This video from England is called Brian Haw - Banned Anti-War Demo in London.
By James Cogan:
Afghan president blames “the West” for Islamic extremismControversy continues over French soldiers’ deaths in Afghanistan: here.8 September 2008
The propaganda used to justify the US-led occupation in Afghanistan typically leaves out any explanation of the origins of tendencies such as Al Qaeda, the Taliban movement and other Islamist groups resisting American and NATO troops. The spin merchants of the so-called “war on terror” would have people believe that the US and its allies are fighting religious fanatics who have no support in the country and are motivated by an inexplicable and irrational hatred of Western civilisation.
On rare occasions, however, someone deviates from the script and draws attention to historical facts regarding present-day Islamic extremism that Washington and its allies prefer to leave unmentioned. One occasion was an interview on August 19 with Time magazine with a very close American ally—Hamid Karzai, the man who was installed by the Bush administration as President of Afghanistan in 2002.
Challenged by Time to answer how an enemy could be fought that “only has annihilation as its goal”, Karzai felt compelled to note the current situation was a by-product of US support in the 1980s for the creation of an Islamic fundamentalist army to wage a jihad or holy war against a pro-Soviet regime in Afghanistan and embroil the Soviet military itself in a decade-long guerilla conflict.
Karzai told Time: “In order to fix terrorism at large, we need to remedy the wrongs of the past 30 years. Remedy means to undo. The world pushed us [Afghan jihadists] to fight the Soviets. And those who did walked away and left all the mess spread around. September 11 is a consequence of this …
“In the years of fighting against the Soviets, radicalism was the main thing. Someone like me would be called half a Muslim because we were not radical. The more radical you were the more money you were given. Radicalism became not only an ideological tool against the Soviets but a way forward economically. The more radical you presented yourself, the more money the West gave you.”
When Time protested that “it wasn’t just the West; it was Saudi Arabia, Pakistan”, who fomented Islamic extremism in Afghanistan, Karzai answered: “[T]hey were led by the West. The moderates were undermined. Afghan history and nationalism were called atheism. The more you spoke of radicalism, the better you were treated. That’s what we are paying for now.”
Karzai is intimately familiar with the US backing for Afghan jihadists in the 1980s. He ran the office of Sebghatullah Mojadeddi, the leader of one of the Mujahedin groups, and undoubtedly liaised with CIA and other US officials. His bitterness over US policy stems from the fact that the Mojadeddi faction was regarded as “moderate” as compared to the “radicals” who received the lion’s share of financial support.
From 1979 on, the US urged its allies such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to give military and financial aid to the Islamist-based Afghan insurgents as a means of undermining the Soviet Union. Combined with direct American funds, as much as $2 billion poured in each year—the CIA’s Afghan project was by far the largest covert operation of the entire Cold War.
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Fri Sep 19, 2008 1:21 am (PDT)
Friends Helping Friends: Bush & the bin Laden Family - Bush History,
9/19
“in the midst of the worst terrorist act in history … here we were
seeing an evacuation of the bin Ladens!” Yes, and that was just fine
with long-time Saudi puppet, President George W. Bush.
Get the details …
http://poorgeorgesalmanac.com/?p=477
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Palin’s husband refuses to testify in probe
Posted by: “K.C. Pep” caseypep@yahoo.com caseypep
Fri Sep 19, 2008 1:27 am (PDT)
Palin’s husband refuses to testify in probe
By MATT VOLZ, Associated Press Writer
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s husband has refused to testify in the investigation of his wife’s alleged abuse of power, and a key lawmaker said Thursday that uncooperative witnesses are effectively sidetracking the probe until after Election Day.
Todd Palin, who participates in state business in person or by e-mail, was among 13 people subpoenaed by the Alaska Legislature. McCain-Palin presidential campaign spokesman Ed O’Callaghan announced Thursday that Todd Palin would not appear, because he no longer believes the Legislature’s investigation is legitimate.
Sarah Palin initially welcomed the investigation of accusations that she dismissed the state’s public safety commissioner because he refused to fire her ex-brother-in-law, a state trooper. “Hold me accountable,” she said.
But she has increasingly opposed it since Republican presidential candidate John McCain tapped her as his running mate. The McCain campaign dispatched a legal team to Alaska including O’Callaghan, a former top U.S. terrorism prosecutor from New York to bolster Palin’s local lawyer.
