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Plan To Spray Chemicals Announced
03-12-2008
Natural News
People of the world, the US Government is planning to poison more than two million people, in California, using an untested biological "pesticide" this summer. The chemical to be sprayed is classified by the EPA as a "pesticide" and the plan is to douse cities with this chemical designed to stick on everything for 90 days or longer. This application is not a one time event, but will continue every 1-3 months for as long as five years. The pesticide to be sprayed is not designed to harm the light brown apple moth’s who it is designed for, but merely to confuse its mating habits. While harmless to moths, the pesticide has been documented to harm humans.
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French Foreign Minister: Magic Is Over For U.S.
03-13-2008
IHT
PARIS: Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister of France and a longtime humanitarian, diplomatic and political activist on the international scene, says that whoever succeeds President George W. Bush may restore something of the United States' battered image and standing overseas, but that "the magic is over."
In a wide-ranging conversation with Roger Cohen of the International Herald Tribune at the launch of a Forum for New Diplomacy in Paris, Kouchner on Tuesday also held out the hope of talking with Hamas, the Palestinian faction that rules the Gaza Strip but has been ostracized by the West and by its Palestinian rival, Fatah, because it opposes peace talks with Israel and denies that Israel has a right to exist.
Asked whether the United States could repair the damage it has suffered to its reputation during the Bush presidency and especially since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Kouchner replied, "It will never be as it was before."
"I think the magic is over," he continued, in what amounted to a sober assessment from one of the strongest supporters in France of the United States.
U.S. military supremacy endures, Kouchner noted, and the new president "will decide what to do - there are many means to re-establish the image." But even that, he predicted, "will take time."
Kouchner began the 90-minute event with a speech that emphasized that "there is not just a new diplomacy; there is a new world."
To those intimidated by or fearful of what seem to be the rising challenges of globalization, climate change, spreading disease or new technology, Kouchner had a simple message: "The great difficulty is to accept this new world."
"There are not more problems - please, have a little memory - than 35 years ago," he said, recalling how, in 1971, he co-founded Médecins Sans Frontières in response to the horrors of the conflict in Nigeria over Biafra.
The challenges may be daunting, he said, noting for instance that the world had decided to act to curb the AIDS epidemic, but asking, "Can we take charge of all the other diseases? I'm not sure."
Some of the most persistent diplomatic challenges emanate from the Middle East, and Kouchner was asked about approaches to Iran, whose president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has called for the destruction of Israel, or to Hamas, which has the same stated goal.
Kouchner and other European diplomats have tried to talk Iran out of its controversial nuclear program, but officially rejected all contacts with Hamas, which is listed as a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union. Asked whether there is a way to engage Hamas, which is supported by a significant minority of Palestinians, Kouchner appeared to hold out hope of contact, saying: "I'm looking for a diplomatic way to say yes."
He then carefully couched this statement by noting that, in general, "we have to talk with our enemies," and that Fatah, which controls the West Bank, "always said they were in favor" of unity talks with Hamas. But after Hamas routed Fatah forces from Gaza in June, the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, has refused to deal with Hamas, which he accused of committing a coup. Kouchner, of the Socialist left in France, stirred controversy when he accepted the offer from President Nicolas Sarkozy, leader of the Gaullist center-right, to join his government last May.
At the end of the conversation, held in a glittering hall at the Académie Diplomatique Internationale, the IHT's partner in the new diplomatic forum, Kouchner denied that his activism had been curbed by the need to run the resplendent Foreign Ministry on the Quai d'Orsay and France's large diplomatic machinery around the world.
But he conceded that practicing the new diplomacy - which he defined as being action that is more practical, multifaceted and realistic than mere protocol calls and visits - "is very difficult, and very time-consuming."
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Carlyle Fund Expects Assets To Be Seized
03-13-2008
NY Times
LONDON — Shares of Carlyle Capital plunged on Thursday, losing most of their value, after the company said it expected its lenders to promptly take over all its assets after discussions with banks to refinance the fund failed.
Carlyle Capital, an Amsterdam-listed affiliate of the Carlyle Group, the private equity fund, said it “has not been able to reach a mutually beneficial agreement to stabilize its financing.” Its shares fell more than 70 percent Thursday. They have fallen more than 90 percent since the company’s problems became public last week.
“It has become apparent to the company that the basis on which lenders are willing to provide financing against the company’s collateral has changed so substantially that a successful refinancing is not possible,” Carlyle Capital said in a statement late Wednesday.
Carlyle Capital invested in triple-A rated mortgage debt issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and like other investment vehicles it had leveraged its capital aggressively, borrowing $31 for every dollar of equity. As of February, it had $21.7 billion worth of assets in its investment portfolio. But as those investments lost value, creditors demanded that it put up more and more money in margin calls. A $150 million line of credit from its parent, the Carlyle Group, was not enough to keep it out of trouble as lenders demanded more collateral to back up their loans.
By Wednesday, it had already defaulted on about $16.6 billion of debt and some lenders started to liquidate assets. Talks to halt liquidations and revive the fund’s finances failed Wednesday night after the value of collateral declined further, prompting additional margin calls worth $97.5 million.
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The Overthrow Of The
American Republic - Part 53
The Hang-man Cometh!
By Sherman H. Skolnick
4-21-4
The monopoly press dare not ever tell you how important he really is.
At the time of the Second World War, his father was a top official of both Army Intelligence and Naval Intelligence. Savvy folks recognize that as being actually a top officer of OSS, precursor to the America Central Intelligence Agency.
This elder family member later became Chief Judge in the Chicago-area. By suppressing court records, he quietly ruled on one of the most important cases in American history.
Following in this path, his son posed as a start-up journalist with a small publication near the nation's Capitol. Without an actual apparent journalism background, this was simply a cover for his role as top agent of a faction in the U.S. Military Establishment. Admirals and Generals had a serious grievance against the highest official in the Executive Department of the U.S. Government.
Their target, they contended, was committing treason to aid and give comfort to sworn enemies of the United States of America. Offenses of treachery plainly subject to provisions of the U.S. Constitution, Article Three, Section 3.
In the view of some at a decade earlier date, a prior secret group deemed themselves warranted and justified to conduct
a public execution of the highest official of the nation. That is, in full view of the anguished naive public, to blow out his brains in an open car, using military-style triangulation firing. But that infamous event was far too well studied by assassination researchers. Replicating the same ten years later would be unraveled, and not subject to blame simply on a lone, deranged assassin.
How to carry out the sentence of a secret tribunal having ordered the removal short of a firing squad, a beheading, a crew of assistants knocking out the pins on the gallows to hang the found-guilty grand vizier?
The headquarters of the doomed leader was a spy's dream. The basement had admirals and generals. Supposedly simply carrying messages, from that site up and back to the Pentagon, was somebody seemingly as harmless as a messenger. This supposed courier later started quietly as an alleged reporter on the major circulation newspaper in the District of Columbia.
Sitting right at the door of the Oval Office was a highly-skilled officer of the America CIA. Step by step, the Chief Magistrate, the President, was ensnared in a scandal. A group of CIA operatives, some current, some former, one actually in charge of the physical security of the CIA headquarters, was ordered to supposedly break into a hotel complex, at the time, owned by the Pope. One of the burglary crew for years and years, under various pen-names, had written supposed fiction books enveloping the espionage business in swirls of romance and intrigue.
As later understood, one or more of this group of wire-tappers and records snatchers, actually wanted the operation exposed to be blamed as having been under the supervision of the President and the U.S. Atttorney General, and others in their circle.
So as the primary agent of the Military Junta, as ordered by a faction in the Aristocracy, the alleged "Pentagon messenger" had been installed as an ambitious supposed "reporter" of the Washington Post. This pretended scrivener was assisted by a left-wing leaning journalist, Carl Bernstein, apparently not on to what was really happening.
