Sunday, July 24, 2005
Saturday, July 23, 2005
one thing about being black that never ends---having to prove you're a human being again and again and again...
ramses II 19th khemetan dynasty
siddhartha the buddha
i had to take time out from my usual bush-bashing in order to try and set the record straight . once again over dar kush blog the subject of discussion had turned to race . this time race and iq .
the blog's author , writer steven barnes had presented his ideas on why proponents of the bell curve were incorrect about blacks being intellectually inferior .
of course i had to throw in my 2 cents , among other things citing dr. cheik anta diop's observation that the world's earliest civilizations were all found in the southern part of the northern hemisphere--in what diop referred to as "negrolands" while nothing of note in terms of civilization existed in the eurasian heartland during that same time period --so how could blacks be intellectually inferior if the arts and sciences of civilization were all developed first in the black regions of the world ?
one of the posters responded that ancient khemet (egypt) could hardly be described as having been dominated by blacks and even an article by the infamous mary lefkowitz was cited .
in response i posted the quote from diop and part of the article by professor manu ampim citing the massive, deliberate erasure of black images and artifacts from ancient khemet by european and american "scholars" in a DISGUSTINGLY CRIMINAL effort to whitenize what was clearly a black african civilization located IN AFRICA ...so in case any might wonder at today's departure from the usual fest of bush-bashing and spin busting--- this is the reason why .
i really didn't think that in the year 2005 ce and 6245 by the khemetan calendar the black people of the world would still be having to try and convince people that we are not some intellectually inferior sub-species of the human race--but i guess i was too optimistic about some whites.
and i must admit , it does get more than a little annoying to have to repeatedly prove that you're a human being to --of all people-- the last bunch of folks on the planet to find out that the earth is not flat--the same people your ancestors taught how to read and write and raised up from savagery and barbarism .
siddhartha the buddha
i had to take time out from my usual bush-bashing in order to try and set the record straight . once again over dar kush blog the subject of discussion had turned to race . this time race and iq .
the blog's author , writer steven barnes had presented his ideas on why proponents of the bell curve were incorrect about blacks being intellectually inferior .
of course i had to throw in my 2 cents , among other things citing dr. cheik anta diop's observation that the world's earliest civilizations were all found in the southern part of the northern hemisphere--in what diop referred to as "negrolands" while nothing of note in terms of civilization existed in the eurasian heartland during that same time period --so how could blacks be intellectually inferior if the arts and sciences of civilization were all developed first in the black regions of the world ?
one of the posters responded that ancient khemet (egypt) could hardly be described as having been dominated by blacks and even an article by the infamous mary lefkowitz was cited .
in response i posted the quote from diop and part of the article by professor manu ampim citing the massive, deliberate erasure of black images and artifacts from ancient khemet by european and american "scholars" in a DISGUSTINGLY CRIMINAL effort to whitenize what was clearly a black african civilization located IN AFRICA ...so in case any might wonder at today's departure from the usual fest of bush-bashing and spin busting--- this is the reason why .
i really didn't think that in the year 2005 ce and 6245 by the khemetan calendar the black people of the world would still be having to try and convince people that we are not some intellectually inferior sub-species of the human race--but i guess i was too optimistic about some whites.
and i must admit , it does get more than a little annoying to have to repeatedly prove that you're a human being to --of all people-- the last bunch of folks on the planet to find out that the earth is not flat--the same people your ancestors taught how to read and write and raised up from savagery and barbarism .
THE AFRICAN ORIGIN OF EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
aha-mena 1st pharoah of ancient khemet/egypt 3100 bc (approx.)
king zoser 3rd dynasty
african woman 12th dynasty
queen tiye 18th dynasty ancient khemet
DR. CHEIKH ANTA DIOP
& THE AFRICAN ORIGIN OF EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
By RUNOKO RASHIDI
DEDICATED TO DR. THEOPHILE OBENGA
At this point Egypt continues to dominate the focus of our African oriented studies. These studies have clearly demonstrated that not only were early Egypt's origins African, but that through the whole of Egypt's Dynastic Era (the age of the Pharaohs), and during all of her many periods of national splendor, men and women with black skin complexions, broad noses, full lips, and tightly curled hair, were dominant in both the general population and governing elite.photo
In the intense and unrelenting struggle to establish scientifically the African foundations of Egyptian civilization, the late Senegalese scholar Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop remains a most fierce and ardent champion. Dr. Diop (1923-1986) was without a doubt the world's leading Egyptologist and held the position of Director of the Radiocarbon Laboratory at the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa in Dakar, Senegal. In stating the importance of the work, Diop noted emphatically and early on that, "The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt."
The solid range of methodologies employed by Dr. Diop in the course of his extensive Afro-Egyptian labors included: examinations of the epidermis of the mummies of Egyptian kings for verification of their melanin content; precise osteological measurements and meticulous studies in the various relevant areas of anatomy and physical anthropology; careful examinations and comparisons of modern Upper Egyptian and West African blood-types; detailed Afro-Egyptian linguistic studies and the corroboration of distinct Afro-Egyptian cultural traits; documents of racial designations employed by the early Africans themselves; Biblical testimonies and references that address the ancient Egyptian's ethnicity, race and culture; and the writings of early Greek and Roman travelers and scholars describing the physical characteristics of the ancient Egyptians.
There is no doubt that Ancient Egypt was an African civilization.
SOURCES:
African Origin Of Civilization, by Cheikh Anta Diop
Civilization Or Barbarism, by Cheikh Anta Diop
GREAT AFRICAN LAND OF ANTIQUITY
A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF DYNASTIC KMT
By RUNOKO RASHIDI
"...It should be stated early on that from the very beginning of the predynastic Period to the first Kemetic Dynasty and through the mass of her Dynastic Period African people endowed with dark complexions, full lips, broad noses and tightly-curled hair were overwhelmingly dominant in both the general population and the royal families. The efforts of numerous scholars including Cheikh Anta Diop, Chancellor Williams, Theophile Obenga, Yosef ben-Jochannan, Asa Hilliard, Jacob Carruthers, Charles Finch and many others have demonstrated this beyond sane rebuttal. We need not review the evidence here. This has already been done thoroughly and conclusively and a comprehensive bibliography will be presented at the end of this series. This essay is intended merely as a brief synopsis of Kmt's royal dynasties."
the vanishing evidence of classical african civilizations
THE VANISHING EVIDENCE OF
CLASSICAL AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS:
“A 2001 Update”
Prof. Manu Ampim
"I originally wrote "The Vanishing Evidence of Classical African Civilizations" series in The Gaither Reporter in 1995-1996. The 3-part series documents the unintentional human-aided deterioration, as well as the deliberate and massive alteration, mutilation, and destruction of ancient Egyptian artifacts. The series covers three broad categories of this vanishing evidence: the Temple Evidence (part I), the Tomb Evidence (part II), and the Museum Evidence (part III). Before writing the series, I had meticulously studied artifacts and images at temples, tombs, pyramids, museums, and ancient residential sites throughout Egypt and Nubia (1990, 1994-1995). I also carefully examined ancient Egyptian and Nubian artifacts at nearly all of the major museums, institutes, and libraries in eleven European countries (1989-1990), and in dozens of cities throughout the U.S. and Canada (1991-1992). Overall, I painstakingly studied well over a million images and artifacts before writing the “The Vanishing Evidence” series.
