By Laid Sammari
Translated By Sandrine Ageorges September 23, 2006 In this English-language exclusive, WatchingAmerica presents Saturday's news from French newspaper L'Est Republicain. The newspaper reported that French intelligence has told President Jacques Chirac that the Saudi secret services are 'of the conviction' that Osama bin Laden died of typhoid late last month.
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By Laurent Zecchini
Translated By Sandrine Ageorges September 26, 2006 A "media-wide outburst" is how a source close to the Directorate-General of External Security [DGSE] characterized the turmoil created by the publication of a confidential defense document from the French intelligence services on Saturday RealVideo. The document discusses the death of Osama bin Laden and quotes "unconfirmed" information indicating that the Saudi Secret Services are now convinced that while in Pakistan on August 23, the chief of al-Qaeda fell victim to a very serious case of typhoid. Quoting a certain Saudi source, the Time Magazine published similar information.
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The uses of scare-talk - The Republicans think talking about terrorism can save them from defeat in November. A new poll suggests they may be on to something
From The Economist
WASHINGTON, DC Sep 21st 2006 HOW worried should Americans be about terrorism? Pete Hoekstra, the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee, cites the story of Rick Rescorla, the late security chief at Morgan Stanley's old office in the World Trade Centre. Rescorla predicted that terrorists might try to blow up the twin towers with a truck bomb. In 1993, they tried. Rescorla predicted that they might try to attack with a commercial aircraft. His suggestion that the firm move to New Jersey was rejected, but his insistence on regular evacuation drills meant that, on September 11th 2001, all but six of Morgan Stanley's 2,800 staff in the World Trade Centre survived. The six who died included Rescorla himself, who went back in to get more people out.
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Propaganda and Disinformation: Iran's Terror-cum-Intelligence Networks Thrown across Three Continents
DEBKAfile Exclusive Intelligence Report
(A well-known Israeli Disinformation Source) September 20, 2006 While the leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement nations were making speeches at the 14th conference of their movement in Havana in mid-September, three groups of intelligence experts were off in a well-guarded corner next door to talk about matters far from the conference's main theme of how to develop backward economies and societies.
Iranian, Cuban and Venezuelan teams were putting their heads together on ways of translating their leaders' hostile rhetoric and slogans into effective war action against the United States. |
Jennifer Van Bergen
September 25, 2006 Five years later, George W. Bush's "war on terror" has morphed into (as he calls it) a "War on Terra"-an assault on the life and values of the United States and the planet-including our judicial system. Take for example, the sweeping scope of the "terror cases" that have surfaced so far. As the Washington Post noted recently, nine out of 10 of the terror cases brought by the Justice Department since 9/11 did "not result in prosecutions." In these cases, "most charges [were] not related to terrorism and ... only about a third of those prosecuted end up in prison."
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By Jim Lobe
Asia Times WASHINGTON - With the US intelligence community agreed that the invasion and occupation of Iraq have made the United States less safe from terrorist threats, President George W Bush appears to be facing a growing revolt among top military commanders who say their ground forces are stretched close to breaking point.
According to Monday's Los Angeles Times, the US Army's top officer, General Peter Schoomaker, has called for a nearly 50% increase in spending, to nearly US$140 billion, in 2008 to cope with the situation in Iraq and maintain minimal readiness for emergencies. |
By Steve Holland
25 Sept 06 MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday accused Democrats of being soft in the war on terrorism with a strategy of "resignation and defeatism in the face of determined enemies."
Cheney, in a speech to Wisconsin Republicans, singled out in particular Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, West Virginia Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller and Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean for criticism. Democrats would like the November elections to be seen as a referendum on President George W. Bush's handling of the Iraq war. The party got a boost this past weekend with media reports of an intelligence report indicating that the Iraq war had led to a mushrooming of jihadist ideology. |
Matthew Tempest, political correspondent
Tuesday September 26, 2006 Guardian Unlimited Tony Blair will take his final bow before the Labour party faithful this afternoon, in a speech that sets out a "route map" to a fourth Labour victory.
The prime minister, who has not endorsed Gordon Brown or anyone else as his successor, is certain to receive an emotional goodbye from the thousands of delegates in Manchester after his 13th and final conference speech. He will say that New Labour delivered because "we defied conventional political wisdom, and so changed it; aspiration and compassion reconciled, economic efficiency and social justice not seen as sworn enemies but as natural partners." |
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
25 September 2006 |
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