ONE of al-Qaeda’s most dangerous figures has been revealed as a double agent working for MI5
hmmm- so we have Brits dressed as Arabs with the materials to make car-bombs, and now an “al-Qaeda” cleric that is really a British double agent… is there a connection? It almost seems like some folks in Britain are fanning the flames of terrorism- now why would anyone do that?
This story should be THE top story for weeks as nothing is more important. Billions of dollars and thousands of lives continue to be wasted every month in Iraq under the guise that we’re making progress and that eventually we’re going to get all the terrorists… yet when British soldiers are caught dressed as Arabs, with a car full of explosive and a remote detonator… the story is dropped like the plague. Once again, the way the $$ media buries the story is indicative of the potential consequences… ie- this news would end the war, if only Americans knew.
John Pilger has the full story, Sinister Events in a Cynical War
Although reported initially by the Times and the Mail, all mention of the explosives allegedly found in the SAS men’s unmarked Cressida vanished from the news. Instead, the story was the danger the men faced if they were handed over to the militia run by the “radical” cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. “Radical” is a gratuitous embedded term; al-Sadr has actually cooperated with the British. What did he have to say about the “rescue”? Quite a lot, none of which was reported in this country. His spokesman, Sheik Hassan al-Zarqani, said the SAS men, disguised as al-Sadr’s followers, were planning an attack on Basra ahead of an important religious festival. “When the police tried to stop them,” he said, “[they] opened fire on the police and passersby. After a car chase, they were arrested. What our police found in the car was very disturbing – weapons, explosives, and a remote-control detonator. These are the weapons of terrorists.”
The episode illuminates the most enduring lie of the Anglo-American adventure. This says the “coalition” is not to blame for the bloodbath in Iraq – which it is, overwhelmingly – and that foreign terrorists orchestrated by al-Qaeda are the real culprits…
A member of the Iraqi National Assembly, Fatah al-Sheik, said this week, “There is a huge campaign for the agents of the foreign occupiers to enter and plant hatred between the sons of the Iraqi people and spread rumors in order to scare the one from the other. … The occupiers are trying to start religious incitement, and if it does not happen, then they will start an internal Shi’ite incitement.”
The Anglo-American goal of “federalism” for Iraq is part of an imperial strategy of provoking divisions in a country where traditionally the communities have overlapped, even intermarried. The Osama-like promotion of al-Zarqawi is integral to this. Like the Scarlet Pimpernel, he is everywhere but nowhere. When the Americans crushed the city of Fallujah last year, the justification for their atrocious behavior was “getting those guys loyal to al-Zarqawi.” But the city’s civil and religious authorities denied he was ever there or had anything to do with the resistance.
“He is simply an invention,” said the Imam of Baghdad’s al-Kazimeya mosque. “Al-Zarqawi was killed in the beginning of the war in the Kurdish north. His family even held a ceremony after his death.” Whether or not this is true, al-Zarqawi’s “foreign invasion” serves as Bush’s and Blair’s last veil for their “war on terror” and botched attempt to control the world’s second biggest source of oil.
To sum up:
The problem with ANSWER is that they organized a rally for 300,000 in DC, on the weekend, when the people they want to influence (Congress) weren’t even there.
With 300,000 pro-peace marchers and about 100 pro-war folks, it is clear beyond a shadow of doubt that the majority of America wants an end to imperial mistake in Iraq. But Congress doesn’t care.
What we need now is the 300,000 to march again, this time surround the capitol with Congress inside. See Eminem’s video MOSH for an example.
ps- True, some of the peace marchers were there today, and the House was in session- for a mere 5 minutes! i kid you not- they mosied in after their 3 day weekend (they always take Fridays off) at 2pm, then adjourned at 2:05 until Tuesday. Considering all of the looting and crony corruption gone wild with Bush in power- are the members of Congress earning their $160,000 salary? In case you haven’t been following along closely, I have, and the answer is- NO! They are not doing their job- period. They are letting Bush and Co shred the Constitution while they destroy America’s good name and sink our children into unpayable debt. That’s why the entire 535 members of the House and Senate should be thrown out on their asses.
