13 September 2005 - Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Go

[Guest guest]

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 04:05:26 -0400

" Lori R. Price " <lrprice

'New' Al Qaeda tape broadcast October 2004? 13 Sep 2005

 

 

 

Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government

13 September 2005

http://www.legitgov.org

 

 

All links to articles as summarized below are available here:

http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

 

 

CLG Exclusive: 'New' Al Qaeda tape broadcast October 2004? 12 Sep 2005

An 'Al Qaeda' videotape featuring the voice of California-born 'Al

Qaeda'-connected Adam Gadahn was released by ABC News in October 2004.

The

75-minute tape was used by the Bush Administration to stoke public

fears of more terrorist attacks (and cost Senator John Kerry votes in the

presidential 'election'). This tape appears to have been recently

recycled as a Weapon of Mass Distraction. On Sunday, September 11,

2005, ABC

News obtained and broadcast a " new " 'Al Qaeda' tape, also featuring the

voice of Adam Gadahn. If there are indeed two *different* tapes (as ABC

News claims), the key elements from the 2004 Adam Gadahn tape and the

2005 tape are 'strikingly similar.' [bTW, Bush uses these tapes like

holiday tablecloths and china. He brings out the 'Al Qaeda' tapes for

'special occasions' -- such as... plummeting poll numbers and emerging

eyewitness accounts of levee explosions. --Lori Price]

http://www.legitgov.org/news_recylced_al_ciaduh_tapes_gadahn_120905.html

 

 

 

 

Bush Ben-Hur brings us back to the days of the gladiators: US Applies

Capricious Justice in Iraq --Informants Decide Fate of Iraqi Detainees

13 Sep 2005 Tall Afar, Iraq --A masked teenager in an Iraqi army uniform

walked slowly through a crowd of 400 detainees captured Monday,

studying each face and rendering his verdict with a simple hand

gesture, like

a Roman emperor deciding the fate of gladiators. A thumb pointed down

meant the suspect was not thought to be an insurgent and would be

released by U.S. soldiers. A thumb pointed up meant a man would be

removed

from the concertina wire-encased pen, handcuffed with tape or plastic

ties and taken by truck to a military base to be interrogated.

 

 

 

 

US denies poison gas accusation by 'al Qaeda' in Iraq 12 Sep 2005 The

U.S. military on Monday denied an accusation that American and Iraq

forces used toxic gas during an attack on the Iraqi town of Tal Afar in

which up to 200 insurgents were killed.

 

 

 

 

 

$100 000 bounty on Iraqi PM 13 Sep 2005 In a new web posting, an

Islamic resistance group offered a bounty of nearly $200 000 for the

deaths

of Iraq's Shi'ite prime minister and other top officials in retaliation

for an offensive against a resistance stronghold in northern Iraq.

 

 

 

 

Huge crackdown in Iraq 13 Sep 2005 Around 150 rebels were killed and

over 400 others arrested since United States and Iraqi troops intensified

their operations late last week against insurgents in the restive town

of Tal Afar, US military said.

 

 

 

 

Iraq constitution faces new delay 13 Sep 2005 Iraqi politicians have

failed to conclude negotiations on a draft constitution, and it remained

unclear when a final text might be printed, less than five weeks before

a referendum, Iraqi and United Nations (UN) officials have said.

 

 

 

 

More than a year later, Army admits GI died in accident --Family

dismayed to learn 1st AD soldier killed by tank's machine gun 12 Sep 2005

More than a year after his death in Iraq, Army officials have notified

the

family of a 1st Armored Division officer that the cause was an

accidental discharge from a U.S. tank, not enemy fire as first reported.

 

 

 

 

Army Expects to Miss Goals for Recruiting 13 Sep 2005 The Army posted

its best recruiting month in four years in August [?!?], but will still

miss its annual recruiting goal for the first time since 1999,

officials said Monday.

 

 

 

US warns Syria that 'our patience is running out' 12 Sep 2005 The US

ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, fired a strong warning to Syria on

Monday, as Washington accused the Damascus government of giving help to

radical groups in Iraq. 'Our patience is running out with Syria,'

Khalilzad told a press conference. When asked how the US could

respond, he

said 'all options are on the table', including military. [Well, 'our

patience is running out' with *Bush.*]

 

 

 

 

U.S. Envoy: Syria a Terrorist Hub for Iraq 12 Sep 2005 The Bush

regime's top envoy in Iraq warned Monday that U.S. " patience is

running out "

with Syrian interference across the border, and refused to rule out

either a military strike or punishment through the United Nations.

