'Fight
Smart' Update - 10 Feb 2002
Don't Take the Bait -
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Who is the enemy?
What Russian Press is saying
about War on Terrorism
Pravda,
Moscow Times, Nezavisimaya Gazeta
www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/WATrussianpress.htm
".... For Britain, Blair
said, has now found its new purpose in the post-colonial world:
to be a 'calming influence' and a vital 'force for good' around
the globe... Blair's minions are putting the squeeze on India to
accept a $1.4 billion deal with arms merchant
BAE Systems for 60 new jet fighters. This will no doubt have a
very 'calming influence' on the balance of power as the
subcontinent teeters on the brink of nuclear war -- the same kind
of calming influence gasoline has on fire."
Global Eye -
'Pretzel Logic': Moscow Times, Jan 18, 2002
(full report below)
(Russia
sees high risk of India-Pakistan nuclear war - 8 Feb 2002 - click
here)
"....Halliburton
has prospered in Russia and the Caspian region over the past 10
years with the backing of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, who
lobbied strongly for lucrative projects when he was Halliburton
CEO from 1995 to 2000."
'Sibneft Hooks Up With Halliburton'
Moscow Times, 8 Feb, 2002
(Halliburton and the Iraqi oil
fields - click here)
"After Sept. 11, hundreds of tactical U.S.
attack jets and fighters were sent to the Persian Gulf and bases
in Turkey close to the Iraqi border. Almost none of these jets
were engaged in Afghanistan...Russia's military...now believes
the highly concentration of U.S. air power in the Gulf may be
sent into action any day..... Informed sources in Washington say
that the attack on Saddam will in fact be postponed until the
fall....It is not surprising that Russian ministers have recently
openly criticized U.S. plans to punish Iraq, Iran or North Korea.
Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov has challenged the West to support
Russian actions in Chechnya, as Russia helped the West in
Afghanistan. Ivanov warned that failure to support the brutal
Chechnya campaign could end 'all talk about our unity and
solidarity.' There are powerful forces inside the military and
political elite that would gladly use a U.S.-led attack on Iraq
or Iran to shift the Kremlin's foreign policy into a more
traditional, anti-U.S. mode."
Moscow Times, 7 Feb, 2002
"The State of
the Union speech was a monumental blunder, a gross miscalculation
and a massive display of arrogance, which basically served to
take away any degree of sympathy, to counter all feelings of
commiseration and at a stroke, annul the outrage felt by the
international community for the United States in the aftermath of
September 11th. One wonders whether the President of the United
States of America had been eating pretzels again…they pack a
mighty punch, after all."
Pravda Online 11:00 2002-02-03
"The Russian
authorities and the community do not know so far, how to react to
the US’s presence in former Soviet republics. A very
important problem here, is to retain the influence on the
economic and political processes in the region. As it is known,
Moscow was ready to stand the USA’s presence in Central Asia
only for the period of the anti-terror operation in Afghanistan.
Russia’s reaction to a longer stay of the US army in Central
Asia has not been published yet. President Putin offered to
create a Eurasian gas alliance with participation of Russia and
Central Asiatic countries."
Pravda Online 16:09 2002-02-07
"There are at
least three dangerous political pretzels on Bush’s desk: a
swelled head from victories in Afghanistan, economic recession
and relations with Russia..."
'Itogi'
http://www.therussianissues.com/stories/2001/10/09/1002622810/1011706857.html
Pravda
15:13 2002-01-15
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/01/15/25601.html
IRINA MALENKO: SOMALIA’S PRESIDENT SAYS
THE USA TERRORIZES THE COUNTRY
The president of Somalia’s interim government says
the population is “terrorized by a propagation campaign
launched by the USA” that tries to present Somalia as the
country that could become a shelter for Osama bin Laden and his
followers.
President Abdikassim Salad Hassan told in his interview to
Reuters in Sudan’s capital Khartoum, that fear of US’s
bombardments hampers peaceful settlement in the country.
Washington considers Somalia as a potential target in the war
against terrorism.
“The people are terrified by a threat of US’s attack on
the poor country destroyed after a ten-year civil war”, told
the president. He stressed once again, no bin Laden’s units
were stationed in Somalia.
“We want the international community to help Somalia unite,
so that the country could not become a center for terrorism in
the future.”
