend the U.S. as intended by former President Reagan when he passed financial legislation at the end of the Cold War concerning off shore transactions and methods of massive money making, according to Wanta.

Wanta went public, saying he was the architect of the financial plan to destroy the Russian Ruble at the end of the Cold War while amassing a fortune in American dollars intended to be returned to benefit the American economy.

However, instead, Wanta was jailed for the better part of a decade after not "playing ball" with the likes of Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton, both who Wanta claims used the money for their own evil purposes and covert operations.

Greg Szymanski

http://www.arcticbeacon.com/6-Jan-2007.html
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"Wanta Claus" Didn't Deliver $4.5 Trillion Christmas Present to American People
Readers question what has really happened to the trillion dollar Wanta settlement. Six months have passed while Wanta and American people have not seen one red cent.
27 Dec 2006

By Greg Szymanski

The holidays have come on gone and the American people never received their $4.5 trillion Christmas present, as promised by former Treasury agent Leo Wanta.

"There is a lot more going on behind the scenes of this story than meets the eye," said one avid Arctic Beacon reader who has closely followed the story. "You must ask: Who really is controlling the trillions of dollars, will the money ever be released fore the betterment of the economy and, of course, what are the real intentions of all the parties involved?"

The reader is referring to the complex financial scenario surrounding the Wanta trillions and the hold-up of the $4.5 trillion settlement agreed upon in May between Wanta and certain high-level U.S. officials regarding off-shore and off-the-books money amassed at the end of the Cold War.

Wanta surfaced publicly in May, telling Americans about massive corruption by the last three presidential administrations. He said the corrupt former Presidents and officials pilfered hundreds of trillions of dollars, using the off-shore money for covert purposes instead of using it to protect and defend the U.S. as intended by former President Reagan when he passed financial legislation at the end of the Cold War concerning off shore transactions and methods of massive money making, according to Wanta.

Wanta went public, saying he was the architect of the financial plan to destroy the Russian Ruble at the end of the Cold War while amassing a fortune in American dollars intended to be returned to benefit the American economy.

However, instead, Wanta was jailed for the better part of a decade after not "playing ball" with the likes of Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton, both who Wanta claims used the money for their own evil purposes and covert operations.

After years of silence and while the trillions grew to a massive illegal war chest that some financial experts claim to be more than 300 trillion, Wanta went public with documentation that he and his financial group, Ameri-trust Inc., entered into a $4.5 trillion settlement ($1.5 trillion to immediately being placed in the Treasury for back taxes) with George W. Bush and Treasury Secretary, Henry M. Paulson.

He further stated the money was going to be used to jump start an American economy in the midst of being decimated by the global elite, the Vatican-led Illuminati and the enemies working within our government intent upon the destruction of a free America.

However, six months have passed without one red cent being returned as Wanta and his financial treasurer, Michael C. Cottrell, have continuously cried foul, saying Bush and his cronies have been holding up payment while reinvesting and essentially stealing the money right before the eyes of the American people.

"The money hasn't been released and the Bush administration are in direct violation of the law by not living up to their agreement," said Cottrell recently, adding his group has been tracking the misappropriation of the $4.5 owed to Wanta under the terms of the settlement overseen and sanctioned by at least two U.S. Supreme Court Justices.

"We are confident the money will be released, but the question is when!"

For the last several months Wanta has remained out of the public eye as he works behind the scenes trying to gain release of the money.

"He'd like to talk but he just can't at this time," said Cottrell who also promised to keep the American people abreast of the status and whereabouts of the $4.5 trillion."

For the last six months, the Wanta story has generated tremendous interest around the world in terms of human interest and, more importantly, creating shockwaves in international financial circles as the U.S. has been accused of not being able to honor its commitments.

For example, one reader interested in the story said: "I was thinking perhaps you should add something like "trillions??" since so many people still don't know who Leo Wanta is, even though this is the most important story of the decade."

As the reader indicated, the story has been called by some observers as the "most important story of the decade" because it traces the masses amount of thievery by the likes of Bush Sr. Clinton and George W.

And for those who back Wanta, they call him the "ultimate patriot" trying to "buck the system" while stopping the global elite and Vatican-led Illuminati, trying to destroy America on all fronts.

But for those more skeptical readers, they claim Wanta is not telling the whole story, adding the powers that be never will release such a large sum of money or do anything to benefit the economy. They further claim Wanta could be used as a smokescreen to cover the real thievery of trillions going on behind the scenes, including involvement by high level Vatican officials and their minions working in the U.S. government.

As previously stated and for necessary background for those unfamiliar with the story, Wanta in May entered into an agreement with New World Order minions to get back only a portion ($4.5 trillion) of the estimated $27.5 trillion under his financial control according to the Reagan protocols.

However, the Bush administration under recently appointed U.S. Treasury Secretary, Henry M. Paulson, have stolen the Wanta money that Cottrell traced to being illegally transferred for New World profits in several large U.S. and German banks.

Once the money is released, if ever, approximately $1.5 trillion is earmarked for the U.S. Treasury for taxes and the remainder to be reinvested to jump start the American economy. But as the months pass Wanta and Cottrell have been unable to penetrate a media and Congressional black out on the massive theft by three presidential administrations, indicating both entities remain firmly in the pocket of the Vatican-led New World Order.

"Paulson and Bush have proved to be nothing more than thieves guilty of treason for purposely bringing down the American economy," said Cottrell in an extended conversation Monday from his East Coast home. "The dollar is tanking and it is directly related to the thievery of trillions of this off shore money.

"The country is about to experience the worst financial nightmare since the 1920s. The economy is tanking because of the idiocy of Bush and Paulson. By Jan. 1 2007, you will see heavy mortgage defaults as prices skyrocket since the dollar has no value.

"These criminals in power are stealing the cash and without the war in Iraq they have no way to mask their thievery. All I can say is we are doing everything in our power to secure the $4.5 trillion for the betterment of the American people before it's too late. These traitorous acts by Bush, Paulson and others deserve strong and decisive action and this is exactly what we are trying to do."

Asked what was the real importance of the Wanta story, he said it clearly showed how the Bush administration has violated the rule of law by not honoring its financial commitments, demonstrating the administration was more concerned with lining the pockets of global banksters and "privateers" with trillions of dollars instead of doing the right thing by enforcing offshore tax payments and stabilizing the American economy.

Cottrell added that since President Reagan passed Executive Order 12333, the last three presidential administrations have illegally used offshore money for their own nefarious purposes without paying U.S. taxes to the tune of more than $100 trillion dollars.

He also said the thievery continues on a large scale, including the illegal use of the $4.5 trillion earmarked for Wanta.

"Instead of the U.S. officials honoring the Wanta agreement and the rule of law entered into last May, we have caught them using the money illegally and filling financial holes to cover their tracks," said Cottrell.

As background, Wanta has been at odds with the powers that be ever since he was declared legal trustor of more than $27.5 trillion accumulated as a result of his financial efforts on behalf of President Ronald Reagan to destabilize the Russian currency at the end of the Cold War.

Furthermore, Wanta was jailed for the better part of a decade for trying to return trillions to the American people, as Reagan had dictated, but later was backstabbed by the following three presidential administrations who instead wanted to illegally pocket the money for their own personal use, according to Wanta.

Previously, Wanta came forward with these allegations, presenting documentation of more $745 billion in misdirected and stolen money, attributing the thievery to those occupying the White House after Reagan left office.

Greg Szymanski

http://www.arcticbeacon.com/27-Dec-2006.html

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Former Ambassador Leo Wanta Getting 1.575 Trillion Of Stolen U.S. Funds Back To Treasury
Despite the Bush and Clinton crime families efforts to rip-off the country of more than 27.5 trillion, Wanta has recovered more than 1.575 trillion. He further thanked the Arctic Beacon for being one of the only news outlets to believe his story as the mainstream media remains hush-hush.
18 Jul 2006

By Greg Szymanski

Good news for the American people, courtesy of former Ambassador Leo Wanta, as more than 1.575 trillion dollars is being returned to the U.S. Treasury.

Although a rather hefty sum, it is only a small portion of the 27.5 trillion, now more than doubled due to interest, Wanta has been trying to recover on behalf of the American people since the end of the Cold War.

Wanta was named legal trustor of vast sum of money by President Reagan after he was assigned the task of destablizing the Soviet monetary system, his efforts amassing a large war chest of dollars, which was to be returned to the U.S. Treasury

However, according to Wanta, after Reagan left office, he was back stabbed by the Bush I administration, leading to a long and unwarranted jail term to "get him out of the way," including more than 200 days in a Swiss jail and years behind bars on a bogus Wisconsin state income tax charge.

Released more than a year ago, Wanta has been trying with limited resources and no cooperation from the government and the media to return the money to the American people.

During his many years in jail, much of the money has been diverted to numerous private overseas accounts and, according to Wanta, essentially looted by the corrupt Bush and Clinton crime families.

But in an unexpected move in 2003 Wanta filed a federal court case to recover the money. Although the case was dismissed under sovereign immunity, he received verification from the court that his legal trustor status was valid, the judge telling him to use the federal collections courts as a recovery process.

During the last year, Wanta has been trying to retrace his financial tracks and Monday emailed the Arctic Beacon for being one of the only news outlets to follow the story, saying 1.575 trillion is a good first step at lowering the national debt.

"Thank you and your staff for their kind assistance to recover said corporate/repatriation funds with full disclosure to the United States Department of the Treasury, et al," said Wanta Monday in an email to the Arctic Beacon.

Although the financial arrangements are complicated and did not want to elaborate the sensitive nature of the recovery due wiretapping issues,Wanta said he has been under serious pressure due to the large sum of money, which would be far more than a black eye to Daddy Bush, President Bush and Clinton if wind of the recovery ever made it to the main stream media.

Up until now, as expected, all news outlets in America are playing a hush-hush game, as in essence they serve as nothing more than propaganda arms for the New World Order, bringing down America piece by piece.

In fact, the incredible Wanta story, dubbed the 27.5 trillion dollar man, may prove to be the "story of the century" even though it is cloaked in a complicated web of financial accounting, mystery and intrigue dating back to the end of the Cold War.

But, as expected, in the midst of the many lies told to the people about a failed economy, the crime lords in the Bush and Clinton families having been part and parcel in the biggest rip-off in modern day banking history to the tune of more that 27.5 trillion, a conservative estimate according to Wanta.

Wanta will be appearing this week on Greg Szymanski's radio show, The Investigative Journal, to talk more in depth about the 1.2 trillion dollar recovery.

For a concise story about the back stabbing and dirty dealings of the Wanta story, read one of the many stories in the arctic Beacon archives as well as the following one printed a couple of months ago.

By Greg Szymanski

It seems behind every rock there is another dead body when it comes to the incredible case of Ambassador Leo Wanta, the man holding 27.5 trillion dollars in trust for the American people as Illuminati banksters try to rip him off on a daily basis.

First there was attorney Vince Foster, Deputy White House Counsel to President Clinton, found dead in a Washington D.C. park just after Wanta handed him 250 million in Switzerland for the Childrens' Defense Fund, a fund both men thought was legit but turned out to be nothing more than a front for black ops money considered by insiders to be Hillary Clinton's personal slush fund.

Then there was Wanta's business partner, Kok Howe Kwong, and other associates like Freddie Woodruff and Francois de Grosseurve, all found dead, according to Wanta, "strangely for their personal belief in our Great Nation, but by betrayal of others with falsehoods and malice," pointing the finger in the direction of George H. Bush and Clinton.

And now, years later, after Wanta spent a lengthy, what he calls "trumped-up" prison sentence and now released on house arrest, the killing appears to be continuing in an all out effort by the Illuminati to get their hands on the vast sum of money in Wanta's control before it ever can be released safely into the hands of the American people.

The reason being Wanta, nicknamed the '27.5 Trillion Dollar Man', is legally holding the financial "golden keys" to a vast sum of money made right after the Cold War after he and others on behalf of President Ronald Reagan were assigned to destabilize the Russian Ruble. The profits have now grown to approximately 27.5 trillion and Wanta has ben legally appointed trustee by a 2003 federal court ruling out of Alexandria, Virginia.

And to verify the dangers behind the Wanta story due to the enormous sum of money at stake, Marco Saba of the Observatory of Organized Crime in Switzerland, a privately funded European crime watch dog group, this week had this to say about the 27.5 trillion in Wanta's control:

"In January 2006 a man named 'Jack' tried to take money from one of Wanta's accounts at UBS - Zurich. He was killed in the basement of the UBS bank.

"In March, 2006, a former undercover Swiss agent Fausto "Tato" Cattaneo, worked closely with DEA, to defeat the Cali drug cartel in Colombia and he wrote a book in 2001 about his work to investigate the whereabouts of Leo Wanta's account in Switzerland.

"He recently was arrested by former police colleagues and held jailed for a week in Zurich. He has just been released. I agree that Wanta's story is very interesting and that people want to stop him from recovering the money."

Interviewed March 23 on Greg Szymanski's radio show, The Investigative Journal, Wanta said he and Foster, as well as many other patriots working in the best interests of the U.S., were essentially double-crossed, Foster being murdered for "knowing too much" and Wanta being shackled and hidden away in a Swiss dungeon for 134 days.

For the entire story of how Wanta was sentenced to 22 years for a bogus Wisconsin state income tax evasion charge, recently released and still under house arrest with 10 years remaining on his sentence and how in 2003 a federal judge ruled he was legal trustee of 27.5 trillion from Cold War profits from destabilizing the Soviet currency, see print story in archives of www.arcticbeacon.com or two hour radio interview on www.rbnlive.com in the archives of the Investigative Journal.

Filed on Dec. 4, 1998, in Swiss court documents before the Honorable Judge Jacques Antenen on behalf of AmeriTrust Corp., one of the legal entities protecting trillions for the American people, Wanta entered the following statements about how he was being framed and how many of his associates, not on the treasonous Bush/Clinton team, were strangely and mysteriously killed.

Further, Wanta was in the middle of what turned out to be an illegal Bush and Clinton network of illegal banking drug running and other treasonous affairs in direct violation of international and U.S. law. Although a complex statement, it lists many names and account references that if investigated properly, could perhaps get to the bottom of some of the Illuminati's illegal funding and treasonous acts directed against the people of the United States.

"We have never laundered any money, since we are authorized to receive 10 percent of any and all US Government lawful seizures under our United States Agreements, as we are definitely not the alleged criminals as falsely stated by unknown State and Suisse provocateurs in some shadow, without truthful facts and Counter-Intelligence knowledge and related USG responsibilities," said Wanta in the 1998 Swiss court documents.

"My partner and brother, Kok Howe Kwong, and my associates like Freddie Woodruff, Francois de Grosseurve and Vince Foster died strangely for their personal belief in our Great Nation, by BETRAYAL of others with falsehoods and malice, USG "Security Code - NEW REPUBLIC" of USCA 18 / 6 Jackson, Mississippi, INTEL.ops legally organized as New Republic / USA Financial Group, Ltd. to coordinate U. S. Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush implementation of Contra funding v Boland Amendment, with canal barge deliveries; POM (Arkansas) sub-assemblies and covert production and related parts to COLAS (Honduras) final assembly operations; Arkansas Development Finance Authority (ADFA) with Chairman Bob Nash under Operation: DEALROOM with Bank of China FOREX of Japanese Yen and USDollars with Arkansas Pension Funding to the People's Republic of China ( PRC.ops), with US Attorney General Bill Barr / CIA.ops / DOD.ops (see field reports of RAC Wm Lecates and Frank B Ingram (Sector 5), as copied to USSS Director John Magaw and SAC Glen Speedy, et al, ; including the Browning Arms Sale and Delivery of certain weapons through Arab Associates and Ronald Arab, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to the Panama Groupe protected by then Vice President Bush, per USGovernment STING operation headed and coordinated by USG INTEL operative Leo Wanta and SA32NV - Frank B Ingram via Corpus Christi U. S. Customs Operations, under USGovn Case numbers relative to Boland Amendment and other U. S. Federal arms and smuggling violations; ref: USGovn case numbers in Wanta/Ingram/Lecates US Government authorized Field reports, and U. S. Federal Court records in Corpus Christi, Texas Region. MX Mobile Missile mobilization / deployment activities of New Republic/USA ( Mississippi.ops) to purchase the Santa Fe / Southern Pacific Railroad in U. S. Bankruptcy proceedings with BLACK.ops/ New Republic/USA funding as authorized ( documents available ).. New Republic/USA purchase of USSR Mig 29 FULCRUM maintenance manuals for U. S. Air Force OSI operations, like a true copy, certainly qualified this writer as an American operative once again, as well as the Soviet HIND aircraft recovery operations, Aneko Credit Pte Ltd covert investigation of Motorola SECTEL Sales and delivery to Iran Security Operations via Singapura/Malaysia, Yongbyon, North Korea "nuclear chip" manufacturing, developed by Singapore Technologies for sister plants in North Korea & Singapura, as financed by VIOLA TRADING LIMITED, Andras Szasz and George Soros Groupe of Sovereign House, Station Road, St John, Isle of Man - Registration No. 41992, Isle of Man, as well as diesel oil and other procurement of previously EMBARGOED commodities. Kuwait Dinar FOREX as sanctioned by US Government programs utilizing the INSLAW, Inc. PROMIS software, inter alia, and much much more for absolute proof that, We, AmeriTrust and our corporate officers are real victims of Criminal Conspiracy by others, enjoying their current freedom at our expense and displeasure, but certainly for their PERSONAL GAIN and Abuse and Misuse of Power without merit...

"Based on my diplomatic situation, I was kidnapped in Switzerland and taken to New York at gunpoint, and appeared in the United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, USA, Docket No. 93-M-2072; whereas the Court dismissed any and all unlawful / alleged complaints of the State of Wisconsin, based on U S Government Motion as to Ambassador Leo Emil Wanta - whereas the State of Wisconsin - Department of Revenue DEFIED said U. S. Federal Order and had me re-arrested in New York City with only my Diplomatic Entry / VISA without any valid arrest warrant, for continuous refusal to pay a Wisconsin civil tax assessment as a nonresident."

Regarding the present hi-jacking of the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. government, as well as his own personal role in trying to protect the American people from massive corruption, leading to what could be the eventual destruction of the U.S., he added his final comments in the 1998 Swiss court documents:

"All of my U.S. Government actions, including the U.S.S.R. ruble currency affair(the manner in which Wanta and others amassed the 27.5 trillion now protected in trust) were carried out with the full knowledge of my superiors. I personally do not intend to be fraudulently used as a Human Sacrifice to deny and cover-up the working knowledge and shared responsibility of others. Now without any doubt, we have a conscious US Government policy of ignoring reality. The American Public needs to learn what is really happening in the United States and the Sovereign State of Wisconsin, so that Civil Tax Laws can be accountable to a large and informed public, and not just generated lawlessly by delusional tax agents, whose judgments are colored by their personal needs and biases, under the color of law. To forcibly DRUG and IMPRISON me to collect unknown corporate and personal non-residency income taxes is grossly CRIMINAL, as well as a direct violation of my United States Constitutional, Civil and Diplomatic Rights. Once upon a time, " a decision which has long been regarded as the special province of the Executive Branch" - charged by the U. S. Constitution to " TAKE CARE THAT THE LAWS BE FAITHFLLY EXECUTED." [U. S. Const., Art II, Sec 3, Id at 832, 105 S ct at 1656. See also Powell v Katzenbach, 359 F 2d 234 (1965) cert denied 384 U. S. 906, 86 S ct 1341, 16 L Ed 2d 359 (1966)].

"The overall cost of closing your eyes to the State of Wisconsin's Corruption and Tax Conspiracy by acts of kidnapping/abduction on foreign sovereign soil is beyond American traditions of Due Process and Equal Protection under our United States Constitution, certainly exposing the Clinton Administration complicity and open endorsement. I was led to believe that at one time, our United States of America President William Jefferson Clinton had both the moral standing and the Presidential means to " back up" our U. S. Constitution, our Civil Rights, and Guarded Privileges, under his personal World Leadership, based on our USG sanctioned " De-stabilization of the Evil Empire."

"May God save our Great Nation from inner destruction and Misuse and Abuse of Power, contrary to our Democratic Rule of Law and the U. S. Constitution."

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Editor's Note: Some of Wanta's phraseology was taken directly from Swiss court documents, with the intended meaning to serve a legal purpose more than a literary one if, by chance, some readers found it 'tough going' when reading some of the quotes.

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Former Ambassador Who Met With Vince Foster Days Before He Turned Up Dead Claims He Was Murdered
Leo Wanta gave Foster $250 million earmarked for Hillary Clinton's slush fund disguised as the Childrens' Fund. Foster later turned up dead and Wanta ended up in a Swiss dungeon for 134 days.
4 Apr 2006

By Greg Szymanski

Former Ambassador Leo Wanta, jailed for years and framed by the Bush and Clinton crime families, said during a recent radio interview there is no doubt in his mind Vince Foster, chief White House counsel to President Clinton, was murdered only weeks after giving Foster $250 million dollars earmarked for the Childrens' Defense Fund.

Wanta also said Monday on Greg Szymanski's nightly edition of the Investigative Journal that he was aware Foster was about to testify against Clinton, providing another motive for Foster's untimely death.