 

 

 

 

US bars Cuba from attending New York conference 12 Sep 2005 Cuba

complained to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday that the United

States had barred its national assembly speaker from attending a meeting

of parliamentarians at U.N. headquarters in New York.

 

 

 

 

Peace activist may be black-listed 13 Sep 2005 An American peace

activist being held in Australia may never be able to travel outside

the US

again if he is deported over national security concerns, Greenpeace

says. Scott Parkin, who has been in Australia since June, was detained

last

Saturday after his visa was revoked over matters relating to " violent

[sic] protest activity " . Mr Parkin as been in solitary confinement at

the Melbourne Custody Centre since being detained.

 

 

 

 

Bodies Found at New Orleans Hospital 12 Sep 2005 Search teams found

more than 40 bodies, many of them elderly patients, inside a hospital

that

was abandoned more than a week earlier after it was surrounded by

floodwaters unleashed by Hurricane Katrina, officials said Monday. The

patients had died while waiting to be evacuated over the four days

after the

hurricane as temperatures in Memorial Medical Center rose to 106

degrees, said Dave Goodson, assistant administrator of hospital, owned by

Tenet Healthcare Corp.

 

 

 

 

45 Bodies Are Found in a New Orleans Hospital 13 Sep 2005 The bodies of

45 people have been found in a flooded uptown hospital here, officials

said Monday, sharply increasing the death toll from Hurricane Katrina

and raising new questions about the breakdown of the evacuation system

as the disaster unfolded.

 

 

 

 

 

Evacuee Dies In Muskogee Hospital After 30 Hour Bus Trip to Camp Gruber

13 Sep 2005 58-year-old Judy Khaton survived Hurricane Katrina and

several days at the Superdome in New Orleans, only to be turned away

at the

Astrodome in Houston. She was on a bus for 30 hours, which doctors say

could have caused the blood clot in her leg that eventually killed her.

 

 

 

 

FEMA Ice Truck Convoy Sent on Twisting, Weeklong Route to Hurricane

Storage Depot 12 Sep 2005 About 200 tractor-trailer trucks with ice and

water for victims of Hurricane Katrina took a convoluted, weeklong trip

to a storage depot in Memphis, partly because of what the U.S. Army

Corps of Engineers called " miscommunication. "

 

 

 

 

Al Gore Blasts Bush in San Francisco Speech 09 Sep 2005 President Al

Gore urged Americans on Friday to hold the Bush administration

accountable for failing to adequately prepare for and respond to

Hurricane

Katrina. " When the corpses of American citizens are floating in toxic

flood

waters five days after a hurricane struck, it is time not only to

respond directly to the victims of the catastrophe, but to hold ... the

leaders of our nation accountable, " Gore told environmentalists at the

Sierra Club's national convention.

 

 

 

 

Kerry heads South with planeload of hurricane relief supplies 12 Sep

2005 Sen. John Kerry flew south Monday with a planeload of supplies for

Hurricane Katrina victims largely donated by Massachusetts businesses.

 

 

 

 

Earwitness tells ABC explosives blew Industrial Canal levee

(Total411.info transcript) " DAVID MUIR, ABC NEWS: This is the actual

levee that

runs along the canal on the eastern side of the city. And when the

hurricane hit, the water came through at such force, it was apparently

too

much. You can see the massive breach here, and when you look around the

corner you can see what the water did to the Lower Ninth Ward. It

completely destroyed neighborhoods. JOE EDWARDS, JR., 9TH WARD

RESIDENT: I

heard something go BOOM!... MUIR: ...they broke the levee on purpose?

EDWARDS: They blew it! "

 

 

 

 

Investigators to monitor Katrina contracts 13 Sep 2005 A team of

investigators is being sent to the Hurricane Katrina-ravished Gulf

Coast to

follow the money - namely, billions of dollars in relief aid the federal

government is pouring into the region without normal contracting

safeguards. Among the most controversial Katrina awards is $16.6

million to

Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc. of Arlington, Va., for emergency

repairs at Gulf Coast naval and Marine facilities. The money is part of a

$500 million Navy contract that KBR won by competitive bid last July.