Speaking about resources designed for struggle with terrorism,
Somalia’s president mentioned problems of the government:
governmental officials have not been paid salaries for four
months already, the Ministry for Information has only one
telephone line. He said, the feudal lords who want to throw off
the central government, try to profit by US’s unexpected
attention to Somalia. “For the sake of their selfish
interests they want US’s bombing in Somalia to seize the
power as the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.”
Abdikassim Salad Hassim says that Somalia is not like
Afghanistan, and the interim government is not like the Taliban
and he himself is not Mullah Mohammed Omar.
US officials visited the feudal lords, the opposition to
Somalia’s government in the southern town of Baidoa.
President Abdikassim reminded the USA about catastrophic
consequences of its “humanitarian” mission in Somalia
at the beginning of the 90s. It is evident, the president told,
that only striving for peace, not for a new war is the way to
beat terrorism.
Irina Malenko
PRAVDA.Ru
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REPUBLIC
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NELSON MANDELA AMENDS HIS SUPPORT TO
BUSH'S WAR AGAINST TERRORISM
US TERRORISM IN BELARUS
"Generally
it is impossible to carry out an act of terror on the scenario
which was used in the USA yesterday [11 Sept 2001]. We had such
facts too. As soon as something like that happens here, I
am reported about that right away and in a minute we are all
up.”
Commander-in-Chief of Russian Airforce,
Anatoli Kornukov
Pravda online: 18:50 2001-09-12
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/09/12/14983.html
Moscow Times
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/01/18/120.html
Friday, Jan. 18, 2002. Page XXIV
Global Eye -- Pretzel Logic
By Chris Floyd
The bloviations of public hypocrisy are a never-ceasing wonder to behold. The art of mouthing sanctimonious twaddle while peddling murderous hardball on the side requires a degree of moral dislocation -- an almost total divorce of word from deed, of image from reality -- rarely seen outside madhouses, government offices, televised pulpits and certain caves in remote Afghanistan. And these days there are no more adept practitioners of this dark art than those mighty Twin Towers now holding up the values of Western Civilization -- U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. As we all know, the snack-challenged American prez can scarce ope his upper orifice without intoning noisome pieties about his own "good heart," his love of God and his humble struggle to walk each day in the footsteps of Jesus. Of course, we also know that he is responsible for more state-sanctioned killings than anyone else in modern American history; that he has given himself the power to assassinate anyone on Earth, anywhere, anytime -- even without those dandy new tribunal powers he awarded himself last year -- and that through his connections to the Carlyle Group, that shadowy broker of backroom deals and bristling ordnance, his family and cronies will personally profit from every war and rumor of war he can stir up throughout the world. A sanctimonious death-dealing hypocrite, in other words, on a par with that other heaver of holy upchuck, Osama bin Laden. Bush churns out moral idiocy so fast it's hard to keep up, but last week brought us a particularly glaring example. The U.S. military is now amassing captured members of al-Qaida at its peculiar military base in Cuba. (We almost said alleged members of al-Qaida before we remembered the First Rule of Bush Jurisprudence: Everyone is guilty until proven innocent -- and sometimes even then.) The captives -- having first been forcibly shaved in an act of deliberate religious humiliation -- are now being caged and chained and subjected to, er, "intense interrogation." This treatment is a violation of the Geneva Convention, of course, but Bush has decreed that these men are "unlawful combatants," not prisoners-of-war -- despite all his soaring rhetoric about the September attacks being "an act of war" and so on. Therefore, in the chilling words of Pretzie's squinty henchman, Donald Rumsfeld, these human beings "have no rights." And because they are technically on foreign soil, they cannot avail themselves of the protections of the U.S. legal system. (Those not yet shredded by the Great Pretzel and John Ashcroft, that is.) Thus the captives can be trussed up, tortured and killed at the pleasure of Jesus' favorite little sunbeam, Pretzie. However, the Pentagon has forbidden