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Tacitus' Realm / Arafat
« on: November 04, 2004, 10:19:00 PM »
So...
Did Arafat use his "illness" to escape his compound....
                    or
Is Arafat really dead and on the machine until his people can come up with a response?

The drudgereport is saying he died with the Swiss bank account numbers still secret, leaving his wife and his organization high and dry...
What do you think???
Enjoy-Polarbear

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This is breaking news!  Been wondering what the story on Al-Qaqaa is?  The explosives located there, used in nuclear weapons manufacture and in other high explosive applications, were not stolen by terrorists as erroneously reported by the NT Times.  The Russians did it!  Check it out!  This could be why WMDs have been so hard to find.
Enjoy-Polarbear

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Russia tied to Iraq's missing arms


By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam Hussein's weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 U.S. military operation, The Washington Times has learned.
    John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, "almost certainly" removed the high-explosive material that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad.
 
    "The Russians brought in, just before the war got started, a whole series of military units," Mr. Shaw said. "Their main job was to shred all evidence of any of the contractual arrangements they had with the Iraqis. The others were transportation units."
    Mr. Shaw, who was in charge of cataloguing the tons of conventional arms provided to Iraq by foreign suppliers, said he recently obtained reliable information on the arms-dispersal program from two European intelligence services that have detailed knowledge of the Russian-Iraqi weapons collaboration.
    Most of Saddam's most powerful arms were systematically separated from other arms like mortars, bombs and rockets, and sent to Syria and Lebanon, and possibly to Iran, he said.
    The Russian involvement in helping disperse Saddam's weapons, including some 380 tons of RDX and HMX is still being investigated, Mr. Shaw said.
    The RDX and HMX, which are used to manufacture high-explosive and nuclear weapons, are probably of Russian origin, he said.
    Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita could not be reached for comment.
    The disappearance of the material was reported in a letter Oct. 10 from the Iraqi government to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
    Disclosure of the missing explosives Monday in a New York Times story was used by the Democratic presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry, who accused the Bush administration of failing to secure the material.
    Al-Qaqaa, a known Iraqi weapons site, was monitored closely, Mr. Shaw said.
    "That was such a pivotal location, Number 1, that the mere fact of [special explosives] disappearing was impossible," Mr. Shaw said. "And Number 2, if the stuff disappeared, it had to have gone before we got there."
    The Pentagon disclosed yesterday that the Al-Qaqaa facility was defended by Fedayeen Saddam, Special Republican Guard and other Iraqi military units during the conflict. U.S. forces defeated the defenders around April 3 and found the gates to the facility open, the Pentagon said in a statement yesterday.
    A military unit in charge of searching for weapons, the Army's 75th Exploitation Task Force, then inspected Al-Qaqaa on May 8, May 11 and May 27, 2003, and found no high explosives that had been monitored in the past by the IAEA.
    The Pentagon said there was no evidence of large-scale movement of explosives from the facility after April 6.
    "The movement of 377 tons of heavy ordnance would have required dozens of heavy trucks and equipment moving along the same roadways as U.S. combat divisions occupied continually for weeks prior to and subsequent to the 3rd Infantry Division's arrival at the facility," the statement said.
    The statement also said that the material may have been removed from the site by Saddam's regime.
    According to the Pentagon, U.N. arms inspectors sealed the explosives at Al-Qaqaa in January 2003 and revisited the site in March and noted that the seals were not broken.
    It is not known if the inspectors saw the explosives in March. The U.N. team left the country before the U.S.-led invasion began March 20, 2003.
    A second defense official said documents on the Russian support to Iraq reveal that Saddam's government paid the Kremlin for the special forces to provide security for Iraq's Russian arms and to conduct counterintelligence activities designed to prevent U.S. and Western intelligence services from learning about the arms pipeline through Syria.
    The Russian arms-removal program was initiated after Yevgeny Primakov, the former Russian intelligence chief, could not convince Saddam to give in to U.S. and Western demands, this official said.
    A small portion of Iraq's 650,000 tons to 1 million tons of conventional arms that were found after the war were looted after the U.S.-led invasion, Mr. Shaw said. Russia was Iraq's largest foreign supplier of weaponry, he said.
    However, the most important and useful arms and explosives appear to have been separated and moved out as part of carefully designed program. "The organized effort was done in advance of the conflict," Mr. Shaw said.
    The Russian forces were tasked with moving special arms out of the country.
    Mr. Shaw said foreign intelligence officials believe the Russians worked with Saddam's Mukhabarat intelligence service to separate out special weapons, including high explosives and other arms and related technology, from standard conventional arms spread out in some 200 arms depots.
    The Russian weapons were then sent out of the country to Syria, and possibly Lebanon in Russian trucks, Mr. Shaw said.
    Mr. Shaw said he believes that the withdrawal of Russian-made weapons and explosives from Iraq was part of plan by Saddam to set up a "redoubt" in Syria that could be used as a base for launching pro-Saddam insurgency operations in Iraq.
    The Russian units were dispatched beginning in January 2003 and by March had destroyed hundreds of pages of documents on Russian arms supplies to Iraq while dispersing arms to Syria, the second official said.
    Besides their own weapons, the Russians were supplying Saddam with arms made in Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria and other Eastern European nations, he said.
    "Whatever was not buried was put on lorries and sent to the Syrian border," the defense official said.
    Documents reviewed by the official included itineraries of military units involved in the truck shipments to Syria. The materials outlined in the documents included missile components, MiG jet parts, tank parts and chemicals used to make chemical weapons, the official said.
    The director of the Iraqi government front company known as the Al Bashair Trading Co. fled to Syria, where he is in charge of monitoring arms holdings and funding Iraqi insurgent activities, the official said.
    Also, an Arabic-language report obtained by U.S. intelligence disclosed the extent of Russian armaments. The 26-page report was written by Abdul Tawab Mullah al Huwaysh, Saddam's minister of military industrialization, who was captured by U.S. forces May 2, 2003.
    The Russian "spetsnaz" or special-operations forces were under the GRU military intelligence service and organized large commercial truck convoys for the weapons removal, the official said.
    Regarding the explosives, the new Iraqi government reported that 194.7 metric tons of HMX, or high-melting-point explosive, and 141.2 metric tons of RDX, or rapid-detonation explosive, and 5.8 metric tons of PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate, were missing.
    The material is used in nuclear weapons and also in making military "plastic" high explosive.
    Defense officials said the Russians can provide information on what happened to the Iraqi weapons and explosives that were transported out of the country. Officials believe the Russians also can explain what happened to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs.