My initial goal was simply to follow the path of research outlined by the eminent scholar, Dr. Chancellor Williams in The Destruction of Black Civilization (1974), and conduct primary research on ancient Black civilizations. As Williams pointed out, the accurate knowledge of African science, social organization, and advanced spiritual systems can only be known from an unbiased first-hand study of the history and artifacts. Though I began my extensive multi-country research tour with a mission of documenting the specific details of the advanced African civilizations of ancient Egypt and Nubia, a quite different and unexpected theme emerged in every region that I studied. I was struck by the specific patterns of deliberate alterations and defacement of the artifacts. These patterns became clear after I had visited the initial group of European museums. What I noticed most was that these acts were more than simply knocking off the noses of statues, they involve a much broader assault on ancient Black images.
Ikhetneb
The pair statue from the Tomb of Ikhetneb has lost most of its original paint on the faces and upper body of the two images, while much of the original paint on the legs and feet still survive. It seems evident that the darker paint has been deliberately erased on the face and upper body, thus giving the images the illusion of a white-skin appearance.
METHODS OF DESTRUCTION AND ALTERATION
My observations of the evidence are careful and are supported by photographic and video documentation. The extensive study of over a million artifacts and images gave me the keen power of observation to make analyses of the same materials that are also available to Egyptologists, although most of them have not studied the volume of the materials that I have examined. When the artifacts in question were examined meticulously, I found that the methods used to change or damage the images are varied, and they include: subtly altering the shape of the nose on statues by using some type of sanding device; adding on false noses; reshaping or completely destroying the face on temple and tomb walls; lightening the color of the face and body paint on statues and paintings; completely eliminating the paint on statues and paintings and thus making the images appear “white”; destroying the lower facial structure, particularly the chin and jaw area; putting in false bluish-gray inlaid eyes; plastering over temple images with White Portland Cement during ongoing “conservation” work; and creating outright forgeries! These acts of fraud and deliberate destruction is what I call the handiwork of modern conspirators. I was stunned by such an angry, vicious, and widespread attack against Black images by the enemies of Classical African Civilizations."
CLASSICAL AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS:
“A 2001 Update”
Prof. Manu Ampim
"I originally wrote "The Vanishing Evidence of Classical African Civilizations" series in The Gaither Reporter in 1995-1996. The 3-part series documents the unintentional human-aided deterioration, as well as the deliberate and massive alteration, mutilation, and destruction of ancient Egyptian artifacts. The series covers three broad categories of this vanishing evidence: the Temple Evidence (part I), the Tomb Evidence (part II), and the Museum Evidence (part III). Before writing the series, I had meticulously studied artifacts and images at temples, tombs, pyramids, museums, and ancient residential sites throughout Egypt and Nubia (1990, 1994-1995). I also carefully examined ancient Egyptian and Nubian artifacts at nearly all of the major museums, institutes, and libraries in eleven European countries (1989-1990), and in dozens of cities throughout the U.S. and Canada (1991-1992). Overall, I painstakingly studied well over a million images and artifacts before writing the “The Vanishing Evidence” series.
My initial goal was simply to follow the path of research outlined by the eminent scholar, Dr. Chancellor Williams in The Destruction of Black Civilization (1974), and conduct primary research on ancient Black civilizations. As Williams pointed out, the accurate knowledge of African science, social organization, and advanced spiritual systems can only be known from an unbiased first-hand study of the history and artifacts. Though I began my extensive multi-country research tour with a mission of documenting the specific details of the advanced African civilizations of ancient Egypt and Nubia, a quite different and unexpected theme emerged in every region that I studied. I was struck by the specific patterns of deliberate alterations and defacement of the artifacts. These patterns became clear after I had visited the initial group of European museums. What I noticed most was that these acts were more than simply knocking off the noses of statues, they involve a much broader assault on ancient Black images.
Ikhetneb
The pair statue from the Tomb of Ikhetneb has lost most of its original paint on the faces and upper body of the two images, while much of the original paint on the legs and feet still survive. It seems evident that the darker paint has been deliberately erased on the face and upper body, thus giving the images the illusion of a white-skin appearance.
METHODS OF DESTRUCTION AND ALTERATION
My observations of the evidence are careful and are supported by photographic and video documentation. The extensive study of over a million artifacts and images gave me the keen power of observation to make analyses of the same materials that are also available to Egyptologists, although most of them have not studied the volume of the materials that I have examined. When the artifacts in question were examined meticulously, I found that the methods used to change or damage the images are varied, and they include: subtly altering the shape of the nose on statues by using some type of sanding device; adding on false noses; reshaping or completely destroying the face on temple and tomb walls; lightening the color of the face and body paint on statues and paintings; completely eliminating the paint on statues and paintings and thus making the images appear “white”; destroying the lower facial structure, particularly the chin and jaw area; putting in false bluish-gray inlaid eyes; plastering over temple images with White Portland Cement during ongoing “conservation” work; and creating outright forgeries! These acts of fraud and deliberate destruction is what I call the handiwork of modern conspirators. I was stunned by such an angry, vicious, and widespread attack against Black images by the enemies of Classical African Civilizations."
Friday, July 22, 2005
one last time...they hate each other !
"look boys either you two employees learn to get along ,or you're both fired--i've got 300 million americans to fool."
feb 13 2003
Misleading the Public
By Firas Al-Atraqchi
YellowTimes.org Columnist (Canada)
On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell dropped a bombshell at a Congressional hearing on Iraq and revealed that he had a transcript of an "upcoming" audio message from Osama bin Laden that betrays the links between bin Laden and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
However, the White House may have put its foot in its mouth this time around.
Upon careful scrutiny of the audio message from bin Laden (and broadcast at 3pm EST on the Arabic News Network Al-Jazeerah), it appears the Bush administration may have been so desperate to pin anything on Saddam and bin Laden that they did not wait to actually hear the contents of the message, nor provide adequate and reliable translation.