the national press to show pictures of the prisoners as they disembark in their wretched state. And what is the justification for this ham-handed censorship? It's simple, say the brass: Such media intrusions on the captives' privacy would be a violation of -- you guessed it -- the Geneva Convention. Force FeedersThat kind of virtuoso performance is hard to beat, but eager apprentice Blair gave the Master a run for his money last week. Blair made a lightning trip to India and Pakistan, where -- as the representative of the former colonial power whose policy of deliberately fomenting ethnic conflict played such a huge role in making the subcontinent the tense and dangerous morass it is today -- he preached peace to the stirred-up locals, urging them to solve their seething conflict over Kashmir. Violence is not the answer to disputes about terrorist attacks and religious extremism, the gentle PM declared. Instead, both sides should emulate his own shining example. For Britain, Blair said, has now found its new purpose in the post-colonial world: to be a "calming influence" and a vital "force for good" around the globe. Bold words. Brave words. And -- obviously -- a load of old bollocks. As soon as Blair set foot back in Blighty -- having first stopped off in Afghanistan to visit the British troops stationed there as part of the West's violent response to terrorist attacks and religious extremism -- his government announced a push for a major foreign policy initiative. Peddling ArmsBlair's minions are putting the squeeze on India to accept a $1.4 billion deal with arms merchant BAE Systems for 60 new jet fighters. This will no doubt have a very "calming influence" on the balance of power as the subcontinent teeters on the brink of nuclear war -- the same kind of calming influence gasoline has on fire. Of course, if Blair can get those billion warbucks into BAE's coffers, Master Georgie will be very pleased. For one of BAE's business partners is -- God, this is almost too easy! -- our old friends the Carlyle Group. Faithful readers know that Daddy Bush -- the former peddler of poison gas to Iraq -- has long been feeding at the Carlyle trough, working his contacts with Saudi royalty, the bin Laden family, Asian dictators, South American junta honchos and other respectable characters to cement sweetheart deals for the Reagan-Bush retreads who skim the cream off Carlyle's $13 billion nest egg. Thus some of the blood money Blair hopes to gouge for BAE will eventually trickle down to Bush's pocket, after Pa joins the Choir Invisible -- a pretty hefty chunk, in fact, considering how Georgie sliced inheritance taxes last year. Pretty clever, huh? And you thought he was too stupid to feed himself. Listen, Bush may not know how to operate a pretzel, but when it comes to lining elitist pockets with loot, that boy don't miss a trick. More Moscow Times Stories State OKs
$2.5Bln Arms Budget |
Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Reprinted Counterpunch, 6 February 2002
By Vladimir Georgiyev
"....Under the banner of a peacekeeping mission, the US and other NATO member states will settle themselves on Kurdish territory and set up their bases, just as they have done in Kosovo. The Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, its construction financed by the US, will become the compensation for the separation of Kurdistan from Turkey.... Russia is not taking any measures thus far, apart from providing assurances via diplomats, supporting Syria and Iran with armaments, and advising them on military issues...."
click here for full story
Iraqgate
Phase III - Texan Congressman speaks of 'Forbidden Truth' - 6 Dec
2001
US and Russia began war against Taliban in beginning of 2001
"India is believed to
have joined Russia, the USA and Iran in a concerted front against
Afghanistan's Taliban regime. Military
sources in Delhi, claim that the opposition Northern Alliance's
capture of the strategic town of Bamiyan, was precipitated by the
four countries' collaborative effort."
Jane's
Intelligence Review, 15 March 2001
Russia
Today: Communist Leader Says 'NATO Forces' In Central Asia A
Threat
10 Feb 2002 09:50 GMT
Afghanistan Deja Vue in Russia, Chechenya and Kosovo
"Forget
the war on terrorism. The United States is once again supporting
the drug dealers, gangsters and warlord fundamentalists. The
other day a State Dept. official met Chechnya’s self-declared foreign
minister, Ilyas Akhmadov. The Russians were dismayed. Having
thrown their lot in with the supposed common struggle against
terrorism, they find the Americans giving support to terrorists.