The events were dubbed the Watergate Affair, named after the hotel where the CIA break-in crew was exposed and grabbed by the authorities. Just prior to one of the break-ins, the long-time dictator of the secret political police, J. Edgar Hoover of the F.B.I., was apparently assassinated, May, 1972, by being poisoned within his private residence. Just one University publication, the Crimson, apparently of Harvard, carried the reputed murder details.
Richard Milhous Nixon, bolstered by his top official, the infamous Henry Kissinger, a Rockefeller puppet, were engaging in treasonous arrangements with the North Vietnamese. At the same time, they promised to bring the Southeast Asia conflict to a conclusion. On that basis, part secret, part public, Nixon in re-election in 1972, swept the nation. His Democrat opponent carried just one state of the fifty.
None of the real scandalous details came out prior to November, 1972. This was for various reseaons. In October, 1972, a young fellow named William Jefferson Clinton, drove Congressman Hale Boggs (D., La.) to an airport. Boggs together with an Alaska official named Begich, took off for a flight to Alaska. Their airplane disappeared somewhere in Alaska. The media version was that the airplane could not be found. However, our later interviews with investigators convinced us the plane was found by a secret team of U.S. Military Intelligence who would not publicly reveal what happened to Boggs and his associate.
Boggs had been a member of the Warren Commission whose fraudulent 1964 report asserted that a lone assassin slaughtered President John F. Kennedy. In years thereafter, however, Boggs expressed misgivings. He said there was a cover-up. Moreover, he dared reveal that J.Edgar Hoover, through wire-tapping, was spying on Congress. Boggs knew further of the role of Nixon with the planning group just prior to the Dallas assassination.
To blackmail her way into the top level of the monopoly press, on ABC Television network, the Congressman's daughter, Cokie Roberts (nee Boggs), made public statements she was in a position to know were false. Namely, that her late father was satisfied with the Warren Commission Report. And further, that her father's airplane flight was never found. As a further pay-off, her mother, widow of the Congressman, briefly held his seat. The widow Boggs became the first actual U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican. Previously, no such Ambassador was sent to the theocracy, only a "delegate" to the Pontiff.
Cokie Roberts' brother, Thomas Boggs, became one of the most plugged-in lobbyists in Washington. At one time, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal, in 1982, Tommy Boggs was the lobbyist for Central American death squads. Tommy's lobbyist/partner, was U.S. Commerce Department chieftain, Ron Brown, murdered in 1996, by a sabotaged plane crash in Yugoslavia. He survived the crash and was on the crash scene, shot through the top of his head, according to forensic details dared to be discussed by government officials. Brown was part of a Red Chinese Secret Police scandal, if he lived, which would have without question, put his business partners, Bill and Hillary Clinton , in prison for treason, bribery, and other federal crimes.
At the same time as the murder of Ron Brown, his business partner, Tommy Boggs, traveling also overseas, survived an assassination attempt.
A driving force in the Watergate burglars, was long-time CIA officer, E. Howard Hunt. His wife, Dorothy Hunt, courier of hush money to various spies, assassins, and operatives on behalf of the Nixon White House, was part of twelve Watergate related operatives murdered by way of a sabotaged plane crash in Chicago. That was in December, 1972, one month aftter the re-election of Tricky Dick.
Right after the Nixon re-election , Pentagon operative, Bob Woodward, under cover as a "reporter" for the Washington Post, wrote story after story about the Watergate Affair. Woodward contended he was getting details planted, for example, in a purported "flower pot" at his apartment. Or, that certain "sources" were meeting him in underground auto parking garages.
The real role of Woodward did not become plain until the 1991 publication of "Silent Coup: The Removal of a President", by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1991. The entire book can be read ON-LINE, www.nixonera.com/etexts/silentcoup/contents.asp
Various of the Military Junta are named and identified in the book; those who wanted Nixon removed for treason and other high crimes using Bob Woodward as their driving force. The history of Naval Lt. Robert U. Woodward and his top Pentagon security clearance on super-secret projects, and his role with General Alexander Haig, are mentioned such as at pages 69-70 of the book. The monopoly press either ignored the book or it was for a while tied up by various proceedings.
[Bob Woodward's father was Du Page County Chief Judge Alfred Woodward. The Judge had the infamous "Equity Funding" case, litigation of a giant insurance firm with vast investments. Who were those who quietly made multi-million dollar claims against the firm's assets? Why Watergate officials such as Leon Jaworski and the family of top Nixon staff member Erlichman. Others, like a Teacher's Pension Fund were denied payment. The case became a giant money laundering device. When I asked the Chief Court Clerk for the file, he informed me that I could not have it because it was locked up and suppressed in the Office of Chief Judge Woodward. When I insisted to the Chief Judge that court files are to be public records in the custody of the Chief Clerk's office, the Judge set about to have me arrested for contempt. When I told the Chief Judge I would sue him for false arrest, he relented and turned over a copy to me of the entire file. So, we are the only ones that still have the secret file.]
[In other litigation, Chief Judge Woodward was identified, as documented, in a court case, as being also a director of a hospital that engaged in satanic rituals on children.]
[In another Woodward detail, Bob Woodward's first cousin was murdered, to remind Bob Woodward he better stay shut about certain details regarding certain Admirals and Generals.]
The public execution of JFK is detailed in our website, Overthrow, part 42. The murder of twelve of the Watergate group by the sabotaged plane crash is documented in the four part website series, "The Secret History of Airplane Sabotage". Butterfield was the CIA officer sitting at the door of the Oval Office, who just happened to mention, during Congressional hearings, 1973, that Nixon had a secret taping system in the Oval Office. That led to the Impeachment Resolutions being prepared against Nixon, culminating in his resignation as President in August, 1974.
[From about 1996 to recent dates, we have posted on our website how a group of disgruntled Admirals and Generals tried, in vain, to arrest their Commander-in-Chief Clinton for treason, which they are authorized to do under the Uniform Military Code. Further, that a now larger such group are determined to remove, by arrest, or whatever other means available, Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush for treason and other federal criminal offenses. ]
George W. Bush would not dare to deny Bob Woodward to interview him. Bush, though considered a misfit and incompetent, still in all, knows enough that when the Aristocracy sends their front man, Bob Woodward, to question Bush, that Bush better permit the interview. Like the faction in the Aristocracy, and their operatives, the Military Junta, they are jointly attempting to rescue themselves by, in some manner, throwing away Bush and his circle of iron-fisted Fascist types. Of course, the cynical joke is, there is a wrong assumption that the Establishment, "the powers that be", the Ruling Class---that is THEM---are not at the same time war-mongers and creators of financial Depressions, and vowing to cause destruction of Nation-States, such as the now developing disunited Breakaway States of America.
With inside details and powers, on behalf of a faction in the Aristocracy, Bob Woodward, as a supposed book author, often using ghost writers did the following:
===The U.S. Supreme Court was sitting on an important spy case. Bob Woodward, through inside data from a faction in the aristocracy, was able to penetrate the secrets of the high court's judges, law clerks, and offices. This, by way of pressuring and blackmailing the judges as to the spy case. "The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court", by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, 1979.
===On behalf of insurance companies that carried the liability insurance, and movie completion liability insurance, as to numerous movie stars, Bob Woodward, with a ghost writer, came up with secret inside details of movie stars who were a liability to the insurance firms, in that such celebrities were users of dope, in many instances making the completion of certain movies doubtful. The insurance firms apparently violated the privacy of certain movie stars by divulging to Woodward and his ghost writer, details of what movie stars are addicted to dope. "Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi" by Bob Woodward, 1984.