The bin Laden message expresses solidarity with the Iraqi people, advises them to remain steadfast in the coming invasion of their country and declares that Saddam and his aides are not important. "It is not important if Saddam and his government disappear," the man thought to be bin Laden says. "This is a war against you, the Muslims, and you must take arms to defend yourselves."
U.S. officials were quick to point out that the bin Laden message directly incriminates Iraq and proves the existence of ties between bin Laden's al-Qaeda and Saddam. U.S. media touted the official line before even hearing the tape, or awaiting a reliable translation. "Undeniably links Iraq with al-Qaeda," says one CNN anchor.
And then something happened that neither the U.S. administration nor the media anticipated: bin Laden called Saddam an apostate.
The audio message goes on to reveal that bin Laden believes Saddam to be a socialist and declares that "socialists and communists are unbelievers," thereby labeling Saddam an apostate of Islam, an infidel. It is worth mentioning that the government of Iraq is quasi-socialist and secular, and not Islamic.
Walid Phares, an Arabic-speaking MSNBC analyst finds that the audio message undermines Saddam's regime: "Osama bin Laden does not care about Saddam, in fact he can't wait till the demise of Saddam; he is trying to position himself to offer Iraqis an alternative ideology -- he calls socialism abhorrent to Islam."
The voice alleged to be bin Laden's in the audio message also called on the spilling of Saddam's blood: "His blood is halal." This wording is used to indicate what is permissive or legally allowed for the killing of a usurper or criminal.
The audio message also called forth the overthrow of governments supporting the U.S. -- Nigeria, Morocco, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
If bin Laden is effectively calling on Muslim Iraqis to overthrow Saddam and that Saddam is irrelevant in the coming war and Iraqis should not fight for him, how then can the U.S. administration use this message to prove Saddam and al-Qaeda are linked?
That question left some analysts baffled.
Kenneth Pollack, CNN analyst and anti-terrorism specialist, says that this is not the first time that bin Laden has used the plight of Iraq under sanctions and under Saddam to rally Muslims to his cause. In fact, bin Laden has spoken of the Iraqi issue since 1996, and has not hidden the fact that he is growing distaste for Saddam's socialist, Baathist regime.
"The October audio message this year was a four minute tape and bin Laden expressed sympathy for the Iraqi people," says Peter Bergen, CNN consultant on terrorism. "I don't see today's audio message as endorsing Saddam," he concludes.
If anything, bin Laden's message directed to the people, not leadership of Iraq, (any Arab speaker with two ears can testify that the opening lines of the audio message distinctly declare that this is a message to the Iraqi people) is ambiguous as pertains to alleged links with Saddam.
Nevertheless, U.S. officials maintain that this is all the proof they need. However, the U.S. viewing public must be aware that the they were only allowed to view excerpts of the 16-minute audio message, and contrary to what CNN has been proclaiming, it is not all about Iraq. The audio message also includes advice on refraining from alcohol and illicit sex, and respecting one's parents, in addition to other spiritual advice.
The audio message will not go down so easily in Europe and the Middle East and will be seen as a desperate attempt by a U.S.administration that has taken a bashing in NATO and at the U.N. to turn the tables around.
According to the BBC, "BBC's security correspondent, Frank Gardner, said the figure on the tape voiced support for Iraq, but that in no way did it prove a link between al-Qaeda and the Iraqi leadership."
Arabic speakers are sure to pour scorn on the official U.S. line. U.S. Congressional leaders, who have appeared on talk shows immediately following the excerpted broadcast of the audio tape have alluded to incorrect translations of the original Arabic content.
By default, the U.S. public is offered a half-censored, half-baked version of the audio tape.
While U.S. officials have conceded that the voice on the tape is indeed that of bin Laden, no one has bothered to focus on why the man U.S. President Bush vowed to get "dead or alive" is very much alive and a clear and present danger.
[Firas Al-Atraqchi, B.Sc (Physics), M.A. (Journalism and Communications), is a Canadian journalist with eleven years of experience covering Middle East issues, oil and gas markets, and the telecom industry. He is a columnist for YellowTimes.org. He can be contacted at firas6544@rogers.com.]
Thursday, July 21, 2005
the death of joe vialls...
the death of joe vialls http://www.rense.com/general67/jow.htm
this shocked me more than either of the london bombings --internet 'conspiracy author' joe vialls died .
immediately after the first london bombing people on the net were saying "where's joe vialls ? what's his take on these bombings" shortly afterwards he did issue a statement saying he had not commented because he fell suddenly ill --but was hoping for a quick recovery
--today i read that he died from his illness---whew ! i don't know what to think about this --this was a bigger shock than the strange death of gary webb
--in my opinion vialls used to shoot himself in the foot with some of the anti-jewish rhetoric , but his other reporting on things like what he called the peak oil hoax , the december tsunami caused by nuclear explosions , the bombings in bali , the murder of hariri in lebanon , the iranian missile surprise for the us fleet --- was amazing
this was the original statement issued a week after the london bombings
Note on Joe Vialls
July 14, 2005
To the many readers who have noted his absence in recent weeks, we are happy to report that Joe Vialls is still in the land of the living. However, in an email from him today Joe reports that he has been taken suddenly ill with total adrenal exhaustion.
In recent years Joe has become something of an authority on official malfeasance, writing on everything from the Beslan school massacre, the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman and the recent Asian Tsunami.
Coming shortly before the recent bombings in London, we cannot help but feel more than a little suspicious that the one man, who could have shed further light on the mystery surrounding these events, should be so suddenly incapacitated.
See our archive of articles by Joe Vialls:
www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/columnist.asp?ID=3
Footnote – July 18, 2005
It is with profound regret this website has received word that Joe Vialls, one of the great figures of Internet journalism, has passed away. Truly insightful, outspoken and informed, his death is a great loss to independent journalism. Readers are advised to save Joe's work, as in the months and weeks ahead we suspect that the 'Powers that be' will attempt to remove his work from the Internet.
http://www.joevialls.co.uk
joe vialls website
this shocked me more than either of the london bombings --internet 'conspiracy author' joe vialls died .
immediately after the first london bombing people on the net were saying "where's joe vialls ? what's his take on these bombings" shortly afterwards he did issue a statement saying he had not commented because he fell suddenly ill --but was hoping for a quick recovery
--today i read that he died from his illness---whew ! i don't know what to think about this --this was a bigger shock than the strange death of gary webb
--in my opinion vialls used to shoot himself in the foot with some of the anti-jewish rhetoric , but his other reporting on things like what he called the peak oil hoax , the december tsunami caused by nuclear explosions , the bombings in bali , the murder of hariri in lebanon , the iranian missile surprise for the us fleet --- was amazing
this was the original statement issued a week after the london bombings
Note on Joe Vialls
July 14, 2005
To the many readers who have noted his absence in recent weeks, we are happy to report that Joe Vialls is still in the land of the living. However, in an email from him today Joe reports that he has been taken suddenly ill with total adrenal exhaustion.