Although Wanta had no idea what The Children's Fund was all about, later a financial investigator, Marco Saba of the Organized Crime Observatory (OBO) in Switzerland wrote this about turned out to be a secret fund:

"One component of this information concerns the activities of the CIA operative known as Mrs Hillary Rodham Clinton. For some years prior to the elevation of her husband, Bill, a CIA operative like his ''CIA wife'', Hillary had been in control of an organization calling itself the Childrens' Defense Fund. Executive Order 12333 (1981) of President Reagan, the US intelligence services were authorized to operate what became known as Title 18, Section 6 USG corporations for intelligence purposes, and to deny any intelligence community connection (that is, to lie about their real purpose).

"Some of these entities have touchy-feely, welfarish titles, like The Childrens' Defense Fund. It is alleged, un the basis of intelligence community leakages, that Hillary became accustomed to treating this fund as her own private slush fund."

Besides meeting with Foster, Wanta was in Switzerland on an official business to arrest the tax-evading criminal Marc Rich. But instead of bringing him to justice, Wanta was double-crossed by Clinton as Rich was allowed to escape on a tip by Israeli Mossad agents and Wanta instead was locked-up in a Swiss dungeon for 134 days.

Wanta's arrest, for no apparent reason, was met with strong opposition from Israeli leader Itzhak Rabin and Foster, both objecting to the Department of State. It's interesting to note both Rabin and Foster were subsequently killed, Foster on July 20, 1993 and Rabin assassinated in 1995.

"Foster was a religious man, happily married and why would anyone want to commit suicide after returning with 250 million," said Wanta. "There is no doubt in mind he was murdered as where some of my other business and political associates who were trying to do the right thing while honorably serving their country."

Regarding the other deaths, Wanta was referring to his business partner, Kok Howe Kwong, and other associates like Freddie Woodruff and Francois de Grosseurve, all found dead, according to Wanta, "strangely for their personal belief in our Great Nation, but by betrayal of others with falsehoods and malice," pointing the finger in the direction of George H. Bush and Clinton.

The situation in the early 1990's became ugly when Illuminati banksters set their sights on ripping-off vast sums of money in Wanta's control after appointed legal guardian by President Ronald Reagan earmarked for the American people, not private bank accounts

And now, years later, after Wanta spent a lengthy, "trumped-up" prison sentence and now released on house arrest, the criminals within the government are still trying to get at the money killing before it ever can be released safely into the hands of the American people.

The reason officials want Wanta out of the way is that he is legally holding the financial "golden keys" to a vast sum of made right after the Cold War after he and others on behalf of President Ronald Reagan were assigned to destabilize the Russian Ruble. The profits have now grown to approximately 27.5 trillion and Wanta has been legally appointed trustee by a 2003 federal court ruling out of Alexandria, Virginia.

Interviewed March 23 and again on April 3 on Greg Szymanski's radio show, The Investigative Journal, Wanta said he and Foster, as well as many other patriots working in the best interests of the U.S., were essentially double-crossed, Foster being murdered for "knowing too much" and Wanta being shackled and hidden away in a Swiss dungeon and then sentenced to 22 years for a bogus Wisconsin state income tax evasion charge.

Recently released and still under house arrest with 10 years remaining on his sentence, an unexpected 2003 decision by a federal judge ruled he was legal trustee of 27.5 trillion, blocking any efforts for others in government to steal the large sum of money, now held in various overseas accounts under the name of Ameri-trust.

"I don't think they ever expected the decision and they have been trying to get me out the way so they can get the money before I put it back in the U.S. Treasury," said Wanta, who has also documented that during his prison stay more than $756 billion dollars has been pilfered from the fund by crooked bankers and politicians. The only hope we have in saving our country is to change the private Federal Reserve banking system like President Kennedy wanted to do before he was killed."

In the simplest of terms, as the dust has finally settled from the Cold War, the issue of the 27.5 trillion held by Wanta in trust for the American people still remains in limbo. According to Wanta, though, the issue is simple: change the banking laws so the money can be used for the people, not put into accounts of criminals.

According to Saba of the OBO, who investigated and traced Wanta's behind the scenes accounting of how some of the money has already been misappropriated, it's easy to see why Illuminati banksters want to get their dirty hands on the money before it gets into the hands of American people.

Here is a small portion of Saba's article about what he calls the "biggest bank heist in world history." For the entire original Wanta story go to In the simplest of terms, as the dust has finally settled from the Cold War, the issue of the 27.5 trillion held by Wanta in trust for the American people still remains in limbo. According to Wanta, though, the issue is simple: change the banking laws so the money can be used for the people, not put into accounts of criminals.

According to Saba, who investigated and traced Wanta's behind the scenes accounting of how some of the money has already been misappropriated, it's easy to see why Illuminati banksters want to get their dirty hands on the money before it gets into the hands of American people.

Here is a portion of Saba's article about what he calls the "biggest bank heist in world history."

THE STALINESQUE ANO CALIGULA-LIKE PURGE

In the meantime, the high-level crooks -- who are known to be most uneasy at the continuing leakage of information which threatens their exposure, and who, being indifferent to human life which they regard as expendable, have resorted to the ultimate sanction in innumerable cases -- have procured that dose on 500 operatives, lawyers and others have been ''taken down'' (liquidated, ''suicided'', placed under house arrest, jailed on trumped-up charges, or dismissed) in a Stalinesque purge of those considered a threat to the continued cover-up o! crimes referred to generically as the Iran-Contra scandal, which in fact covers a far widen spectrum of serial illegality than its name implies. It also covers ''legitimate'' intelligence Financial Warfare operations in which Leo Wanta was extensively involved, and its operational codename was the name of his primary Title 18, Section 6 corporation, New Republic/USA Financial Group, and its several affiliates.

One method that Leo Wanta says is being used to hide all trace of some of the original alleged embezzlements, is that stolen banking or 138 Treasury instruments are being used and re-used as collateral for bank loans. The effect of this ruse is to ensure that the original embezzled instrument is permanently in the custody of financial institutions, and thus beyond the scrutiny of the authorities -- not that this is likely, since, as Leo Wanta told your correspondent finally on 25th April, US Treasury officials are complicit in the vast cover-up operation which has continued ever since the main alleged embezzlements took place in the early 1990s.

2.7% OF $27.5 TRILLION, THANK YOU VERY MUCH

In the case of the unprecedented giga-funding operation on behalf of the Illuminati, which was presided over by President George W. Bush Sr., the crooks helped themselves and their friends -- including Opus Dei, via an entity calling itself the Francis X Driscoil Trust -- to 2.7% of the total intended giga-loan. namely $742.5 billion A new breakdown of how the allegedly embezzled funds were distributed was given on page 144 of the magazine, and is reproduced here on page 9.

When these alleged giga-embezzlements were taking place or had been spotted, the biggest crisis in the history of the international financial system developed. Specifically, given that the funds were to be paid out in US dollars, the transactions were all necessarily handled by the Federal Reserve, under the supervision and control of Dr Alan Greenspan. But although the giga-funding started in 1989, the transmission of funds from the Federal Reserve sudden ceased (we are not, in the available public domain documents, told to whom the funds were to have been transmitted, but the primary recipient was a nexus of accounts loosely referred to as the Global Security Fund, based in Belgium, which is traditionally the financial centre for the Illuminati, and Chicago, where some of the funds may subsequently have been intermingled in the vortex of the derivatives industry).

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Greg Szymanski

Listen to my Radio Broadcast live Monday night at 8pm Pacific time on LewisNews, returning Jan. 1 2006 Radio http://webs.lewisnews.com/radio/index.htm. Greg is also regular on Rense.com the first Thursday of every month at 9pm pacific time.

Greg also has his own daily show on the Republic Broadcast Network. Go to www.rbnlive.com and will be starting a daily program on the Genesis Communications Network soon at www.gcnlive.com Greg Szymanski is an independent investigative journalist and his articles can been seen at www.LewisNews.com. He also writes for American Free Press and has his own site www.arcticbeacon.com

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The Story Of Leo Wanta: 'The 27.5 Trillion Dollar Man'

The Story Of Leo Wanta: 'The 27.5 Trillion Dollar Man'; The Key Question Looms: Will The Illuminati Banksters Get the Money First Or Will The American People Get It, As Wanta Is Legal Guardian And Trustee On Behalf Of The People Of The United States

According to a 2003 federal court ruling by a courageous judge from Virginia, Wanta has been authorized as legal guardian of the vast sum of money made from profits at the end of the Cold War. In one of the most important stories of our time, Wanta holds the 'finacial key' to the vast criiminal Illuminati banking network and he says with the help of the American people their system can be destroyed.

26 Mar 2006

By Greg Szymanski

The only thing standing in the way of life and death for Ambassador Leo Wanta is he "knows where the money is hidden" and the Illuminati banksters don't.

A former U.S. Treasury official appointed trustee to a large sum of money by President Ronald Reagan, Wanta holds the financial "golden key" to 27.5 trillion dollars, money he says now held in public trust for the American people.

To back up Wanta's trustee status as protector of trillions, a federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, in 2003, ruled in his favor, saying Wanta's trustee status is legally binding and the money is rightfully the property of the American people.

The federal court case, however, has left federal prosecutors in a perplexed state of mind, as they have not yet officially appealed the ruling, perhaps thinking it is better to let "sleeping dogs sleep" until they get their 'cooked ducks or judges in the right government pond."

But the real problem, as it stands today and why the money remains in limbo, is simply if Wanta returns the money to the U.S. Treasury, it will be immediately hi-jacked from the people and put into private Iluminati bank accounts since under the present Federal Reserve and the national banking system, there are no laws protecting the American people's money.

"Dutch (President Reagan} always intended the money be returned to the American people to be used for roads, schools and health care," said Wanta last Thursday on Greg Szymanski's radio show, the Investigative Journal, where the former Ambassador spoke for two hours while still being held under house arrest in his Switzerland home.

During the interview that can be heard in full by going to The Investigative Journal archives at www.rbnlive.com , Wanta literally blew the lid off the Illuminati's world wide banking scam, as well as providing detailed information about how Illiminati banksters with help from the Bush crime family and former President Clinton have already hijacked 752 billion dollars in what has been called by European investigators "the biggest bank heist in world history."

Besides the large sums of money at stake and the need to revamp the Federal Reserve and national banking laws to protect the public not private interests, Wanta's story involves undercover intrigue and espionage at the highest levels, providing a mystery story better than any Hollywood movie can offer.

Behind following the money, his story involves saving President Reagan's life in a little known assassination attempt left unreported in the mainstream press (see rbn interview), authority to arrest Marc (Reich) Rich, a meeting with Vince Foster just prior to his untimely death and just prior to Wanta being placed in a Swiss dungeon for 134 days when he confronted Rich, who was allowed to go free through White House connections.

To better understand Wanta's role and the importance of his story, not to mention how 27.5 trillion dollars could provide a good jump start to the American economy, it's best to go back to his original assignment in the Reagan administration at the time the Cold War was coming to a close.

At this time, Wanta, a distinguished U5 Secret Service/Treasury officer was the primary US Financial Warfare officer engaged in operations to "collapse" the Soviet Empire through financial maneuvers to prevent the Soviet military devoting larger resources to military expenditure.

For his financial plan which destabilized the Russian currency and resulted in huge dollar profits, leading into the 27.5 trillion in trust, instead of being recognized for his service, he was set-up by the Clinton's and the Bush crime family after being released from the Swiss jail, sentenced to a 22 year jail term on bogus Wisconsin state income tax evasion charges

Although recently released and protected in a sense by the 2003 federal court ruling in his favor, Wanta has languished much of the time since 1993 in jail and now under house arrest, the primary reason for his predicament being he audited the Illuminati's giga-financing operation of 1989-92 too accurately far the liking of certain high-level official crooks controlling the purse strings.

Regarding the Rich arrest in Switzerland and his meeting with Foster, Wanta said this on The Investigative Journal last week:

"I was named Ambassador from Somalia to Switzerland and Canada as a cover to arrest Rich. When I go there, I found myself in a Swiss dungeon and Rich was set free. Foster was also there on behlaf of the Clinton's, asking for $250 million to be used for The Children's Fund, which Hillary was the chairman. I thought it was to be used for a good cause so We gave him the money.

"Later Vince attempted to help me out of my situation, but I was later notified he was found dead and I never found out what happened to the $250 million."

Although Wanta had no idea what The Children's Fund was all about, later a financial investigator, Marco Saba of the Organized Crime Observatory in Switzerland wrote this about turned out to be a secret fund:

"One component of this information concerns the activities of the CIA operative known as Mrs Hillary Rodham Clinton. For some years prior to the elevation of her husband, Bill, a CIA operative like his ''CIA wife'', Hillary had been in control of an organization calling itself the Children''s Defense Fund. Executive Order 12333 (1981) of President Reagan, the US intelligence services were authorised to operate what became known as Title 18, Section 6 USG corporations for intelligence purposes, and to deny any intelligence community connection (that is, to lie about their real purpose). Some of these entities have touchy-feely, welfarish titles, like The Children''s Defense Fund. It is alleged, un the basis of intelligence community leakages, that Hillary became accustomed to treating this fund as her own private slush fund."

However, behind the scenes of Rich, Foster and the Clinton's, a bigger game of world politics and deception was being played out, as Wanta unknowingly was caught in the middle of the U.S./Soviet double-cross of the American people, as the two collaborated to bring about an orchestrated fall of the Soviet Union.

An excerpt from an article from the Centro Studi Monetari, Arab-Asian Affairs, Vol. 29, Numbers 8&9, December 2005, explains the backstabbing and double-crossing going on behind the scenes when the Cold War was being orchestrated to a close to serve the purposes of the demonic Illuminati powers pulling the strings behind the scenes, as Wanta unknowingly serving patriotic U.S. interests was in the middle of the whole mess:

The following are key parts of the article:

THE 'TAKEDOWN' OF LEO WANTA In 1993, while on a mission ordered by William Sessions, head of the FBI, to Switzerland, the legendary US Treasury Secret Services/CIA/FBI operative Leo Wanta - known to have been President Reagan's favourite intelligence operative (or 'junkyard dog') - was arrested and flung into a stinking Swiss dungeon, where he was illegally held incognito for 132 days. His instructions from Sessions had included the arrest of Marc Rich. He is believed to have been accompanied by Delmart Vreeland, a US Office of naval Intelligence operative who may have been instructed to shoot Marc Rich during a boat trip on Lake Geneva, but who allegedly failed to fulfil this mission when Wanta's head got in the way, and his handler allegedly told him not to shoot. William Sessions was summarily dismissed by President Clinton with no warning, and Vincent Foster, an operative who was charged inter alia with financial transactions involving the innocent sounding CIA front called the Children's Defense Fund, was found murdered in Fort Macy Park, Virginia.

Following an intervention by the Israeli Prime Minister, Leo Wanta was released by the Swiss authorities, bundled onto a plane for New York, marched in shackles through the airport, and arraigned in a New York US courthouse on trumped-up tax evasion charges concerning an ancient tax amount allegedly arising from Leo Wanta's intelligence operations many years previously in connection with a vending machine company that had been established by US law enforcement to trace drug-trafficking perpetrators who had been distributing drugs through vending machines. The trumped-up allegations were orchestrated on behalf of President Clinton by his close associate Tommy Thompson, then US Attorney in Wisconsin, who became that State's Governor, and later surfaced in the Bush Jr. Cabinet. Wanta was sentenced to 22 years in jail, later commuted to house arrest. COMPARTMENTALIZATION OBSCURED FULL PICTURE The significance of these complex circumstances surrounding Leo Wanta (condensed in the foregoing summary) is that, due to compartmentalization, Wanta and Sessions had been unaware that Marc Rich was assisting the United States (with help from Clinton), in collaboration with Soviet intelligence, to bring about the transformation of the USSR and its economy that has been described. In other words, the US Presidency necessarily had a more complete, or broader, overview of strategy than Sessions and Wanta et al. Confirmation of this fact has been provided directly to your correspondent by Mr Wanta himself who, when informed by the Editor that he had been working not so much for the United States but actually for the Illuminati, responded (in May 2005): 'Yes, but we didn't understand that at the time'.

The Editor commends Leo Wanta for this very honest admission, because it provides a vital clue and confirms the basic integrity of the present analysis. Removal of Marc Rich and his vast scamming network from the scene would have slowed down the process described, and would have impeded the implementation of the joint US-Soviet strategy to convert the 'former' USSR into a viable long-term supplier of oil and gas products to the West. Let us now tease out the game of double-bluff that was going on, which masked the Soviet strategic deception dimension to all this.

As has been seen, 'Europe from the Atlantic to Vladivostok' was never a starter until the 'transformation' (and dollarisation) of the Soviet economy had taken place. The 'Yeltsin period', during which the underground economy and the hegemony of intelligence scamming operations were to be leveraged in order to release the full potential of the KGB-mafiya and the 'scamocracy' in a Leninist manner, was a prerequisite for the rapid-fire imposition of the 'state controlled capitalism' model that the strategists needed to surface in the interests of fulfilling the 'Europe from the Atlantic to Vladivostok' strategy. Assets of the Party-State would indeed, the strategists foresaw, be stolen: but they would be recovered, with compound interest, by implementing a 'new form' of the 'Party's Gold' strategy: and this is what happened. We are still, you will recall, in two-dimensional mode here: that is to say, for purposes of minimizing obfuscation, we are excluding the Illuminati dimension (to which we shall revert).

Bearing in mind the rigorous implementation of usually counterproductive compartmentalization within the colossal US intelligence community, only the leading strategists in Moscow and Washington were ostensibly in possession of 'a copy of' the blueprint. From the United States' perspective at sub-Presidential level, it was 'all systems go' to convert the USSR from an enemy into the United States' close energy collaborator, and a source of oil shipments to the United States and elsewhere (mainly Europe) - thereby freeing up resources for exploitation by the US energy corporations both in the 'former' USSR and in other parts of the world. The Central Intelligence Agency, which is the clandestine foreign policy arm of the US Presidency, serves the interests of the oil companies. ESSENCE OF THE SOVIET DOUBLE-CROSS Therefore, in the minds of compartmentalized US intelligence operatives, including the most brilliant Financial Warfare experts among them such as Leo Wanta, this was always all about opening up Soviet energy resources to the West in general, and to the United States in particular. The Soviet Leninist deceivers made sure that this was indeed the objective, and collaborated with their US intelligence counterparts accepting their 'Black Operations' funding 'on exchange for' close collaboration with US and British intelligence as though they had been corrupted and were betraying Lenin himself - whereas in reality, from their viewpoint, this was a game, in which the stupid Westerners though they had corrupted their Soviet counterparts. The truth was that they were helping the Soviets to implement the fulfilment of their long-range 'collapsible Communism' strategy, as exposed by the genuine Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn [see: ThePerestroika Deception, by Golitsyn, available via http://www.edwardharle.com]. In short, the Soviets played a devious game of double bluff - exploiting the greed of the vast US intelligence community.

In the simplest of terms, as the dust has finally settled from the Cold War, the issue of the 27.5 trillion held by Wanta in trust for the American people still remains in limbo. According to Wanta, though, the issue is simple: change the banking laws so the money can be used for the people, not put into accounts of criminals.

According to Saba, who investigated and traced Wanta's behind the scenes accounting of how some of the money has already been misappropriated, it's easy to see why Illuminati banksters want to get their dirty hands on the money before it gets into the hands of American people.

Here is a portion of Saba's article about what he calls the "biggest bank heist in world history."



THE STALINESQUE ANO CALIGULA-LIKE PURGE

In the meantime, the high-level crooks -- who are known to be most uneasy at the continuing leakage of information which threatens their exposure, and who, being indifferent to human life which they regard as expendable, have resorted to the ultimate sanction in innumerable cases -- have procured that dose on 500 operatives, lawyers and others have been ''taken down'' (liquidated, ''suicided'', placed under house arrest, jailed on trumped-up charges, or dismissed) in a Stalinesque purge of those considered a threat to the continued cover-up o! crimes referred to generically as the Iran-Contra scandal, which in fact covers a far widen spectrum of serial illegality than its name implies. It also covers ''legitimate'' intelligence Financial Warfare operations in which Leo Wanta was extensively involved, and its operational codename was the name of his primary Title 18, Section 6 corporation, New Republic/USA Financial Group, and its several affiliates.

One method that Leo Wanta says is being used to hide all trace of some of the original alleged embezzlements, is that stolen banking or 138 Treasury instruments are being used and re-used as collateral for bank loans. The effect of this ruse is to ensure that the original embezzled instrument is permanently in the custody of financial institutions, and thus beyond the scrutiny of the authorities -- not that this is likely, since, as Leo Wanta told your correspondent finally on 25th April, US Treasury officials are complicit in the vast cover-up operation which has continued ever since the main alleged embezzlements took place in the early 1990s.

2.7% OF $27.5 TRILLION, THANK YOU VERY MUCH

In the case of the unprecedented giga-funding operation on behalf of the Illuminati, which was presided over by President George W. Bush Sr., the crooks helped themselves and their friends -- including Opus Dei, via an entity calling itself the Francis X Driscoil Trust -- to 2.7% of the total intended giga-loan. namely $742.5 billion A new breakdown of how the allegedly embezzled funds were distributed was given on page 144 of the magazine, and is reproduced here on page 9.