===With numerous reputed fake details of the Watergate Affair was Bob Woodward's 1974 book "All The President's Men". To promote himself, Woodward came numerous times to the Chicago area, at press conferences. I was present at most every such event. The moment Woodward showed up, he announced to the gathered mostly mass media reporters, "That man there in the wheelchair(pointing to me), the police and the security patrol have to remove him or the press conference cannot proceed." I was sitting there without having uttered a single word. I informed the police and the security patrol, that if they arrest me, without me having said or done anything but sit there, and I being a fairly well-known free lance journalist, that I would sue Woodward and the police and security patrol for false arrest. So, they backed off, although throughout the press conference, Woodward persisted in threatening not to proceed unless I was removed and jailed.
Evidently Bob Woodward was worried I would say something about his father, the Chief Judge, having permitted the suppressing of the records of the massive insurance company, Equity Funding, and the unlawful payments, supposedly authorized by the Judge, to various Watergate officials.
By the way, the Washington Post as a business is based on the embezzling of huge federal government sums by a member of the Federal Reserve Board, namely, the father of long-time Washington Post boss Katherine Graham. Also, as to the swindling/spy-riddled background of the newspaper, see my website story "The Late Grand Dragon of the Washington Post".
Some may consider it not pertinent, but I feel it is very revealing of his character, that Bob Woodward, according to reliable other news reporters, has been a vicious wife-beater.
In April, 2004 was published the book supposedly by Bob Woodward, with a ghost writer, with Woodward having interviewed the occupant and resident of the Oval Office, namely George W. Bush, and numerous others. "Plan of Attack" by Bob Woodward.
In time, answers may emerge, to the following questions:
===Bush had to allow Woodward and his ghost writer to scandalize Bush, or the faction that wants to blame the Iraq U.S. Military eventual disaster on Bush, might have to do something more severe or even violent to Bush, by way of throwing him away. What is THEIR plan and time-table?
===A country like the U.S. is like a giant ship. Is Woodward's attack, also through CBS' "Sixty Minutes" interview of Woodward, the beginning of turning this big ship around? Remember, CBS, like the other mass media networks, are skilled blackmailers. CBS has long had a Military Games Division, planning, scheming, and otherwise testing, various ideas for and on behalf of the Aristocracy, the Bilderbergers, the Bohemian Grove gang, and other high-level satanists and malefactors, of counter-insurgency, the overthrow of governments, and similar dirty business.
So, is Bob Woodward the front man, on behalf of the Aristocracy, out to lynch George W. Bush for acts of treason and other high crimes against the U.S. Constitution and the people of the U.S.?
Is Woodward actually the black-hooded executioner, having arrived, on behalf of the Aristocracy, to chop off the head of George W. Bush, and maybe, the head of his father as well? As part of a cover up of the home-grown, not Arab involved, violence of 9-11 and the false-basis attack on Iraq simply to seize their oil treasure?
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The Real Reason For
America's Recession
3-13-8
The only candidate that will change the status quo is Rep. Ron Paul, who is indeed still in the race for President and will be until the end...
I hope the following 14 reasons for the United States financial "recession" disaster are forwarded over and over again, until American Citizens get the message and demand better government. I have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year. http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth., heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.' http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States '.
The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!!!
Are we THAT stupid???
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Spitzer The
Bush/Silverstein Connection
By Ted Lang
3-13-8
The DC Madam scandal has been erased from the American public's radar screen by the Zionist-controlled "American" mass media. The Bush White House pedophile scandal is non-existent thanks to the Zionist MSM. And if one needs proof of the Zionist domination of our mass mainstream Establishment media, please go here to get up to speed.
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The New York Times, gatekeeper for all of broadcast and cable TV news, has yet to learn of the Downing Street Memo. And Cheney's direct involvement in orchestrating defense system "stand-downs" to facilitate the 9/11 massacre of Americans, and his criminally motivated exposure of Valerie Plame, are of absolutely no concern to the MSM. So why all the concentrated media focus on New York Governor Elliot Spitzer's long-term rolls in the hay with paid sex partners?
Even a novice news junkie that has only recently begun to understand the fraud and propaganda agenda of the "American" MSM can immediately notice something weird relative to the "exposure" of Governor Spitzer's addiction to high-priced prostitutes. Any normal red-blooded American male just loves women who can reduce down sexual pleasure to the simple exchange requiring only money. It is indeed the "oldest profession."
Consider all the previously cited potential block-busting front page headlines "missed" by "America's" MSM. Why the fuss over this? Even the exposure and resignation of former Governor Jim McGreevey of New Jersey attracted less mass media frenzy than this "news" event. It is clear that this exposé of the "evil" of Eliot Spitzer is a deliberate media-hyped fraud to remove from power that which is a serious threat to The Establishment's power elite.
Let US recall the directives for all disciples of Zionism as articulated in "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion." Here is the applicable dictate from "the Protocols" as cited in Henry Ford's The International Jew, Chapter 8: "As always election campaigns are staged as entertainment, a diversion for the people; they are permitted to think and act as if they are really making their own government, but it is always the Jews that win. And if after having elected their man or group, obedience is not rendered to the Jewish control, then you speedily hear of 'scandals' and 'investigations' and 'impeachments' for the removal of the disobedient." Is this relevant to the Spitzer "scandal?"
Here's more from the agenda of "The Protocols" as illuminated by Ford: "Usually a man with a 'past' proves the most obedient instrument, but even a good man can often be tangled up in campaign practices that compromise him. It has been commonly known that Jewish manipulation of American election campaigns have been skillfully handled, that no matter which candidate was elected, there was a ready made sufficient amount of evidence to discredit him in case his Jewish masters needed to discredit him. To arrange this is part of the thoroughness of Jewish control. And, of course, the American people have been sufficiently trained to roar against the public official immediately [when] the first Jewish hound emits its warning bay."
Sound familiar? The Zionist objective is to recruit for American government those politicians with skeletons in their closets so that they can be blackmailed. The greatest example is the pompous, arrogant and egotistical ass Woodrow Wilson, who sold US out for the Zionist Rothschild Marxist income tax and the Warburg Federal Reserve System now bankrupting America. But these affronts to true individual freedom are of absolutely no concern whatsoever to our Israel and communist New World Order-supporting MSM. And here's why.
Virtually every power-postured, corrupt and immoral politician in America uses the services of beautiful high-priced prostitutes. It's part of the American political power rewards system. But the phony straw man Frankenstein monsters of American government have conjured up phony affronts to decency and morality. These offer that the "mere possession of" firearms, "controlled substances," pornographic materials, and soon, documents and writings critical of American government, constitute crimes that require punishment. The fact is, these are NOT crimes. Crimes are acts of depravity committed by one human against another thereby depriving the victim of the enjoyment of life, liberty and property. And who commits more crimes against American citizens than American government?
Crimes that are not resultant in "damaged victims," victims that have been deprived or forcibly reduced in economic value, or who have sustained physical injury, pain or death, are not crimes. Government creates crimes out of thin air. Government establishes "crimes" that in reality are no crimes at all. They are only crimes because government says they are crimes. When one considers the "liberal" call for a separation of church and state, combined with the unequal and opposite marriage of synagogue and state, "laws" are created for political expediency, and not for either equity or justice.
Prostitution is not a crime. Nor is the "mere possession" of anything, a crime. As long as no one is hurt or injured in any way by someone's action, then NO CRIME HAS BEEN COMMITTED! The corrupt, immoral state and its corrupt, immoral, politicians are the only ones who discriminate against law-abiding, moral citizens, to elevate their own depravity and real crimes to their own standard of acceptability.
Yes, technically, Spitzer committed a crime; but only in the eyes of corrupt, immoral government. And yes, he basically has no defense because he vigorously prosecuted others for committing precisely the same type of "offenses" that he himself committed. At worst, he's a hypocrite. But drug possession, drug usage, alcohol possession, alcohol usage and even over-indulgence, are none of the government's damned business! Humans make mistakes, but a whole hell of a lot less mistakes than fucking government! Please identify for me the worst criminal you can call to memory that mass murdered more than one million human beings!