In recent years Joe has become something of an authority on official malfeasance, writing on everything from the Beslan school massacre, the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman and the recent Asian Tsunami.
Coming shortly before the recent bombings in London, we cannot help but feel more than a little suspicious that the one man, who could have shed further light on the mystery surrounding these events, should be so suddenly incapacitated.
See our archive of articles by Joe Vialls:
www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/columnist.asp?ID=3
Footnote – July 18, 2005
It is with profound regret this website has received word that Joe Vialls, one of the great figures of Internet journalism, has passed away. Truly insightful, outspoken and informed, his death is a great loss to independent journalism. Readers are advised to save Joe's work, as in the months and weeks ahead we suspect that the 'Powers that be' will attempt to remove his work from the Internet.
http://www.joevialls.co.uk
joe vialls website
Thursday, July 14, 2005
the secret cell of "al-maryland"
the recent bombings in london that have killed at least 50 innocent people, were almost immediately attributed to that nebulous creation called al-qaeda --alleged brainchild of one osama bin laden ( also known in some circles as one 'tim osman' ) .
almost as immediate were the questions raised by the official version of what took place .
from experience here in our own country with similar catastrophy , we have learned to carefully consider the initial news reports ...eye-witness accounts , reporters on the scene and first media responses of the officials in charge during these emergencies. we've learned over the years that sometimes these initial reports and responses are yet to be spun and at times yet to be censored sources of information that can be helpful in getting a clearer picture of what has happened .
was binyamin netanyahu warned by the scotland yard ?
--did the israelis warn the british days before the bombings?
was there a security drill going on at the exact moment and exact places that the bombs went off ?
did the authorities in london allow cell phone frequencies NOT to be disabled after the explosions had begun--even when it was believed that the madrid bombings were triggered by cell phones and there was no way of knowing in london if there were more attacks on the train stations to come ?
did the website that posted the al qaeda secret cell communique--announced to the world by media as taking credit for the bombings in london--was this al qaeda website actually traced back to maryland , usa ?
all of these questions arise and cast these tragic bombings under a suspicious light especially with tony blair then getting on tv saying the enemy is islamic fundamentalists --which could conveniently include iran--the nation some say is the bushites next target--even if iran had nothing to do with the attacks--look how the bushites hammered away with the big lie over and over until a significant portion of the american public believed iraq was connected to 9-11...
there are again too many unanswered questions for the public to accept the snap answers and rush to judgement that the bombings in london was an al-qaeda attack .
almost as immediate were the questions raised by the official version of what took place .
from experience here in our own country with similar catastrophy , we have learned to carefully consider the initial news reports ...eye-witness accounts , reporters on the scene and first media responses of the officials in charge during these emergencies. we've learned over the years that sometimes these initial reports and responses are yet to be spun and at times yet to be censored sources of information that can be helpful in getting a clearer picture of what has happened .
was binyamin netanyahu warned by the scotland yard ?
--did the israelis warn the british days before the bombings?
was there a security drill going on at the exact moment and exact places that the bombs went off ?
did the authorities in london allow cell phone frequencies NOT to be disabled after the explosions had begun--even when it was believed that the madrid bombings were triggered by cell phones and there was no way of knowing in london if there were more attacks on the train stations to come ?
did the website that posted the al qaeda secret cell communique--announced to the world by media as taking credit for the bombings in london--was this al qaeda website actually traced back to maryland , usa ?
all of these questions arise and cast these tragic bombings under a suspicious light especially with tony blair then getting on tv saying the enemy is islamic fundamentalists --which could conveniently include iran--the nation some say is the bushites next target--even if iran had nothing to do with the attacks--look how the bushites hammered away with the big lie over and over until a significant portion of the american public believed iraq was connected to 9-11...
there are again too many unanswered questions for the public to accept the snap answers and rush to judgement that the bombings in london was an al-qaeda attack .
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/alqmaryland.html
AL QAEDA WEBSITE TRACKS BACK TO ... MARYLAND???
Submitted by two readers. My comments follow.
Last night on CNN I heard them making a connection between the London
bombings and an “Islamic terrorist” website called alneda.com. I tried to
view the website but it’s been taken offline. I did find the following three
year old reference to alneda.com on CNN:
From: http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/06/24/binladen.video/
"These statements and others from al Qaeda have been appearing from time to
time on a Web site called www.alneda.com.
"In recent months, the site, which experts suspect is closely linked to al
Qaeda, also has posted manifestos signed "al Qaeda jihad" in which it says
bin Laden is alive and well and preparing future attacks against the United
States.
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Interesting "link" to al-Qaeda, as revealed by whois data for alneda.com:
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[WHOIS ALNEDA.COM]
Registration Service Provided By: DIRECTI
Contact: +91.2256797500
Website: http://www.directi.com
Domain Name: ALNEDA.COM
Registrant:
SFP, Inc
Jon David (jondavid@4jon.com)
Po 312
Berlin
Maryland,21811
US
Tel. +011.4107237089
Creation Date: 16-Jul-2002
Expiration Date: 16-Jul-2013
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Jon David, a fine Islamic sounding name, no doubt named after a martyr or
prophet or some such. Located in that hotbed of terrorism, Berlin, Maryland
USA.
I ran a traceroute to the web address. I've left off the first ten hops to
obscure the source of my trace, to protect my privacy. But as you can see
the trace ends up at broadwing.net:
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traceroute to alneda.com (65.89.91.148), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 11 sl-browing-15-0.sprintlink.net (144.223.246.82) 3.630 ms 3.539 ms 3.682 m
s
12 216.140.8.6 (216.140.8.6) 4.874 ms 4.364 ms 4.431 ms
13 p4-0.c0.wash.broadwing.net (216.140.8.89) 4.361 ms 4.321 ms 4.235 ms 14 p2-0.a0.nwrk.broadwing.net (216.140.9.2) 11.472 ms 11.432 ms 11.875 ms 15 P1-0.a1.dc.nwrk.broadwing.net (216.142.236.61) 11.453 ms !H * 11.596 ms
!H
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Broadwing Communications of Austin, TX. Hey, aren't we killing and
incarcerating Iraqis so we don't have to host terrorist websites in der
homeland?