 

 

 

 

Bush picks Paulison as acting FEMA head 12 Sep 2005 --pResident George

W. Bush on Monday named David Paulison, a top official in the Homeland

Security Department, to replace Michael Brown on an acting basis as

head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

 

 

 

 

New FEMA boss is 'Duct Tape Man' By Keith Olbermann 12 Sep 2005

" ...[T]he man President [sic] Bush immediately named to succeed

'Brownie,'

proves to have been the same FEMA official who, two-and-a-half years ago,

suggested that Americans stock up on duct tape to protect against a

biological or chemical terrorist attack. David Paulison, then the

government's Fire Administrator, joined with the then-head of Homeland

Security

Tom Ridge, on February 10th, 2003, to say that duct tape and plastic

sheeting should be part of any home's 'survival kit' in preparation for a

terrorist attack. "

 

 

 

 

Embattled FEMA Director Mike Brown Resigns 12 Sep 2005 Federal

Emergency Management Agency director Mike Brown said Monday he has

resigned " in

the best interest of the agency and best interest of the president, "

three days after losing his onsite command of the Hurricane Katrina

relief effort. [Hopefully, we will not get stuck with Rudy Giuliani, who,

along with most of the Bush regime, has made a *killing* (literally) off

of 9/11.]

 

 

 

 

FEMA Chief Brown Paid Millions in False Claims to Help Bush Win Fla.

Votes in '04 By Jason Leopold " Michael Brown, the embattled head of the

Federal Emergency Management Agency, approved payments in excess of $31

million in taxpayer money to thousands of Florida residents who were

unaffected by Hurricane Frances and three other hurricanes last year in

an effort to help President [sic] Bush win a majority of votes in that

state during his reelection campaign, according to published reports. "

 

 

 

 

Frist says Katrina might cancel Medicaid cuts 13 Sep 2005 Congress will

have to weigh the Bush regime's desire to cut projected Medicaid

spending by $10 billion over the next five years with the need to provide

more coverage to people who have lost health care because of Hurricane

Katrina, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Terrorist-Tenn., said

Monday.

 

 

 

 

A Shameful Proclamation (The New York Times) " On Thursday, President

[sic] Bush issued a proclamation suspending the law that requires

employers to pay the locally prevailing wage to construction workers on

federally financed projects. The suspension applies to parts of

Louisiana,

Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. By any standard of human decency,

condemning many already poor and now bereft people to subpar wages - thus

perpetuating their poverty - is unacceptable. "

 

 

 

 

How Los Angeles Lost Power 12 Sep 2005 The power outage that affected

more than 2 million people in and around Los Angeles on Monday was

triggered by an unlikely source: A utility crew installing a system

upgrade.

 

 

 

 

Two Plead Not Guilty to Terrorism Charges 13 Sep 2005 Two men pleaded

not guilty Monday to federal charges alleging they planned terrorist

attacks against military facilities, the Israeli Consulate and other

targets in the Los Angeles area.

 

 

 

 

Activists hold protests, question details of 9/11 12 Sep 2005 To

commemorate the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist

attacks,

Seacoast (NH) Peace Response organized three days of protests and peace

vigils, highlighting what members believe are the many unanswered

questions surrounding the attacks on the World Trade Center and the

Pentagon.

 

 

 

 

 

Senator tells Supreme Court nominee he needn't answer 12 Sep 2005

Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) told Supreme Court nominee John Roberts he should

feel free to not answer questions from Senators pondering his

confirmation. Roberts, said Kyl, should remember that " not every

question a Senator

thinks up is legitimate. " [Right, and as we have learned, not every

election a Supreme Court thinks up is legitimate. --Lori Price]

 

 

 

 

Roberts lays out philosophy of judicial restraint --When the high court

nominee faces questioning today from senators, some will be eager to

pin him down on issues. John G. Roberts Jr., pResident Bush's nominee to

be chief justice of the United States, told the Senate Judiciary

Committee on Monday that judges are like baseball umpires. They don't

write

the rules; they just make sure everyone follows them. " But it is a

limited role, " Roberts said, his blue eyes twinkling in the bright lights

[!?!]. " Nobody ever went to a ball game to see the umpire. "

 

Text of John Roberts' Opening Statement 12 Sep 2005 Text of John

Roberts' opening statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee, as

transcribed by CQ Transcriptions

 

 

 

 

Rep McKinney Special Order Censored??? By Rep Cynthia McKinney 11 Sep

2005 " I mentioned the word impeachment on the House Floor Thursday late

afternoon, but I don't see it in the official Congressional Record

transcript. I was chided by the Speaker that it was out of order to

question the President's motives. I didn't question motives, I questioned

actions: from lack of actions on Katrina to cutting the budget of safety

net programs, to rewarding the rich to the detriment of all the rest of

us. This transcript directly from the Congressional Record is mangled

and omits that word!!!! "

 

 

 

 

Bush's Approval Rating Drops to New Low in Wake of Storm --He Says Race

Didn't Affect Efforts; Blacks in Poll Disagree 13 Sep 2005 Touring

devastated portions of New Orleans yesterday, pResident Bush sought to

reassure the public that the government is responding to Hurricane

Katrina

with equity and dispatch, even as his standing hit record lows amid

broad support for an independent investigation of the federal response to

the storm.

