Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government 30 May 05

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After 'terrorism', US may take on 'extremism' 30-05-05

 

 

 

 

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30 May 2005

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After 'terrorism', US may take on 'extremism' --Bush regime is

currently reviewing anti-terrorism policies --Plans to look beyond Al

Qaeda [Al CIAduh] --Dictator George W Bush's administration is

conducting a broad internal review of its anti-terrorism policies, and

may shift the focus from capturing Al Qaeda leaders to a broader push

to defeat " violent extremism, " The Washington Post said on Sunday.

 

Review May Shift Terror Policies --U.S. Is Expected to Look Beyond Al

Qaeda --The Bush regime has launched a high-level internal review of

its efforts to battle international terrorism, aimed at moving away

from a policy that has stressed efforts to capture and kill al Qaeda

leaders since Sept. 11, 2001, and toward what a senior official called

a broader " strategy against violent extremism. " [bush is allowing his

freelancer, Osama bin Laden, to go free.]

 

RAF bombing raids tried to goad Saddam into war --The RAF and US

aircraft doubled the rate at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in

2002 in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an

excuse for war, new evidence has shown. The attacks were intensified

from May, six months before the United Nations resolution that Blair and Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, argued gave the

'coalition' the legal basis for war. By the end of August the raids

had become a full air offensive. The details follow the leak to The

Sunday Times of minutes of a key meeting in July 2002 at which Blair

and his war cabinet discussed how to make " regime change " in Iraq

legal. Geoff Hoon, then defence secretary, told the meeting that " the

US had already begun 'spikes of activity' to put pressure on the

regime " . [iraq memo.]

 

Smoking Bullet in the Smoking Gun? --by Congressman John Conyers " This

morning I read the new revelations, again the London Times, that

British and U.S. aircraft had substantially stepped up their bombing

activity in the summer of 2002 in an effort to 'goad Saddam into War.'

If true, we would seem to have the 'smoking bullet' to the 'smoking

gun' of the Downing Street Memo. I have prepared a letter to Secretary

of Defense Rumsfeld detailing these new charges and asking for his

response... "

 

Iraq orders Baghdad 'ring of steel' in war on resistance fighters 30

may 2005 Iraq's new [puppet] government said it had deployed 40,000

troops in a " ring of steel " around the capital yesterday in the

largest indigenous security operation since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

 

Iraqi forces launch crackdown against resistance fighters --Iraqi

forces on Sunday launched their biggest security crackdown since the

fall of Saddam Hussein with the start of a sweep by 40,000 Iraqi

troops who will seal off Baghdad and hunt for resistance fighters.

Over the next few days, Iraqi soldiers would block major routes into

Baghdad and search the city district by district, looking for foreign

Arab fighters and Iraqi rebels, Iraqi officials said. They would be

backed up by around 10,000 US troops deployed in the capital during

Operation Lightning.

 

Resistance thunder greets Iraq's lightning offensive --Thousands of

Iraqi forces have thrown a security net over Baghdad to snare

resistance fighters, who quickly struck back with a string of car

bombings...

 

British soldier killed in bomb attack on convoy 30 May 2005 A British

soldier was killed and four others wounded when a roadside bomb

exploded near a military convoy south of the Iraqi town of Amarah

yesterday.

 

Bombings across Iraq kill more than 50 30 May 2005 Attacks have killed

two U.S. troops and at least 50 Iraqis since Friday, including 10

people returning from a religious pilgrimage in Syria... A Sunday

suicide car bomb attack near the northern city of Kirkuk killed two

and wounded nine.

 

At least 35 dead as May's toll passes 650 --Suicide bombers kill 7

while trying to penetrate base 29 May 2005 The surge of violence that

has swept Iraq since its first elected government took office nearly a

month ago showed no sign of receding Saturday, with at least 35 new

deaths reported across the country, some of them in what appeared to

be sectarian killings.

 

Eleven UK soldiers face war crimes trial --Up to 11 British soldiers

and officers are under investigation for alleged war crimes over the

death of an Iraqi civilian in British custody, The Independent on

Sunday can reveal.

 

Long Jailings Anger Iraqis --A large proportion of inmates at Abu

Ghraib and another facility are held months without charges. A year

after the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal erupted, Iraqi anger has flared

anew over the growing numbers of detainees held without charge at the

notorious detention center and another prison in the south.

 

In Rising Numbers, Lawyers Head for Guantánamo Bay --In the last few

months, the small commercial air service to the naval base at

Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been carrying people the military

authorities had hoped would never be allowed there: American lawyers.