When these alleged giga-embezzlements were taking place or had been spotted, the biggest crisis in the history of the international financial system developed. Specifically, given that the funds were to be paid out in US dollars, the transactions were all necessarily handled by the Federal Reserve, under the supervision and control of Dr Alan Greenspan. But although the giga-funding started in 1989, the transmission of funds from the Federal Reserve sudden ceased (we are not, in the available public domain documents, told to whom the funds were to have been transmitted, but the primary recipient was a nexus of accounts loosely referred to as the Global Security Fund, based in Belgium, which is traditionally the financial centre for the Illuminati, and Chicago, where some of the funds may subsequently have been intermingled in the vortex of the derivatives industry).

Available public domain documentation shows that the Netherlands Bank and some other central banks, together with various very large commercial institutions, embarked upon legal proceedings against the Federal Reserve when the payouts ceased in 1991. In other words, the international financial system was on the verge of effective collapse, since payments were not being implemented.

The documented information we have published relates an extensive, seemingly never-ending, litany of excuses that were made by the US authorities while the payments were being stalled. All trust between certain European central banks, financial institutions and the Federal Reserve was corrupted to vanishing point. And why were the payouts stalled? Because the massive embezzlement that we document were in the process of being undertaken, way beyond the scrutiny of the international financial community generally.

While the financial payments were suffering from internal constipation, no-one had a clue what was going on; so the Dutch authorities (who are very litigious) started the ball rolling by instituting legal proceedings, given the scale of the monies that had been provided and were suddenly not being paid out. The Netherlands Bank also demanded to take up its vacant seat on the Federal Reserve Board, which is to a considerable extent owned by European financial powers and forces. After the alleged embezzlements, the payouts were finally resumed in 1992 (but on the basis of exchange rates, where foreign currency had been provided, prevailing on the dates of the suspensions).

THE WORLD''S BIGGEST-EVER BANK!NG HEIST

This was nothing less than the biggest bank heist in the history of humanity. No less than $742.5 billion of funds -- admittedly raised for what we consider to be thoroughly evil New Underworld Order purposes -- was misappropriated. Wanta, a servant of the US Presidency, was engaged in the fund-raising and speaks German when telephoned. This is the language of the high-level Illuminati. However Wanta is a technical operative, working, or so he always assumed, for the President of the United States. Moreover we know that is loyalty to the presidency was exploited by the Illuminati, probably without (as is often the case with technicians) him understanding the broader picture, because he told your correspondent in May 2004 that the funds had been raised to support the ''Global Security Environment'', which, judging by the tone of his comments, he did net consider to be a worthy project. .As a patriotic American. he was disparaging about the ''New World Order'' generally

The United States is the designated enforcement arm of the Illuminati and their associates, who are engaged in the Judaic masonic programme to impose the New Underworld Order. That is why the United States has 700 bases worldwide which require massive continuing injections of liquidity and why Britain is constantly reducing its armed forces. This is part of the meaning of Leo Wanta''s phrase ''Global Security Environment''. The Germans are surreptitiously doing the opposite to the British with their military as they have a special status in the New Underworld Ordnung. But that takes us into territory beyond the scope of this update en the geofinancial impasse surrounding Leo Wanta, a brave and loyal intelligence officer and servant of successive Presidents of the United States.oo

2.7% OF 527.5 TRILLION CREAMED 0FF THE GIGA-FUNDING OPERATION

The following is summary of receipts identified in handwritten analytical notes performed by the distinguished US Secret Service Treasury agent, Leo Wanta, on some of the transactions involved in the giga-financing operation involving a colossal loan to the Illuminati from 200+ international banks of $27,5 trillion, to finance the ''Global Security Environment'', a.k.a. the New Underworld Order, which is to be enforced by the United States as the sole enforcement, a.k.a. for the project. Sufficient funds were raised to bribe every policymaker, intelligence officer, ruler, Prime Minister, President and senior official for the whole of the 21st century. This fund is now worth $60-$70 trillion at a minimum -- and with collateral leverage, probably far more.

First Financial Services Ltd: 890812

Five billion dollars Total $5,000,000,000

Francis X Driscoll Trust: Allegedly involves the Vatican and CIA Ops

(see below 890810 five hundred million dollars Total; $500,000,000

See also Pinnacle Holdings

Hawaii National Bank Corporation Trust Account: 890812 Two and a half billion dollars Total: $2,500,000,000

International Financial Services Ltd: Date not shown

Ten billion dollars $10,000,000,000

International Financial Services Ltd: Five billion dollars 5,000,000,000

International Financial Services Ltd

Twenty-five billion dollars $25,000,000,000

International Financial Services Ltd, Wyatt W. Liscomb, Escrow Atty:

890810 Ten billion dollars $10,000,000,000

Total, International Financial Services;

Fifty billion dollars $50.000.000.000

Allegedly Marc Rich [Reich], highly-rated Israeli intelligence asset

Martwell Investments Ltd. Inc.: 890807 Money laundering

Two billion dollars $2,000,000,000

Martwell Investments Ltd. Inc.: 890808 Money laundering

One hundred billion dollars $100,000,000,000

Martwell Investments Ltd, Inc.; 890810

Five hundred million dollars $500,000,000

Martwell Investments Ltd. Inc.: 890610

Two billion dollars 52,000,000,000 Allegedly funds stolen

from Enron Corporation investors (pension funds allegedly stolen)

Total Martwell Investment Trust, Ltd. Inc + Martwell Investments

Ltd; One hundred and four billion five hundred million dollars

$104,500,000,000

Allegedly in part George H W Bush

Pilgrim Investments: 890810 Five hundred million dollars $500,000,000

Pilgrim Investments: 890810 Five hundred million dollars $500,000,000

Pilgrim Investments 890811 Five hundred million dollars $500,000,000

Pilgrim, Investments: 890811 One hundred billion dollars $100,000,000,000

Pilgrim Investments: 890810 Jorqe [= George] Bush One billion dollars

$1,000,000,000

Allegedly narcotics and illegal weapons sales: Money laundering

Pilgrim Investments: Ltd 890811 One hundred billion dollars

$100,000,000,000

Pilgrim Investments: 890811 Twenty-five billion dollars $25,000,000,000

Allegedly narcotics and illegal weapons sales: Money laundering

Pilgrim investments: Twenty-five billion dollars $25,000,000,000

Pilgrim Investments: Two and a half billion dollars $2,500,000,000

Pilgrim, Investments: Two and a half billion dollars $2,500,000,000

Pilgrim Investments, Inc. (Keith Bennett Group 890810

One billion dollars $1.000.000.000

Pilgrim Investments Trading Account: 890811

Ten billion dollars $10.000.000,000

Total, Pilgrim Investments outlets:

Two hundred and seventy-seven billion, five hundred million dollars

$277,500,000,000

Pinnacle Holdings/ Francis X Driscoll Atty Trust

[CIA Ops]: 890810 Five hundred million dollars $500,000,000

Pinnacle Holdings/ Francis X. Driscoll Atty Trust: 890810

Five hundred million dollars $500,000,000

Pinnacle Holdings/ Francis X Driscoll Atty Trust:

Twenty-five billion dollars $25,000,000,000

Pinnacle Holdings/ Francis X Driscoll Atty Trust

[CIA Ops]: 890811 Five hundred million dollars $500,000,000

Total Pinnacle Holdings/Francis X Driscoll Atty Trust [CIA Ops]:

Twenty-six billion five hundred million dollars $26,500,000,000

Driscoll = Allegedly on behalf of Opus Dei/The Vatican

Prudential Bache Securities: 890805

One hundred billion dollars Total: $100,000,000,000

Rocio Lopez Perez 890811

Five hundred million dollars $500,000,000

Rocio Lopez Perez: 890811

Five hundred million dollars $500,000,000

Total Rocio Lopez Perez: One billion dollars $1,000,000,000

Silverado Investment, Inc [Neil Bush): 890815

Total Five hundred million dollars $500,000,000

Synergy Trust: 890811 Fifty billion dollars

Total: $50,000,000,000

Unknown: 890810 Five hundred million dollars $500,000,000

Unknown: 890810 Five hundred million dollars $500,000,000

Unknown: 890810 Ten billion dollars $10,000,000,000

Unknown: Date not shown: Five billion dollars $5,000,000,000

Unknown: Date not shown: Five hundred million $500,000,000

Unknown: Date not shown: Ten billion dollars $10,000,000,000

Unknown: Date not shown: Twenty-five billion dollars $25,000,000,000

Unknown: Date not shown: Twenty-five billion dollars $25,000,000,000

Unknown: Date not shown Twenty-five billion dollars $25,000,000,000 Unknown: 890811 Ten billion dollars $10,000,000,000

Unknown 890810 Ten billion dollars: $10,000,000,000

Total unknown recipients: One hundred and twenty-one billion

five hundred million dollars $121,500,000,000

Wm. W. Wilson Atty Special account: 890807

Two billion dollars $2,000,000,000

Wm. W. Wilson Atty Special Trust: 890808

Ten billion dollars $10,000,000,000

Wm. W. Wilson Atty Specie! Account/Trust:

Twelve billion dollars $12,000,000,000

Grand total: Seven hundred and forty-two billion five hundred million dollars $742,500,000,000. Now worth at least $2,0 trillion.

These data are collated from the handwritten analytical notes accompanying the print-out sets shown or pages 150-160 only of International Currency Review, Volume 30, Numbers 2 and 3, which were made available and placed in the public domain by US intelligence. The Editor itemised the entries in the handwritten notes, gauging them to represent transactions which diverged from the intended destinations of the giga-funds. In summary, what happened was that 2.7% of the proceeds of the Illuminati''s unprecedentediy gigantic loan were creamed off for the benefit of the parties shown. Since we are dealing with international criminal intelligence operations, it is no surprise at all that the crooks concerned should have helped themselves to a proportion of the funds. Notice the destinations, which include Opus Dei (Francis X. Driscoll Trust), which is in the driving seat in Vatican affairs -- all 31 cardinals appointed by the late Pope being Opus Dei members. It should be noted that those data illustrate only one component of the financial scandal. Funds belonging to the US Government and lodged in accounts of Title 16 Section 6 intelligence corporations are hidden offshore all over the world.

The biggest, most brazen alleged organised embezzlement operation in world history.

CUT-PRICE AFGHANI HEROIN FLOODING BRITAIN

The colossal increase in opium poppy production in Afghanistan that has taken place since US intelligence seized control over the heroin business from the Taliban, who had all but stamped it out by early 2001, has resulted, as predicted, in a flood of cheap heroin into the United Kingdom. In its Annual Report for 2003, the United Nations agency called the International Narcotics Control Board, voiced its concern over the impact of two years of bumper poppy crops after the fall of the previous r??girne. Since the Taliban was removed from power, drug production, supervised of course by corrupt US intelligence cadres (now headed up by the former US State Department Under-Secretary of State, Richard Armitaqe, who left his post in order to establish an ''import-export agency'' in Kabul), has resulted in 3,600 tons of opium being produced in 2003, representing a 6% increase over revived output in 2002. Ten million addicts worldwide were said in March 2004 to be hooked on heroin produced in Afghanistan, and 1.7 million farmers are economically dependent on opium production in the country. Half-hearted attempts to encourage crop substitution failed because farmers can earn three times more by growing opium poppies. The heroin they produce is shipped along the Balkan route -- secured by the West from the hands of Yugoslav criminal operatives in the Balkan wars of the 1990s -- and through eastern Europe, to destinations such as The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Consumption of drugs depends on supply rather than demand -- a reversal of the normal commercial equation. Therefore, the Taliban had the right idea. It just didn''t coincide with the preferences of criminalized US intelligence, so they had to go, at any cost. That''s how desperate the world situation has become.

http://www.arcticbeacon.com/26-Mar-2006.html
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Fitzgerald probe: Sen. Clinton withdrew stolen funds from Grenada bank
Date:
Thursday, March 13
Topic: --

Fitzgerald probe: Sen. Clinton withdrew stolen funds from Grenada bank

Prosecutor in possession of documents, numbered bank accounts, trusts—and alleged film evidence of Senator Hillary Clinton withdrawing stolen U.S. Treasury funds from bank in Grenada as Fitzgerald probe expands to $742 billion theft

by Tom Flocco

Washington—April 13, 2006—TomFlocco.com—Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is in possession of filmed evidence allegedly showing Senator Hillary Clinton entering Bank Crozier in the British territory of Grenada during early 2003 for the purpose of withdrawing stolen and laundered U.S. Treasury funds for alleged personal use after presenting the bank with CIA code numbers in her capacity as a U.S. senator, CIA operative and wife of a former president, according to a team of intelligence sources.

One source requesting anonymity told us that “competing teams” of fired intelligence agents and military, federal whistleblowers and patriotic government operatives committed to restoring the U.S. Constitution established private teams “to follow and track Senator Clinton for years” in an effort to validate the intelligence operative’s crimes with the kind of evidence presented to Mr. Fitzgerald.

Bank account numbers, entities and trust documents also linked to former Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton have been delivered to Fitzgerald by agents who originally leaked the evidence for the purpose of exposing the largest embezzlement of taxpayer funds in the history of the United States,” according to informed sources close to the investigation who spoke with TomFlocco.com.

Mrs. Clinton’s trip to Grenada may have been linked to personal and private control over an old Reagan CIA [executive order 12333] proprietary trust account called the Children’s Defense Fund—a Title 18 Section 6 USG corporation set up for intelligence operations—not for use in upcoming election campaigns.

Certain Washington Riggs Bank ties to its world banking system correspondent Bank Crozier in Grenada indicate that the stolen, laundered and back-dated U.S. treasury notes may allegedly be linked to funding the September 11 attacks in violation of U.S. racketeering laws [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act—RICO statutes], the intelligence sources said.

This, providing additional evidence circuitously linked to the Valerie Plame leak case, since intelligence sources say Plame was also looking into the 9-11 money trail—but also an attempt to plant weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to buttress the case for war, thus requiring Fitzgerald to probe the money-trail connections and strong incentives for the Bush administration to “out” Mrs. Plame-Wilson for her intelligence operations.

TomFlocco.com has previously detailed and published the contents of a hand-written memo to Vice President Richard Cheney proving the White House knew that boxes containing large amounts of U.S. currency were moved from the Philippines seven weeks after the 9 11 attacks—with phrases in the document revealing that “the ‘family’ wants their boxes!!...Things are getting out of hand! MIL [Marvelous Investments, Ltd., Andover, MA according to intelligence sources] needs cash with which to purchase & remove these items [boxes of currency]…too much is in the wrong hands!”

House and Senate members are quite aware of these authentic documents, but are likely powerless to investigate their explosive implications—perhaps due to “control files” and other financial, sexual and criminal activities preventing due process of law, given past bribery and blackmail linked to judges.

The Swedish-owned Bank Crozier was under a court order to be liquidated by Garvey Louison of Louison Consulting which took place on July 24, 2003, so it would seem that Senator Clinton would have had to withdraw the funds prior to the liquidation.
[ The preceding pdf file webpage at bankcroziergd.com was removed after this story was posted; however, we saved the file and it is now available here TF ]

This, amid what became a great deal of internet chatter about Crozier fraud and money laundering by investors who were unaware that U.S. intelligence already knew that a sitting United States senator had already allegedly looted the bank prior to its liquidation.

Former Presidents Bush and Clinton have also reportedly been using Children’s Defense Fund bank accounts to expand, control and leverage secret national security—CIA front proprietary accounts for their personal use in direct violation of Title 18, Section 6, the Corporate Proprietary Banking Statutes—accounts intended to be used for U.S. intelligence operations only, according to informed sources who are aware that U.S. legislators are also implicated.

18 U.S.C. 4 mandates congressional probe

The numbered accounts presented to Fitzgerald will be sent to all members of the House Financial Services and Senate Banking Committees under 18 United States Code 4, the misprision of felony statute: “Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”

18 U.S.C. 4 would therefore designate congressional members and prosecutors receiving meritorious evidence of a crime as legally responsible for investigating and preventing the concealment of that crime—what may be the greatest financial scandal in world history.

The documents linked above have been collated from the original handwritten notes with named trust identifications—and numbered bank accounts in most cases, copies of which are held by TomFlocco.com and scores of other individuals throughout the United States and foreign countries—inside and outside the intelligence community.

The originals and collated notes in Fitzgerald’s possession were published in a more easily readable format in International Currency Review, Volume 30, Numbers 2 and 3, February 2005 and in previous issues of the Review.

Riggs-Crozier tied to illegal use of U.S. Special Forces in coup attempt?

Jonathan James Bush

According to the federal agents, the same Crozier account from which Senator Clinton was video-taped withdrawing stolen U.S. Treasury funds was also used by the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to help fund a failed coup d’ etat to unseat the president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.

U.S. intelligence agents familiar with Senator Clinton’s past CIA operative affiliations and her control over the Bank Crozier account said some U.S. Special Forces members were involved in the coup attempt and were illegally under the foreign command and control of Mark Thatcher—with Mrs. Thatcher operating behind the scenes, according to sources familiar with the probe.

Questions can be raised whether U.S. legislators are covering up misappropriated taxpayer funds for the misuse of American troops to acquire control of more oil in the coup attempt, and whether House and Senate Armed Services and Banking Committee members may also have knowledge of Bush-Clinton use of Washington’s Riggs Bank which was the prosecuted correspondent entity fined for multiple suspicious transactions involving Bank Crozier in Grenada.

Jonathan Bush—George W. Bush’s uncle and brother of Bush 41, ran Riggs Bank National Corporation subsidiary J. Bush & Co. money management; and Riggs was alleged to have laundered funds from the account of Saudi Prince Bandar’s wife that reached two alleged September 11 “hijackers,” providing more evidence along the 9-11 money trail.

Sir Mark Thatcher

Bank Crozier’s ties to Riggs and the coup attempt are allegedly implicated in the bank’s guilty plea on January 27, 2005 for repeatedly failing to report suspicious transactions in bank accounts held by Equatorial Guinea leaders and agreeing to pay a $16 million penalty.

Mrs. Thatcher’s 51 year old son Sir Mark Thatcher was arrested in July, 2004 and pleaded guilty to helping finance “mercenaries” suspected of the plot in order to avoid a prison sentence; but Sir Mark was refused a visa to enter the U.S. due to his conviction in South Africa, according to American news reports.

Sir Mark Thatcher, E-Systems—Dallas, and the Bush family

Former Pentagon intelligence officer Bill McCoy who died mysteriously after implicating German intelligence officer Andreas Carl Strassmeier in the Oklahoma city bombing provided proof before his death that Sir Mark Thatcher was on the payroll of E-Systems in Dallas, Texas with George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Jeb Bush, Neil Bush and others.

Indicted Fox News host Colonel Oliver North, who was pardoned by George H. W. Bush which resulted in obstruction of justice, referred to E-Systems as “the company” in his testimony before Congress; but Bill McCoy called E-Systems the illegal shadow government within the government—a covert and ongoing system of black operations, drugs and weapons money-laundering via off-shore banks.

McCoy possessed the documents to validate Bush shadow government connections to Mark Thatcher and E-Systems, and allowed federal whistleblower Stewart Webb to bring a copy machine into McCoy’s Fairfax, Virginia home to duplicate thousands of top secret documents and affidavits of living, deceased and assassinated U.S. intelligence, military and government whistleblowers, some evidence of which has already been provided to prosecutors.

Serious questions can be raised as to whether the Clinton-Crozier account was employed to facilitate the illegal use of American soldiers in an oil country coup attempt funded by stolen and laundered U.S. taxpayer dollars—and whether Congress is obstructing justice and covering up the operation.

Riggs Bank quickly paid the fine, but the House and Senate banking committees have failed in their oversight to probe the above links to 9-11, Valerie Plame, Riggs and Crozier Banks while federalizing what amounts to the counterfeiting of U.S. currency by the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank and declining to report the M 3 data on currency in circulation [as of March 23, 2006] which serves to covertly prop up the U.S. economy with Federal Reserve Cartel printing presses.

All Credit For This Article To  Tom Flocco
http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/SenClintonGrenada.htm

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"In most states, an ER physician is forbidden to report known or suspected illegal aliens because he works in an illegals' "sanctuary city."

"An Emergency Room physician is obliged to report to the police all patients evidencing domestic violence with guns. However, in most states, that same physician is forbidden to report known or suspected illegal aliens because he works in an illegals' "sanctuary city."


ILLEGAL ALIENS, VIOLENCE, AND AMERICAN MEDICINE

 


Dr. Madeleine Cosman, Ph.D., ESQ
May 21, 2005
NewsWithViews.com

An Emergency Room physician is obliged to report to the police all patients evidencing domestic violence with guns. However, in most states, that same physician is forbidden to report known or suspected illegal aliens because he works in an illegals' "sanctuary city." A friend who is an ER doc who works in Los Angeles reported: "A woman brought to my ER was so viciously riddled with gunshots that for the first time in 12 years working in this hospital I shuddered at the malice that finally killed her. This was not the first time I saw her. I recognized my own surgical handiwork in scars from last year when I worked to save her life. Her husband is a notorious illegal alien on a "most wanted" list. Last year police caught him and deported him. But he came back with vengeance. This beast mocked my horror at his sadistic gun skills. A court supposedly convened to deport this brutal criminal just awarded him a Green Card for legal permanent residency. He no longer needed his American wife. What legal craziness gives a dangerous known felon and illegal alien a welcome home for pillaging and murder?"

