Guest guest Posted May 19, 2007 Report Share Posted May 19, 2007 Sneak Attacks Sneak Attacks may be happening. How can we be sure if we are under attack or not? Are wildfires blazing across the nation due to natural causes or to terrorism? What about explosions and shootings? Are they accidents? Are they the result of " lone gunmen " ? Or are they terrorist attacks? How can we discern the truth? A typical terrorist attack includes a video of the actual attack made available to a news organization such as CNN, etc. If the attack is a so-called " suicide " attack, whether by shooting in which the shooter kills himself or herself, or by bombing in which the bomber detonates himself or herself there is often a " suicide " video made available to the media in some fashion after the fact. Not all so-called " suicide " bombers or shooters are arabs. But there are often, though not always, connections to arab Moslems, or to other Moslems. The notorious shoe-bomber was not himself an arab or a Moslem by birth, nor was the " alleged dirty bomber " . A more appropriate name for attacks on Jews, be they Israelis, or Jews living outside of Israel, would be " Genocide " attacks, be they " Genocide Bombings " or " Genocide Shootings " , etc. they are meant to continue The Holocaust against the Jewish people. When directed at non-Jews a more appropriate name for such attacks would be " Homicide Bombings " , or " Homicide Shootings " , etc. The Lod Airport attack was a case in point. The source of the following piece was found at: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,917724,00.html " Monday, Aug. 18, 1975 " For cold-blooded determination and brutal efficiency, few terrorist organizations can match the Japanese extremists who call themselves the Red Army. In the past five years the Red Army has hijacked planes, attacked embassies and murdered dozens of innocent people in various parts of Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Its most infamous exploit was the wanton slaughter of 26 tourists at Tel Aviv's Lod Airport in June 1972. Last week in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, five Red Army members stormed a 14-story downtown office building where more than 1,000 people were at work. Spraying gunfire around the ninth floor, the site of a U.S. passport office and the Swedish embassy, the terrorists wounded three guards and seized 53 hostages, among them the American consul and the Swedish chargé d'affaires. Soon after the takeover, they tossed a three-page typewritten memo out of a window, threatening to blow up the building unless seven cronies jailed in Japan were released. Malaysian officials quickly rejected the use of force. The lives of the hostages, announced Prime Minister Abdul Razak, were of the " greatest importance. " Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki, on a state visit to Washington, agreed. Awakened just after 2 a.m. in his suite at Blair House, he quickly overruled reluctant officials in Tokyo and instructed them to fly the seven prisoners to Kuala Lumpur aboard a Japan Air Lines DC-8. Though two of the prisoners refused to go, the remaining five were quickly flown to Kuala Lumpur's Subang International Airport. Complications developed when Malaysian officials could find no country willing to accept the terrorists. Iran even threatened to shoot down the plane if it overflew the country with hijackers aboard. As negotiations continued, a nearby Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise sent 60 servings to the hostages. Finally, word came that Libya, a well-known supporter of radical movements, would take the ten men. The five terrorists, prodding U.S. Consul Robert Stebbins and 14 other hostages with pistols, boarded a bus for the airport. There they waited a further 25 hours before exchanging the 15 men for four Japanese and Malaysian officials who went as substitute hostages on the flight to Tripoli. Upon arrival, the ten radicals surrendered peacefully. Public Debut. Japanese police believe the Kuala Lumpur attack was masterminded by Fusako Shigenobu, 29, the daughter of an insurance salesman, who is suspected of being the Red Army's leader. The Red Army, numbering about 30 and dedicated to violent revolution, made its public debut in March 1970, when nine members hijacked a Japan Air Lines jet to Pyongyang, North Korea. Two years later, just before the Lod Airport massacre, authorities uncovered the bodies of 14 young men and women on remote Mount Haruna, 70 miles northwest of Tokyo. The 14, who had been tortured and left to die of exposure in freezing winter temperatures, had apparently been purged for displaying " bourgeois symptoms. " With the Red Army's latest coup, Japanese authorities fear that other fanatic groups will intensify their activities. The police already claim to have evidence that terrorists will try to block Emperor Hirohito's scheduled October visit to the U.S. " http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,917724,00.html " What happened at the Lod Airport in 1972? On May 30, 1972, a three-man hit squad from the Japanese Red Army arrived at the Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, via Air France Flight 132. They were dressed in business suits and carried what appeared to be violin cases. The operation was planned and supported by the General Command of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP-GC). As the three men passed the ticket counter area, they suddenly pulled automatic weapons from their cases and began to spray the crowd indiscriminately. As they changed magazines in their weapons, the men threw hand grenades into the mass of sprawling bodies. One of the terrorists, Yasuyuki Yasuda, ran out of ammunition and was cut down by his companions. A second terrorist, Tsuyoshi Okudaira, committed suicide by pulling the pin on a grenade and detonating it against his body. The third terrorist, Kozo Okamoto, was captured while attempting to flee from the terminal. Twenty-six people were killed in the massacre and 78 were injured. Sixteen of the dead were not even Israelis or Jews, they were Puerto Ricans in Israel on a pilgrimage. Okamoto is the younger brother of Takedia Okamoto, one of the JRA terrorists who hijacked a Japan Airlines flight to North Korea in 1970. As the sole survivor of the Lod assassin team, Okamoto was sentenced to life imprisonment in Israel. He was released, however, as part of a 1983 prisoner exchange with Palestinian militant factions. He reportedly dropped from sight in Beirut, supposedly to reunite with his former comrades in the JRA Investigations have shown that the JRA received considerable training and/or funds from Iran, Libya, Syria, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and other Palestinian factions. JRA was founded by Fusako Shigenobu, a Japanese woman who traveled to Lebanon in 1971 and founded the JRA, which then linked up with Palestinian extremists to become an implacable foe of Israel. She was best known for having masterminded the Lod Airport massacre. " The following piece appeared at: http://www.makfax.com.mk/look/agencija/art-printer.tpl? IdLanguage=1 & IdPublication=2 & NrArticle=66800 & NrIssue=341 & NrSection=10 " Macedonia Three of Albanians arrested in US were born in Macedonia Skopje, 9.05.2007 16:53 Three of the Albanians arrested in USA under suspicions of plotting a terrorist attack were born in Macedonia. Speaking under condition of anonymity, a source of the Macedonian Interior Ministry confirmed this information to Makfax Agency. Duka brothers were born in Ohrid, i.e. Debar, and lived in the Debar's nearby village of Spas. Four of the arrested men were born in the former Yugoslavia, one was born in Jordan and one came from Turkey, US authorities said. Three were in the United States illegally; two had green cards allowing them to stay in this country permanently; and the sixth is a US citizen. The six - Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, 22; Dritan " Anthony " or " Tony " Duka, 28; Shain Duka, 26; Eljvir " Elvis " Duka, 23; Serdar Tatar, 23; and Agron Abdullahu, 24 were ordered held without bail for a hearing Friday. One drove a cab, three were roofers. Another worked at a 7-Eleven and a sixth at a supermarket. One of the suspects, Tatar, worked at his father's pizzeria - Super Mario's Restaurant - in Cookstown and made deliveries to the base, using the opportunity to scout out Fort Dix for an attack, authorities said. " the following piece is excerpted from: http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php? id=288272 & selected=Analyses " For U.S. counterterrorism authorities, the arrests in New Jersey show that not all militant suspects fit the same profile. The four Albanians are European in appearance, not Middle Eastern. They were able to blend in easily in New Jersey's ethically diverse population of Irish, Polish, Italian, and African-Americans. Other non-Middle Eastern jihadists include Muriel Degauque, a Belgian who traveled to Iraq with her Arab husband to blow herself up as a suicide bomber, and Sulejmen Talovic, a Bosnian Muslim who opened fire on a mall in Utah, killing five shoppers and wounding four others. Their appearance made them difficult to detect. Al Qaeda realizes this, and thus encourages the use of non-Middle Eastern male operatives, especially those of European stock. " the following piece appeared at: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/19/iraq.sniper.video/index.htm l " Video shows snipers' chilling work in Iraq POSTED: 12:44 p.m. EDT, October 19, 2006 CNN) -- Chilling scenes from a videotape made by insurgents show the work of snipers in Iraq, targeting and killing American troops, taking them down with a single bullet from a high-powered rifle. The graphic video of 10 sniper attacks was obtained by CNN -- through intermediaries -- from the Islamic Army of Iraq, one of the most active insurgent organizations in Iraq. In one scene, U.S. soldiers mingle among Iraqi civilians on a city street as a U.S. Humvee with a gunner in its turret stands guard nearby. From a distance, possibly hundreds of yards away, a sniper watches for his opportunity to strike as a fellow insurgent operates a camera to capture the video for propaganda purposes. In the video, street sounds mix with male Arabic voices as the sniper and his spotter talk off-camera. " People are around them, " warns the spotter, who seems to be operating the video camera. " Want me to find another place? " " No, no, " comes the reply, " give me a moment. " And then, the crack of gunfire is heard and the soldier in the turret slumps forward. " Allahu Akbar (God is Great)! " is the exclamation as the sniper's vehicle starts and they slip away. The deadly tactic is one the U.S. military also uses to take out insurgents. Retired Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin was one of the top U.S. Marine Corps snipers in Iraq and has written a book about his experiences -- " Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper. " " I have over 60 kills, " he told CNN's Gary Tuchman. " We seek out the enemy and eliminate them with precision fire. " Tuchman used Coughlin's critical eye to analyze the Islamic Army of Iraq video. Coughlin said the time lapse between the sound of the shot and the man getting hit indicates the gunfire is coming from about 300 to 500 yards away and probably from a higher angle. But Couglin said he's sure this team of at least three people has been trained well because they're so calm. " They have their stuff wired, " he said. " They know what they're doing. " (Watch the ex-Marine describe snipers' deadly work -- 2:46) The 20-year Marine veteran said the kind of body armor worn by troops in combat can be effective against a sniper's bullet, and he added that there are other ways to defend against the horrifying attacks. " The worst enemy of a sniper is another sniper, " Coughlin said. " Our snipers are hunting these guys -- I guarantee you this is happening as we speak. " Coughlin added that, in many cases, the best defense is a good offense. " How would the person who is inaugurated as President of The United States of America on January 20th, 2009 c.e. handle terrorism? Who will that person be? At the moment my best guess is that the Republicans will end up nominating Mitt Romney for President and Fred Thompson for Vice President and that the Democrats will end up nominating Jon Edwards for President and Bill Richardson for Vice President and that the Democrats will win the election. However it is of course possible that none of the above will be nominated by either party for either spot on the ticket. It is also possible that the Republicans will win the election. Who do you think would be the best person to keep America safe from terrorism as President of the United States? Who do you think would be the worst person to have as President of the United States in terms of the safety of Americans? What is the truth behind the following story? The following story appeared at: http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Briefs/10780.htm " Edwards denies remarks on Israel, attack on Iran By: Yitzhak Benhorin Published: February 25, 2007 US presidential hopeful John Edwards, who lags behind Democratic rivals Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama, managed to grab the nation's attention thanks to a misquote about Israel. On February 19, an article in Variety.com quoted Edwards as saying, at a campaign event, that " perhaps the greatest short-term threat to world peace was the possibility that Israel would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. " According to Variety.com, the comment resulted in a " chill " on the room and the end of the event. The statement was also reattributed to Edwards by Wolf Blitzer, a few days later during his show, CNN's the Situation Room. Thanks to the quote, Edwards was used by the Republican Jewish Committee (RJC) to illustrate the excess liberalism among the Democratic presidential candidates. 'Story erroneous' According to the Associated Press, Edwards denies the statement. His spokesman, Jonathan Prince called the Variety.com story " erroneous " and was quick to correct it. " Senator Edwards did not say nor does he believe that the greatest short-term threat to world peace is the possibility that Israel would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. Senator Edwards said, as he has in the past, that Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon is one of the greatest short-term threats to world peace, " Prince explained. Edwards is considered the most photogenic Democratic candidate, but by far the least experienced in foreign affairs. Last month, Edwards appeared at the Herzliya Conference by video and stated clearly: it's unacceptable to allow Iran to get hold of nuclear weapons. At the conference, Edwards said it had been a mistake to allow the Europeans to handle the Iranian issue, and emphasized that it's important, in such a scenario " to keep all the options on the table. " What is the truth about the Edwards story? Did Edwards say that " perhaps the greatest short-term threat to world peace was the possibility that Israel would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. " or didn't he say that? Is Edwards lying or telling the truth? The story below appeared at: http://www.goodwillhinton.com/john_edwards_israel_the_greatest_short_ term_threat_to_world_peace John Edwards: " Israel... the greatest short-term threat to world peace " Submitted by Will Hinton on February 20, 2007 - 2:24pm. Federal Campaigns First there was the 28,000 SF mansion. Then there was the Blogger- Gate. John Edwards has outdone himself now and has unofficially bowed out of the 2008 Presidential race. Peter Bart noted a few weeks ago this bit about Edwards in Los Angeles: The aggressively photogenic John Edwards was cruising along, detailing his litany of liberal causes last week until, during question time, he invoked the " I " word -- Israel. Perhaps the greatest short-term threat to world peace, Edwards remarked, was the possibility that Israel would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. As a chill descended on the gathering, the Edwards event was brought to a polite close. I'm not sure how this wasn't picked up by the media before now. Looks like Edwards has been infected by the Biden " Foot-in-Mouth " Syndrome " The story excerpted from below appeared at: http://www.aolelectionsblog.com/2007/02/21/john-edwards-israel- greatest-threat-to-world-peace-or-not/ " Edwards: Israel Greatest Threat to World Peace...Or Not Posted Feb 21st 2007 12:27AM by Scott The latest example of a Democrat speaking his true feelings and then thinking better of it? John Edwards slamming Israel:There are other emerging fissures, as well. The aggressively photogenic John Edwards was cruising along, detailing his litany of liberal causes last week until, during question time, he invoked the " I " word -- Israel. Perhaps the greatest short-term threat to world peace, Edwards remarked, was the possibility that Israel would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. As a chill descended on the gathering, the Edwards event was brought to a polite close. " Does anyone have a tape video, audio, dvd, cell phone record, whatever of the Edwards appearance? Is Edwards lying or telling the truth? How credible is Edwards? Moreover, what should be done about Persia? Persia renamed itself " Iran " , which literally means, THE LAND OF THE ARYANS, in 1935 when Persia tried to cozy up to Hitler The story excerpted from below appeared at: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN- cheney_12int.ART.State.Edition1.42badb5.html " On carrier in Gulf, Cheney warns Iran He says U.S. will stop nuclear weapons, Tehran's bid for power 12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, May 12, 2007 By TODD J. GILLMAN / The Dallas Morning News tgillman ABOARD THE USS JOHN C. STENNIS – Framed by warplanes, Vice President Dick Cheney issued a stern warning to Iran from an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf: The United States will keep the region's oil flowing and will stymie any dream Iran has of becoming a regional superpower. " With two carrier strike groups in the gulf, we're sending clear messages to friends and adversaries alike, " Mr. Cheney told 3,500 to 4,000 sailors aboard the nuclear-powered USS John C. Stennis. " We'll stand with others to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons and dominating the region. " The warning came as the Stennis steamed off the coast of Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates,... " Would you support a pre-emptive strike against Persia, a.k.a. " Iran " (which literally means THE LAND OF THE ARYANS) to prevent those Aryan Wannabees from getting nuclear weapons? This writer happens to love the Persian people. I wish that they would assert themselves and rename their country Persia. They have a great and proud history. Unfortunately they are living under the thumb of lunatics. Bombing Persia would indeed kill many Persians, which would indeed be tragic. Do you agree that it is not a question of WHETHER the United States of America will bomb Persia but WHEN it will bomb Persia? If not, what are your thoughts? Will the USA bomb Persia BEFORE it gets nuclear weapons, or will the USA bomb Persia AFTER it gets nuclear weapons, and uses those nuclear weapons against America? If the USA bombs Persia BEFORE it gets nuclear weapons, and if it is successful in removing those nuclear weapons factories, and the regime behind them, along with the Persian military, and related fanatical infrastucture, there will of course be many Persian casualties. However, if the USA bombs Persia AFTER Persia gets nuclear weapons, and uses them against America, there will be NO PERSIAN SURVIVORS. America will obliterate Persia from the face of the earth if Persia uses nuclear weapons against America. So, if you, dear reader, like me, love the Persian people, you will want to avoid any scenario in which Persia gets nukes, because once Persia gets nukes, and uses them against America, the American response will be to eliminate Persia from the face of the earth. Short of waving a magic wand the only sure way to remove Persian nukes and the lunatic regime in Persia that is trying to make them so that they can be used against America would seem to be an American pre-emptive strike against that regime and those facilities, etc. Naturally it would be wonderful if the Persian people saw the error of allowing lunatics to run their country. The German people failed to see the error of their ways in allowing lunatics to run Germany from 1932-1945 c.e. The Japanese people failed to see the error of their ways in allowing lunatics to run their country as it invaded Manchuria and China and Indo China and the Phillipines, and bombed Pearl Harbor in a sneak attack on December 7th, 1941. So far the Persian people have failed to see the error of their ways in allowing lunatics to run Persia. A Persian nuclear sneak attack against America could leave over 100 MILLION AMERICANS DEAD, and the rest of America suffering from fallout and other attack related injuries. Thus a pre-emptive strike against the Persian lunatic regime and its nuclear and other military and related infrastrucure seems to be the only choice available to America. What choice would Jon Edwards make as President of the United States of America? What choice would the other candidates make? The material below was excerpted from http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/21521/Focus_On_Israel.html " Focus On Israel By: Dov Gilor Wednesday, May 9, 2007 I Am Afraid! I recently read a background story about presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama online in the New York Times, and I seriously began to worry. I decided to use the Internet to do some additional research, and now I continue to worry. I was concerned by the almost blasé tone used by the Times as it discussed Obama's close association with a radical, seemingly anti-American and anti-Israel preacher. I found a Fox News report about his performance during a presidential debate, an Arab blog and a Haaretz report that surveyed Jews and placed Obama in last place when the Israel factor was questioned. The Times article spoke of his warm, continuing relationship with Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. The article mentioned that Obama " had sampled various faiths but adopted none until he met Wright, a dynamic pastor who preached Afrocentric theology, dabbled in radical politics and delivered music-and-profanity-spiked sermons. " The article reported that, " Mr. Obama was entranced by Mr. Wright, whose sermons fused analysis of the Bible with outrage at what he saw as the racism of everything from daily life in Chicago to American foreign policy. Mr. Wright traveled to Cuba to teach Christians about the value of nonviolent protest and to Libya to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, along with the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan....Wright makes assertions of widespread white racism and he often criticizes the American government. One of his comments was " Zionism has an element of white racism. " On the Sunday after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, " Mr. Wright said the attacks were a consequence of violent American policies. " Four years later he wrote that the attacks had proved that " people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just `disappeared' as the Great White West went on its merry way of ignoring Black concerns. " While Obama stated his opposition to the Iraq war in conventional terms, Wright issued a " War on Iraq I.Q. Test, " with questions like, " Which country do you think poses the greatest threat to global peace: Iraq or the U.S.? " Wright prayed with the Obama family just before his presidential announcement. Who this preacher is and how much of an influence he has on Obama concern me greatly. In the past 16 years, " Mr. Wright has presided over Mr. Obama's wedding ceremony, baptized his two daughters and dedicated his house, while Mr. Obama has often spoken at Trinity's panels and debates. The Obamas treat Trinity as their spiritual home, attending services frequently. " Where does Obama stand on the question of radical Islam? Is it the major problem today? According to the Times, " [Mr.] Obama sees radical extremism as one of the world's problems on a checklist of many others: global poverty, nuclear proliferation, global warming, " not as the major problem of our time that many of us believe it is. Fox News reported that when asked in a debate about America's best friends in the world, " Obama waxed on about NATO and our European allies before looking east to Japan… It was clear that Obama didn't get it that this was the Israel question… " Even when prompted by Brian Williams, who followed up by pointing out that Obama had neglected to mention Israel, and reminded him of his comment that " no one had suffered more than the Palestinian people, Obama still didn't get it right. " Another very disturbing report was on a pro-Arab Internet blog. It stated that in 2000 [Ali] Abunimah [a Middle East and Arab- American affairs writer and commentator] recalled, Professor Rashid Khalidi, a leading Palestinian American advocate for a two-state solution and harsh critic of Israel, held a fundraiser in his home for Obama, embarked then on an ultimately unsuccessful bid for the House of Representatives. " He came with his wife, " Abunimah said. " That's where I had a chance to really talk to him. It was an intimate setting. He convinced me he was very aware of the issues [and] critical of U.S. bias toward Israel and lack of sensitivity to Arabs. He was very supportive of U.S. pressure on Israel. " One source close to Obama, speaking on condition of anonymity, recalled that, " Obama often expressed general sympathy for the Palestinians – though I don't recall him ever saying anything publicly. " I had mixed emotions as I read the various news reports. Is Obama as good as any non-Jewish American candidate when it relates to Israel and Jews, or do we have more to fear from him and from those that influence him? Is it true that Obama has a goal of acting friendly to Jews at least until after the election? Once in power, he can exercise his potential radicalism in subtle ways and seriously harm Israel and the Jews. Could this be the reason a Haaretz report that surveyed which candidates Jews would vote for found that Obama was in last place when the Israel factor was questioned? Is there a fear of the unknown underlying this feeling? Does the U.S. want a very congenial president, with little political experience, who is surrounded by many question marks and questionable associates? Are we sick and tired of statesmen and ready for a novice as president? Will Obama seriously distance himself from preacher Wright because he disagrees with his views or because it simply is more politically correct?.... " To return to the issue of Jon Edwards, who, in my view, is the most electable of the candidates the Democrats currently have to choose from. When Ann Coulter recently referred to Edwards disparagingly, albeit somewhat, (perhaps?), jokingly, as a " f-ggot " referring (perhaps?), more to his subjectively, (or objectively?), perceived personna as a rather flighty fellow, who fit into the general description of a " weak person " , or as Arnold might have said " a girly boy " , Edwards and his followers cried foul. Certainly the use of the term " f-ggot " ought not to be lightly condoned because no group ought to be disparaged and certainly homosexuals and lesbians have suffered from discrimination and persecution throughout history, including in nazi Germany. But where were Edwards and company when it came to Vice President Cheney's daughter, etc. in the 2004 c.e. Presidential campaign? Kerry Has No Sense of Decency or of Shame No Sense At All Kerry Worse Than Howard Stern And Howard Dean Combined Joseph Welch Joseph Nye Welch (left), chief counsel for the U. S. Army, speaks to Senator McCarthy during the Army-McCarthy hearings in Washington, D. C., June, 1954. http://www.apl.org/HISTORY/MCCARTHY/welch.html " Welch removed his glasses, stared dolefully at the table and shook his head. What he said then became the event's dramatic climax, and a moment more movie-like in its dramatic impact than even most movies come close to. " Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. " There was no noise in the huge, high- ceilinged room save for the sparse clearing of throats. " Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you no sense of decency? " " Mary Beth Cahill, John Kerry's campaign manager, called Mary Cheney's sexuality " fair game " in a post-debate interview with Fox News Wednesday night (October 13th, 2004). " " KERRY: I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian... " (October 13th, 2004). Bush-Kerry Presidential Debate " EDWARDS: ....the vice president and his wife...have a gay daughter. " (October 5th, 2004) Cheney-Edwards Vice Presidential Debate " The vice president's wife, Lynne Cheney, called Kerry " not a good man " and his remarks about daughter Mary Cheney " a cheap and tawdry political trick. " Meanwhile, Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of vice presidential candidate John Edwards, suggested in a radio interview that Mrs. Cheney might feel " a certain degree of shame " because her daughter is a lesbian. " Source: http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/special_packages/election2004/9918392 ..htm?1c Nor is this sort of thing new to politics. One typical dirty trick used more than once in American politics has been the use of the word thespian, which to some less than well educated Americans sounds more than a bit like lesbian. " Florida's most famous negative campaign was the 1950 U.S. Senate race between George Smathers and Claude Pepper....the campaign is best remembered for something that never happened. It's become enshrined in Florida folklore as the " thespian speech, " in which Smathers supposedly told slack-jawed rural Floridians that Pepper was " known in Washington as an extrovert " whose sister was " a thespian in wicked New York City. " Only trouble is, Smathers never said it; the yarn was probably concocted by bored, condescending Yankee reporters. " Source: http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/8209847.htm " In the era of Abraham Lincoln a candidate running against an opponent who happened to be an actor obliterated that opponent by running a full page ad in the newspaper accusing him of being a " Thespian. " (Remember this was before T.V., before John Howard Stern/Howard Dean Kerry.) " Recognize Distortion Tactics Name-calling In a classic case, one politician won an election when he alleged that his opponent " once matriculated " and that his opponent's wife was a " thespian. " Kerry showed on the night of October 13th, 2004, in the Bush-Kerry Presidential debate that he could care less about Dick and Lynne Cheney's daughter and her right to privacy. To Kerry that young woman became a pawn in the game, like the four or five thousand people he could not have cared less about being slaughtered in Vietnam. In the same debate,not content to just bash lesbians,and to drag the Cheney family's daughter into the debate, Kerry went on to slander Italian-Americans. Kerry said: " Being lectured by the President...is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country. " Hearing that line from Kerry was a little bit like deja vu all over again. In the September 25, 1988 debate, which was The First Bush-Dukakis Presidential Debate Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis described Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush as follows: " (Bush)wants to spend a lot of money on additional programs. If he keeps this up, he's going to be the Joe Isuzu of American politics. " Source: http://www.debates.org/pages/trans88a.html " Joe Isuzu was the character from the famous series of advertisements in the late 80's featuring the stereotypical car salesman, claiming that the Isuzu he was pitching had " gin-u-wine llama-skin leather " and " enough cargo room to carry Texas. " Advertising Age named the original campaign one of the best advertising campaigns of the 20th Century. " Source: http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2001/02/03/013954.html " Governor Michael Dukakis and Lieutenant Governor John Kerry in 1983. (Globe File Photo) " Source: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/06/20/dukakis_a_conund rum_for_kerry/ Did someone say Plagiarism? Bush Says Kerry's Using Old Dean Lines Tue Sep 7, 3:18 PM ET By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. - President Bush (news - web sites) on Tuesday accused rival John Kerry (news - web sites) of changing positions on the Iraq (news - web sites) war by adopting the language of one-time presidential candidate Howard Dean (news - web sites) when Kerry called the conflict " the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time. " Kerry's criticism came Monday during a campaign stop. Dean had used such phrasing in early 2003 when he was the Democratic candidate most critical of the war. At the time, Kerry took a more moderate stand, criticizing the president for failing to build a broader coalition of allies but not condemning the war altogether. Kerry " woke up yesterday morning with yet another new position, and this one's not even his own; it is that of his one-time rival, Howard Dean, " Bush told thousands of supporters Tuesday at a rally in the Kansas City suburbs. Bush said Kerry " even used the same words Howard Dean did back when he supposedly disagreed with him ... Senator Kerry flip-flops. We were right to make America safer by removing Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) from power. " In February 2003, Dean was a little-known candidate for the Democratic nomination when he said Bush was focused on " the wrong war at the wrong time " concerning Iraq. The month before Dean's remarks, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass., used a similar phrase when he said, " I continue to be convinced that this is the wrong war at the wrong time. " " Joseph Biden's Plagiarism; Michael Dukakis's 'Attack Video' – 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden Jr., a U.S. senator from Delaware, was driven from the nomination battle after delivering, without attribution, passages from a speech by British Labor party leader Neil Kinnock. A barrage of subsidiary revelations by the press also contributed to Biden's withdrawal: a serious plagiarism incident involving Biden during his law school years; the senator's boastful exaggerations of his academic record at a New Hampshire campaign event; and the discovery of other quotations in Biden's speeches pilfered from past Democratic politicians. The controversy became two frenzies in one when it was disclosed that the campaign of Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis had earlier secretly distributed to several news media outlets an " attack video " juxtaposing the Biden and Kinnock speeches and revealing Biden's word theft. The Dukakis campaign at first stonewalled and denied any part in the tape's distribution, but when the truth emerged Dukakis was forced to fire his campaign manager, John Sasso, and political director, Paul Tully – the two who had orchestrated the maneuver. Dukakis himself insisted he had no prior knowledge of their actions, and though wounded, his candidacy survived the incident. " Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/biden.htm " September 12th, 2004 the arrival of veteran political operative John Sasso, who began traveling at Kerry's side last week, was greeted with relief by aides. They hope Sasso can keep the senator " on message, " as one put it. " Source: http://news./news? tmpl=story & u=/latimests/20040912/ts_latimes/divideind\ emocratscamp " Sasso, he of the attack video that torpedoed the presidential campaign of Democratic Senator Joseph R. Biden of Delaware in 1987, he of the audiotape that ridiculed the physical disabilities of the wife of Edward King, Michael Dukakis's gubernatorial primary opponent in 1982. Dukakis fired Sasso for lying about his involvement in the video, which showed Biden had borrowed without attribution from a speech by a Labor Party leader in Britain. He should have canned him for the crass assault on Jody King's dignity. " read the rest at the Source: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/09/05/wrong_man_for_ke rry/ fyi: Kerry served as Dukakis' lieutenant governor for two years, just before he won his Senate seat in 1984. " Dick Cheney's Acceptance Speech August 2nd, 2000 I have seen our military at its finest, with the best equipment, the best training, and the best leadership. I'm proud of them. I have had the responsibility for their well-being. And I can promise them now, help is on the way. " Source: http://www.2000gop.com/convention/speech/speechcheney.html " 'Help is on the way,' Kerry tells middle class Democrat accepts nomination, courts the undecideds Friday, July 30, 2004 " Source: http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/29/dems.main/ fyi re below: we are looking for the exact quote from Caddell, we heard and saw it too but cannot recall it word for word. " I just heard Pat Caddell (Carter's old pollster)say that John Sasso (one of Kerry's new boys; Sasso ran Dukakis's campaign until he passed out tapes of Joe Biden plagiarizing a speech) was the most dishonest guy that Pat ever met in politics. " Source: http://216.109.117.135/search/cache?p=Sasso+Caddell+dishonest & ei=UTF- 8 & n=20 & fl=0\ & u=www.betsyspage.blogspot.com/ & w=sasso+caddell+dishonest & d=3DE1690AF 9 & icp=1 & .in\ tl=us And then there is Hillary Rodham Clinton, a.k.a. Her Royal Clinton, or maybe just HER ROYAL HIGHNESS. Will Hillary not-so-Hilarious Clinton be the next President of the United States? She may be trying to drop the Rodham middle name, but can she drop her own royal self-perception? Clearly there are things which are a lot less than Kosher about Hillary, whether she ends up dropping or keeping the Rodham middle name. The Other Rudy Hillary Race You may remember it as the one that almost happened. The year was 2000, the place New York State, the campaign, one for the seat in the US Senate from New York that was up that year. Everyone believed that New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani would face Hillary Rodham Clinton in the campaign for that seat in the US Senate from New York. But things changed. A bout with prostate cancer forced " pro-choice " Rudy to bow out of the US Senate race. Rudy was replaced with a " pro-life " Republican named Lazio who lost to Hillary in the general election. Many believe Lazio's poor debate performance cost him the race and that Rudy would have prevailed over Hillary in the debates and gone on to win the election if he could have gotten the Conservative Party nomination. In New York State votes from third parties may be combined with votes from major parties to determine who the winner is. Thus a Repubican Party nominee who is also the nominee of the Conservative Party would have the votes combined to deterimine if that nominee is the winner of the general election. Many questions from the 2000 campaign linger on to this day. Was the 1999 Kosovo War, which saw Kosovo stolen from Eastern Orthodox Christian Serbia, and handed over to Albanian Moslems, a payment in advance for the would be third party candidacy of " pro-life " Albanian American Joe DioGuardi, who would have run on the Conservative Party line in New York State, splitting the votes that would otherwise have gone to the Republican nominee for US Senate had the Conservative Party nominated the Republican nominee? Who will be the first to break this story to the major media? Will it be Barak Hussein Obama? Obama is said to be furious that Hillary Rodham Clinton is out polling him among African-American voters. When Jesse Jackson ran for President he won some 78% of African- American voters in the Democratic primaries. Clearly this story would cost Hillary Rodham Clinton the support of African-American voters. The idea that a young " white " radical New Haven Connecticut Yale Law student named Hillary Rodham might have been involved in the torture and murder of a young African-American man, who is believed to have been tortured and murdered in Maryland, and, or in the disposal of that young African-American man's body some 40 miles north of Yale in Connecticut, and or in the defense of that young African-American man's accused torturer and murderer would clearly produce a highly negative reaction among African- American voters towards Hillary Rodham Clinton. With Barak Hussein Obama in the race many of those voters might switch to Obama from Hillary. If Obama is determined to be the leaker of this story to the major media he might also suffer a backlash from so-called " Yellow Dog Democrats " , who call themselves that because they proudly say they would vote for a yellow dog if it ran for office as a Demcorat. Knowing that Obama might well be afraid to leak the story because although it would clearly force Hillary from the race the backlash might mean that Obama would have to leave the race too. On the other hand Edwards could leak the story to the major media, leaving a false trail that would lead people to believe that Obama had leaked the story. If he could get away with it Edwards would clearly benefit from the departure of Hillary and Obama from the race. What should Republicans do about all of this? One idea might be to wait until Hillary is nominated and then leak the story to the major media. Such an " October Surprise " might or might not work. It would be a big gamble for Republicans to wait until 08 to leak this story. By then Hillary might have so much momentum that she would be unstoppable. As the man who made the phrase " two Americas " popular Edwards would clearly pick up the support of African-Americans, and others, and emerge as the most likely nominee for the Democrats in 2008. A " white " Southern male, he would be following in the footsteps of other successful Democrats: Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and Lyndon Baines Johnson, all of whom won at least one term as President of the United States in a general election. Edwards in fact may be the most " electable " candidate the Democrats have among those Democrats who have so far entered the race. While Edwards is very much a child of the " Old South " , he has clearly undergone a dramatic makeover from the timid boy he was when he looked like he was about to dive under the desk if his opponent in the 2004 Vice Presidential Debate, Vice President Dick Cheney had cast even the slightest angry look in Edwards direction. Edwards now speaks with much more confidence, he has parted with his Bobby Kennedy lookalike haircut, though he has yet to shave his head ala Ms. Spears, or grow a beard ala Al Gore or the fictional President Logan of Fox TV's hit series " 24 " . Whether Edwards has merely had the benefit of some terrific speech coach, or coaches, or gone onto some medications more beneficial than the Botox treatments allegedly applied directly to the forehead of John Failed The American Test Kerry Edwards is clearly doing something right. What Edwards is doing wrong, and left, at the same time, is following his wife's anti-Israel pro-appeasement script, which sees Edwards calling for a US pullout from Iraq and caving in to the Syrian-Iranian alliance which would takeover in Iraq once that pullout took place. This is a far cry from the Edwards who voted to authorize the use of force against Saddam Hussein. Yet he may get away with all of it. He could leak the dramatic allegations against Hillary, leaving a false trail to Barak Hussein Obama, thus forcing his two greatest rivals out of the race for the nomination, and might end up as the nominee of the Democrats himself with ease. . And Edwards could go on to con the American people and walk away with the Presidency won in a walk in 2008. Will there be a " Stop Edwards " campaign among Democrats anytime soon enough to stop Edwards from being nominated? Will Edwards be the nominee if the scenario above works out for him? If so, will Republicans be able to come up with any " opposition research " on Edwards that is convincing enough to cause Edwards to lose to his Republican opponent in 2008? Nor do we know what sort of " opposition research " Democrats have been doing on potential Republican nominees. We can recall the 2006 race in which Hillary poured big bucks into the Webb campaign for US Senate in Virginia to sink her likely 2008 rival Republican Senator George Allen. The news that Allen's mother was Jewish, even though Allen was raised as a Christian may well have cost Allen his seat in the Senate in that tight US Senate race in Virginia in 2006. Moreover Webb had run what some may have seen as a test campaign of anti-Semitism against Harris Miller, his opponent in the primary for the nomination for US Senate. Let Us Punish Anti Semitism Not Reward It Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the GeorgeAllen2008 group: If you feel, as I do, that the campaign tactics used against Senator Allen in 2006 should, at the very least, be investigated and exposed, please indicate what you will be doing about it. 