New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer was brought down rapidly, disgracefully, and very, very publicly by the mass Zionist media. Where was this media for Downing, the White House pedophiles, Plame, Edmonds and the DC Madam? They were nowhere to be found! So as far as this news junkie is concerned, they can all drop dead and go straight to hell!
Spitzer was targeted by The Establishment. Sure Spitzer is Jewish, and I've re-registered as a Republican to support Congressman Ron Paul and my Jewish friend Dr. Murray Sabrin in his run for New Jersey Senate. But Spitzer's track record is simply marvelous! He was an enemy of War Street. He was an enemy of the international central bankers, the House of Rothschild/Rockefeller NWO promoters. He was investigating the 9/11 fraud perpetrated by the Cheney-Bush crime machine. He was threatening the international bankers, looking into the 9/11 insurance fraud of Larry Silverstein, and as Russian journalist
Faal, in her piece entitled, "New York Governor 'Destroyed' Over Threat to Probe 9/11 Attacks Against US," writes, "Reports consuming the US propaganda media organs and political elite today are centering upon the charges leveled against the Governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, and who is said to have paid for the services of a high priced prostitute.
FSB reports circulating in the Kremlin today, however, point to a much more sinister effort behind the toppling of Governor Spitzer as he had just begun a new probe into Larry Silverstein, the owner of the World Trade Center brought down in the September 11, 2001 attacks upon the US, and the Bush Families [sic] Carlyle Group."
BINGO!!!!
I might be slow, and I might have been inattentive. But I could never make the connection between Silverstein and the Bush GOP regarding their cooperative complicity in 9/11; but here it now is! Silverstein was a major investor and backer of the Bush crime family's Carlyle Group. Voila! The Carlyle group rakes in cash by funding war materiel, and 9/11 was the pretense for invading Iraq launched by the smirking Decider.
Silverstein, a real estate "genius," purchased two huge white elephants from Bloomberg's New York-New Jersey Port Authority, and insured it specifically and unusually against "terrorist" attacks which miraculously happened weeks after the ink dried on the contracts. Why would a "genius" real estate mogul buy these losers? Spitzer wanted to know!
Here's Faal's account of Silverstein's involvement with Carlyle: "The focus of Governor Spitzer's investigation, these reports state, revolve around the growing crisis embroiling the Carlyle Group as it nears total collapse and is facing insolvency due to Larry Silverstone's [sic] withdrawal of over $14 billion from the embattled groups coffers, and which could see the loss to New York States [sic] already troubled massive pension fund of over $10 billion." Spitzer obviously was too loyal to America. As it is stated in the Protocols, he needed to be removed for his "disobedience."
Spitzer has been whoring for ten years. Nothing new here. As previously stated, ALL politicians in America are corrupt and all do this. Spitzer never saw it coming. And stupid brainwashed America is of course outraged as the Protocols knew they would be. Traitor Nancy Pelosi could have come to his aid and told the criminal GOP to back off or she would go after the smirking disgrace in the White House; but she too is only loyal to Israel and its New World Order.
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The Fed's statement continues: “The Federal Open Market Committee has authorized increases in its existing temporary reciprocal currency arrangements (swap lines) with the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Swiss National Bank (SNB). These arrangements will now provide dollars in amounts of up to $30 billion and $6 billion to the ECB and the SNB, respectively, representing increases of $10 billion and $2 billion. The FOMC extended the term of these swap lines through September 30, 2008.”
So, why is the Fed issuing loans to foreign banks? Isn't that a tacit admission of its guilt in the trillion dollar subprime swindle? Or is it simply a way of warding off litigation from angry foreign investors who know they were cheated with worthless toxic bonds? In any event, the Fed's largess proves that the G-10 operates as de facto cartel determining monetary policy for much of the world. (The G-10 represents roughly 85% of global GDP)
As for Bernanke's Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF) it is intentionally designed to circumvent the Fed's mandate to only take top-grade collateral in exchange for loans. No one believes that these triple A mortgage-backed securities are worth more than $.70 on the dollar. In fact, according to a report in Bloomberg News yesterday: “AAA debt fell as low as 61 cents on the dollar after record home foreclosures and a decline to AA may push the value of the debt to 26 cents, according to Credit Suisse Group.
`The fact that they've kept those ratings where they are is laughable,'' said Kyle Bass, chief executive officer of Hayman Capital Partners, a Dallas-based hedge fund that made $500 million last year betting lower-rated subprime-mortgage bonds would decline in value. ``Downgrades of AAA and AA bonds are imminent, and they're going to be significant.'' Bass estimates most of AAA subprime bonds in the ABX indexes will be cut by an average of six or seven levels within six weeks.” (Bloomberg News) The Fed is accepting these garbage bonds at nearly full-value. Another gift from Santa Bernanke.
Additionally, the Fed is offering 28 day repos which -- if this auction works like the Fed's other facility, the TAF -- the loans can be rolled over free of charge for another 28 days. Yippee. The Fed found a way to recapitalize the banks with permanent rotating loans and the public is none the wiser. The capital-starved banksters at Citi and Merrill must feel like they just won the lottery. Unfortunately, Bernanke's move effectively nationalizes the banks and makes them entirely dependent on the Fed's fickle generosity.
The New York Times Floyd Norris sums up Bernanke's efforts like this:
“The Fed’s moves today and last Friday are a direct effort to counter a loss of liquidity in mortgage-backed securities, including those backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Given the implied government guarantee of Freddie and Fannie, rising yields in their paper served as a warning sign that the crunch was worsening and investor confidence was waning.
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THE JEWISH HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD had lost a fierce battle with President Jackson with regard to keeping their Central Bank. For in 1834, Jackson removed all government deposits from the Rothschild’s “Second Bank of the United States.”
A new System of National Banks was established in 1862 eliminating the Jew-controlled Central Bank up through 1901. It was on September 6 1901 that President William McKinley was assassinated through the intrigues of the Rothschilds and their hit-men.
With McKinley out of the way, the path to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was easily paved through the pawns of Jewish agents of the House of Rothschild. Two such Rothschild agents were the powerful Jewish bankers Jacob Schiff and Max Warburg.
President William McKinley was known as a “hard money” man. This was because he advocated a gold standard. Unlike his opponent, William Jennings Bryan, McKinley was against “easy money” with no backing — printed by Jewish lenders at interest to the borrower - namely the US government. This was the essence of McKinley’s 1896 & 1900 successful campaign against William Jennings Bryan who advocated for “free and unlimited coinage of silver.”
BUT BY McKINLEY FIGHTING AGAINST “easy money,” (translate Jew-coined & printed-at-interest money) McKinley sealed his death warrant. A death warrant signed, sealed, and delivered by the powerful House Of Rothschild, criminals in bankers’ suits.
THE ROOSEVELT-JEWISH CONNECTION
THE NEW YORK JEWISH CROWD WANTED Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt to be President. The Roosevelts were a wealthy group of NY socialites. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. (”Teddy” Roosevelt’s father) inherited the mutli-million dollar family business, “Roosevelt & Son,” importers of plate glass.
Through his many Jewish business connections, Theodore Roosevelt Sr. founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and the New York Children’s Orthopedic Hospital. All of these institutions were and are Jew-intensive.
Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt had been groomed by the powerful NY Jewish political machine to be the Governor of NY and future President of the United States. In 1900, McKinley was forced by Republican partisans of the Jews to appoint “Teddy” Roosevelt as Vice President to get the “Jewish vote.” McKinley’s appointment of Roosevelt soon turned out to be his demise.