Admin contact info for Broadwing is provided below. Might be fun to ask them
what they're doing hosting terror websites connected with the recent
bombings.
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[WHOIS BROADWING.NET]
Registrant:
Broadwing Communications, LLC
1122 Capital of Texas Highway South
Austin, TX 78746
US
Domain Name: BROADWING.NET
Administrative Contact:
Smith, Kyle DNS@BROADWING.COM
Broadwing Communications, LLC
1122 South Capitol of Texas Highway
Austin, TX 78746
US
302.283.2854 302.283.2802 fax: 302.283.2802
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Following another line of inquiry, the authoritative name records for
alneda.com are hosted by thewetlandsinc.com, and email for alneda.com is
directed to thewetlandsinc.com's mail server:
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; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> @A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET alneda.com ns
;; ANSWER SECTION:
alneda.com. 172800 IN NS ns1.thewetlandsinc.com.
alneda.com. 172800 IN NS ns2.thewetlandsinc.com.
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> @ns1.thewetlandsinc.com alneda.com ns
;; ANSWER SECTION:
alneda.com. 3600 IN NS ns2.thewetlandsinc.com.
alneda.com. 3600 IN NS ns1.thewetlandsinc.com.
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> @ns1.thewetlandsinc.com alneda.com a
;; ANSWER SECTION:
alneda.com. 3600 IN A 65.89.91.148
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> @ns1.thewetlandsinc.com alneda.com mx
;; ANSWER SECTION:
alneda.com. 3600 IN MX 10 mail.thewetlandsinc.com.
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Thewetlandsinc.com is registered to a web hosting company in Sarasota, FL:
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[WHOIS THEWETLANDSINC.COM]
Registrant:TheWetlands.com, Inc.
PO Box 312
Berlin, MD 21811
US
Domain Name: THEWETLANDSINC.COM
Administrative Contact:
David, Jon jd@THEWETLANDSINC.COM
12507 SUNSET AVE STE 21
OCEAN CITY, MD 21842-9296
US
410-723-7089 fax: 410-723-7085
Record expires on 13-Oct-2011.
Record created on 13-Oct-1999.
Database last updated on 9-Jul-2005 12:01:33 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS2.THEWETLANDSINC.COM 216.226.150.171
NS1.THEWETLANDSINC.COM 216.226.150.170
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“Abu Musab” Jon David of Maryland again! Note the registrant for
thewetlandsinc.com is TheWetlands.com, Inc.:
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[WHOIS THEWETLANDS.COM]
Registrant: TheWetlands.com, Inc.
Unlisted-Whois.com Protection Service
P.O. Box 229
Margaretville, NY 12455
US
Domain Name: THEWETLANDS.COM
Administrative Contact-
Unlisted-Whois.com, LLC Ref# 103974: nzsc2ntuv9was5e@brprivatewhois.com
Unlisted-Whois.com Protection Service
P.O. Box 229
Margaretville, NY 12455
US
Phone- 4107353410
Fax- 014107353433
Record create date: 1998-01-27
Record expires on: 2007-01-26
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Thewetlands.com is a Porn site. Kind of a strange place for an Islamic
fundamentalist to choose to host a jihadi website.
Returning to the registry for alneda.com, Jon David’s admin contact info
references an email address at 4jon.com; the admin contact for 4jon.com is
listed as a PO box in NY:
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Unlisted-Whois.com Protection Service
P.O. Box 229
Margaretville, NY 12455
US
Domain Name: 4JON.COM
Administrative Contact
Unlisted-Whois.com, LLC Ref# 103966: cb8hpkhy63m3h5@brprivatewhois.com Unlisted-Whois.com Protection Service P.O. Box 229 Margaretville, NY 12455 US Phone 4107353410 Fax 014107353433
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According the CNN June 25, 2002 web ariticle (URL listed above):
“The site reappeared in early June and this time CNN traced it to a
Web-hosting company in Texas. As CNN went to air with another story on it
last Monday, alneda.com once again disappeared from the Web.
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However, as the above traceroute shows, the DNS for alneda.com still points
web queries to broadwing.net, in Austin, TX.
Interesting how the U.S. corporate medium absolutely fails to point out that
this “terrorist” webiste is hosted in Texas.
Also interesting is CNN’s suggestion is 2002 that alneda.com had “once again
disappeared from the Web”. It appears it’s where it has always been. These
people never hear of investigative journalism? What I want to know is: who
the hell is Jon David, and why is he maintaining a “terrorist” website in
Texas?
Maybe we should notify the Berlin, MD police of the “terrorist” in their
midst. Or der Homeland Security? It also might be fun to contact Broadwing
and the domain name registrars and ask them what they’re doing associating
with terrorists? Weird how Muslim charities have been targeted since 911,
but somehow this “terrorist” alneda.com has managed to reside in Texas for
three years.
WRH: There has been a lot of information about the porn site creator who claims to have hijacked alneda.com. A lot of claims are being made back and forth, with one side saying this is an innocent explanation of why this website traced back to the US, and the other side saying the story is just spin created to create an innocent explanation after the site was exposed as tracking back to the US. Jon David is touted as a hero by some, as a pornographer by others.
alneda.com is hardly the only supposed "Al Qaeda" web site to trace back to the US, and in the wake of the FBI shutting down all Muslim websites starting the day before 9-11, any "Al Qaeda" website appearing to operate within the US must be viewed as probably a propaganda device of some kind.
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
coincidence ?
it seems there is an interview from a gentleman in england saying that his company was running a security drill to simulate bombings the same morning at the same time and at the same railway stations as the actual bombings in london last week july 7 ---if this is true , this has to be the greatest "coincidence" in history...just like the drills said being run by cia on the morning of 9-11-01 smacking hijacked aircraft into buildings ...
well at least tony blair didn't wander aimlessly like a lost child not knowing what to do when the ODDLY STRANGE AND HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS attack on his country took place
London Underground Exercises and the Magically Exploding Terrorists: Important Questions
Official government story changes every minute
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet | July 13 2005
Since we posted our original article about the exercises being conducted on the London Underground which targeted the exact same spots as the bombings that happened on the morning of Thursday 7th July, a firestorm of interest on the subject has swept the internet.
Important questions need to be asked of both Peter Power and Visor Consultants, the agency who were running the drill.
In both the ITN TV interview and the BBC radio interview Peter Power makes it clear that the team of crisis managers who were overseeing the drill quickly switched from exercise planning to real time management of the actual bombing itself.
"We had to suddenly switch an exercise from fictional to real," stated Power in his TV interview.