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Poll votes are not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the web site listed above. Former Reagan Navy Secretary and now Democratic Senate hopeful from Virginia James Webb is being accused of anti-Semitism for a flier produced against his opponent Harris Miller. By James Joyner Senate candidate James H. Webb, President Reagan's former Navy secretary, was criticized by his Jewish opponent Friday over a campaign flier that depicted the opponent with a hooked nose and cash spilling from his pockets. The flier was intended for distribution among labor groups. It was titled " Miller the Job Killer, " referring to Webb's opponent for the Democratic nomination in Tuesday's primary, businessman Harris Miller. The flier, drawn in comic-book cartoon style, depicts Miller with a grotesquely hooked nose and cash overflowing from his suit pockets as he orders an underling to find ways to export U.S. jobs overseas. The flier refers to Miller as the " anti-Christ of outsourcing. " Miller called it " despicable. " " One of the things I hoped we would keep out of this campaign, because it has nothing to do with the campaign, is my religion and my background, " Miller said. " source: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/06/james_webb_accused_ of_anti-semitism_in_democratic_primary/ Here are some excerpts from that anti-Miller flyer click on the url immediately below to see it: http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/dohmiller_flyer_color.pdf which was " paid for and authorized by webb for senate. www.webbforsenate.com " whose caricature drawings of Democrat Harris Miller, who happens to be Jewish, look like they came straight out of some nazi Germany era anti-Semitic propaganda piece, have him saying: " Let them eat cake. " , which of course he never said, and which has a footnote stating " 1. Attributed to Marie Antoinette shortly before she was beheaded in 1793. " as if Miller had actually said it. " Harris Miller, a corporate lobbyist, made his fortune by advocating the outsourcing of American jobs. Called the " anti-Christ of outsourcing, " 1. Attributed to Marie Antoinette shortly before she was beheaded in 1793. As Virginia's Senator, Jim Webb will be a voice for working Virginians and will fight for what is really important…. Root out corporate corruption and end the lobbyist stranglehold on Congress, restoring confidence in our government. paid for and authorized by webb for senate. www.webbforsenate.com " The anti-Semitic campaign waged against Democrat Harris Miller, Webb's Jewish opponent in the Virginia Senatorial Primary, was only a warm up for the anti-Semitic campaign waged against Webb's opponent in the general election, Republican Senator George Allen, whose mother is Jewish. Chances are good that the anti-Semitic flyer against Harris Miller described above would have landed Webb in jail in Europe, where there are laws against such things. Europe, after all, knows that hate speech leads to action. Hitler's Mein Kampf led to The Holocaust. In America it got Webb the nomination of his party for the US Senate. Don't let Webb benefit from the anti-Semitic attacks launched against Senator Allen. Please help to expose those who waged those deceitful hate filled anti-Semitic campaigns against Democrat Harris Miller and Republican George Allen. Politics and Bedfellows An Age Old Story Told Once Again We do not know what to make of the gossip being circulated about possible 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton these days. It seems strange that material which appears to be damaging about her would surface over well before the 2008 Presidential Election. Yet such material is surfacing all over the place these days. Though the name Arthur Turco is known to few Americans today, if the allegations about his romantic and political relationship with Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1969 when Hillary was at Yale turn out to be true Arthur Turco's name might become as much a household word as Monica Lewinsky's name was in the late 1990s. Unlike Monica Lewinsky however, Arthur Turco in 1969 was no starry eyed 20 something intern being sexually used and abused by the most charming President of the United States ever to hold that office. Gerald Lefcourt, David Brothers, Abbie Hofmann, Dave Dellinger, William Kunstler, Jerry Rubin, and Arthur Turco can be seen at a Black Panther Rally at Federal Court, in a photo taken on March 22nd, 1969. Arthur Turco is the clean shaven white man in the dark glasses,wearing a tie with his hand in the pocket of his rain coat, standing behind bearded Jerry Rubin. You can see the photo in which Turco appears at KnowTheEnemy/ in the Birds of A Feather photo album at http://ph.KnowTheEnemy/photos Arthur Turco was the New York City based leader of a weird white group called THE PATRIOTS in 1969. THE PATRIOTS were allied with THE BLACK PANTHERS and a Puerto Rican group called THE YOUNG LORDS in something called THE RAINBOW COALITION. This was a different group from the Jesse Jackson related Rainbow Coalition group. THE PATRIOTS operated relatively openly from an office in far uptown Manhattan but reputedly also used one or more covert " Safe House " style apartments in the CHELSEA section of Manhattan. Some of those " Safe House " style apartments were allegedly fortress like places,allegedly filled with heavy weapons including explosives, as well as handguns, and automatic weapons. Some alleged background on Black Panther Party attorney and ally, Arthur Turco may be found at http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=11450 which describes Arthur Turco as the " Panthers' New York lawyer,Arthur Turco. " The article states that : " Caplan says he believes that the Panthers' New York lawyer, Arthur Turco, was the ringleader in the commission of this crime. " He was apparently in the house when the torture and the murder took place and was part of the conspiracy to kill and remove the body, " Below is an example of a post which dates back to the Bill Clinton era we found describing some of the story. " Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow black named Alex Rackley needed to die. Rackley was a fellow Panther suspected of disloyalty. Rackley was first tied to a chair. Once safely immobilized his'friends'tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water on him. When they got tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther member Warren Kimbo took Mr.Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley's body was later found floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, Conn. Perhaps at this point you're curious as to what happened to these Black Panthers. In 1977, that's only eight years later, only one of the killers was still in jail. The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a scholarship to Harvard. He later became an assistant dean at Eastern Connecticut State College. Isn't that something? As a `60s radical you can pump a bullet into someone's head,and a few years later, in the same state, you can become an assistant college dean! Only in America! Erica Huggins was the lady who served the Panthers by boiling the water for Mr. Rackley's torture. Some years later Ms. Huggins was elected to a California School Board. How in the world do you think these killers got off so easy? Maybe it was in some part due to the efforts of two people who came to the defense of the Panthers. These two people actually went so far as to shut down Yale University with demonstrations in defense of the accused Black Panthers during their trial. One of these people was none other than Bill Lan Lee. Mr. Lee, or Mr. Lan Lee, as the case may be, isn't a college dean. He isn't a member of a California School Board. He is now head of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. O.K., so who was the other Panther defender? Is this other notable Panther defender now a school board member? Is this other Panther apologist now an assistant college dean? No, Neither! The other Panther defender was, like Lee, a radical law student at Yale University at the time. She is now known as The " smartest woman in the world. " She is none other than...Hillary Rodham Clinton. " We checked Hillary's official White House bio and found that: " In 1969, Hillary entered Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors of Yale Law Review and Social Action... " source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/hc42.html We also dug up the 1997 piece below on Bill Lan Lee " G.O.P Leader Says Nominee Will Be Halted November 10, 1997, Monday By STEVEN A. HOLMES (New York Times) National Desk Late Edition - Final, Section A, Page 22, Column 1, Senator Orrin G Hatch, chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee, says nomination of Bill Lan Lee, President Clinton's choice for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, is dead; nomination has run into opposition among Republicans, who accuse him of supporting racial quotas and affirmative action... " Want to know something really scary? We do not know if there is any truth to them at all, but allegations are beginning to resurface concerning the alleged connections, which may have begun in 1969, between Hillary Rodham,while she and her husband to be Bill Clinton were Yale students, and something callled THE RAINBOW COALITION, not the one associated with Jesse Jackson, but another one, which was composed of 3 allied groups: THE BLACK PANTHERS, a Puerto Rican group called THE YOUNG LORDS, and a bizarre Maoist " white " group called THE PATRIOTS. The so-called RAINBOW COALITION was an alliance between ARTHUR TURCO'S white terrorist group THE PATRIOTS, and the original BLACK PANTHERS,(not to be confused with a group using that name today), and a Puerto Rican group called THE YOUNG LORDS in 1969 when Hillary and Bill Clinton were Yale students. A relatively covert alliance also existed between THE PATRIOTS and heavily armed international arab terrorists,including those controlled by arafat,operating even then in the United States,and elsewhere. In particular the allegations center around the alleged connections between Hillary Rodham and Arthur Turco, and others. Turco was the leader of THE PATRIOTS. THE PATRIOTS members wore dungaree " uniforms " including dungaree pants and dungaree jackets and held Maoist style " self-criticism sessions " . THE PATRIOTS were allegedly heavily involved in drug use, which included " snorting " horse tranquilizer drugs, among other things, and allegedly were regular visitors to YALE. They also allegedly regularly read responsively from Lin Piao's radical book. ( " Encyclopedia of World Biography on Lin Piao (1907-1971) was a Chinese Communist military commander and political leader. His distinguished military career and loyalty to the principles of Mao Tse-tung were the basis for his rise to second position in the Chinese Communist leadership. He was involved in an unsuccessful coup d'etat in 1971. " ) We would like to know what, if anything, you have found about this story? Is there any truth to it at all? We do not know. Then there is the matter of the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. Famed Jewish columnist A.M.Rosenthal of THE NEW YORK TIMES called Bill Clinton, who he had backed in the 1992 Presidential race against then President George Herbert Walker Bush, BOMBER BILL because of Clinton's prosecution of the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. In those wars some 5,000 Serbian civilians were slaughtered in Guernica like air raids. Many of the same targets in Serbia that were bombed by the Luftwaffe in World War Two were bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1999. Bill Clinton turned the US Airforce into AIR BIN LADEN, flying missions against Serbians who were fighting against Osama bin Laden's forces in the Balkans. Why would Bill Clinton, the former anti-war activist of the 1960s,who had demonstrated against the Vietnam War,wage war against Serbia as President of the United States in the 1990s? The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution limits Presidential terms of office to 2 terms. Bill Clinton was elected to those 2 terms and served them. His last full year in office was 2000, the year his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the US Senate from New York State. He left office on January 20th, 2001. Many observers viewed the 2000 US Senate race in which she was elected from New York State as a stepping stone to the White House for Hillary Rodham Clinton. In New York State winning state wide Republican candidates need the nomination of the New York State Republican Party to be augmented by the nominaton of the New York State Conservative Party. Winning statewide without BOTH nominations is not an easy thing for any Republican candidate in New York State. The website of the New York State Conservative Party proudly proclaims : " The 1994 elections were a breakthrough for the Conservative Party as we provided the margin of victory for Governor George E. Pataki with the 326,605 votes cast on our line. " source: http://www.cpnys.org/history/history.html In New York State the votes of candidates on for example the Republican Party line may be combined with votes for the same candidates received on for example the New York State Conservative Party line. Thus winning the nomination of the New York State Conservative Party is vital to making a successful statewide run for office in New York State. Things were not shaping up at all well for Rudy Guiliani, who was the odds on favorite for the Republican nomination for the US Senate race in 2000 against Hillary Rodham Clinton. " Giuliani at Fund-Raiser, but Not Conservative Party's November 17, 1999, Wednesday By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN (New York Times)Metropolitan Desk Late Edition - Final, Section B, Page 5, Column 1 Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani attends Broadway fund-raiser for his presumptive United States Senate campaign, but he is left out of State Conservative Party's annual fall cocktail party—which may have even more important implications for his political future; Conservative Party chairman Michael R Long says Giuliani was not invited because he has not yet expressed interest in winning party's endorsement… " To his credit then Governor George W. Bush did what he could to pitch in to help Rudy Guiliani. " Bush Offers Giuliani Help On the Right November 30, 1999, Tuesday By ELISABETH BUMILLER (New York Times)Metropolitan Desk Late Edition - Final, Section B, Page 1, Column 5, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, on his first political trip since Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her intention to run for United States Senate, basks in praise of political benefactor, Texas Governor George W. Bush. Bush, at rally in Austin, Texas, volunteers to help Giuliani win endorsement from New York State Conservative Party in his likely race against Hillary Clinton; endorsement has been held up over Giuliani's position on abortion rights; at issue is Giuliani's opposition to ban on what critics call `partial-birth' abortions… " The alleged Clinton master plan to win Hillary Rodham Clinton a seat in the US Senate from New York State as a vital stepping stone to the White House was built on a very simple proposition: DIVIDE AND CONQUER. Winning that seat in the Senate for Hillary in 2000 could theoretically be accomplished by assuring that the 2000 US Senate nominaton of the New York State Conservative Party did not go to the 2000 US Senate nominee of the New York State Republican Party. But how could such a thing be accomplished? Who could be persuaded to split the right so that Hillary Rodham Clinton could be elected to the US Senate from New York State in 2000? Ominously it was on May Day of 2000 that the following happened: " Giuliani Gets A New Rival On the Right May 1st, 2000, Monday By ADAM NAGOURNEY (New York Times) Metropolitan Desk Late Edition - Final, Section B, Page 1, Column 6, Former United States Congressman from Westchester County Joseph J DioGuardi, in move that could complicate Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani's campaign for United States Senate, says that he will seek support of Conservative, Right-to- Life and Independence Parties in campaign for Senate; repeatedly assails Giuliani as being out of step with Conservative-minded Republicans… " Who was Former United States Congressman from Westchester County Joseph J DioGuardi, and how did he fit in to the alleged Clinton master plan to win Hillary Rodham Clinton a seat in the US Senate from New York State as vital stepping stone to the White House? DioGuardi has been described by New York City's Village Voice newspaper as : " NEW YORK'S KOSOVO KINGPIN " http://www.villagevoice.com/features/9915/vest.shtml In 2000 DioGuardi was poised to give not-so-hilarious Hillary Rodham Clinton a seat in the US Senate from New York by virtue of his own campaign for that seat that would have split right-wing opposition to Hillary, thus ensuring her election. We opposed Ms.Clinton then,and we oppose her now. Unlike Ms.Clinton who favors a so-called " palestinian " state we are opposed to such an entity coming into existence. We were also opposed to Clinton's anti-Serbian policy in the Balkans. There is more data available on the so-called " palestinian " state issue: " B'NAI B'RITH DISAPPOINTED WITH THE FIRST LADY'S COMMENTS ON A PALESTINIAN STATE " http://bnaibrith.org/pr/hillaryclinton.html http://www.usaid-wbg.org/98dec14a.html A group calling itself the " National Association of Arab Americans " http://www.naaa.net/alerts/aa050898.html urged its members to " Please write, phone, or fax the First Lady at the following address to express your appreciation for her remarks " which favored a so-called " palestinian " state.) Nor has Hillary, not-so-Hilarious Clinton been squeamish about supporting Albanians " Hillary Clinton awarded Albania's highest civilian honor " http://www.cnn.co.uk/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/06/22/hrc.award/ http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/columns/hrc040799.ht ml Please see the url below from THE NEW YORK TIMES regarding the 2000 DioGuardi US Senate candidacy. http://www10.nytimes.com:80/library/politics/camp/050100sen-ny.html DioGuardi hopes to run on the Conservative Party, Right-to-Life and Independence Party lines in New York State. The Independence Party was the name for the Reform Party in New York State which then appeared likely to have Patrick J. Buchanan as its Presidential standard bearer in the fall 2000 elections. http://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/buchanan_intro. html http://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/on_nazis.html http://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/on_segregation. html http://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/on_women.html http://www.adl.org/presrele/holna_52/2585_52.html http://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/window_buchanan ..html http://www.adl.org/presrele/asus_12/3481_12.html http://www.adl.org/frames/front_buchanan_own_words.html http://www.adl.org/backgrounders/reform_party_and_fulani_and_newman.h tml http://www.adl.org/frames/front_background_article2.html " Buchanan has consistently portrayed war criminals as patriotic Americans, innocent victims of " revenge-obsessed Nazi hunters " in Washington. Virtually everything the accused and their defenders have said he accepts as truth, and, in the words of one critic, he wages " journalistic guerilla warfare " on their behalf. Says Neal Sher, former director of the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations: " Buchanan went to bat for every Nazi war criminal in America. " Liberty Lobby, the leading anti-Semitic and racist organization in America, overwhelmingly endorsed Pat Buchanan during the 1996 presidential primaries. An editorial in its publication, The Spotlight, pointed out that " the 112 issues or legislative positions that Liberty Lobby has taken over the past 40 years...shows that Pat Buchanan stands with us. " The predominant issue they share is Holocaust revisionism, the spearhead of the international anti-Semitic movement. Buchanan used his syndicated column and his office as communications director in the Reagan White House from 1981-1987 to assist pro-Nazi Eastern European organizations in trying to block the denaturalization and deportation of Karl Linnas, John Demjanjuk, and at least seventeen others who had been charged by the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations or had been convicted in federal courts of concealing war crimes in order to gain illegal entry into the U.S. The Karl Linnas Case In 1981 the Federal District Court in Westbury, NY stripped 67-year-old Karl Linnas of his citizenship for having lied to immigration officials thirty years earlier about his Nazi past. Linnas's crimes, the judge said, " were such as to offend the decency of any civilized society. " From 1941-43 Linnas had commanded a Nazi concentration camp at Tartu, Estonia, where he directed and personally took part in the murder of thousands of men, women, and children who were shot into anti-tank ditches. A 1986 federal appeals court upheld his deportation order, ruling that the evidence against the defendant was " overwhelming and largely uncontroverted. " Summarily rejecting the court's findings because evidence had been obtained from the Soviet Union, Buchanan orchestrated a national media effort to exonerate Linnas, demanding that his citizenship be reinstated. He championed the Linnas cause in his syndicated newspaper column and TV program " Crossfire, " and arranged for then U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III to meet with him and members of Eastern European organizations who hailed Linnas as a hero. On March 31, l987, Menachem Rosensaft, founder of the International Network of Children of Holocaust Survivors, wrote a New York Times Op-Ed piece calling for a congressional investigation to determine whether any American official or functionary had intervened on Mr. Linnas's behalf. Buchanan responded by saying it was the Office of Special Investigations that needed to be investigated. " Let us get it all out in the open, " he wrote, " nothing un-American can live in the sunlight. " Attorney General Meese delayed the deportation of Linnas as long as possible, all the while searching for a haven. After sixteen countries had refused, Panama agreed to accept Linnas " on humanitarian grounds. " News of the decision prompted Rosensaft and others to intercede with Panamanian officials in Washington, who told them that their government had not been informed of Linnas's wartime atrocities. Panama withdrew its offer and issued a statement saying that " our country and our Government reject and condemn the crimes committed by fascists. " On April 20, 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a final appeal. At that point Meese was legally bound to comply with the deportation order. Linnas was flown to the Soviet Union and three months later died in a prison hospital while awaiting trial. " http://uahc.org/rjmag/1096ca.html The obvious question came to mind. Was the potential third party DioGuardi 2000 Senate candidacy, which could have guaranteed Hillary the US Senate seat from New York a " big payoff " for the Clintons for the 1999 pro-Albanian Balkan war against Serbia which saw Kosovo stolen from Serbia? http://aacl.com/indexmain.html is the url of a group which describes itself at that website as " the Albanian American Civic League. The Civic League was founded by former Congressman Joseph DioGuardi and a board of Albanian Americans in 1989 as the only registered lobby in Washington, DC, representing the concerns and interests of the Albanian people. Pay close attention to the phrase " living side by side in " found in the quote below, and note how it has since been used by advocates of a so-called Two State Solution, which envisages a so- called " palestinian " state " living side by side in " so- called " peace " with Israel. In reality the so-called Two State Solution is more like Hitler's infamous FINAL SOLUTION, as it is really a Two Step or Two Stage plan, with the first step being get Israel to hand over everything it will without total war, and then wage total war against Israel from the land Israel hands over to destroy the rest of Israel. The self-described " purpose of the Civic League is to further the human rights and the national cause of the divided nation of more than seven million Albanians living side by side in the Balkans in Albania, Kosova, western Macedonia, southeastern Montenegro, Presheve, Medvegje, Bujanovc (southern Serbia), and Chameria (northern Greece). By bringing the political perspectives of 400,000 Albanian Americans to the US Government, the civic League works to end the repression and oppression of Albanians living under hostile Slavic Communist regimes in the Balkans and to preserve the culture, identity and human rights of Albanians throughout the world. " While you are digesting that quote, which sounds to me to be more than a bit like the propaganda sprouted by the nazis about the so-called " Sudetenland " http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/Chlup/chluplinks/sudeten.html http://motlc.wiesenthal.org/albums/palbum/p02/a0133p5.html http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/Chlup/chluplinks/munich.html http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/Chlup/czechcon.html and other places inhabited by Germans and others which used the German population as a pretext for annexation and in some cases war by Germany. Saddam did the same thing when he move arabs into Kurdish sections of so-called Iraq. Syria has moved a million so-called " civilian " FIFTH COLUMNISTS into Lebanon, a nation which numbers under four million people, not counting those million Syrian FIFTH COLUMNISTS. NATO bombed Belgrade TV repeatedly, after Belgrade TV started to show the comedic film " Wag the Dog " which is about a US President who starts an Albanian War while he is in the midst of a sex scandal. Ken Starr, where are you now that we really do need you? (Ken Starr was the anti-Clinton prosecutor who got nowhere in his attempts to oust Bill Clinton from the Presidency.) Some more thoughts from a different source are quoted below: " Fri, 2 Jul 1999 SendMeHack SendMeHack at aol.com VOICE OF THE GRUNT SPECIAL REPORT FROM BEN WORKS BUYING AN INTERVENTION: KOSOVO AND ALBANIAN PAC MONEY IN CONGRESS By Benjamin Works,, The Strategic Issues Research Institute Hack and I, along with a select group of others, have been at war with the KLA over its heroin and terrorist connections. We also knew something about how political money bought this war policy. Here's the story. Back in 1995, late in the Bosnian war, I got a reference to a 1986 Senate Resolution proposed by Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, decrying Yugoslavian official oppression of the Albanian population of Kosovo-that's 1986, when the Albanian Autonomous government was still fully operational. Joseph DioGuardi, a New York Republican, sponsored the companion House Resolution, both of which never emerged from committee. I got a copy of that Senate Resolution Nr. 150 from the Congressional Register of June 19, 1986 and then let it sit in my file for a long time, while the NATO occupation of Bosnia appeared to keep things calm. Meanwhile, Bob Dole managed to lose the 1996 Presidential Election, then vigorously supported Mr. Clinton's year-by-year extensions for keeping some 6900 US soldiers in Bosnia. As the KLA insurrection in Kosovo reached civil war levels, I began to think about that resolution and how it misrepresented history. I had done considerable reading on the origins of the Yugoslav conflicts, pulling Washington Post, New York Times and other reports from the 1980s, bearing on Kosovo and the collapse of the Federative Republic's communist government under the pressure of ethnic-nationalism. Well, pieces fit together showing that all along it has been the ethnic nationalist fascist losers of World War II in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo who have been exploiting the political process in Germany and the United States. Their goal has been to effect the division of Yugoslavia and the cleansing of Serbian populations from their territories, while purporting that " Greater Serbia " was the menace to European security and not the post- fascist " Greater Croatia " and " Greater Albania. " Survivors of the Croat Ustashe movement in southern Germany began their work in the 1960s, but Joseph DioGuardi must be given credit for a sustained campaign to influence Congress beginning in the mid-1970s. DioGuardi, an Albanian American whose ancestors came from an Albanian transplant community in the heel of Italy, sat in Congress for several years in the mid-1980s as a Conservative Republican from New York's Westchester County, but creating a Greater Albania was his agenda as a map on his website shows (www.aapac.com). " His Political Action Committee (PAC) activities are easy to follow from 1988 on. What makes the PAC and individual contributions to campaigns more interesting is the demonstrated connection between the Kosovo Heroin Mafia, its " pizza connection " distribution ( " inherited " from the Gambino crime family) and money-laundering networks, and the number of pizzaria owner-contributors listed in DioGuardi's filings. The Croats and Albanians came up with big pots of laundered money, then spread it around selectively, with American politicians helping to persuade other members in Congress. I have indications of a political alliance between DioGuardi and Bob Dole going as far back as the early 1970s, but have not yet got all the evidence in hand. What I do have is sufficient to reach tentative conclusions about how foreign policy, in a democracy, can be " bought " -that is precisely what happened in the case of the Kosovo Air War. In early 1987, kicking off his 1988 bid to wrest the GOP nomination from then-vice president George Bush, Dole received $1.2 million from Albanian American supporters in New York City, while DioGuardi received $50,000 at the same dinner. I expect the funding trail goes back further, at least to Dole's 1976 campaign.It certainly continued from 1987 through to the present. As the collapse of Yugoslavia loomed, the Croatian and Albanian lobbies continued their campaign: Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, Mar 31, 1993 issue, reported as much as $50 million was larded around Capitol Hill in a two-year period which saw the defeat of George Bush and led to Bob Dole's control of the Republican party: The United States Congress, still reeling from a series of financial scandals involving representatives and senators, is now bracing for a new problem: the massive financial " contributions " which have been made to election funds of politicians by Croatian sources over the past two to three years. One Congressional investigator told Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy that the donations and expenditures on Washington lobbying by the Croatians over the past two years " could well exceed $50-million. " " Much of this came directly from Croatian lobbyists, and some from Croatian American businessmen " Many of the campaign contributions have been recorded legally, " the investigator said, " but many are questionable. But what is more important is that there has been a pervasive attempt to push the United States along a line defined by foreign powers-Croatia and Germany-and it has not been subtle. Elected officials are being told to either support the Croatian line or face either a removal of funding or are told that funding will be given to their opponents. Or they are literally bribed into supporting the Croatian line. This was going on long before Croatia even made its open bid for recognition as an independent state. " Now, as to individual contributions, there are campaign contribution limits on individuals, then there are Political Action Committees (PACs), " Soft Money " contributed to the parties and fed back to candidates, and there is the time-honored custom of passing bundles of hundred dollar bills in brown paper bags to favored candidates. Federal Election Commission (FEC) records are on-line (http://www.tray.com/fecinfo/) and I have been able retrieve records for Joseph DioGuardi's PACs going back to the 1988 election cycle, and have also tested Bob Dole's 1996 Campaign and Liddy Dole's Campaign-2000. It is all there in the lists of candidates and contributors. In particular, most of the Congressmen speaking loudest against Serbia and Serbs are those receiving money from DioGuardi's PAC. Some have simply been beguiled,others may be more disingenuous. Recipients come from both sides of the aisle but are mostly members of the House or Senate foreign relations committees...These records do not reveal monster sums of money, but demonstrate the tip of the iceberg, where " soft money, " individual declared contributions and bags full of $100 bills also find their way to select candidates. It is clear that Bob Dole and Joe DioGuardi, in league with Croat and Bosnian fascist emigrees, worked very effectively to set up US foreign policy to dismantle Yugoslavia and ruin the Serb people. They have succeeded admirably because they were organized and persistent, while their opponents were disorganized and, ultimately, outnumbered by the overwhelming flood of media propaganda. Now, the US taxpayer is on the hook for Billions of Dollars, while our service personnel will be tied down for years in Bosnia and Kosovo,again attempting the kind of nation building that failed so spectacularly in Somalia and Haiti. For those wishing to inspect the details of these fundraising, I have loaded the summary lists compiled thus far at my website along with a companion reading file on the KLA and Heroin: " http://www.siri- us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/AlbanianAmericanPac-1980-98.html and http://www.siri-us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/KLA-Drugs.html see also: http://www.truthinmedia.org/TruthinMedia/Kosovo/Peace/ps13.html http://glasgowcrew.tripod.com/albanian.html " I am not naive, " KT McFarland told the Republican Convention in late May(of 2006), as she announced her continuing campaign to take a senate seat from former First Lady Hillary Clinton. " I know Mrs. Clinton has considerable resources and advantages and that the race ahead will be formidable. Let's face it, at this point she's probably better known in Albania than I am in Albany. " source: http://www.politicalnotebook.org/2006/06/to_feel_better_.html What do you think? Did the Bill and Hillary Clinton anti-Serbian Balkan War of 1999 almost reap its reward with a seat in the US Senate almost being handed to Hillary, not-so-Hilarious Clinton by former New York Congressman Joseph DioGuardi? " 15 YEARS OF THE ALBANIAN AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUE February 1999. Congressman Jim Traficant joins a Civic League delegation to Tirana to speak at an international conference on the independence of Kosova. " SOURCE: http://aacl.com/12m.htm Note: re above Albanians spell Kosovo with an a at the end of it rather than an o, hence the Albanian spelling Kosova above. " Congressman's Corruption Trial Opens with Bickering Tuesday February 5th, 2002 By Jay Miller CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The bribery and corruption trial of Ohio Rep. James Traficant opened on Tuesday amid bickering and a warning from the judge to the nine-term congressman to behave himself. " " Ohio Congressman James Trafficant has been a vigorous Demjanjuk supporter since the start of the trial in Israel. After Demjanjuk was convicted of crimes against humanity. " " July 17th, 2000 Jim Traficant is perhaps the most colorful Member of Congress of our time. He dresses in outrageous outfits and jokes that he is the " fashion leader of the House. " His hair always looks as if he just got out of bed. During his eight terms in Congress he has become famous for his one-minute speeches on the House floor, where he questions the wisdom and honesty of government policies. He nearly always ends up saying " beam me up, " a reference to the old Star Trek television series. " " Traficant guilty of bribery, racketeering April 12, 2002 Traficant spoke to reporters outside the courthouse. CLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN) -- A jury found flamboyant U.S. Rep. James Traficant guilty of bribery and all other charges against him Thursday after a two-month federal racketeering and corruption trial. The jury of 10 women and two men convicted the congressman on all counts against him, covering charges of taking bribes, filing false tax returns, racketeering, and forcing his aides to perform chores at his farm in Ohio and on his houseboat in Washington. The verdict followed four days of deliberations. The nine-term maverick Democrat represented himself in court throughout the trial, even though he is not an attorney.... House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Missouri, issued a statement saying a member of Congress who breaks the law and commits bribery " strikes at the heart of representative government. " He advised Traficant to step down from office. " In light of the gravity of the charges outlined in the guilty verdict against Mr. Traficant, I think the prudent course of action would be an immediate resignation, " Gephardt said. … In 1983, while a county sheriff, Traficant was brought up on federal bribery charges. During that trial, he also represented himself. That time, however, he was acquitted. The trial was marked by periodic outbursts by Traficant, who railed against prosecutors and Wells. Prosecutors accused him of accepting gifts and favors from several businessmen in his district, including a convicted felon, in return for interceding on their behalf with federal and state agencies. He also was accused of using employees from his office to perform work on his farm and boat and requiring them to return a portion of their salaries to him each month. The government alleged that staffers baled hay, maintained horse stalls and performed other chores at Traficant's farm. Other charges accused him of underreporting income on his tax returns and asking employees to destroy evidence and provide false testimony after he became aware he was being investigated. " " Traficant Expelled – Sentenced Rep. Traficant of Ohio expelled from House for ethics violations Update: 07/30/02 Traficant Sentenced to 8 Years Less than week after being expelled from the U.S. House of Representatives, former Congressman James Traficant of Ohio was sentenced today to eight years in federal prison for his April 11 conviction on charges of bribery, corruption and tax evasion. At his sentencing hearing, Traficant argued that his expulsion from Congress had been punishment enough. Judge Lesley Wells of the U.S. District Court in Cleveland, disagreed, calling Traficant's expulsion a separate political matter. Judge Wells refused to set bail for Traficant, ordering that service of his term should begin immediately. Denial of bail also sets aside all pending appeals to Traficant's conviction. " source: http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa072502a.htm Bill Clinton turned the U.S. Air Force into Air bin Laden, to support Osama bin Laden's terrorists on the ground, who were allied with Al Queda type multinational terrorists linked historically to Iraq in the Balkan War of the 1990s. Clinton waged against Serbian Christians, Jews. Like the Mafia boss of all bosses he fancied himself to be, as he watched videos of his favorite movie, " The Godfather " , and its sequels, Saddam used " cut-outs " to separate himself from his international terrorism, so that he could maintain " plausible deniability " . During the evil war against Serbia of the 1990s the back-stabbing Saddam pretended to embrace the Serbian cause, but secretly engaged in anti-Serbian terrorism in the Balkans. " during the night of July 18th -19th ,1998 a group of several hundred heavily armed foreign mercenaries (mostly " mujahideens, " Islamic " holy warriors " ) frontally attacked from Albania the Yugoslav Army border guards near the Djeravici mountain. The attack was repulsed by the Serbian troops, and the foreign assailants suffered heavy casualties. Among the dead were six mercenaries from Yemen, five from Saudi Arabia, four from Macedonia. A short while later, Yugoslav authorities arrested Nuri Salip Muhamed, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Iraqi Army as he was trying to enter Yugoslavia illegally from Bulgaria. This Iraqi officer, who reportedly spoke perfect Serbian, was supposed to have commanded the July 18th-19th, 1998 terrorist attack from Albania. But lucky for him, he had not arrived there in time. " " September 21st, 2001 U.S. Pro-Israel Stance Blamed The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) condemned the recent comments of U.S. Rep. James Traficant (D-Ohio), who on Sept. 12 blamed the deadly terrorist assault on America's support for Israel. Traficant, long suspected of mob ties in his hometown of Youngstown, reportedly has accepted since 1996 more than $20,000 in campaign donations from the People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran, a group the State Department describes as a front for terrorists. Traficant " is an embarrassment to the Congress, and his congressional colleagues should marginalize him as much as possible and say publicly that his words are beyond the pale, " NJDC Executive Director Ira Forman said. " source: http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=7477 " Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK) Sazman-e Mojahedin-e Khalq-e Iran Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA) People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) Muslim Iranian Student's Society National Council of Resistance (NCR) National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) Description its primary support came from the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein since the late 1980s. The MEK's history is filled with anti-Western attacks… During the 1970s, the MEK killed US military personnel and US civilians… In 1991, it assisted the Government of Iraq in suppressing the Shia and Kurdish uprisings in southern Iraq and the Kurdish uprisings in the north…. Strength Some 3,800 members are confined to Camp Ashraf, the MEK's main compound near Baghdad, where they remain under Coalition control. As a condition of the cease-fire agreement, the group relinquished its weapons, including tanks, armored vehicles, and heavy artillery…. External Aid Before Operation Iraqi Freedom, the group received all of its military assistance, and most of its financial support, from the former Iraqi regime. source: http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/mek.htm " There were groups that were pretty scary, but if someone had the money, he'd find a way to help them, " a former aide says. As both congressman and senator, Torricelli has championed the cause of a revolutionary Iranian group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), identified by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization. Many Iranian-born MEK sympathizers have given Torricelli money ($136,000, according to one estimate), including $1,000 from Canada's chief MEK organizer, who wrote her check to Torricelli from her new home in Washington a week after an Ottawa court upheld her deportation, according to The American Spectator. Torricelli, in turn, sponsored several resolutions and letters supporting the group as a " democratic alternative " to the Muslim fundamentalist regime and protesting U.S. sanctions against it-the Mujahedin advocacy group in America, the National Council of Resistance, was labeled an " alias for the MEK " by the State Department and barred from receiving any funds to operate on U.S. soil. The State Department is on solid ground. Although it portrays itself as a democratic grass-roots opposition, the MEK killed U.S. military attachés in the 1970s and called for restrictions on Jewish businesses; its military wing is based in armed camps in Iraq, backed by Saddam Hussein. In the past two years, it has openly claimed credit for the killing of three high-ranking members of the Iranian government, according to congressional testimony by then-Assistant Secretary of State Martin Indyk. Fears about Iranian terrorist-linked donors even led Torricelli's staff to joke among themselves about who would go outside to " start the car to see if it blows up, " a source recalls.