[ This Message was edited by: Polarbear on 2004-10-27 20:11 ]

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Tacitus' Realm / CLIMATE OF FEAR
« on: October 25, 2004, 03:21:00 AM »
Hey yall' I wanted to share with you an essay I wrote and distributed a couple weeks ago.  I don't care what your beliefs are personally, I worry about the system over all.  

--original text below--

Hey everyone, The press isn't really covering it, but there is an organized TERROR effort being directed against the Republican Party.
This is really important!
Republican National Committee (RNC) offices are being targeted by a the left in a campaign of street violence and theft. Labor Unions are sponsoring protestors who violently assault and take over RNC offices, signs are being vandalized, gun shots are being fired at RNC offices, burglars are stealing computers and information, property is being destroyed, and RNC supporters are being assaulted. These events are occuring nation-wide.

I don't know if you realize what this means, but it has serious implications. These criminal acts aren't just attacks on people we don't know and a party some of us don't support. These attacks are attacks on all of us. They are an attack on our political system. Your freedom is being taken away when they do this. When you fear being shot for supporting the Republican party, I would say your Freedom of Speach has been stolen. When you risk being attacked by the AFL-CIO for supporting the Republican party, I would say your Freedom of Assembly has been stolen. When you worry about graffiti and vandalism because you took part in your nation's electoral process, I would say your rights as a citizen, as enumerated in the Constitution, have been stolen.

These attacks don't just hurt the RNC. They hurt the process of a free people meeting to elect their leaders. These are old-fashioned street tactics. They've been used before to influence elections. Go ahead and look it up in your history book. The pictures of these guys are a little grainy, but you'll see them fighting other party members in the streets. These guys would riot and attack conservatives, religious people, and even liberals. They would go to political rallies and start breaking skulls. A lot of them were former soldiers-veterans of WW I. Don't be surprised if you have trouble reading their flags and posters-they're printed in German.