I answered with thanks for his courage in asking about immigration law, and thanks for his service to America by working in a California battle zone. Law-abiding Americans will be shocked to realize how difficult it is to report and to deport illegal aliens. The Department of Homeland Security after September 11 was structured to incorporate Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE's old name was Immigration and Naturalization Services, the notoriously incompetent INS. Though you as an ER doc cannot report an illegal alien in your politically correct hospital, another citizen could phone 1-866-DHS-2ICE or 1-866-347-2423.

That is a valuable number if you speak to an intelligent person, not a recording, and you must provide the illegal's name, location, workplace, and residence. Report on-line at www.ice.immigration.gov. To report suspicious airplanes or boats, phone ICE's Office of Air and Marine Operations (AMO) at 1-866-AIR BUST or 1-866-247-2878.

It is harder to deport known criminal illegal aliens. Criminal aliens who are arrested and eligible for deportation, because of previous and current convictions, may or may not be held in detention because we have insufficient jail space and money to keep them behind bars. The ICE division of Detention and Removal is releasing illegal aliens from federal custody nationwide not for good behavior but for bad crowding. This year ICE's detention budget houses only 19,444 detainees.

That detention number is ludicrously small considering our vast yet unknown number of illegal aliens that some credible estimators peg at 12 million and others up to 20 million. On June 10, 2004,Victor Cerda, ICE's acting Director of Detention wrote to his Regional Detention and Removal officials: "Currently we are exceeding the level our resources can support."

Agents therefore must catch and keep fewer illegal aliens. For criminal illegals who must be detained by law, such as people charged with aggravated felonies, ICE and border agents must consider "discretion and financial constraints" before arresting a criminal illegal alien. ICE released illegal aliens from jail nationally within eleven days to reduce detainees from 23,000 on June 14 to 21,610 on June 25. Where did they go? Those released are left to their "honor system" to report for deportation court hearings. Some post a bond, and others wear electronic anklets or bracelets that theoretically allow them to be tracked. Law enforcers on Border Control to catch drug smugglers, espionage agents, and foreign terrorists under ICE's Office of Investigations must regulate their arrests and therefore the flow of new aliens into Detention and Removal.

Removal means deportation. Those detained are not easily removed. ICE claims that detaining and removing criminal aliens and other deportable aliens deters illegal immigration and protects public safety. However, a little known court system employs over 200 well-paid judges (earning up to $150,000 annually) and supports an astonishing spiderweb of immigration lawyers and advocates for illegal aliens. These catch most removal orders and slowly chew them until they spit out amnesty.

Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) is the name of the court system where the legal web is woven within the Department of Justice. EOIR consists of the U.S. Immigration Court (USIC) plus appellate court, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). If the equation EOIR = USIC + BIA does not equal amnesty for the illegal alien then EOIR offers yet another level of appeal against deportation in the federal circuit courts. Deportation of every illegal alien and criminal alien potentially becomes a federal case. The result is a continuation of the old amnesty law that President Reagan signed in 1986, and the threats to American security that Michelle Malkin brilliantly analyses in Invasion.

EOIR permits criminal aliens who have a Green Card to stay in the United States even if criminal conviction makes them deportable. A Green Card signifies lawful permanent resident (LPR) status. Any illegal alien who has been a LPR for five years becomes eligible for naturalization. Once naturalized, the illegal alien cannot be deported no matter how egregious a criminal.

 

EOIR Immigration Court judges grant non-resident cancellation of removal. Note those three negatives. In English that means that the judge grants an LPR Green Card to a deportable illegal alien if he has lived illegally in America for 10 years and has a spouse, parent, or child who is a citizen or LPR. This provides incentive to any fertile male or female illegal alien, decent or criminal, to immediately beget in marriage or out of wedlock an Anchor Baby who at birth becomes an instant citizen eligible for all welfare benefits. The Anchor Baby or citizen spouse becomes the legal pivot point. If the deportable criminal illegal alien's deportation could cause exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to the qualifying citizen relative, he stays.

The woman riddled with bullets who bled to death on the OR table might have lived if her vicious husband had remained deported and not welcomed back with a Green Card for further bloody horror.

© 2005 Madeleine Cosman - All Rights Reserved

Dr. Cosman is a medical lawyer located in California. Her forthcoming book in 2005 is Who Owns Your Body?: Doctors and Patients Behind Bars. She lectures worldwide on medical law and medical policy, has testified before Congress on medical law issues, and has spoken in Washington for Cato Institute and Galen Institute. She wrote the ABCs of the Clinton Medical World for Congress in 1993. A Director of California Rifle and Pistol Association, she writes "Guns and Medicine" for Firing Line. One of her 15 published books was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and was a Book of the Month Club Dividend Selection.

Madeleine promotes free-market, patient-centered medicine, and Health Savings Accounts.

Her J.D. is from New York's Cardozo School of Law, Ph.D. from Columbia University, M.A. from Hunter College, and B.A. from Barnard College. She is a member of the New York State Bar, New Jersey Bar, American Bar Association's Health Law Section, and American Inns of Court. Madeleine is Professor Emerita of City College of City University of New York and a Life Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.

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"Leprosy in the U.S.; in the past three years, more than 7,000 cases have been presented." Illegals Bring New Diseases To US.

 "Americans should be told that diseases long eradicated in this country -- tuberculosis, leprosy, polio, for example -- and other extremely contagious diseases have been linked directly to illegals," said Scottsdale Congressman J.D. Hayworth. "For example, in 40 years, only 900 persons were afflicted by leprosy in the U.S.; in the past three years, more than 7,000 cases have been presented."

IMMIGRATION'S SILENT INVASION, DEADLY CONSEQUENCES
BY STEPHANY GABBARD, RN, CLNC AND FROSTY WOOLDRIDGE



Dec 22: The invasion of illegal aliens pouring over the borders of the United States is taking an ominous turn. They are not alone! Their bodies may carry Hepatitis A, B & C, tuberculosis, leprosy and Chagas Disease. Chagas is a nasty parasitic bug common in Latin America where 18 million people are infected and 50,000 deaths occur annually.

Illegal aliens, by avoiding health screenings at U.S. borders, carry TB, the most serious being MDR, a multi-drug resistant tuberculosis—with a higher death rate than cancer. MDR-TB occurs when Mycobacterium tuberculosis becomes resistant to at least Isoniazid and Rifampin—the two most powerful TB drugs. According to the New York Academy of Sciences, 2002 update, "Ordinary TB requires a six-month regimen of four drugs for cure. MDR-TB requires up to two years of treatment with a complex regimen of much more expensive drugs to which the patient's TB bacteria are susceptible."

Many of these drugs have toxic side effects. A patient with MDR-TB will infect others with MDR-TB--not ordinary TB. "It has been called "Ebola with Wings," in the chilling book: 'TIME BOMB: THE GLOBAL EPIDEMIC OF MULTI-DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS', by Lee B. Reighmann, M.D., M.P.H.

According to the New York Academy of Sciences, Update, January, 2002, "TB bacteria readily fly through the air, as when an afflicted person coughs. It's estimated that each victim will infect 10, 20 or more people--in whom the disease will likely remain latent, creating the potential 'time bomb' effect."

To make matters worse, in excess of 7,000 new cases of leprosy have been diagnosed in the USA in the past three years. Hansen's Disease (leprosy) is now endemic to the Northeastern United States for the first time ever. Ironically, because of First World personal hygiene and sanitation practiced in America, leprosy affected only 900 people in the previous 40 years. However, illegal alien immigrants from India, Brazil, the Caribbean and up through Mexico have fueled the resurgence into the United States.

Chagas, called the kissing bug disease because the parasite favors the face as a route of infection, comes in acute and chronic forms, which can damage your heart and intestines. This parasite now threatens our blood supply, yet no means to test the blood is currently available. Ironically the public health community has been aware of this danger for years. "Hundreds of blood recipients may be silently infected, experts say, and there is no effective treatment for them. After a decade, 10 to 30 percent of them will die when their hearts or intestines, weakened by the disease, explode," according to a New York Times story, November 18, 2003 by Donald G. McNeil, Jr. Three people received Chagas infected organs in 2001, the first such cases reported in the United States ever! Two of those three died.

Dengue Fever, reports of polio, and now, the first case of malaria in Texas trickle into the United States as the invasion of illegal aliens increases in numbers.

Undiagnosed disease due to uncontrolled illegal immigration is not confined to the Border States. This health care crisis spreads daily across the nation. In 2002, Northern Virginia reported a 17 % increase in tuberculosis cases. Prince William County alone reported a staggering 188 % over the previous year. Health officials link immigrants to this outbreak and credit them with introducing the drug resistant strains. In 2001 Marion County experienced an outbreak of Multi-Drug Resistant TB, which was investigated by the Indiana University School of Medicine. Their findings? Mexican Nationals, i.e., illegal aliens, had flooded into the area causing the outbreak.

In Queens, New York the health department found that 81% of new TB cases in 2001 were "immigrants". The CDC reports that last year one-half of all new TB cases were attributed to foreign born people, who have an eight times higher incidence of TB. "Health officials state the rise of TB is largely a consequence of the migration of people from parts of the world where the disease is common. It is thought that two-thirds of the cases of TB brought into the United States originated in three countries: Mexico, the Philippines and Vietnam. Recent outbreaks include Portland, Maine, Del Ray Beach, Florida and Michigan.

In 1999, a health advisory was issued due to a Dengue Fever outbreak along the Mexico (Nuevo Laredo)/ Texas—(Webb County) border. Though not usually fatal, there is a more serious strain called dengue hemorrhagic fever, which CAN kill you.

It gets worse. The U.S. government, which is sworn to protect American citizens, is in reality, aiding and abetting this health care crisis. Quoting a Fox News Report from April 4, 2003, Miguel, an illegal alien who worked construction on a subway renovation project for months, was able to change his status to legal permanent alien. Unfortunately, Miguel was infected with tuberculosis. This did not stop the federal government from issuing Miguel a health waiver under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a waiver that permits him a green card, even though his disease made him inadmissible for the waiver. Miguel is now legally free to move about the country—and is, at this moment.

What does this mean to American citizens? Does it take the immediacy of a SARS or tuberculosis epidemic to force our Congress and president into action? After the fact? After the deaths of dozens or thousands of innocent citizens? What does it require for them to take action as this 'silent invasion' crosses into our country? Our borders are as porous today as they were on 9/11. But this terror is a silent invasion--a deadly, growing, ticking 'Time Bomb'.

It means your children are at risk when attending school or going to the movies. It means that when a classmate from a foreign country sneezes or coughs, your child may be at risk for any number of diseases. If you eat at a fast food restaurant, a person infected with hepatitis could prepare your food. If you need a blood transfusion, the blood could be infected with Chagas Disease.

What can you do? You may visit the principal of your school and insist that every child pass a complete health screening, especially for tuberculosis and hepatitis. You may ask local health inspectors to check restaurants in your community to see that all employees are legal residents or American citizens and have been health screened. For all these undetectable diseases, you may call your senator or representative, 800-648-3516 and demand they secure the U.S. border with Mexico to stop illegal immigration by whatever means you deem necessary, i.e., US troops, National Guardsmen, mass deportations and arrests of employers who hire illegal aliens. Make the punishment worse than their profit.


Sources: TIMEBOMB: GLOBAL EPIDEMIC OF MULTI DRUG RESISTANT DISEASES
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
FOX NEWS: 'WAIVING DISEASE' MATT HAYES 4/4/03
'Rare Infection Threatens To Spread In Blood Supply, by Donald G. McNeil, Jr.
New York Times, 11/18/03
Dengue Fever: Division Director's Bulletins-Division Animal Industry,
11/07/99
TB STILL ON RISE IN NORTH VIRGINIA: DRUG RESISTANCE, IMMIGRATION CITED IN
DISEASE'S SPREAD, by Leef Smith, Washington Post Staff Writer, 03/18/02

Stephany Gabbard, RN, CLNC, (
health@legal-nurseconsultant.com), is a
Registered Nurse and Certified Legal Nurse Consultant specializing in
disease prevention. She has worked in several County Jail Health Systems,
witnessing first hand the effects of disease in the jail population.
Frosty Wooldridge, (
frostyw@juno.com) web site:
(
www.frostywooldridge.com) is a former US Army Medical Service Corps
officer, cardiac catheterization technician, teacher, national radio
guest speaker, TV guest, writer and world bicycle traveler who has seen
the consequences of overpopulation up close and personal. He will send
you information on how to gain access to networks in your state. He is
available to speak on your radio and TV stations and will send talk show hosts his press
releases when you write him. Contact
www.numbersusa.com to take national
action or call your Congressional rep: 1 800 648 3516 toll free.


Stephany Gabbard, RN, CLNC
Montana

http://www.senselessplanet.com/disease.htm

http://www.nrilinks.com/news/n/9/9186.aspx


Immigration and Disease: It's Enough to Make You Sick

Posted by Robert Klein Engler
Friday, November 21, 2003 


Uncontrolled and illegal immigration to the United States causes many problems for the nation. Just the tax revenues spent on welfare programs, education, health care, and housing for illegal immigrants is enough to make one question our immigration policies. Now, we can add another problem and cost associated with illegal immigration: illegal immigrants can make you sick.

According to an article at newsobserver.com and other news sources, a deadly Pennsylvania hepatitis outbreak has spread panic among many residents of the area. ''More than 500 people got sick and three have died from this hepatitis outbreak.'' Charles Sheehan, writing for the Associated Press, claims that ''The nation's biggest known outbreak of hepatitis A is causing such a panic that people are lining up by the thousands for antibody shots and no longer eating out.'' 

Health investigators are looking into whether contaminated produce--perhaps scallions from Mexico--may have caused the outbreak at the Chi Chi's restaurant in the Beaver Valley Mall, about 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. ''We're very concerned. It's very serious and we've sent a team of people out there to assist,'' said CDC spokesman David Daigle.

According to yet another article on station WPIX Pittsburgh's web site, ''In light of the hepatitis A outbreak from a Center Township restaurant, Chi-Chi's has pulled green onions from its menu nationwide as a precaution. As far as the investigation into the Chi-Chi's outbreak, the virus has been identified as the 'Mexican Strain.' '' Health officials reported, ''Workers may have contaminated food by failure to follow basic hygiene in cleaning hands after using the bathroom.'' 

The U. S. is not alone in its fight against illegal immigration and disease. Illegal Chinese immigrants to Europe are bringing to that continent malaria. Even Thailand has problems with diseases brought in with immigrants from Burma. The biological clock is ticking and a world health crisis is looming. Because the U. S. suffers more immigration than any country in the world, our health problems are growing faster. Certainly, the potential for biological disaster has come to the notice of terrorists and Al Qaeda.

Although the out break of Hepatitis A in Pennsylvania is the largest in U. S. history, it is just the tip of the iceberg in so far as disease and immigration is concerned. Frosty Wooldridge in his many articles reports that, ''Thousands carry head lice, leprosy, tuberculosis, and hepatitis A, B, and C into the U. S. Tuberculosis, five years ago, was almost nonexistent in the USA. A school in Sebewaing, Michigan, reported 30 children and four teachers had tested positive for tuberculosis infections.'' 

Wooldridge goes on to add, ''In the past four years, 16,000 cases of multi drug resistant (MDR) TB, which was formerly endemic ONLY to Mexico, crossed over the borders inside the bodies of illegal aliens. These adults and their children have spread out across the country to work in fast foods and harvesting. Another outbreak occurred in Austin, Minnesota, where eight police officers tested positive for tuberculosis.'' A similar outbreak reportedly occurred in Portland, Maine where 28 tested positive for tuberculosis.

And the list gets even longer: ''Leprosy totaled 900 cases in the USA in the past 40 years. In the past three years, according to a report from the New York Times in February, 2003, leprosy has infected over 7,000 people in the United States. It was brought in by illegal immigrants from India, Brazil, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Leprosy spreads by infected illegal aliens working in fast food, dish washing and hotels."

Then there is Chagas Disease. This disease ''is brought directly from Mexico and Latin America where it has infected over 18,000,000 people. One can contract it by eating uncooked food contaminated with infected feces of the Vinchuca Bug. It crosses over the border in the bodies of an average of 2,200 illegal aliens daily.''

Disease transmission by immigration is not limited to just the states that border Mexico. As far north as Kentucky and Illinois, problems of disease and immigrants are to be found. A Kentucky state legislator blamed illegal Hispanic immigrants for spreading disease in Kentucky and draining the shelves of local food charities. Illegal immigrants whom Kentucky State Representative Fred Nesler described as ''mostly your Mexicans'' have caused problems in his Western Kentucky district. He said, ''Whenever they come into a community, those people bring quite a bit of disease with them.'' 

In northern Virginia, state health authorities announced that ''tuberculosis continues to rise'' and that ''immigration is fueling the spread.'' According to the Washington Post, this strain of TB is the drug resistant strain (Washington Post, March 18, 2002). The state Health Department released figures showing an increase of nearly 5 percent in TB cases in the state between 2000 and 2001, and 57 percent of the increase occurred in northern Virginia itself.

As the Washington Post explained, ''Health officials say the rise of TB ... is largely a consequence of the migration of people from parts of the world where the disease is common. It is thought that two-thirds of the cases of TB brought into the United States originated in just three countries: Mexico, the Philippines, and Vietnam.''

A study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform in the St. Louis Business Journal (August 20, 2003) reports that Missouri spends about $21.4 million a year and Illinois spends $484 million a year to educate school-aged illegal immigrants. The report goes on to state that, ''The money spent in Illinois is enough to supply healthcare to every person under the poverty line for two years or to supply financial aid to the nearly 34,000 college students denied it.''' Clearly, illegal immigration is lowering the standard of living of all American citizens.

Writing in the National Review, James R. Edwards cites the dramatic increase in diseases immigrants bring to the United States. He states, ''TB is especially prevalent in Mexicans....Mexican immigrants have an infection rate of 35.5 cases per 100,000, far above the native-born rate.'' Edwards then goes on to ask, ''Does America have the resolve to safeguard public health first, even at the risk of being politically incorrect? Do American taxpayers willingly accept the additional burden of the costs mass immigration places on the nation's healthcare system?''

The answer to Edwards' question is, ''No.'' It is obvious there is no desire or resolve to safeguard public health in either political party. Nor do the politicians want to do anything about illegal immigration, especially illegal immigration from Mexico. What is lacking here is a long term vision of what is good for the U. S. Instead, everyone is looking at short term political or economic gains. 

A solution to the problems of illegal immigration probably will hurt some people in the short run. That is the pain that precedes a cure. Some families may be broken up and some decent, hardworking people sent back to a country that has no jobs for them. Nevertheless, in the long run, policies that deport illegal immigrants will benefit the U. S. These policies may even force Mexico, among other nations, to get their house in order. But because there is short term pain for a long term benefit, politicians will stay away from doing anything to solve the immigration mess and its attending public health problems. The problem of illegal immigration and disease will just grow worse. It's enough to make you sick!


Robert Klein Engler lives in Chicago, and teaches at Roosevelt University. His book, A WINTER OF WORDS, about the ethnic cleansing at Daley College, is available from amazon.com.
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Illegals bring new disease outbreaks! Who's cooking your food?
Posted on Monday, May 16 @ 12:00:03 UTC
Topic: Diseases Biohazards illegal immigration
Diseases Biohazards illegal immigrationHigher disease rates attributed to influx of illegals

5/15/2005
By Angela Gonzales and Mike Sunnucks
The Business Journal of Phoenix
Topics: Disease, Health Care, Border Patrol, Illegal Immigration, Laws, Security, Food Preparation

Arizona hospitals and doctors are worried about the resurgence of some serious infectious diseases, and some believe illegal immigrants are the cause.

Read the latest headlines about illegal immigration.

A rise in diseases such as whooping cough, tuberculosis, malaria, measles and even leprosy are creating public health concerns and could hit hospitals and health care systems already financially burdened by indigent illegals flooding emergency rooms and urgent care centers.

The resurgence also is fueling conservative calls for tougher border security and could cause problems for Arizona industries that rely on migrant workers for jobs in food services, construction, tourism and agriculture.

The Maricopa County Health Department reported earlier this month a 100 percent increase in the number of cases of whooping cough (pertussis) over the past year.

TB concerns grow

Hospitals and health care professionals also are concerned about Mexican immigrants bringing tuberculosis with them to border states such as Arizona.

"I've been in practice in Arizona for 25 years," said Dr. Tim Kuberski, president of the Arizona Infectious Disease Society. "The one disease that is most often associated with undocumented aliens is tuberculosis because there is a resurgence in the number of cases of TB."

The federal government reports that while TB is on the decline nationally, Hispanics are the most-likely ethnic group to have the disease, and high TB rates in Mexican border areas are a big concern.

Recent federal reports found that Mexican border regions have high rates of infectious diseases and that half of U.S. TB cases are from immigrants.

TB rates in U.S. border regions, including Arizona, are "roughly double the national rate, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The department reports the TB rate for Mexican border areas is greater than the Mexican national rate.

Greg Padilla, chief executive of Maryvale Hospital Medical Center, agreed.

"Typically, TB shows up in a lot of border cities," he said.

Limited health care access, lack of vaccinations, migratory population movements and poor living conditions all encourage the spread of TB and limit its treatment in border areas.

There were 14,500 TB cases in the U.S. last year. Mexico has 16,000 cases annually, with one quarter coming from border areas. The U.S. has a population of 296 million; Mexico 106 million persons.