- Torricelli has also managed to appeal to organizations with virulent anti-Semitic positions. In 1993, for instance, he was the keynote speaker at a banquet co-sponsored by the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), an organization identified by anti-terrorism experts and Israeli intelligence officials as the political front for the Hamas terrorist group. Torricelli sat on the dais next to Ahmed Bin Yousef, the head of UASR, who champions the Hamas cause. When attacked for his appearance at the banquet during his Senate campaign, Torricelli claimed in a news conference that he didn't know that the UASR was a sponsor or that it was tied to Hamas. Apparently he missed the front-page story in The New York Times several months earlier that exposed its alleged terrorist connections. Torricelli is endlessly creative in trolling for support from ethnic communities. He founded a congressional Pakistani caucus and told a dinner hosted by a Pakistani-American PAC in 1996 exactly what they wanted to hear: " Pakistan cannot be intimidated into accepting nuclear nonproliferation as was attempted by the U.S. Congress. " Clinton raises money for Sen. Torricelli, ignores Lewinsky interview March 4, 1999 Web posted at: 12:20 p.m. EST (1720 GMT) NEWARK, New Jersey (AllPolitics, March 4) -- President Bill Clinton attended a fund-raiser Wednesday night for Sen. Robert Torricelli that raised $2.15 million for the New Jersey Democrat, officials said. A spokesman said the $2.15 million that the $1,000-a-plate dinner brought in was the most ever raised in a single night for a member of Congress. The fund-raiser far exceeded earlier expectations of $1.2 million. Torricelli proved to be a staunch supporter of the president throughout his Senate impeachment trial. In his speech, Clinton praised the senator: " He has been my friend in good times and bad and I will never forget it. " The fund-raiser took place just before Monica Lewinsky's two-hour interview on ABC with Barbara Walters aired nationally. " President Clinton addresses a fundraising reception for Senator Robert Torricelli, D-NJ, right, at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, Wednesday night " You can see the photo of Cllinton and Torricelli at KnowTheEnemy/ in the Birds of A Feather photo album at http://ph.KnowTheEnemy/photos SOURCE: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/04/clinton.torricelli/ Shirley A. Cloyes married Joseph DioGuardi in June 1998 according to the material about her excerpted from below in which she is described as " Balkan Affairs Adviser " to the Albanian American Civic League,whose President is Joseph DioGuardi, which states that : " In 1983, she coauthored a book entitled To Work and To Love with German political theologian Dorothee Soelle and joined the staff of The Seabury Press as an editor. Following the closure of the house in 1984, she became marketing director and editorial consultant in Black and women's studies at Orbis Books. In 1986, she joined the staff of Lawrence Hill & Company, an offshoot of the breakup of Hill & Wang, as associate publisher. The press specialized in African American and African studies, the Middle East, women's studies, and controversial domestic and international political issues. When Larry Hill died in 1988, she took over the house and was its publisher until the end of 1995. Some of the noteworthy titles that she published are The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy, Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur, Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa, England, and the Caribbean by Jan Carew, My Friend, the Enemy by Uri Avnery, and M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America by H. Bruce Franklin. In 1995, she published Yugoslavia's Ethnic Nightmare, the first book on the causes and far-reaching consequences of the Balkan conflict written from the perspective of Bosnian Muslim, Croatian, Serbian, and Macedonian journalists who opposed the war inside the former Yugoslavia. That year she became the Balkan Affairs Adviser to the Albanian American Civic League. She has since written and lectured widely about the Albanian dimension of the Balkan conflict and made eight trips to the region. Cloyes proposed the first Congressional hearing on the Albanian dimension of the Balkan conflict. Following the hearing in February 1995, which included representatives from all the Albanian lands in the former Yugoslavia, she and Civic League President Joseph DioGuardi traveled with Yugoslav dissident Mihaljo Mihaljov to Macedonia at the invitation of Albanian leaders there to monitor the reopening of the Albanian-language University of Tetova. The Macedonian government attacked the university on the morning of their departure, killing a student, wounding hundreds, and jailing the professors. In September of that year, she traveled to Tirana with DioGuardi and Congressman Benjamin Gilman, chair of the House Committee on International Relations, to meet with then President Sali Berisha and to Istanbul to make the case for the the independence of Kosova at the National Press center and at the University of Marmara. Cloyes has testified before Congress at two historic turning points in the life of the Albanian nation. In July 1996, she testified on behalf of the State of Albania before the House Committee on International Relations and exposed the role of Nicholas Gage of the Panepirotic Federation and the Albanian Communists in attempting to overthrow the democratically elected government of Sali Berisha. In 1998, she testified in support of U.S. troop deployment in Kosova, following Bob Dole, Jean Kirkpatrick, and Henry Kissinger. In February 1998, after the Serbian army attacked Drenice, Cloyes worked with CNN to gain more complete coverage of the crisis in Kosova. In March, she and DioGuardi shifted the focus of a Congressional hearing with U.S. Balkan envoy Robert Gelbard from Bosnia to Kosova, and positioned the questions that forced Gelbard to retract his earlier depiction of the KLA as a " terrorist " organization. In August of that year, she published two major articles on U.S. foreign policy in the Balkans: " The Agony of Kosova " and " Presiding over Genocide: The Shame of the West. " Cloyes is the author of the Civic League's October 1999 public declaration, entitled " Resolving the Albanian National Question, " which examines the internal and external factors that stand in the way of creating a free and independent Kosova and bringing a just and lasting peace to the Balkans. With the start of the NATO bombing campaign against Serbia in March 1999, Cloyes and DioGuardi appeared separately and together on more than 50 radio and TV broadcasts. Since the war ended in June 1999, they have made three trips to Kosova to report back to Congress on postwar conditions. Cloyes and DioGuardi were married in June 1998. " SOURCE: http://aacl.com/shirley2.html If the name Assata Shakur in the bio of Mrs. Joseph DioGuardi above rang any bells with you it is likely that you recall that Assata Shakur is the alias of Joanne Chesimard. Recall that the bio of Mrs. Joseph DioGuardi above states that among " the noteworthy titles that she published " was " Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur " For those who may be unfamiliar with Joanne Chesimard a.k.a. Assata Shakur the article below may be helpful: " Trooper Executed By Female Militant New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster was murdered by JoAnne Chesimard. On May 2, 1973, New Jersey State Police Troopers James Harper and Werner Foerster were patrolling the New Jersey Turnpike in the East Brunswick area. They stopped a car with three occupants and began to question them. The female passenger, JoAnne Chesimard, was a member of the Black Liberation Army. She suddenly pulled out a semi-automatic pistol and opened fire. Trooper Foerster was struck twice in the chest and Trooper Harper was hit in the shoulder. Chesimard then picked up Trooper Foerster's service weapon and shot him twice in the head, execution style, while he lay in the road. Chesimard then picked up Trooper Foerster's service weapon and shot him twice in the head, execution style, while he lay in the road. Killer Escapes JoAnne Chesimard, a member of the Black Liberation Army and convicted murderer Chesimard was quickly captured, convicted and sentenced to life plus 26 to 33 years in prison—authorities wanted to make sure this dangerous woman would never roam the streets again. But despite their best efforts, Chesimard wasn't going to let the law stop her. On November 2, 1979, Chesimard escaped from prison with the help of a domestic terrorist group. In the early 1980's, she resurfaced in Cuba under the protection of Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. The Fight For Justice Continues $1 million reward poster for Chesimard Two generations of New Jersey State Police detectives have been assigned to the fugitive investigation since Chesimard's escape. Authorities refuse to let Chesimard go without a fight—Chesimard has now been placed on all of the terrorist watch lists and there is a $1 million reward for information leading to her arrest. Authorities hope the reward will destabilize Chesimard's sense of security inside Cuba and lead to her capture, and subsequently, her return to New Jersey. " source: http://www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=31956 The terrorist group mentioned above: " the Black Liberation Army " was an offshoot of the original BLACK PANTHER PARTY. Arthur Turco associate Twyman Myers left the BLACK PANTHER PARTY to join " the Black Liberation Army " . If you have never heard of Twyman Myers it may be because he is dead. Myers was a young man when he left the BLACK PANTHER PARTY to join " the Black Liberation Army " . The article below mentions the late Twyman Myers " 30 Years in the Making—Justice at Last for Slain Officer In the early hours of 3 November 1971, a young Atlanta police officer by the name of Jimmy Greene was ambushed and killed as he sat in his patrol wagon eating his late-night supper. On 13 October 2003—some 32 years later— the man responsible was found guilty of his murder in Fulton County Superior Court. Freddie Hilton (51) was convicted of murder in the long-ago death of Jimmy Greene in a case prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Al Dixon, Senior Assistant District Attorney Michele McCutcheon, and Senior Assistant District Attorney Peggy Katz. Atlanta Police Detective Jimmy Rose and Senior Investigator M.C. Cox of the District Attorney's Office investigated the case. Judge Stephanie Manis will sentence Hilton on 10 November, and he faces a possible double life sentence in prison. At the time of the murder, Hilton was a member of an organization known as the " Black Liberation Army, " a militant group infamous for attacks on law enforcement officers in New York City and across the country. A handful of the group's members had come to Atlanta after breaking away from the Black Panther Party in the early 1970s. Hilton was among these. Officer Greene, engaged to be married and the father of one infant daughter, was sitting in his vehicle at a gas station at the intersection of Memorial Drive and Boulevard when he was approached by Hilton and his now-dead co- conspirator Twyman Meyers. Hilton shot Officer Greene three times at close range, stole his revolver and badge, and fled the scene. A witness saw Greene slumped over in the front seat and soon realized he had been shot. Greene died two hours later. Several other former BLA members testified at the trial that Hilton and Meyers returned to the group's residence where the pair bragged of the killing. Shortly after the incident, Atlanta police found a witness who said he heard Hilton confess to the killing, but then-District Attorney Lewis Slaton felt there was not enough evidence to bring formal charges. So the story ended there…or so it seemed. In early 2001, Detective Rose received a call from New York City Police Detective Chris Karolkowski who had come across Hilton as a suspect in a child molestation case and soon discovered that he had been the prime suspect in Greene's murder. Rose soon re-opened the case, and, with the help of Investigator Cox, a Grand Jury indicted Hilton for the murder in July of last year. (Incidentally, Rose and Cox received the National Association of Police Organizations' highest honor last year for their work on the case.) Hilton, who had changed his name to Kamau Sadiki and was now working in telecommunications in New York, was brought back to Atlanta to face trial. Aside from justice for Officer Greene, perhaps the most positive aspect of this painful incident was the re-uniting of Greene's long-estranged daughter Melody Adams (now 34) of North Carolina with aunts and uncles she had never known. Hearing about the trial in the news, Adams traveled to Atlanta to sit in on the trial and soon revealed her identity to other family members in attendance. A family long-separated by a brutal crime was now re-united. " SOURCE: http://www.fultonda.org/featuredarticle/30years.htm The Albanian Connection; As Italians Move Up, a New Group Does the Pizza and Pasta source: THE NEW YORK TIMES More information. April 3, 2001, Tuesday By DEXTER FILKINS (NYT); Metropolitan Desk Late Edition - Final, Section B, Page 1, Column 2, DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - Americans becoming owners of Italian-American restaurants and pizza parlors in New York City and surrounding area; various reasons cited " Hillary Clinton has long masqueraded as a champion of women's rights, yet the Balkan Wars perpetrated by her husband Bill Clinton , far from helping the rights of women, actually harmed women. " Sex Slaves: Trafficking in human beings from Moldova to Italy …the West has helped to create the demand, by stationing tens of thousands of troops in the Balkans. Not all of these sex slaves' clients are soldiers and international workers, but their presence has greatly fuelled the demand for brothels in the Balkans. Certainly, the volume of trafficking, which picked up in the spring of 1999 as soon as Nato troops arrived in Macedonia in anticipation of military strikes against Yugoslavia [1], has greatly increased since the Kosovo war. Finally, the West has helped to create the link between the supply and the demand by supporting, in the Kosovo war, the very Albanian Mafia which now controls this market. The fact that there is so much reporting now on the matter of sex slaves may be an indication that the powers that be in the West are beginning to ditch those whom they portrayed during the spring of 1999 as passive and innocent victims…. It is clear that the Albanian Mafia controls prostitution in Italy, and that a very large number of prostitutes there are effectively slaves. Although not all the girls in Italy are from Moldova – many come from Nigeria and Albania – it has been affirmed by one of the leading authorities on prostitution that they are kept in captivity. " All the women currently on the streets (of Italy) are slaves. The proof is that the Nigerians, the Albanians, the Romanians and the women from Eastern European countries all have their passports taken away by their pimps. There is not one metre of street in which prostitution is not controlled by criminals, " according to Don Oreste Benzi, a priest in Verona who has founded a charity which works with prostitutes. Benzi goes on, " The Albanians operate in family clans, in `joint ventures' with the Mafia in Eastern Europe and Italy. No new pimp can start operating in Italy without paying a percentage to the person who already controls the territory. Any mistakes are punished by death. For the Albanians, vendetta is second nature: the concept of forgiveness does not exist. " [7] According to Benzi's charity, the Association of the Community of Pope John XXIII, 48% of the prostitutes in Italy are from Eastern Europe; 35%-40% are minors (from 12 to 18 years old); and 26% have been kidnapped and taken from their countries of origin by force.[8] source: http://www.bhhrg.org/CountryReport.asp?ReportID=160 & CountryID=16 Hillary Clinton has also masqueraded as someone concerned about Children's Rights. Once again, the Balkan Wars perpetrated by her husband Bill Clinton actually harmed children too. " Sexual exploitation of children An especially appalling aspect of the trade in human beings is the sexual exploitation of children. BHHRG representatives interviewed Mariana Petersel, the Director of Save the Children in Moldova, whose organisation has started to house and rehabilitate young women and girls who have been forced into sex slavery. The youngest victim with which they have dealt was nine years old. 260 victims of sex slavery have been housed and helped by Save the Children during 2000. They had been in various Balkans countries: Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, Italy, and Greece. References for further reading: Trafficking in Migrants, http://www.iom.int/iom/Publications/trafficking_in_migrants.htm Pino Arlacchi, Schiavi, Il nuovo traffico di esseri umani, Rizzoli, Milan, May 1999 Don Oreste Benzi, Una nuovà schiavtù: la prostituzione coata, Paoline Editoriale Libri, 1999 Sandro Provvisionato, UKC: l'armata dell'ombra: l'esercito di liberazione del Kosovo. Una guerra tra mafia, politica e terrorismo, Gamberetti Editrice, Rome, 2000. [1] Giuseppe Rolli, Le schiave dei soldati di pace, Il Manifesto, 18th April 2000 [2] The Current Situation on Trafficking in Women in the Republic of Moldova, unpublished report by Ala Mîndîcanu, Member of the Moldovan Parliament. [3] Marion van Renterghem, Filles esclaves venues de l'Est, Le Monde, 1st December 2000 [4] Eastern Europe's Impoverished Girls Fall Prey to Sex Trade, Albanian Daily News, 5th October 2000 [5] Tino Oldani, Tirana? Come una Colombia sotto casa, Panorama, 1st July 1999 [6] Ibid. [7] Don Oreste Benzi, Le prostitute sono schiave: ecco la prova, http://www.mess-s- antonio.it/msahome/ita/riviste/rivnaz/a2000/Ott/Art/53%20Prost\ itute.htm [8] Presidente Ciampi, Ecco come fare per sconfiggere il racket della prostituzione, http://www.exodus.it/ASSOCIAZIONI/AP23/sempre/00ott/00ott03.html. [9] The Italian Finance Minister, Ottavanio del Turco, has also recently attacked the Mafia activities of the Montengrin president, Milo Djukanovi & #263;. See La Repubblica, 12th January 2001 source: http://www.bhhrg.org/CountryReport.asp?ReportID=160 & CountryID=16 Wednesday, 2 August, 2000, 12:58 GMT 13:58 UK Italy's sexual slave trade Many prostitutes in Italy come from Albania In the first of two special reports, the BBC's Brian Barron investigates Italy's clandestine trade in sexual slaves and the Albanian criminals behind the business. It is estimated that there could be more than 40,000 foreign prostitutes on the streets of Italy - and the numbers are increasing. The streetwalkers venture out every night after 10, on the edge of big cities like Rome. Each trip was awful but that was my choice. If I returned to Albania I was dead. Prostitute In the Eor district, they are Albanian or from other former communist countries. Most are controlled by Albanian mafia gangsters. A handful have travelled to Italy through their own efforts. One streetwalker whose identity must be kept secret recalls her particular journey. " I came by boat, " she says. " I was smuggled in. I had tried four times. It was a horrible trip. " " It was winter, cold and raining. It was a terrible risk. I saw dead people with my own eyes. " " Each trip was awful but that was my choice. If I returned to Albania I was dead. " " Dead or alive - this was my only choice. " Tarantelli: Women are held in slavery The former Italian MP, Carol Bebbe Tarantelli, says that the women are slaves. " They are brought here, " she says. " Their passports are destroyed often, usually as a matter of fact they are tortured to break their wills. " " They're moved around from place to place so they don't know where they are. They don't speak the language. " " They're terrified and they can't escape. They're held in slavery. " Poverty For many of the girls, the journey began in their Albanian homeland. In Durres, most people are out of work, surviving on remittances from relatives abroad, like the girls on the streets of Italy. In its poverty and human desperation it is typical of countless Albanian communities. Once Albania was an all-powerful communist police state. It is now a country beyond the rule of law. The police chief of Durres, Colonel Albert Pilo, is having a difficult time stamping out the smuggling of young girls. Durres: Lawlessness and poverty prevail " We have had some success against traffickers in prostitutes, " he says. " We've arrested at least three. But a big problem is what to do with the girls caught up in the system, especially if they come from outside Albania. " " The fact is we do not have any organisation for helping them. " " At times we've had to keep the girls in prison because there's nowhere for them to go. " Dramatic pictures, taken two years ago, show one of the speedboats of the Albanian mafia being intercepted by Italian security forces. An Albanian mafia speedboat with its human cargo heads for Italy It was trying to land a batch of illegal immigrants on Italy's Adriatic coast. Boxes of drugs were thrown overboard as the gangsters, travelling at 60 miles an hour, evaded the helicopters and ships trying to encircle them. On the coast at Lecce, the Italian Justice Ministry, working with a Catholic charity, has launched another kind of assault on the Albanian mafia. In one camp for illegal immigrants, Father Cesari helps run a witness protection programme for former prostitutes from Albania and Eastern Europe. Hope for some of the women in the witness protection programme " The choice of denouncing their pimps is an act of responsibility, " he says. " It's not an easy decision to make. So these girls must have the courage to do it. " To cut all ties with the past. By pointing the finger at those who abuse them there is the chance that some of the guilty will be brought to justice. " Eighty girls have collaborated. They have been rewarded with the right to remain in Italy and, when necessary, new identities. However, 500 declined because they were afraid of the godfathers. source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/862942.stm " February 2001In The Money: Congressman James Traficant And His Campaign ContributorsBy James Ridgway de Szigethy Convicted associates of the Pittsburgh Mafia Family, Mafia- corrupted labor Unions and Middle Eastern political operatives are among those who have contributed to the past two re-election campaigns of Congressman James Traficant, an analysis of Federal Election Commission records reveals. These records, which are required filings under Federal Election law, reveal 219 donations by individuals and 212 donations by Unions and Political Action Committees. 47 of the personal contributions came from outside the State of Ohio, with 35 of those from the State of Virginia. 38 are from individuals that indicate a Middle Eastern background of the contributor. Among the contributors whose names would probably be recognized by most Youngstown residents are Ed Flask, Mark Colucci, David Sugar, Anthony Saadey, Russell Saadey, Jr., Sam Traficanti, and fireworks businessmen Bruce Zoldan and Gerald Bostocky. Among the contributors whose names would probably NOT be recognized by most Youngstown residents are Virginia residents Ali Asghar Abbaszadeh, Reza Bulochi, Massud Mirmohammaoi, Ramesh Sepehrrad, and Javad Vaziri, Samir Mohammad, Ammar Shafai, and Homayoun Nasser Sharif, Georgia resident Hossein Shamsai, Massachusetts residents Mahaz Nasseri and Hessein Sadeghpour, Kansas City's Sajadi Sacid, Maryland's Cyrus Samet and Mahmoud Tabassi, and San Diego's Mohammad Bigdeli. Russell Saadey Jr., a former investigator for the District Attorney's office in Youngstown, was indicted last December on charges he bribed Judges to fix Court cases. Ed Flask accepted a plea bargain last year in which he pleaded guilty to felony charges in regards to his rip-off of nearly $2 million while running the public water utility in Youngstown. Flask first received notoriety during the 1983 Federal bribery trial of then-Sheriff James Traficant, when it was revealed that Cleveland Mafia associate Charlie " The Crab " Carabbia had secretly tape recorded Traficant bragging about how he laundered through Flask's law office part of the $163,000 in bribe money he accepted from the Mafia. Those same tapes revealed that Carabbia was blackmailing Flask with " compromising photographs of Flask which would ensure his silence! " Just days later, Carabbia was abducted and murdered. B & T Express employee Sam Traficanti was present during some of the secret tape -recorded meetings between the Carabbia brothers and Sheriff-elect Traficant, but was not charged. Two of Traficanti's fellow employees at B & T Express also donated to Traficant's campaign records show. Traficanti is not related to Congressman Traficant. Last September, the Congressman's employee Anthony Traficanti was subpoenaed by the Federal Grand Jury in Cleveland. Congressman Traficant has also received campaign contributions from Youngstown resident Walter Terlecki. In recent months, Congressman Traficant has entered into the Congressional Record sworn affidavits by Michael " Beef " Terlecky, a former Mahoning County Deputy Sheriff who was convicted of taking bribes from the Mafia. Terlecky now claims that he was set up by some of the same authorities that are now involved in the investigation of Congressman Traficant, including two public figures who attended an anti-Mafia summit meeting recently in Palermo, Sicily. The Congressman has denied a request by the chairman of the Mahoning County Board of Elections who is seeking information the Congressman claims to have regarding Mafia bribes to the campaigns of elected officials in Youngstown. Terlecky also claims that it was he who found the infamous Carabbia tapes months before the FBI during an illegal search and seizure regarding an investigation into the murder of yet another Youngstown Mafia figure, Joe DeRose. However, conversations on the Carabbia tapes that include remarks made by Sam Traficanti clearly indicate that the tapes were recorded months later than Terlecky's claims, when Traficant had just been elected Sheriff. Congressman Traficant is also now claiming that an FBI agent in Youngstown was taking bribes from the Mafia 38 years ago in 1962. During the 1999 Federal bribery trial of Youngstown Sheriff Philip Chance fireworks distributor Bruce Zoldan testified that Chance shook him down for `tribute money' to Pittsburgh Mafia figure Lenny Strollo. Zoldan's first run- in with Chance was in 1983, when Sheriff Traficant and his Deputy Chance raided Zoldan's fireworks business two days before their busiest moneymaking period, the Fourth of July. Zoldan would also testify that the Gambino Family led by John Gotti extorted a huge sum of money from him in order to do business in New York. The murder of Mafia figure Joey Naples, who was among those who contributed to the $163,000 bribe to Traficant, is believed to be a result of the fight for control of the fireworks business. David Sugar pleaded guilty last year to Obstruction of Justice charges in regards to his attempts to conceal evidence from the Grand Jury in Cleveland investigating financial dealings between Sugar, his construction company, and Congressman Traficant. Sugar is expected to testify against Traficant at any future criminal proceedings, as is Traficant's former employee on his horse farm, Clarence Broad. In November of last year, Broad pleaded guilty to charges he tried to hire a hitman to murder a woman who was expected to give damaging testimony against Traficant before the Grand Jury in Cleveland. Criminal attorney Mark Colucci, who also is among those who have given money to Traficant's campaign, responded by alleging in Federal Court that Prosecutor Craig Morford had used coercion to force Broad to plead guilty. Judge Donald Nugent was not impressed with Colucci's unsubstantiated claims and threatened to cite Colucci for Contempt of Court. In 1998 and 2000 Traficant accepted donations from controversial activist James Zogby, President of the Arab American Institute. Zogby was recently in the news last October, when his appointment as an Advisor to the Al Gore campaign sparked outrage worldwide among supporters of Israel. The Jerusalem Post quoted terrorism expert Steven Emerson: " Zogby has not only made comments that are incendiary but he has also made comments that are anti-Semitic! " " (Zogby has) openly supported the Hizbullah! " Emerson is renown for his investigation of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland in December, 1988, killing 270 people, including 35 Syracuse University students. On June 29, 1993, Senator John McCain entered into the Congressional Record a public challenge to the FBI and the Justice Department to share information on the People's Mujahidin Organization of Iran, a suspected terrorist organization that was involved in a clandestine effort to influence public policy through an organized campaign of directing contributions to the campaigns of selected members of Congress. Said the Senator: " Given the charges made in a previous FBI report that the PMOI has a history of terrorism, an anti-Western ideology, and ties to the regime of Saddam Hussein, this should be a matter of concern to all Members. " In 1997 The Iran Report, a publication of the Middle East Data Project, identified four members of Congress as recipients of campaign donations from alleged associates of the PMOI. Those four were Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, Gary Ackerman of New York, Dan Burton of Indiana and James Traficant of Ohio. To date, none of these individuals have been charged with making illegal campaign contributions. However, Senator Torricelli is currently in the news defending himself against a Chinese fundraiser named David Chang, who has pleaded guilty to illegally contributing $53,000 to Torricelli's 1996 campaign. Numerous recent Media reports show that the Feds are now nearing the conclusion of an investigation that began with reports of impropriety regarding contributions to Torricelli's 1996 campaign. Congressman Traficant has developed a huge following in the Arab and Muslim countries in the Middle East because of his passionate public support for accused terrorists Abdel Basset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, indicted for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, and former auto worker John Demjanjuk, who was placed on trial in Israel on charges he was " Ivan the Terrible, " a Nazi concentration camp guard responsible for the murders of thousands of Jews during World War II. Demjanjuk was convicted and sentenced to death, although the Israeli Supreme Court later reversed his conviction. Congressman Traficant then flew to Israel to personally escort the accused murderer back to the United States. In the case of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, Traficant first went public in this matter at a press conference in 1989, at which he claimed that the bombing was the result of a joint Syrian/CIA operation. ABC News London correspondent Pierre Salinger then picked up the story, utilizing Traficant, government informant Lester Coleman, and private investigator Juval Aviv as his sources. Coleman later pleaded guilty to Perjury charges and admitted his Pan Am/CIA story was a hoax. Juval Aviv was placed on trial in 1996 in Manhattan on Federal fraud charges unrelated to the Pan Am case. He was acquitted. Upon Aviv's indictment Congressman Traficant found a replacement in Boris de Korczak as his lead researcher in his quest to prove his Pan Am 103 theory. Boris is best known for the lawsuit he filed in 1996 against the CIA in which he claimed he had been recruited by the CIA as a double agent against the KGB, that his `cover' had been blown by a drunken U. S. official which resulted in a shoot-out with the KGB during a car chase through the streets of Copenhagen, and that his CIA case Officer extorted from him a bribe of Russian Medieval icons worth $300,000 in exchange for the promise of help in obtaining the pension he claimed was owed him. Boris claims he turned over the bribe, only to be shot in the kidney 4 months later by an unknown assailant armed with a pellet gun. The CIA denied Boris' claims he was owed monetary compensation and also denied any of its employees shot Boris with a pellet gun. Boris' lawsuit was dismissed and the decision was upheld on Appeal. Despite the efforts of Traficant and his associates to prove their conspiracy theory, Abdel Basset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi was recently convicted as the terrorist who planted the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103. Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah was acquitted. In addition to receiving campaign money from convicted Mafia figures and Middle Eastern political operatives, FEC documents also detail contributions made to Traficant's campaign from Unions that have been involved in corruption scandals in recent years. Those Unions include the American Federation of State, County, & Municipal Employees, the Communications Workers of America, the Transport Workers Union, and the UFCW. Traficant has also received donations from the Italian-American Democratic Leadership Council, the Al Gore for President campaign, and the National Education Association Fund for Children and Public Education. Ironic is the $12,000 donated to Traficant by the Association of Trial Lawyers, as Traficant is one of the few people without a law degree to have ever beaten a Federal racketeering trial by acting as his own attorney. When Sheriff Traficant was arrested by the FBI in 1982, he signed a confession after agents played for him excerpts from the Carabbia tapes. Traficant then hired one of the best attorneys in the business, Carmen Policy, Ed Flask's partner, who is today the President of the Cleveland Browns professional football team. However, after Traficant went public with charges that just about every public official in Youngstown was involved with the Mafia, Policy dumped Traficant as his client. Traficant then made a bold – and some would say insane – decision to renounce his confession and stand trial, acting as his own attorney. Traficant explained to the jury that he only accepted the Mafia bribe money so he would know whom to arrest for corruption once elected Sheriff. After four days of deliberations, the jury returned a verdict that stunned the Prosecutors and journalists that covered the trial; Not Guilty. Traficant then turned the publicity over his acquittal to his advantage and was elected to Congress in 1984. However, three years later he was again in Court, facing civil charges that he owed taxes on the $163,000 in Mafia bribes. Representing him was attorney George Alexander, who has since been convicted of racketeering with the Mafia. As in the O. J. Simpson case, Traficant was convicted in his civil trial and ordered to pay back taxes, fines, and interest. For many months now, Traficant has been predicting during public appearances that he expects to be indicted - again - by the Federal authorities in Cleveland who have to date convicted over 70 public officials, many of whom are associates of the Pittsburgh Mafia Family. James Ridgway de Szigethy can be reached at JAMESDE. source: http://www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_121.html http://www.tenc.net/analysis/whyis.htm To receive articles from Emperor's Clothes, at http://tenc.net/MailList/index.php Why is Joe DioGuardi so happy? by Jared Israel [27 February 2000] Here's John McCain at a campaign rally with Joseph DioGuardi, a former Congressman and head of the Albanian political action committee which raised huge amounts for American politicians (for instance, Bob Dole) who in turn have supported the on-going attacks on Serbia. Notice the scarf DioGuardi is wearing. That double-headed eagle was the insignia of the World War II Nazi Skanderbeg SS division. (See document on left; click to enlarge.) Among other achievements, this Nazi outfit massacred Kosovo's Jews in the streets of Pristina and shipped the survivors to the Bergen- Belsen and Treblinka death camps. Why is McCain holding Presidential campaign rallies with this man who proudly sports a Nazi emblem? And why is DioGuardi so happy? www.tenc.net/yugo.htm Emperor's Clothes articles dealing with media misinformation and the breakup of Yugoslavia " MONEY FROM THE AMERICAN MUSLIM ALLIANCE it is no wonder that the American Muslim Alliance chapter in Massachusetts held what it called a " successful fundraiser " for First Lady Hillary Clinton at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston on June 13, 2000. AMA Massachusetts Chair Tahir Ali said afterwards, " We are attempting to send an important message to all AMA chapters: we must support all who have [Muslim] interests at heart, regardless of what part of the country they are running in. " EMERSON'S TESTIMONY According to Steve Emerson, a well-known investigative journalist specializing in militant Islamic organizations, the AMA's leaders " have sanctioned terrorism, published anti-Semitic statements, and repeatedly hosted conferences that were forums for denunciations of Jews and exhortations to wage jihad. " Faced with pressure on the matter, Mrs. Clinton announced on Oct. 25th that she was returning the $50,000 in campaign contributions raised for her by the AMA. She failed to give a credible explanation as to why it took her more than four months from June 13th until October 25th until she saw it necessary to return the money. Mr. Emerson, in a recent Wall Street Journal article, noted: " As first lady, Mrs. Clinton began in 1996 an outreach program to Muslim leaders in the U.S. With America's Muslim population at some six million and growing, an effort to include the community's leaders in the mainstream of American politics is unquestionably a worthy undertaking. But curiously, nearly all of the leaders with whom Mrs. Clinton elected to meet came from Islamic fundamentalist organizations. A review of the statements, publications and conferences of the groups Mrs. Clinton embraced shows unambiguously that they have long advocated or justified violence. By meeting with these groups, the first lady lent them legitimacy as " mainstream " and " moderate " . " But this should not be unexpected, considering Mrs. Clinton's past radical affiliations. During the 1980's, ultra-liberal lawyer Hillary Rodham- Clinton served on the board of the New World Foundation, which funneled money to the Palestine Liberation Organization, at a time when the PLO was officially recognized by the United States as a terrorist organization. Similarly, in February 1996, Hillary hosted a reception at the White House for leaders of Hamas-supporting groups such as the American Muslim Council and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. And in January, 1998, Hillary hosted another White House reception honoring Muslim leaders and the Muslim Public Affairs Council who defended militant Islamic fundamentalism and also supported radical Islamic groups. THE REAL HILLARY This, then, is the real Hillary Rodham-Clinton. An ambitious woman willing to utter any banal cliche on behalf of " Israel's security " to placate unaware New York Jewish voters, but one whose pre-Senate race record on Israel is appalling. It's a record of supporting the terrorist PLO, even before the 1993 signing of the first Oslo Agreement on the White House lawn, of ignoring blatant calumny heaped on Israel by Suha Arafat, of supporting the creation of a Palestinian PLO State, of hosting and legitimizing extremist Islamic groups in the United States. Most recently, it included taking campaign contributions from these very same evil, anti-Semitic organizations - until being caught with her hand in the extremist Islamic cookie jar. This is the very same Hillary Rodham- Clinton who now claims to be Israel's friend. " SOURCE: http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/hillarSy.htm You can see actual photos of arafat's uncle,Haj Mohammad Amin al- Husseini,the grand mufti of Jerusalem, and others : Kofi and Nasrallah, boss of Hezbollah AFAFAT'S UNCLE THE MUFTI WITH ISLAMIC NAZIS ARAFAT'S UNCLE THE MUFTI WITH FELLOW NAZIS ARAFAT'S UNCLE THE MUFTI WITH MOSLEM SS The Mufti and Hitler Himmler with a Moslem SS Division Joe Dioguardi Hillary Clinton Kissing Arafat's Wife at KnowTheEnemy/ http://ph.KnowTheEnemy/photos Hillary Clinton Kissing Arafat's Wife may also be seen at: http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/hillarSy.htm arafat's uncle,Haj Mohammad Amin al-Husseini,the grand mufti of Jerusalem raised three Moslem nazi SS divisions for Hitler during World War Two. Two of those Moslem SS divisions were Bosnian, the third was Albanian. The Albanian Moslem SS Division was called the SS Division from which would spring the notorious so-called " KLA " Kosovo Liberation Army, a.k.a. UCK in Albanian. The children and grandchildren of the Albanian Moslem SS Division became the so-called " KLA " .... " " HILLARY RUSHED TO SUPPORT PALESTINIAN STATE And Hillary Rodham-Clinton? Well, in May 1998, she told a youth conference on Middle East peace in Villars, Switzerland, that she supports the eventual creation of an independent Palestinian state. Her spokesperson, Marsha Berry told reporters: " " These remarks are her own personal view. " Then, in November 1999, while on a purported State visit to the Middle East, she publicly appeared with Yasser Arafat's wife Suha. With Hillary at her side, Suha Arafat made the deliberately false allegation that " Our [Palestinian] people have been submitted to the daily and intensive use of poisonous gas by the Israeli forces, which has led to an increase in cancer cases among women and children. " Mrs. Arafat also accused Israel of contaminating much of the water sources used by Palestinians with " chemical materials " and poisoning Palestinian women and children with toxic gases. Instead of reacting with outrage, Hillary Clinton sat by silently - and gave her a hug and a kiss when she finished speaking. Later, many hours after the event, and only after a media furor put her on the spot for what many view as a bit more than a mere political " faux pas " , Mrs. Clinton called on " all sides " to refrain from " inflammatory rhetoric and baseless accusations " - including Israel, whose