Yes, I'm talking about Nazis. These are the same tactics the Fascists used again and again to secure power. Look at Italy and Germany both. What's happening now happened there, too. The people didn't resist it then, either, and their nations became police states where one party ruled.

I'm not one-sided on this either. I don't support these attacks happening to Democrats and leftists, but that's who I place the blame for these attacks on. These aren't random attacks. Just look for who profits the most from this and you will probably find who's responsible. The Police may not have any leads, but I think we can connect the dots. Some Democrats would probably love to get their hands on a hard drive full of Republican plans and strategies. That's a straight-up intelligence operation right there. Those laptops and other stolen computers may show up in a pawn shop or at the bottom of a lake somewhere, but they were most likely stolen for intelligence purposes. Hell, the AFL-CIO was directly responsible for at least 2 attacks on RNC offices and at least 10 other aggressive protests. Read the info I've included. One AFL-CIO goon said, "Actually, we're storming into an office." It warms my heart to know those thugs haven't lost any of their well-known traditional penchant for violence and random assaults on people they view as their opponents.

I volunteered for the RNC in 1996. And I know a lot of people put their heart and soul into the process. They bring their families into it, make time after work to volunteer, and really work hard to support the party. They're the grassroots that the party process is grounded on.  Without them making phone calls, planning fundraisers, greeting people on the street, brewing coffee, putting up signs, and putting out information it doesn't work. So I get upset when I read that a volunteer had to lock herself in an office while thugs looted the room outside. I get upset when I read they smashed a hole through a wall to get into an office to steal a computer. And I get upset when I read that they broke a guy's arm attacking an office and have resorted to shooting at RNC offices. Where is this supposed to end? It can't be over November 2nd.

Why should it be? If the Democrats win on the 2nd it will be in part because they took the battle to the streets. Why stop there? If it was me, I would keep up the efforts that secured me victory. Intimidation, assault, theft, attempted murder-Why not just torch their offices? Select the leadership for execution. They're easy to find. Why not go after their precinct leaders? (I was offered that job.) Take out a couple volunteer moms-that would quickly stifle people's interest in volunteering. All for the sake of winning an election. And why not?

After all, how important is it to you to get the right man into the most powerful political position in the world? A position that powerful almost requires that you do anything to secure it. At the very least you're protecting the world from the other guy. People's lives and fortunes hang in the balance. So what are you waiting for?
RISE UP!
STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS!
RISE UP AND ARM YOURSELF!
FIGHT FOR YOUR PARTY AND FREE THE NATION FROM THE OTHER GUY!
DEFEND YOUR FREEDOM FROM THOSE WHO WOULD TAKE IT!
ARM YOURSELVES AND PROTECT LIBERTY!
BY STANDING YOU STRIKE A BLOW AGAINST THOSE TRAITORS!!!!

...or not. I don't think we need to resort to street brawling...yet. But what those people are doing is TERRORISM. Using force and the threat of force to get what you want is TERRORISM. It doesn't matter if you're in Al Qaeda or a trade union. Those people are TERRORISTS and they're engaging in TERROR tactics just like the Fascists did. Personally, I want to believe it means they're scared; that they're losing. Folks who are confident of their lead wouldn't do that-I hope. But at the very least I think the RNC is going to have to start defending themselves and their offices. Signs can't be protected-that kind of vandalism is just too easy. But offices are businesses. They're legitimate and deserve protection. I won't even address private homes and vehicles here. I wish the RNC would act to guard their establisments. I wish right-thinking people on the other side would turn in the TERRORISTS. And I wish these events weren't happening here in the USA. I've included information below for you to read and links to follow. This issue isn't going away any time soon.

Enjoy-Polarbear

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President Bush's campaign office in Spokane burglarized, vandalized

By David Postman
Seattle Times chief political reporter


Offices that house President Bush's re-election campaign in Spokane were broken into and vandalized last night, the latest in a string of crimes at Republican offices across the country.
Workers arriving this morning found a hole smashed through the wall from an adjacent, vacant office. Bush campaign officials say a small amount of petty cash is missing and a computer and television had been moved and left near the hole.