ENTER JEW COMMUNIST-ANARCHISTS
EMMA GOLDMAN & LEON CZOLGOSZ
JEWS SWARMED OUT OF POLAND AND RUSSIA beginning in the 1880’s.
ON SEPTEMBER 6 1901, a 28 year old émigré Polish Jew, Leon Czolgosz, walked into the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo NY where McKinley was speaking and shot McKinley twice in the abdomen at point blank range. McKinley died a week later and “Teddy” Roosevelt was sworn in as President, much to the delight of the NY Jews.
Prior to the assassination, Leon Czolgosz had fallen in with Emma Goldman’s Jewish anarchist crowd at Sach’s Café on Suffolk Street, their headquarters in New York City’s Lower East Side. (NYC’s Lower East Side was where Trotsky, owing to Jacob Schiff’s financial support, had recruited many communist Jews to travel with him to Russia to incite the October Revolution of 1917.)
Emma Goldman’s crowd had broken away from main-line socialists who were “under the eye of a paternal govenment.” Instead, Goldman’s crowd preached that social change could only be achieved through violence and assassinations. They preached that capitalists would never change on their own volition. Thus it was here at Sach’s Café that the assassination plot against President McKinley, a “capitalist,” was hatched.
One member of Emma Goldman’s group, the Jew, Julius Edelson, was quoted by the NY police as saying to them:
— “No matter how much Czolgolz has been damned for his good work, we know that he was a great man. He was a true hero.” — See: “Anarchists Attack Police” Here
And not only this, but the Jew, Emma Goldman, is extolled by Jewry as a “heroine” — even though she preached violence to attain her anarchist aims as recorded in The Jewish Women Archives:
— “Emma Goldman refused to condemn Czolgosz and other like-minded individuals who were driven to acts of violence against representatives of the capitalist system. Emma Goldman admired the sensitivity that led Czolgosz to this extreme.” —
Indeed - in Emma Goldman’w autobiography, Living My Life, when describing her arrest after McKinley’s assassination, wrote, “My sympathies were with Czolgosz.”
See: Emma Goldman’s Use Of Violence-Tragedy At Buffalo, October 6 1901, Here. (Click On “Full Image” & Scroll Down)
FOUR DAYS AFTER Czolgosz’ assassination of McKinley, on September 10 1901, Emma Goldman was arrested (but released!) in Chicago under suspicion of corroborating in President McKinley’s assassination. She was arrested many times prior to and after this arrest for “inciting to riot and violence.” Here
EMMA GOLDMAN & HER JEWISH ANARCHIST LOVER
ALEXANDER BERKMAN
GOLDMAN’S LOVER WAS ANOTHER Jewish communist-anarchist by the name of Alexander Berkman. Berkman was imprisoned in 1892 for his attempted assassination of the steel magnate, Henry Clay Frick.
Emma Goldman assisted Berkman in his attempted assassination of Frick by obtaining a pistol for him to use Here (1st paragraph) And: Here. But at the trial Berkman refused to testify against his Jewish-communist lover, Emma Goldman.
Goldman visited Berkman in prison where they talked about their future anarchist plans Here. Both Goldman and Berkman were associated with the “Haymarket Anarchists,” a group led by 8 Jewish communists who threw a bomb into a crowd which killed 7 police officers during their Chicago anarchist rally in 1886 Here.
Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, being communists, were most likely funded by the powerful communist-supporter, Jacob Schiff, the renowned Jewish banker of Kuhn Loeb, who funded the burgeoning Bolshevik movement in Russia.
Through Emma Goldman’s association with Schiff, and other powerful Jews, she was *never* charged with her numerous crimes which included her role in the McKinley assassination as well as inciting violence against American police.
Eventually Emma Goldman was finally deported to Russia where she joined the Bolsheviks and later assisted them in inciting the communist rebels against the Christian loyalists in the Spanish Civil War.
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Posted 11/03/2008
Killing ourselves in Afghanistan
Matthew Cole – Salon.com
On a recent bitterly cold winter day, I sat huddled on a red Persian carpet in an unheated Kabul office, waiting for a visitor who, I was told by a trusted friend, would help me understand why America is not winning its war in Afghanistan.
A stocky, bearded figure in a gray vest, a faded brown shalwar kameez and a cream-colored Pashtun shawl appeared at the door. He removed his shoes and walked on cracked, callused feet over the carpet to sit cross-legged beside me. Our meeting was conducted in secrecy. My guest was, until early 2007, a Taliban commander of 50 fighters in North Waziristan, Pakistan, one of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) near the Afghan border where both al-Qaida and Taliban insurgents operate. Ever since he left the Taliban, he has been living in fear of assassination for treason. I thanked him in English for his willingness to meet, and he answered me in Pashto, the chief language of southern and eastern Afghanistan and Pakistan's Tribal Areas, without a trace of emotion.
"If you had tried to interview me this time last year," he said, "I would have killed you." Then he reached past my feet and poured himself a glass of sugary green tea.
Over the course of several hours in the Kabul office, "Haji Muhammed," as we agreed he would be called, spun a gemstone ring absently around his finger and ran his hands through his thinning hair as he described for me his firsthand experience of an American foreign-policy debacle. The U.S. is paying for both sides of the war in Afghanistan. As is becoming increasingly clear, for at least two and a half years, and perhaps far longer, the Pakistani government has been receiving massive U.S. aid while its intelligence agency and elements of its military have been pursuing their own anti-American agenda within Afghanistan. The U.S. has given the Musharraf regime $10 billion since Sept. 11, 2001, but Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and factions within the Pakistan army, while helping the U.S. track al-Qaida with one hand, have been aiding the Taliban with the other, both inside Afghanistan and across the Pakistani border in Tribal Areas like North Waziristan. In part because of Pakistani help, the Taliban have made a steady comeback and American and Afghan casualties are at their highest annual levels since the war began.
Islamabad has denied complicity and Washington has maintained official silence, but the double-dealing is not surprising. It's just the continuation of the Pakistani government's former alliance with the Taliban, which was itself an outgrowth of a decades-old Pakistani policy of trying to exert control over the internal affairs of its chaotic neighbor. It was the recognition of Pakistan's motives that drove Muhammed to defect. "I left the Taliban because I could no longer stand Pakistan's hand in Afghanistan," Muhammed told me through a translator. "For years we were trained and helped, and fought alongside ISI and [Pakistan] army officers. But they are not mujahedin, they want to keep Afghanistan weak."
Muhammed said the ISI had helped train and arm him to fight inside Afghanistan against U.S. and international coalition forces since 2002. "If the world can know what happens inside the Tribal Areas, maybe Afghanistan has a chance to survive," he said. "Like this the war will not end."
For nearly two years now, the military situation inside Afghanistan has deteriorated. Violence has increased, security has shrunk and the Taliban have brought the war to Kabul. Coalition casualties increased more than 20 percent last year and estimates of civilian deaths for 2007 range as high as 6,000. My own repeated trips to the country have convinced me that not only are Haji Muhammed's assertions about Pakistan's role in the violence true, but that the U.S. -- or at least its representatives on the ground in Afghanistan -- has long been aware of the problem.
Interviews with Afghan and U.S. intelligence officials involved in covert U.S. operations along the border suggest that U.S. intelligence operatives have known since 2005 that the Pakistan army and the ISI have been training and arming insurgents in the Tribal Areas who cross into Afghanistan to kill Afghan, U.S. and coalition forces. "Our guys are getting killed because Pakistan has a double policy," said an American policy advisor who travels frequently to U.S military and CIA bases near the border. But the same advisor says intelligence officials have only recently gotten through to their superiors in Washington that Pakistan is part of the problem.