And they have been arriving in increasing numbers, providing more than

a third of about 530 remaining detainees with representation in

federal court.

 

General Defends Treatment of Guantanamo Prisoners --The Pentagon's top

general [war criminal] yesterday defended the treatment of detainees

at the U.S. Navy prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Gen. Richard B.

Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the United States

has done a good job of treating detainees humanely.

 

Thousands rally over Koran Desecration --Muslims spat on the American

flag, threw tomatoes at a picture of Dictator Bush and burned the U.S.

Constitution in protests Friday from Egypt to Indonesia over the

alleged desecration of Islam's holy book at Guantanamo Bay prison.

 

Blast Shakes NATO Headquarters in Kabul --An explosion shook the

headquarters of NATO's 8,000-strong security force in the Afghan

capital on Monday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries, a

spokeswoman for the force said.

 

U.S. senators call for inquiry into Uzbek killings --Three U.S.

senators reprimanded U.S. ally Uzbekistan on Sunday for refusing to

allow an international investigation into hundreds of deaths in the

eastern town of Andizhan earlier this month. Republican Senators John

McCain, Lyndsey Graham and John Sununu had traveled to the Central

Asian republic to investigate the violence in which witnesses said

troops opened fire on demonstrators and killed about 500 people.

 

S. Korean Foreign Minister Says No Sign of North's Nuclear Test

--South Korea's foreign minister said the government hasn't seen any

evidence North Korea may be preparing for an underground nuclear test

in the immediate future, as reported by U.S. and Japanese media.

 

Taking baton from Bolton, Cheney slams North Korean leader --US Vice

pResident Richard Cheney launched a personal attack on North Korean

leader Kim Jong Il, calling him an irresponsible leader who " doesn't

take care " of his people as he strives for nuclear power status for

his country. [Hello, Pot? This is Kettle...]

 

French Voters Reject First EU Constitution --French voters rejected

the European Union's first constitution Sunday, a stinging repudiation

of President Jacques Chirac's leadership and the decades-long effort

to further unite the continent. Opponents feared it would strip France

of its sovereignty and generous social system and trigger an influx of

cheap labor.

 

Dutch prepare to deliver their snub --Dutch government leaders

yesterday issued desperate pleas for the public to back the European

constitution as the Netherlands, in the shadow of the French vote,

prepared to deliver a large snub to the EU.

 

Report: Austrian lawmaker says he worked for Mossad --A former senior

official in Austria's Freedom Party said he worked for Israel's spy

agency while serving alongside its one-time populist leader Joerg

Haider, a news magazine reported Saturday.

 

2 Men, in New York and Florida, Charged in Qaeda Conspiracy --A

martial arts expert from the Bronx and a doctor from Florida have been

arrested on charges that they conspired to train and provide medical

assistance to Al Qaeda terrorists, federal and local authorities said

yesterday. The arrests came as part of a two-year sting operation that

ended with each man facing a single conspiracy charge. While the

authorities said that they had no evidence that either man had

actually provided support to terrorists, they said they had taped each

man swearing his allegiance to Osama bin Laden, Paul J. Browne, a New

York City police spokesman, said.

 

Two Americans Charged With Aiding Al Qaeda --The FBI arrested a

Florida doctor and a New York martial arts expert on federal terrorism

charges, saying they conspired to treat and train terrorists, federal

prosecutors announced Sunday.

 

H-P launches ID tracking system --Governments can use software to

track citizens -- Hewlett-Packard Co. entered the debate over whether

countries should have electronic identity systems by launching new

technology Friday designed to help governments keep track of citizens.

 

Message Is Clear in N.Va.: IM 'Threats' Can Bring Teens Trouble in an

Instant --In the past two weeks, two students in Arlington have been

arrested -- and were still being detained this weekend -- after their

apparent pranks made via 'instant message' were taken more seriously.

 

System Lets Parents Spy on Kids' Lunches --In the past, parents had no

clue when students bought a treat at school. Now, thanks to a new

school-lunch monitoring system, they can check over the Internet and

learn about that secret cookie... Three school districts in the

Atlanta area last week became the first in the country to offer the

parental-monitoring option of an electronic lunch payment system

called Mealpay.com, created by Horizon Software International of

Loganville, Ga.

 

Santorum Bill Hobbles Weather Service --A bill, filed 14 April by Sen.