Last month, after a post-Sept. 11 lull, the U.S. stepped up its
criticism of human rights abuses in Chechnya. The Russians
professed to be 'amazed' that the United States, as Agence France
Presse reported, would meet with Chechens, 'whose direct links with
Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda are being proven with constantly
emerging, irrefutable evidence' ... Chechnya has always been seen here as a
rerun of Kosovo, which itself was a rerun of Afghanistan.... Consider Kosovo: The U.S. is
currently brokering a deal on the distribution of power. Leaders of the three leading Kosovo
Albanian parties recently met the head of the U.S. office in
Pristina, John Menzies, and it was proposed that the job
of prime minister should go to Hashim Thaci’s Democratic
Party of Kosovo (DPK). Thaci is the leader of the Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA). Its links to Islamic terrorism and bin
Laden have been amply documented.... The KLA-NLA terrorists are funded by
U.S. military aid, the UN peacekeeping budget, Al Qaeda and by
drug trafficking and prostitution. If everything goes according
to plan, their leader is about to be appointed prime minister
thanks to U.S. efforts. O what a lovely war! Now on to Central
Asia.....
Washington now
has 13 bases in nine countries ringing Afghanistan and in the
Gulf..... Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz says the bases
will serve to facilitate cooperation and training with the local
military. In
other words, the U.S. will, as in the Balkans, play the Islamists
and anti-Islamists off against each other and reduce the
countries to abject dependence. If the fates of Kosovo and Macedonia are
anything to go by, the Soviet Union era will soon seem like a
glorious one. "
New York Press, 6 February 2002
What can Russia do?
"Because of the
danger inherent in possession of ever more powerful destructive
weapons by countries in all parts of the world, this new
technology should be understood and applied by the military
everywhere. The end result of applying such a technology would be
to reduce the role of destructive defense strategies and create a
safer world. The audiences I spoke to in Russia were
enthusiastic..... One General-Major was especially excited. A key
figure in the war in Afghanistan, he expressed feeling like those
of many of our own military personnel after Vietnam. He was sorry
for the inappropriate waste of lives, and has vowed to spend his
life working for world peace. As president of a new peace-keeping
foundation in Russia, he was optimistic that he could enlist an
'army' of 10,000 to practice this new technology for maintaining
peace."
Dr David R.Leffler
Moscow
hears about New Military Science in 1992 - After a long wait, is
now the time to implement?
Dr Leffler was a member of the
U.S. Air Force for eight years. He was assigned to Tactical Air
Command (TAC), United States Armed Forces in Europe (USAFE), Air
Training Command (ATC) and Strategic Air Command (SAC). Dr.
Leffler serves as a Peer Member at The Union Institute and is a
member of the U.S. Naval Institute. He has given presentations on
Consciousness-Based defence at the Russian Air Force Academy, The
Russian Academy of Sciences, and defence-related institutions in
the U.S.A.
1000 Flowers Kosovo Peace Appeal at Royal Navy Base, HMS Drake,
Plymouth - click here
"Stephen
Collins, star of the WB network's '7th Heaven,'
spoke out strongly on national television last Monday to support
Dr. John Hagelin's Proposal to Prevent Terrorism. Collins was a
featured guest on 'The Rosie O'Donnell Show'... Dr. Hagelin
has been in Washington, D.C., for the past two months, meeting
with top-level government leaders in the White House, Congress,
the National Security Council, the State and Defense Departments,
and the Pentagon to present a peaceful, scientifically validated
approach to preventing terrorism. The response has been very
positive, with growing bipartisan support for implementation of
the plan."
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- click here
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Additional Press Reports of Interest - 2002
The
Looting of America by Al Martin
NATO Leader To Europe Boost Armies Or Lose
Influence
North Korea's Upcoming Oil Boom
Federal whistleblower reveals terror threat
Halliburton's Iraq Deals Greater Than Cheney
Has Said
Nato warns US over 'evil axis'
CNN.com - Saudis ask U.S. to reduce forces,
W. House admits
Second pentagon plane
Did ally Pakistan play role in 9-11
Are We Running Out of Oil
Documents Link Enron's Fall to Clinton
'Corruption'
CBS News Hospital Worker I Saw Osama Tue, 29
Jan 2002
John Pilger - THE COLDER WAR
Second Video of Flight 587 Casts Doubt on
Crash Probe
America's Chaotic Road to War
US Aid Chief Says Afghan Damage Worst He's
Seen
Pentagon Budget Would Be Record
GAO
Vows to Sue For Cheney Files Hill Probes Enron Influence on Task
Force
What's Bush got to do..... got to do with it
RED, WHITE, AND BLUE STORM RISING
Who Helped Cheney
NLPWessex War on Terrorism Archives - click here
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