On my own trip to an American military base near the border in Afghanistan's Kunar province in October 2006, I was asked on arrival to have an off-the-record conversation with a U.S. Army public affairs officer. He explained a few rules about avoiding sections of the base that were run by the CIA and Special Forces. Then he told me that although we could literally see Pakistan from where we stood, I should ask no questions about what role Pakistan played in Afghanistan's war. "You might as well pretend it doesn't exist," he said. He understood reporters were interested, and acknowledged that most of the insurgents operating in Kunar were based across the border in Pakistan. But the Army's orders were, essentially, to ignore the problem. "Pakistan," he said, smiling, "is a committed ally in the war on terror."
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The sweet tea could not keep us warm, so our host brought in an electric space heater. I listened as Muhammed detailed Pakistani help in attacking U.S. forces in Afghanistan. While it is impossible to verify all of his claims, parts of his story have been confirmed by a senior Western diplomat and Afghan and U.S. intelligence officials.
Muhammed is a Pashtun Afghan who joined the Taliban as a young fighter in 1993. He viewed the Taliban, which would rule Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, as a principled force bringing needed national stability. He fought against the Taliban's main rivals, the Northern Alliance, who would become instrumental in the American effort to roust the Taliban after 9/11.
The U.S. began bombing Taliban and al-Qaida sites in Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001, when the Taliban would not hand over Osama bin Laden. The aerial campaign was meant to support the Northern Alliance's push against the Taliban. After Kabul fell to the Northern Alliance and U.S. Special Forces in November, Muhammad retreated with other Taliban fighters across the border, to Miran Shah in North Waziristan, one of the southernmost of Pakistan's Tribal Areas.
The Federally Administered Tribal Areas are a collection of seven "agencies" and six "frontier districts" that share 250 miles of mountainous border with Afghanistan, and make up an area about the size of Massachusetts. Nearly all of the 4 million residents are Pashtun, like their neighbors across the border in southern and eastern Afghanistan. The arid, craggy region is less Pakistan than it is "Pashtunistan," an area run by millennia-old tribal customs rather than the central government in Islamabad. Since U.S. forces occupied Afghanistan and the anti-American insurgency began, the Tribal Areas have been headquarters for al-Qaida, and a refuge for the Taliban. The region has also been the site of most of the conflict's guerrilla and terrorist training camps, many of which Haji Muhammed attended, visited or helped conduct. Many of the worst terrorist incidents of recent years, the 7/7 suicide bombings in London, the failed Heathrow airline attacks, the German attacks and the recent train bombing attempts in Barcelona, involve individuals with significant ties to the Tribal Areas.
From the time Muhammed arrived in North Waziristan in 2001 until his recent defection, he worked, he says, under Siraj Haqqani. Siraj, now the leader of the North Waziristan-based Taliban, is the son of Jalaluddin Haqqani, who was one of the seven main Afghan mujahedin leaders of the Afghan-Soviet war in the 1980s, and a direct recipient of the U.S. and Saudi aid that was funneled to all seven of those leaders via the ISI.
Jalaluddin Haqqani had also fled into North Waziristan in late 2001. He had suffered serious wounds to his shoulder and leg. For six months after the fall of the Taliban, as the elder Haqqani recuperated, Haji Muhammed and his comrades did nothing, though they very much wanted to expel Afghanistan's new foreign occupiers, the Americans, and the American-installed government in Kabul. "We waited to see how the Americans were fighting," Muhammed told me. "And we waited for money and supplies. We had very little."
According to Muhammed, the fighters who regrouped in North Waziristan after the fall of Kabul were a complex and ever-shifting alliance of Afghan Talibs, al-Qaida of various nationalities, Pashtun tribal militias and Pakistani jihadists. Within the mix, he said, there were two main and distinct groups. One was largely domestic and made up of Afghan and Pakistani Talibs. The other one was, and is, led by foreign fighters -- Arabs, Uzbeks and Chechens. This was Muhammed's organization.
Though he served under an Afghan Pashtun, Siraj Haqqani, he worked and trained with Abu Layth-al Libi, a Libyan national in his 40s who's considered by many in the U.S. intelligence community to be al-Qaida's No. 3. Abu Layth is best known for being the man who informed the world in July 2002 that bin Laden was still alive, and was also seen in video footage from 2004 leading an apparent attack on an Afghan military outpost. Abu Layth was reportedly killed by a CIA predator drone strike this January.
Despite fighting alongside Layth, Muhammed did not consider himself al-Qaida -- he insisted to me, quite forcefully, that he was Taliban – but the goal was the same. All wanted to attack the Americans inside Afghanistan.
Some of the cash and weapons needed to carry the fight to the Americans finally appeared after Jalaluddin Haqqani reached out to his previous handlers in the ISI. Beginning in 2002, according to Muhammed, the Pakistani intelligence agents who had underwritten his struggle against the Soviets and had continued to fund him up until the U.S. invasion begin helping Haqqani again. Haqqani and his men were able to stockpile Russian and Chinese light arms provided by the Pakistanis, and Muhammed, not then a commander, helped organize small groups of fighters for additional training. In the winter months, Muhammed and the other fighters lived in the North Waziristan lowlands; when the snows melted, they headed for their training camps in the hills.
By 2004, Muhammed was a platoon leader. But supplies were still inconsistent and his platoon's efforts inside Afghanistan's eastern provinces against Afghan, U.S. and coalition forces remained sporadic. That changed later that year when Pakistan army trucks began arriving in Miran Shah to collect fighters. "We were put in the back of the trucks at night," Muhammed said. "There were about 40 or so men loaded into the trucks with the top covered. We were driven to Nowshera" -- a town far north of Waziristan in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province where the Pakistan army has many training facilities -- "and we stayed for a few days for training. After, they drove us back to Miran Shah." European and American analysts believe Pakistan stepped up aid to the insurgents in 2004 because the Musharraf regime saw that U.S. forces were achieving no better than a stalemate in southern Afghanistan, the Taliban's stronghold. The Pakistanis stepped into the resulting power vacuum by aiding the Taliban.
The ISI also began to provide assistance in the Taliban's own training camps. The training camps inside both North and South Waziristan, said Muhammed, required new recruits to go through all the same training. After the ISI began helping, the labor was divided. In addition to leading attacks inside Afghanistan, Muhammed helped train young Afghan and Pakistani men in basic weapons. "I was good at some things, like teaching how to fire weapons." While he did that, an Arab or Uzbek trainer might school a smaller group in remote-controlled bombs or IEDs. An ISI officer, meanwhile, might teach an even smaller group how to gather intelligence.
Combined, it was an excellent education in guerrilla warfare, the same methods and tactics taught in the camps in Afghanistan prior to 9/11. And Muhammed intimated that because of Pakistani protection, the fighters in the North Waziristan training camps didn't fear American air power. "We were never scared or worried about American airstrikes. We were only worried about the men who entered. We had very serious security. You had to have proper paperwork and permission to get inside the camps. We worried about spies, but not missiles."
Muhammed himself also received training from the ISI that allowed him to launch more sophisticated attacks across the border. During late 2005, Muhammed and his platoon operated on the Shawal mountain range in North Waziristan. From the Shawal peaks he and his men could see Afghanistan just a few miles away. An ISI captain named Asif Khan trained him to use a 6-foot rocket called the Sakar-20, a Russian-made device that is roughly 6 feet long and requires several days to perfect firing.
The rockets were delivered at night by an ISI logistics officer to a house in Miran Shah. The next morning, Muhammed's men would retrieve them and transport them to the Shawal peaks. Capt. Khan never wore a uniform and kept his beard long. The ISI and army personnel who worked with the Taliban, Muhammed said, almost never wore uniforms, the better to blend in. "From their looks they were mujahedin," he said.