Proof: Cindy Sheehan arrested for sitting on the sidewalk! (official excuse: demostrating without a permit) Remember the Constitution we were all taught in school… the 1st Amendment: “Freedom to Peaceably Assemble”. Is Cindy Sheehan a threat? No, but she was arrested anyway. Freedom of Speech… not anymore. There ought to be at least 200 Dem CongressCritters raising hell about this, but there aren’t any. John Kerry ought to be proof enough that having “Democrat” on a name plate doesn’t mean jack. Kick.Them All. Out.
By designating any American Citizen an ‘enemy combatant’ - Bush/Cheney (via the military) can now detain and even execute citizens without a fair trial. They declare that this is a ‘war on terror’ and those they arrest are ‘prisoners of war’ and therefore don’t have the right to a fair trial.
from LewRockwell.com
If the Padilla doctrine is upheld, what protection do ordinary Americans have? Consider a newspaper editor, for example, whose editorials are consistently calling for an independent investigation into the torture and sex-abuse scandals at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq. Suppose the Pentagon decided that those editorials were supporting terrorists, albeit indirectly. They send a squad of soldiers to pick up the editor and then transfer him to the same naval brig in South Carolina where they’re holding Padilla.
What could the editor do? The answer is, under the Padilla doctrine: Nothing…
Under the Padilla doctrine, there would be no check on the power of the military to take people into custody and punish them, even execute them.
related stories:
Have you seen the 9/11 ’scandal’ where they knew about Mohammed Atta and did nothing- this will be used as an excuse to take out Americans that have no criminal record, ‘we gotta get him before he blows up a city’.
and I just heard on NPR that terrorists can now make nuke bombs using their kitchen blender as a centrifuge. Booga Booga, “now let us haul away your quiet neighbors- they’re really closet terrorists brewing up homemade nukes.” BOO!
Bush v Castro, Beyond Incompetence, Israel got their wall, Bush mia, Return to NOLA, Chumped, Katrina lack of response pattern, etc
(the previous flyer gallery was hacked)
The Revolution in my home town hereby comes to a screeching halt. Completely broke I finally found a full-time job. Last night i came home, cooked dinner, did the dishes, read with the kids then fell asleep exhausted. With a full-time job, who’s got time to be a revolutionary?
As such I will have very little time or energy to continue the fight. I give up and join the legions of good germans pretending all is well.
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my last multimedia contributions for a while:
fixed dead links for a few songs on the music page
In the spirit of the Ukraine…
“Police: Join the People” 2 page pdf - might be effective if there were hundreds of these in the DC crowd… something for the cops to consider.
Insane Bush Policies pdf- the gov’t has agents infiltrating peace groups, so we should have agents infiltrating the gov’t sponsored pro-war groups. This is a five page pdf with stupid bush policies- I’m going to join the pro-war protest and declare my support for: “Pre-emptive nuclear strikes, detain americans indefinitely without a trial, etc… There are so many more- but i’m out of time. by for now.
Pre-emptive Nuke Attacks! Who voted for this?!
The Pentagon has drafted a revised doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons that envisions commanders requesting presidential approval to pre-empt an attack by a nation or terror group using weapons of mass destruction. The draft also includes the option of using nuclear arms to destroy known enemy stockpiles of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.
The document, written by the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs staff but not yet approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld…
full story at Wash Post or BellaCiao
Oh Great! The only thing that will stop this from becoming official policy is a sober assessment by Rumsfled… ha ha ha ha ha - sounds funny just typing it.
So let me get this straight… the attack on Iraq was a pre-emptive attack which turned out to be a big mistake. OOPS, sorry, they didn’t have WMDs. So now the insane members of the Bush cabal want to repeat, but this time with nuclear weapons. I guess in their eyes it’s better, because then nobody will ever know if the pre-emption was necessary or not- all the evidence was destroyed- how convenient.
This is F*@%ing insane!!!
