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The most
successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure
uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other
possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are
viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
Allan Bloom
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the
people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the
existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right
of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or
overthrow it.
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Voltaire
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Faith of body is stupidity.
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Love of the body depends only on type and polarity.
Hope of consciousness is strength
Hope of feeling is slavery
Hope of body is disease.
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US officials say
more than 90 killed in Riyadh suicide bombings
More
than 90 people, including 10 to 12 US citizens, were killed in
suicide bombings that rocked three expatriate housing compounds in
Saudi Arabia, State Department officials said Tuesday.
"We
have counted more than 90 dead," one official said, warning that
the final figure could rise as the day went on.
"These are very preliminary numbers," the official
added.
A
second official said the current death toll from the triple blasts
stood at 91 and was expected to rise. At least 30 -- and possibly
as many as 44 -- US citizens were wounded, the official
said....
The
attacks, which have been blamed on Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda
network, followed dire US warnings earlier this month that
terrorists were "in the final phases" of plotting attacks against
US interests in Saudi Arabia.
Comment:
Seems like
Osama is still under the bed. What an asset he really
is.
Bush: Attackers to
learn 'meaning of American justice'
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (CNN)
Officials suspect al Qaeda behind bombings in Saudi
Arabia
[...]"These despicable acts were committed by killers whose
only faith is hate," Bush said Tuesday in Indianapolis, his last
stop on a tour to promote tax cuts. "And the United States will
find the killers, and they will learn the meaning of American
justice."
He
said the bombings "remind us that the war on terror
continues."
Comment:
Talking like he is the hero of an action
movie, with a script written by those who are targeting a specific
profile. Every violent action in the world is becoming a moment of
biochemical bliss for the "patriotically" inclined. Of course, we
know that the real patriots value freedom and peace more than chest
thumping chimpanzee antics.
Why
al-Qaeda Struck in Saudi Arabia
Time
Magazine On-Line
[...]
TIME.com:What message is the location and timing of this attack
designed to send?
Scott MacLeod: Although there is no confirmation as yet, we can
relatively safely say, at least, that this is an al-Qaeda-inspired
attack, and it appears that it would have been done by Bin Laden's
own organization or a local group working in cooperation with
al-Qaeda. One of Al-Qaeda's primary goals is to eradicate American
influence in the Middle East, particularly in Saudi Arabia, the
birthplace of Islam...
The
most worrisome scenario is that this may be the beginning of a new
al-Qaeda campaign directed against the U.S. and its allies and
interests, focused on the Middle East and Gulf region.
Comment: The Bush Reich would certainly be
the first to know given the Bush family links to the CIA and the
Bin Laden family.
[...] Bin Laden is clearly in a long-term fight...
Comment:
Ah, such an easy segue way from suspicions of
Al-Queda involvement to Osama is under the bed. As long as the Bush
family war machine is making big bucks from war and misery, you can
be sure Osama will stay under the bed.
The Riyadh
Bomb
The
Washington Post
[...] Though the investigation may yield unexpected results,
the bombing already seems to have belied the recent assertion of
Saudi Arabian Interior Minister Prince Nayef that al Qaeda was
"weak and almost nonexistent." It also casts doubt on President
Bush's boast, in his victory speech aboard an aircraft carrier
returning from the Persian Gulf, that "we have seen the turning of
the tide" in the war on terrorism.
Comment:
Bush is a consumate liar. They roll off his
tongue as easily as tanks off a US transport
ship.
Marines
liberate dangerous psychotics from Iraqi asylum
New
York Times
"Of
the more than 1,400 Iraqis institutionalized here at the beginning
of the year, 300 remain. ... The marines broke the door down on the
maximum security wing, and in no time the patients were gone,
untethered from the antipsychotic drugs that stabilized many of
them." And now most of them are roaming the streets. The only
resident of the maximum security wing who remains at the asylum
explained his rationale for staying: "I hate the world and the
world hates me... I don't want the monkey to see me and I don't
want to see the monkey."
Iraq:
Basra: Unprotected Munitions Injure Civilians
Human Rights Watch
(Basra, May 6, 2003) Civilians are being wounded by abandoned
ordnance in Basra, Iraq, because British forces have failed to
secure weapons caches, Human Rights Watch said today.
Anarchy in
Baghdad
CNN
Aired May 13, 2003 - 07:40 ET
...KAGAN: Can you tell us your reaction to what happened in
Riyadh?
MORELLO: Well, I think a lot of people have been expecting this
to happen since the war began. A week or so before the war began,
the government rounded up dozens, maybe hundreds, of known
extremists, because there was so much growing anger over the war
and a sense the United States was waging a war against
Muslims...
So,
it's really been a matter of when this would happen, rather than if
it would happen.
KAGAN: ...A number of reports coming out in your paper in "The
Washington Post" focusing especially on the predicament of women,
that it's so dangerous that you really don't see a lot of women on
the streets of Baghdad.
MORELLO: Well, this is -- this city looks very much like a city
of men. You rarely see women around. When you talk with women, when
you can track them down in their houses, they'll tell you they're
scared out of their wits by the lawlessness.
There is a growing sense here that the lawlessness has been
increasing.
Comment:
Iraq was a secular society where women had
more rights than in Saudi Arabia, that long-time American ally and
beacon of democracy in the Middle East.
Palestinians injured in Israeli missile attack on Gaza
refugee camp
02:43 AM EDT May 14 IBRAHIM
BARZAK
The Canadian Press
GAZA
CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - An Israeli helicopter fired a missile into
a crowd in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday,
wounding 30 people, after 10 Israeli soldiers were wounded nearby
in a mortar attack. The violence erupted despite U.S. efforts to
promote a Middle East peace plan...