leaders made no such accusations. Glossing over this remarkably repugnant affair, Mrs. Clinton has yet to specifically contradict and denounce the monstrous lies uttered by Yasser Arafat's wife in her presence. " SOURCE: http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/hillarSy.htm the following item is excerpted from: More Than Sex: The Secrets of Bill and Hillary Clinton Revealed by Arkansas State Trooper NewsMax.com September 14, 1999 Washington - An Arkansas State Trooper who once guarded Bill Clinton has revealed startling new information about Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Trooper Larry Patterson, a recently retired 32-year veteran of the state police, had been the most senior member of the elite Governor's Security Detail during the period Bill Clinton served as Governor. During that time, Patterson became privy to Bill and Hillary Clinton's most closely guarded secrets. Patterson told his story exclusively to NewsMax.com and Internet Vortex. NewsMax.com has published More than Sex: The Secrets of Bill and Hillary Clinton Revealed — a two-hour audio cassette tape of Christopher Ruddy's interview with Trooper Larry Patterson. In More than Sex Patterson makes bombshell revelations, some of which have never been disclosed before: Organized Crime. The press has ignored reporting of this critical issue, but Patterson says Clinton had a close relationship with the head of the Dixie Mafia—Arkansas' homegrown organized crime family that has grown in recent years through drug trafficking. Patterson said Clinton regularly received gifts from the reputed mob boss. Ethnic Slurs about Jews. Both Hillary and Bill Clinton frequently used slurs during heated arguments with each other, Patterson said. Among the epithets they frequently hurled at each other were anti-Semitic slurs such as `mother f---in' Jew' or `Jew bastard'. Patterson said such references were heard frequently during the years he served the Clintons. Patterson said Clinton loved telling ethnic jokes and frequently told jokes that were anti-Semitic. The use of the " N " word. Patterson said Bill Clinton would use the word " n--ger " — the " N " word — when he was angry with African-American opponents. He recalls the use of the word in describing a black, Arkansas activist who was critical of Clinton. Patterson said Clinton also used the " N " word during the 1992 campaign Hitler and Mein Kampf. Bill Clinton, Patterson said, spoke admiringly of Hitler and was fascinated by his book Mein Kampf. source: http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/9/13/220611 Jerusalem, November 10, 1999 Fooling the Jews WOMEN IN GREEN, among whose members there are many voters from New York who have dual citizenship, will protest against the visit of Hillary Clinton. We will be outside the Tel Aviv Museum, Shaul HaMelech Boulevard and Weizman Street in Tel Aviv, at 19:15 to voice our opposition to this " new " and dubious friend of Israel. Hillary Clinton is one smart lady. She wants to be President. Therefore, she will say anything to any particular Group that will lend itself to obtaining that set objective. She strategically chose the upcoming Senatorial race in New York as the first stepping stone towards reaching her presidential goal. However, New York has an important Jewish vote and that is a hurdle that she must leap over and " handle " . The difficulty for Hillary is that she has never been a friend of Israel. She has publicly come out for a Palestinian State, which as a sophisticated and smart lady she knows would threaten Israel's very existence. She very well knows that hatred of Jews and Israel even now is an essential part of Arafat's educational system; moreover, Arafat's hate propaganda in his Media includes praise of the bomb makers who specialize in blowing up Israel's buses. Yet she has never leveled one word of criticism against Arafat in that or any other regard, or for that matter against any Arab. Her Arab guest list at the White House has included American Arab leaders who are sympathetic to and support terrorist Hamas. She could find nothing about Israel to publicly admire throughout the many years that she has been in the White House. But to garner the Jewish vote in New York she has to appear to tone down her bias in favor of the Arabs, and make some Jewish " gestures " . She now lets out of the family closet the inconsequential news that her grandmother's second husband was a Jew. And of course for these New York voters, she is making the proscribed visit to Israel. After all these years she suddenly awakened to recognize the status of Jerusalem; she recently told the Jews that Jerusalem is Israel's eternal capital; however, she is not in favor of moving the U.S. Embassy to that capital. In that she is consistent with her husband who broke his previous campaign promise to move it. Her track record insures that she too will not keep whatever promises she makes to the Jews in order to get into the Senate. If elected, she would be the most pro-Arab Senator New York has ever had. Unmasked, Hillary Clinton has proven herself again and again to have little sympathy and understanding for Israel and the Jewish People. Don't be fooled by the Jewish " appointees " of her husband. Albright, Berger and the like are Jews in name only, who lack loyalty to the Jewish People. Nor should you be " taken in " by her deceptive sweet talk. Hillary's visit to Israel is just part and parcel of her New York campaign. Ruth and Nadia Matar source: http://www.womeningreen.org/saynov99.htm http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2002/8/Marwan% 20Barghouti%20Indic\ tment%20-%20Appendix-%20Terrorist BLACK LIBERATION ARMY Aliases: Afro-American Liberation Army Base of Operation: United States Founding Philosophy: The Black Liberation Army was a militant splinter group of the Black Panther Party. Breaking away from the Black Panthers in the late 1960s, the stated philosophy of the BLA was to " take up arms for the liberation and self-determination of black people in the United States. " In the 1970s the BLA was responsible for numerous domestic criminal acts, including bank and armored car robberies. In one of their more famous exploits, members of the BLA freed fellow BLA member Joanne Chesimard from prison where she was serving a life sentence for the murder of a state trooper. Chesimard fled to Cuba, where she is still living, and the US government has offered a reward of $1 million dollars for her capture. Members of the BLA were also charged in various terrorist plots including a plan to firebomb department stores in New York. In 1981, four members of the BLA were convicted for various charges including murder and armed robbery in a failed heist of a Brinks armored car, which left one guard and two police officers dead. On March 25, 1984, a man claiming to be " Lieutenant Spartacus " of the " Black Liberation Army, " hijacked a Piedmont airlines jet with 58 passengers on board. The plane flew to Cuba where " Lieutenant Spartacus " found asylum. SOURCE: http://www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=3708 excerpted from: " Hillary Clinton and " The Third Way " How America's First Lady of the Left Has Bamboozled Liberals and Conservatives Alike By David Horowitz FrontPageMagazine.com | June 22, 2000 My subject is Hillary Clinton in her role as America's foremost leftist..... It is this same idea that is found in the Social Gospel which impressed the youthful Hillary Clinton at the United Methodist Church in Park Ridge, Illinois. She later encountered the same idea in the New Left at Yale and in the Venceremos Brigade in Communist Cuba... " David Horowitz is the author of numerous books including an autobiography, Radical Son, which has been described as " the first great autobiography of his generation, " and which chronicles his odyssey. " Your Feedback on these items would be appreciated " Slain Israeli Professor Saved Others in Va. Tech Massacre by Gil Ronen (April 17th, 2007 c.e.) (IsraelNN.com) As Israel observed Holocaust Day, thousands of miles away, A Rumanian-born Holocaust survivor gave his life in another senseless murder - and apparently in an act of heroism. Among the 32 people killed by a lone gunman at Virginia Tech Monday (April 16th, 2007 c.e.) is 77-year-old engineering professor, Liviu Librescu, a citizen of Israel. According to eyewitness accounts, Librescu ran to the door of his classroom and blocked it with his body – preventing the gunman from entering but getting shot to death himself as a result. Alec Calhoun, a 20-year-old student who had been in Librescu's class in room 204, told a reporter that at 9:05 a.m. the heard screams and a loud banging sound from the next-door classroom. When the students realized it was gunfire, he said, some hid behind tables, and others leapt from the classroom's windows. Calhoun himself was among the last to jump. " Before I jumped from the window, I turned around and looked at the professor, who stayed behind, maybe to block the door. He had been killed. " Librescu is survived by his wife of 42 years, Marlena, who was with him in Virginia, and sons Aryeh and Joe who are in Israel. They intend to bury him in Israel. Asael Arad, an Israeli student who visited the widow after the tragedy, told Army Radio Tuesday that Marlena had been receiving e- mails from students who credited Prof. Librescu with saving their lives. " I lost my best friend, " the widow told a reporter for NRG at her home near the Blacksburg campus. " He was a great person, who loved teaching more than anything. " Marlena said someone had initially informed her that her husband was injured in the shooting. " I looked for him in the hospitals all day but I didn't find him, " she said. The Librescus are Rumanian Jews who came on aliyah (immigrated to Israel) in 1978 – after then-Prime Minister Begin interceded on their behalf with the Rumanian government, according to Marlena. The couple went on a sabbatical to the United States since 1986 and has been living there ever since. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/122137 Liviu Librescu Professor Office 318 Norris Hall Blacksburg, VA 24061 540/231-5916 llibresc http://www.esm.vt.edu/~llibresc Interests: Foundation and applications of the modern theory of shells incorporating non-classical effects and composed of advanced composite materials; Foundation of the theory and applications of sandwich type structures; Aeroelastic stability of flight vehicle structures;. Nonlinear aeroelasticity of structures in supersonic and hypersonic flow fields; Aeroelastic and structural tailoring; Dynamic response and instability of elastic and viscoelastic laminated composite structures subjected to deterministic and random loading systems; Mechanical and thermal postbuckling of flat and curved shear-deformable elastic panels; Static, dynamic and aeroelastic feedback control of adaptive structures; Unsteady aerodynamics and magnetoaerodynamics of supersonic flows with applications; Optimization problems of aeroelastic structural systems; Theory of composite thin-walled beams and its application in aeronautical and mechanical constructions; Response and behavior of structures to underwater and in-air explosions; Multifunctional and Functionally Graded material structures. Education: Ph.D., Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Academy of Science of Romania, 1969 M. A. Sc., Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Aeronautical Engineering, Bucharest, 1953 B.S., Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, Aeronautical Engineer, 1952 Honors and Awards: 2007 Invited Key Note Lecture at the 17th International Congress on Thermal Stresses, June 4-7, 2007, Taipei, Taiwan, Joule Heating and its Implications on Crack Detection/Arrest in Electrically Conductive Circular Cylindrical Shells.( Z. Qin, L. Librescu and D. Hasanyan) 2006 Awarded a diploma by the 17th International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technology for the paper Robust Aeroelastic Control of Composite Aircraft Wings in Incompressible Flow by Yoon, G. C., Na, S. S., Librescu, L., and Baek, S. C., Taiwan, ICAST 2006, October 13-17. 2005 Appointed Chair of the International Organizing Committee of the 6th International Congress on Thermal Stresses '05 May 26-29, 2005, Vienna, Austria 2005 Invited Plenary Lecture at the 6th International Congress of Thermal Stresses '05 May 26-29, 2005, Vienna, Austria " Thin-Walled Beams Used in Turbomachinery and Space Applications Made-Up of Functionally Graded Materials and Operating in a High Temperature Environment: Vibration and Instability " by L. Librescu, S-Y Oh and O. Song 2005 Selected as a member of the Board of Experts of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Scientific Research 2005 Awarded a diploma by the International Congress on Thermal Stresses, Vienna, Austria, May-June, 2005, ``In recognition for the achievements in the field of Thermal Stresses, for organizing the Fifth International Congress of Thermal Stresses, and for the contributions to the Journal of Thermal Stresses, as an author and as a member of the Editorial Board.'' 2005 Awarded a diploma by the ASME, 20th Biennal Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise, Long Beach, CA, September 24-28, 2005 expressing the deep appreciation for the valuable services in advancing the engineering profession.'' 2005 Frank J. Maher Award for Excellence in Engineering Education 2004 Plenary Key Note Lecture to the Third European Conference on Structural Control July 12-15. 2004, Vienna, Austria Advances in the Linear/nonlinear Control of Aeroelastic Structural Systems by L. Librescu and P. Marzocca 2003 Member of the Executive Committee of the International Congress of Thermal Stresses, (1999-2003) and re-appointed for (2003- 2007) 2003 General Chair of the 5th International Congress of Thermal Stresses and Related Topics, June 8-11, 2003, Blacksburg, VA 2000 Recipient of the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania 2000 Elected member of the Academy of Sciences of the Shipbuilding of Ukraine 1999 Recipient of The 1999 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, College of Engineering VPI & SU 1999 Elected Foreign Fellow of the Academy of Engineering of Armenia 1998 Invited Plenary Lecture at the Session dedicated to the great Italian Scientist Professor Placido Cicala, Torino, June 25, 1998, Italia Aeroelastic Tailoring of Advanced Aircraft Wings Carrying External Stores, with Dr. F. H. Gern 1988 Plenary Key Note Lecture to the Second International Conference on Composite Science and Technology, June 9-11, 1998 Durban, South Africa Recent Developments in the Modelling and Behavior of Advanced Sandwich Constructions 1972 Laureate of the prize Traian Vuia of the Romanian Academy of Science Professional Service: Listing in Who's Who Who's Who in America Who's Who in Engineering Who's Who in the World Who's Who in Science and Engineering Member of the Editorial Board of 2007 - Journal of Sound and Vibration 2004 - International Journal of Advanced Materials and Structures 2003 - Journal Mathematical Methods and Physic-Mechanical Fields 1999 - Journal Thin-Walled Structures 1998 - Journal of Thermal Stresses 1997 - International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics 1975 - Solid Mechanics Archives Guest Editor for the Special Issues of the Journals 2006 - Journal of Mathematical Engineering (issues devoted to Thermomechanical Problems) 2004 - International of Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, Vol. 11, Nos. 4-5, Part I & II 2001 - Composite Structures, Vol. 52, 1, 2001 2001 - Thin-Walled Structures, Special Issue - New Advances in the Modelling and Application of Smart Thin-Walled Structures, Vol. 39, 1, 2001 2000 - Composites Engineering, Part B, Vol. 32, 3, 2000 Chair of the International Organizing Committee of 2005 - 6th International Congress on Thermal Stresses '05, May 26- 29, Vienna, Austria Co-Chair of the International Organizing Committee of 2007 - 7th International Congress on Thermal Stresses June 4-7, Taipei, Taiwan 2005 - Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, October 26-28, Nanjing, China Member of the International Advisory Board of 2007 - Second International Symposium on Design Modelling and Experiments of Adaptive Structures and Smart Systems, DEMEASS II, October 14-17, Bad Herrenalb, Germany 2007 - Organizing Committee of the 70th Birthday of Jozef Ignaczak Symposium at the 7th International Congress on Thermal Stresses, Juen 4-7, Taipei, Taiwan 2006 - 2nd International Congress on Computational Mechanics and simulation (ICCM-06), December 8-10, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati,-781039, India 2006 - 1st International Symposium on Design Modelling and Experiments of Adaptive Structures and Smart Systems, DeMEASS I, June 10-12, Bardonecchia (Turin), Italy 2004 - 1st International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation, IIT Kanpur, December 9-12, India 2004 - 2nd International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation, July 5-7, Cape Town, South Africa 2003 - 2nd International Conference on Applied Mechanics and Materials (ICAMM 2003), January 21-23, Durban, South Africa 1998 - 2nd Interntional Conference on Composite Science and Technology, June 9-11, Durban, South Africa 1996 - 1st International Conference, Composite Science Technology, June 18-20, Durham, South Africa Member of the International Organizing Committee of 2005 - 6th International Congress of Thermal Stresses, May 26-29, Wien, Austria 2001 - 4th International Congress on Thermal Stresses, June 8-11, Osaka, Japan 1999 - 3rd International Congress on Thermal Stresses, June 13-17, Cracow, Poland 1982 thru 1985 - Israel National Conference on Aviation and Astronautics Recent Publications: G. Polli, L. Librescu and F. Mastroddi, Aeroelastic Response of Composite Aircraft Swept Wings Impacted by a Laser Beam, AIAA, Vol. 33, No, 2, pp. 382-391, 2006 Na, S. S., Librescu, L., Rim, S. N. and Yoon, G. C., Vibration and Dynamic Response Control of Non-Unifom Composite Rotating Blades, International Journal of Rotating Machinery, 2006, ID 13807, pp. 1- 9, 2006 Librescu, L., Oh, S-Y. and Hohe, J., Dynamic Response of Anisotropic Sandwich Flat Panels to Underwater and In-Air Explosions, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 43, No. 13, pp. 3794-3816, June, 2006 Hause, T. and Librescu, L., Flexural Free Vibration of Sandwich Flat Panels with Laminated Anisotropic Face Sheets, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 297, Nos. 3-5, pp. 823-841, 2006 Librescu, L. and Song, O., Composite Thin-Walled Beams: Theory and Application, Springer, 615, 2005 Full listing Courses taught: ESM 3154, Solid Mechanics, Spring 2007. ESM 5074, Mech Lam Comp Str, Spring 2007. ESM 5994, Research and Thesis, Spring 2007. ESM 7994, Research and Dissertation, Spring 2007. ESM 6044, Theory of Plates and Shells, Fall 2006. ESM 6044, Theory of Plates and Shells, Fall 2005. ESM 2304, Dynamics, Spring 2005. ESM 5074, Mech Lam Comp Str, Spring 2005. ESM 6044, Theory of Plates and Shells, Fall 2004. ESM 2304, Dynamics, Spring 2004. ESM 6044, Theory of Plates and Shells, Fall 2003. http://www.esm.vt.edu/php/person.php?id=10023 " Marwan Barghouti Indictment - Appendix- Terrorist Attacks and Activities Carried out by the Field Commanders and Activists 14 Aug 2002 Statement of Indictment: MARWAN BIN KHATIB BARGHOUTI August 14, 2002 Terrorist Attacks and Activities Carried out by the Field Commanders and Activists.... " read the details at: http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2002/8/Marwan% 20Barghouti%20Indic\ tment%20-%20Appendix-%20Terrorist Item below is from WOMEN IN GREEN 12 Apr 2007 11:51:49 am A DIFFICULT MORAL DILEMMA A DIFFICULT MORAL DILEMMA Letter from Ruth Matar (Women in Green) Jerusalem Thursday, April 12, 2007 Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is seriously considering Hamas' demand to release jailed Fatah leader, Marwan Barghouti, along with 449 other Palestinian prisoners involved in terrorist attacks, in exchange for the return of Cpl. Gilad Schalit, who was kidnapped by Hamas on the Gaza border in June 2006. Barghouti is serving five life sentences for his involvement in terror attacks that killed numerous Israelis. Other top terrorists, among them the following six listed below from yesterday's Jerusalem Post, are also on the list of prisoners to be freed. *Hamas terrorist Hassan Salameh is serving 48 life sentences for his part in three suicide bombings in 1996 in which 46 people were killed and 90 wounded; the planning of a 1995 suicide bombing; and killing a Palestinian suspected of collaborating with Israel. *Abdullah Barghouti, a senior Hamas member and master bomb maker dubbed 'the mechanic,' was sentenced to 67 consecutive life sentences for preparing the bombs used in a string of suicide bombings in 2001 and 2002. In the attacks in Jerusalem, Rishon Lezion and Tel Aviv, 66 Israelis were killed and 500 wounded. The attacks included the August 2001 Sbarro bombing in Jerusalem, in which 15 Israelis were killed; the triple bombing at Jerusalem's Zion Square in December 2001, in which 10 Israelis were killed; the blast at the Moment Cafe in Jerusalem in March 2002, in which 11 Israelis were killed; and the Sheffield Club attack in Rishon Lezion in May 2002, in which 15 Israelis were killed. Barghouti also supplied the bomb for the attack in a cafeteria at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in July 2002, in which nine Israeli and foreign students were killed, and provided the explosives belt used in the attack on a No. 4 bus in Tel Aviv in July 2002, in which nine Israelis were killed. *Yahya Sinwar, one of the founders of Hamas's military wing. Sinwar has been in jail for over 20 years. *Fuad Shubaki is considered the Karine A weapons ship paymaster. The ship was en route to the Palestinian Authority in the Red Sea when it was seized by Israeli naval commandos in January 2002. *Ahmed Sa'adat is accused by Israel of plotting the assassination of former minister Rehavam Ze'evi. *Hassan Yussuf is considered one of the most prominent Hamas leaders in the West Bank. There is a very difficult moral dilemma involved here. On one hand, our hearts break for the Schalit family, on the other hand, it has been proven, over and over again, that the release of Palestinian prisoners only leads to more kidnappings and Israeli death. A bereaved father, Zion Swery, wanted vengeance for the death of his two children and son-in-law in a drive-by terrorist shooting on highway 443 in 2001. " After my children were murdered I wanted to kill the terrorists! " he said. Swery recalled how, at the funeral, Ehud Olmert (then Mayor of Jerusalem) promised to pursue those who were responsible for the attack. It is upsetting, Swery said, that Olmert, now the Prime Minister, is considering going back on his word. The Almagor Terror Victims Association has long been concerned with this dilemma. On Tuesday the group held a press conference in Jerusalem, in which members of the group lit Yartzheit candles in front of a poster of terror victims. Almagor Director, Meir Indor, says his research shows that in the past five years 177 Israelis were killed in terror attacks perpetrated by Palestinians released in prisoner exchange deals. " When you release prisoners, you create a new wave of terrorism " , he said. He and a number of terror victims said that while they empathized with the Schalit family, there were other ways to free Gilad that did not involve risking Israeli lives. Speaking at the press conference, Yifat Alon, whose mother, Noa, and niece Gal Eisenman, were killed in a 2002 terror attack in Jerusalem's French Hill, warned that more Israeli deaths were the only possible outcome of a prisoner release. " We have tried this before, we have set prisoners free and what we got was that people were murdered. I want the government to be honest. We are going to pay with other people's lives " , she said. I, myself feel a very personal involvement in this moral dilemma. A very good friend of mine, an American immigrant from New York, like myself, Joyce Boim, lost her 17 year old son, David, in a drive-by terrorist shooting in 1996. My friend Joyce wants the government to keep the terrorists in jail. " We do not want any more widows or widowers or parents without children. The terrorists were jailed for a reason " , says Boim. In the Jerusalem Post of April 9, 2007, there is an excellent article by Caroline Glick, entitled: Our World: The next grand bargain Shoshana Amos, Aviel Atash, Vitaly Brodsky, Tamara Dibrashvilli, Raisa Forer, Larisa Gomanenko, Denise Hadad, Tatiana Kortchenko, Rosita Lehman, Karine Malka, Nargiz Ostrovsky, Maria Sokolov, Roman Sokolovsky, Tiroayent Takala, Eliyahu Uzan, Emmanuel Yosef (Yosefov). All the above were murdered on August 31, 2004, in twin bus bombings in Beersheba. The attack was planned and commanded by Matzeb Hasalmon, Hamas terror commander in Hebron. The massacre in Beersheba was far from inevitable. Hasalmon, who recruited the bombers, trained them for their mission and sent them on their way, had previously been taken out of commission. He was arrested and convicted for the felony crime of membership in Hamas. Since Hasalmon was not convicted of murder, when the Sharon government released him from prison together with another 460 terrorists on January 29, 2004, no one raised a fuss. The massive release, and the simultaneous release of the bodies of 59 dead terrorists was carried out in exchange for the return of Elhanan Tenenbaum, who was kidnapped in Dubai and brought to Lebanon by Hizbullah in 2000. Israel also received the bodies of IDF soldiers Benny Avraham, Adi Avitan and Omar Suwaid, who were kidnapped and murdered by Hizbullah terrorists in October 2000. Today the Olmert-Livni-Peretz government is in advanced stages of negotiations towards the exchange of Cpl. Gilad Schalit for up to 1,400 terrorists. Schalit was kidnapped from his base near Gaza in late June by a joint Fatah-Hamas terror cell. He has been illegally held incommunicado ever since. Speaking Sunday of the impending deal, Welfare Minister Isaac Herzog said Israelis should be prepared to see not only small-fry terrorists like Hasalmon, but also convicted murderers set free. As Herzog put it, we should use " original thinking " regarding who we should let out of prison. During the heyday of the peace process in the 1990s, in repeated " confidence building measures, " Israel released 6,912 terrorists from prison. As time went by, it became increasingly difficult to limit the releases to those who had not actually murdered. So the governments thought " originally " and released killers whose victims were not Israelis. So it was that killers like Iyad Suwalha were sent packing. Suwalha was arrested in 1992 for murdering a fellow Palestinian who he suspected of assisting Israel in its counterterror operations. He was released in 1999. Senior Warrant Officer Haim Alfasi, Chief Warrant Officer Yaakov Ben- Shabbat, Cpl. Mazi Grego, Capt. Yael Kfir, Cpl. Felix Nikolaichuk, Sgt. Yonatan Peleg, Sgt. Efrat Schwartzman, Prosper Twito, Sgt. Liron Siboni, Dr. David Appelbaum, Nava Appelbaum, David Shimon Avizadris, Shafik Kerem, Alon Mizrahi, Gila Moshe and Yehiel (Emil) Tubol. All of the above were murdered in two suicide bombings on September 9, 2003. The first took place outside Tzrifin military base; the second inside Cafe Hillel in Jerusalem. Suwalha commanded both attacks. In July, in response to the abduction of IDF reservists Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took the nation to war in Lebanon. Olmert enjoyed massive public support when he pledged to fight to gain their release and to destroy Hizbullah, Iran's proxy army in Lebanon that had kidnapped them. Yet Olmert lost interest in fighting and gave up on winning when he saw how hard it was. Due in large part to the premier's personal incompetence, Israel lost the war. Not only was Hizbullah not destroyed, and not only have Iran and Syria already rebuilt its arsenal to pre-war levels, Regev and Goldwasser - like Schalit - remain in captivity. Since the ignominious cease-fire last August, the public has demanded an accounting from Olmert. At almost every single non-scripted public gathering where Olmert appears, he is hounded by angry citizens who demand he explain how he dared to abandon the field of battle and leave our soldiers behind. Last September in one such incident, Olmert was confronted by Elipaz Baeloha, whose son Nadav was killed in battle in the war. When Baeloha demanded an accounting, as is his wont, Olmert refused. Rather than accept the responsibilities of the office to which he stubbornly clings, Olmert deflected Baeloha's criticism by saying the public is at fault. We are to blame, he explained, because we were stupid enough to believe him when he said he would fight to bring the men home. As he put it, " From the beginning I knew we would have to negotiate to secure the release of the hostages. To rescue them we would have to pay a very heavy price. How many more children would you want to die like your son died to rescue them? Did anyone seriously think that I would get to some place, which I don't know where it is, and would try to rescue them? " Although as the months have passed the plight of our hostages being held in Gaza and Lebanon has been mostly out of the headlines, no one has forgotten them. And the frustration at the government's failure to secure their release came to the forefront of the public agenda since the 15 British sailors and marines were kidnapped by Iran last month. The contrast between the British, who were paraded seemingly continuously before the television cameras from the day of their capture, and the Israelis, who haven't been seen or heard from since their abductions, was a cause for deep frustration. " Those lucky Brits, " the thinking went, " At least they get to see their guys. " The manner in which the Blair government secured the release of the hostages has been roundly praised by the Israeli Left. Led by the Haaretz newspaper, the Left, which castigates as warmongers all who call for Israel to defeat its enemies, immediately pointed a finger at the government for not having yet capitulated to all the terror- masters' ever-escalating terms for a deal on the soldiers. As Zvi Barel of Haaretz put it, " Britain... understands what Israel refuses to understand: The captives and prisoners of a country perhaps 'disturb' its prestige, but negotiating their release does not damage the state's power. Their release sometimes requires a high price, but in the case of Israel vis-a-vis Hizbullah or the Palestinian Authority, the price is in identical coinage: captives in exchange for prisoners and detainees... Only the exchange of people. And a bit of prestige. " Like the British, the Haaretz-led Israeli Left ignores inconvenient truths. In the media age, prestige is power. Loss of prestige leads directly to a loss of national power and, inevitably, to the loss of life. The families of the four British soldiers who were killed by Iranian-sponsored terrorists in Basra the same day their navy and marine counterparts were released in shame by Iran can attest to this fact. Avraham (Albert) Balhasan, Rose Boneh, Hava Hannah (Anya) Bonder, Anat Darom, Viorel Octavian Florescu, Natalia Gamril, Yechezkel Isser Goldberg, Baruch (Roman) Hondiashvili, Dana Itach, Mehbere Kifile and Eli Zfira. The families of the 11 Israelis listed above can also attest to this fact. They were murdered in a bus bombing in Jerusalem on January 29, 2004. The attack occurred just as Israel was releasing 461 terrorists from prison and transferring the bodies of 59 dead terrorists to their masters in the PA and Lebanon for burial in the Tenenbaum deal. Another 50 Israelis were wounded in the attack. That day, then-science minister Eliezer Sandberg stated, " There is no connection and it is forbidden to make a connection between the bombing and the deal for the prisoner swap. " Sandberg's statement, far-fetched under any circumstances, was rendered farcical when Fatah declared responsibility for the massacre on Hizbullah's television network. All told, the Almagor Terror Victims Association has counted 177 Israelis who were murdered by terrorists who Israel released in prisoner swaps with terrorists. The Olmert-Livni-Peretz government acts as though there is no way other than releasing terrorists, and so signing the death warrants of hundreds more Israelis, to bring about Schalit's release. But this is simply untrue. What is true is that since the government embraced defeat last summer, it has had no policy other than capitulation. But there are many, many other options. Schalit was kidnapped by a joint Hamas-Fatah force. The government could place sanctions such as travel bans on PA Chairman and Fatah terror chief Mahmoud Abbas and PA Prime Minister and Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh and their associates. So too, the government could order the Prisons Service to prevent jailed terrorists from talking to reporters, politicians and European diplomats and so end the anomalous state of affairs whereby convicted murderers like arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti are allowed to engage in psychological warfare against Israeli society and serve as power brokers in Palestinian society from prison. Since last summer, the Olmert-Livni-Peretz government has taken no steps that would lead either the Palestinians or Hizbullah to view Schalit, Regev and Goldwasser's illegal captivity as a burden. Rather, like their bosses in Teheran, the terrorists have all benefited from their criminal behavior. Because of the fecklessness of our leaders, we lost a war we should have won and our hostages, who soldiers like Nadav Baeloha heroically gave their lives to free, have remained in captivity. As Hizbullah, Iran, Syria, and the Palestinians show daily with their escalating saber-rattling, our leaders' continued incompetence since the war has brought us ever closer to a new war. Now, through their cowardly and unnecessary genuflections to our enemies, made under the preening cover of feigned concern for the lives of our hostages they have done nothing to free, Olmert and his associates place the lives of every one of us in danger. * * * Dear friends, if you were in a position to trade 450 terrorist killers for Cpl. Gilad Schalit, what would your decision be? I, myself would not even consider freeing any terrorists who are responsible for the deaths of our loved ones. Rather, I would indefinitely turn off the water and electricity, which Israel still (often without getting paid), supplies to the Arabs in Gaza, until the return of ALL hostages, including the British BBC reporter, Alan Johnston. How would YOU resolve this very difficult moral dilemma? With Blessings and Love for Israel, Ruth Matar ============================================= Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green) POB 7352, Jerusalem 91072, Israel Tel: 972-2-624-9887 Fax: 972-2-624-5380 wfit2 http://www.womeningreen.org To to the Women in Green list, please send a blank email message to: list4- the following is an excerpt from: " THE SITUATION ROOM Deadliest Shooting Rampage in U.S. History Aired April 16, 2007 - 17:00 ET WOLF BLITZER, HOST: And so there you have it. The next news conference scheduled now for 7:30 p.m. Eastern. We'll get more information at that time. At this hour, shock and horror in the wake of the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history. This is what we know so far. The killing spree began early this morning, around 7:15 a.m. 7:15 a.m. Eastern. Virginia officials say 33 people were killed. That includes the gunman, who is believed to have acted alone. That's what they're saying. Police also saying the gunman eventually took his own life. His motive, though, not clear and he remains unidentified at this point. The massacre occurred in southwestern Virginia, on the campus of Virginia Tech. That's in Blacksburg, Virginia. The first 911 call was made at 7:15 a.m. Eastern from West Amber Johnson Hall. That's a coed dormitory. Two people were killed there. Two hours later, with the campus in lockdown, authorities got word of more gunfire at Norris Hall. That's an engineering building, a classroom across campus, inside. Most of the bloodshed happened there. Cell phone video captured the sounds of gunfire and the chaos. I want you to watch and listen to this. (VIDEO CLIP OF SHOOTING, COURTESY JAMAL ALBARGHOUTI, VIRGINIA TECH STUDENT) BLITZER: We counted 27 shots in that one minute or so of videotape. We're going to be speaking to the student who took that videotape, part of our I-Report series. We're going to get some specifics on what he saw, what he heard -- 27 shots on that little snippet of tape. The massacre comes as Virginia's governor is out of the country right now. He was to begin a two week Asian trade mission in Japan today. He'll be returning, though, immediately..... BLITZER: But joining us now is Jamal Albarghouti. He's the student who recorded that video earlier today. Jamal, I know this must be extremely painful and difficult for you, tub tell our viewers where you were, what time this occurred when you started your camera rolling. JAMAL ALBARGHOUTI, VIRGINIA TECH STUDENT: That was around 10 to 10:00, around 9:50 a.m. here Eastern Time in Blacksburg, and I was just going to campus to talk to my adviser, but then I started hearing people telling me to leave. So I was on campus around 10:00. BLITZER: What kind of camera were you using? ALBARGHOUTI: It was my cell phone camera. I have a Nokia N70, and I was just using the cell phone camera. BLITZER: And so what -- did you start hearing some -- some shots and you saw people running? Is that when you decided to start rolling video? ALBARGHOUTI: Well, I took that decision when I saw a policeman drawing -- taking off his gun and started looking at -- looking for a target to shoot. I knew that this isn't another bomb threat, because we had two last week. So I knew this is something way more serious. It was then when I decided to use my camera. BLITZER: We heard -- we counted 27 shots in the video that you made available to CNN through our I-Report operation, 27 shots. Do you know if those shots were coming from the gunman, coming from the police? Do you have any idea what those popping sounds -- where they were coming from? ALBARGHOUTI: I have no idea. Thanks for counting them, Wolf. I didn't know there were 27 shots. I thought -- to tell you the truth, I thought I was really safe. I thought they were far away from where I am. But then people started talking about shots that might have been inside the building. That might have been the reason why they weren't so loud. At the end of the video, if you can hear it, there is really a loud -- maybe it was a bang like a tear bomb or something that... (CROSSTALK) BLITZER: It sounded a lot louder. It was almost like a boom, the final shot that we heard. ALBARGHOUTI: Yes. BLITZER: There it is right there. ALBARGHOUTI: Yes. That was the loudest one I heard. That was when I knew that I'm really close to a really serious situation. And there was a cop from behind me rushing towards me, telling me to just leave. This is when I stopped using my camera. BLITZER: And we heard some screaming after that loud boom at the very end. What was that? ALBARGHOUTI: That was the cop. There was a police officer coming towards me because I was trying to go closer to where the shooting was to take a better picture. But then I hear police officer run towards me and he told me to basically run back and leave. BLITZER: So you were outside the West Ambler Johnston engineering building where these -- this mass killing occurred, 30 people -- no, no. Excuse me, that was Norris Hall. You were outside Norris Hall. ALBARGHOUTI: Norris Hall. BLITZER: That's the engineering building where most of the dead people were found. ALBARGHOUTI: Yes, this is the case. That's where you can see -- Norris Hall is the building that is -- that you will see mainly on my -- oh, sorry. That you will see mainly on the video I was taking. BLITZER: That's the engineering building. Did you know earlier that there had been a shooting at the West -- at the Johnston co-ed dorm earlier that morning at 7:15, two hours earlier, two and a half hours earlier? Had anybody alerted you to that? ALBARGHOUTI: No. Actually, they did send e-mails, and it was on Virginia Tech's Web site, but I didn't have the time to actually check it. So I just went to campus without knowing that there was previous shootings on campus. BLITZER: So basically you live off campus. You were going to your class. So you showed up, what, around 9:30, and then all of a sudden all hell breaks loose? ALBARGHOUTI: Yes. It's really windy out here. Yes, sir. This is what happened. BLITZER: What do you know about, if anything, about these chains that supposedly were on a door at the Norris Hall, the engineering building where, what, 30 -- 30 individuals were shot, including the gunman, who apparently took his own life? ALBARGHOUTI: I didn't hear the first part of your question. Could you please repeat it? BLITZER: Did you hear anything or learn anything about chains on the door at Norris Hall? ALBARGHOUTI: No, but I saw the cops struggling to get in to Norris Hall. Usually that door -- I use it every Wednesday to go to class. And usually it's never locked. Probably the reason why the cops were not rushing in to there is either that they were trying to open it, or that they were just trying to make sure it's safe to go in there. I did not hear or knew that there were any kind of chains blocking that door. BLITZER: The reaction on campus -- you're an undergraduate, or a graduate? ALBARGHOUTI: I'm a graduate student. BLITZER: Are you an engineering student? ALBARGHOUTI: Yes, I'm doing civil engineering. Construction management. BLITZER: So tell us, give us a little bit of flavor of what your fellow students have been saying to you over these past few hours. ALBARGHOUTI: Well, everybody here in Blacksburg is really sad. Blacksburg is one of the best and nicest towns I've ever been to. It's a really safe place. You can't imagine how safe it is. And with two bomb threats and two people died in August, at the beginning -- at the very first day of -- at the very first day of this semester, and now more than 30 students, I guess, or 30 people got killed in this incident, everybody is so sad. Everybody is shocked. We don't what's going on in here. We were just talking that everything would settle down and we -- and Blacksburg would once again be the small, nice town it used to be. But it actually is. BLITZER: Jamal, where are you from originally? ALBARGHOUTI: Well, I'm originally from the West Bank, Palestine. I lived most of my life in Saudi Arabia, though. BLITZER: So this is very extraordinary for you to be experiencing here in the United States this kind of horrific event? ALBARGHOUTI: Yes. Yes. You can imagine that I've been in cities where problems did happen in such cities, like I've been in Palestine, or I've been in Saudi Arabia. In Riyadh once there was a bombing in the Ministry of Interior. But in Blacksburg, it used to be -- or it is a really safe town, indeed. I never though that such a thing would happen in front of me here in Blacksburg. BLITZER: The Albarghouti family a very prominent family in the Middle East. Jamal Albarghouti, thank you so much for doing what you did. Please be careful over there. Good luck to you. Good luck to all your fellow students at Virginia Tech. Is there anything else you want to say to our viewers? ALBARGHOUTI: I just want to say how sorry I am for all of the families of those who got killed or injured in this incident. That's probably the only thing I can say. BLITZER: Well said. ALBARGHOUTI: And we are -- we are really sorry for them. And thank you very much, Wolf. BLITZER: Thank you, Jamal. Thank you for doing what you've done. You've helped all of our viewers better appreciate the enormity of what has happened on your campus today. Thanks, Jamal Albarghouti. We'll be speaking with you. And please convey our deepest condolences to your friends and your colleagues, your fellow students on the campus. Officials report, as we've been saying, 33 people dead, including the gunman who went on this massacre at the Virginia Tech campus. And as we've been discussing, much of the carnage unfolding in the science and engineering building. That's the building where you heard Jamal say he attends classes. It's called Norris Hall. *************** Remember, we are staying on top of this story. Lou Dobbs is not going to go away from it. The worst, worst mass shooting in U.S. history unfolded today at Virginia Tech. I'm Wolf Blitzer in THE SITUATION ROOM. " LOU DOBBS TONIGHT " starts right now. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.voxant.com http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/16/sitroom.02.html Three Shot in Drive-By Terror Attack Near the Airport April 17th, 2007 c.e. by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) Terrorists carried out a drive-by shooting attack Tuesday morning, targeting Jews not far from the community of Naaleh, 18 miles east of Tel Aviv and near Ben-Gurion International Airport. The Magen David Adom emergency service says it treated one victim for moderate shoulder wounds and two others for light wounds caused by shrapnel. The victims have been transported to Tel HaShomer hospital near Tel Aviv.http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/122138 " Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is a Jewish holiday that takes place on the 27th day of Nisan, in the Hebrew calendar. It is held every year in remembrance of the approximately six million Jews who died in the Holocaust. It is a national holiday in Israel. It was originally proposed to be on the 15th of Nisan, the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising (April 19, 1943), but this was objected to as being the first day of Passover. Instead, the 27th was chosen, being eight days before Yom Ha'atzma'ut, or Israeli Independence Day. Yom HaShoah was established by Israeli law in 1959, and was signed by David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, then prime minister of Israel and president of Israel, respectively. At 10:00 on Yom HaShoah, air-raid sirens sound for two minutes throughout Israel. Public transport comes to a standstill for this period, and people stop and stand silent. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 23, 2007 Report Share Posted May 23, 2007 I give up, here take all my freedom. Just provide me the security that you've made me so afraid I am losing. Ed - fellowtruthteller Saturday, May 19, 2007 11:12 AM Sneak Attacks Sneak AttacksSneak Attacks may be happening. How can we be sure if we are underattack or not? Are wildfires blazing across the nation due tonatural causes orto terrorism? What about explosions and shootings?Are they accidents? Are they the result of "lone gunmen"? Or aretheyterroristattacks? How can we discern the truth?A typical terrorist attack includes a video of the actual attackmade available to a news organization such as CNN, etc. If theattack is a so-called "suicide" attack, whether by shooting in whichthe shooter kills himself or herself, or by bombing in which thebomber detonates himself or herself there is often a "suicide" videomade available to the media in some fashion after the fact.Not all so-called "suicide" bombers or shooters are arabs. But thereare often, though not always, connections to arab Moslems, or toother Moslems.The notorious shoe-bomber was not himself an arab or a Moslem bybirth, nor wasthe "alleged dirty bomber".A more appropriate name for attacks on Jews, be theyIsraelis, or Jews living outside of Israel, would be "Genocide"attacks, be they "Genocide Bombings" or "Genocide Shootings", etc.they are meant to continue The Holocaust against the Jewish people.When directed at non-Jews a more appropriate name for such attackswould be "Homicide Bombings", or "Homicide Shootings", etc.The Lod Airport attack was a case in point.The source of the following piece was found at:http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,917724,00.html"Monday, Aug. 18, 1975"For cold-blooded determination and brutal efficiency, few terroristorganizations can match the Japanese extremists who call themselvesthe Red Army. In the past five years the Red Army has hijackedplanes, attacked embassies and murdered dozens of innocent people invarious parts of Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Its most infamousexploit was the wanton slaughter of 26 tourists at Tel Aviv's LodAirport in June 1972. Last week in the Malaysian capital of KualaLumpur, five Red Army members stormed a 14-story downtown officebuilding where more than 1,000 people were at work. Spraying gunfirearound the ninth floor, the site of a U.S. passport office and theSwedish embassy, the terrorists wounded three guards and seized 53hostages, among them the American consul and the Swedish chargéd'affaires.Soon after the takeover, they tossed a three-page typewritten memoout of a window, threatening to blow up the building unless sevencronies jailed in Japan were released. Malaysian officials quicklyrejected the use of force. The lives of the hostages, announcedPrime Minister Abdul Razak, were of the "greatest importance."Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki, on a state visit to Washington,agreed. Awakened just after 2 a.m. in his suite at Blair House, hequickly overruled reluctant officials in Tokyo and instructed themto fly the seven prisoners to Kuala Lumpur aboard a Japan Air LinesDC-8.Though two of the prisoners refused to go, the remaining five werequickly flown to Kuala Lumpur's Subang International Airport.Complications developed when Malaysian officials could find nocountry willing to accept the terrorists. Iran even threatened toshoot down the plane if it overflew the country with hijackersaboard. As negotiations continued, a nearby Kentucky Fried Chickenfranchise sent 60 servings to the hostages. Finally, word came thatLibya, a well-known supporter of radical movements, would take theten men. The five terrorists, prodding U.S. Consul Robert Stebbinsand 14 other hostages with pistols, boarded a bus for the airport.There they waited a further 25 hours before exchanging the 15 menfor four Japanese and Malaysian officials who went as substitutehostages on the flight to Tripoli. Upon arrival, the ten radicalssurrendered peacefully.Public Debut. Japanese police believe the Kuala Lumpur attack wasmasterminded by Fusako Shigenobu, 29, the daughter of an insurancesalesman, who is suspected of being the Red Army's leader. The RedArmy, numbering about 30 and dedicated to violent revolution, madeits public debut in March 1970, when nine members hijacked a JapanAir Lines jet to Pyongyang, North Korea. Two years later, justbefore the Lod Airport massacre, authorities uncovered the bodies of14 young men and women on remote Mount Haruna, 70 miles northwest ofTokyo. The 14, who had been tortured and left to die of exposure infreezing winter temperatures, had apparently been purged fordisplaying "bourgeois symptoms."With the Red Army's latest coup, Japanese authorities fear thatother fanatic groups will intensify their activities. The policealready claim to have evidence that terrorists will try to blockEmperor Hirohito's scheduled October visit to the U.S."http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,917724,00.html"What happened at the Lod Airport in 1972?On May 30, 1972, a three-man hit squad from the Japanese Red Armyarrived at the Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, via Air FranceFlight 132. They were dressed in business suits and carried whatappeared to be violin cases. The operation was planned and supportedby the General Command of the Popular Front for the Liberation ofPalestine (PFLP-GC).As the three men passed the ticket counter area, they suddenlypulled automatic weapons from their cases and began to spray thecrowd indiscriminately. As they changed magazines in their weapons,the men threw hand grenades into the mass of sprawling bodies. Oneof the terrorists, Yasuyuki Yasuda, ran out of ammunition and wascut down by his companions. A second terrorist, Tsuyoshi Okudaira,committed suicide by pulling the pin on a grenade and detonating itagainst his body. The third terrorist, Kozo Okamoto, was capturedwhile attempting to flee from the terminal.Twenty-six people were killed in the massacre and 78 were injured.Sixteen of the dead were not even Israelis or Jews, they were PuertoRicans in Israel on a pilgrimage. Okamoto is the younger brother ofTakedia Okamoto, one of the JRA terrorists who hijacked a JapanAirlines flight to North Korea in 1970. As the sole survivor of theLod assassin team, Okamoto was sentenced to life imprisonment inIsrael. He was released, however, as part of a 1983 prisonerexchange with Palestinian militant factions. He reportedly droppedfrom sight in Beirut, supposedly to reunite with his former comradesin the JRAInvestigations have shown that the JRA received considerabletraining and/or funds from Iran, Libya, Syria, and the Popular Frontfor the Liberation of Palestine and other Palestinian factions. JRAwas founded by Fusako Shigenobu, a Japanese woman who traveled toLebanon in 1971 and founded the JRA, which then linked up withPalestinian extremists to become an implacable foe of Israel. Shewas best known for having masterminded the Lod Airport massacre."The following piece appeared at:http://www.makfax.com.mk/look/agencija/art-printer.tpl?IdLanguage=1 & IdPublication=2 & NrArticle=66800 & NrIssue=341 & NrSection=10"MacedoniaThree of Albanians arrested in US were born in MacedoniaSkopje, 9.05.2007 16:53Three of the Albanians arrested in USA under suspicions of plottinga terrorist attack were born in Macedonia.Speaking under condition of anonymity, a source of the MacedonianInterior Ministry confirmed this information to Makfax Agency.Duka brothers were born in Ohrid, i.e. Debar, and lived in theDebar's nearby village of Spas.Four of the arrested men were born in the former Yugoslavia, one wasborn in Jordan and one came from Turkey, US authorities said. Threewere in the United States illegally; two had green cards allowingthem to stay in this country permanently; and the sixth is a UScitizen.The six - Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, 22; Dritan "Anthony" or "Tony"Duka, 28; Shain Duka, 26; Eljvir "Elvis" Duka, 23; Serdar Tatar, 23;and Agron Abdullahu, 24 were ordered held without bail for a hearingFriday.One drove a cab, three were roofers. Another worked at a 7-Elevenand a sixth at a supermarket.One of the suspects, Tatar, worked at his father's pizzeria - SuperMario's Restaurant - in Cookstown and made deliveries to the base,using the opportunity to scout out Fort Dix for an attack,authorities said."the following piece is excerpted from:http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?id=288272 & selected=Analyses"For U.S. counterterrorism authorities, the arrests in New Jerseyshow that not all militant suspects fit the same profile. The fourAlbanians are European in appearance, not Middle Eastern. They wereable to blend in easily in New Jersey's ethically diverse populationof Irish, Polish, Italian, and African-Americans. Other non-MiddleEastern jihadists include Muriel Degauque, a Belgian who traveled toIraq with her Arab husband to blow herself up as a suicide bomber,and Sulejmen Talovic, a Bosnian Muslim who opened fire on a mall inUtah, killing five shoppers and wounding four others. Theirappearance made them difficult to detect. Al Qaeda realizes this,and thus encourages the use of non-Middle Eastern male operatives,especially those of European stock."the following piece appeared at:http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/19/iraq.sniper.video/index.html"Video shows snipers' chilling work in IraqPOSTED: 12:44 p.m. EDT, October 19, 2006CNN) -- Chilling scenes from a videotape made by insurgents show thework of snipers in Iraq, targeting and killing American troops,taking them down with a single bullet from a high-powered rifle.The graphic video of 10 sniper attacks was obtained by CNN --through intermediaries -- from the Islamic Army of Iraq, one of themost active insurgent organizations in Iraq.In one scene, U.S. soldiers mingle among Iraqi civilians on a citystreet as a U.S. Humvee with a gunner in its turret stands guardnearby.From a distance, possibly hundreds of yards away, a sniper watchesfor his opportunity to strike as a fellow insurgent operates acamera to capture the video for propaganda purposes.In the video, street sounds mix with male Arabic voices as thesniper and his spotter talk off-camera."People are around them," warns the spotter, who seems to beoperating the video camera. "Want me to find another place?""No, no," comes the reply, "give me a moment."And then, the crack of gunfire is heard and the soldier in theturret slumps forward."Allahu Akbar (God is Great)!" is the exclamation as the sniper'svehicle starts and they slip away.The deadly tactic is one the U.S. military also uses to take outinsurgents.Retired Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin was one of the top U.S. MarineCorps snipers in Iraq and has written a book about his experiences --"Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper.""I have over 60 kills," he told CNN's Gary Tuchman. "We seek out theenemy and eliminate them with precision fire."Tuchman used Coughlin's critical eye to analyze the Islamic Army ofIraq video.Coughlin said the time lapse between the sound of the shot and theman getting hit indicates the gunfire is coming from about 300 to500 yards away and probably from a higher angle.But Couglin said he's sure this team of at least three people hasbeen trained well because they're so calm."They have their stuff wired," he said. "They know what they'redoing." (Watch the ex-Marine describe snipers' deadly work -- 2:46)The 20-year Marine veteran said the kind of body armor worn bytroops in combat can be effective against a sniper's bullet, and headded that there are other ways to defend against the horrifyingattacks."The worst enemy of a sniper is another sniper," Coughlin said. "Oursnipers are hunting these guys -- I guarantee you this is happeningas we speak."Coughlin added that, in many cases, the best defense is a goodoffense."How would the person who is inaugurated as President of The UnitedStates of America on January 20th, 2009 c.e. handle terrorism?Who will that person be? At the moment my best guess is that theRepublicans will endup nominating Mitt Romney for President and Fred Thompson for VicePresident and thatthe Democrats will end up nominating Jon Edwards for President andBill Richardson forVice President and that the Democrats will win the election.However it is of course possible that none of the above will benominated by either party for either spot on the ticket. It is alsopossible that the Republicans will win the election.Who do you think would be the best person to keep America safe fromterrorism as President of the United States? Who do you think wouldbe the worst person to haveas President of the United States in terms of the safety ofAmericans?What is the truth behind the following story?The following story appeared at:http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Briefs/10780.htm"Edwards denies remarks on Israel, attack on IranBy: Yitzhak BenhorinPublished: February 25, 2007US presidential hopeful John Edwards, who lags behind Democraticrivals Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama, managed to grab the nation'sattention thanks to a misquote about Israel.On February 19, an article in Variety.com quoted Edwards as saying,at a campaign event, that "perhaps the greatest short-term threat toworld peace was the possibility that Israel would bomb Iran'snuclear facilities."According to Variety.com, the comment resulted in a "chill" on theroom and the end of the event. The statement was also reattributedto Edwards by Wolf Blitzer, a few days later during his show, CNN'sthe Situation Room.Thanks to the quote, Edwards was used by the Republican JewishCommittee (RJC) to illustrate the excess liberalism among theDemocratic presidential candidates.'Story erroneous'According to the Associated Press, Edwards denies the statement. Hisspokesman, Jonathan Prince called the Variety.com story "erroneous"and was quick to correct it."Senator Edwards did not say nor does he believe that the greatestshort-term threat to world peace is the possibility that Israelwould bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. Senator Edwards said, as hehas in the past, that Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon is one of thegreatest short-term threats to world peace," Prince explained.Edwards is considered the most photogenic Democratic candidate, butby far the least experienced in foreign affairs. Last month, Edwardsappeared at the Herzliya Conference by video and stated clearly:it's unacceptable to allow Iran to get hold of nuclear weapons.At the conference, Edwards said it had been a mistake to allow theEuropeans to handle the Iranian issue, and emphasized that it'simportant, in such a scenario "to keep all the options on thetable."What is the truth about the Edwards story? Did Edwards saythat "perhaps the greatest short-term threat to world peace was thepossibility that Israel would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities." ordidn't he say that? Is Edwards lying or telling the truth?The story below appeared at:http://www.goodwillhinton.com/john_edwards_israel_the_greatest_short_term_threat_to_world_peaceJohn Edwards: "Israel... the greatest short-term threat to worldpeace"Submitted by Will Hinton on February 20, 2007 - 2:24pm.Federal CampaignsFirst there was the 28,000 SF mansion. Then there was the Blogger-Gate. John Edwards has outdone himself now and has unofficiallybowed out of the 2008 Presidential race.Peter Bart noted a few weeks ago this bit about Edwards in LosAngeles:The aggressively photogenic John Edwards was cruising along,detailing his litany of liberal causes last week until, duringquestion time, he invoked the "I" word -- Israel. Perhaps thegreatest short-term threat to world peace, Edwards remarked, was thepossibility that Israel would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. As achill descended on the gathering, the Edwards event was brought to apolite close.I'm not sure how this wasn't picked up by the media before now.Looks like Edwards has been infected by the Biden "Foot-in-Mouth"Syndrome"The story excerpted from below appeared at:http://www.aolelectionsblog.com/2007/02/21/john-edwards-israel-greatest-threat-to-world-peace-or-not/"Edwards: Israel Greatest Threat to World Peace...Or NotPosted Feb 21st 2007 12:27AM by ScottThe latest example of a Democrat speaking his true feelings and thenthinking better of it? John Edwards slamming Israel:There are otheremerging fissures, as well. The aggressively photogenic John Edwardswas cruising along, detailing his litany of liberal causes last weekuntil, during question time, he invoked the "I" word -- Israel.Perhaps the greatest short-term threat to world peace, Edwardsremarked, was the possibility that Israel would bomb Iran's nuclearfacilities. As a chill descended on the gathering, the Edwards eventwas brought to a polite close."Does anyone have a tape video, audio, dvd, cell phone record,whatever of the Edwardsappearance? Is Edwards lying or telling the truth? How credible isEdwards?Moreover, what should be done about Persia?Persia renamed itself "Iran", which literally means, THE LAND OFTHE ARYANS, in 1935 when Persia tried to cozy up to HitlerThe story excerpted from below appeared at:http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN-cheney_12int.ART.State.Edition1.42badb5.html"On carrier in Gulf, Cheney warns IranHe says U.S. will stop nuclear weapons, Tehran's bid for power12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, May 12, 2007By TODD J. GILLMAN / The Dallas Morning Newstgillman (AT) dallasnews (DOT) comABOARD THE USS JOHN C. STENNIS – Framed by warplanes, Vice PresidentDick Cheney issued a stern warning to Iran from an aircraft carrierin the Persian Gulf: The United States will keep the region's oilflowing and will stymie any dream Iran has of becoming a regionalsuperpower."With two carrier strike groups in the gulf, we're sending clearmessages to friends and adversaries alike," Mr. Cheney told 3,500 to4,000 sailors aboard the nuclear-powered USS John C. Stennis. "We'llstand with others to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons anddominating the region."The warning came as the Stennis steamed off the coast of Abu Dhabi,capital of the United Arab Emirates,..."Would you support a pre-emptive strike against Persia, a.k.a. "Iran"(which literallymeans THE LAND OF THE ARYANS) to prevent those Aryan Wannabees fromgetting nuclear weapons?This writer happens to love the Persian people. I wish that theywould assert themselves and rename their country Persia. They have agreat and proud history. Unfortunately they are living under thethumb of lunatics.Bombing Persia would indeed kill many Persians, which would indeedbe tragic. Do you agree that it is not a question ofWHETHER the United States of America will bomb Persia but WHEN itwill bomb Persia? If not, what are your thoughts?Will the USA bomb Persia BEFORE it gets nuclear weapons, or will theUSA bomb Persia AFTER it gets nuclear weapons, and uses thosenuclear weapons against America?If the USA bombs Persia BEFORE it gets nuclear weapons, and if it issuccessful in removing those nuclear weapons factories, and theregime behind them, along with the Persian military, and relatedfanatical infrastucture, there will of course be many Persiancasualties. However, if the USA bombs Persia AFTER Persia getsnuclear weapons, and uses them against America, there will be NOPERSIAN SURVIVORS. America will obliterate Persia from the face ofthe earth if Persia uses nuclear weapons against America.So, if you, dear reader, like me, love the Persian people, you willwant to avoid any scenario in which Persia gets nukes, because oncePersia gets nukes, and uses them against America, the Americanresponse will be to eliminate Persia from the face of the earth.Short of waving a magic wand the only sure way to remove Persiannukes and the lunatic regime in Persia that is trying to make themso that they can be used against America would seem to be anAmerican pre-emptive strike against that regime and thosefacilities, etc.Naturally it would be wonderful if the Persian people saw the errorof allowing lunatics to run their country.The German people failed to see the error of their ways in allowinglunatics to run Germany from 1932-1945 c.e.The Japanese people failed to see the error of their ways inallowing lunatics to run their country as it invaded Manchuria andChina and Indo China and the Phillipines, and bombed Pearl Harbor ina sneak attack on December 7th, 1941.So far the Persian people have failed to see the error of their waysin allowing lunatics to run Persia.A Persian nuclear sneak attackagainst America could leave over 100 MILLION AMERICANS DEAD, and therest of America suffering from fallout and other attack relatedinjuries.Thus a pre-emptive strike against the Persian lunatic regime and itsnuclear and other military and related infrastrucure seems to be theonly choice available to America.What choice would Jon Edwards make as President of the United Statesof America?What choice would the other candidates make?The material below was excerpted fromhttp://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/21521/Focus_On_Israel.html"Focus On IsraelBy: Dov GilorWednesday, May 9, 2007I Am Afraid!I recently read a background story about presidential candidateBarack Hussein Obama online in the New York Times, and I seriouslybegan to worry. I decided to use the Internet to do some additionalresearch, and now I continue to worry. I was concerned by the almostblasé tone used by the Times as it discussed Obama's closeassociation with a radical, seemingly anti-American and anti-Israelpreacher. I found a Fox News report about his performance during apresidential debate, an Arab blog and a Haaretz report that surveyedJews and placed Obama in last place when the Israel factor wasquestioned.The Times article spoke of his warm, continuing relationshipwith Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., pastor of Trinity United Churchof Christ in Chicago. The article mentioned that Obama "had sampledvarious faiths but adopted none until he met Wright, a dynamicpastor who preached Afrocentric theology, dabbled in radicalpolitics and delivered music-and-profanity-spiked sermons." Thearticle reported that, "Mr. Obama was entranced by Mr. Wright, whosesermons fused analysis of the Bible with outrage at what he saw asthe racism of everything from daily life in Chicago to Americanforeign policy. Mr. Wright traveled to Cuba to teach Christiansabout the value of nonviolent protest and to Libya to visit Col.Muammar el-Qaddafi, along with the Nation of Islam leader LouisFarrakhan....Wright makes assertions of widespread white racism andhe often criticizes the American government. One of his commentswas "Zionism has an element of white racism." On the Sunday afterthe terrorist attacks of 9/11, "Mr. Wright said the attacks were aconsequence of violent American policies." Four years later he wrotethat the attacks had proved that "people of color had not gone away,faded into the woodwork or just `disappeared' as the Great WhiteWest went on its merry way of ignoring Black concerns." While Obamastated his opposition to the Iraq war in conventional terms, Wrightissued a "War on Iraq I.Q. Test," with questions like, "Whichcountry do you think poses the greatest threat to global peace: Iraqor the U.S.?" Wright prayed with the Obama family just before hispresidential announcement.Who this preacher is and how much of an influence he has onObama concern me greatly. In the past 16 years, "Mr. Wright haspresided over Mr. Obama's wedding ceremony, baptized his twodaughters and dedicated his house, while Mr. Obama has often spokenat Trinity's panels and debates. The Obamas treat Trinity as theirspiritual home, attending services frequently."Where does Obama stand on the question of radical Islam? Is itthe major problem today? According to the Times, "[Mr.] Obama seesradical extremism as one of the world's problems on a checklist ofmany others: global poverty, nuclear proliferation, global warming,"not as the major problem of our time that many of us believe it is.Fox News reported that when asked in a debate about America'sbest friends in the world, "Obama waxed on about NATO and ourEuropean allies before looking east to Japan… It was clear thatObama didn't get it that this was the Israel question…" Even whenprompted by Brian Williams, who followed up by pointing out thatObama had neglected to mention Israel, and reminded him of hiscomment that "no one had suffered more than the Palestinian people,Obama still didn't get it right."Another very disturbing report was on a pro-Arab Internetblog. It stated that in 2000 [Ali] Abunimah [a Middle East and Arab-American affairs writer and commentator] recalled, Professor RashidKhalidi, a leading Palestinian American advocate for a two-statesolution and harsh critic of Israel, held a fundraiser in his homefor Obama, embarked then on an ultimately unsuccessful bid for theHouse of Representatives. "He came with his wife," Abunimahsaid. "That's where I had a chance to really talk to him. It was anintimate setting. He convinced me he was very aware of the issues[and] critical of U.S. bias toward Israel and lack of sensitivity toArabs. He was very supportive of U.S. pressure on Israel." Onesource close to Obama, speaking on condition of anonymity, recalledthat, "Obama often expressed general sympathy for the Palestinians –though I don't recall him ever saying anything publicly."I had mixed emotions as I read the various news reports. IsObama as good as any non-Jewish American candidate when it relatesto Israel and Jews, or do we have more to fear from him and fromthose that influence him?Is it true that Obama has a goal of acting friendly to Jews atleast until after the election? Once in power, he can exercise hispotential radicalism in subtle ways and seriously harm Israel andthe Jews. Could this be the reason a Haaretz report that surveyedwhich candidates Jews would vote for found that Obama was in lastplace when the Israel factor was questioned? Is there a fear of theunknown underlying this feeling?Does the U.S. want a very congenial president, with littlepolitical experience, who is surrounded by many question marks andquestionable associates? Are we sick and tired of statesmen andready for a novice as president? Will Obama seriously distancehimself from preacher Wright because he disagrees with his views orbecause it simply is more politically correct?...."To return to the issue of Jon Edwards, who, in my view, is the mostelectable of the candidates the Democrats currently have to choosefrom. When Ann Coulter recently referred to Edwards disparagingly,albeit somewhat, (perhaps?), jokingly, as a "f-ggot"referring (perhaps?), more to his subjectively, (or objectively?),perceived personna as a rather flighty fellow, who fit into thegeneral description of a "weak person", or as Arnold might havesaid "a girly boy", Edwards and his followers cried foul. Certainlythe use of theterm "f-ggot" ought not to be lightly condoned because no groupought to be disparaged and certainly homosexuals and lesbians havesuffered from discrimination and persecution throughout history,including in nazi Germany.But where were Edwards and company when it came to Vice PresidentCheney's daughter, etc. in the 2004 c.e. Presidential campaign?Kerry Has No Sense of Decency or of Shame No Sense At AllKerry Worse Than Howard Stern And Howard Dean CombinedJoseph WelchJoseph Nye Welch (left), chief counsel for the U. S. Army, speaks toSenator McCarthy during the Army-McCarthy hearings in Washington, D.C., June, 1954.http://www.apl.org/HISTORY/MCCARTHY/welch.html"Welch removed his glasses, stared dolefully at the table and shookhis head. What he said then became the event's dramatic climax, anda moment more movie-like in its dramatic impact than even mostmovies come close to."Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged yourcruelty or your recklessness." There was no noise in the huge, high-ceilinged room save for the sparse clearing of throats. "Let us notassassinate this lad further, Senator. You have done enough. Haveyou no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you no sense ofdecency?""Mary Beth Cahill, John Kerry's campaign manager, called MaryCheney's sexuality "fair game" in a post-debate interview with FoxNews Wednesday night(October 13th, 2004).""KERRY: I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, whois a lesbian..." (October 13th, 2004). Bush-Kerry Presidential Debate"EDWARDS:...the vice president and his wife...have a gay daughter."(October 5th, 2004) Cheney-Edwards Vice Presidential Debate"The vice president's wife, Lynne Cheney, called Kerry "not a goodman" and his remarks about daughter Mary Cheney "a cheap and tawdrypolitical trick." Meanwhile, Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of vicepresidential candidate John Edwards, suggested in a radio interviewthat Mrs. Cheney might feel "a certain degree of shame" because herdaughter is a lesbian."Source:http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/special_packages/election2004/9918392.htm?1cNor is this sort of thing new to politics. One typical dirty trickusedmore than once in American politics has been the use of the wordthespian, which to some less than well educated Americans soundsmore than a bit like lesbian."Florida's most famous negative campaign was the 1950 U.S. Senaterace between George Smathers and Claude Pepper....the campaign isbest remembered for something that never happened.It's become enshrined in Florida folklore as the "thespian speech,"in which Smathers supposedly told slack-jawed rural Floridians thatPepper was "known in Washington as an extrovert" whose sister was "athespian in wicked New York City." Only trouble is, Smathers neversaid it; the yarn was probably concocted by bored, condescendingYankee reporters."Source: http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/8209847.htm"In the era of Abraham Lincoln a candidate running against anopponent who happened to be an actor obliterated that opponent byrunning a full page ad in the newspaper accusing him of beinga "Thespian." (Remember this wasbefore T.V., before John Howard Stern/Howard Dean Kerry.)"Recognize Distortion TacticsName-calling In a classic case, one politician won an election whenhe alleged that his opponent "once matriculated" and that hisopponent's wife was a "thespian."Kerry showed on the night of October 13th, 2004, in the Bush-KerryPresidential debate that he could care less about Dick and LynneCheney'sdaughter and her right to privacy. To Kerry that young woman becamea pawnin the game, like the four or five thousand people he could not havecaredless about being slaughtered in Vietnam.In the same debate,not content to just bash lesbians,and to drag theCheney family's daughter into the debate, Kerry went on to slanderItalian-Americans. Kerry said: "Being lectured by the President...isa little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order inthis country."Hearing that line from Kerry was a little bit like deja vu all overagain.In the September 25, 1988 debate, which was The First Bush-DukakisPresidential Debate Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis describedVice President George Herbert Walker Bush as follows:"(Bush)wants to spend a lot of money on additional programs. If hekeeps this up, he's going to be the Joe Isuzu of American politics."Source: http://www.debates.org/pages/trans88a.html"Joe Isuzu was the character from the famous series ofadvertisements inthe late 80's featuring the stereotypical car salesman, claimingthat theIsuzu he was pitching had "gin-u-wine llama-skin leather"and "enough cargoroom to carry Texas." Advertising Age named the original campaignone of thebest advertising campaigns of the 20th Century."Source: http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2001/02/03/013954.html"Governor Michael Dukakis and Lieutenant Governor John Kerry in1983. (Globe File Photo)"Source:http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/06/20/dukakis_a_conundrum_for_kerry/Did someone say Plagiarism?Bush Says Kerry's Using Old Dean LinesTue Sep 7, 3:18 PM ETBy PETE YOST, Associated Press WriterLEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. - President Bush (news - web sites) on Tuesdayaccused rivalJohn Kerry (news - web sites) of changing positions on the Iraq(news - websites) war by adopting the language of one-time presidentialcandidate HowardDean (news - web sites) when Kerry called the conflict "the wrongwar in thewrong place at the wrong time."Kerry's criticism came Monday during a campaign stop. Dean had usedsuchphrasing in early 2003 when he was the Democratic candidate mostcritical of thewar. At the time, Kerry took a more moderate stand, criticizing thepresidentfor failing to build a broader coalition of allies but notcondemning the waraltogether.Kerry "woke up yesterday morning with yet another new position, andthis one'snot even his own; it is that of his one-time rival, Howard Dean,"Bush toldthousands of supporters Tuesday at a rally in the Kansas Citysuburbs.Bush said Kerry "even used the same words Howard Dean did back whenhesupposedly disagreed with him ... Senator Kerry flip-flops. We wereright tomake America safer by removing Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)from power."In February 2003, Dean was a little-known candidate for theDemocraticnomination when he said Bush was focused on "the wrong war at thewrong time"concerning Iraq. The month before Dean's remarks, Sen. Edward M.Kennedy (news,bio, voting record), D-Mass., used a similar phrase when he said, "Icontinue tobe convinced that this is the wrong war at the wrong time.""Joseph Biden's Plagiarism; Michael Dukakis's 'Attack Video' – 1988Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden Jr., a U.S.senator fromDelaware, was driven from the nomination battle after delivering,withoutattribution, passages from a speech by British Labor party leaderNeil Kinnock.A barrage of subsidiary revelations by the press also contributed toBiden'swithdrawal: a serious plagiarism incident involving Biden during hislaw schoolyears; the senator's boastful exaggerations of his academic recordat a NewHampshire campaign event; and the discovery of other quotations inBiden'sspeeches pilfered from past Democratic politicians.The controversy became two frenzies in one when it was disclosedthat thecampaign of Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis had earliersecretlydistributed to several news media outlets an "attack video"juxtaposing theBiden and Kinnock speeches and revealing Biden's word theft. TheDukakiscampaign at first stonewalled and denied any part in the tape'sdistribution,but when the truth emerged Dukakis was forced to fire his campaignmanager, JohnSasso, and political director, Paul Tully – the two who hadorchestrated themaneuver. Dukakis himself insisted he had no prior knowledge oftheir actions,and though wounded, his candidacy survived the incident."Source:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/biden.htm"September 12th, 2004the arrival of veteran political operative John Sasso, who begantraveling atKerry's side last week, was greeted with relief by aides. They hopeSasso cankeep the senator "on message," as one put it."Source:http://news./news?tmpl=story & u=/latimests/20040912/ts_latimes/divideind\emocratscamp"Sasso, he of the attack video that torpedoed the presidentialcampaign ofDemocratic Senator Joseph R. Biden of Delaware in 1987, he of theaudiotape thatridiculed the physical disabilities of the wife of Edward King,MichaelDukakis's gubernatorial primary opponent in 1982.Dukakis fired Sasso for lying about his involvement in the video,which showedBiden had borrowed without attribution from a speech by a LaborParty leader inBritain. He should have canned him for the crass assault on JodyKing'sdignity." read the rest at theSource:http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/09/05/wrong_man_for_kerry/fyi: Kerry served as Dukakis' lieutenant governor for two years,just before hewon his Senate seat in 1984."Dick Cheney's Acceptance Speech August 2nd, 2000I have seen our military at its finest, with the best equipment, thebesttraining, and the best leadership. I'm proud of them.I have had the responsibility for their well-being. And I canpromise them now,help is on the way."Source: http://www.2000gop.com/convention/speech/speechcheney.html"'Help is on the way,' Kerry tells middle classDemocrat accepts nomination, courts the undecidedsFriday, July 30, 2004"Source: http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/29/dems.main/fyi re below: we are looking for the exact quote from Caddell, weheard and saw it too but cannot recall it word for word."I just heard Pat Caddell (Carter's old pollster)say that John Sasso(one ofKerry's new boys; Sasso ran Dukakis's campaign until he passed outtapes of JoeBiden plagiarizing a speech) was the most dishonest guy that Patever met inpolitics."Source:http://216.109.117.135/search/cache?p=Sasso+Caddell+dishonest & ei=UTF-8 & n=20 & fl=0\ & u=www.betsyspage.blogspot.com/ & w=sasso+caddell+dishonest & d=3DE1690AF9 & icp=1 & .in\tl=usAnd then there is Hillary Rodham Clinton, a.k.a. Her Royal Clinton,or maybe justHER ROYAL HIGHNESS. Will Hillary not-so-Hilarious Clinton be thenext President of the United States? She may be trying to drop theRodham middle name, but can she dropher own royal self-perception? Clearly there are things which are alot less than Kosherabout Hillary, whether she ends up dropping or keeping the Rodhammiddle name.The Other Rudy Hillary RaceYou may remember it as the one that almost happened. The year was2000, the place New York State, the campaign, one for the seat inthe US Senate from New York that was up that year.Everyone believed that New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani would faceHillary Rodham Clinton in the campaign for that seat in the USSenate from New York.But things changed. A bout with prostate cancer forced "pro-choice"Rudy to bow out of the US Senate race. Rudy was replaced witha "pro-life" Republican named Lazio who lost to Hillary in thegeneral election. Many believe Lazio's poor debate performance costhim the race and that Rudy would have prevailed over Hillary in thedebates and gone on to win the election if he could have gotten theConservative Party nomination.In New York State votes from third parties may be combined withvotes from major parties to determine who the winner is. Thus aRepubican Party nominee who is also the nominee of the ConservativeParty would have the votes combined to deterimine if that nominee isthe winner of the general election.Many questions from the 2000 campaign linger on to this day. Was the1999 Kosovo War, which saw Kosovo stolen from Eastern OrthodoxChristian Serbia, and handed over to Albanian Moslems, a payment inadvance for the would be third party candidacy of "pro-life"Albanian American Joe DioGuardi, who would have run on theConservative Party line in New York State, splitting the votes thatwould otherwise have gone to the Republican nominee for US Senatehad the Conservative Party nominated the Republican nominee?Who will be the first to break this story to the major media? Willit be Barak Hussein Obama? Obama is said to be furious that HillaryRodham Clinton is out polling him among African-American voters.When Jesse Jackson ran for President he won some 78% of African-American voters in the Democratic primaries.Clearly this story would cost Hillary Rodham Clinton the support ofAfrican-American voters. The idea that a young "white" radical NewHaven Connecticut Yale Law student named Hillary Rodham might havebeen involved in the torture and murder of a young African-Americanman, who is believed to have been tortured and murdered in Maryland,and, or in the disposal of that young African-American man's bodysome 40 miles north of Yale in Connecticut, and or in the defense ofthat young African-American man's accused torturer and murdererwould clearly produce a highly negative reaction among African-American voters towards Hillary Rodham Clinton.With Barak Hussein Obama in the race many of those voters mightswitch to Obama from Hillary.If Obama is determined to be the leaker of this story to the majormedia he might also suffer a backlash from so-called "Yellow DogDemocrats", who call themselves that because they proudly say theywould vote for a yellow dog if it ran for office as a Demcorat.Knowing that Obama might well be afraid to leak the story becausealthough it would clearly force Hillary from the race the backlashmight mean that Obama would have to leave the race too.On the other hand Edwards could leak the story to the major media,leaving a false trail that would lead people to believe that Obamahad leaked the story. If he could get away with it Edwards wouldclearly benefit from the departure of Hillary and Obama from therace.What should Republicans do about all of this? One idea might be towait until Hillary is nominated and then leak the story to the majormedia. Such an "October Surprise" might or might not work. It wouldbe a big gamble for Republicans to wait until 08 to leak this story.By then Hillary might have so much momentum that she would beunstoppable.As the man who made the phrase "two Americas" popular Edwards wouldclearly pick up the support of African-Americans, and others, andemerge as the most likely nominee for the Democrats in 2008.A "white" Southern male, he would be following in the footsteps ofother successful Democrats: Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and LyndonBaines Johnson, all of whom won at least one term as President ofthe United States in a general election.Edwards in fact may be the most "electable" candidate the Democratshave among those Democrats who have so far entered the race.While Edwards is very much a child of the "Old South", he hasclearly undergone a dramatic makeover from the timid boy he was whenhe looked like he was about to dive under the desk if his opponentin the 2004 Vice Presidential Debate, Vice President Dick Cheney hadcast even the slightest angry look in Edwards direction. Edwards nowspeaks with much more confidence, he has parted with his BobbyKennedy lookalike haircut, though he has yet to shave his head alaMs. Spears, or grow a beard ala Al Gore or the fictional PresidentLogan of Fox TV's hit series "24". Whether Edwards has merely hadthe benefit of some terrific speech coach, or coaches, or gone ontosome medications more beneficial than theBotox treatments allegedly applied directly to the forehead of JohnFailed The American Test Kerry Edwards is clearly doing somethingright.What Edwards is doing wrong, and left, at the same time, isfollowing his wife's anti-Israel pro-appeasement script, which seesEdwards calling for a US pullout from Iraq and caving in to theSyrian-Iranian alliance which would takeover in Iraq once thatpullout took place.This is a far cry from the Edwards who voted to authorize the use offorce against Saddam Hussein. Yet he may get away with all of it. Hecould leak the dramatic allegations against Hillary, leaving a falsetrail to Barak Hussein Obama, thus forcing his two greatest rivalsout of the race for the nomination, and might end up as the nomineeof the Democrats himself with ease. .And Edwards could go on to con the American people and walk awaywith the Presidency won in a walk in 2008. Will there be a "StopEdwards" campaign among Democrats anytime soon enough to stopEdwards from being nominated?Will Edwards be the nominee if the scenario above works out for him?If so, will Republicans be able to come up with any "oppositionresearch" on Edwards that is convincing enough to cause Edwards tolose to his Republican opponent in 2008?Nor do we know what sort of "opposition research" Democrats havebeen doing on potential Republican nominees.We can recall the 2006 race in which Hillary poured big bucks intothe Webb campaign for US Senate in Virginia to sink her likely 2008rival Republican Senator George Allen.The news that Allen's mother was Jewish, even though Allen wasraised as a Christian may well have cost Allen his seat in theSenate in that tight US Senate race in Virginia in 2006.Moreover Webb had run what some may have seen as a test campaign ofanti-Semitism against Harris Miller, his opponent in the primary forthe nomination for US Senate.Let Us Punish Anti Semitism Not Reward ItEnter your vote today! 