Capt. Khan, who took orders from another ISI officer whom Muhammed knew as "Major Doctor Sajit," spent a week teaching Muhammed how to position the rocket on the Shawal's ridgeline to get its maximum range of 30 kilometers. Khan, Muhammed said, also gave the Taliban fighters GPS devices, taught the men how to calibrate them, and then paid Afghans to take the device across the border to nearby American and Afghan bases to pinpoint their locations. With those coordinates, Muhammed could fire the Sakar-20 with decent precision. "Once I was taught, then I trained my men."
In 2005 and 2006, Muhammed fired the Sakar-20's at U.S. and Afghan posts inside Khost, the Afghan province just across the border from North Waziristan. "We fired rockets inside Afghanistan whenever we could get supplied," said Muhammed. He did not tell me what he hit with the rockets. In late 2006, he began to consider defecting, and in 2007 he made the leap, fleeing to Kabul and the protection of the National Directorate for Security, or NDS, the Afghan government's intelligence agency.
On a second meeting in the same Central Kabul office, Muhammed and I again sat cross-legged on the red rug and drank tea. This time I spread before him some maps of Pakistan's Tribal Areas, so he could help me understand where he had been and what he had done.
He pointed out the mountain range where he used to fire rockets into Afghanistan, and the village where one of the training camps was situated, and from which he and Abu Layth led an attack on a small American fire base across the border.
I asked Muhammed why he really left the Taliban, why he had abandoned his friends and colleagues after 15 years. He sighed and looked at his feet for a few moments, suddenly looking much older than his years.
I joined the Taliban when I was young," he finally answered, "very young. They wanted to get rid of corruption and to end the fighting between the warlords. Afghanistan needed this and I wanted to help. I became a soldier, but when we fled to Waziristan we relied too much on the Pakistanis. And we were corrupted. Land disputes inside Afghanistan were settled by Pakistanis, and by the man with the most money. This isn't just. And fewer Afghans made decisions about how and where and when to fight inside Afghanistan."
Muhammed has come to terms with his new station in life. "I worked many years with Arabs, Uzbeks and Chechens. I have accepted that they must be killed for Afghanistan's sake. I don't feel bad." But he still draws the line at helping those other foreigners. "I won't work for the Americans. Twice NDS has asked me to meet with them. I said no. If I do that I am surely a dead man."
While Muhammed was contemplating defection, U.S. intelligence officials were growing frustrated with the duplicity of a supposed ally in the war on terror, and with the limitations placed on them by Islamabad and Washington. But much of the problem was due, initially, to the way the CIA conducts its business, and to the rules of engagement in the Afghan-Pakistan border region.
The CIA rotates most of its officers in the area every three to six months, giving them insufficient time to learn the contours of Pakistan's problems. Virtually no operational officers speak Pashtun, nor can they travel without an official Pakistani escort.
Also, until recently, the CIA division of labor has made officers in Afghanistan responsible for attacking and thwarting Taliban inside Pakistan. Officers based in Pakistan are primarily tasked with tracking al-Qaida and Arab terrorists inside Pakistan.
Since the war began the general rules of engagement for U.S. forces -- be they CIA or other -- was that military attacks inside Pakistan could extend only six miles from the border, and only in pursuit. Attacking or even surveying training camps and any insurgent movements aided by Pakistan army units more than 20 miles inside the border was an impossibility.
Simply understanding the political dynamics of the Tribal Areas and the rest of Pakistan's frontier region to the north was therefore slow and laborious for American officials. Interference from the Pakistanis has made it still more difficult. CIA officers in Pakistan, who outnumber those stationed in Afghanistan, are not allowed to travel in Pakistan's frontier areas without ISI accompaniment. A retired CIA officer, who still works on contract for the agency, told me that in early 2006, he was based in Dir, a restive area north of North Waziristan in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, and not far from several U.S. bases in Afghanistan. The contractor was part of a joint CIA-ISI team hunting for bin Laden and al-Zawahiri. Before his rotation ended he asked the ISI brigadier if they could fly still farther north to the town of Chitral to watch some of the region's famed polo tournaments. "This guy told me straight up, 'I ain't letting you go north.'" The American persisted and was again rebuffed. "I realized that the only two reasons he wouldn't let me travel north was because he either was afraid of what I would see, or he was afraid of what he would see."
The Americans were quickly aware that the Pakistanis had no enthusiasm for fighting the Islamist insurgency. Gary Schroen, a former senior CIA official who led the first U.S. team into Afghanistan days after 9/11 and a former station chief in Islamabad, told me recently that where the Pakistan army does engage in battle against militants, they do so without vigor. "The Pakistanis don't want to fight a counter-insurgency inside their own country," he said. "They don't want to fight against Muslims, they want to fight against India."
According to a former senior government official responsible for U.S.-Pakistani policy, many American policymakers took for granted Musharraf would work harder going after al-Qaida than going after the Taliban. "I always assumed that, strategically, Pakistan would want to hedge its bets for the day the U.S. decided to pull out of the region." Pakistan had helped create the Taliban years earlier as an element of its regional security plan, meaning, in part, as an additional Muslim counterweight against perennial foe India. The U.S. expected a certain lack of enthusiasm from the Pakistanis for pursuing the Taliban, or at least a greater enthusiasm for dealing with al-Qaida. But Pakistan actually remained committed to keeping the Taliban active inside Afghanistan. What's more, said the former senior official, the White House had no mechanism for determining whether the ISI or other factions within the Musharraf regime were aiding the Taliban. Washington was conducting a "see no evil" foreign policy.
Ultimately, the Americans came to realize that the ISI was not just avoiding conflict with the insurgents, or shielding them, but actively abetting them. The senior American policy advisor told me that U.S. intelligence concluded that the ISI support -- often in the form of medical aid, signals intelligence and military strategy -- is not the work of rogue officers within Pakistan intelligence. "Injured Taliban fighters have been sent to military hospitals for good medical care," he said. "That doesn't happen inside Pakistan unless the military knows." Some ISI agents were attempting to help the Americans catch insurgents, but the most powerful faction within the agency was doing precisely the opposite.
The ISI has two main divisions. The CIA works primarily with Directorate C, the ISI's version of a counter-terrorism branch. According to a former senior CIA official who still reads intelligence reports from the region, Directorate C has been penetrated by American intelligence and its leader vetted by the CIA.
A second and much larger division of the ISI, however, is Directorate S, which is responsible for external operations, such as Afghanistan, Kashmir and India. It takes precedence over Directorate C, and often works at cross-purposes. The CIA has no working relationship with Directorate S, and no means to assess the loyalty of its personnel. A retired CIA officer who once served in the Tribal Areas recounted an exchange with his ISI partner from Directorate C. "He told me that he had just gone to a tribal shura in Peshawar and sat across from a man he'd arrested and imprisoned a few weeks earlier. He was convinced the man was a Pashtun terrorist. He said that one of his peers from Directorate S had released him within a few days -- with no notice or paperwork.
"This guy was trying to commiserate with me about how difficult it was to get anything done in the Tribal Areas," said the CIA officer. "He was truly frustrated. A few weeks after nabbing a bad guy, he had to sip tea and negotiate with him."
But the Americans discovered that the ISI was able to create some plausible deniability for its role in promoting the Taliban insurgency by relying on a Pakistani version of Blackwater. After 9/11, some ISI officers who were deemed too sympathetic to Islamic extremism were purged from the agency as a condition of American aid. These officers were never truly purged, however, and with other former and retired ISI agents form an extra-governmental conduit for ISI aid to the anti-American insurgents in the border area. Newsday reported last year that "the ISI offers the insurgents tactical advice and information about the deployment of U.S. forces."