"They must have gotten spooked because they ultimately left the computer and TV," said Bill Hyslop, the campaign's chairman for the Fifth Congressional District.

The computer and the TV had recently arrived in Spokane and the computer was loaded with information from the Republican get-out-the vote program.

Spokane police responded this morning and took the computer's monitor and the TV, Hyslop said.

"We obviously have no idea who did this and are not going to cast aspersions," said Hyslop, who served as U.S. attorney in Spokane under President George H.W. Bush.

In Bellevue last week , computers that stored the Republican get-out-the-vote database were stolen in a burglary at the Republican headquarters there . Bush campaign officials believe the break - ins are part of a broader attack on the president's re-election offices around the country, including a burglary in Canton, Ohio, last night, gun shots fired in West Virginia, Florida and Tennessee and union protestors storming offices in three Florida cities and Minneapolis.

There are no suspects in the burglaries or shootings and no injuries were reported.

Because the protests at campaign offices that were stormed were part of organized union demonstrations, Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot wrote a letter today to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney asking him to call off any future protests.

"In addition to the injuries, property damage and disruption associated with these acts, these events have created a threatening and intimidating atmosphere abhorrent to our democratic process," Racicot wrote.

The Spokane building leased by the state Republican party and serves as the area office for party operations as well as the campaign for the President and other Republican candidates.

Hyslop said that a security guard checked the building at about 6 a.m. today and did not report any disturbance.

But when construction crews working on the adjacent office arrived within 30 minutes later, they noticed the back door of the adjacent office had been pried open from an alleyway.

They also discovered that a hole appeared to have been kicked through the drywall separating the vacant space from the Bush offices. The computer and TV were found near the hole.

David Postman: 360-943-9882 or http://www.nationalreview.com/kurtz/kur ... 070852.asp
This is an important article about the climate of FEAR Republicans are dealing with.
"this behavior suggests that the Kerry-Edwards supporters are so invested emotionally in the contest that they are willing ? no eager ? to alienate their neighbors."


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1232770/posts
report of shot-up RNC office in Gettysburg

http://www.trapshooters.com/cfpages/thr ... messages=4
messages with info about the Tn. shooting, Fla attacks...

http://www.knoxgop.org/archives/000520.html
Knox cty. RNC article about shooting

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1105500/posts
RNC office vandalized in Ohio

http://www.musil.blogspot.com/2004_09_0 ... chive.html
Series of articles from LA blogger about Climate of Fear

http://www.wham1180.com/main.html
-NY Republican just had his office broken into!!!

http://www.komotv.com/stories/33333.htm
Wa. State RNC HQ hit, laptops stolen

additional links:

http://www.strikefear.com/
site with links to these events and others

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Recent events have overtaken my essay, too-there have been more breakins and organized thuggery at the early polls in Florida.  You get the picture.  I know some here don't support Bush.  That's fine.  Neither candidate is the ideal I would like to see.  But the process IS important.  Our system has survived for a few years because it was an opportunity for the people to exercise their free will and select who they wished to lead.  Politics in America are meant to be a spectator sport.  But once the cycle is over, the last ballots are counted, we're still neighbors.  We still have to live with each other.  Recent political events show that more and more of us are turning the system, to paraphrase Von Clauswitz, into merely "war by other means."  I don't want to live in a society so stratified and tightly wound that party affiliation is a call to arms and a reason to fight.  Once that door is opened we have civil war.  Politics by the bullet, not the ballot box.  That's my concern and I want to share it with you.
Enjoy-Polarbear

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I got out of RMA over 10 years ago.  I didn't like it, but I did all right.  I always heard strange stories about Cedu, but I never had any first-hand knowledge of it.
Then I found a couple sites with info from angry CEDU students.  I still don't know much.  
Can you people tell what you saw?
Do they use the same program they used to years ago?  And is that program the same as what goes on in other schools?
How do they get away with all the stuff you're talking about?  
I'm curious because I can understand hating them for being strict or whatever.  
But I've seen allusions to murder here, assault, rape, and other things.  
Are the students all victims in this?  Or are some of them aiding it?
Enjoy-Polarbear

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