The company that Visor were running the exercise for is not named by Power. If Visor switched to real time management of the bombings, who else could the company be but London Underground or one of their affiliates?
continued
and here
canada free press :
Same-time-as-attack underground bombing exercise in London a chilling coincidence?
By Judi McLeod & David Hawkins Saturday, July 9, 2005 9:00 p.m.
Toronto-- Chillingly coincidental, the same 9/11 "war games" conducted during the actual tragedy on the morning of September 11, 2001, echo London underground "bombing exercises" which took place at the same time as the real attack, according to Alex Jones’ Prison Planet.com.
What are the odds of both human tragedies having coincidental "drills" going on at the exact same time real life was taking so many human lives in two terrorist attacks?
NORAD was conducting drills of flying hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon at 8:30 in the morning, September 11, 2001. A CIA planned exercise on September 11 was built around a plane crashing into a building.
"It is clear that at least five if not six training exercises were in operation in the days leading up to and on the morning of 9/11/2001," Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones wrote for Prison Planet.com today.
Basing their information on a BBC Radio 5 interview, Watson and Jones say a consulting agency with government and police connections was running an exercise for an unnamed company that revolved around the London Underground being bombed at the exact times and locations as happened in real life on the morning of July 7th.
"The host interviewed Peter Power, Managing Director of Visor Consultants, which bills itself as a `crisis management advice company’, better known to you and I as a PR firm.
"Power told the host that at the exact same time that the London bombings were taking place, his company was running a 1,000 person strong exercise which drilled the London Underground being bombed at the exact same locations, at the exact same times, as happened in real life.
"Peter Power was a former Scotland Yard official, working at one time with the Anti Terrorist Branch."
Power told BBC that the drill focused around "simultaneous bombings". Originally the London bombings were thought to have been spread over an hour, but BBC reports today say that the bombings were in fact simultaneous.
Watson and Jones say, "The fact that the exercise mirrored the exact locations and times of the bombings is light years ahead beyond a coincidence".
(In the drills on Sept. 11, 2001) "NORAD radar screens showed as many as 22 hijacked airliners at the same time. NORAD had been briefed that this was part of the exercise drill and therefore normal reactive procedure was forestalled and delayed."
And the NORAD and Visor Consultants drills are not the only factors linking the 9/11 and London terrorist attacks.
The British experience is the same play on the market as what happed on 9/11. Advance knowledge of these events could be making someone rich. U.S. treasuries go up. The Pound goes down. The Euro goes up as do gold and the Swiss Franc.
Who is the biggest trader in U.S. treasuries? Cantor Fitzgerald, owner of eSpeed, whose New York offices were on the 101st-105th floors of One World Trade Center.
ESpeed stock was shorted 42 percent of its value from August 7 to September 7, 2001 and no one seems to know why.
Sunday, July 10, 2005
WHO WARNED WHO ?
binyamin netanyahu:
"ummm...we got a warning from ummm...scotland yard...yeah that's what happened...scotland yard warned us about the bombings"
scotland yard :
"ummm...we got a warning from ummm...the israelis...yeah that's what happened...the israelis warned us about the bombings"
WHO WARNED WHO ?
IS SOMETHING ROTTEN IN LONDON ?
could we add this to baraka's 9-11 poem "who"-- part 2 ...3...4?
both scotland yard and mossad
raise right hand -swear to god
point fingers & issue official denials
will citizens demand these officials' trials?
"you warned us --we didn't warn you"
yet, we know somehow they both knew
twin towers , bali, london , madrid
are more than just "what al qaeda did"
July 7, 2005
Israel Warned United Kingdom About Possible Attacks
Summary
There has been massive confusion over a denial made by the Israelis that the Scotland Yard had warned the Israeli Embassy in London of possible terrorist attacks “minutes before” the first bomb went off July 7. Israel warned London of the attacks a “couple of days ago,” but British authorities failed to respond accordingly to deter the attacks, according to an unconfirmed rumor circulating in intelligence circles. While Israel is keeping quiet for the time-being, British Prime Minister Tony Blair soon will be facing the heat for his failure to take action.
Analysis
The Associated Press reported July 7 that an anonymous source in the Israeli Foreign Ministry said Scotland Yard had warned the Israeli Embassy in London of possible terrorist attacks in the U.K. capital. The information reportedly was passed to the embassy minutes before the first bomb struck at 0851 London time. The Israeli Embassy promptly ordered Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to remain in his hotel on the morning of July 7. Netanyahu was scheduled to participate in an Israeli Investment Forum Conference at the Grand Eastern Hotel, located next to the Liverpool Street Tube station -- the first target in the series of bombings that hit London on July 7.
Several hours later, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom officially denied reports that Scotland Yard passed any information to Israel regarding the bombings, and British police denied they had any advanced warning of the attacks. The British authorities similarly denied that any information exchange had occurred.
Contrary to original claims that Israel was warned “minutes before” the first attack, unconfirmed rumors in intelligence circles indicate that the Israeli government actually warned London of the attacks “a couple of days” previous. Israel has apparently given other warnings about possible attacks that turned out to be aborted operations. The British government did not want to disrupt the G-8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, or call off visits by foreign dignitaries to London, hoping this would be another false alarm.
The British government sat on this information for days and failed to respond. Though the Israeli government is playing along publicly, it may not stay quiet for long. This is sure to apply pressure on Blair very soon for his failure to deter this major terrorist attack.
For more breaking intelligence on this and other stories, please visit premium.stratfor.com.
Send questions or comments on this article to analysis@stratfor.com.
Netanyahu Changed Plans Due to Warning
By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press WriterThu Jul 7, 7:14 AM ET
British police told the Israeli Embassy in London minutes before Thursday's explosions that they had received warnings of possible terror attacks in the city, a senior Israeli official said.
Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had planned to attend an economic conference in a hotel over the subway stop where one of the blasts occurred, and the warning prompted him to stay in his hotel room instead, government officials said.
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said he wasn't aware of any Israeli casualties.
Just before the blasts, Scotland Yard called the security officer at the Israeli Embassy to say they had received warnings of possible attacks, the official said. He did not say whether British police made any link to the economic conference.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the nature of his position.
The Israeli Embassy was in a state of emergency after the explosions in London, with no one allowed to enter or leave, said the Israeli ambassador to London, Zvi Hefet.
All phone lines to the embassy were down, said Danny Biran, an Israeli Foreign Ministry official.
The ministry set up a situation room to deal with hundreds of phone calls from concerned relatives. Thousands of Israelis are living in London or visiting the city at this time, Biran said.
Amir Gilad, a Netanyahu aide, told Israel Radio that Netanyahu's entourage was receiving updates all morning from British security officials, and "we have also asked to change our plans."