As an example, the CIA learned that since 2005, a retired ISI officer who lives within 10 miles of the Afghan border, not far from a U.S. fire base, and who helped arm Afghan jihadists against the Soviets in the 1980s, was again working for the ISI -- this time on contract. According to U.S. and Afghan sources, this man, whom the CIA refers to as "General Yusef," recruits and organizes Afghan men to fight in Afghanistan's Nuristan and Kunar provinces. He is officially retired but reports to an ISI office in Chitral and receives a monthly stipend. For the ISI, General Yusef and his privatized peers are the perfect tools to help destabilize Afghanistan, since they don't officially work for the ISI.
General Yusef was responsible for procuring some of the fighters based at a training camp in Chitral that was the source of a spate of attacks on U.S. bases. The ISI, meanwhile, was responsible for the camp's very existence. In late 2006, Taliban and insurgent attacks on U.S. forces were escalating along the northern Afghan-Pakistani border. CIA officers stationed in northeast Afghanistan began to receive raw intelligence that a small but effective training camp had opened across the border in Chitral. The camp was run by the terrorist group Laishka-e-Taiba (LeT), which had been formed in the late 1990s by the ISI as a proxy force of jihadists to fight hundreds of miles to the east against the Indian government in Kashmir, the province over which India and Pakistan have been fighting for 60 years.
After the U.S invaded and occupied Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11, it demanded that Islamabad stop supporting LeT. The fighters, many of them Afghans from Nuristan Province, filtered back from Kashmir to their homes in Nuristan or settled just across the border from Nuristan in Pakistan's Chitral and Dir districts. By 2005, however, the LeT network was alive and well again, this time in Chitral, and the Pakistanis were apparently redirecting their old proxies at the new foe right next door. Insurgents were being driven at night from the Chitral training camp to a Pakistan army outpost in Pakistani trucks, their flatbeds covered and the headlights turned off. Once at the outpost, they were given Chinese-made weapons, mostly small arms and automatic rifles, and sent on separate mountain trails into Afghanistan to attack Americans.
Despite the mounting evidence that their Pakistani counterparts could not be trusted, American intelligence attempted to take action against insurgents sheltering on the Pakistani side of the border. But on at least two occasions, they were apparently thwarted by interference from elements within the Pakistani military or the ISI who were sympathetic to the insurgents.
In December 2006, a few months after reports about the LeT camp in Chitral had begun trickling in, a team of roughly 20 CIA and Afghan paramilitary officers drove pickup trucks from a CIA base in Chitral to an Afghan border post. They parked their vehicles and struck out on foot through small goat trails back over the border into Pakistan. It was nearly 2 a.m and all the men were outfitted with night-vision goggles, Kevlar helmets and vests, and plenty of automatic weapons. Their target was a Pakistani mullah named Hari Yusef. The CIA believed he was an IED expert, and used his compound in the Pakistani border town of Arandu as a safe house for dozens of insurgents.
But when the team kicked in the front gate to Mullah Yusef's mud-walled compound and entered, they found nothing. Neither Yusef nor any fighting-age men were there. They conducted a search, but left empty-handed within a half-hour. All they accomplished was burning a small footbridge that Yusef's men had used to cross the Kunar River into Afghanistan out of sight of the official border post.
Also in 2006, while Haji Muhammed was still with Taliban leader Siraj Haqqani, CIA officers at a Pakistani military garrison in Miran Shah, North Waziristan, attempted to capture Haqqani. Siraj's father, Jalaluddin, had grown too sick and weak to lead an insurgency. His son, however, had developed into a dangerous Taliban commander. Much as his father had done to the Soviets 20 years earlier, Siraj, with Haji Muhammed's help, was punishing foreign troops inside Afghanistan with effective guerrilla attacks. The CIA had long known about a mosque and madrassa that the Haqqanis used as a headquarters in Miran Shah. The CIA readied a plan to raid the mosque when surveillance indicated Siraj Haqqani was present.
The CIA plan required approval of a Pakistan Army commander in Peshawar. But there was never any Pakistani response, which killed the plan.
This refusal to cooperate, however, was no longer a surprise to American operatives. A year earlier, it had been. The CIA's first attempt to raid Haqqani, in 2005, had netted nothing. CIA officers discovered that an ISI officer had warned Haqqani in advance about the raid.
"Our guys couldn't believe it," the former CIA officer told me. "CIA had worked on this thing for some time, and the son of a bitch tipped Haqqani off." They presented their evidence to the ISI general in charge, who responded with embarrassment and apologies. "He told us that they were punishing the officer, but all we could verify is that he was no longer working with us. He could have been thrown in prison, or he could have been sent to another field office. We had no way of knowing."
The frustrated intelligence officers of Afghanistan and Pakistan may finally be getting some traction in Washington. While they have long been telling their superiors back home that there is a problem, their bosses seem to have chosen to believe that any Pakistani aid to the Taliban was the work of a few rogue officers and not policy. But the recent disclosure that the White House was considering giving CIA officers based in Afghanistan more freedom to operate unilaterally -- that is, without Pakistani approval -- is a result of accumulating intelligence reports such as the one about the LeT camp and reports about retired officers such as Yusef.
The U.S. recently announced plans to send 100 military trainers to the Pakistani frontier to aid the Pakistanis in the fight against al-Qaida. But recent American proposals to enter the Tribal Areas with U.S. troops, and to increase CIA efforts inside Pakistan, have been rebuffed by Pakistan's President Musharraf. He told Newsweek in January that Americans would "curse the day they came here" if they crossed the border without Pakistani permission. He continued, "I know American troops. I know our troops. This is not easy. American troops don't have any magic wands. Our troops, who are the locals, who understand groups and customs, are very hardy. Our troops can go on roti and water. American troops would need chocolate."
The outlook seems bleak for any real cooperation from the Pakistanis in stopping cross-border attacks. But in the end the Americans actually derive some benefit, however small, from the fact that the Musharraf regime is pursuing its own agenda. Sometimes the needs of the Americans and the Pakistanis coincide.
Haji Muhammed explained to me that when fighting rekindled along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in late 2002, the two main branches of the Taliban had slightly differing goals. The foreign-led fighters, though they were aiding the Afghan fighters looking to take back their country from the U.S., were really focused on the "Far-Enemy," training for terrorism missions against the West. The ISI-led Taliban were focused primarily on attacking the Americans inside Afghanistan, the "Near-Enemy."
Of late, however, the foreign-led Taliban factions in the Tribal Areas, the ones believed to shelter al-Qaida's Arab leadership, have begun focusing more attention on destabilizing Islamabad than Kabul. Now Pakistani intelligence has reason to work with the Americans, at least when it comes to some jihadis, including those known locally as "the Arabs."
Many of these insurgents were once aligned with the ISI, but no more. "The Arabs no longer trust the ISI," Muhammed told me. "They refuse to let the ISI know where they are because they are afraid the ISI will sell them out to the Americans." So while the ISI continues aiding Pashtun Taliban insurgents in North Waziristan, as long as those insurgents keep focusing their activities across the Afghan border, they are now simultaneously fighting other Talibs farther to the north.
The Pakistani government is particularly concerned with Baitullah Mehsud, whom both Musharraf and the CIA have identified as responsible for Benazir Bhutto's assassination in December. Mehsud, who operates in South Waziristan, is, like Haji Muhammed, a former lieutenant to Jalaluddin Haqqani. When he fought under Haqqani, he received ISI aid. He became the head of a Taliban group with branches in five of the seven Tribal Areas, which the ISI allowed to operate unimpeded as long as their military actions were directed at Americans in Afghanistan. Now, however, since Mehsud has become a threat to Islamabad's stability, Pakistani authorities are far more dedicated to killing him than they are to catching Osama bin Laden. The ISI and the Pakistani army are now at war with a powerful, many-tendriled insurgent band they helped to create. The ISI's history of double-dealing has come back to haunt it.
www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/03/10/taliban/
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