JP 3-12: Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations
Related fact: This plan was written by Gen. Richard Myers- who on 9/11 saw the first burning tower, then went into a meeting and didn’t come out until it was all over - one of the mistakes that led to no fighter jets that morning.
from the latest NY Times - CBS News poll:
Bellaciao link in case NYTimes link dies
52 percent of people interviewed called for an immediate withdrawal
Previously polls have shown only a minority (11% was the last i saw) voting for an immediate withdrawal - so this change to 52% is huge!
1st off- Dean’s comment is stupid. Bush & Co Lied to start the war, their planning sucked bigtime- but Dean can’t offer up any suggestions of his own, he wants the same losers to come up with another plan? How did idiots like this get to the top? (Kucinich had a plan to withdraw in 90 days, but he’s swapped that for the new weak version.)
In other words, 52% of America wants out of Iraq immediately, yet these 140 million Americans have ZERO representation in DC. Not a single Congressman or Senator.
US Air Force Col Robert Bowman: “I want to start with a scary thought: Can you imagine what would have happened if George W. Bush had been President during the Cuban missile Crisis”
“You know our freedoms are not under attack from the remnants of Saddam Hussein’s Bathist Party. They’re under attack by the likes of John Ashcroft. They’re trampled by Donald Rumsfeld, they’re disdained by Dick Cheney, and they’re not even understood by George W. Bush.”
full transcript below…
5mb mp3 of Col Bowman’s speech
music by Layo and Bushwacka
from the Bowman1 video located at this video gallery
Need a poster? 24 x 18 (or 8.5 x 11) pdfs
Many Iraqis believe ’suicide’ bombings done by US to start a civil war
Ali Ghazi, also a Shia from the Iraqi deep south. “I believe it is the Americans who are doing this, pretending it is the Sunni, so there will be a civil war and they can control our wealth.” Many survivors lying mangled by this morning’s bombs subscribed to a conspiracy theory according to which the US wants to rule Iraq by fomenting differences between Shia and Sunni…
Many of those wounded denied there would be a war between Shia and Sunni. Mohammed Abdul Karim, an injured Shia at Noman hospital, pointed out that he was in a Sunni district and the Sunni doctors were doing everything to help him.
Context:
In the ’90s, (US hand-picked interim PM) Ayad Allawi helped the CIA bomb civilians to destabilize Saddam. Democracy Now
Bush says he may need more power in disasters
He wants Congress to look into whether presidential authority should be expanded in times of catastrophes like Katrina.
– Props to SpeakSpeak
Bush wants the power to order the military to arrest people in the US. Currently, the military is barred by the Posse Comitatus Act from arresting people in the US.
Protests can be declared “emergencies” for soldiers to arrest protestors.
Taken in the context of 100,000 dead in Iraq on a war of choice, could those same twisted decision makers allow thousands to suffer and die as an excuse to gain more power? And knowing the Republican Rubber Stamp Congress, you know this is going to happen. In effect we’re looking at the beginning of The Clampdown. In a few weeks? months? Soldiers on US Soil arresting citizens and locking them away indefinitely. Holy shit!
I suggest town hall meetings everywhere, demand airtime on your local ‘public’ radio station- create a Bill of Rights safety zone in your community- get your local cops (who are hopefully good people) on your side.
We don’t need soliders arresting American citizens- ever!
We don’t need to lock away American citizens without a trial.
People argue that good cops wouldn’t take out dissenters. This is not like the Nazis rounding up people and locking them up in camps…… Yet. It’s getting very close to that. Local cops won’t burst into someone’s home with a gun, but 
*some* troops will. Could closed military bases be turned into detainment camps? Just last week on the Floor of the House, Cynthia Mckinney said that in 1987 there was a government plan in case of a black uprising: martial law, detainment camps, using the military against American citizens.
Please send this to all of your Republican aquaintences. Do they buy this bit about the Katrina failure leading to using the military against our own citizens? What about locking away citizens without a trial- why does that make us safer?