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Poll votes arenot collected via email. To vote, you must go to the web site listed above.Former Reagan Navy Secretary and now Democratic Senate hopeful fromVirginia James Webb is being accused of anti-Semitism for a flierproduced against his opponent Harris Miller.By James JoynerSenate candidate James H. Webb, President Reagan's former Navysecretary, was criticized by his Jewish opponent Friday over acampaign flier that depicted the opponent with a hooked nose andcash spilling from his pockets. The flier was intended fordistribution among labor groups. It was titled "Miller the JobKiller," referring to Webb's opponent for the Democratic nominationin Tuesday's primary, businessman Harris Miller.The flier, drawn in comic-book cartoon style, depicts Miller with agrotesquely hooked nose and cash overflowing from his suit pocketsas he orders an underling to find ways to export U.S. jobs overseas.The flier refers to Miller as the "anti-Christ of outsourcing."Miller called it "despicable.One of the things I hoped we wouldkeep out of this campaign, because it has nothing to do with thecampaign, is my religion and my background," Miller said."source:http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/06/james_webb_accused_of_anti-semitism_in_democratic_primary/Here are some excerpts from that anti-Miller flyerclick on the url immediately below to see it:http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/dohmiller_flyer_color.pdfwhich was "paid for and authorized by webb for senate.www.webbforsenate.com" whose caricature drawings of Democrat HarrisMiller, who happens to be Jewish, look like they came straight outof some nazi Germany era anti-Semitic propaganda piece, have himsaying: "Let them eat cake.", which of course he never said, andwhich has a footnote stating "1. Attributed to Marie Antoinetteshortly before she was beheaded in 1793." as if Miller had actuallysaid it."Harris Miller, a corporate lobbyist, made his fortune by advocatingthe outsourcing of American jobs. Called the "anti-Christ ofoutsourcing," 1. Attributed to Marie Antoinette shortly before shewas beheaded in 1793. As Virginia's Senator, Jim Webb will be avoice for working Virginians and will fight for what is reallyimportant….Root out corporate corruption and end the lobbyist stranglehold onCongress, restoring confidence in our government. paid for andauthorized by webb for senate. www.webbforsenate.com "The anti-Semitic campaign waged against Democrat Harris Miller,Webb's Jewish opponent in the Virginia Senatorial Primary, was onlya warm up for the anti-Semitic campaign waged against Webb'sopponent in the general election, Republican Senator George Allen,whose mother is Jewish. Chances are good that the anti-Semitic flyeragainst Harris Miller described above would have landed Webb in jailin Europe, where there are laws against such things. Europe, afterall, knows that hate speech leads to action. Hitler's Mein Kampf ledto The Holocaust. In America it got Webb the nomination of his partyfor the US Senate. Don't let Webb benefit from the anti-Semiticattacks launched against Senator Allen. Please help to expose thosewho waged those deceitful hate filled anti-Semitic campaignsagainst Democrat Harris Miller and Republican George Allen.Politics and Bedfellows An Age Old Story Told Once AgainWe do not know what to make of the gossip being circulated aboutpossible 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary RodhamClinton these days.It seems strange that material which appears to be damaging abouther would surface over well before the 2008 Presidential Election.Yet such material is surfacing all over the place these days.Though the name Arthur Turco is known to few Americans today, if theallegationsabout his romantic and political relationship with Hillary RodhamClinton in1969 when Hillary was at Yale turn out to be true Arthur Turco'sname mightbecome as much a household word as Monica Lewinsky's name was in thelate 1990s.Unlike Monica Lewinsky however, Arthur Turco in 1969 was no starryeyed 20something intern being sexually used and abused by the most charmingPresidentof the United States ever to hold that office.Gerald Lefcourt, David Brothers, Abbie Hofmann, Dave Dellinger,WilliamKunstler, Jerry Rubin, and Arthur Turco can be seen at a BlackPanther Rally atFederal Court, in a photo taken on March 22nd, 1969. Arthur Turco isthe cleanshaven white man in the dark glasses,wearing a tie with his hand inthe pocketof his rain coat, standing behind bearded Jerry Rubin.You can see the photo in which Turco appears atKnowTheEnemy/in the Birds of A Feather photo album athttp://ph.KnowTheEnemy/photosArthur Turco was the New York City based leader of a weird whitegroup calledTHE PATRIOTS in 1969. THE PATRIOTS were allied with THE BLACKPANTHERS and aPuerto Rican group called THE YOUNG LORDS in something called THERAINBOWCOALITION. This was a different group from the Jesse Jackson relatedRainbowCoalition group.THE PATRIOTS operated relatively openly from an office in far uptownManhattanbut reputedly also used one or more covert "Safe House" styleapartments in theCHELSEA section of Manhattan. Some of those "Safe House" styleapartments wereallegedly fortress like places,allegedly filled with heavy weaponsincludingexplosives, as well as handguns, and automatic weapons.Some alleged background on Black Panther Party attorney and ally,Arthur Turcomay be found athttp://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=11450which describes Arthur Turco as the "Panthers' New Yorklawyer,Arthur Turco."The article states that : "Caplan says he believes that thePanthers' New Yorklawyer, Arthur Turco, was the ringleader in the commission of thiscrime. "Hewas apparently in the house when the torture and the murder tookplace and waspart of the conspiracy to kill and remove the body,"Below is an example of a post which dates back to the Bill Clintonera we founddescribing some of the story."Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow blacknamed Alex Rackley needed to die. Rackley was a fellow Panthersuspected ofdisloyalty. Rackley was first tied to a chair. Once safelyimmobilizedhis'friends'tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouringboiling wateron him. When theygot tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther member Warren Kimbotook Mr.Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley's bodywas laterfound floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, Conn.Perhaps at this point you're curious as to what happened to theseBlack Panthers. In 1977, that's only eight years later, only one ofthe killerswas still in jail. The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get ascholarship toHarvard. He later became an assistant dean at Eastern ConnecticutState College.Isn't that something? As a `60s radical you can pump a bullet intosomeone'shead,and a few years later, in the same state, you can become anassistant college dean! Only in America! Erica Huggins was the ladywho servedthe Panthers by boiling the water for Mr.Rackley's torture. Some years later Ms. Huggins was elected to aCalifornia School Board.How in the world do you think these killers got off soeasy? Maybe it was in some part due to the efforts of two people whocame to thedefense of the Panthers. These two people actually went so far as toshut downYale University with demonstrations in defense of the accused BlackPanthersduring their trial. One of these people was none other than Bill LanLee. Mr.Lee, orMr. Lan Lee, as the case may be, isn't a college dean. He isn't amember of a California School Board. He is now head of the U.S.JusticeDepartment's Civil Rights Division.O.K., so who was the other Panther defender?Is this other notable Panther defender now a school board member? Isthis other Panther apologist now an assistant college dean? No,Neither! Theother Panther defender was, like Lee, a radical law student at YaleUniversityat the time. She is now known as The "smartest woman in the world."She is noneotherthan...Hillary Rodham Clinton."We checked Hillary's official White House bio and found that:"In 1969, Hillary entered Yale Law School, where she served on theBoard of Editors of Yale Law Review and Social Action..."source:http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/hc42.htmlWe also dug up the 1997 piece below on Bill Lan Lee"G.O.P Leader Says Nominee Will Be Halted November 10, 1997, MondayBy STEVEN A. HOLMES (New York Times) National DeskLate Edition - Final, Section A, Page 22, Column 1,Senator Orrin G Hatch, chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee, saysnominationof Bill Lan Lee, President Clinton's choice for Assistant AttorneyGeneral forCivil Rights, is dead; nomination has run into opposition amongRepublicans, whoaccuse him of supporting racial quotas and affirmative action..."Want to know something really scary? We do not know if there is anytruth to them at all, but allegations are beginning to resurfaceconcerning thealleged connections, which may have begun in 1969, between HillaryRodham,whileshe and her husband to be Bill Clinton were Yale students, andsomething callledTHE RAINBOW COALITION, not the one associated with Jesse Jackson,but anotherone, which was composed of 3 allied groups: THE BLACK PANTHERS, aPuerto Ricangroup called THE YOUNG LORDS, and a bizarre Maoist "white" groupcalled THEPATRIOTS.The so-called RAINBOW COALITION was an alliance between ARTHURTURCO'S whiteterrorist group THE PATRIOTS, and the original BLACK PANTHERS,(notto beconfused with a group using that name today), and a Puerto Ricangroup calledTHE YOUNG LORDS in 1969 when Hillary and Bill Clinton were Yalestudents.A relatively covert alliance also existed between THE PATRIOTS andheavily armedinternational arab terrorists,including those controlled byarafat,operatingeven then in the United States,and elsewhere. In particular theallegationscenter around the alleged connections between Hillary Rodham andArthur Turco,and others. Turco was the leader of THE PATRIOTS. THE PATRIOTSmembers woredungaree "uniforms" including dungaree pants and dungaree jacketsand heldMaoist style "self-criticism sessions".THE PATRIOTS were allegedly heavily involved in drug use, whichincluded"snorting" horse tranquilizer drugs, among other things, andallegedly wereregular visitors to YALE.They also allegedly regularly read responsively from Lin Piao'sradical book.("Encyclopedia of World Biography on Lin Piao(1907-1971) was a Chinese Communist military commander and politicalleader. His distinguished military career and loyalty to theprinciples of MaoTse-tung were the basis for his rise to second position in theChinese Communistleadership. He was involved in an unsuccessful coup d'etat in 1971.")We would like to know what, if anything, you have found about thisstory? Is there any truth to it at all? We do not know.Then there is the matter of the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. FamedJewish columnistA.M.Rosenthal of THE NEW YORK TIMES called Bill Clinton, who he hadbacked inthe 1992 Presidential race against then President George HerbertWalker Bush,BOMBER BILL because of Clinton's prosecution of the Balkan Wars ofthe 1990s.In those wars some 5,000 Serbian civilians were slaughtered inGuernica like airraids. Many of the same targets in Serbia that were bombed by theLuftwaffe inWorld War Two were bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1999.Bill Clinton turned the US Airforce into AIR BIN LADEN, flyingmissions againstSerbians who were fighting against Osama bin Laden's forces in theBalkans.Why would Bill Clinton, the former anti-war activist of the1960s,who haddemonstrated against the Vietnam War,wage war against Serbia asPresident of theUnited States in the 1990s?The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution limits Presidential termsof office to2 terms. Bill Clinton was elected to those 2 terms and served them.His lastfull year in office was 2000, the year his wife, Hillary RodhamClinton waselected to the US Senate from New York State. He left office onJanuary 20th,2001.Many observers viewed the 2000 US Senate race in which she waselected from NewYork State as a stepping stone to the White House for Hillary RodhamClinton.In New York State winning state wide Republican candidates need thenominationof the New York State Republican Party to be augmented by thenominaton of theNew York State Conservative Party.Winning statewide without BOTH nominations is not an easy thing foranyRepublican candidate in New York State.The website of the New York State Conservative Party proudlyproclaims : "The1994 elections were a breakthrough for the Conservative Party as weprovided themargin of victory for Governor George E. Pataki with the 326,605votes cast onour line."source:http://www.cpnys.org/history/history.htmlIn New York State the votes of candidates on for example theRepublican Partyline may be combined with votes for the same candidates received onfor examplethe New York State Conservative Party line.Thus winning the nomination of the New York State Conservative Partyis vital tomaking a successful statewide run for office in New York State.Things were not shaping up at all well for Rudy Guiliani, who wasthe odds onfavorite for the Republican nomination for the US Senate race in2000 againstHillary Rodham Clinton."Giuliani at Fund-Raiser, but Not Conservative Party'sNovember 17, 1999, WednesdayBy DAVID M. HERSZENHORN (New York Times)Metropolitan DeskLate Edition - Final, Section B, Page 5, Column 1Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani attends Broadway fund-raiser for hispresumptive UnitedStates Senate campaign, but he is left out of State ConservativeParty's annualfall cocktail party—which may have even more important implicationsfor hispolitical future; Conservative Party chairman Michael R Long saysGiuliani wasnot invited because he has not yet expressed interest in winningparty'sendorsement…"To his credit then Governor George W. Bush did what he could topitch in to helpRudy Guiliani."Bush Offers Giuliani Help On the RightNovember 30, 1999, TuesdayBy ELISABETH BUMILLER (New York Times)Metropolitan DeskLate Edition - Final, Section B, Page 1, Column 5,New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, on his first political tripsince HillaryRodham Clinton announced her intention to run for United StatesSenate, basks inpraise of political benefactor, Texas Governor George W. Bush.Bush, at rallyin Austin, Texas, volunteers to help Giuliani win endorsement fromNew YorkState Conservative Party in his likely race against Hillary Clinton;endorsementhas been held up over Giuliani's position on abortion rights; atissue isGiuliani's opposition to ban on what critics call `partial-birth'abortions…"The alleged Clinton master plan to win Hillary Rodham Clinton a seatin the USSenate from New York State as a vital stepping stone to the WhiteHouse wasbuilt on a very simple proposition:DIVIDE AND CONQUER.Winning that seat in the Senate for Hillary in 2000 couldtheoretically beaccomplished by assuring that the 2000 US Senate nominaton of theNew YorkState Conservative Party did not go to the 2000 US Senate nominee ofthe NewYork State Republican Party.But how could such a thing be accomplished? Who could be persuadedto split theright so that Hillary Rodham Clinton could be elected to the USSenate from NewYork State in 2000?Ominously it was on May Day of 2000 that the following happened:"Giuliani Gets A New Rival On the RightMay 1st, 2000, MondayBy ADAM NAGOURNEY (New York Times) Metropolitan DeskLate Edition - Final, Section B, Page 1, Column 6,Former United States Congressman from Westchester County Joseph JDioGuardi, inmove that could complicate Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani's campaign forUnited StatesSenate, says that he will seek support of Conservative, Right-to-Life andIndependence Parties in campaign for Senate; repeatedly assailsGiuliani asbeing out of step with Conservative-minded Republicans…"Who was Former United States Congressman from Westchester CountyJoseph JDioGuardi, and how did he fit in to the alleged Clinton master planto winHillary Rodham Clinton a seat in the US Senate from New York Stateas vitalstepping stone to the White House?DioGuardi has been described by New York City's Village Voicenewspaper as :"NEW YORK'S KOSOVO KINGPIN"http://www.villagevoice.com/features/9915/vest.shtmlIn 2000 DioGuardi was poised to give not-so-hilarious Hillary RodhamClinton a seat in the US Senate from New York by virtue of his owncampaign for that seat that would have split right-wing opposition toHillary, thus ensuring her election.We opposed Ms.Clinton then,and we oppose her now.Unlike Ms.Clinton who favors a so-called"palestinian" state we are opposed to such an entity coming intoexistence. We were also opposed to Clinton's anti-Serbian policy inthe Balkans.There is more dataavailable on the so-called "palestinian" state issue:" B'NAI B'RITH DISAPPOINTED WITH THE FIRST LADY'S COMMENTS ON APALESTINIAN STATE" http://bnaibrith.org/pr/hillaryclinton.htmlhttp://www.usaid-wbg.org/98dec14a.htmlA group calling itself the "National Association of Arab Americans"http://www.naaa.net/alerts/aa050898.html urged its members to"Please write, phone, or fax the First Lady at the following addressto express your appreciation for her remarks" which favored aso-called"palestinian" state.) Nor has Hillary, not-so-Hilarious Clintonbeen squeamish about supporting Albanians" Hillary Clinton awarded Albania's highest civilian honor"http://www.cnn.co.uk/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/06/22/hrc.award/http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/columns/hrc040799.htmlPlease see the url below from THE NEW YORK TIMES regarding the 2000DioGuardi US Senate candidacy.http://www10.nytimes.com:80/library/politics/camp/050100sen-ny.htmlDioGuardi hopes to run on the Conservative Party, Right-to-Lifeand Independence Party lines in New York State. The IndependenceParty was the name for the Reform Party in New York State which thenappeared likely to have Patrick J. Buchanan as its Presidentialstandard bearer in the fall 2000 elections.http://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/buchanan_intro.htmlhttp://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/on_nazis.htmlhttp://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/on_segregation.htmlhttp://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/on_women.htmlhttp://www.adl.org/presrele/holna_52/2585_52.htmlhttp://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/window_buchanan.htmlhttp://www.adl.org/presrele/asus_12/3481_12.htmlhttp://www.adl.org/frames/front_buchanan_own_words.htmlhttp://www.adl.org/backgrounders/reform_party_and_fulani_and_newman.htmlhttp://www.adl.org/frames/front_background_article2.html"Buchanan has consistently portrayed war criminals aspatriotic Americans, innocent victims of "revenge-obsessed Nazihunters" in Washington. Virtually everything the accused and theirdefenders have said he accepts as truth, and, in the words of onecritic, he wages "journalistic guerilla warfare" on their behalf.SaysNeal Sher, former director of the U.S. Justice Department's Office ofSpecial Investigations: "Buchanan went to bat for every Nazi warcriminal in America." Liberty Lobby, the leading anti-Semitic andracist organization in America, overwhelmingly endorsed Pat Buchananduring the 1996 presidential primaries. An editorial in itspublication, The Spotlight, pointed out that "the 112 issues orlegislative positions that Liberty Lobby has taken over the past 40years...shows that Pat Buchanan stands with us." The predominantissuethey share is Holocaust revisionism, the spearhead of theinternational anti-Semitic movement. Buchanan used his syndicatedcolumn and his office as communications director in the Reagan WhiteHouse from 1981-1987 to assist pro-Nazi Eastern Europeanorganizationsin trying to block the denaturalization and deportation of KarlLinnas, John Demjanjuk, and at least seventeen others who had beencharged by the U.S. Justice Department's Office of SpecialInvestigations or had been convicted in federal courts of concealingwar crimes in order to gain illegal entry into the U.S. The KarlLinnas Case In 1981 the Federal District Court in Westbury, NYstripped 67-year-old Karl Linnas of his citizenship for having liedtoimmigration officials thirty years earlier about his Nazi past.Linnas's crimes, the judge said, "were such as to offend the decencyof any civilized society." From 1941-43 Linnas had commanded a Naziconcentration camp at Tartu, Estonia, where he directed andpersonallytook part in the murder of thousands of men, women, and children whowere shot into anti-tank ditches. A 1986 federal appeals court upheldhis deportation order, ruling that the evidence against the defendantwas "overwhelming and largely uncontroverted." Summarily rejectingthecourt's findings because evidence had been obtained from the SovietUnion, Buchanan orchestrated a national media effort to exonerateLinnas, demanding that his citizenship be reinstated. He championedthe Linnas cause in his syndicated newspaper column and TV program"Crossfire," and arranged for then U.S. Attorney General Edwin MeeseIII to meet with him and members of Eastern European organizationswhohailed Linnas as a hero. On March 31, l987, Menachem Rosensaft,founder of the International Network of Children of HolocaustSurvivors, wrote a New York Times Op-Ed piece calling for acongressional investigation to determine whether any Americanofficialor functionary had intervened on Mr. Linnas's behalf. Buchananresponded by saying it was the Office of Special Investigations thatneeded to be investigated. "Let us get it all out in the open," hewrote, "nothing un-American can live in the sunlight." AttorneyGeneral Meese delayed the deportation of Linnas as long as possible,all the while searching for a haven. After sixteen countries hadrefused, Panama agreed to accept Linnas "on humanitarian grounds."News of the decision prompted Rosensaft and others to intercede withPanamanian officials in Washington, who told them that theirgovernment had not been informed of Linnas's wartime atrocities.Panama withdrew its offer and issued a statement saying that "ourcountry and our Government reject and condemn the crimes committed byfascists." On April 20, 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to heara final appeal. At that point Meese was legally bound to comply withthe deportation order. Linnas was flown to the Soviet Union and threemonths later died in a prison hospital while awaiting trial."http://uahc.org/rjmag/1096ca.htmlThe obvious question came to mind. Was the potential third partyDioGuardi 2000 Senate candidacy, which could have guaranteed Hillarythe US Senate seat from New York a "big payoff" for the Clintons forthe 1999 pro-Albanian Balkan war against Serbia which saw Kosovostolen from Serbia?http://aacl.com/indexmain.htmlis the url of a group which describes itself at that website as"the Albanian American Civic League. The Civic League was foundedby former Congressman Joseph DioGuardi and aboard of Albanian Americans in 1989 as the only registeredlobby in Washington, DC, representing the concerns andinterests of the Albanian people.Pay close attention to the phrase "living side by side in" found inthe quote below, and note how it has since been used by advocates ofa so-called Two State Solution, which envisages a so-called "palestinian" state "living side by side in" so-called "peace" with Israel.In reality the so-called Two StateSolution is more like Hitler's infamous FINAL SOLUTION, as it isreally a Two Step or Two Stage plan, with the first step being getIsrael to hand over everything it will without total war, and thenwage total war against Israel from the land Israel hands over todestroy the rest of Israel.The self-described"purpose of the Civic League is to further the human rights and thenational cause of the divided nation of more than seven millionAlbanians living side by side in the Balkans in Albania, Kosova,western Macedonia, southeastern Montenegro, Presheve, Medvegje,Bujanovc (southern Serbia), and Chameria (northern Greece). Bybringing the political perspectives of 400,000 Albanian Americans tothe US Government, the civic League works to end the repressionand oppression of Albanians living under hostile Slavic Communistregimes in the Balkans and to preserve the culture, identity andhuman rights of Albanians throughout the world."While you are digesting that quote, which sounds to me to be morethan a bit like the propaganda sprouted by the nazis about theso-called "Sudetenland"http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/Chlup/chluplinks/sudeten.htmlhttp://motlc.wiesenthal.org/albums/palbum/p02/a0133p5.htmlhttp://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/Chlup/chluplinks/munich.htmlhttp://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/Chlup/czechcon.htmland other places inhabited by Germans and others which used theGerman population as a pretext for annexation and in some cases warby Germany.Saddam did the same thing when he move arabs into Kurdish sectionsof so-called Iraq.Syria has moved a million so-called "civilian" FIFTH COLUMNISTS intoLebanon, a nation which numbers under four million people, notcounting those million Syrian FIFTH COLUMNISTS.NATO bombed Belgrade TV repeatedly, after Belgrade TVstarted to show the comedic film "Wag the Dog" which is about a USPresident who starts an Albanian War while he is in the midst of asex scandal.Ken Starr, where are you now that we really do need you? (Ken Starrwas the anti-Clinton prosecutor who got nowhere in his attempts tooust Bill Clinton from the Presidency.)Some more thoughts from a different source are quoted below:"Fri, 2 Jul 1999 SendMeHack SendMeHack at aol.comVOICE OF THE GRUNTSPECIAL REPORTFROM BEN WORKS BUYING AN INTERVENTION:KOSOVO AND ALBANIAN PAC MONEY IN CONGRESS By Benjamin Works,Director,The Strategic Issues Research Institute Hack and I, along with aselect group of others, have been at war with the KLA over its heroinand terrorist connections. We also knew something about how politicalmoney bought this war policy. Here's the story. Back in 1995, late inthe Bosnian war, I got a reference to a 1986 Senate Resolutionproposed by Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, decrying Yugoslavian officialoppression of the Albanian population of Kosovo-that's 1986, when theAlbanian Autonomous government was still fully operational. JosephDioGuardi, a New York Republican, sponsored the companion HouseResolution, both of which never emerged from committee. I got a copyof that Senate Resolution Nr. 150 from the Congressional Register ofJune 19, 1986 and then let it sit in my file for a long time, whilethe NATO occupation of Bosnia appeared to keep things calm.Meanwhile, Bob Dole managed to lose the 1996 Presidential Election,then vigorously supported Mr. Clinton's year-by-year extensions forkeeping some 6900 US soldiers in Bosnia.As the KLA insurrection inKosovo reached civil war levels, I began to think about thatresolution and how it misrepresented history. I had done considerablereading on the origins of the Yugoslav conflicts, pulling WashingtonPost, New York Times and other reports from the 1980s, bearing onKosovo and the collapse of the Federative Republic's communistgovernment under the pressure of ethnic-nationalism.Well, pieces fit together showing that all along it has been theethnicnationalist fascist losers of World War II in Croatia, Bosnia andKosovo whohave been exploiting the political process in Germany and the UnitedStates.Their goal has been to effect the division of Yugoslavia and thecleansing ofSerbian populations from their territories, while purportingthat "GreaterSerbia" was the menace to European security and not the post-fascist "GreaterCroatia" and "Greater Albania."Survivors of the Croat Ustashe movement in southern Germany begantheir work in the 1960s, but Joseph DioGuardi must be given creditfor a sustained campaign to influence Congress beginning in themid-1970s. DioGuardi, an Albanian American whose ancestors came froman Albanian transplant community in the heel of Italy, sat inCongress for several years in the mid-1980s as a ConservativeRepublican from New York's Westchester County, but creating aGreater Albania was his agenda as a map on his website shows(www.aapac.com)."His Political ActionCommittee (PAC) activities are easy to follow from 1988 on. Whatmakes the PAC and individual contributions to campaigns moreinteresting is the demonstrated connection between the Kosovo HeroinMafia, its "pizza connection" distribution ("inherited" from theGambino crime family) and money-laundering networks, and the numberof pizzaria owner-contributors listed in DioGuardi's filings. TheCroats and Albanians came up with big pots of laundered money, thenspread it around selectively, with American politicians helping topersuade other members in Congress.I have indications of a political alliance between DioGuardi and BobDole going as far back as the early 1970s, but have not yet got allthe evidence in hand. What I do have is sufficient to reachtentative conclusions about how foreign policy, in a democracy, canbe "bought"-that is precisely what happened in the case of theKosovo Air War. In early 1987, kicking off his 1988 bid to wrest theGOP nomination from then-vice president George Bush, Dole received$1.2 million from Albanian American supporters in New York City,while DioGuardi received $50,000 at the same dinner.I expect the funding trail goes back further, at least to Dole's 1976campaign.It certainly continued from 1987 through to the present.As the collapse of Yugoslavia loomed, the Croatian and Albanianlobbies continued their campaign:Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, Mar 31, 1993 issue,reported as much as $50 million was larded around Capitol Hill in atwo-year period which saw the defeat of George Bush and led to BobDole's control of the Republican party: The United States Congress,still reeling from a series of financial scandals involvingrepresentatives and senators, is now bracing for a new problem: themassive financial "contributions" which have been made to electionfunds of politicians by Croatian sources over the past two to threeyears.One Congressional investigator told Defense & Foreign AffairsStrategic Policy that the donations and expenditures on Washingtonlobbying by the Croatians over the past two years "could well exceed$50-million.""Much of this came directly from Croatian lobbyists,and some from Croatian American businessmen "Many of the campaigncontributions have been recorded legally," the investigator said,"but many are questionable. But what is more important is that therehas been a pervasive attempt to push the United States along a linedefined by foreign powers-Croatia and Germany-and it has not beensubtle. Elected officials are being told to either support theCroatian line or face either a removal of funding or are told thatfunding will be given to their opponents. Or they are literallybribed into supporting the Croatian line.This was going on long before Croatia even made its open bid forrecognition as an independent state." Now, as to individualcontributions, there are campaign contribution limits onindividuals, then there are Political Action Committees(PACs), "Soft Money" contributed to the parties and fed back tocandidates, and there is the time-honoredcustom of passing bundles of hundred dollar bills in brown paperbags to favored candidates. Federal Election Commission (FEC)records are on-line (http://www.tray.com/fecinfo/)and I have been able retrieve records for Joseph DioGuardi's PACsgoing back to the 1988 election cycle, and have also tested BobDole's 1996 Campaign and Liddy Dole's Campaign-2000.It is all there in the lists of candidates and contributors. Inparticular, most of the Congressmen speaking loudest against Serbiaand Serbs are those receiving money from DioGuardi's PAC. Some havesimply been beguiled,others may be more disingenuous.Recipients come from both sides of the aisle but are mostly membersof the House or Senate foreign relationscommittees...These records do not reveal monster sums of money, butdemonstrate the tip of the iceberg, where "soft money," individualdeclared contributions and bags full of $100 bills also find theirway to select candidates.It is clear that Bob Dole and Joe DioGuardi, in league with Croatand Bosnian fascist emigrees, worked very effectively to set up USforeign policy to dismantle Yugoslavia and ruin the Serb people.They have succeeded admirably because they were organized andpersistent, while their opponents were disorganized and, ultimately,outnumbered by the overwhelming flood of media propaganda.Now, the US taxpayer is on the hook for Billions of Dollars, whileour servicepersonnel will be tied down for years in Bosnia and Kosovo,againattempting thekind of nation building that failed sospectacularly in Somalia and Haiti. For those wishing to inspect thedetails of these fundraising, I have loaded the summary listscompiled thus far at my website along with a companion reading fileon the KLA and Heroin:"http://www.siri-us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/AlbanianAmericanPac-1980-98.htmlandhttp://www.siri-us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/KLA-Drugs.htmlsee also:http://www.truthinmedia.org/TruthinMedia/Kosovo/Peace/ps13.htmlhttp://glasgowcrew.tripod.com/albanian.html"I am not naive," KT McFarland told the Republican Convention inlate May(of 2006), as she announced her continuing campaign to takea senateseat from former First Lady Hillary Clinton. "I know Mrs. Clinton hasconsiderable resources and advantages and that the race ahead will beformidable. Let's face it, at this point she's probably better knownin Albaniathan I am in Albany."source:http://www.politicalnotebook.org/2006/06/to_feel_better_.htmlWhat do you think? Did the Bill and Hillary Clinton anti-SerbianBalkan War of 1999 almost reap its reward with a seat in the USSenate almost being handed to Hillary, not-so-Hilarious Clinton byformer New York Congressman Joseph DioGuardi?"15 YEARS OF THE ALBANIAN AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUEFebruary 1999. Congressman Jim Traficant joins a Civic Leaguedelegation to Tirana to speak at an international conference on theindependence of Kosova."SOURCE:http://aacl.com/12m.htmNote: re above Albanians spell Kosovo with an a at the end of itrather than ano, hence the Albanian spelling Kosova above."Congressman's Corruption Trial Opens with BickeringTuesday February 5th, 2002 By Jay MillerCLEVELAND (Reuters) - The bribery and corruption trial of Ohio Rep.James Traficant opened on Tuesday amid bickering and a warning fromthe judge to the nine-term congressman to behave himself.""Ohio Congressman James Trafficant has been a vigorous Demjanjuksupporter since the start of the trial in Israel. After Demjanjuk wasconvicted of crimes against humanity.""July 17th, 2000 Jim Traficant is perhaps the most colorful Memberof Congressof our time. He dresses in outrageous outfits and jokes that he isthe "fashionleader of the House." His hair always looks as if he just got out ofbed. Duringhis eight terms in Congress he has become famous for his one-minutespeeches onthe House floor, where he questions the wisdom and honesty ofgovernmentpolicies. He nearly always ends up saying "beam me up," a referenceto the oldStar Trek television series.""Traficant guilty of bribery, racketeeringApril 12, 2002 Traficant spoke to reporters outside the courthouse.CLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN) -- A jury found flamboyant U.S. Rep. JamesTraficantguilty of bribery and all other charges against him Thursday after atwo-monthfederal racketeering and corruption trial.The jury of 10 women and two men convicted the congressman on allcounts againsthim, covering charges of taking bribes, filing false tax returns,racketeering,and forcing his aides to perform chores at his farm in Ohio and onhis houseboatin Washington.The verdict followed four days of deliberations. The nine-termmaverick Democratrepresented himself in court throughout the trial, even though he isnot anattorney....House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Missouri, issued a statementsaying amember of Congress who breaks the law and commits bribery "strikesat the heartof representative government." He advised Traficant to step downfrom office."In light of the gravity of the charges outlined in the guiltyverdict againstMr. Traficant, I think the prudent course of action would be animmediateresignation," Gephardt said. …In 1983, while a county sheriff, Traficant was brought up on federalbriberycharges. During that trial, he also represented himself. That time,however, hewas acquitted.The trial was marked by periodic outbursts by Traficant, who railedagainstprosecutors and Wells.Prosecutors accused him of accepting gifts and favors from severalbusinessmenin his district, including a convicted felon, in return forinterceding on theirbehalf with federal and state agencies.He also was accused of using employees from his office to performwork on hisfarm and boat and requiring them to return a portion of theirsalaries to himeach month. The government alleged that staffers baled hay,maintained horsestalls and performed other chores at Traficant's farm.Other charges accused him of underreporting income on his taxreturns and askingemployees to destroy evidence and provide false testimony after hebecame awarehe was being investigated.""Traficant Expelled – SentencedRep. Traficant of Ohio expelled from House for ethics violationsUpdate:07/30/02Traficant Sentenced to 8 YearsLess than week after being expelled from the U.S. House ofRepresentatives,former Congressman James Traficant of Ohio was sentenced today toeight years infederal prison for his April 11 conviction on charges of bribery,corruption andtax evasion.At his sentencing hearing, Traficant argued that his expulsion fromCongress hadbeen punishment enough. Judge Lesley Wells of the U.S. DistrictCourt inCleveland, disagreed, calling Traficant's expulsion a separatepolitical matter.Judge Wells refused to set bail for Traficant, ordering that serviceof his termshould begin immediately. Denial of bail also sets aside all pendingappeals toTraficant's conviction."source: http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa072502a.htmBill Clinton turned the U.S. Air Force intoAir bin Laden, to support Osama bin Laden's terrorists on theground, who were allied with Al Queda type multinational terroristslinkedhistorically to Iraq in the Balkan War of the 1990s.Clinton waged against Serbian Christians, Jews.Like the Mafia boss of all bosses he fancied himself tobe, as he watched videos of his favorite movie, "The Godfather", anditssequels, Saddam used "cut-outs" to separate himself from hisinternational terrorism, so that he could maintain "plausibledeniability". During the evil war against Serbia of the 1990s theback-stabbing Saddam pretended to embrace the Serbiancause, but secretly engaged in anti-Serbian terrorism in the Balkans."during the night of July 18th -19th ,1998 a group of several hundredheavily armed foreign mercenaries(mostly "mujahideens, "Islamic "holywarriors") frontally attacked from Albania the Yugoslav Army borderguards near the Djeravici mountain. The attack was repulsed by theSerbian troops, and the foreign assailants suffered heavy casualties.Among the dead were six mercenaries from Yemen, five from SaudiArabia, four from Macedonia. A short while later, Yugoslavauthoritiesarrested Nuri Salip Muhamed, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Iraqi Armyashe was trying to enter Yugoslavia illegally from Bulgaria. This Iraqiofficer, who reportedly spoke perfect Serbian, was supposed to havecommanded the July 18th-19th, 1998 terrorist attack from Albania. Butlucky for him, he had not arrived there in time.""September 21st, 2001 U.S. Pro-Israel Stance BlamedThe National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) condemned the recentcomments ofU.S. Rep. James Traficant (D-Ohio), who on Sept. 12 blamed thedeadly terroristassault on America's support for Israel.Traficant, long suspected of mob ties in his hometown of Youngstown,reportedlyhas accepted since 1996 more than $20,000 in campaign donations fromthePeople's Mujahedin Organization of Iran, a group the StateDepartment describesas a front for terrorists.Traficant "is an embarrassment to the Congress, and hiscongressional colleaguesshould marginalize him as much as possible and say publicly that hiswords arebeyond the pale," NJDC Executive Director Ira Forman said."source: http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=7477"Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK)Sazman-e Mojahedin-e Khalq-e IranMujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO)National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA)People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI)Muslim Iranian Student's SocietyNational Council of Resistance (NCR)National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)Descriptionits primary support came from the former Iraqi regime of SaddamHussein sincethe late 1980s. The MEK's history is filled with anti-Westernattacks… Duringthe 1970s, the MEK killed US military personnel and US civilians… In1991, itassisted the Government of Iraq in suppressing the Shia and Kurdishuprisings insouthern Iraq and the Kurdish uprisings in the north…. StrengthSome 3,800 members are confined to Camp Ashraf, the MEK's maincompound nearBaghdad, where they remain under Coalition control. As a conditionof thecease-fire agreement, the group relinquished its weapons, includingtanks,armored vehicles, and heavy artillery….External AidBefore Operation Iraqi Freedom, the group received all of itsmilitaryassistance, and most of its financial support, from the former Iraqiregime.source: http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/mek.htm"There were groups that were pretty scary, but if someone hadthe money, he'd find a way to help them," a former aide says. As bothcongressman and senator, Torricelli has championed the cause of arevolutionary Iranian group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), identifiedby the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization. ManyIranian-born MEK sympathizers have given Torricelli money ($136,000,according to one estimate), including $1,000 from Canada's chief MEKorganizer, who wrote her check to Torricelli from her new home inWashington a week after an Ottawa court upheld her deportation,according to The American Spectator. Torricelli, in turn, sponsoredseveral resolutions and letters supporting the group as a "democraticalternative" to the Muslim fundamentalist regime and protesting U.S.sanctions against it-the Mujahedin advocacy group in America, theNational Council of Resistance, was labeled an "alias for the MEK" bythe State Department and barred from receiving any funds to operateonU.S. soil. The State Department is on solid ground. Although itportrays itself as a democratic grass-roots opposition, the MEKkilledU.S. military attachés in the 1970s and called for restrictions onJewish businesses; its military wing is based in armed camps in Iraq,backed by Saddam Hussein. In the past two years, it has openlyclaimedcredit for the killing of three high-ranking members of the Iraniangovernment, according to congressional testimony by then-AssistantSecretary of State Martin Indyk. Fears about Iranian terrorist-linkeddonors even led Torricelli's staff to joke among themselves about whowould go outside to "start the car to see if it blows up," a sourcerecalls.