Rick Santorum, R-Terrorist-Pa., would prevent the weather service from

competing with commercial weather companies but would still allow it

to issue alerts for threatening weather. Fueling criticism of the

measure is the recent disclosure that AccuWeather Inc. gave $2,000 to

Santorum's political action committee just before the bill was

introduced. Critics say the measure would cut off public access to

information paid for with taxes. " You could no longer call the weather

office,'' said Dan Sobien, vice president of the National Weather

Service Employee Organization. " Weather radio would be off the air.

There would be nothing but static except for warnings.'' Sobien said

weather service Web sites would go dark, the NOAA weather radio

service could not carry marine forecasts, and meteorologists would not

be able to talk to the public about local conditions.

 

New Social Security card proposed --Congress is moving to replace the

paper Social Security cards issued to 280 million Americans with

plastic, harder-to-counterfeit versions to try to curtail identity

theft and the use of Social Security cards and numbers by some

undocumented immigrants to obtain jobs.

 

68 Walk-In Offices Under IRS Budget Knife --On Friday, the IRS

announced that it would close 68 offices where taxpayers can walk in

for face-to-face help with their tax returns and questions. The plan

will put 434 employees at risk of losing their jobs.

 

Foreclosure Rate Rises Sharply --In 2000, the Philadelphia sheriff

auctioned off 300 to 400 foreclosed properties a month; now he handles

more than 1,000 per month. Allegheny County, which includes

Pittsburgh, had record auctions of foreclosed homes and officials

speak of a " Depression-era " problem.

 

Socialist Leads U.S. Senate Race in Vt. --In his eighth term in the

U.S. House, the independent socialist has carved out a career in

Congress as a Congress-basher. Now he is setting his sights on the

Senate, and everyone agrees he is the man to beat for the seat now

held by the retiring Jim Jeffords.

 

Census Statistics Indicate Vote Count Was Significantly Off --Where

did 3.4 million votes go? --by davidgmills " The official tabulation on

November 2, was 122.3 million voters. The census bureau predicted

post-election that 125.7 million people (thought they) had voted. Why

when we have so much evidence that the count was off and could have

been easily manipulated by the corporate computers of Diebold and

ES & S, which counted 80% of the vote, including 30% with no paper trail

whatsoever, why are not more people questioning the validity of this

election? "

 

Vietnam Pledges Not to Pursue Human Vaccine for Bird Flu on Its Own 28

May 2005 Vietnam has promised it will not unilaterally develop a human

vaccine for bird flu, abandoning plans that international health

experts had complained were hazardous and could themselves trigger an

epidemic, the World Health Organization said Friday.

 

Scientists link plastic food containers with breast cancer --A

chemical widely used in food packaging may be a contributing factor to

women developing breast cancer, scientists have suggested.

 

[Previous lead stories:] Analysts Behind Iraq Intelligence Were

Rewarded --Two Army analysts whose work has been cited as part of a

key intelligence failure on Iraq -- the claim that aluminum tubes

sought by the Baghdad government were probably meant for a nuclear

weapons program rather than for rockets -- have received job

performance awards in each of the past three years, officials said.

 

The Downing Street Memo --by John Conyers " Dubbed the 'Downing Street

Memo,' but actually comprising the minutes of a meeting of Prime

Minister Tony Blair and other top British government officials, the

memo casts serious doubt on many of the contentions of the Bush

Administration in the lead up to the Iraq war. With over 1,600 U.S.

servicemen and servicewomen killed in Iraq, the deaths of hundreds of

thousands of Iraqis, and over $200 billion in taxpayer funds going to

this war effort, we cannot afford to stand by any longer... To that

end, I am asking you to sign on to a letter to the President [sic]

requesting he answer the questions posed to him by 89 Members of

Congress. I will personally insure that this letter is delivered to

the White House. " [Click here to read/sign John Conyers' Letter to

Pres Bush Concerning " Downing Street Memo. " ]

 

The U.S. removes the nuclear brakes --by Reuven Pedatzur " Under the

cloak of secrecy imparted by use of military code names, the American

administration has been taking a big - and dangerous - step that will

lead to the transformation of the nuclear bomb into a legitimate

weapon for waging war... Remember the code name " CONPLAN 8022. " Last

week, the Washington Post reported that this unintelligible nickname

masks a military program whose implementation could drag the world

into nuclear war. CONPLAN 8022 is a series of operational plans

prepared by Startcom, the U.S. Army's Strategic Command, which calls

for preemptive nuclear strikes against Iran and North Korea. " [scroll

to #24 in the 'Talkback' section to read Lori Price's comments.]

 

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