Paul Craig Roberts, a former Reagan official, is one of a growing number of honest Americans speaking out:
The executive branch has gained the unaccountable power to detain American citizens on mere suspicion or accusation, without evidence, and to hold Americans indefinitely without a trial.
Foolishly, many Americans believe this power can only be used against terrorists. Americans don’t realize that the government can declare anyone to be a terrorist suspect. As no evidence is required, it is entirely up to the government to decide who is a terrorist. Thus, the power is unaccountable. Unaccountable power is the source of tyranny.
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=7282
Is everyone really ‘too busy’ to do anything to stop this madness?
“But we voted for him….” BULLSHIT! The 2000, 2002 & 2004 elections were DIEBOLDed. And not just the presidential, but many Congressional seats as well- if they hadn’t stolen it, they’d be impeached and in prison by now.
Here’s a few other accounts about ‘levee explosions’ - backing up this previous post in which during an ABC News interview New Orleans 9th Ward resident Joe Edwards claims he heard a loud explosion.
Globe and Mail via BellaCiao
“Then we heard a loud boom,” says Mr. Anderson, a juvenile detention officer. “We thought it was a generator at first but then we later learned that it was the levee. That someone was trying to put a hole in it to relieve some of the water pressure or divert some water or something and that hole led to a much bigger one. “Someone was trying to do the right thing, I think, and it created a much bigger problem. It’s going to all come out, what happened. I don’t think you can blame this on racism.”
via Ernie the Attorney:
“If you’ve noticed, there has been no or very little mension of St. Bernard. That’s because it was really bad there and there was no help. They were not helping anyone get out. It was just people helping people. Helicopters actually flew over and just took pictures didn’t try to help anyone. He has six rolls of film. [He] got a boat and actually rescued people. He broke into a two story house and stayed there. There were bodies everywhere of people and animals. He also mentioned that right before the mass flood there was a loud sound like an explosion. We think they may have blew up the levee and trying to keep it quiet. That’s why they are not mentioning anything about us.
from the WashPost:
Mullen has a schoolteacher’s kindly demeanor, so it was jarring to hear him say he suspected that the levee breaks had somehow been engineered to keep the wealthy French Quarter and Garden District dry at the expense of poor black neighborhoods like the Lower Ninth Ward — a suspicion I heard from many other black survivors.
Rosa Clemente was arrested shortly after writing this:
click here for an audio version of this account
We came up on the Convention Center, and after all the clean up, it still looked like a living hell, the smell of dead bodies was overwhelming, what was more crazy and shows the inhumanity, the VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as defined by the Internatinal Convention on Human Rights and the CRIMINAL MISCONDUCT of these devils, and that includes, Condi and Alberto, is that there were plenty of hotels, The Marriot, The Wyndham, The Holiday Inn, that were completely habitable, if this @#%$ supreme court can take my house on some eminent domain @#%$, why didn’t they declare eminent domain and take corporate property for the public good.
As Brad stated “This, the Convention center is our modern day slave vessel and our people are in the midst of the Middle Passage” meanwhile five feet from this hell were the castles; The Marriot, The Wyndham, Holiday Inn….
As New Orleans is under marshal law, last night around 6:30pm the military informed us that anyone on the streets would get a warning shot, and after that be shot on the spot, throughout the night, we saw groups of white men riding around in pickup trucks, vigilantes, along with the NOPD and the @#%$ NYPD, yes, yes yall the NYPD is in the house, this is the battle ground, this is the BATTLE FOR ALGIERS, ….
GET DOWN HERE AND HELP US!
entire account is a must read
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download the ABC News video clip at total411.info
JOE EDWARDS, JR., 9TH WARD RESIDENT: I heard something go BOOM!
MUIR: Joe Edwards rushed to get himself and as many neighbors as possible into his truck. They drove to this bridge, where they’ve been living ever since
EDWARDS: My house broke in half. My mother’s house just disintegrated. It was a brick house. All the houses down there floated down the street like somebody’s guiding ‘em
MUIR: Was it solely the water that broke the levee, or was it the force of this barge that now sits where homes once did? Joe Edwards says neither. People are so bitter, so disenfranchised in this neighborhood, they actually think the city did it, blowing up the levee to save richer neighborhoods like the French Quarter.
