MW-10
Ivo Skoric
ivo at reporters.net
Tue Oct 30 19:36:32 CET 2001
1) The U.S. psy-op teams in Afghanistan are busy distributing
disclaimers over the radio waves. This is a reflection of the
Pentagon being run by lawyers these days. The disclaimers aim to
reduce the US liability.
"Attention, noble Afghan people. As you know, the coalition
countries have been air-dropping daily humanitarian rations for you.
The food ration is enclosed in yellow plastic bags. They come in
the shape of rectangular or long squares. The food inside the bags
is Halal and very nutritional. In areas away from where food has
been dropped, cluster bombs will also be dropped. The colour of
these bombs is also yellow"
So, yellow square bags are FOOD, pick them up and EAT. Yellow
round containers are BOMBS, do not pick them up, because they'll
eat you. Then, it goes:
"Of course in future cluster bombs will not be dropped in areas
where food is air-dropped. However, we do not wish to see an
innocent civilian mistake the bombs for food bags and take it away
believing that it might contain food."
2) Dangerous diminishing of civil liberties as a result of the recently
passed PATRIOT act already came to the US. More than 1000
people - mostly Arab - are detained on flimsy pretexts, without the
right to due process and usual legal protections. If unchecked, the
new measure can quickly end up as a tool of racism.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/302/nation/Secrecy_on_arrests
_fuels_righ
ts_debate+.shtml
The Boston Globe
October 29, 2001
Trying to make up for having failed to do anything to prevent the
Sept. 11 terror attacks and still apparently clueless, US law
enforcement agencies have been exhibiting extraordinary zeal in
rounding up and detaining hundreds of people. US government
officials refuse to disclose the number of people who have been
detained, but the total is believed to be close to a thousand. Many
are apparently being held on flimsy pretexts -- being an Arab while
having a box cutter in the trunk of one's car appears to be
considered sufficient grounds for indefinite detention. As far as is
known (which is not far, given that the authorities refuse to release
any details about names and charges), none of the hundreds of
individuals who have been detained have so far been charged with
any crimes directly linked to the events of 9/11.
Andras Riedlmayer
3) Now, that's some encouraging news, isn't it:
"On Oct. 28, 1999, Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) said that he believed
that some 48 Russian nuclear devices remained unaccounted for....
...General Aleksandr Lebed, the former Russian security czar, said
in 1997 that several nuclear suitcase bombs and tactical nukes
had disappeared from the Russian arsenal. In testimony before the
Congressional Military Research and Development Subcommittee
in October 1997, Lebed said there were bombs made to look like
suitcases that could be detonated by one person with less than 30-
minute preparation...
...During his trial for involvement in the 1998 bombing of two U.S.
Embassies in East Africa, Jamal Ahmad al-Fadl, an al Qaida
operative, outlined bin Laden's efforts to spend $1.5 million to
obtain a cylinder of enriched uranium. "
(By RICHARD SALE, UPI Terrorism Correspondent)
In the film Peacemaker a Bosnian Serb obtains a backpack
nuclear bomb from Soviet sources over middle-east connections,
intendning to blow himself up at the UN conference in NY. In film,
produced by Spielberg's Dreamworks, the good prevailed, and the
bomb was disabled before the big boom (so it was only a small,
non-nuclear boom).
ivo
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