- Torricelli has also managed to appeal to organizations withvirulent anti-Semitic positions. In 1993, for instance, he was thekeynote speaker at a banquet co-sponsored by the United Associationfor Studies and Research (UASR), an organization identified byanti-terrorism experts and Israeli intelligence officials as thepolitical front for the Hamas terrorist group. Torricelli sat on thedais next to Ahmed Bin Yousef, the head of UASR, who champions theHamas cause. When attacked for his appearance at the banquet duringhis Senate campaign, Torricelli claimed in a news conference that hedidn't know that the UASR was a sponsor or that it was tied to Hamas.Apparently he missed the front-page story in The New York Timesseveral months earlier that exposed its alleged terroristconnections.Torricelli is endlessly creative in trolling for support from ethniccommunities. He founded a congressional Pakistani caucus and told adinner hosted by a Pakistani-American PAC in 1996 exactly what theywanted to hear: "Pakistan cannot be intimidated into acceptingnuclearnonproliferation as was attempted by the U.S. Congress."Clinton raises money for Sen. Torricelli, ignores Lewinsky interviewMarch 4, 1999Web posted at: 12:20 p.m. EST (1720 GMT)NEWARK, New Jersey (AllPolitics, March 4) -- President Bill Clintonattended afund-raiser Wednesday night for Sen. Robert Torricelli that raised$2.15 millionfor the New Jersey Democrat, officials said.A spokesman said the $2.15 million that the $1,000-a-plate dinnerbrought in wasthe most ever raised in a single night for a member of Congress. Thefund-raiserfar exceeded earlier expectations of $1.2 million.Torricelli proved to be a staunch supporter of the presidentthroughout hisSenate impeachment trial. In his speech, Clinton praised thesenator: "He hasbeen my friend in good times and bad and I will never forget it."The fund-raiser took place just before Monica Lewinsky's two-hourinterview onABC with Barbara Walters aired nationally."President Clinton addresses a fundraising reception for SenatorRobertTorricelli, D-NJ, right, at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center inNewark,Wednesday night" You can see the photo of Cllinton and Torricelli atKnowTheEnemy/in the Birds of A Feather photo album athttp://ph.KnowTheEnemy/photosSOURCE:http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/04/clinton.torricelli/Shirley A. Cloyes married Joseph DioGuardi in June 1998 according tothematerial about her excerpted from below in which she is describedas "BalkanAffairs Adviser" to the Albanian American Civic League,whosePresident is JosephDioGuardi, which states that :"In 1983, she coauthored a bookentitled To Workand To Love with German political theologian Dorothee Soelle andjoined thestaff of The Seabury Press as an editor. Following the closure ofthe house in1984, she became marketing director and editorial consultant inBlack andwomen's studies at Orbis Books.In 1986, she joined the staff of Lawrence Hill & Company, anoffshoot of thebreakup of Hill & Wang, as associate publisher. The pressspecialized in AfricanAmerican and African studies, the Middle East, women's studies, andcontroversial domestic and international political issues. WhenLarry Hill diedin 1988, she took over the house and was its publisher until the endof 1995.Some of the noteworthy titles that she published are The Politics ofHeroin: CIAComplicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy, Assata: AnAutobiographyby Assata Shakur, Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa,England, andthe Caribbean by Jan Carew, My Friend, the Enemy by Uri Avnery, andM.I.A. orMythmaking in America by H. Bruce Franklin.In 1995, she published Yugoslavia's Ethnic Nightmare, the first bookon thecauses and far-reaching consequences of the Balkan conflict writtenfrom theperspective of Bosnian Muslim, Croatian, Serbian, and Macedonianjournalists whoopposed the war inside the former Yugoslavia. That year she becamethe BalkanAffairs Adviser to the Albanian American Civic League. She has sincewritten andlectured widely about the Albanian dimension of the Balkan conflictand madeeight trips to the region.Cloyes proposed the first Congressional hearing on the Albaniandimension of theBalkan conflict. Following the hearing in February 1995, whichincludedrepresentatives fromall the Albanian lands in the former Yugoslavia, she and CivicLeague PresidentJoseph DioGuardi traveled with Yugoslav dissident Mihaljo Mihaljovto Macedoniaat the invitation of Albanian leaders there to monitor the reopeningof theAlbanian-language University of Tetova. The Macedonian governmentattacked theuniversity on the morning of their departure, killing a student,woundinghundreds, and jailing the professors. In September of that year, shetraveled toTirana with DioGuardi and Congressman Benjamin Gilman, chair of theHouseCommittee on InternationalRelations, to meet with then President Sali Berisha and to Istanbulto make thecase for thethe independence of Kosova at the National Press center and at theUniversity ofMarmara.Cloyes has testified before Congress at two historic turning pointsin the lifeof the Albanian nation. In July 1996, she testified on behalf of theState ofAlbania before the House Committee on International Relations andexposed therole of Nicholas Gage of the Panepirotic Federation and the AlbanianCommunistsin attempting to overthrow the democratically elected government ofSaliBerisha. In 1998, she testified in support of U.S. troop deploymentin Kosova,following Bob Dole, Jean Kirkpatrick, and Henry Kissinger.In February 1998, after the Serbian army attacked Drenice, Cloyesworked withCNN to gain more complete coverage of the crisis in Kosova. InMarch, she andDioGuardi shifted the focus of a Congressional hearing with U.S.Balkan envoyRobert Gelbard from Bosnia to Kosova, and positioned the questionsthat forcedGelbard to retract his earlier depiction of the KLA as a "terrorist"organization. In August of that year, she published two majorarticles on U.S.foreign policy in the Balkans: "The Agony of Kosova" and "PresidingoverGenocide: The Shame of the West." Cloyes is the author of the CivicLeague'sOctober 1999 public declaration, entitled "Resolving the AlbanianNationalQuestion," which examines the internal and external factors thatstand in theway of creating a free and independent Kosova and bringing a justand lastingpeace to the Balkans.With the start of the NATO bombing campaign against Serbia in March1999, Cloyesand DioGuardi appeared separately and together on more than 50 radioand TVbroadcasts. Since the war ended in June 1999, they have made threetrips toKosova to report back to Congress on postwar conditions.Cloyes and DioGuardi were married in June 1998."SOURCE:http://aacl.com/shirley2.htmlIf the name Assata Shakur in the bio of Mrs. Joseph DioGuardi aboverang anybells with you it is likely that you recall that Assata Shakur isthe alias ofJoanne Chesimard. Recall that the bio of Mrs. Joseph DioGuardi abovestates thatamong "the noteworthy titles that she published" was "Assata: AnAutobiographyby Assata Shakur"For those who may be unfamiliar with Joanne Chesimard a.k.a. AssataShakur thearticle below may be helpful:"Trooper Executed By Female MilitantNew Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster was murdered by JoAnneChesimard. OnMay 2, 1973, New Jersey State Police Troopers James Harper andWerner Foersterwere patrolling the New Jersey Turnpike in the East Brunswick area.They stoppeda car with three occupants and began to question them. The femalepassenger,JoAnne Chesimard, was a member of the Black Liberation Army. Shesuddenly pulledout a semi-automatic pistol and opened fire. Trooper Foerster wasstruck twicein the chest and Trooper Harper was hit in the shoulder. Chesimardthen pickedup Trooper Foerster's service weapon and shot him twice in the head,executionstyle, while he lay in the road.Chesimard then picked up Trooper Foerster's service weapon and shothim twice inthe head, execution style, while he lay in the road.Killer EscapesJoAnne Chesimard, a member of the Black Liberation Army andconvicted murdererChesimard was quickly captured, convicted and sentenced to life plus26 to 33years in prison—authorities wanted to make sure this dangerous womanwould neverroam the streets again. But despite their best efforts, Chesimardwasn't goingto let the law stop her. On November 2, 1979, Chesimard escaped fromprison withthe help of a domestic terrorist group. In the early 1980's, sheresurfaced inCuba under the protection of Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.The Fight For Justice Continues$1 million reward poster for ChesimardTwo generations of New Jersey State Police detectives have beenassigned to thefugitive investigation since Chesimard's escape. Authorities refuseto letChesimard go without a fight—Chesimard has now been placed on all oftheterrorist watch lists and there is a $1 million reward forinformation leadingto her arrest. Authorities hope the reward will destabilizeChesimard's sense ofsecurity inside Cuba and lead to her capture, and subsequently, herreturn toNew Jersey."source:http://www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=31956The terrorist group mentioned above: "the Black Liberation Army"was an offshoot of the original BLACK PANTHER PARTY.Arthur Turco associate Twyman Myers left the BLACK PANTHER PARTYto join "the Black Liberation Army".If you have never heard of Twyman Myers it may be because he is dead.Myers was a young man when he left the BLACK PANTHER PARTY to join"the Black Liberation Army".The article below mentions the late Twyman Myers"30 Years in the Making—Justice at Last for Slain OfficerIn the early hours of 3 November 1971, a young Atlanta policeofficer by thename of Jimmy Greene was ambushed and killed as he sat in his patrolwagoneating his late-night supper. On 13 October 2003—some 32 years later—the manresponsible was found guilty of his murder in Fulton County SuperiorCourt.Freddie Hilton (51) was convicted of murder in the long-ago death ofJimmyGreene in a case prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Al Dixon,SeniorAssistant District Attorney Michele McCutcheon, and Senior AssistantDistrictAttorney Peggy Katz. Atlanta Police Detective Jimmy Rose and SeniorInvestigatorM.C. Cox of the District Attorney's Office investigated the case.JudgeStephanie Manis will sentence Hilton on 10 November, and he faces apossibledouble life sentence in prison.At the time of the murder, Hilton was a member of an organizationknown as the"Black Liberation Army," a militant group infamous for attacks on lawenforcement officers in New York City and across the country. Ahandful of thegroup's members had come to Atlanta after breaking away from theBlack PantherParty in the early 1970s. Hilton was among these.Officer Greene, engaged to be married and the father of one infantdaughter, wassitting in his vehicle at a gas station at the intersection ofMemorial Driveand Boulevard when he was approached by Hilton and his now-dead co-conspiratorTwyman Meyers. Hilton shot Officer Greene three times at closerange, stole hisrevolver and badge, and fled the scene. A witness saw Greene slumpedover in thefront seat and soon realized he had been shot. Greene died two hourslater.Several other former BLA members testified at the trial that Hiltonand Meyersreturned to the group's residence where the pair bragged of thekilling.Shortly after the incident, Atlanta police found a witness who saidhe heardHilton confess to the killing, but then-District Attorney LewisSlaton feltthere was not enough evidence to bring formal charges. So the storyendedthere…or so it seemed.In early 2001, Detective Rose received a call from New York CityPoliceDetective Chris Karolkowski who had come across Hilton as a suspectin a childmolestation case and soon discovered that he had been the primesuspect inGreene's murder. Rose soon re-opened the case, and, with the help ofInvestigator Cox, a Grand Jury indicted Hilton for the murder inJuly of lastyear. (Incidentally, Rose and Cox received the National Associationof PoliceOrganizations' highest honor last year for their work on the case.)Hilton, whohad changed his name to Kamau Sadiki and was now working intelecommunicationsin New York, was brought back to Atlanta to face trial.Aside from justice for Officer Greene, perhaps the most positiveaspect of thispainful incident was the re-uniting of Greene's long-estrangeddaughter MelodyAdams (now 34) of North Carolina with aunts and uncles she had neverknown.Hearing about the trial in the news, Adams traveled to Atlanta tosit in on thetrial and soon revealed her identity to other family members inattendance. Afamily long-separated by a brutal crime was now re-united."SOURCE:http://www.fultonda.org/featuredarticle/30years.htmThe Albanian Connection; As Italians Move Up, a New Group Does thePizza and Pasta source: THE NEW YORK TIMESMore information. April 3, 2001, TuesdayBy DEXTER FILKINS (NYT); Metropolitan DeskLate Edition - Final, Section B, Page 1, Column 2,DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - Americans becoming owners of Italian-Americanrestaurants and pizza parlors in New York City and surrounding area;various reasons cited"Hillary Clinton has long masqueraded as a champion of women'srights, yet theBalkan Wars perpetrated by her husband Bill Clinton , far fromhelping therights of women, actually harmed women."Sex Slaves: Trafficking in human beings from Moldova to Italy…the West has helped to create the demand, by stationing tens ofthousands oftroops in the Balkans. Not all of these sex slaves' clients aresoldiers andinternational workers, but their presence has greatly fuelled thedemand forbrothels in the Balkans. Certainly, the volume of trafficking,which picked upin the spring of 1999 as soon as Nato troops arrived in Macedonia inanticipation of military strikes against Yugoslavia [1], has greatlyincreasedsince the Kosovo war. Finally, the West has helped to create thelink betweenthe supply and the demand by supporting, in the Kosovo war, the veryAlbanianMafia which now controls this market. The fact that there is somuch reportingnow on the matter of sex slaves may be an indication that the powersthat be inthe West are beginning to ditch those whom they portrayed during thespring of1999 as passive and innocent victims….It is clear that the Albanian Mafia controls prostitution in Italy,and that avery large number of prostitutes there are effectively slaves.Although not allthe girls in Italy are from Moldova – many come from Nigeria andAlbania – ithas been affirmed by one of the leading authorities on prostitutionthat theyare kept in captivity. "All the women currently on the streets (ofItaly) areslaves. The proof is that the Nigerians, the Albanians, theRomanians and thewomen from Eastern European countries all have their passports takenaway bytheir pimps. There is not one metre of street in which prostitutionis notcontrolled by criminals," according to Don Oreste Benzi, a priest inVerona whohas founded a charity which works with prostitutes. Benzi goeson, "TheAlbanians operate in family clans, in `joint ventures' with theMafia in EasternEurope and Italy. No new pimp can start operating in Italy withoutpaying apercentage to the person who already controls the territory. Anymistakes arepunished by death. For the Albanians, vendetta is second nature:the conceptof forgiveness does not exist."[7] According to Benzi's charity, theAssociation of the Community of Pope John XXIII, 48% of theprostitutes in Italyare from Eastern Europe; 35%-40% are minors (from 12 to 18 yearsold); and 26%have been kidnapped and taken from their countries of origin byforce.[8]source:http://www.bhhrg.org/CountryReport.asp?ReportID=160 & CountryID=16Hillary Clinton has also masqueraded as someone concerned aboutChildren'sRights. Once again, the Balkan Wars perpetrated by her husband BillClintonactually harmed children too."Sexual exploitation of childrenAn especially appalling aspect of the trade in human beings is thesexualexploitation of children. BHHRG representatives interviewed MarianaPetersel,the Director of Save the Children in Moldova, whose organisation hasstarted tohouse and rehabilitate young women and girls who have been forcedinto sexslavery. The youngest victim with which they have dealt was nineyears old.260 victims of sex slavery have been housed and helped by Save theChildrenduring 2000. They had been in various Balkans countries: Kosovo,Albania,Macedonia, Italy, and Greece.References for further reading:Trafficking in Migrants,http://www.iom.int/iom/Publications/trafficking_in_migrants.htmPino Arlacchi, Schiavi, Il nuovo traffico di esseri umani, Rizzoli,Milan, May1999Don Oreste Benzi, Una nuovà schiavtù: la prostituzione coata,PaolineEditoriale Libri, 1999Sandro Provvisionato, UKC: l'armata dell'ombra: l'esercito diliberazione delKosovo. Una guerra tra mafia, politica e terrorismo, GamberettiEditrice, Rome,2000.[1] Giuseppe Rolli, Le schiave dei soldati di pace, Il Manifesto,18th April2000[2] The Current Situation on Trafficking in Women in the Republic ofMoldova,unpublished report by Ala Mîndîcanu, Member of the MoldovanParliament.[3] Marion van Renterghem, Filles esclaves venues de l'Est, LeMonde, 1stDecember 2000[4] Eastern Europe's Impoverished Girls Fall Prey to Sex Trade,Albanian DailyNews, 5th October 2000[5] Tino Oldani, Tirana? Come una Colombia sotto casa, Panorama,1st July 1999[6] Ibid.[7] Don Oreste Benzi, Le prostitute sono schiave: ecco la prova,http://www.mess-s-antonio.it/msahome/ita/riviste/rivnaz/a2000/Ott/Art/53%20Prost\itute.htm[8] Presidente Ciampi, Ecco come fare per sconfiggere il racket dellaprostituzione,http://www.exodus.it/ASSOCIAZIONI/AP23/sempre/00ott/00ott03.html.[9] The Italian Finance Minister, Ottavanio del Turco, has alsorecentlyattacked the Mafia activities of the Montengrin president, MiloDjukanovi & #263;.See La Repubblica, 12th January 2001source:http://www.bhhrg.org/CountryReport.asp?ReportID=160 & CountryID=16Wednesday, 2 August, 2000, 12:58 GMT 13:58 UKItaly's sexual slave tradeMany prostitutes in Italy come from AlbaniaIn the first of two special reports, the BBC's Brian Barroninvestigates Italy'sclandestine trade in sexual slaves and the Albanian criminals behindthebusiness.It is estimated that there could be more than 40,000 foreignprostitutes on thestreets of Italy - and the numbers are increasing.The streetwalkers venture out every night after 10, on the edge ofbig citieslike Rome.Each trip was awful but that was my choice. If I returned toAlbania I wasdead.ProstituteIn the Eor district, they are Albanian or from other formercommunist countries.Most are controlled by Albanian mafia gangsters. A handful havetravelled toItaly through their own efforts.One streetwalker whose identity must be kept secret recalls herparticularjourney."I came by boat," she says."I was smuggled in. I had tried four times. It was a horrible trip.""It was winter, cold and raining. It was a terrible risk. I saw deadpeople withmy own eyes.""Each trip was awful but that was my choice. If I returned toAlbania I wasdead.""Dead or alive - this was my only choice."Tarantelli: Women are held in slaveryThe former Italian MP, Carol Bebbe Tarantelli, says that the womenare slaves."They are brought here," she says."Their passports are destroyed often, usually as a matter of factthey aretortured to break their wills.""They're moved around from place to place so they don't know wherethey are.They don't speak the language.""They're terrified and they can't escape. They're held in slavery."PovertyFor many of the girls, the journey began in their Albanian homeland.In Durres, most people are out of work, surviving on remittancesfrom relativesabroad, like the girls on the streets of Italy.In its poverty and human desperation it is typical of countlessAlbaniancommunities.Once Albania was an all-powerful communist police state. It is now acountrybeyond the rule of law.The police chief of Durres, Colonel Albert Pilo, is having adifficult timestamping out the smuggling of young girls.Durres: Lawlessness and poverty prevail"We have had some success against traffickers in prostitutes," hesays."We've arrested at least three. But a big problem is what to do withthe girlscaught up in the system, especially if they come from outsideAlbania.""The fact is we do not have any organisation for helping them.""At times we've had to keep the girls in prison because there'snowhere for themto go."Dramatic pictures, taken two years ago, show one of the speedboatsof theAlbanian mafia being intercepted by Italian security forces.An Albanian mafia speedboat with its human cargo heads for ItalyIt was trying to land a batch of illegal immigrants on Italy'sAdriatic coast.Boxes of drugs were thrown overboard as the gangsters, travelling at60 miles anhour, evaded the helicopters and ships trying to encircle them.On the coast at Lecce, the Italian Justice Ministry, working with aCatholiccharity, has launched another kind of assault on the Albanian mafia.In one camp for illegal immigrants, Father Cesari helps run awitness protectionprogramme for former prostitutes from Albania and Eastern Europe.Hope for some of the women in the witness protection programme"The choice of denouncing their pimps is an act of responsibility,"he says."It's not an easy decision to make. So these girls must have thecourage to doit."To cut all ties with the past. By pointing the finger at those whoabuse themthere is the chance that some of the guilty will be brought tojustice."Eighty girls have collaborated. They have been rewarded with theright to remainin Italy and, when necessary, new identities.However, 500 declined because they were afraid of the godfathers.source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/862942.stm"February 2001In The Money: Congressman James Traficant And HisCampaignContributorsBy James Ridgway de SzigethyConvicted associates of the Pittsburgh Mafia Family, Mafia-corrupted laborUnions and Middle Eastern political operatives are among those whohavecontributed to the past two re-election campaigns of CongressmanJamesTraficant, an analysis of Federal Election Commission recordsreveals. Theserecords, which are required filings under Federal Election law,reveal 219donations by individuals and 212 donations by Unions and PoliticalActionCommittees. 47 of the personal contributions came from outside theState ofOhio, with 35 of those from the State of Virginia. 38 are fromindividuals thatindicate a Middle Eastern background of the contributor. Amongthecontributors whose names would probably be recognized by mostYoungstownresidents are Ed Flask, Mark Colucci, David Sugar, Anthony Saadey,RussellSaadey, Jr., Sam Traficanti, and fireworks businessmen Bruce Zoldanand GeraldBostocky. Among the contributors whose names would probably NOTberecognized by most Youngstown residents are Virginia residents AliAsgharAbbaszadeh, Reza Bulochi, Massud Mirmohammaoi, Ramesh Sepehrrad, andJavadVaziri, Samir Mohammad, Ammar Shafai, and Homayoun Nasser Sharif,Georgiaresident Hossein Shamsai, Massachusetts residents Mahaz Nasseri andHesseinSadeghpour, Kansas City's Sajadi Sacid, Maryland's Cyrus Samet andMahmoudTabassi, and San Diego's Mohammad Bigdeli. Russell Saadey Jr.,a formerinvestigator for the District Attorney's office in Youngstown, wasindicted lastDecember on charges he bribed Judges to fix Court cases. EdFlask accepteda plea bargain last year in which he pleaded guilty to felonycharges in regardsto his rip-off of nearly $2 million while running the public waterutility inYoungstown. Flask first received notoriety during the 1983 Federalbribery trialof then-Sheriff James Traficant, when it was revealed that ClevelandMafiaassociate Charlie "The Crab" Carabbia had secretly tape recordedTraficantbragging about how he laundered through Flask's law office part ofthe $163,000in bribe money he accepted from the Mafia. Those same tapes revealedthatCarabbia was blackmailing Flask with "compromising photographs ofFlask whichwould ensure his silence!" Just days later, Carabbia was abductedand murdered.B & T Express employee Sam Traficanti was present during some of thesecret tape-recorded meetings between the Carabbia brothers and Sheriff-electTraficant,but was not charged. Two of Traficanti's fellow employees at B & TExpress alsodonated to Traficant's campaign records show. Traficanti is notrelated toCongressman Traficant. Last September, the Congressman's employeeAnthonyTraficanti was subpoenaed by the Federal Grand Jury inCleveland.Congressman Traficant has also received campaign contributions fromYoungstownresident Walter Terlecki. In recent months, Congressman Traficanthas enteredinto the Congressional Record sworn affidavits by Michael "Beef"Terlecky, aformer Mahoning County Deputy Sheriff who was convicted of takingbribes fromthe Mafia. Terlecky now claims that he was set up by some of the sameauthorities that are now involved in the investigation ofCongressman Traficant,including two public figures who attended an anti-Mafia summitmeeting recentlyin Palermo, Sicily. The Congressman has denied a request by thechairman of theMahoning County Board of Elections who is seeking information theCongressmanclaims to have regarding Mafia bribes to the campaigns of electedofficials inYoungstown. Terlecky also claims that it was he who found theinfamousCarabbia tapes months before the FBI during an illegal search andseizureregarding an investigation into the murder of yet another YoungstownMafiafigure, Joe DeRose. However, conversations on the Carabbia tapesthat includeremarks made by Sam Traficanti clearly indicate that the tapes wererecordedmonths later than Terlecky's claims, when Traficant had just beenelectedSheriff. Congressman Traficant is also now claiming that an FBIagent inYoungstown was taking bribes from the Mafia 38 years ago in1962. Duringthe 1999 Federal bribery trial of Youngstown Sheriff Philip Chancefireworksdistributor Bruce Zoldan testified that Chance shook him downfor `tributemoney' to Pittsburgh Mafia figure Lenny Strollo. Zoldan's first run-in withChance was in 1983, when Sheriff Traficant and his Deputy Chanceraided Zoldan'sfireworks business two days before their busiest moneymaking period,the Fourthof July. Zoldan would also testify that the Gambino Family led byJohn Gottiextorted a huge sum of money from him in order to do business in NewYork. Themurder of Mafia figure Joey Naples, who was among those whocontributed to the$163,000 bribe to Traficant, is believed to be a result of the fightfor controlof the fireworks business. David Sugar pleaded guilty last yeartoObstruction of Justice charges in regards to his attempts to concealevidencefrom the Grand Jury in Cleveland investigating financial dealingsbetween Sugar,his construction company, and Congressman Traficant. Sugar isexpected totestify against Traficant at any future criminal proceedings, as isTraficant'sformer employee on his horse farm, Clarence Broad. In November oflast year,Broad pleaded guilty to charges he tried to hire a hitman to murdera woman whowas expected to give damaging testimony against Traficant before theGrand Juryin Cleveland. Criminal attorney Mark Colucci, who also is amongthose who havegiven money to Traficant's campaign, responded by alleging inFederal Court thatProsecutor Craig Morford had used coercion to force Broad to pleadguilty. JudgeDonald Nugent was not impressed with Colucci's unsubstantiatedclaims andthreatened to cite Colucci for Contempt of Court. In 1998 and2000Traficant accepted donations from controversial activist JamesZogby, Presidentof the Arab American Institute. Zogby was recently in the news lastOctober,when his appointment as an Advisor to the Al Gore campaign sparkedoutrageworldwide among supporters of Israel. The Jerusalem Post quotedterrorism expertSteven Emerson: "Zogby has not only made comments that areincendiary but he hasalso made comments that are anti-Semitic!(Zogby has) openlysupported theHizbullah!" Emerson is renown for his investigation of the terroristbombing ofPan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland inDecember, 1988,killing 270 people, including 35 Syracuse University students.On June 29,1993, Senator John McCain entered into the Congressional Record apublicchallenge to the FBI and the Justice Department to share informationon thePeople's Mujahidin Organization of Iran, a suspected terroristorganization thatwas involved in a clandestine effort to influence public policythrough anorganized campaign of directing contributions to the campaigns ofselectedmembers of Congress. Said the Senator: "Given the charges made in aprevious FBIreport that the PMOI has a history of terrorism, an anti-Westernideology, andties to the regime of Saddam Hussein, this should be a matter ofconcern to allMembers." In 1997 The Iran Report, a publication of the MiddleEast DataProject, identified four members of Congress as recipients ofcampaign donationsfrom alleged associates of the PMOI. Those four were RobertTorricelli of NewJersey, Gary Ackerman of New York, Dan Burton of Indiana and JamesTraficant ofOhio. To date, none of these individuals have been charged withmaking illegalcampaign contributions. However, Senator Torricelli is currently inthe newsdefending himself against a Chinese fundraiser named David Chang,who haspleaded guilty to illegally contributing $53,000 to Torricelli's1996 campaign.Numerous recent Media reports show that the Feds are now nearing theconclusionof an investigation that began with reports of impropriety regardingcontributions to Torricelli's 1996 campaign. CongressmanTraficant hasdeveloped a huge following in the Arab and Muslim countries in theMiddle Eastbecause of his passionate public support for accused terroristsAbdel Basset AliMohmed Al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, indicted for thebombing of Pan AmFlight 103, and former auto worker John Demjanjuk, who was placed ontrial inIsrael on charges he was "Ivan the Terrible," a Nazi concentrationcamp guardresponsible for the murders of thousands of Jews during World WarII. Demjanjukwas convicted and sentenced to death, although the Israeli SupremeCourt laterreversed his conviction. Congressman Traficant then flew to Israelto personallyescort the accused murderer back to the United States. In thecase of theterrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, Traficant first went publicin thismatter at a press conference in 1989, at which he claimed that thebombing wasthe result of a joint Syrian/CIA operation. ABC News Londoncorrespondent PierreSalinger then picked up the story, utilizing Traficant, governmentinformantLester Coleman, and private investigator Juval Aviv as his sources.Colemanlater pleaded guilty to Perjury charges and admitted his Pan Am/CIAstory was ahoax. Juval Aviv was placed on trial in 1996 in Manhattan on Federalfraudcharges unrelated to the Pan Am case. He was acquitted. UponAviv'sindictment Congressman Traficant found a replacement in Boris deKorczak as hislead researcher in his quest to prove his Pan Am 103 theory. Borisis best knownfor the lawsuit he filed in 1996 against the CIA in which he claimedhe had beenrecruited by the CIA as a double agent against the KGB, thathis `cover' hadbeen blown by a drunken U. S. official which resulted in a shoot-outwith theKGB during a car chase through the streets of Copenhagen, and thathis CIA caseOfficer extorted from him a bribe of Russian Medieval icons worth$300,000 inexchange for the promise of help in obtaining the pension he claimedwas owedhim. Boris claims he turned over the bribe, only to be shot in thekidney 4months later by an unknown assailant armed with a pellet gun. TheCIA deniedBoris' claims he was owed monetary compensation and also denied anyof itsemployees shot Boris with a pellet gun. Boris' lawsuit was dismissedand thedecision was upheld on Appeal. Despite the efforts of Traficantand hisassociates to prove their conspiracy theory, Abdel Basset Ali MohmedAl-Megrahiwas recently convicted as the terrorist who planted the bomb thatdestroyed PanAm Flight 103. Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah was acquitted. Inaddition toreceiving campaign money from convicted Mafia figures and MiddleEasternpolitical operatives, FEC documents also detail contributions made toTraficant's campaign from Unions that have been involved incorruption scandalsin recent years. Those Unions include the American Federation ofState, County, & Municipal Employees, the Communications Workers of America, theTransportWorkers Union, and the UFCW. Traficant has also receiveddonations from theItalian-American Democratic Leadership Council, the Al Gore forPresidentcampaign, and the National Education Association Fund for Childrenand PublicEducation. Ironic is the $12,000 donated to Traficant by theAssociation ofTrial Lawyers, as Traficant is one of the few people without a lawdegree tohave ever beaten a Federal racketeering trial by acting as his ownattorney.When Sheriff Traficant was arrested by the FBI in 1982, he signed aconfessionafter agents played for him excerpts from the Carabbia tapes.Traficant thenhired one of the best attorneys in the business, Carmen Policy, EdFlask'spartner, who is today the President of the Cleveland Brownsprofessionalfootball team. However, after Traficant went public with chargesthat just aboutevery public official in Youngstown was involved with the Mafia,Policy dumpedTraficant as his client. Traficant then made a bold – and some wouldsay insane– decision to renounce his confession and stand trial, acting as hisownattorney. Traficant explained to the jury that he only accepted theMafia bribemoney so he would know whom to arrest for corruption once electedSheriff. Afterfour days of deliberations, the jury returned a verdict that stunnedtheProsecutors and journalists that covered the trial; Not Guilty.Traficant thenturned the publicity over his acquittal to his advantage and waselected toCongress in 1984. However, three years later he was again in Court,facing civilcharges that he owed taxes on the $163,000 in Mafia bribes.Representing him wasattorney George Alexander, who has since been convicted ofracketeering with theMafia. As in the O. J. Simpson case, Traficant was convicted in hiscivil trialand ordered to pay back taxes, fines, and interest. For manymonths now,Traficant has been predicting during public appearances that heexpects to beindicted - again - by the Federal authorities in Cleveland who haveto dateconvicted over 70 public officials, many of whom are associates ofthePittsburgh Mafia Family. James Ridgway de Szigethy can be reached atJAMESDE.source: http://www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_121.htmlhttp://www.tenc.net/analysis/whyis.htmTo receive articles from Emperor's Clothes, athttp://tenc.net/MailList/index.phpWhy is Joe DioGuardi so happy?by Jared Israel[27 February 2000]Here's John McCain at a campaign rally with Joseph DioGuardi, aformerCongressman and head of the Albanian political action committeewhich raisedhuge amounts for American politicians (for instance, Bob Dole) whoin turn havesupported the on-going attacks on Serbia.Notice the scarf DioGuardi is wearing. That double-headed eagle wasthe insigniaof the World War II Nazi Skanderbeg SS division. (See document onleft; click toenlarge.) Among other achievements, this Nazi outfit massacredKosovo's Jews inthe streets of Pristina and shipped the survivors to the Bergen-Belsen andTreblinka death camps.Why is McCain holding Presidential campaign rallies with this manwho proudlysports a Nazi emblem? And why is DioGuardi so happy?www.tenc.net/yugo.htmEmperor's Clothes articles dealing with media misinformation andthe breakup ofYugoslavia"MONEY FROM THE AMERICAN MUSLIM ALLIANCEit is no wonder that the American Muslim Alliance chapter inMassachusetts heldwhat it called a "successful fundraiser" for First Lady HillaryClinton at thePark Plaza Hotel in Boston on June 13, 2000. AMA Massachusetts ChairTahir Alisaid afterwards, "We are attempting to send an important message toall AMAchapters: we must support all who have [Muslim] interests at heart,regardlessof what part of the country they are running in."EMERSON'S TESTIMONYAccording to Steve Emerson, a well-known investigative journalistspecializingin militant Islamic organizations, the AMA's leaders "havesanctioned terrorism,published anti-Semitic statements, and repeatedly hosted conferencesthat wereforums for denunciations of Jews and exhortations to wage jihad."Faced withpressure on the matter, Mrs. Clinton announced on Oct. 25th that shewasreturning the $50,000 in campaign contributions raised for her bythe AMA. Shefailed to give a credible explanation as to why it took her morethan fourmonths from June 13th until October 25th until she saw itnecessary toreturn the money.Mr. Emerson, in a recent Wall Street Journal article, noted: "Asfirst lady,Mrs. Clinton began in 1996 an outreach program to Muslim leaders inthe U.S.With America's Muslim population at some six million and growing, aneffort toinclude the community's leaders in the mainstream of Americanpolitics isunquestionably a worthy undertaking. But curiously, nearly all ofthe leaderswith whom Mrs. Clinton elected to meet came from Islamicfundamentalistorganizations. A review of the statements, publications andconferences of th Mrs. Clinton embraced shows unambiguously that they have longadvocatedor justified violence. By meeting with these groups, the first ladylent themlegitimacy as "mainstream" and "moderate"."But this should not be unexpected, considering Mrs. Clinton's pastradicalaffiliations. During the 1980's, ultra-liberal lawyer Hillary Rodham-Clintonserved on the board of the New World Foundation, which funneledmoney to thePalestine Liberation Organization, at a time when the PLO wasofficiallyrecognized by the United States as a terrorist organization.Similarly, in February 1996, Hillary hosted a reception at the WhiteHouse forleaders of Hamas-supporting groups such as the American MuslimCouncil and theCouncil on American-Islamic Relations. And in January, 1998, Hillaryhostedanother White House reception honoring Muslim leaders and the MuslimPublicAffairs Council who defended militant Islamic fundamentalism andalso supportedradical Islamic groups.THE REAL HILLARYThis, then, is the real Hillary Rodham-Clinton. An ambitious womanwilling toutter any banal cliche on behalf of "Israel's security" to placateunaware NewYork Jewish voters, but one whose pre-Senate race record on Israelis appalling.It's a record of supporting the terrorist PLO, even before the 1993signing ofthe first Oslo Agreement on the White House lawn, of ignoringblatant calumnyheaped on Israel by Suha Arafat, of supporting the creation of aPalestinian PLOState, of hosting and legitimizing extremist Islamic groups in theUnitedStates. Most recently, it included taking campaign contributionsfrom these verysame evil, anti-Semitic organizations - until being caught with herhand in theextremist Islamic cookie jar. This is the very same Hillary Rodham-Clinton whonow claims to be Israel's friend."SOURCE: http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/hillarSy.htmYou can see actual photos of arafat's uncle,Haj Mohammad Amin al-Husseini,the grand mufti of Jerusalem, and others :Kofi and Nasrallah, boss of HezbollahAFAFAT'S UNCLE THE MUFTI WITH ISLAMIC NAZISARAFAT'S UNCLE THE MUFTI WITH FELLOW NAZISARAFAT'S UNCLE THE MUFTI WITH MOSLEM SSThe Mufti and HitlerHimmler with a Moslem SS DivisionJoe DioguardiHillary Clinton Kissing Arafat's WifeatKnowTheEnemy/http://ph.KnowTheEnemy/photosHillary Clinton Kissing Arafat's Wife may also be seen at:http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/hillarSy.htmarafat's uncle,Haj Mohammad Amin al-Husseini,the grand mufti ofJerusalem raisedthree Moslem nazi SS divisions for Hitler during World War Two. Twoof thoseMoslem SS divisions were Bosnian, the third was Albanian. TheAlbanian Moslem SSDivision was called the SS Division from which would spring thenotoriousso-called"KLA" Kosovo Liberation Army, a.k.a. UCK in Albanian.The children and grandchildren of the Albanian Moslem SS Divisionbecame the so-called "KLA"....""HILLARY RUSHED TO SUPPORT PALESTINIAN STATEAnd Hillary Rodham-Clinton? Well, in May 1998, she told a youthconference onMiddle East peace in Villars, Switzerland, that she supports theeventualcreation of an independent Palestinian state. Her spokesperson,Marsha Berrytold reporters: ""These remarks are her own personal view." Then, inNovember1999, while on a purported State visit to the Middle East, shepublicly appearedwith Yasser Arafat's wife Suha. With Hillary at her side, SuhaArafat made thedeliberately false allegation that "Our [Palestinian] people havebeen submittedto the daily and intensive use of poisonous gas by the Israeliforces, which hasled to an increase in cancer cases among women and children." Mrs.Arafat alsoaccused Israel of contaminating much of the water sources used byPalestinianswith "chemical materials" and poisoning Palestinian women andchildren withtoxic gases.Instead of reacting with outrage, Hillary Clinton sat by silently -and gave hera hug and a kiss when she finished speaking. Later, many hours afterthe event,and only after a media furor put her on the spot for what many viewas a bitmore than a mere political "faux pas", Mrs. Clinton called on "allsides" torefrain from "inflammatory rhetoric and baseless accusations" -includingIsrael, whose leaders made no such accusations. Glossing over thisremarkablyrepugnant affair, Mrs. Clinton has yet to specifically contradictand denouncethe monstrous lies uttered by Yasser Arafat's wife in her presence."SOURCE: http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/hillarSy.htmthe following item is excerpted from:More Than Sex: The Secrets of Bill and Hillary Clinton Revealed byArkansasState TrooperNewsMax.comSeptember 14, 1999Washington - An Arkansas State Trooper who once guarded Bill Clintonhasrevealed startling new information about Bill and Hillary RodhamClinton.Trooper Larry Patterson, a recently retired 32-year veteran of thestate police,had been the most senior member of the elite Governor's SecurityDetail duringthe period Bill Clinton served as Governor. During that time,Patterson becameprivy to Bill and Hillary Clinton's most closely guarded secrets.Patterson toldhis story exclusively to NewsMax.com and Internet Vortex.NewsMax.com haspublished More than Sex: The Secrets of Bill and Hillary ClintonRevealed — atwo-hour audio cassette tape of Christopher Ruddy's interview withTrooper LarryPatterson. In More than Sex Patterson makes bombshell revelations,some of whichhave never been disclosed before:Organized Crime. The press has ignored reporting of this criticalissue, butPatterson says Clinton had a close relationship with the head of theDixieMafia—Arkansas' homegrown organized crime family that has grown inrecent yearsthrough drug trafficking. Patterson said Clinton regularly receivedgifts fromthe reputed mob boss.Ethnic Slurs about Jews. Both Hillary and Bill Clinton frequentlyused slursduring heated arguments with each other, Patterson said. Among theepithets theyfrequently hurled at each other were anti-Semitic slurs suchas `mother f---in'Jew' or `Jew bastard'. Patterson said such references were heardfrequentlyduring the years he served the Clintons. Patterson said Clintonloved tellingethnic jokes and frequently told jokes that were anti-Semitic.The use of the "N" word. Patterson said Bill Clinton would use theword "n--ger"— the "N" word — when he was angry with African-American opponents.He recallsthe use of the word in describing a black, Arkansas activist whowas criticalof Clinton. Patterson said Clinton also used the "N" word during the1992campaignHitler and Mein Kampf. Bill Clinton, Patterson said, spokeadmiringly of Hitlerand was fascinated by his book Mein Kampf.source:http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/9/13/220611Jerusalem, November 10, 1999Fooling the JewsWOMEN IN GREEN, among whose members there are many voters from NewYork whohave dual citizenship, will protest against the visit of HillaryClinton.We will be outside the Tel Aviv Museum, Shaul HaMelech Boulevard andWeizman Street in Tel Aviv, at 19:15 to voice our opposition tothis "new"and dubious friend of Israel.Hillary Clinton is one smart lady. She wants to be President.Therefore,she will say anything to any particular Group that will lend itselftoobtaining that set objective. She strategically chose the upcomingSenatorial race in New York as the first stepping stone towardsreachingher presidential goal. However, New York has an important Jewishvote andthat is a hurdle that she must leap over and "handle".The difficulty for Hillary is that she has never been a friend ofIsrael.She has publicly come out for a Palestinian State, which as asophisticatedand smart lady she knows would threaten Israel's very existence.She verywell knows that hatred of Jews and Israel even now is an essentialpart ofArafat's educational system; moreover, Arafat's hate propaganda inhisMedia includes praise of the bomb makers who specialize in blowing upIsrael's buses. Yet she has never leveled one word of criticismagainstArafat in that or any other regard, or for that matter against anyArab.Her Arab guest list at the White House has included American Arableaderswho are sympathetic to and support terrorist Hamas. She could findnothingabout Israel to publicly admire throughout the many years that shehas beenin the White House.But to garner the Jewish vote in New York she has to appear to tonedownher bias in favor of the Arabs, and make some Jewish "gestures".She nowlets out of the family closet the inconsequential news that hergrandmother's second husband was a Jew. And of course for these NewYorkvoters, she is making the proscribed visit to Israel. After allthese yearsshe suddenly awakened to recognize the status of Jerusalem; sherecentlytold the Jews that Jerusalem is Israel's eternal capital; however,she isnot in favor of moving the U.S. Embassy to that capital. In that sheisconsistent with her husband who broke his previous campaign promisetomove it. Her track record insures that she too will not keepwhateverpromises she makes to the Jews in order to get into the Senate. Ifelected, she would be the most pro-Arab Senator New York has everhad.Unmasked, Hillary Clinton has proven herself again and again to havelittlesympathy and understanding for Israel and the Jewish People.Don't befooled by the Jewish "appointees" of her husband. Albright, Bergerand thelike are Jews in name only, who lack loyalty to the Jewish People.Norshould you be "taken in" by her deceptive sweet talk. Hillary'svisit toIsrael is just part and parcel of her New York campaign.Ruth and Nadia Matarsource: http://www.womeningreen.org/saynov99.htmhttp://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2002/8/Marwan%20Barghouti%20Indic\tment%20-%20Appendix-%20TerroristBLACK LIBERATION ARMYAliases: Afro-American Liberation ArmyBase of Operation: United StatesFounding Philosophy: The Black Liberation Army was a militantsplinter group ofthe Black Panther Party. Breaking away from the Black Panthers inthe late1960s, the stated philosophy of the BLA was to "take up arms for theliberationand self-determination of black people in the United States."In the 1970s the BLA was responsible for numerous domestic criminalacts,including bank and armored car robberies. In one of their morefamous exploits,members of the BLA freed fellow BLA member Joanne Chesimard fromprison whereshe was serving a life sentence for the murder of a state trooper.Chesimardfled to Cuba, where she is still living, and the US government hasoffered areward of $1 million dollars for her capture. Members of the BLAwere alsocharged in various terrorist plots including a plan to firebombdepartmentstores in New York. In 1981, four members of the BLA were convictedfor variouscharges including murder and armed robbery in a failed heist of aBrinks armoredcar, which left one guard and two police officers dead. On March 25,1984, a manclaiming to be "Lieutenant Spartacus" of the "Black LiberationArmy," hijacked aPiedmont airlines jet with 58 passengers on board. The plane flew toCuba where"Lieutenant Spartacus" found asylum.SOURCE: http://www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=3708excerpted from:"Hillary Clinton and "The Third Way" How America's First Lady of theLeft HasBamboozled Liberals and Conservatives AlikeBy David HorowitzFrontPageMagazine.com | June 22, 2000My subject is Hillary Clinton in her role as America's foremostleftist.....It is this same idea that is found in the Social Gospel whichimpressed theyouthful Hillary Clinton at the United Methodist Church in ParkRidge, Illinois.She later encountered the same idea in the New Left at Yale and intheVenceremos Brigade in Communist Cuba..."David Horowitz is the authorof numerousbooks including an autobiography, Radical Son, which has beendescribed as "thefirst great autobiography of his generation," and which chronicleshis odyssey."Your Feedback on these items would be appreciated"Slain Israeli Professor Saved Others in Va. Tech Massacreby Gil Ronen(April 17th, 2007 c.e.)