Netanyahu had been scheduled to stay in London until Sunday, but that could change, Gilad said.
Copyright © 2005 The Associated Press.
Thursday, July 07, 2005
42 percent say if bush lied about iraq-war he should be held accountable
The Impeachment Question
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, July 6, 2005; 1:24 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/07/06
/BL2005070601211.html
More than four in 10 Americans, according to a recent Zogby poll, say that if President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment.
But you wouldn't know it from following the news. Only three mainstream outlets that I can find made even cursory mention of the poll last week when it came out.
You also wouldn't know it judging from the political discourse in Washington, but that makes a little more sense. After all, impeachment is for all practical purposes a political act, not a legal one. So with a Republican-controlled Congress that doesn't even like to perform basic White House oversight, it's basically a moot point.
Nevertheless, could there be anything that 42 percent of Americans agree on that the media care about so little?
The poll results certainly illustrate the intense polarization of the American electorate -- not exactly news.
But they also suggest an appetite for more investigation into Bush's reasons for war and specifically -- in light of the assertions in the Downing Street memos -- whether his public rationales were in fact at all like his private rationales. (cont.)
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
so when will they be tried for war crimes and for lying ?
Iraq War Planned Two Days After 9-11- Wolfowitz
Tuesday, 3 June 2003, 12:52 pm
Article: Jason Leopold
Wolfowitz Admits Iraq War Planned Two Days After 9-11
By Jason Leopold
While the hawks in the Bush administration attempt to justify the logic behind a pre-emptive strike against Iraq now that its become clear the country�s alleged weapons of mass destruction are nowhere to be found, the true reasons for going to war are finally coming to light.
In his State of the Union address in January, President Bush said intelligence reports from the CIA and the FBI indicated that Saddam Hussein �had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent,� which put the United States in imminent danger of possibly being attacked sometime in the future.
Two months later, despite no concrete evidence from intelligence officials or United Nations inspectors that these weapons existed, Bush authorized the use of military force to decimate the country and destroy Saddam Hussein�s regime.
Now it appears the weapons of mass destruction will never be found and many critics of the war are starting to wonder aloud whether the community was duped by the Bush administration.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, both of who spent a better part of the past decade advocating the use of military force against Iraq, put the issue to rest once and for all.
Judging by recent interviews Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz gave to a handful of media outlets during the past week, the short answer is yes, the public was mislead into believing Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States. Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz admit that the war with Iraq was planned two days after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
On September13, 2001, during a meeting at Camp David with President Bush, Rumsfeld and others in the Bush administration, Wolfowitz said he discussed with President Bush the prospects of launching an attack against Iraq, for no apparent reason other than a �gut feeling� Saddam Hussein was involved in the attacks, and there was a debate �about what place if any Iraq should have in a counter terrorist strategy.�
�On the surface of the debate it at least appeared to be about not whether but when,� Wolfowitz said during the May 9 Interview with Vanity Fair's Sam Tannenhaus, a transcript of which is posted on the Department of Defense website and is archived on Scoop. �There seemed to be a kind of agreement that yes it should be, but the disagreement was whether it should be in the immediate response or whether you should concentrate simply on Afghanistan first.�
Wolfowitz said it was clear that because Saddam Hussein �praised� the terrorist attacks on 9-11 that besides Afghanistan, Iraq went to the top of the list of countries the United States expected to launch an attack against in the near future.
�To the extent it was a debate about tactics and timing, the President clearly came down on the side of Afghanistan first. To the extent it was a debate about strategy and what the larger goal was, it is at least clear with 20/20 hindsight that the President came down on the side of the larger goal.�
In an interview with WABC-TV last week, Rumsfeld took it a step further saying United States policy advocated regime change in Iraq since the 1990s and that was also a reason behind the war in Iraq.
�If you go back and look at the debate in the Congress and the debate in the United Nations, what we said was the President said that this is a dangerous regime, the policy of the United States government has been regime change since the mid to late 1990s � and that regime has now been changed. That is a very good thing,� Rumsfeld said during the interview, a transcript of which can be found in Scoop's World News wire.
Rumfeld�s response is only partly true. He and Wolfowitz, along with Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the administration, wrote to President Clinton in 1998 urging regime change in Iraq but Clinton rebuffed them saying his administration was focusing on dismantling al-Qaeda cells.
In the bigger picture, Iraqis are better off without Saddam Hussein, who ruled the country with an iron fist, torturing and murdering any citizen who spoke against his regime. But that�s beside the point. The issue is the Bush administration lied to the world and launched an unjustifiable war.
And it�s just the beginning of a so-called two front war the U.S. is planning against other �outlaw� regimes. The administration is ratcheting up the rhetoric on Iran by making similar allegations that this country too poses a threat to national security by harboring al-Qaeda terrorists and building a nuclear arms arsenal.
Serious disagreements exist between the State Department and the Bush administration on how to deal with Iran, with the State Department pushing for an open dialogue and the Bush administration pushing for a new regime.
In a half a dozen interviews last week, Rumsfeld refused to respond to questions about whether the U.S. will use military force to overthrow Iran�s governing body.
�That�s (military force) up to the President but the fact is that to the extent that Iran attempts to influence what�s taking place in Iraq and tries to make Iraq into their image, we will have to stop it. And to the extent they have people from their Revolutionary Guard in they�re attempting to do that, why we�ll have to find them and capture them or kill them,� Rumsfeld said in an interview last week with WCBS-TV.
Wolfowitz, however, is more direct in how to deal with Iran. Responding to the question of whether military force will be used to weed out the clerics running the country, Wolfowitz said in an interview with CNN International Saturday �you know, I think you know, we never rule out that kind of thing.�
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- Jason Leopold is a freelance journalist based in California, he is currently finishing a book on the California energy crisis. He can be contacted at jasonleopold@hotmail.com.
Tuesday, 3 June 2003, 12:52 pm
Article: Jason Leopold
Wolfowitz Admits Iraq War Planned Two Days After 9-11
By Jason Leopold
While the hawks in the Bush administration attempt to justify the logic behind a pre-emptive strike against Iraq now that its become clear the country�s alleged weapons of mass destruction are nowhere to be found, the true reasons for going to war are finally coming to light.
In his State of the Union address in January, President Bush said intelligence reports from the CIA and the FBI indicated that Saddam Hussein �had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent,� which put the United States in imminent danger of possibly being attacked sometime in the future.
Two months later, despite no concrete evidence from intelligence officials or United Nations inspectors that these weapons existed, Bush authorized the use of military force to decimate the country and destroy Saddam Hussein�s regime.