Dr. Fritz Bredeek, an infectious disease specialist with El Rio Special Immunology Associates in Tucson, said tuberculosis is his biggest concern when it comes to people crossing the border illegally and bringing their diseases into the U.S.

"tuberculosis is a contagious disease brought in from any poor country because TB is in countries with a poor health care structure, whether that is in Mexico or Eastern Europe or Asia or Africa," Bredeek said. "So that's certainly an infectious disease we do see."

Health care worries

Increased diseases are cause for obvious public health worries, but they also require hospitals and health care systems to dedicate more resources from an already strained system. Hospitals and the state and federal government often have to foot the bill for treating migrants, many of whom are indigent and have no health care coverage.

Worries about immigrants bringing infectious diseases into the country are prompting conservative calls to tighten up the U.S./Mexican border to stem the wave of migrants.

"Americans should be told that diseases long eradicated in this country -- tuberculosis, leprosy, polio, for example -- and other extremely contagious diseases have been linked directly to illegals," said Scottsdale Congressman J.D. Hayworth. "For example, in 40 years, only 900 persons were afflicted by leprosy in the U.S.; in the past three years, more than 7,000 cases have been presented."

There also are worries that illegal immigrants from Asia, particularly China, are bringing rare and infectious disease into the Western U.S.

Hayworth, a Republican, said the problem highlights the need for tougher border controls and immigration law enforcement.

"This emerging crisis exposes the upside-down thinking of federal immigration policy," he said. "While legal immigrants must undergo health screening prior to entering the U.S., illegal immigrants far more likely to be carrying contagious diseases are crawling under that safeguard and going undetected until they infect extraordinary numbers of American residents."

Rusty Childress, a Valley car dealer and a big backer of tougher immigration controls, worries about the spread of disease because of the prevalence of migrant labor in the food-service industry.

"This is one of the cheap thrills of cheap labor," said Childress. "As you may have noticed, many immigrants, legal or otherwise, are employed -- if they are at all -- as cooks, dishwashers, waiters and food handlers. And it's a fact that Hepatitis A, B, and C show up in fast food environments."

Steve Chucri, president of the Arizona Restaurant Association, said food-service companies and restaurants follow county health codes and some do brief health screenings for new hires to make sure they are not spreading some diseases when handling food.

Churci said restaurants do not usually require formal doctor's notes or physicals for prospective employees. He said state law prohibits employers from asking about medical conditions as a condition for employment, but some restaurants will ask employees after they are hired about health issues.

Vaccinations may help

Kathleen Howard, a registered nurse and infection-control specialist at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, said she is seeing a fair amount of disease, especially measles, coming in from other countries.

Howard and other health care professionals are concerned about the lack of vaccinations among immigrant populations.

"We see that from people who have come in and are not vaccinated," Howard said. "It puts our population at risk who also may not have been vaccinated."

A study that came out this week in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine found that there is an increasing number of parents who choose not to vaccinate their school-age children because they believe the medicine will cause harm.

When people entering the U.S. bring diseases with them, American children who are not vaccinated are at a greater risk of getting diseases for which there are preventive measures available, Howard said.

"When you have children who have not been vaccinated, they can pass measles, mumps and rubella quickly," Howard said. "Even polio would be a risk for a child who was not vaccinated."

In the study, 69 percent of the parents of the 277 children with vaccination exemptions said they made that choice because of concerns that shots might cause harm.

Dr. Fred Scott, medical director of Maryvale Hospital in Phoenix, said the chances are overwhelming that a child could have very serious problems if the diseases are contracted because of a failure to immunize.

"If you're going to play the odds, the odds are in favor of surviving childhood with the immunizations as opposed to not getting immunizations," Scott said.

But he is not so sure the rise in TB can be attributed to Mexican nationals crossing the border illegally.

"It's related more to socioeconomic classes -- people who live in very close contact with one another," Scott said.

Tuberculosis spreads from coughing droplets onto another person. A persistent cough is accompanied by fever and chills.

"While there is no vaccine for TB, patients can be treated with anti-TB medications, said Dr. Ngozi Osondu, an infectious-disease specialist at Maryvale Hospital.

Kuberski, who also practices at John C. Lincoln Health Network, said there is a law in Arizona that prohibits hospitals from discharging a patient until that patient is free of infectious TB.

"What the fine politicians have done is shifted the burden of paying for these undocumented aliens to the hospitals," Kuberski said. "They get their two weeks of anti-TB therapy and they're discharged. My tax dollars are paying for them to take care of this illegal alien, and obviously the doctors don't get paid, either."

Kuberski said he takes care of lots of undocumented patients.

"It's just part of being a doctor in Phoenix," he said.

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A Ticking Time Bomb: Diseases that Cross American Borders

by John W. Whitehead
12/13/2004

As an American, I have always been inspired by the fact that my country welcomes those who seek refuge. And as long as our government officials maintain our borders and ensure that those coming from other countries are screened in order to protect those who legally live here, the concept of welcoming immigrants is a noble one.

However, something has gone awry. Indeed, illegal immigration into the U.S. has become an immense problem and a clear and present danger. Documented illegal immigration has more than doubled in the last decade. It has grown, by conservative counts, from 3.5 million in 1990 to 8 million in 2000. The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that at least 13 million individuals will immigrate to the U.S. in this decade.

If the illegal immigrants in America were simply the huddled masses that the Statue of Liberty welcomes, then there would be little concern over illegal immigration. But it is much more complicated than that. The fact is that the United States is being assaulted by a global criminal network. While some of those crossing over American borders may genuinely be seeking better lives for themselves and their families, there are also, unfortunately, those crossing over whose motives are more sinister, who charge thousands of dollars for transporting illegal immigrants, who traffic young girls into America to be used in sexual prostitution and who prey on children for sex.

More alarming is the Center for Immigration Studies’ conclusion that lax immigration enforcement was partially responsible for the terrorist attacks within the U.S., and that such slack immigration policies may lead to more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, including chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear. Indeed, Time magazine recently reported that there may be plans to “smuggle nuclear weapons to Mexico, then operatives would carry material into the U.S.” This may be inevitable, in that thousands upon thousands of illegal aliens will continue to settle in the U.S., many from countries that seem to export terrorists.

Efforts to protect American borders, especially at the Mexican line, have increasingly become lax over the last several presidential administrations. The Bush Administration, for example, has been lax on its stewardship of the southern border because of its close relationship with Mexican President Vicente Fox. There is the sad, continuing story, writes George Putnam (Newsmax.com), “particularly in those states that border Mexico, where there is a steady, silent, pervasive invasion of the United States by an unarmed army carrying an assembly line of diseases into the heart of America.” Further details can be found in a report entitled “Immigration’s Silent Invasion, Deadly Consequences” where the authors state: “The invasion of illegal aliens pouring over the borders of the United States is taking an ominous turn. They are not alone! Their bodies may carry Hepatitis A, B & C, tuberculosis, leprosy and Chagas Disease. Chagas is a nasty parasitic bug common in Latin America where 18 million people are infected and 50,000 deaths occur annually.”

Illegal aliens, by avoiding health screenings at U.S. borders, carry TB, the most serious being MDR, a multi-drug resistant tuberculosis with a higher death rate than cancer. According to the New York Academy of Sciences, Update, January 2002, “TB bacteria readily fly through the air, as when an afflicted person coughs. It’s estimated that each victim will infect 10, 20 or more people—in whom the disease will likely remain latent, creating the potential ‘time bomb’ effect.”

To make matters worse, in excess of 7,000 new cases of leprosy have been diagnosed in the U.S. in the past three years. As the “Silent Invasion” report concludes, “illegal alien immigrants from India, Brazil, the Caribbean and up through Mexico have fueled the resurgence into the United States.”

Chagas, called the kissing bug disease because the parasite favors the face as a route of infection, comes in acute and chronic forms, which can damage your heart and intestines. This parasite now threatens our blood supply, yet no means to test the blood is currently available. Ironically, the public health community has been aware of this danger for years. “Hundreds of blood recipients may be silently infected,” writes Donald G. McNeil, Jr. in the New York Times (November 18, 2003), “and there is no effective treatment for them. After a decade, 10 to 30 percent of them will die when their hearts or intestines, weakened by the disease, explode.” Three people received Chagas infected organs in 2001, the first such cases ever reported in the United States. Two of those three died. Moreover, “Dengue Fever, reports of polio, and now, the first case of malaria in Texas trickle into the United States as the invasion of illegal aliens increases in numbers.”

Undiagnosed disease due to uncontrolled illegal immigration is not merely confined to the border states. This health care crisis spreads daily across the nation. In 2002, Northern Virginia reported a 17% increase in tuberculosis cases. Prince William County alone reported a staggering 188% increase over the previous year. Health officials link immigrants to this outbreak and credit them with introducing the drug resistant strains. And in Queens, N.Y., the health department found that “immigrants” made up 81% of new TB cases in 2001.

What does this mean for American citizens? As the “Silent Invasion” report concludes: “It means your children are at risk when attending school or going to the movies. It means that when a classmate from a foreign country sneezes or coughs, your child may be at risk for any number of diseases. If you eat at a fast food restaurant, a person infected with hepatitis could prepare your food. If you need a blood transfusion, the blood could be infected with Chagas Disease.”

While we are engaged in far-away wars costing billions of dollars, America is simultaneously engaged in an ominous battle at our borders, which are as porous as they were at 9/11. Even the recently passed intelligence bill offers little hope for a solution. Will it take an epidemic to force our President and Congress to act? Or will it take another terrorist attack on American shores to get the attention of the federal bureaucrats who have been charged with protecting American citizens?

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. He can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org.
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By Martin Brass
Soldier of Fortune Magazine


Illegals Face a Gauntlet of Doom: The Border Patrol Faces Dopers, Terrorists, and the Desperate Victims of Coyotes.

The 2,100 mile southern border of the U.S., with its treacherous mountain ranges, canyons, rivers and deserts, has become an uncontrollable stretch of violence, death, rape and exploitation.

Over a decade ago, SOF rode with Border Patrol Agents in Arizona when the situation already seemed out of hand. One of those agents, now retired, recently contacted SOF with a disturbing and frustrated update, reflecting the deterioration of the Mexico-United States border.

"In my career, spanning three decades, many of my friends and partners were killed on duty, enforcing immigration laws, and are listed on our honor rolls. Their deaths, and devotion to duty, are beyond politicians' ability to understand, it seems, and are without meaning. This past year the Patrol has arrested a million illegals, with twelve to fourteen million in country, home free. Mexican military incursions, escorting narcotics, are commonplace. Rival alien smuggling organizations thrive in Arizona, and politicians pander, and grovel to Mexico's demands, in a time of war."

Vulture-like smugglers, drug gangs, entrepreneurs, and corrupt officials cash in on human smuggling into the United States, which has become a multi-billion dollar business.

Refugees from Mexico, and worldwide, come by foot, across blistering hot sand, and are then crammed into trucks and trailers. They wade through the New River, the most polluted river in the United States, to avoid immigration agents. They swim through raw sewage, slaughterhouse remains, and pesticide runoff. They are stuffed in suitcases. Hundreds have died in the Rio Grande.

The more fortunate ones take the faster route, buying their own tickets in Mexico for around $200. Others are flown in by coyotes, and trafficked throughout the United States. Mexicana, the Mexican stateowned airline, opened a direct flight several years ago from Oaxaca to Hermosillo, with a stop in Mexico City. With three flights a day, Mexicana station manager Jorge Carrillos estimates that half of 290 daily passengers are heading for the United States.

Three other airlines, originating in Vera Cruz and Chiapas, fly illegal immigrants (mojados) to the United States. Migrants tell of being assaulted, robbed or overcharged because they are thought to be carrying lots of money," says the Arizona Daily Star.

CNN reports that in the year 2000, during one of many illegal immigration crackdowns at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, and at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas, within just a few hours, one hundred INS agents apprehended a hundred illegals being smuggled to Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas and the East Coast.

Unfortunate Pilgrims

The flood of humans includes many other than Mexican (OTM). Apprehensions of OTMs have increased 42 percent according to Border Patrol spokesperson Rene' Noriega. Migrants come from El Salvador, Cuba, Haiti, the former Soviet Union, Asia, and the Middle East. Most illegal aliens pay their trafficker, from $1,500, up to $50,000 for their journeys.

A Border Patrol agent confirmed, to Warriors for the Truth, that nine Yemenis attempting to enter the United States after 9-11, "can't get a coyote to transport them, and they are offering $30,000 per person with no takers."

"The further the smuggling route, the higher the fee. Smugglers often guarantee success for the high prices they charge, promising to give passage back into the United States to those who are apprehended in route and sent back. Some keep that promise while other smugglers let the customers die in a box car or in the trunk or under the hood of a car," says veteran Border Patrol official J. William Carter.

Illegal immigration busts have doubled this year in Arizona. Two thousand and thirty-eight are being apprehended daily. Yuma agents have captured more than 43,000 this year, a one-third increase over last year.

Witnesses express their outrage and disgust at the destruction left behind by the endless parade of illegal migrants.

Take a border town in Arizona, Whetstone, near the "epicenter of an invasion of contraband and humanity that is unrivaled throughout the western world. Trails are worn into the earth by tens of thousands of human travelers. Landowner fences are either cut by illegal migrants and their smugglers, or bent over and torn down completely.

"So heavy is the illegal smuggling traffic in some parts of Whetstone, Arizona 'suburbs' that local residents have constructed roadblocks made of scrub brush and branches. The smell in many areas is overwhelming, especially in the heat of the summer. The amount of refuse is astounding," says wnd.com.

Elsewhere, in the backcountry, "the foot traffic is so heavy it has the ambience of a garbage dump and smells like an outdoor privy. In places, the land is littered a foot deep with bottles, cans, disposable diapers, sanitary napkins, panties, clothes, backpacks, human feces, used toilet paper, pharmacy bottles and syringes," reports Warriors for the Truth.

Silent Invasion, Deadly Consequences

"This is a sad, continuing story, particularly in those states that border on Mexico, where we witness a steady, silent, pervasive invasion of the United States by an unarmed army carrying an assembly line of diseases into the heart of America," George Putnam reports in Newsmax.com. He cites "Immigration's Silent Invasion, Deadly Consequences", researched by a registered nurse and a former U.S. Army Medical Service Corps officer. The research presents a "frightening study of how the hordes" of illegals invading our nation have reintroduced tuberculosis, leprosy, smallpox and Chagas disease. Chagas, a parasite, kills 50,000 annually and has infected 18 million people in Latin America. It damages the heart and intestines and may infect through blood transfusions.

"The most serious is multi-drugresistant TB, spread through the air by an infected person. Each TB patient is said to infect ten to twenty others. More than 7,000 new cases of leprosy have been diagnosed in the U.S. in the past three years. The Queens, NY Health Department diagnosed eightyone TB cases among illegals, and concluded that foreigners have an eightfold higher incidence of TB, and that two-thirds of imported cases come from Mexico, the Philippines and Vietnam," reports Newsmax.

"The Dying Season" began in the deserts in the spring of 2003, just as it does every spring, when eighteen Mexicans and Central Americans were found by Native Americans of the Tohono O'odham Nation on their reservation in Southern Arizona," their report concludes.

"The pilgrims begin their journeys, or return to the United States, after holidays in January, February and March, when the Border Patrol prepares for the biggest influx.

"They drown, they die of the desert heat, they die of hypothermia" Miguel Reyes, a protection officer for Mexico's foreign ministry in south Texas told Reuters.

"There is a belief that if you cross in the desert that the snakes will not cross the railroad tracks" Reyes said. Six Mexican immigrants who believed that sleeping on railroad tracks would protect them from poisonous snakes were crushed by a freight train near Norias TX in 1998. Their mangled bodies, smashed with cans of beans and tortillas, were unidentifiable.

The tales are endless.

Thirteen immigrants nearly suffocated in a sweltering 140 degrees inside a boxcar in San Antonio TX before they could struggle out. The rotting bodies of seven of them were found under a tree a week later.

Smugglers hire truck drivers to smuggle their human cargos over the border, and from state to state. A passerby on U.S. Highway 77, outside of Victoria TX, called the police to report a hand, waving a bandana out of a hole in the back of a white 18-wheeler, in 2003. "A flood of human beings" spilled out, said U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby. Eighteen out of 100 Mexicans, El Salvadorans, Guatemalans and Hondurans were asphyxiated in a trailer abandoned by three traffickers. The trailer was registered to Tyron Williams of Schenectady, NY, who was later arrested.

Lone Coyotes and Syndicates

Felipe de Jesus Preciado Coronado, head of Mexico's National Immigration Institute told the Washington Post that the government has identified at least 57 organized smuggling bands. Jim Chaparro, head of the anti-smuggling office at U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, INS - abolished in March, 2003 and incorporated into the Department of Homeland Security - said that the small and informal smuggling business has evolved into a powerful web of "literally hundreds of syndicates, some at a low level and some at the kingpin level… Gangs are ripping off aliens from other smugglers and holding aliens captive until they sell them to a buyer." Drug smugglers have turned to alien smuggling.

Prices for transport have increased dramatically, partially to pay for high-tech equipment. Encrypted radios, cell phones, and the internet, used for warning of patrolling U.S. agents have replaced the flashlights that were once used to cross the Rio Grande.

Those that charge the most offer computer generated fake documents, or stolen visas and passports. Migrants from Asia and Europe pay far more than Mexicans -- upwards of $50,000 to get in U.S.

"The flow of illegals has become much more organized, and that has opened the opportunity for these groups to market their services to non-Mexicans," Armand Peschard Sverdrup, director of the Mexico project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies told the Post.

Arrests of coyotes have been publicized for years. A cursory examination of the records of Office of the United States District of Arizona alone reveals numerous arrests monthly this year.

Four Smugglers were arrested after a four-month investigation of the Raul Green and Jose Humberto Marquez human trafficking organization in February 2004. Cesar Balderas-Grandos, a Mexican citizen was convicted of trafficking after a U.S. Border Patrol agent saw the knees and elbows of humans bouncing in the bed of his truck.

Grandos refused to stop. He was arrested after a multi- Border Patrol unit high-speed chase. Eleven undocumented aliens were in the bed of the truck and fourteen in the cab of the truck. The defendant had previously been deported from the United States.

Jose Guadalupe Chairez-Jauragui was indicted in February for smuggling 65 illegal aliens. A canine, conducting a routine sniff around his trailer, made the alert. Border Patrol agents had to remove pallets stacked in the back of the trailer and found the smothering aliens. Also in February Alonso Ruiz Avila was indicted in Arizona for transporting 50 aliens in a Freightliner tractor-trailer. The aliens were stowed behind crates of citrus.

Maria Christina Baez and Laura Gastelum were arrested for smuggling five children. The women were paid $50 for each child and were to turn the children over to a stranger. They did not even know who the children were.

In March, Breton Rodriguez, an illegal alien, attacked a Border Patrol agent, and grabbed the agent's Beretta from his holster. The gun discharged, striking the agent in the groin.

Push Here, Pop There

El Paso TX, and San Diego CA, were the two busiest gateways in illegal immigration crossings. The crackdown began. Operation Hold-the-Line was initiated in El Paso in 1992, Operation Gatekeeper in San Diego in 1994, and Operation Rio Grande was established in 1997 in the McAllen sector in South Texas. In that program, agents at the border were tripled.

Operation Hold-the-Line strategy included installing fences, and the use of sophisticated technology, including monitoring devices. The San Diego border had become violent, and Border Agents were struggling to control the "chaos" and anarchy" in the nightly riots. Mexicans across the border threw rocks at them and fired shots, then dash across en masse in "banzai runs."

"The Border Patrol has absolutely no jurisdiction over the Mexican side of the border. The Mexicans can stand there and taunt the Patrol, and there's nothing we can do, until they cross into the United States," Carter confirmed.

Operation Gatekeeper more than doubled Border Patrol Agents and vehicles at the fourteen-mile San Diego border, installed lighting, infrared scopes, underground sensors and Computer IDENT system to track illegal immigrants.

"Due to efforts in the nineties, entries into the United States decreased, The flow of illegal aliens at those fortified borders where additional agents were placed, such as San Diego CA and El Paso TX, apprehensions decreased significantly.

"During that time the Clinton Administration, and Attorney General Janet Reno, were very supportive of the Border Patrol. They went to Congress with the numbers, and asked to increase our resources. They had no choice but to approve. In 1972, there were 2,250 agents. When I left two years ago there were over 10,000 agents," Carter told us.

"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out they will go east or west of El Paso, and through the rougher routes and rugged terrain, knowing they were taking a greater risk.

"Lots of things have to be considered to create an effective barrier. There are the natural barriers. You have the Rio Grande. In Del Rio, TX, you open up the dam and they can't get across. Rugged mountain terrain makes it impossible to cross. Big Ben country is very rugged country. Marfa, Alpine, Presidio, the Rio Grande, and the high canyons are desolate, hot and miserable. Natural barriers there slow down illegal immigrants," Carter said.

"Most Americans are opposed to any kind of fence. Remember, we knocked down the Berlin wall. The original barriers in San Diego consisted of landing mats (pierced-steel planking), metal that was welded together and buried a couple of feet in the ground, leaning towards Mexico. It was pretty successful.

"Then the Mexicans started to butt holes in it. You can drive down and see the three layers of fencing that were put up in San Diego for border control.