 

 

 

 

Bush unpopular in South America, poll shows 12 Sep 2005 A majority of

South Americans in four of the region's capitals have a negative opinion

of U.S. pResident George W. Bush, according to an opinion survey

released on Monday.

 

 

 

 

White House Threatens Mercury Change Veto 12 Sep 2005 The White House

on Monday defended its anti-pollution policies and threatened to veto a

Senate proposal to negate new Environmental Protection Agency rules on

limiting mercury emissions from power plants. Senate Democrats, joined

by several Republicans, claim that the EPA rules favor the utility

industry while slowing action on a serious public health hazard. A Senate

vote to overturn the rules was slated for later Monday.

 

 

 

 

EPA Scientists, Workers Call for End to Water Fluoridation Due to

Cancer Risk (organicconsumers.org wire post from Environment News

Service)

EPA unions call for nationwide moratorium on fluoridation, Congressional

hearing on adverse effects, youth cancer cover-up 30 Aug 2005 " Eleven

EPA employee unions representing over 7000 environmental and public

health professionals of the Civil Service have called for a moratorium on

drinking water fluoridation programs across the country, and have asked

EPA management to recognize fluoride as posing a serious risk of

causing cancer in people. "

 

 

 

 

Europe races to shore up bird flu defences 12 Sep 2005 Europe is racing

to bolster its defences against bird flu, fearing it could be winging

its way to the continent with migrating wildfowl via countries too poor

to check its spread. http://www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities.html

 

First bird flu death in Jakarta 13 Sep 2005 An Indonesian woman is

almost certainly the first known bird flu fatality in densely populated

Jakarta...

 

 

 

 

[12 Sep lead stories:] " Leftist professors will be strung up. " [Ok, but

remember, turnabout is fair play.] Hurricane Reality vs. Right-Wing

Ideology By Joshua Holland 08 Sep 2005 " Further on the fringe, blogger

Michael Calderon [a teacher at Rockville High School, Rockville, MD] at

David Horowitz's Frontpage Magazine saw in Katrina the potential for a

civil war following a major terror attack in the U.S. and envisioned a

Hobbesian war of all against all, predicting... 'Expect heavily armed and

infuriated conservatives to launch a cleansing war against the

traitors. The armed will mow down the mostly unarmed segments,

especially those

elements that devoted 40-plus years to anti-American hatred to destroy

this country. Should the likes of Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael

Parenti, Michael Moore, Ward Churchill, Dennis Raimondo [sic], et al. act

out their sedition ... expect their bodies to be found shot full of

holes ... Leftist professors will be strung up...' " [Hey, Calderon:

mayhaps the 'unarmed segments' won't remain 'unarmed' for long. --Lori

Price,

best friend of a 'Leftist Professor.']

 

 

 

 

Mercenaries guard homes of the rich in New Orleans 12 Sep 2005 Hundreds

of mercenaries have descended on New Orleans to guard the property of

the city's millionaires from looters. The heavily armed men, employed by

private military companies including Blackwater and ISI, are part of

the militarisation of a city which had a reputation for being one of the

most relaxed and easy-going in America.

 

 

 

 

Jackson compares FEMA contracts to 'white-collar looting' 11 Sep 2005

The Rev. Jesse Jackson suggested Sunday that the federal government was

encouraging " white-collar looting " by awarding no-bid contracts to

favored companies to rebuild hurricane-ravaged areas, rather than giving

those displaced by the disaster priority for jobs.

 

 

 

 

CLGers: Please contribute for September's expenses, thank you! And,

thank you to all who have donated previously!!

http://www.legitgov.org/#contribute

 

 

 

 

Address to receive newsletter: http://www.legitgov.org/#_clg

Please write to: signup for inquiries. lrp/mdr

 

CLG Newsletter editor: Lori Price, General Manager. 2005,

Citizens For Legitimate Government ® All rights reserved. CLG Founder

and Chair is Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D.