(IsraelNN.com) As Israel observed Holocaust Day, thousands of milesaway, A Rumanian-born Holocaust survivor gave his life in anothersenseless murder - and apparently in an act of heroism.Among the 32 people killed by a lone gunman at Virginia Tech Monday(April 16th, 2007 c.e.)is 77-year-old engineering professor, Liviu Librescu, a citizen ofIsrael. According to eyewitness accounts, Librescu ran to the doorof his classroom and blocked it with his body – preventing thegunman from entering but getting shot to death himself as a result.Alec Calhoun, a 20-year-old student who had been in Librescu's classin room 204, told a reporter that at 9:05 a.m. the heard screams anda loud banging sound from the next-door classroom. When the studentsrealized it was gunfire, he said, some hid behind tables, and othersleapt from the classroom's windows. Calhoun himself was among thelast to jump. "Before I jumped from the window, I turned around andlooked at the professor, who stayed behind, maybe to block the door.He had been killed."Librescu is survived by his wife of 42 years, Marlena, who was withhim in Virginia, and sons Aryeh and Joe who are in Israel. Theyintend to bury him in Israel.Asael Arad, an Israeli student who visited the widow after thetragedy, told Army Radio Tuesday that Marlena had been receiving e-mails from students who credited Prof. Librescu with saving theirlives. "I lost my best friend," the widow told a reporter for NRG ather home near the Blacksburg campus. "He was a great person, wholoved teaching more than anything." Marlena said someone hadinitially informed her that her husband was injured in theshooting. "I looked for him in the hospitals all day but I didn'tfind him," she said.The Librescus are Rumanian Jews who came on aliyah (immigrated toIsrael) in 1978 – after then-Prime Minister Begin interceded ontheir behalf with the Rumanian government, according to Marlena. Thecouple went on a sabbatical to the United States since 1986 and hasbeen living there ever since.http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/122137Liviu LibrescuProfessorOffice318 Norris HallBlacksburg, VA 24061540/231-5916llibresc (AT) vt (DOT) eduhttp://www.esm.vt.edu/~llibrescInterests:Foundation and applications of the modern theory of shellsincorporating non-classical effects and composed of advancedcomposite materials; Foundation of the theory and applications ofsandwich type structures; Aeroelastic stability of flight vehiclestructures;. Nonlinear aeroelasticity of structures in supersonicand hypersonic flow fields; Aeroelastic and structural tailoring;Dynamic response and instability of elastic and viscoelasticlaminated composite structures subjected to deterministic and randomloading systems; Mechanical and thermal postbuckling of flat andcurved shear-deformable elastic panels; Static, dynamic andaeroelastic feedback control of adaptive structures; Unsteadyaerodynamics and magnetoaerodynamics of supersonic flows withapplications; Optimization problems of aeroelastic structuralsystems; Theory of composite thin-walled beams and its applicationin aeronautical and mechanical constructions; Response and behaviorof structures to underwater and in-air explosions; Multifunctionaland Functionally Graded material structures.Education:Ph.D., Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Academy of Science of Romania,1969M. A. Sc., Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of AeronauticalEngineering, Bucharest, 1953B.S., Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, AeronauticalEngineer, 1952Honors and Awards:2007 Invited Key Note Lecture at the 17th International Congress onThermal Stresses, June 4-7, 2007, Taipei, Taiwan, Joule Heatingand its Implications on Crack Detection/Arrest in ElectricallyConductive Circular Cylindrical Shells.( Z. Qin, L. Librescu andD. Hasanyan)2006 Awarded a diploma by the 17th International Conference onAdaptive Structures and Technology for the paper RobustAeroelastic Control of Composite Aircraft Wings in IncompressibleFlow by Yoon, G. C., Na, S. S., Librescu, L., and Baek, S. C.,Taiwan, ICAST 2006, October 13-17.2005 Appointed Chair of the International Organizing Committee ofthe 6th International Congress on Thermal Stresses '05 May 26-29,2005, Vienna, Austria2005 Invited Plenary Lecture at the 6th International Congress ofThermal Stresses '05 May 26-29, 2005, Vienna, Austria "Thin-WalledBeams Used in Turbomachinery and Space Applications Made-Up ofFunctionally Graded Materials and Operating in a High TemperatureEnvironment: Vibration and Instability" by L. Librescu, S-Y Oh andO. Song2005 Selected as a member of the Board of Experts of the ItalianMinistry of Education, University and Scientific Research2005 Awarded a diploma by the International Congress on ThermalStresses, Vienna, Austria, May-June, 2005, ``In recognition for theachievements in the field of Thermal Stresses, for organizing theFifth International Congress of Thermal Stresses, and for thecontributions to the Journal of Thermal Stresses, as an author andas a member of the Editorial Board.''2005 Awarded a diploma by the ASME, 20th Biennal Conference onMechanical Vibration and Noise, Long Beach, CA, September 24-28,2005 expressing the deep appreciation for the valuable services inadvancing the engineering profession.''2005 Frank J. Maher Award for Excellence in Engineering Education2004 Plenary Key Note Lecture to the Third European Conference onStructural Control July 12-15. 2004, Vienna, Austria Advances inthe Linear/nonlinear Control of Aeroelastic Structural Systems byL. Librescu and P. Marzocca2003 Member of the Executive Committee of the InternationalCongress of Thermal Stresses, (1999-2003) and re-appointed for (2003-2007)2003 General Chair of the 5th International Congress of ThermalStresses and Related Topics, June 8-11, 2003, Blacksburg, VA2000 Recipient of the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of thePolytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania2000 Elected member of the Academy of Sciences of the Shipbuildingof Ukraine1999 Recipient of The 1999 Dean's Award for Excellence inResearch, College of Engineering VPI & SU1999 Elected Foreign Fellow of the Academy of Engineering ofArmenia1998 Invited Plenary Lecture at the Session dedicated to the greatItalian Scientist Professor Placido Cicala, Torino, June 25, 1998,Italia Aeroelastic Tailoring of Advanced Aircraft Wings CarryingExternal Stores, with Dr. F. H. Gern1988 Plenary Key Note Lecture to the Second InternationalConference on Composite Science and Technology, June 9-11, 1998Durban, South Africa Recent Developments in the Modelling andBehavior of Advanced Sandwich Constructions1972 Laureate of the prize Traian Vuia of the RomanianAcademy of ScienceProfessional Service:Listing in Who's WhoWho's Who in AmericaWho's Who in EngineeringWho's Who in the WorldWho's Who in Science and EngineeringMember of the Editorial Board of2007 - Journal of Sound and Vibration2004 - International Journal of Advanced Materials and Structures2003 - Journal Mathematical Methods and Physic-Mechanical Fields1999 - Journal Thin-Walled Structures1998 - Journal of Thermal Stresses1997 - International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics1975 - Solid Mechanics ArchivesGuest Editor for the Special Issues of the Journals2006 - Journal of Mathematical Engineering (issues devoted toThermomechanical Problems)2004 - International of Mechanics of Advanced Materials andStructures, Vol. 11, Nos. 4-5, Part I & II2001 - Composite Structures, Vol. 52, 1, 20012001 - Thin-Walled Structures, Special Issue - New Advances in theModelling and Application of Smart Thin-Walled Structures, Vol. 39,1, 20012000 - Composites Engineering, Part B, Vol. 32, 3, 2000Chair of the International Organizing Committee of2005 - 6th International Congress on Thermal Stresses '05, May 26-29, Vienna, AustriaCo-Chair of the International Organizing Committee of2007 - 7th International Congress on Thermal Stresses June 4-7,Taipei, Taiwan2005 - Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, October 26-28, Nanjing,ChinaMember of the International Advisory Board of2007 - Second International Symposium on Design Modelling andExperiments of Adaptive Structures and Smart Systems, DEMEASS II,October 14-17, Bad Herrenalb, Germany2007 - Organizing Committee of the 70th Birthday of Jozef IgnaczakSymposium at the 7th International Congress on Thermal Stresses,Juen 4-7, Taipei, Taiwan2006 - 2nd International Congress on Computational Mechanics andsimulation (ICCM-06), December 8-10, Indian Institute of Technology,Guwahati,-781039, India2006 - 1st International Symposium on Design Modelling andExperiments of Adaptive Structures and Smart Systems, DeMEASS I,June 10-12, Bardonecchia (Turin), Italy2004 - 1st International Congress on Computational Mechanics andSimulation, IIT Kanpur, December 9-12, India2004 - 2nd International Conference on Structural Engineering,Mechanics and Computation, July 5-7, Cape Town, South Africa2003 - 2nd International Conference on Applied Mechanics andMaterials (ICAMM 2003), January 21-23, Durban, South Africa1998 - 2nd Interntional Conference on Composite Science andTechnology, June 9-11, Durban, South Africa1996 - 1st International Conference, Composite Science Technology,June 18-20, Durham, South AfricaMember of the International Organizing Committee of2005 - 6th International Congress of Thermal Stresses, May 26-29,Wien, Austria2001 - 4th International Congress on Thermal Stresses, June 8-11,Osaka, Japan1999 - 3rd International Congress on Thermal Stresses, June 13-17,Cracow, Poland1982 thru 1985 - Israel National Conference on Aviation andAstronauticsRecent Publications:G. Polli, L. Librescu and F. Mastroddi, Aeroelastic Response ofComposite Aircraft Swept Wings Impacted by a Laser Beam, AIAA, Vol.33, No, 2, pp. 382-391, 2006Na, S. S., Librescu, L., Rim, S. N. and Yoon, G. C., Vibration andDynamic Response Control of Non-Unifom Composite Rotating Blades,International Journal of Rotating Machinery, 2006, ID 13807, pp. 1-9, 2006Librescu, L., Oh, S-Y. and Hohe, J., Dynamic Response of AnisotropicSandwich Flat Panels to Underwater and In-Air Explosions,International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 43, No. 13, pp.3794-3816, June, 2006Hause, T. and Librescu, L., Flexural Free Vibration of Sandwich FlatPanels with Laminated Anisotropic Face Sheets, Journal of Sound andVibration, Vol. 297, Nos. 3-5, pp. 823-841, 2006Librescu, L. and Song, O., Composite Thin-Walled Beams: Theory andApplication, Springer, 615, 2005Full listingCourses taught:ESM 3154, Solid Mechanics, Spring 2007.ESM 5074, Mech Lam Comp Str, Spring 2007.ESM 5994, Research and Thesis, Spring 2007.ESM 7994, Research and Dissertation, Spring 2007.ESM 6044, Theory of Plates and Shells, Fall 2006.ESM 6044, Theory of Plates and Shells, Fall 2005.ESM 2304, Dynamics, Spring 2005.ESM 5074, Mech Lam Comp Str, Spring 2005.ESM 6044, Theory of Plates and Shells, Fall 2004.ESM 2304, Dynamics, Spring 2004.ESM 6044, Theory of Plates and Shells, Fall 2003.http://www.esm.vt.edu/php/person.php?id=10023"Marwan Barghouti Indictment - Appendix- Terrorist Attacks andActivities Carried out by the Field Commanders and Activists14 Aug 2002 Statement of Indictment:MARWAN BIN KHATIB BARGHOUTI August 14, 2002Terrorist Attacks and Activities Carried out by the Field Commandersand Activists...." read the details at:http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2002/8/Marwan%20Barghouti%20Indic\tment%20-%20Appendix-%20TerroristItem below is from WOMEN IN GREEN12 Apr 2007 11:51:49 amA DIFFICULT MORAL DILEMMAA DIFFICULT MORAL DILEMMALetter from Ruth Matar (Women in Green) JerusalemThursday, April 12, 2007Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is seriously considering Hamas' demand torelease jailed Fatah leader, Marwan Barghouti, along with 449 otherPalestinian prisoners involved in terrorist attacks, in exchange forthe return of Cpl. Gilad Schalit, who was kidnapped by Hamas on theGaza border in June 2006.Barghouti is serving five life sentences for his involvement interror attacks that killed numerous Israelis. Other top terrorists,among them the following six listed below from yesterday's JerusalemPost, are also on the list of prisoners to be freed.*Hamas terrorist Hassan Salameh is serving 48 life sentences for hispart in three suicide bombings in 1996 in which 46 people were killedand 90 wounded; the planning of a 1995 suicide bombing; and killing aPalestinian suspected of collaborating with Israel.*Abdullah Barghouti, a senior Hamas member and master bomb makerdubbed 'the mechanic,' was sentenced to 67 consecutive life sentencesfor preparing the bombs used in a string of suicide bombings in 2001and 2002. In the attacks in Jerusalem, Rishon Lezion and Tel Aviv, 66Israelis were killed and 500 wounded. The attacks included the August2001 Sbarro bombing in Jerusalem, in which 15 Israelis were killed;the triple bombing at Jerusalem's Zion Square in December 2001, inwhich 10 Israelis were killed; the blast at the Moment Cafe inJerusalem in March 2002, in which 11 Israelis were killed; and theSheffield Club attack in Rishon Lezion in May 2002, in which 15Israelis were killed. Barghouti also supplied the bomb for the attackin a cafeteria at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in July 2002, inwhich nine Israeli and foreign students were killed, and provided theexplosives belt used in the attack on a No. 4 bus in Tel Aviv in July2002, in which nine Israelis were killed.*Yahya Sinwar, one of the founders of Hamas's military wing. Sinwarhas been in jail for over 20 years.*Fuad Shubaki is considered the Karine A weapons ship paymaster. Theship was en route to the Palestinian Authority in the Red Sea when itwas seized by Israeli naval commandos in January 2002.*Ahmed Sa'adat is accused by Israel of plotting the assassination offormer minister Rehavam Ze'evi.*Hassan Yussuf is considered one of the most prominent Hamas leadersin the West Bank.There is a very difficult moral dilemma involved here. On one hand,our hearts break for the Schalit family, on the other hand, it hasbeen proven, over and over again, that the release of Palestinianprisoners only leads to more kidnappings and Israeli death.A bereaved father, Zion Swery, wanted vengeance for the death of histwo children and son-in-law in a drive-by terrorist shooting onhighway 443 in 2001."After my children were murdered I wanted to kill the terrorists!" hesaid.Swery recalled how, at the funeral, Ehud Olmert (then Mayor ofJerusalem) promised to pursue those who were responsible for theattack. It is upsetting, Swery said, that Olmert, now the PrimeMinister, is considering going back on his word.The Almagor Terror Victims Association has long been concerned withthis dilemma. On Tuesday the group held a press conference inJerusalem, in which members of the group lit Yartzheit candles infront of a poster of terror victims.Almagor Director, Meir Indor, says his research shows that in thepast five years 177 Israelis were killed in terror attacksperpetrated by Palestinians released in prisoner exchangedeals. "When you release prisoners, you create a new wave ofterrorism", he said.He and a number of terror victims said that while they empathizedwith the Schalit family, there were other ways to free Gilad that didnot involve risking Israeli lives.Speaking at the press conference, Yifat Alon, whose mother, Noa, andniece Gal Eisenman, were killed in a 2002 terror attack inJerusalem's French Hill, warned that more Israeli deaths were theonly possible outcome of a prisoner release."We have tried this before, we have set prisoners free and what wegot was that people were murdered. I want the government to behonest. We are going to pay with other people's lives", she said.I, myself feel a very personal involvement in this moral dilemma. Avery good friend of mine, an American immigrant from New York, likemyself, Joyce Boim, lost her 17 year old son, David, in a drive-byterrorist shooting in 1996. My friend Joyce wants the government tokeep the terrorists in jail. "We do not want any more widows orwidowers or parents without children. The terrorists were jailed fora reason", says Boim.In the Jerusalem Post of April 9, 2007, there is an excellent articleby Caroline Glick, entitled:Our World: The next grand bargainShoshana Amos, Aviel Atash, Vitaly Brodsky, Tamara Dibrashvilli,Raisa Forer, Larisa Gomanenko, Denise Hadad, Tatiana Kortchenko,Rosita Lehman, Karine Malka, Nargiz Ostrovsky, Maria Sokolov, RomanSokolovsky, Tiroayent Takala, Eliyahu Uzan, Emmanuel Yosef (Yosefov).All the above were murdered on August 31, 2004, in twin bus bombingsin Beersheba. The attack was planned and commanded by MatzebHasalmon, Hamas terror commander in Hebron.The massacre in Beersheba was far from inevitable. Hasalmon, whorecruited the bombers, trained them for their mission and sent themon their way, had previously been taken out of commission. He wasarrested and convicted for the felony crime of membership in Hamas.Since Hasalmon was not convicted of murder, when the Sharongovernment released him from prison together with another 460terrorists on January 29, 2004, no one raised a fuss. The massiverelease, and the simultaneous release of the bodies of 59 deadterrorists was carried out in exchange for the return of ElhananTenenbaum, who was kidnapped in Dubai and brought to Lebanon byHizbullah in 2000. Israel also received the bodies of IDF soldiersBenny Avraham, Adi Avitan and Omar Suwaid, who were kidnapped andmurdered by Hizbullah terrorists in October 2000.Today the Olmert-Livni-Peretz government is in advanced stages ofnegotiations towards the exchange of Cpl. Gilad Schalit for up to1,400 terrorists. Schalit was kidnapped from his base near Gaza inlate June by a joint Fatah-Hamas terror cell. He has been illegallyheld incommunicado ever since.Speaking Sunday of the impending deal, Welfare Minister Isaac Herzogsaid Israelis should be prepared to see not only small-fry terroristslike Hasalmon, but also convicted murderers set free. As Herzog putit, we should use "original thinking" regarding who we should let outof prison.During the heyday of the peace process in the 1990s, inrepeated "confidence building measures," Israel released 6,912terrorists from prison. As time went by, it became increasinglydifficult to limit the releases to those who had not actuallymurdered. So the governments thought "originally" and releasedkillers whose victims were not Israelis. So it was that killers likeIyad Suwalha were sent packing.Suwalha was arrested in 1992 for murdering a fellow Palestinian whohe suspected of assisting Israel in its counterterror operations. Hewas released in 1999.Senior Warrant Officer Haim Alfasi, Chief Warrant Officer Yaakov Ben-Shabbat, Cpl. Mazi Grego, Capt. Yael Kfir, Cpl. Felix Nikolaichuk,Sgt. Yonatan Peleg, Sgt. Efrat Schwartzman, Prosper Twito, Sgt. LironSiboni, Dr. David Appelbaum, Nava Appelbaum, David Shimon Avizadris,Shafik Kerem, Alon Mizrahi, Gila Moshe and Yehiel (Emil) Tubol.All of the above were murdered in two suicide bombings on September9, 2003. The first took place outside Tzrifin military base; thesecond inside Cafe Hillel in Jerusalem. Suwalha commanded bothattacks.In July, in response to the abduction of IDF reservists Eldad Regevand Ehud Goldwasser, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took the nation towar in Lebanon. Olmert enjoyed massive public support when he pledgedto fight to gain their release and to destroy Hizbullah, Iran's proxyarmy in Lebanon that had kidnapped them.Yet Olmert lost interest in fighting and gave up on winning when hesaw how hard it was. Due in large part to the premier's personalincompetence, Israel lost the war. Not only was Hizbullah notdestroyed, and not only have Iran and Syria already rebuilt itsarsenal to pre-war levels, Regev and Goldwasser - like Schalit -remain in captivity.Since the ignominious cease-fire last August, the public has demandedan accounting from Olmert. At almost every single non-scripted publicgathering where Olmert appears, he is hounded by angry citizens whodemand he explain how he dared to abandon the field of battle andleave our soldiers behind.Last September in one such incident, Olmert was confronted by ElipazBaeloha, whose son Nadav was killed in battle in the war. WhenBaeloha demanded an accounting, as is his wont, Olmert refused.Rather than accept the responsibilities of the office to which hestubbornly clings, Olmert deflected Baeloha's criticism by saying thepublic is at fault. We are to blame, he explained, because we werestupid enough to believe him when he said he would fight to bring themen home.As he put it, "From the beginning I knew we would have to negotiateto secure the release of the hostages. To rescue them we would haveto pay a very heavy price. How many more children would you want todie like your son died to rescue them? Did anyone seriously thinkthat I would get to some place, which I don't know where it is, andwould try to rescue them?"Although as the months have passed the plight of our hostages beingheld in Gaza and Lebanon has been mostly out of the headlines, no onehas forgotten them. And the frustration at the government's failureto secure their release came to the forefront of the public agendasince the 15 British sailors and marines were kidnapped by Iran lastmonth.The contrast between the British, who were paraded seeminglycontinuously before the television cameras from the day of theircapture, and the Israelis, who haven't been seen or heard from sincetheir abductions, was a cause for deep frustration. "Those luckyBrits," the thinking went, "At least they get to see their guys."The manner in which the Blair government secured the release of thehostages has been roundly praised by the Israeli Left. Led by theHaaretz newspaper, the Left, which castigates as warmongers all whocall for Israel to defeat its enemies, immediately pointed a fingerat the government for not having yet capitulated to all the terror-masters' ever-escalating terms for a deal on the soldiers.As Zvi Barel of Haaretz put it, "Britain... understands what Israelrefuses to understand: The captives and prisoners of a countryperhaps 'disturb' its prestige, but negotiating their release doesnot damage the state's power. Their release sometimes requires a highprice, but in the case of Israel vis-a-vis Hizbullah or thePalestinian Authority, the price is in identical coinage: captives inexchange for prisoners and detainees... Only the exchange of people.And a bit of prestige."Like the British, the Haaretz-led Israeli Left ignores inconvenienttruths. In the media age, prestige is power. Loss of prestige leadsdirectly to a loss of national power and, inevitably, to the loss oflife. The families of the four British soldiers who were killed byIranian-sponsored terrorists in Basra the same day their navy andmarine counterparts were released in shame by Iran can attest to thisfact.Avraham (Albert) Balhasan, Rose Boneh, Hava Hannah (Anya) Bonder,Anat Darom, Viorel Octavian Florescu, Natalia Gamril, Yechezkel IsserGoldberg, Baruch (Roman) Hondiashvili, Dana Itach, Mehbere Kifile andEli Zfira.The families of the 11 Israelis listed above can also attest to thisfact. They were murdered in a bus bombing in Jerusalem on January 29,2004. The attack occurred just as Israel was releasing 461 terroristsfrom prison and transferring the bodies of 59 dead terrorists totheir masters in the PA and Lebanon for burial in the Tenenbaum deal.Another 50 Israelis were wounded in the attack.That day, then-science minister Eliezer Sandberg stated, "There is noconnection and it is forbidden to make a connection between thebombing and the deal for the prisoner swap."Sandberg's statement, far-fetched under any circumstances, wasrendered farcical when Fatah declared responsibility for the massacreon Hizbullah's television network.All told, the Almagor Terror Victims Association has counted 177Israelis who were murdered by terrorists who Israel released inprisoner swaps with terrorists.The Olmert-Livni-Peretz government acts as though there is no wayother than releasing terrorists, and so signing the death warrants ofhundreds more Israelis, to bring about Schalit's release. But this issimply untrue. What is true is that since the government embraceddefeat last summer, it has had no policy other than capitulation.But there are many, many other options. Schalit was kidnapped by ajoint Hamas-Fatah force. The government could place sanctions such astravel bans on PA Chairman and Fatah terror chief Mahmoud Abbas andPA Prime Minister and Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh and theirassociates. So too, the government could order the Prisons Service toprevent jailed terrorists from talking to reporters, politicians andEuropean diplomats and so end the anomalous state of affairs wherebyconvicted murderers like arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti are allowedto engage in psychological warfare against Israeli society and serveas power brokers in Palestinian society from prison.Since last summer, the Olmert-Livni-Peretz government has taken nosteps that would lead either the Palestinians or Hizbullah to viewSchalit, Regev and Goldwasser's illegal captivity as a burden.Rather, like their bosses in Teheran, the terrorists have allbenefited from their criminal behavior.Because of the fecklessness of our leaders, we lost a war we shouldhave won and our hostages, who soldiers like Nadav Baeloha heroicallygave their lives to free, have remained in captivity.As Hizbullah, Iran, Syria, and the Palestinians show daily with theirescalating saber-rattling, our leaders' continued incompetence sincethe war has brought us ever closer to a new war.Now, through their cowardly and unnecessary genuflections to ourenemies, made under the preening cover of feigned concern for thelives of our hostages they have done nothing to free, Olmert and hisassociates place the lives of every one of us in danger.* * *Dear friends, if you were in a position to trade 450 terroristkillers for Cpl. Gilad Schalit, what would your decision be?I, myself would not even consider freeing any terrorists who areresponsible for the deaths of our loved ones. Rather, I wouldindefinitely turn off the water and electricity, which Israel still(often without getting paid), supplies to the Arabs in Gaza, untilthe return of ALL hostages, including the British BBC reporter, AlanJohnston.How would YOU resolve this very difficult moral dilemma?With Blessings and Love for Israel,Ruth Matar=============================================Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green)POB 7352, Jerusalem 91072, IsraelTel: 972-2-624-9887 Fax: 972-2-624-5380wfit2 (AT) womeningreen (DOT) orghttp://www.womeningreen.orgTo to the Women in Green list,please send a blank email message to:list4- (AT) womeningreen (DOT) orgthe following is an excerpt from:"THE SITUATION ROOMDeadliest Shooting Rampage in U.S. HistoryAired April 16, 2007 - 17:00 ETWOLF BLITZER, HOST: And so there you have it.The next news conference scheduled now for 7:30 p.m. Eastern.We'll get more information at that time.At this hour, shock and horror in the wake of the deadliest shootingrampage in U.S. history.This is what we know so far.The killing spree began early this morning, around 7:15 a.m. 7:15a.m. Eastern. Virginia officials say 33 people were killed. Thatincludes the gunman, who is believed to have acted alone. That'swhat they're saying.Police also saying the gunman eventually took his own life.His motive, though, not clear and he remains unidentified at thispoint.The massacre occurred in southwestern Virginia, on the campus ofVirginia Tech. That's in Blacksburg, Virginia.The first 911 call was made at 7:15 a.m. Eastern from West AmberJohnson Hall. That's a coed dormitory. Two people were killed there.Two hours later, with the campus in lockdown, authorities got wordof more gunfire at Norris Hall. That's an engineering building, aclassroom across campus, inside. Most of the bloodshed happenedthere.Cell phone video captured the sounds of gunfire and the chaos.I want you to watch and listen to this.(VIDEO CLIP OF SHOOTING, COURTESY JAMAL ALBARGHOUTI, VIRGINIA TECHSTUDENT)BLITZER: We counted 27 shots in that one minute or so of videotape.We're going to be speaking to the student who took that videotape,part of our I-Report series. We're going to get some specifics onwhat he saw, what he heard -- 27 shots on that little snippet oftape. The massacre comes as Virginia's governor is out of thecountry right now. He was to begin a two week Asian trade mission inJapan today. He'll be returning, though, immediately.....BLITZER: But joining us now is Jamal Albarghouti. He's the studentwho recorded that video earlier today.Jamal, I know this must be extremely painful and difficult for you,tub tell our viewers where you were, what time this occurred whenyou started your camera rolling.JAMAL ALBARGHOUTI, VIRGINIA TECH STUDENT: That was around 10 to10:00, around 9:50 a.m. here Eastern Time in Blacksburg, and I wasjust going to campus to talk to my adviser, but then I startedhearing people telling me to leave. So I was on campus around 10:00.BLITZER: What kind of camera were you using?ALBARGHOUTI: It was my cell phone camera. I have a Nokia N70, and Iwas just using the cell phone camera.BLITZER: And so what -- did you start hearing some -- some shots andyou saw people running? Is that when you decided to start rollingvideo?ALBARGHOUTI: Well, I took that decision when I saw a policemandrawing -- taking off his gun and started looking at -- looking fora target to shoot. I knew that this isn't another bomb threat,because we had two last week. So I knew this is something way moreserious. It was then when I decided to use my camera.BLITZER: We heard -- we counted 27 shots in the video that you madeavailable to CNN through our I-Report operation, 27 shots. Do youknow if those shots were coming from the gunman, coming from thepolice? Do you have any idea what those popping sounds -- where theywere coming from?ALBARGHOUTI: I have no idea. Thanks for counting them, Wolf. Ididn't know there were 27 shots.I thought -- to tell you the truth, I thought I was really safe. Ithought they were far away from where I am. But then people startedtalking about shots that might have been inside the building. Thatmight have been the reason why they weren't so loud. At the end ofthe video, if you can hear it, there is really a loud -- maybe itwas a bang like a tear bomb or something that...(CROSSTALK)BLITZER: It sounded a lot louder. It was almost like a boom, thefinal shot that we heard.ALBARGHOUTI: Yes.BLITZER: There it is right there.ALBARGHOUTI: Yes. That was the loudest one I heard. That was when Iknew that I'm really close to a really serious situation. And therewas a cop from behind me rushing towards me, telling me to justleave. This is when I stopped using my camera.BLITZER: And we heard some screaming after that loud boom at thevery end. What was that?ALBARGHOUTI: That was the cop. There was a police officer comingtowards me because I was trying to go closer to where the shootingwas to take a better picture. But then I hear police officer runtowards me and he told me to basically run back and leave.BLITZER: So you were outside the West Ambler Johnston engineeringbuilding where these -- this mass killing occurred, 30 people -- no,no. Excuse me, that was Norris Hall. You were outside Norris Hall.ALBARGHOUTI: Norris Hall.BLITZER: That's the engineering building where most of the deadpeople were found.ALBARGHOUTI: Yes, this is the case. That's where you can see --Norris Hall is the building that is -- that you will see mainly onmy -- oh, sorry. That you will see mainly on the video I was taking.BLITZER: That's the engineering building. Did you know earlier thatthere had been a shooting at the West -- at the Johnston co-ed dormearlier that morning at 7:15, two hours earlier, two and a halfhours earlier? Had anybody alerted you to that?ALBARGHOUTI: No. Actually, they did send e-mails, and it was onVirginia Tech's Web site, but I didn't have the time to actuallycheck it. So I just went to campus without knowing that there wasprevious shootings on campus.BLITZER: So basically you live off campus. You were going to yourclass. So you showed up, what, around 9:30, and then all of a suddenall hell breaks loose?ALBARGHOUTI: Yes. It's really windy out here. Yes, sir. This is whathappened.BLITZER: What do you know about, if anything, about these chainsthat supposedly were on a door at the Norris Hall, the engineeringbuilding where, what, 30 -- 30 individuals were shot, including thegunman, who apparently took his own life?ALBARGHOUTI: I didn't hear the first part of your question. Couldyou please repeat it?BLITZER: Did you hear anything or learn anything about chains on thedoor at Norris Hall?ALBARGHOUTI: No, but I saw the cops struggling to get in to NorrisHall. Usually that door -- I use it every Wednesday to go to class.And usually it's never locked.Probably the reason why the cops were not rushing in to there iseither that they were trying to open it, or that they were justtrying to make sure it's safe to go in there. I did not hear or knewthat there were any kind of chains blocking that door.BLITZER: The reaction on campus -- you're an undergraduate, or agraduate?ALBARGHOUTI: I'm a graduate student.BLITZER: Are you an engineering student?ALBARGHOUTI: Yes, I'm doing civil engineering. Constructionmanagement.BLITZER: So tell us, give us a little bit of flavor of what yourfellow students have been saying to you over these past few hours.ALBARGHOUTI: Well, everybody here in Blacksburg is really sad.Blacksburg is one of the best and nicest towns I've ever been to.It's a really safe place. You can't imagine how safe it is.And with two bomb threats and two people died in August, at thebeginning -- at the very first day of -- at the very first day ofthis semester, and now more than 30 students, I guess, or 30 peoplegot killed in this incident, everybody is so sad. Everybody isshocked. We don't what's going on in here.We were just talking that everything would settle down and we -- andBlacksburg would once again be the small, nice town it used to be.But it actually is.BLITZER: Jamal, where are you from originally?ALBARGHOUTI: Well, I'm originally from the West Bank, Palestine. Ilived most of my life in Saudi Arabia, though.BLITZER: So this is very extraordinary for you to be experiencinghere in the United States this kind of horrific event?ALBARGHOUTI: Yes. Yes. You can imagine that I've been in citieswhere problems did happen in such cities, like I've been inPalestine, or I've been in Saudi Arabia. In Riyadh once there was abombing in the Ministry of Interior.But in Blacksburg, it used to be -- or it is a really safe town,indeed. I never though that such a thing would happen in front of mehere in Blacksburg.BLITZER: The Albarghouti family a very prominent family in theMiddle East.Jamal Albarghouti, thank you so much for doing what you did. Pleasebe careful over there. Good luck to you. Good luck to all yourfellow students at Virginia Tech.Is there anything else you want to say to our viewers? ALBARGHOUTI:I just want to say how sorry I am for all of the families of thosewho got killed or injured in this incident. That's probably the onlything I can say.BLITZER: Well said.ALBARGHOUTI: And we are -- we are really sorry for them.And thank you very much, Wolf.BLITZER: Thank you, Jamal. Thank you for doing what you've done.You've helped all of our viewers better appreciate the enormity ofwhat has happened on your campus today.Thanks, Jamal Albarghouti. We'll be speaking with you. And pleaseconvey our deepest condolences to your friends and your colleagues,your fellow students on the campus.Officials report, as we've been saying, 33 people dead, includingthe gunman who went on this massacre at the Virginia Tech campus.And as we've been discussing, much of the carnage unfolding in thescience and engineering building. That's the building where youheard Jamal say he attends classes. It's called Norris Hall.***************Remember, we are staying on top of this story. Lou Dobbs is notgoing to go away from it.The worst, worst mass shooting in U.S. history unfolded today atVirginia Tech.I'm Wolf Blitzer in THE SITUATION ROOM."LOU DOBBS TONIGHT" starts right now.TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USEOUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.voxant.comhttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/16/sitroom.02.htmlThree Shot in Drive-By Terror Attack Near the AirportApril 17th, 2007 c.e.by Ezra HaLevi(IsraelNN.com) Terrorists carried out a drive-by shooting attackTuesday morning, targeting Jews not far from the community ofNaaleh, 18 miles east of Tel Aviv and near Ben-Gurion InternationalAirport.The Magen David Adom emergency service says it treated one victimfor moderate shoulder wounds and two others for light wounds causedby shrapnel. The victims have been transported to Tel HaShomerhospital near TelAviv.http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/122138"Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is a Jewish holiday thattakes place on the 27th day of Nisan, in the Hebrew calendar. It isheld every year in remembrance of the approximately six million Jewswho died inthe Holocaust. It is a national holiday in Israel.It was originally proposed to be on the 15th of Nisan, theanniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising (April 19, 1943), but thiswas objected to as being the first day of Passover. Instead, the 27thwas chosen, being eight days before Yom Ha'atzma'ut, or IsraeliIndependenceDay. Yom HaShoah was established by Israelilaw in 1959, and was signed by David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi,then prime minister of Israel and president of Israel, respectively.At 10:00 on Yom HaShoah, air-raid sirens sound for two minutesthroughout Israel. 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