"When the fence was built in San Diego, the border patrol had to develop a strategy. Push the balloon here, it pops up there. From San Diego to Tucson, all the way down the bor- der, a strategy had to be developed in such a way that the flow could be controlled." Carter continued.

Migrants were diverted into dangerous territories, many getting lost.

The Border Patrol was forced to shift its efforts from patrolling to rescuing victims," Patty Mancha, Border Patrol spokesperson told visalaw.com. "They are spending as much time searching for victims as they are doing their regular job."

For two days in May 2001, migrants were lost during Arizona's hellish heat season. Helicopters and four-wheel-drive vehicles, searching for survivors transported eleven injured to local hospitals. Two others were found after an all-night search, but footprints showed that three others were missing.

"We intend to work this until we've made sure there is no one left out there," Border Patrol spokesman Maurice More said. Coyotes who smuggled victims through the rugged terrain of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge promised to return with water, and told the migrants to walk for "a couple of hours" to a highway. The highway was fifty miles away. Five were able to walk far enough to find agents in the scorching 115-degree heat, reports the Washington Post.

The Border Patrol got lots of grief for their role in the crackdown.

"What's causing it (the deaths of illegal immigrants) is the deadly strategy of the Border Patrol that has forced people into the most hazardous area of the desert," said the Rev. John Fife, Tucson pastor who helped build a watering station for immigrants in Arizona, the Post continues.

U.S. Rep. Tancredo (R-CO), supportive of the crackdowns, reacted after an agent was shot at by Mexicans in a humvee, five miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in 2001. "I cannot in good conscience stand by and watch another incursion along our border take place.

"Unless we open our eyes and recognize that what's happening along the U.S./ Mexico border is real, one of our guys is going to get killed. "As far as I am concerned, that (incursion) should be an act of war," reports the Sierra Times.

Dozens of Border Patrol Agents have died since the organization of the Agency in 1924. Twenty-one have been killed since 1992.

Dumping Ground

U.S. Border Control Chairman Edward Nelson, outraged by Mexican consuls-general and Foreign Ministry officials' criticism of Operation Rio Grande, responded angrily, "America has become a favorite dumping ground for Mexicans their own government cannot, or chooses not to, care for. These diplomats are total hypocrites. Illegal migration is not 'a natural phenomenon' as the Mexican government would have us believe. It is, instead, a serious crime and a clear violation of American sovereignty."

The Mexican government does nothing to stop illegal migration because it is in their economic interests to have millions of their citizens go to the United States, especially those with no job skills and no money, or those with serious long-term health care problems," reports Usbc.org.

"Mexico," Nelson said, "even refuses to take back Mexican criminals that have been caught and convicted in our country (see future parts of this series). These diplomats are well aware of the fact that their citizens are being exploited, robbed and even murdered by the coyotes. They are aware that many are carrying drugs into America that will wind up in the veins of American children.

"Our border patrol, which has suffered more than 200 cross border attacks recently, should worry less about being 'sensitive' and more about being bushwhacked by the drug cartels killers who now control our southern border and most immigrant traffic.

"We've been called racists, imperialists, and most recently, murderers," the Usbc.org report continues. Mexican Response

In 2001, the Mexican Government announced its plan to distribute 200,000 survival kits as part of a broader program to instruct illegals in what to expect "tips on maintaining self-esteem, and on Asian meditation techniques, to combat depression, stress and anxiety in a country they have entered illegally and without speaking the language," says the Orange County Register.

The survival kits include first aid kits, rehydration tablets, dried foods, and snake bite antidotes. U.S. officials criticized the plan as further risking the lives of the Mexicans and the Border patrol. "It gives the perception to our U.S. public that the Mexican government is encouraging people to break U.S. laws by entering the country illegally," said Hipolito Scosta, INS district director, to CNN. America's Palestinians

Glenn Spencer, host of the popular talk show American Patrol, and immigration expert, produced a video "Conquest of Aztlan" in which he warns that a radical group, self-named "America's Palestinians" declare the goal of reclaiming the American Southwest, including California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Texas. The area is named "Aztlan" by Hispanic activists, or the mythical place of origin of the Aztec people, says Shop Net Daily.

H. Millard, in the Sierra Times, cites a Zogby poll, which found that 58 percent of Mexicans in the Southwest believed that the U.S. rightfully belongs to Mexico, and that 57 percent of Mexicans believe they have the right to enter the U.S. without permissions. He quotes Mario Obled, founder of the Mexican American Legal and Defense Fund (MALDEF), "California is going to be a Hispanic state, and anyone who doesn't like it should leave. They should go back to Europe."

MALDEF, according to Frosty Wooldridge, teacher, author and overpopulation specialist, reporting in the Washington Dispatch, is one of the most anti-American advocacy groups in the United States and is bent on returning Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California to Mexico as part of their 'Aztlan Reconquista.'

Three hundred more Border Patrol agents were deployed by June 1.

In spite of all these efforts, and after a four-year decline, illegal immigration from Mexico has spiked this year as several thousand migrants a day rush the border. U.S. Border Patrol told AP that detentions rose 25 percent, to 535,000, in the six months prior to March 31 compared to the year previous. Seventy-five percent are Mexican.

"And there's no way to determine 'got-aways,'" Carter told us. "I have no idea where anybody's getting those numbers, except in unsophisticated ways-border patrol agents in the desert, working a trail of aliens, don't report 'got-aways'. Then you have those areas and trails that are not worked and no-one to detect the immigrants."

No telling how many 'got-aways' are running loose in the United States, uncounted.

Then there are the many bodies that are never found.

Dr. Martin Brass is an International Lawyer and longtime contributor to SOF.
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26 Beheadings In Mexico, Some Soon To Come To Your City Via NAFTA Superhighway Without Borders?

"Already this year, at least 26 people have been decapitated in Mexico, with heads stuck on fences, dumped in trash piles and -- most recently -- tossed onto a nightclub dance floor. " 9/26/06

Mexican drug cartels' new scare tactic: beheadings
- Dane Schiller, San Antonio Express-News
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

(09-26) 04:00 PST Mexico City -- To send a chilling message to their underworld rivals, Mexican drug cartels are adopting a method of intimidation made notorious by Middle Eastern terrorist groups.

Already this year, at least 26 people have been decapitated in Mexico, with heads stuck on fences, dumped in trash piles and -- most recently -- tossed onto a nightclub dance floor.

Although beheading goes back centuries as a form of execution, it has become the latest tactical escalation of a turf war that gets nastier all the time, with hit men looking for new ways to instill fear.

"Before, they tortured the hell out of people, but they didn't throw their heads out in public," said James Kuykendall, a retired U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent.

Why this form of murder and mutilation is being used now is anyone's guess.

Beheadings have had a high international profile in recent years, as the tool of radical Islamist groups that release videos of hostages being executed.

In Mexico, as crime bosses fall and turf shifts, the pattern of killing is changing.

The infamous Gulf and Sinaloa cartels and their smaller offshoots are fighting for control of smuggling routes from the southern border with Guatemala to the northern border with the United States.

"It is clearly a message for the living. What they are trying do with these beheadings is leave an impression on their enemies," said Jorge Chabat, a Mexico City analyst who studies drug trafficking. "This is a sign the war is spreading and it is getting more horrible."

Police, wise guys and lawyers are among the dead, but most of the victims remain unidentified. Some were blindfolded or showed signs of torture.

The boldest strike came this month when five heads were scattered on the dance floor of a bar in the state of Michoacan -- a region west of Mexico City notorious for drug trafficking.

"The family does not kill for pay, does not kill women and does not kill innocents," read a handwritten sign left beside the heads. "The only ones who die deserve to die, and all the people know that this is divine justice."

Saying the attacks were too delicate a topic, Mexican police and federal prosecutors refused to discuss the beheadings in more than the most general terms.

They point to the Zetas -- a group of highly trained Mexican army deserters -- and the Maras -- Central American gangsters known for their brutality and extravagant facial tattoos -- who work for the cartels as hit men.

No arrests for the killings have been announced. Beheadings reportedly have occurred in the states of Guerrero, Michoacan, Baja California and Nuevo Leon.

The crimes are every bit as chilling a calling card as the old "Colombian necktie," used by cartels in that country, which involved slicing a person's throat and pulling the tongue through the wound.

Mexico's first narco-decapitation came in April in Acapulco. The heads of two police officers were stuck in plastic bags and mounted on a fence that surrounds government offices.

The cartels are saying there is now a higher price to pay than the traditional gangster death for opposing them, said Bruce Bagley, a University of Miami analyst who studies Latin American drug traffickers.

"Filling people full of bullets is old hat -- this has really been an attention-getter and it has clearly scared the hell out of people," he said.

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THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
How NAFTA superhighway is built under radar screen
Officials say they see no budget 'earmarks,' because they don't know where to look


© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – Ask some members of Congress about plans to build a "NAFTA superhighway" connecting Mexico and Canada via the U.S. and you might hear snickers.

Some officials will tell you they have seen no "earmarks" for such a plan and question whether it even exists.

But the plan does exist and the NAFTA superhighway is being built – under the radar screen.

One need look no further than the $286 billion highway bill signed into law earlier this month by President Bush for some of the "earmarks."

The measure gave the state of Tennessee more than $111 million to help plan and build Interstate 69, called "one of the most significant transportation projects in the region's history" by the Commercial Appeal.

No one in Tennessee has any doubts about plans for the NAFTA superhighway. It is being built now with federal taxpayer dollars. And the plan calls for I-69 to extend from Michigan to Texas, linking the Canadian and Mexican borders.

Those supporting the plan, like Transportation Secretary Mario Cino, say it will bring an unprecedented windfall not only to the regions it traverses but for all Americans, Mexicans and Canadians.

Tennessee Department of Transportation Commissioner Gerald Nicely said I-69 "could help position the western part of the state as one of the world's new economic centers of power in the global marketplace."

The entire I-69 project is expected to cost $8.8 billion in current dollars, with states picking up 10 percent of the tab. So where is the money hidden? It's not really. But nowhere in any highway bill is the project referred to as the "NAFTA superhighway." Since the money is doled out to states to spend on their portion of the project, the allocations look like any other highway spending.

Ultimately, the Tennessee portion of the I-69 project is expected to cost $1 billion. It will shadow the present route of U.S. 51, connecting towns like Union City, Troy, Dyersburg, Ripley, Covington and Millington before following what is now I-40/240 through Midtown, according to the Commercial Appeal. The new highway bill focuses on the portion of I-69 through Northwest Tennessee about 80-110 miles north of Memphis. A 20-mile section of that segment – a four-lane stretch of U.S. 51 between Dyersburg and Troy – already is completed. Signs label it as part of the "Future I-69 Corridor." That leaves a 19-mile section to be built from Troy to the Kentucky line before one-third of the I-69 route through Tennessee is completed.

"The route's already been laid out, with survey markers planted in fields and cryptic benchmarks painted on the pavement of country roads," reports the Commercial Appeal.

Detailed drawings are expected to be finished next February. Right-of-way acquisition could begin early next year. Crews could start moving earth as early as 2008.

So why are some officials still questioning whether the project is real?

Last week, in Kansas, Sen. Pat Roberts, a Republican who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, seemed like he was short on domestic, backyard intelligence when he was asked in Saline about the NAFTA superhighway project – again, prompted by reports in WND.

"There's nothing I'm aware of in any authorization bill," Roberts said with derision. "I don't know where these things get started. This is one of those blogosphere things that makes you wonder what's going on."

When the Duluth News Tribune followed up WND reports about the project by turning to a local congressman for help, Mary Kerr, an aide to Rep.Jim Oberstar, said: "There are no earmarks for a superhighway like that."

But you can't hide for long a superhighway, in some places, according to plans, four football fields wide.

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Coming Through! The NAFTA Super Highway
by Kelly Taylor
August 7, 2006

The planned NAFTA Super Highway would radically reconfigure not only the physical landscape of these United States, but our political and economic landscapes as well.

Kelly Taylor is an Austin-based writer and filmmaker, and the producer of a politically based TV talk show.

All across America, mammoth construction projects are preparing to launch. The NAFTA Super Highway is on a fast track and it's headed your way. If you don't help derail it, you may soon be run over by it - both figuratively and literally.

The NAFTA Super Highway is a venture unlike any previous highway construction project. It is actually a daisy chain of dozens of corridors and coordinated projects that are expected to stretch out for several decades, cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and end up radically reconfiguring not only the physical landscape of these United States, but our political and economic landscapes as well.

In Texas, the NAFTA Super Highway is being sold as the Trans Texas Corridor. In simplest terms, the TTC is a superhighway system including tollways for passenger vehicles and trucks; lanes for commercial and freight trucks; tracks for commuter rail and high-speed freight rail; depots for all rail lines; pipelines for oil, water, and natural gas; and electrical towers and cabling for communication and telephone lines. One of the proposed corridor routes, TTC-35, is parallel to the present Interstate Highway 35 (I-35), slightly to the east, running north from Mexico to Canada. Its present scope is 4,000 miles long, 1,200 feet wide, with an estimated cost of $183 billion of taxpayer funds. It runs through Kansas City.

Integration vs. Independence

How would all of this affect you, your family, and your community? Let us count the ways. One of the most striking features of the proposed Super Highway is the plan to do away with our borders, as evidenced by the joint U.S.-Mexico Customs facility already under construction in Kansas City, Missouri. A U.S. Customs checkpoint in Kansas City? But that's a thousand miles inside America's heartland; isn't the purpose of U.S. Customs to check people and cargo at our borders?

Ah, but the mere asking of that question shows that you're still operating under the old paradigm that sees the United States as an independent, sovereign nation. However, that paradigm began to change following passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994. NAFTA, which was sold to the American public as a simple trade agreement, was actually far more than that, setting in motion a process for the gradual social, economic, and political "integration," or merger, of the three NAFTA countries - Canada, the United States, and Mexico - into a North American Union.

In 2005, this merger process became more explicit and aggressive when President Bush, Mexico's President Vicente Fox, and Canada's Prime Minister Martin launched what they call the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). Any serious study of the SPP will clearly reveal that its ultimate aim is the dissolution of the United States into a North American Union patterned after the increasingly dictatorial regional government now running the European Union. Henceforth, under this plan, the borders between our nations will be incrementally erased in favor of a joint "perimeter" around all three countries.

One part of this plan calls for streamlining the flow of traffic from Mexico, including a massive increase in containers from China and the Far East offloading at Mexican seaports and then being transported by truck and rail into the United States via the new NAFTA Super Highway. These new cargo streams would cross the border in supposedly secure FAST lanes, checked only electronically until the first Customs stop in Kansas City!

What about all the repeated promises by the White House and Congress to make border security America's "top priority"? Moving Customs inspections hundreds of miles inland obviously contradicts those promises and incalculably increases the opportunities for smugglers (of drugs, illegal aliens, terrorists, weapons of mass destruction, and other contraband) to enter the country. Our borders are already incredibly porous and undermanned; securing the entire route from the Mexico-Texas border to Kansas City would require thousands more Border Patrol and Customs officers. Would these agents be provided? Could this route be made any more secure than our southern border? Does it make sense to effectively extend the border via this route when we are now doing such a poor job securing our existing border?

Under the Radar

Moreover, we can expect that similar inland joint Customs facilities, like the one in Kansas City, will be included in the other Mexico-to-Canada superhighway corridors. Of course, these corridors will not be secured, and the result - as intended - would be the de facto merger of immigration and Customs enforcement and the obliteration of the current national borders within the planned North American Union. That is precisely what one of the main architects of the SPP plan, Professor Robert Pastor of American University and the Council on Foreign Relations, has repeatedly advocated in his writings, speeches, and congressional testimony. (See sidebar on page 14)

How is it possible that something this radical has gone so far virtually unnoticed when illegal immigration and border security are among the hottest political topics of the day? The politicians and the private contractors who have been pushing this merger scheme intended it that way, knowing full well that adoption and successful implementation of the plan would depend on keeping it under the public radar.

Thanks largely to the investigative work of Joyce Mucci, who heads the Kansas City-based Mid-America Immigration Reform Coalition, and author/economist Jerome Corsi, the NAFTA Super Highway has begun to be a very hot topic. Using Missouri's Sunshine Law, Mrs. Mucci's group has pried loose a number of documents that are causing the public and private champions of the NAFTA Super Highway to squirm and stonewall. "They were going along great guns with this whole plan, with all of their high-powered politicians, law firms, PR firms, and corporate contractors - and virtually no opposition, until now," Mrs. Mucci told The New American. "We're just volunteers, so we don't have the money and influence they have, but we are digging out the truth." And she is hopeful that if enough taxpayers, voters, and property owners learn about all the horrendous ramifications of the Super Highway plan, they will shut it down before it can do the damage envisioned.

Super Highway Robbery

Aside from erasing our borders - which is no small matter in and of itself - the NAFTA Super Highway would profoundly impact Americans in many other ways. The ones who will be most immediately affected are those whose homes, farms, ranches, businesses, and communities lay in the paths of any of the planned routes. Millions of acres are scheduled to be paved over and that means using eminent domain to condemn lots of private property for the Super Highway corridors and rights-of-way.

But every American, ultimately, would be dramatically impacted by this onrushing scheme. How? First of all, in the pocketbook - with increased taxes and tolls. With an aggregate price tag of hundreds of billions of dollars - for projects in the U.S. and Mexico - enormous increases in federal, state, and local taxes are a certainty. To assist in financing the mammoth Super Highway, plans call for converting many current roads, which taxpayers have already paid for, to tollways for all motor vehicles.

If the NAFTA Super Highway goes through as planned, millions of Americans can expect to pay with their jobs as well. Just as the NAFTA trade policies have driven millions of jobs out of the United States, the NAFTA Super Highway will accelerate the job exodus. Although the Super Highway corridors are being sold locally as projects to ease congestion and facilitate U.S. economic competitiveness, their main purpose, very clearly, is to create an arterial network for speeding the delivery of manufactured products into the United States through Canada and Mexico.

Thus, U.S. taxpayers would have to pay for reduced transportation costs for foreign producers. In addition, the "continental" plan calls for U.S. taxpayers to pay hundreds of billions of dollars to extend this "infrastructure development" (highways, railways, bridges, power plants, telecommunications, seaports) through Mexico and Central America.

How will it do that? Under the Coordinated Border Infrastructure Program of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act of 2005 - A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) (whew!), U.S. funds apportioned to a border state may be used to construct a highway project in Canada or Mexico, if that project directly facilitates cross-border vehicle and cargo movement! Just think - your tax dollars may now be sent to Canada or Mexico to aid the entry of illegal aliens into the United States, like it or not.

Additionally, SAFETEA-LU allows U.S. states to use tolling on a pilot basis to finance Interstate construction and reconstruction, and to establish tolls for existing Interstate highways to fund the new Super Highway corridors. Austin, Texas, is already experiencing fierce struggles over converting its already-paid-for Interstate and state highways to toll roads, but few Texans understand that this new tolling is to be the mechanism for funding the leviathan Trans Texas Corridor. Since Austin has been identified as the pilot city in the nation for testing the new toll policies, you can assume that what passes here is coming your way.

This planned wedding of Mexico's cheap labor force with brand new infrastructure would make Mexico an irresistible magnet for all manufacturers now remaining in the United States. Even those companies who wanted to keep their operations here would likely be forced by cheaper competitors to join the exodus. The United States, until very recently the manufacturing capital of the world, will continue its downward spiral into increasingly dangerous dependence on foreign manufacturers for almost everything, even as burgeoning inflation makes everything more expensive, devastating much of our middle class.

Scores of Corridors

An additional Super Highway route known as the Interstate 69 corridor (TTC-69) would enter Texas from Mexico as three spur lines at Laredo, McAllen, and Brownsville, which then will join together to head north through Houston, to Memphis, Tennessee, to Port Huron, Michigan, to Toronto, Canada.

Wait, there's more. To the west of the proposed TTC lies the proposed route of the Ports-to-Plains Corridor, running north from Laredo through West Texas, the Oklahoma Panhandle, to Denver and ultimately Canada. What? Another one? Yes, and plans are very advanced. Its website identifies this corridor as a NAFTA corridor alternative to TTC-35, the one paralleling I-35.

What does the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) have to say about this? Once again, stonewalling rules. In telephone interviews with congenial TxDOT employees, the expected mantra repeated to this writer is how necessary the corridor is to accommodate projected population and trade growth, and how beneficial it would be to the economies of Texas, the U.S., and Mexico. TxDOT's Public Information officer denied that the TTC was part of any bigger scheme of nationwide corridor building, and claimed that notion was simply misinformation. Yet in a June 30, 2001 article in the Austin American Statesman, the same spokesperson claimed the aforementioned Ports-to-Plains Corridor would be linked to existing Interstate highways in Denver as part of a NAFTA super corridor.

And that's not all. There's also CANAMEX, another super corridor like the TTC, which spans the West from Mexico to Canada going through Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Montana. And we learn from the CANAMEX Corridor Coalition website that the number of congressionally designated high priority corridors in the United States has been expanded from 43 to 80! Yes, 80 corridor routes have been designated across the United States in an effort to speed the construction of infrastructure necessary for what the SPP calls "the streamlined movement of legitimate travelers and cargo across our shared borders."

