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Ivo Skoric
ivo at reporters.net
Fri Nov 2 20:55:20 CET 2001
American air attacks under attack - abroad, and not only in Syria
(Syria condemned them in harshest terms in the presence of the
blushing Blair), but in Russia, too:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25123
"In a scathing attack upon its supposed ally, Moscow
characterized U.S. food aid as "cynically reassuring the Afghans
they won't let them starve to death," while dropping "hundreds of
cluster bombs, killing the very same Afghans the Americans
pretend to care so much about. …" according to official Russian
sources.
Moscow cited new, high-tech weaponry developed by the United
States, including stealth helicopters and microwave beams, and
described Afghanistan as a "testing ground" for the U.S. At the
same time, Moscow strongly implied intentional U.S. carelessness
– and ineffectiveness – in the use of its weapons.
...and at home by Human Rights Watch:
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/arms/cluster-bck1031.htm
(New York, October 31, 2001) -- The United States should
immediately stop using cluster bombs in Afghanistan because they
pose an unacceptable risk to civilians, Human Rights Watch said
in a backgrounder released today.
The backgrounder details U.S. use of cluster bombs in Afghanistan
so far, as well as the history of the weapon's use in Kosovo and the
Persian Gulf War.
Meanwhile some Americans moan that they didn't do the towers
themselves...
http://villagevoice.com/issues/0144/ridgeway.php
"It's a DISGRACE that in a population of at least 150 MILLION
White/Aryan Americans, we provide so FEW that are willing to do
the same," bemoaned Rocky Suhayda, Nazi Party chairman from
Eastpointe, Michigan. "[A] bunch of towel head/sand niggers put
our great White Movement to SHAME."
More background information is pouring in from Fossil Fuelistan:
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=70755
"* Azerbaijan. Dick Cheney lobbied to remove Congressional
sanctions against aid to Azerbaijan, sanctions imposed because of
concerns about ethnic cleansing. Cheney said the sanctions were
the result only of groundless campaigning by the Armenian-
American lobby. In 1997, Halliburton subsidiary Brown & Root bid
on a major Caspian project from the Azerbaijan International
Operating Company."
And it must be tough for dialisis-bound Bin Laden to live in
medically challenged Afghanistan:
http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id
=470280&in_review_text_id=424130
by Toby Rose
Le Figaro today claimed that a CIA agent met Osama bin Laden in
a Gulf hospital as recently as last July and received "precise
information" about an imminent attack on the US.
According to the French daily, the agent met Bin Laden while he
was being treated at the American Hospital in Dubai for a kidney
infection. The agent was subsequently recalled to Washington.
The war on terrorism reached Paraguay:
Asuncion, Paraguay, Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Paraguayan
prosecutors suspect Arab shop owners in a border town long
known as a haven for smugglers have raised at least $50 million
for a Lebanese-based terrorist group in the last four years.
Three merchants in Ciudad del Este, a city on the border
with Brazil and Argentina that's packed with shops selling
pirated goods, allegedly funneled proceeds from store sales and
charitable donations to Hezbollah, a guerrilla group backed by
Syria and Iran that has launched attacks in Israel, said Carlos
Calcena, a Paraguayan prosecutor.
``We suspect that these people have been raising large
sums for this group over the years,'' Calcena said in an
interview. The lawyer for the three suspects denied the
allegations.
And some other national prominent figures are grabbing the
opportunity to express their chauvinist views:
http://www.aimpress.ch/dyn/trae/trae-all.htm
FRI, 02 NOV 2001 00:28:43 GMT
Pillory
At the height of the ongoing debate on proposed constitutional
changes, the senior clergy of the Macedonian Orthodox Church
(MPC) have made themselves heard in a tone of voice likely to be
judged as harsh to the liking of contemporary believers. Harsh,
perhaps, yet obvious enough as far as those the message was
addressed to are concerned AIM Skopje, October 18, 2001
Skopje Utrinski Dnevnik, a local newspaper doing its best to
maintain a reasonably balanced view of the current Macedonian
crisis, recently carried the warning of the head of MPC, Gospodin
Stefan, that "members of Parliament voting in favor of amending
article 19 of the Constitution which, in effect, equates the MPC with
the Islamic Community and the Catholic Church, will be put to the
pillory." At home and throughout the diaspora, names of all who
voted in favor of the amendment will be made public. They are to be
publicly dishonored, stigmatized and singled out as "traitors of the
Macedonian nation".
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