Now it appears the weapons of mass destruction will never be found and many critics of the war are starting to wonder aloud whether the community was duped by the Bush administration.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, both of who spent a better part of the past decade advocating the use of military force against Iraq, put the issue to rest once and for all.
Judging by recent interviews Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz gave to a handful of media outlets during the past week, the short answer is yes, the public was mislead into believing Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States. Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz admit that the war with Iraq was planned two days after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
On September13, 2001, during a meeting at Camp David with President Bush, Rumsfeld and others in the Bush administration, Wolfowitz said he discussed with President Bush the prospects of launching an attack against Iraq, for no apparent reason other than a �gut feeling� Saddam Hussein was involved in the attacks, and there was a debate �about what place if any Iraq should have in a counter terrorist strategy.�
�On the surface of the debate it at least appeared to be about not whether but when,� Wolfowitz said during the May 9 Interview with Vanity Fair's Sam Tannenhaus, a transcript of which is posted on the Department of Defense website and is archived on Scoop. �There seemed to be a kind of agreement that yes it should be, but the disagreement was whether it should be in the immediate response or whether you should concentrate simply on Afghanistan first.�
Wolfowitz said it was clear that because Saddam Hussein �praised� the terrorist attacks on 9-11 that besides Afghanistan, Iraq went to the top of the list of countries the United States expected to launch an attack against in the near future.
�To the extent it was a debate about tactics and timing, the President clearly came down on the side of Afghanistan first. To the extent it was a debate about strategy and what the larger goal was, it is at least clear with 20/20 hindsight that the President came down on the side of the larger goal.�
In an interview with WABC-TV last week, Rumsfeld took it a step further saying United States policy advocated regime change in Iraq since the 1990s and that was also a reason behind the war in Iraq.
�If you go back and look at the debate in the Congress and the debate in the United Nations, what we said was the President said that this is a dangerous regime, the policy of the United States government has been regime change since the mid to late 1990s � and that regime has now been changed. That is a very good thing,� Rumsfeld said during the interview, a transcript of which can be found in Scoop's World News wire.
Rumfeld�s response is only partly true. He and Wolfowitz, along with Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the administration, wrote to President Clinton in 1998 urging regime change in Iraq but Clinton rebuffed them saying his administration was focusing on dismantling al-Qaeda cells.
In the bigger picture, Iraqis are better off without Saddam Hussein, who ruled the country with an iron fist, torturing and murdering any citizen who spoke against his regime. But that�s beside the point. The issue is the Bush administration lied to the world and launched an unjustifiable war.
And it�s just the beginning of a so-called two front war the U.S. is planning against other �outlaw� regimes. The administration is ratcheting up the rhetoric on Iran by making similar allegations that this country too poses a threat to national security by harboring al-Qaeda terrorists and building a nuclear arms arsenal.
Serious disagreements exist between the State Department and the Bush administration on how to deal with Iran, with the State Department pushing for an open dialogue and the Bush administration pushing for a new regime.
In a half a dozen interviews last week, Rumsfeld refused to respond to questions about whether the U.S. will use military force to overthrow Iran�s governing body.
�That�s (military force) up to the President but the fact is that to the extent that Iran attempts to influence what�s taking place in Iraq and tries to make Iraq into their image, we will have to stop it. And to the extent they have people from their Revolutionary Guard in they�re attempting to do that, why we�ll have to find them and capture them or kill them,� Rumsfeld said in an interview last week with WCBS-TV.
Wolfowitz, however, is more direct in how to deal with Iran. Responding to the question of whether military force will be used to weed out the clerics running the country, Wolfowitz said in an interview with CNN International Saturday �you know, I think you know, we never rule out that kind of thing.�
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- Jason Leopold is a freelance journalist based in California, he is currently finishing a book on the California energy crisis. He can be contacted at jasonleopold@hotmail.com.
Friday, July 01, 2005
internet personality test results
Your IQ Is 140 |
Your Logical Intelligence is Genius Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius Your General Knowledge is Genius |
yeah right --how do you guys know that i'm not just a good guesser ? i did just guess a few times ...but who am i to argue with "science" lol
You are elegant, withdrawn, and brilliant. Your mind is a weapon, able to solve any puzzle. You are also great at poking holes in arguments and common beliefs. For you, comfort and calm are very important. You tend to thrive on your own and shrug off most affection. You prefer to protect your emotions and stay strong. |
Your Daddy Is OJ |
What You Call Him: Old Man Why You Love Him: He's the Mack Daddy |
You Are a Pundit Blogger! |
Your blog is smart, insightful, and always a quality read. Truly appreciated by many, surpassed by only a few. |
oh yes our multitudes of readers have always agreed with that blog assessment ...lol
You Have A Type B+ Personality |
B+ You're a pro at going with the flow You love to kick back and take in everything life has to offer A total joy to be around, people crave your stability. While you're totally laid back, you can have bouts of hyperactivity. Get into a project you love, and you won't stop until it's done You're passionate - just selective about your passions |
like reagan's simplistic "just say no " anti-drug slogan , bush's "just stay the course" denies the on-the-ground reality of a worsening situation
We are losing the war in Iraq.
There has been a steady increase in the assaults carried out by the insurgents against coalition forces. The attacks over the past year have risen from about twenty a day to approximately 120. We are an isolated and reviled nation. We are tyrants to others weaker than ourselves. We have lost sight of our democratic ideals. Thucydides wrote of Athens' expanding empire and how this empire led it to become a tyrant abroad and then a tyrant at home. The tyranny Athens imposed on others it finally imposed on itself. If we do not confront our hubris and the lies told to justify the killing and mask the destruction carried out in our name in Iraq, if we do not grasp the moral corrosiveness of empire and occupation, if we continue to allow force and violence to be our primary form of communication, we will not so much defeat dictators like Saddam Hussein as become them. Chris Hedges, New York Review of Books--Issue December 16, 2004)
There has been a steady increase in the assaults carried out by the insurgents against coalition forces. The attacks over the past year have risen from about twenty a day to approximately 120. We are an isolated and reviled nation. We are tyrants to others weaker than ourselves. We have lost sight of our democratic ideals. Thucydides wrote of Athens' expanding empire and how this empire led it to become a tyrant abroad and then a tyrant at home. The tyranny Athens imposed on others it finally imposed on itself. If we do not confront our hubris and the lies told to justify the killing and mask the destruction carried out in our name in Iraq, if we do not grasp the moral corrosiveness of empire and occupation, if we continue to allow force and violence to be our primary form of communication, we will not so much defeat dictators like Saddam Hussein as become them. Chris Hedges, New York Review of Books--Issue December 16, 2004)