Research on any High Priority Corridor will lead the reader into a hairball of studies, alliances, pricing programs, transportation acts, administration agencies, reports, committees, partnerships, and on and on, all designed, we believe, to obscure the real agenda. The idea for these 80 super corridors was not conceived to promote trade and better the economic development of all participating communities. When viewed in the aggregate, they can only be seen as a means to so thoroughly restructure and integrate the three countries so as to permanently blur the distinctions, and to make their merger into a regional government seamless and even appealing.

The NAFTA Super Highway is such an integral part of the continental merger plan that the entire scheme could be at least temporarily road-blocked if it does not proceed. If it does proceed, American government will no longer provide its time-tested protections against tyranny and socialism, as huge chunks of American law will be rendered void, and replaced by an incomprehensible mess of "trade" law. All rowers are needed at the oars, and immediately. If you've asked yourself why you did not know about a project of this magnitude, or where Congress got the authority to designate High Priority Corridors in the first place, your first job is to contact your representative and howl. Wake the town and tell the people, or the town will be paved over.

Tell your representative and senators to "Stop the NAFTA Super Highway Steppingstone to a North American Union" by phone, fax, or e-mail. Go to www.capwiz.com/jbs/home/ for contact information and a sample letter.



On the Road to EU-style Governance

by William F. Jasper

Perhaps you're shaking your head in disbelief, wondering how anything as massive and costly as the NAFTA Super Highway could have progressed so far without your notice? Well, it may be that you don't belong to the right clubs - such as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Trilateral Commission (TC).

As reported in previous articles in these pages, one of the principal authors of the Security and Prosperity Partnership merger is Dr. Robert Pastor, a vice-chairman of the CFR's Task Force on the Future of North America and author of Toward a North American Community. Pastor's writings and speeches provided the blueprint for the Bush-Fox-Martin SPP merger plan.

In November 2002, Professor Pastor addressed a meeting of David Rockefeller's super-elite Trilateral Commission in Toronto, Canada. He opened his speech, entitled "A North American Community," with the following sentence: "The entry into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994 represented a breath-taking continental opportunity."

Among the many things Pastor proposed was "establishing a single 'North American Customs and Immigration Service,'" to be composed of "officials from the three governments, trained together." He also called on the NAFTA governments (Mexico, Canada, and the United States) to create a North American Commission of "distinguished individuals" (like himself) whose "task would be to help the leaders think continentally." One of the new commission's duties would be to "develop an integrated continental plan for transportation and infrastructure." This should include, he said, "new highway corridors on the Pacific Coast and into Mexico," as well as "a plan that would permit mergers of the railroads and development of high-speed rail corridors."

Pastor cited a World Bank study that had concluded that "Mexico needs $20 billion a year for ten years, just for infrastructure." That's $200 billion, for starters. Where will such sizable sums come from? Pastor proposed the creation of a "North American Development Fund, whose priority would be to connect the U.S.-Mexico border region to central and southern Mexico." This new multi-billion dollar fund, Pastor suggested, could be administered by the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. That would be very convenient, since both of these institutions are run by Pastor's fellow CFR members.

In 2004, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a leading proponent of open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens, introduced S. 2941, the North American Investment Fund Act. The legislation's official title says it is "a bill to authorize the President to negotiate the creation of a North American Investment Fund to promote economic and infrastructure integration among Canada, Mexico, and the United States." Section four says: "The Fund shall make grants for projects … to construct roads in Mexico to facilitate trade between Mexico and Canada, and Mexico and the United States." Cornyn's bill was introduced on June 29 of this year as S. 2622.

Pastor and other NAFTA/SPP architects have repeatedly cited the European Union (EU) as the model for us to follow. The EU countries have given up control over their borders for a common perimeter; we are expected to follow suit. "Are North Americans prepared to give up their sovereignty?" Pastor asked rhetorically, in his Trilateral speech. "The term 'sovereignty' is one of the most widely used, abused, and least understood in the diplomatic lexicon.... Sovereignty, in brief, is not the issue." Leaders must throw off "aging conceptions of sovereignty," he avers, in favor of continental "integration" and "convergence."

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Perhaps you're shaking your head in disbelief, wondering how anything as massive and costly as the NAFTA Super Highway could have progressed so far without your notice?

[...]"Are North Americans prepared to give up their sovereignty?"  

" What about all the repeated promises by the White House and Congress to make border security America's "top priority"? Moving Customs inspections hundreds of miles inland obviously contradicts those promises and incalculably increases the opportunities for smugglers (of drugs, illegal aliens, terrorists, weapons of mass destruction, and other contraband) to enter the country. Our borders are already incredibly porous and undermanned; securing the entire route from the Mexico-Texas border to Kansas City would require thousands more Border Patrol and Customs officers. Would these agents be provided? Could this route be made any more secure than our southern border? Does it make sense to effectively extend the border via this route when we are now doing such a poor job securing our existing border?"
 

 
Coming Through! The NAFTA Super Highway
by Kelly Taylor
August 7, 2006

The planned NAFTA Super Highway would radically reconfigure not only the physical landscape of these United States, but our political and economic landscapes as well.

Kelly Taylor is an Austin-based writer and filmmaker, and the producer of a politically based TV talk show.

All across America, mammoth construction projects are preparing to launch. The NAFTA Super Highway is on a fast track and it's headed your way. If you don't help derail it, you may soon be run over by it - both figuratively and literally.

The NAFTA Super Highway is a venture unlike any previous highway construction project. It is actually a daisy chain of dozens of corridors and coordinated projects that are expected to stretch out for several decades, cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and end up radically reconfiguring not only the physical landscape of these United States, but our political and economic landscapes as well.

In Texas, the NAFTA Super Highway is being sold as the Trans Texas Corridor. In simplest terms, the TTC is a superhighway system including tollways for passenger vehicles and trucks; lanes for commercial and freight trucks; tracks for commuter rail and high-speed freight rail; depots for all rail lines; pipelines for oil, water, and natural gas; and electrical towers and cabling for communication and telephone lines. One of the proposed corridor routes, TTC-35, is parallel to the present Interstate Highway 35 (I-35), slightly to the east, running north from Mexico to Canada. Its present scope is 4,000 miles long, 1,200 feet wide, with an estimated cost of $183 billion of taxpayer funds. It runs through Kansas City.

Integration vs. Independence

How would all of this affect you, your family, and your community? Let us count the ways. One of the most striking features of the proposed Super Highway is the plan to do away with our borders, as evidenced by the joint U.S.-Mexico Customs facility already under construction in Kansas City, Missouri. A U.S. Customs checkpoint in Kansas City? But that's a thousand miles inside America's heartland; isn't the purpose of U.S. Customs to check people and cargo at our borders?

Ah, but the mere asking of that question shows that you're still operating under the old paradigm that sees the United States as an independent, sovereign nation. However, that paradigm began to change following passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994. NAFTA, which was sold to the American public as a simple trade agreement, was actually far more than that, setting in motion a process for the gradual social, economic, and political "integration," or merger, of the three NAFTA countries - Canada, the United States, and Mexico - into a North American Union.

In 2005, this merger process became more explicit and aggressive when President Bush, Mexico's President Vicente Fox, and Canada's Prime Minister Martin launched what they call the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). Any serious study of the SPP will clearly reveal that its ultimate aim is the dissolution of the United States into a North American Union patterned after the increasingly dictatorial regional government now running the European Union. Henceforth, under this plan, the borders between our nations will be incrementally erased in favor of a joint "perimeter" around all three countries.

One part of this plan calls for streamlining the flow of traffic from Mexico, including a massive increase in containers from China and the Far East offloading at Mexican seaports and then being transported by truck and rail into the United States via the new NAFTA Super Highway. These new cargo streams would cross the border in supposedly secure FAST lanes, checked only electronically until the first Customs stop in Kansas City!

What about all the repeated promises by the White House and Congress to make border security America's "top priority"? Moving Customs inspections hundreds of miles inland obviously contradicts those promises and incalculably increases the opportunities for smugglers (of drugs, illegal aliens, terrorists, weapons of mass destruction, and other contraband) to enter the country. Our borders are already incredibly porous and undermanned; securing the entire route from the Mexico-Texas border to Kansas City would require thousands more Border Patrol and Customs officers. Would these agents be provided? Could this route be made any more secure than our southern border? Does it make sense to effectively extend the border via this route when we are now doing such a poor job securing our existing border?

Under the Radar

Moreover, we can expect that similar inland joint Customs facilities, like the one in Kansas City, will be included in the other Mexico-to-Canada superhighway corridors. Of course, these corridors will not be secured, and the result - as intended - would be the de facto merger of immigration and Customs enforcement and the obliteration of the current national borders within the planned North American Union. That is precisely what one of the main architects of the SPP plan, Professor Robert Pastor of American University and the Council on Foreign Relations, has repeatedly advocated in his writings, speeches, and congressional testimony. (See sidebar on page 14)

How is it possible that something this radical has gone so far virtually unnoticed when illegal immigration and border security are among the hottest political topics of the day? The politicians and the private contractors who have been pushing this merger scheme intended it that way, knowing full well that adoption and successful implementation of the plan would depend on keeping it under the public radar.

Thanks largely to the investigative work of Joyce Mucci, who heads the Kansas City-based Mid-America Immigration Reform Coalition, and author/economist Jerome Corsi, the NAFTA Super Highway has begun to be a very hot topic. Using Missouri's Sunshine Law, Mrs. Mucci's group has pried loose a number of documents that are causing the public and private champions of the NAFTA Super Highway to squirm and stonewall. "They were going along great guns with this whole plan, with all of their high-powered politicians, law firms, PR firms, and corporate contractors - and virtually no opposition, until now," Mrs. Mucci told The New American. "We're just volunteers, so we don't have the money and influence they have, but we are digging out the truth." And she is hopeful that if enough taxpayers, voters, and property owners learn about all the horrendous ramifications of the Super Highway plan, they will shut it down before it can do the damage envisioned.

Super Highway Robbery

Aside from erasing our borders - which is no small matter in and of itself - the NAFTA Super Highway would profoundly impact Americans in many other ways. The ones who will be most immediately affected are those whose homes, farms, ranches, businesses, and communities lay in the paths of any of the planned routes. Millions of acres are scheduled to be paved over and that means using eminent domain to condemn lots of private property for the Super Highway corridors and rights-of-way.

But every American, ultimately, would be dramatically impacted by this onrushing scheme. How? First of all, in the pocketbook - with increased taxes and tolls. With an aggregate price tag of hundreds of billions of dollars - for projects in the U.S. and Mexico - enormous increases in federal, state, and local taxes are a certainty. To assist in financing the mammoth Super Highway, plans call for converting many current roads, which taxpayers have already paid for, to tollways for all motor vehicles.

If the NAFTA Super Highway goes through as planned, millions of Americans can expect to pay with their jobs as well. Just as the NAFTA trade policies have driven millions of jobs out of the United States, the NAFTA Super Highway will accelerate the job exodus. Although the Super Highway corridors are being sold locally as projects to ease congestion and facilitate U.S. economic competitiveness, their main purpose, very clearly, is to create an arterial network for speeding the delivery of manufactured products into the United States through Canada and Mexico.

Thus, U.S. taxpayers would have to pay for reduced transportation costs for foreign producers. In addition, the "continental" plan calls for U.S. taxpayers to pay hundreds of billions of dollars to extend this "infrastructure development" (highways, railways, bridges, power plants, telecommunications, seaports) through Mexico and Central America.

How will it do that? Under the Coordinated Border Infrastructure Program of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act of 2005 - A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) (whew!), U.S. funds apportioned to a border state may be used to construct a highway project in Canada or Mexico, if that project directly facilitates cross-border vehicle and cargo movement! Just think - your tax dollars may now be sent to Canada or Mexico to aid the entry of illegal aliens into the United States, like it or not.

Additionally, SAFETEA-LU allows U.S. states to use tolling on a pilot basis to finance Interstate construction and reconstruction, and to establish tolls for existing Interstate highways to fund the new Super Highway corridors. Austin, Texas, is already experiencing fierce struggles over converting its already-paid-for Interstate and state highways to toll roads, but few Texans understand that this new tolling is to be the mechanism for funding the leviathan Trans Texas Corridor. Since Austin has been identified as the pilot city in the nation for testing the new toll policies, you can assume that what passes here is coming your way.

This planned wedding of Mexico's cheap labor force with brand new infrastructure would make Mexico an irresistible magnet for all manufacturers now remaining in the United States. Even those companies who wanted to keep their operations here would likely be forced by cheaper competitors to join the exodus. The United States, until very recently the manufacturing capital of the world, will continue its downward spiral into increasingly dangerous dependence on foreign manufacturers for almost everything, even as burgeoning inflation makes everything more expensive, devastating much of our middle class.

Scores of Corridors

An additional Super Highway route known as the Interstate 69 corridor (TTC-69) would enter Texas from Mexico as three spur lines at Laredo, McAllen, and Brownsville, which then will join together to head north through Houston, to Memphis, Tennessee, to Port Huron, Michigan, to Toronto, Canada.

Wait, there's more. To the west of the proposed TTC lies the proposed route of the Ports-to-Plains Corridor, running north from Laredo through West Texas, the Oklahoma Panhandle, to Denver and ultimately Canada. What? Another one? Yes, and plans are very advanced. Its website identifies this corridor as a NAFTA corridor alternative to TTC-35, the one paralleling I-35.

What does the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) have to say about this? Once again, stonewalling rules. In telephone interviews with congenial TxDOT employees, the expected mantra repeated to this writer is how necessary the corridor is to accommodate projected population and trade growth, and how beneficial it would be to the economies of Texas, the U.S., and Mexico. TxDOT's Public Information officer denied that the TTC was part of any bigger scheme of nationwide corridor building, and claimed that notion was simply misinformation. Yet in a June 30, 2001 article in the Austin American Statesman, the same spokesperson claimed the aforementioned Ports-to-Plains Corridor would be linked to existing Interstate highways in Denver as part of a NAFTA super corridor.

And that's not all. There's also CANAMEX, another super corridor like the TTC, which spans the West from Mexico to Canada going through Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Montana. And we learn from the CANAMEX Corridor Coalition website that the number of congressionally designated high priority corridors in the United States has been expanded from 43 to 80! Yes, 80 corridor routes have been designated across the United States in an effort to speed the construction of infrastructure necessary for what the SPP calls "the streamlined movement of legitimate travelers and cargo across our shared borders."

Research on any High Priority Corridor will lead the reader into a hairball of studies, alliances, pricing programs, transportation acts, administration agencies, reports, committees, partnerships, and on and on, all designed, we believe, to obscure the real agenda. The idea for these 80 super corridors was not conceived to promote trade and better the economic development of all participating communities. When viewed in the aggregate, they can only be seen as a means to so thoroughly restructure and integrate the three countries so as to permanently blur the distinctions, and to make their merger into a regional government seamless and even appealing.

The NAFTA Super Highway is such an integral part of the continental merger plan that the entire scheme could be at least temporarily road-blocked if it does not proceed. If it does proceed, American government will no longer provide its time-tested protections against tyranny and socialism, as huge chunks of American law will be rendered void, and replaced by an incomprehensible mess of "trade" law. All rowers are needed at the oars, and immediately. If you've asked yourself why you did not know about a project of this magnitude, or where Congress got the authority to designate High Priority Corridors in the first place, your first job is to contact your representative and howl. Wake the town and tell the people, or the town will be paved over.

Tell your representative and senators to "Stop the NAFTA Super Highway Steppingstone to a North American Union" by phone, fax, or e-mail. Go to www.capwiz.com/jbs/home/ for contact information and a sample letter.



On the Road to EU-style Governance

by William F. Jasper

Perhaps you're shaking your head in disbelief, wondering how anything as massive and costly as the NAFTA Super Highway could have progressed so far without your notice? Well, it may be that you don't belong to the right clubs - such as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Trilateral Commission (TC).

As reported in previous articles in these pages, one of the principal authors of the Security and Prosperity Partnership merger is Dr. Robert Pastor, a vice-chairman of the CFR's Task Force on the Future of North America and author of Toward a North American Community. Pastor's writings and speeches provided the blueprint for the Bush-Fox-Martin SPP merger plan.

In November 2002, Professor Pastor addressed a meeting of David Rockefeller's super-elite Trilateral Commission in Toronto, Canada. He opened his speech, entitled "A North American Community," with the following sentence: "The entry into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994 represented a breath-taking continental opportunity."

Among the many things Pastor proposed was "establishing a single 'North American Customs and Immigration Service,'" to be composed of "officials from the three governments, trained together." He also called on the NAFTA governments (Mexico, Canada, and the United States) to create a North American Commission of "distinguished individuals" (like himself) whose "task would be to help the leaders think continentally." One of the new commission's duties would be to "develop an integrated continental plan for transportation and infrastructure." This should include, he said, "new highway corridors on the Pacific Coast and into Mexico," as well as "a plan that would permit mergers of the railroads and development of high-speed rail corridors."

Pastor cited a World Bank study that had concluded that "Mexico needs $20 billion a year for ten years, just for infrastructure." That's $200 billion, for starters. Where will such sizable sums come from? Pastor proposed the creation of a "North American Development Fund, whose priority would be to connect the U.S.-Mexico border region to central and southern Mexico." This new multi-billion dollar fund, Pastor suggested, could be administered by the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. That would be very convenient, since both of these institutions are run by Pastor's fellow CFR members.

In 2004, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a leading proponent of open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens, introduced S. 2941, the North American Investment Fund Act. The legislation's official title says it is "a bill to authorize the President to negotiate the creation of a North American Investment Fund to promote economic and infrastructure integration among Canada, Mexico, and the United States." Section four says: "The Fund shall make grants for projects … to construct roads in Mexico to facilitate trade between Mexico and Canada, and Mexico and the United States." Cornyn's bill was introduced on June 29 of this year as S. 2622.

Pastor and other NAFTA/SPP architects have repeatedly cited the European Union (EU) as the model for us to follow. The EU countries have given up control over their borders for a common perimeter; we are expected to follow suit. "Are North Americans prepared to give up their sovereignty?" Pastor asked rhetorically, in his Trilateral speech. "The term 'sovereignty' is one of the most widely used, abused, and least understood in the diplomatic lexicon.... Sovereignty, in brief, is not the issue." Leaders must throw off "aging conceptions of sovereignty," he avers, in favor of continental "integration" and "convergence."

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In Disbelief

Canada, the United States, and Mexico...a possible merger?
By Felicia (Fee) Benamon (06/19/06)

If someone would have told me last year that some of our leaders in our government and those of the powerful elite in this country were plotting to merge Canada, the United States, and Mexico, I would have brushed it aside as a conspiracy theory. Yes, it seems wild, however as we face the huge illegal immigration issue, many conservatives are now starting to put the pieces together.

Is the lax view in which our government is taking regarding illegal immigration connected to plans to merge America with Canada and
Mexico? Many reasons have led me to think this is a possible scenario. We continue to deal with the illegal immigration issue, the Senate failing to listen to the American public and drastically cut down on the number of illegals entering the U.S., and deporting those who are here illegally.

The round up of illegals continue across America, and the National Guard is setting up along the U.S./Mexico border, but no bill has been signed to address our border problems. Putting in place a long term solution to deal with illegal immigration has stalled. The thinking of some in our government towards illegal immigrants has almost shelved the H.R. 4437 bill that would crack down on illegal immigration and make those who are here felons. Former
Secretary of State Colin Powell weighed in on the illegal immigration issue in Mexico City recently and mentioned that any barriers that will be erected along the U.S./Mexico border should include gates for easy access! What is he thinking?! With that analogy, we might as well erase the borders and become one big community! That, I fear, is the plan anyway.

The power and reach of government into citizens' lives has grown substantially under President Bush's administration, instead of decreasing, as
Republicans usually stand for smaller government. This has me questioning a proposal by Scott Silverman, chairman of VeriChip Corp., to track legal immigrants with chip implants under the skin. "We have talked to many people in Washington about using it," he said in an interview on Fox and Friends, a TV show on the Fox News Channel. Senators have mulled over the proposal, and are seriously considering the idea.

Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) to Congress:

"President Uribe said he would consider having Colombian workers have microchips implanted in their bodies before they are permitted to enter the US for seasonal work," he said.

The
RFID (Radio Frequency ID) VeriChip tag is trying to gain momentum, and in my opinion, raises serious privacy concerns. I've written on the subject in an earlier article, Technology...a blessing and a curse, and I'm leery of the government tracking me, or tagging me as if I were livestock.

Right now, keeping track of immigrants through the VeriChip has only been relegated to an idea, but a scary one nonetheless. This could be a possibility for immigrants, but imagine what could be proposed in the future for those who are citizens.

How much power are we allowing the government to have? What is their true plan?

A project in the works to connect Canada, America, and Mexico through the I-69 highway has me connecting the dots. It is indeed a massive project that is intended to allow for the easy flow of goods and services, under the banner of "free trade." This will no doubt inconvenience many people, and right now, in my area of Tennessee, local governments are meeting with the public about possible changes they may experience due to the I-69 highway running through this area.

The entire I-69 project has been in planning mode for some time. Currently I-69 begins in the state of Indiana and runs through Michigan to the Canadian border. But other states like Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas will also be affected as talks heat up about extending the highway all the way to Mexico.

I feel that the Federal Government is now urging local governments to discuss this plan with citizens whom the I-69 project will affect, so they can get the ball rolling. But at what cost do we allow this to continue? How will I-69 truly benefit the U.S.?

