Paul Harris reports
Friday June 23, 2006 A culture of fear has entered American life, with big business and politicians scrambling for money for the 'war on terror'.
Imet a woman once, deep in the heartland state of Missouri, who was very afraid. She was a Republican-supporting grandmother in the wealthy and prosperous all-American sounding town of Liberty. I was doing some random street interviews during the 2004 election campaign and we talked politics for a while. Then she confided she got nervous when she thought of her grandchildren in the local school. The massacre in Beslan haunted her. She was scared something like that would happen in her town. It was a jarring moment. We were standing on a picturesque town square in the middle of America. The prospect of armed Islamic terrorists taking over the local school and killing all the children seemed, frankly, completely nuts. But her fear was genuine. |
By KELLI KENNEDY
AP June 23, 2006 MIAMI - Inside a city warehouse, authorities believe, a group was hatching the early stages of a widespread terror plot - one that targeted Chicago's Sears Tower, an FBI office in Miami and other U.S. buildings.
On Thursday, authorities swarmed the warehouse in Miami's Liberty City area, removed a metal door with a blowtorch and arrested seven people, a federal law enforcement official said. Authorities in Washington and Miami were expected to release more details in separate news conferences Friday morning. Neighbors who lived nearby said young men, who appeared to be in their teens and 20s, slept in the warehouse, running what looked like a militaristic group. They appeared brainwashed, some said. "They would come out late at night and exercise," said Tashawn Rose, 29. "It seemed like a military boot camp that they were working on there. They would come out and stand guard." Comment:
"They seemed brainwashed," she said. "They said they had given their lives to Allah."It seems "giving your life to Allah" means you are brainwashed, but "giving your life to Jesus" means you are a good guy. |
June 23, 2006
CNN MIAMI, Florida -- A federal indictment against seven men revealed Friday details of what the government said was a plan intended to "kill all the devils we can."
The mission was intended to be "as good or greater than 9/11," beginning with the destruction of Chicago's Sears Tower, according to court documents obtained Friday by CNN. Named in the grand jury indictment is Narseal Batiste, who allegedly told a federal undercover agent, who he thought was a member of al Qaeda, that he was organizing a mission to build an Islamic army to wage a jihad in the United States.
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Comment: Just in case you miss the important part which is, conveniently, at the bottom of the article:
"Law enforcement sources said the seven are radical Muslims, and at least one of them had taken an oath to serve al Qaeda.Also, one of the men was from Haiti, a country which suffered a US-orchestrated coup a few years ago and where it now has a signifcant presence - an excellent place to find and groom "Islamic terrorist" patsies. It is also interesting that these seven men were going to "destroy the Sears tower" using "boots, uniforms, machine guns, radios and vehicles and $50,000 in cash". Apparently it is easier to bring down an almost 1000ft tall building than one might have thought.
However, senior federal sources told CNN, "These people were not related to al Qaeda." When asked whether they were al Qaeda wannabes, he replied, "possibly."
Note the part where we are told:
"the conspirators pledged an oath to al Qaeda and supported a purported mission of al Qaeda to destroy FBI buildings within the United States"
What is not mentioned in this report is who swore the men in as members of "al-qaeda" and who suggested that they destroy FBI buildings:
According to ABC News:
“An FBI informant posed as an emissary from al Qaeda and administered oaths of allegiance to the seven Miami men charged today with providing material support to al Qaeda…. An outline of the indictments to be announced later today indicates the men began meeting with an unnamed FBI informant in November 2005. Justice Department officials say the informant provided boots and a video camera so the men could obtain surveillance pictures of government buildings in Miami.”
So...eh, if the FBI agent:
approached a group of half-baked non-nationalsposed as an al-Qaeda operative
offered to swear the men in as "al-qaeda" and then did so
offered them $50,000
suggested government targets
and then provided materials for them to start acting the like terrorists and scoping those targets
How are we to know that these guys were not just chancers who saw the $50k and were thinking to put one over on their "al-Qaeda contact man" and take the money and run?
All of it stinks to high heaven and is more clear evidence that the US government is actively creating an "Islamic terrorist threat" out of thin air.
June 23, 2006
NY Times WASHINGTON, June 22 - Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial records from a vast international database and examined banking transactions involving thousands of Americans and others in the United States, according to government and industry officials.
Comment: Notice that "the program has played a hidden role in domestic and foreign terrorism investigations since 2001". Probably BEFORE the 9/11 attacks!
Come on! Sing with us!: "...the laaaannd of the freeeeeeeee, and the hooooooome of theeeeeee brrraaaaaaaaave!" Now you feel better, don't you... |
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
The New York Times June 23, 2006 An Indonesian man who died of H5N1 bird flu caught it from his 10-year-old son, the first laboratory-confirmed case of human-to-human transmission of the disease, according to a World Health Organization investigation of an unusual family cluster of bird-flu cases.
The investigators also found that the virus mutated slightly when the son had the disease, although not in any way that would allow it to pass more readily among people. Flu viruses like H5N1 mutate constantly, although most of the mutations are insignificant biologically; that appears to be have been the case in the Indonesian cluster. |
By MIKE STOBBE
Associated Press June 23, 2006 ATLANTA -- A worrisome superbug seen in prisoners and athletes is also showing up in people who get illegal tattoos, federal health officials said Thursday.
Forty-four tattoo customers in Ohio, Kentucky and Vermont developed skin infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The infections occurred in 2004 and 2005, and were traced to 13 unlicensed tattoo artists, according to an article in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Comment: If the infections occurred back in 2004 and 2005, why all the fuss about it now??
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