Sharon's comments to the Jerusalem Post newspaper came days
before a crucial weekend meeting with his new Palestinian
counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, and ahead of next week's meeting with
U.S. President George W. Bush.
The
meetings are seen as critical to jump-starting the "road map" peace
plan presented by international mediators two weeks
ago...
Israel and the United States are boycotting Arafat, charging
that he is involved with Palestinian terrorism. European countries
reject that approach, saying that Arafat remains a key player in
diplomacy...
Palestinians have accepted the road map...
The
road map speaks of parallel action by both sides, but Israel
insists a Palestinian crackdown on militants come
first...
Sharon appeared to be reversing an earlier, more compromising
stand....
Comment:
Sharon's sabotaging of the peace process is
nothing knew. It was his trip to the Mount in Jerusalem that
started the current round of violence, propelled by the
Israeli-backed Hamas. Then they put the blaim in Arafat. Are these
guys hard-core manipulators or what! And the ultimate manipulation
is that they are going to wipe out the Jews themselves, the
long-term goal of the Zionists and their puppet masters. Look at
the role of the Zionists in the thirties in making deals with
Hitler and the Nazis. The Zionists are not the friends of the
Jewish people!
Israeli Forces
Kill Three Palestinians in Gaza
Wed
May 14, 2003 02:39 AM ET
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA
(Reuters) - Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip killed three
Palestinian security men in a gun battle and wounded at least 20
people in a separate raid on a refugee camp on Wednesday,
Palestinian officials and witnesses said.
The
bloodshed, which followed a mortar bomb attack that wounded 10
Israeli soldiers, showed that renewed U.S.-led peace efforts after
the Iraq war have made little impact on the daily violence of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israel/PA:
Roadmap Fails Rights Test
Human Rights Watch
(Jerusalem, May 8, 2003) The "roadmap" for ending
Israeli-Palestinian violence will fail unless it includes basic
human rights safeguards, Human Rights Watch warned today, on the
eve of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's visit to Israel and
the Occupied Territories.
Sharon: No
Settlement Retreat Despite Peace Plan
Tue May 13, 2003 07:49 AM
ET
By Mark
Heinrich
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on
Tuesday rejected any talk of dismantling Jewish settlements in the
foreseeable future despite U.S. calls for conciliatory gestures to
advance a new Middle East peace plan...
Israel eased a travel ban on Palestinians on Sunday in a move
it touted as a humanitarian gesture in response to Powell's
appeals, only to seal off the Gaza Strip again on
Monday.
The
road map envisages Israel curbing settlement expansion in the West
Bank and Gaza and Palestinians disarming militant groups to pave
the way for Palestinian statehood by 2005.
Sharon, a longtime patron of settlers on land Israel seized in
the 1967 Middle East war, told the Jerusalem Post newspaper that
all Israeli governments had pursued settlements in some form in the
past, even during periods of peace diplomacy.
"In
my mind this is not an issue on the horizon right now."
Palestinian negotiations minister Saeb Erekat responded: "It is
the main issue on the horizon. The road map says clearly that all
settlement activities must end in the first phase. Either Israel
accepts the road map with its integrity or they don't."
Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas's new government has
endorsed the road map and voiced dismay that Powell had not
persuaded Sharon to do the same...
Sharon denied feeling pressure from the Bush administration,
despite its public calls for a suspension of settlement activity as
well as a halt to Palestinian attacks.
"It
is not something today that anyone is dealing with. All the
descriptions about the pressures (over settlements) -- there is no
pressure from anyone," he said.
Comment:
Sharon is probably right when he says he feels no
pressure. Mossad is well-known for their blackmail of US
politicians. Look what happened to Clinton when he tried to push
Israel into "peace": Monica Lewinsky. But the US politicians will
have the last laugh after they have blown the Middle East to
smithereens. This is no joke, folks. These madmen want war, they
want the death of millions, they want the whole thing to blow sky
high. Wake up to SEE before it is too late!
To follow the "works" of the Bush gang, check out
Steve Perry's
BushWar pages.
Lets Not
Forget: Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming
President
By Neil Mackay
Interformation Clearing House
A
SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President
Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to
secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January
2001...
The
PNAC document supports a 'blueprint for maintaining global US pre-
eminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping
the international security order in line with American principles
and interests'.
This
'American grand strategy' must be advanced for 'as far into the
future as possible', the report says. It also calls for the US to
'fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theatre
wars' as a 'core mission'.
Iraqi mass grave
contains 'thousands of Saddam's victims'
The Independent
By Andrew
Buncombe in Washington
14 May 2003
Iraqi villagers have discovered a mass grave containing the
remains of several thousand people apparently put to death by
Saddam Hussein's regime. It is thought to be the largest find of
its kind in Iraq.
The
villagers said that they found the remains of about 3,000 people.
Some reports suggest there could be thousands more bodies at the
site in the village of Mahawil, about 50 miles south of
Baghdad...
Many
of those who are buried in the village are believed to have been
killed in the aftermath of the Shia uprising of 1991, which was
initially encouraged but then ignored by the US. Saddam put down
the uprising and is believed to have had thousands of people
killed. Amnesty International said that over the past 20 years it
had collected information about 17,000 disappearances in Iraq. But
it said the actual figure might be much higher.
Comment:
Notice this. We know that Saddam was a
butcher. But then what can you say about the US in 1991 that
encourages the Shiites to revolt having promised the US would back
them, then left them to be massacered. The same US that sold the
chemicals to Saddam for his WMD. The same Donald Rumsfeld who went
the Baghdad to shake Saddam's hand in 1983.
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