Yes, many of us were in the frame of mind that the government couldn't possibly be planning a merger with Canada and Mexico, but now I believe it's fast becoming a reality and no longer can we ignore the signs.

It's something to think about...are our leaders planning to subvert the Constitution of the U.S. and U.S. sovereignty in favor of erasing our borders with our neighbors to the north and south?

Not many Americans know of the possible Canada, America, Mexico merger and it's up to you, the reader to get the information out there so that Americans can demand answers from our government. Why was this plan kept secretly under wraps and the public not told? We the people have a say in this!

Let's demand answers of the stealth plan, the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America... surely the blueprint to the eventual U.S. merger with Canada and Mexico.

Contact the President: president@whitehouse.gov


Important Related Reading:

Technology...a blessing and a curse:
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_9015.shtml

Powell says border walls won't work:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060609/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_powell

Proposal to Implant Tracking Chips in Immigrants:
http://www.livescience.com/scienceoffiction/060531_rfid_chips.html

I-69 Interstate project information:
http://www.i69info.com/

Fact Sheet: Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/03/20050323-4.html

Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America: Prosperity Agenda (more in-depth):
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/03/20050323-1.html

Tancredo confronts 'super-state' effort:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50657


Felicia (Fee) Benamon is a political columnist who writes for various conservative sites including RenewAmerica.us, Daley-Times Post, TheRealityCheck.org, Capitolhillcoffeehouse.com, TheConservativeVoice.com, Mensnewsdaily.com, and many more. Felicia also does freelance writing/reporting in her area. She hails from a military background, and has been politically active since the 2000 elections. Felicia has been a guest speaker on KYAL2K, conservative talk radio (www.k-talk.com), Salt Lake City, UT, and America Talks, conservative internet talk radio, with David Zublick (www.americatalks.com).

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Iran caught red-handed – twice in Iraq! Now A Way To Topple the Mullahs

"Having the President of the United States openly support the aspirations of the Iranian people, at the same time devoting $300 million to back the effort, will have a tremendous impact on pro-democracy forces inside Iran, without yet putting lives at risk."
 

How to Topple the Mullahs
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 18, 2007


For now, the nutty recommendation of the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group that the United States should engage in direct talks with Syria and Iran appears to have been mooted by events on the ground.

U.S. military forces have caught Iran red-handed – twice – over the past few weeks in Iraq, No one can possibly doubt any longer what I and many others have been saying for some time: that Iran is involved on the ground in Iraq and is aiding both Sunni and Shia insurgents in an effort to blow that country apart.

But like all bad ideas in Washington, rest assured that the Baker-Hamilton recommendation of direct talks will come back. Study group members can be counted upon to argue that the capture of top Iranian Revolutionary Guards and intelligence officials in Iraq only proves their point that Iran has real influence and thus must be dealt with directly, to prevent them from playing the spoiler’s role.

And by the way, they will argue, what’s the alternative? Nuke Iran?

It is regrettable and truly astonishing that President Bush has not applied to Iran and to Syria the same global vision he has so eloquently displayed in regards to Iraq and other fronts in the global war against the Islamic jihad. Because there is a clear alternative to the capitulation offered by Baker, Hamilton, and their advisors.

Instead of rewarding these regimes, the United States should use its tremendous resources to contain Syria and to undermine the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Such a policy is not far-fetched, nor is it based solely on ideology, although compelling moral arguments can be made in its favor. Instead, it serves the national and historic interests of the United States.

Syria is a weak and failing state, that survives largely because it goes unchallenged.

After the assassination in Feb. 2005 of Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, the Lebanese people revolted against Syrian interference in their country. The brave and persistent demonstrations of the Cedars Revolution forced Syria to withdraw its forces from Lebanon. The failure of the United Nations and the international community to keep pressure on the Syrian regime encouraged Syria to creep back in through the back door.

The lessons just of these past two years are crystal clear: pressuring Syria works; acquiescing to Syria does not. And yet, the Baker-Hamilton group chooses acquiescence. When Syria sins, force Israel to make concessions, the ISG recommends. If there is logic here, it is not of the sort to make Americans proud.

Instead, the United States should make the Syrian regime understand that it will pay a real price for its transgressions. Serious economic sanctions on Syria for its continued support of Hezbollah, in defiance of UN Security Council resolution 1701, would have a devastating impact on the minority Alouite regime. And targeted military strikes on Syrian border outposts and military units caught red-handed aiding Iraqi insurgents would send a clear warning to Syria’s military leaders. If Syria did not get the message, the United States could step up the pressure by targeted air strikes on Damascus safehouses where Iraqi insurgent leaders continue to hide.

Syria has always backed down when challenged. If Mr. Baker were truly the “realist” he claims to be, he would acknowledge this and propose policies accordingly.

The Islamic Republic of Iran, however, is made of different stuff. This is a regime that over the past twenty-seven years has been willing to pay a tremendously high price in blood and treasure to pursue its radical policies. Since the 1979 revolution, the United States has repeatedly attempted to “influence the behavior” of the regime, without success.

As I wrote in these pages just last month, the Baker-Hamilton proposal is a warmed rehash of the same failed policy we’ve been trying since 1979.

There is only one approach that will get the attention of the Tehran’s revolutionary and clerical leaders; and this is the one approach that Baker and Hamilton – and the foreign policy Establishment - have rejected: support for regime change.

This is the one approach that the United States and its allies have never tried. Short of an all-out U.S. military assault on Iran, it is the only approach that can avoid a future Persian Gulf region dominated by a radical Iranian regime armed with nuclear weapons. Saying pretty-please, as the Baker-Hamilton group proposed, just isn’t going to work.

Empowering Iranians to change their regime will be costly. From having worked with opponents to the Iranian regime over the past twenty years, and studied the requirements of opposition groups currently working inside Iran, I believe the United States should be prepared to commit a minimum of $300 million over an initial six month period if we are to have any hope of a successful outcome.

The very first step must be the appointment by the President of a Special Envoy for Iran, with full presidential authority to convene a loya jirga type meeting of several hundred prominent Iranian leaders. The majority of those able to attend such a meeting will of necessity come from the diaspora; some will come secretly from the inside.

That meeting should focus on establishing a broad declaration of principles around which the various opposition factions can unite, and then electing an executive committee that will include authorized spokespersons for the pro-freedom movement. (Much of the ground work for such a broad meeting of Iranians has already been accomplished over the past two years, thanks to the Iranians themselves).

Over the next six months, the following tasks must be accomplished:

  • Drafting a detailed game plane for organizing massive non-violent protests against the regime in Tehran. This game plan must include strategies for neutralizing the Revolutionary Guards, the bassij corps, and paramilitary gangs loyal to extremists in the current regime, and for preventing the Islamic-Marxist Mujahedin Khalq, which worked with the regime during the early years of the revolution, from exploiting the situation and seizing power in a putsch. It must also include a strategy for providing financial support to striking workers and professionals;
  • Specific policy recommendations for the United States and our allies, so we can best leverage tools available to governments and international organizations for delegitimizing and destabilizing the Tehran regime. (The U.S. Department of the Treasury has made a modest start here).
  • Identify, contact, and train key operations officers on the ground in Iran;
  • Identify and pre-position secure communications and other equipment needed to coordinate operations inside Iran; and
  • Establish a finance committee tasked with harnessing the tremendous resources of the Iranian diaspora, who have withheld major support to the pro-freedom movement because they rightly judged that the movement lacked U.S. support.

Broadcasting must be an integral part of any comprehensive political plan to challenge the legitimacy of the Iranian regime and promote non-violent regime change. However, none of the $300 million fund should go to expanding the Persian language service of Voice of America or Radio Farda, the Persian service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Both have failed utterly to live up to the goal for which they were established.

Rather than communicate an American viewpoint during Iran’s proxy war against Israel this past summer, for example, VOA television sent reporters to Beirut to interview top Hezbollah leaders – the same Hezbollah leaders Iranian state television was treating as rock stars.

As for Radio Farda (“Tomorrow”), established to be a “surrogate” for the free media Iranians could not access inside their own country, it became a laughing stock by championing Iran’s failed reformist president, Mohammad Khatami.

Since Ahmadinejad took over as president in 2005, Radio Farda has adopted the “music-first” model of Westwood One and become simply irrelevant. Both are a waste of U.S. taxpayer dollars and should be downsized or eliminated altogether.

Instead, funding should be provided to private Iranian broadcasters who understand the political thirst of their compatriots and know how to package a compelling message in a professional format. The allotment of the broadcasting budget should be determined by the Executive Committee, with a preference to pluralism and professionalism.

The U.S. intelligence community can play a support role in this effort, but should not take the lead. The last thing we need is to ask the Central Intelligence Agency to organize the Iranian opposition.

On the contrary, much of this program can – and must – be accomplished overtly. Having the President of the United States openly support the aspirations of the Iranian people, at the same time devoting $300 million to back the effort, will have a tremendous impact on pro-democracy forces inside Iran, without yet putting lives at risk.

At the end of the initial six month period, the President can then decide if he believes the program is viable. If so, he can pull the trigger on the plan devised by the pro-freedom groups in coordination with his Special Envoy. The U.S. will need to commit another $500 million or so to the effort of organizing and supporting the massive non-violent protest movement throughout Iran. This will be supplemented by another $500 million or more raised from the Iranian diaspora.

This is expensive, for sure. But it is far less costly than the alternatives of facing a nuclear-armed Iran, or having to send in U.S. troops to prevent Iran from deploying or firing nuclear weapons.

The Baker-Hamilton approach of engaging the terror-masters brings great risks and few rewards. It sends a clear message that terrorism, even conducted against the world’s sole superpower, is a strategy that works. Engagement with Iran and Syria will foster more terror, not curtail it.

Furthermore, engaging regimes that systematically repress their own people and seek to destroy a bold democratic experiment on their borders, sends a clear message to pro-democracy forces inside those countries that their efforts can never succeed.

In one simple stroke, the Baker-Hamilton approach will have emboldened our enemies, and deterred our potential allies. And yet, for reasons that only the chattering classes can explain, this goes by the name “realism.”

Supporting regime change by Iranians, while containing Syria, not only makes the best strategic sense for America. It is the right thing to do.

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"A Few Stirred Up Muslims", The Taliban. "Jimmy Carter secretly authorised $500million to create an international terrorist movement ..."

[...]"President Jimmy Carter secretly authorised $500million to create an international terrorist movement that would spread Islamic fundamentalism in Central Asia "

" Brzezinski not long ago revealed that on July 3, 1979, unknown to the American public and Congress, President Jimmy Carter secretly authorised $500million to create an international terrorist movement that would spread Islamic fundamentalism in Central Asia and "destabilise" the Soviet Union.

The CIA called this Operation Cyclone and in the following years poured $4billion into setting up Islamic training schools in Pakistan (Taliban means "student").

Young zealots were sent to the CIA's spy training camp in Virginia, where future members of al-Qaeda were taught "sabotage skills" - terrorism.

Others were recruited at an Islamic school in Brooklyn, New York, within sight of the fated Twin Towers.

In Pakistan, they were directed by British MI6 officers and trained by the SAS.

The result, quipped Brzezinski, was "a few stirred up Muslims" - meaning the Taliban.

At that time, the late 1970s, the American goal was to overthrow Afghanistan's first progressive, secular government, which had granted equal rights to women, established health care and literacy programmes and set out to break feudalism.

When the Taliban seized power in 1996, they hanged the former president from a lamp-post in Kabul.

His body was still a public spectacle when Clinton administration officials and oil company executives were entertaining Taliban leaders in Washington and Houston, Texas.


29 January 2002
THE COLDER WAR By John Pilger The Mirror UK
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Don't get Carter. He won't do

NEXT WEEK the former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami visits the United States. Though he will not meet government officials, the visit is significant and welcome. Khatami is reputedly a reformer. It may be possible, through him, to widen the gulf between Iranian pragmatists and theocratic populists.

But there is a risk. The current Iranian regime menaces Israel and has lied to the EU about its nuclear programme. It must not interpret Khatami’s visit as proof of the value of bellicosity. Khatami must get the message that the West will be receptive to concessions, but will face down belligerence. There lies the problem: Khatami’s host in the US is Jimmy Carter.

Carter’s poor reputation as president reflects a record not so much of incompetence as paralysis. He led his Administration mainly in the sense that its internal disagreements faithfully reflected his own philosophical chaos and administrative ineptitude. In domestic policy Carter zigzagged left and right, baffling equally the environmental activists he patronised and the churchgoers whose social values he claimed to share. His proposed system of federal energy controls failed comprehensively. In 1980 he acknowledged that inflation was near a “crisis stage”.

He proclaimed human rights while lauding the Shah of Iran’s repressive regime. When the Shah’s revolutionary successors held 52 American diplomats hostage for 14 months, Ayatollah Khomeini accurately sneered: “Neither does Carter have the guts for military action, nor would anyone listen to him.”

Carter cancelled the B1 bomber in the hope of gaining Soviet goodwill, later acknowledging bemusedly the Kremlin’s persisting “unfriendly rhetoric”. He earned the contempt of friendly European governments by announcing deployment of the neutron bomb and then cancelling it without consulting them.

Last weekend he impertinently attacked Tony Blair’s closeness to George Bush. Doubtless he prefers the model of transatlantic relations he pioneered with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of Germany, who observed in exasperation that Carter was “just not big enough for the game”.

Less an elder statesman than a soft cushion who bears the impress of whoever sits on him, the 39th president is the last person Khatami should meet.

The contrast between the reality and the phantasm could hardly have been greater. At the time of the embassy seizure, the Iran section at the CIA consisted of exactly four people — who, moreover, were fumbling around in the dark since none of them spoke Farsi. In previous years, too, the CIA had failed actively to gather intelligence. Thus it announced in August 1978 — just six months before the revolution! — that Iran “is not in a revolutionary or even prerevolutionary situation.” The intelligence reports from France and Israel, which correctly predicted the imminent overthrow of the shah, were stubbornly dismissed as “alarmist.”3

The tendency toward wishful thinking continued even after the revolution in February 1979. Whereas Tehran increasingly viewed the U.S. through the darkly hued optic of its paranoid phantasms and loudly demonized America as its Enemy No. 1, Washington plugged its ears and looked back through rose-colored glasses.

The American Representative to the
UN, Andrew Young, described Khomeini as “some kind of saint,” while National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski was favorably disposed toward him, since he seemed to Brzezinski to represented an effective barrier against Soviet influence. “We can get along with Khomeini!” was the motto in that summer of 1979. Businesspeople were encouraged to invest in Iran. Members of Congress were subtly discouraged from making critical comments. Critical journalists who refused to follow the line were denigrated. The following episode, as described by Michael Ledeen and William Lewis, is illustrative of the atmosphere:

There was considerable consternation and disgruntlement in the State Department and the cia when three American newspapers published extensive accounts of Khomeini’s writings. The articles showed that Khomeini’s books revealed him as a violently anti-Western, anti-American, anti-Zionist, and anti-Semitic individual, who offered an unattractive alternative to the shah.

Yet as late as the first week in February
1979, when Khomeini was returning in triumph to Tehran, Henry Precht [the head of the State Department’s Iran desk] told an audience of some two hundred persons at the State Department “open forum” meeting that the newspaper accounts were severely misleading, and he went so far as to accuse Washington Post editorial columnist Stephen Rosenfeld of wittingly disseminating excerpts from a book that Precht considered at best a collection of notes taken by students, and at worst a forgery.
 

Precht was hardly an isolated case, for the conviction was widespread that Khomeini’s books were either false, exaggerated, or misunderstood.
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Thus, the State Department and the CIA defended their false picture of Khomeini against all intrusion of reality. Remarkably, somewhat later the CIA asked Rosenfeld if he could lend the agency the edition of the book he had cited, since it did not have its own copy. So much for the most omniscient and cunning intelligence agency of the most omniscient and cunning government in the world.


T he hostage-taking burst upon such idyllic reveries like a storm. Bowden invokes the shock that this first encounter with real Islamism represented. He describes how “the entire professional frame of reference” of embassy chargé d’affaires Bruce E. Laingen had to be overturned. Before the hostage-taking, Laingen possessed, in Bowden’s expression, “a constitutional bias toward hope.” He strongly believed that “things were getting better [in Iran]” and put all his trust in “the power of polite dialogue between nations.” Laingen was, in Bowden’s words, “bewildered” by the events of November 4. “Why? To what end?” he wrote in his journal four days after the seizure of the embassy, “We have tried by every available means over the past month to demonstrate, by word and deed, that we accept the Iranian revolution, indeed, that we wish it well — that a society strongly motivated by religion is a society we, as a religious nation, can identify with.”

President Carter responded to the challenge by dispatching Ramsey Clark and William Miller, two long-time opponents of America’s alliance with the shah, to Tehran. They brought with them a letter signed by Carter that they were supposed to deliver to Khomeini. It contained the assurance that the shah would remain in the U.S. only for the duration of his illness, as well as an offer to procure access to the shah’s doctors for Iranian representatives. Second, Carter explicitly recognized the independence and territorial integrity of Iran and expressed his willingness to resume arms exports. Third, he politely asked Khomeini to have the hostages released (“I ask that you release unharmed all Americans presently detained in Iran”) and pleaded for dialogue: “I have asked both men to meet with you and to hear from you your perspective on events in Iran and the problems which have arisen between our two countries. The people of the United States desire to have relations with Iran based upon equality, mutual respect and friendship.”

Thus was the first approach by the American president to the leader of the Iranian Revolution. No one could regard the tone of this letter as provocative — above all, on the background of an act of violence that in other circumstances would have been treated as a declaration of war. What Bowden writes of Precht, the head of the Iran desk at the State Department, applies also to Carter: he “was less concerned with expressing American indignation than with persuasion. He wanted to convince the imam [Khomeini], not confront him.” In light of the content of the Carter letter, it is astonishing that it is precisely the U.S. that is continually blamed for the deterioration of relations between the countries.

Carter’s attempted gesture of goodwill was dashed by the stony determination of the ayatollah. Khomeini was not even prepared to permit American emissaries into the country — not even the likes of Miller and Clark. The catalogue of American punitive measures that would then be taken — the expulsion of some Iranian diplomats, as well as all Iranians in the U.S. illegally; the cessation of oil imports from Iran; the freezing of Iranian assets in U.S. banks — likewise failed to make the slightest impression.

As his next step, Carter, via French mediators, entered into drawn-out negotiations with Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr and his minister of foreign affairs, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh: two high-profile but in comparison to Khomeini virtually powerless figures. The negotiations quickly took on a peculiar pattern that Bowden describes as follows: “Carter would latch on to a deal proffered by a top Iranian official and grant minor but humiliating concessions, only to have it scotched at the last minute by Khomeini.”

It was not until April 7, 1980 — the 154th day of the hostage crisis — that Carter finally broke off diplomatic relations and began to prepare economic sanctions. But not even this seemed to disturb Khomeini. On the contrary, in a message to the Iranian people, he declared: “If Carter has ever done anything in his life to serve the interests of the oppressed, it is this breaking off of relations between an ascendant country that has freed itself from the clutches of the international plunderers and a world-devouring plunderer.”5


A fter Iran’s Islamic Revolution of February 1979, the American government actively sought a modus vivendi with the new regime. The occupation of the embassy was the turning point in the relationship between Islam and the West. It set in motion the process that would issue in the Shiite suicide attacks of the 1980s. On April 18, 1983, Iranian-sponsored suicide bombers blew up the American embassy in Lebanon (50 dead, including 17 Americans). On October 23, 1983, Islamist terrorists destroyed the barracks of American and French troops in Beirut, killing 241 Americans and 58 French. On January 19, 1984, the president of the American University in Beirut was also killed by Islamists. As Khomeini celebrated the fifth anniversary of his revolution in February 1984, America, subjected to yet another humiliation, withdrew from Lebanon.

The Beirut attacks confronted the world with the efficacy of a weapon that in 1979 was still wholly unknown: the Islamically motivated suicide attack. Only a few years later, the Islamist movement would receive additional impetus through the collapse of the Soviet Union. “Since the end of Marxism, Islam has replaced it,” Ahmad Khomeini, the son of the revolutionary leader, boasted. In the context of the Cold War, Khomeinism was still just a phenomenon of peripheral importance. Since then — and especially since 9/11 — Islamism has arguably become the most important antipode to the West. Today, it represents the only movement capable of challenging global capitalism on a grand scale: with important financial resources, a global presence, and a unified ideology. Ahmadinejad is today exploiting this unique potential.

At the same time, the current Iranian strategy displays a perfect continuity with the strategy pursued by Iran in its first confrontation with America in 19791980. Now as then, the Iranian leadership rejects the un Security Council and declares its resolutions null and void (“The Security Council is illegitimate. Its resolutions are illegitimate.”).

Now as then, the West’s threatened sanctions are ridiculed (“The day on which your sanctions are applied will be a national holiday for us.”). Now as then, Europe is played off against America (“If the Europeans oppose us, they will be the ones to suffer the consequences.”). In
1980, when it was a matter of confronting an Iranian crime against American citizens, the European nato countries abandoned their American ally to its own devices. Today, Iran threatens Israel with a new Holocaust, sponsors Islamist terror worldwide, and violates the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. What is the international community prepared to do now?"  

Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America’s War With Militant Islam.
Mark Bowden.
Atlantic Monthly Press. 704 pages. $26. 

Review article from:The Hoover Institution
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/4884331.html


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