MUIR: So you’re convinced . . .
EDWARDS: I know this happened!
MUIR: . . . they broke the levee on purpose?
EDWARDS: They blew it!
So New Orleans resident Mr. Edwards heard an explosion just before the levee broke… seems like it’s worthy of an investigation, but instead the mainstream media buries the story. Implications?
It’s time for the Democrats to rise up and stop doing business as usual
Our personal safety and the future of the nation are at grave risk. The Republicans are craftily turning this fiasco that may be criminal malfeasance into an example of why big government doesn’t work. Well, it doesn’t work because we have a man with arrested development, who lives in a bubble, running the government into the ground. Bush has said he’s our CEO. Well, any CEO with his record of failure would have been fired long ago.
Hell yeah!
Over 100 trucks await orders from FEMA to bring water to NOLA“They’ve got their thumbs up their as
Food Not Bombs volunteers:
We spent a couple hours talking with the semi drivers, who were operating under FEMA to bring water and food into New Orleans - but, as we saw, all were just sitting in the parking lot waiting for directions. Some had been there for days, some for more than a week, without any food or supplies from the government or any other relief agencies.Many shared stories of frustration with the bureaucracy of the federal government and FEMA. Dozens of tanker trucks carrying 50,000 gallons of water each were parked in rows, awaiting orders to travel into affected areas and fill up 10-gallon jugs to hand out. Only a few trucks at a time are allowed in, and it takes nearly 24 hours to empty a tanker, leaving the majority of them sitting around doing absolutely nothing.
It’s like they’re trying to drive people out by not providing residents with necessary supplies… now why would anyone want that… hmmmm?
from the SF Chronicle via BellaCiao
On Saturday, after being challenged in court by CNN, the Bush administration agreed not to prevent the news media from following the effort to recover the bodies of Hurricane Katrina victims.
But on Monday, in the Bywater district, that assurance wasn’t being followed. The 82nd Airborne soldier told reporters the Army had a policy that requires media to be 300 meters — more than three football fields in length — away from the scene of body recoveries in New Orleans. If reporters wrote stories or took pictures of body recoveries, they would be reported and face consequences, he said, including a loss of access for up-close coverage of certain military operations.
Are there any investigative reporters with telephoto lenses willing to risk it all to uncover the truth?
FEMA hired a mobile morgue to take care of the bodies in New Orleans. That’s why bodies are left in the streets, because nobody is allowed to touch them except FEMA’s morticians… problem is they hired a firm that previously dumped bodies in the woods!
The Menorah Gardens cemetery chain, owned by SCI, desecrated vaults, removed hundreds of bodies from two cemeteries in Florida and dumped the gruesome remains in woods frequented by wild hogs, investigators discovered in 2001. In one case, a backhoe was used to crack open a vault, remove corpses and make room for more dead bodies.
SCI paid $100 million to settle a lawsuit filed by outraged family members of the deceased.
A secretary at the lawfirm that sued SCI over the Florida cemetery scandals gasped when informed that FEMA had outsourced handling of Katrina victims’ bodies to an SCI subsidiary.
“Oh, good lord!” she said.
Peter Hartmann, general manager of the Menorah Gardens Cemetery chain, was later found dead in his car from carbon monoxide poisoning outside his parents’ home in an apparent suicide.
RAW STORY calls to FEMA were not returned.
Waltrip, chairman of SCI, is a longtime friend of Bush’s father, former President George Herbert Walker Bush. The firm’s political action committee donated $45,000 to George W. Bush’s 1994 gubernatorial campaign.
Wake someone today!
End involuntary servitude, Cancel all 'Stop Loss' orders
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Bloggers Unite! - Put up a banner like this- It's time for an open-ended march in DC. No more Saturday protests when Congress isn't even there!