Earlier this week, Alaska Attorney General Talis Colberg said the governor, who was not subpoenaed, declined to participate in the investigation and said Palin administration employees who have been subpoenaed would not appear.
State Sen. Bill Wielechowski, a Democrat, said the McCain campaign is doing all it can to prevent the Legislature from completing a report on whether the GOP’s vice presidential nominee abused her power as governor.
Wielechowski, a member of the panel that summoned the witnesses, told The Associated Press that the witnesses can avoid testifying for months without penalty and that court action to force them to appear sooner is unlikely.
Palin fired Walt Monegan in July. It later emerged that Palin, her husband, Todd, and several high-level staffers had contacted Monegan about state trooper Mike Wooten. Palin maintains she fired Monegan over budget disagreements, not because he wouldn’t dismiss her former brother-in-law.
Wooten had gone through a nasty divorce from Palin’s sister before Palin became governor. While Monegan says no one from the administration ever told him directly to fire Wooten, he says their repeated contacts made it clear they wanted Wooten gone.
Alaska Senate President Lyda Green, a Republican foe of Palin, said Wednesday that the investigation is still on track.
“The original purpose of the investigation was to bring out the truth. Nothing has changed,” she said.
Without the testimony, the retired prosecutor hired to head the investigation could still release a report in October as scheduled, based on the evidence he’s already gathered. As of Thursday, Steven Branchflower had interviewed or deposed 17 of the 33 people he had identified as potential witnesses in the probe.
The Legislature does not have the leverage to compel any witness to testify before Nov. 4, said Wielechowski, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Wielechowski said he did not know whether Branchflower has enough material for a complete and fair report with so few witnesses. But he said delaying the probe, which began as a bipartisan effort, would only politicize the matter more.
“It would be to appease the McCain camp,” Wielechowski said. “They’re doing everything they can to delay.”
Ignoring a legislative subpoena is punishable by a fine up to $500 and up to six months in jail under Alaska law. But courts are reluctant to intervene in legislative matters and the full Legislature must be in session to bring contempt charges, Wielechowski said. The Legislature is not scheduled to convene until January.
“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
John Adams, letter April 15, 1814
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Palin’s Telling Freudian Slip
Posted by: “Zoltan Abraham” zsazle@yahoo.com zsazle
Fri Sep 19, 2008 1:28 am (PDT)
Somebody please tell Sarah Palin that she is running for vice president, not for president.
At a recent rally, she referred to what she hopes will be the “Palin and McCain administration.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plwcvFXCHO8&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/18/22939/9665?detail=f
I hope she ran the new order of the ticket past John before going public with it…
But then Palin can be excused for aiming for the presidency, and refusing to bother with the vice presidency. After all, not so long ago, she had no idea what the vice president does:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dwzk3g-lB0&feature=related
Sarah Palin - Unfit to lead!
Comment by Administrator — September 19, 2008 @ 2:09 pm
Jürgen Elsässer
Europe: Target of Terror
The Dangerous Game of the Secret Services
Residenz Verlag (St. Poelten/Vienna), September 2008 , 344 p., 21.90 Euro
On Sale since 10th September 2008, the book is already sold out and a
second edition is being printed.
Credits
Berlin daily JUNGE WELT wrote: “A polit thriller par excellence”
Willy Wimmer, member of German parliament (CDU), said: ,,I wished this
book got in the hand of every member of our parliament.”
Outline
Europe in the crosshairs of terrorists: Following the bomb attacks in
Madrid (March 2004) and London (July 2005), security agencies of
various countries have to raise alarms on an almost regular basis.
Legions of police and military forces had to protect the Olympic Games
in Greece, the FIFA World Cup in Germany and the European Football
Championship in Austria and Switzerland, and for many leading
politicians, an Islamist dirty bomb attack is only a matter of time.
A closer look, however, reveals that Western double agents played
important roles in all attempted or conducted attacks on the European
continent. Islamic fundamentalism has become reality; its terrorist
potential, however, is fostered mainly by US-American and British
secret services who try to drag Europe deeper and deeper into their
worldwide war. The threat of Al-Qaeda serves to justify the countries’
growing intrusion into people’s privacy. The total surveillance state
(as devised in George Orwell’s 1984) is no longer a horrible utopia,
but a governmental program - at least in Germany.
Contents
Apocalypse Now
“Lying with the truth” (Adorno): The shrill warnings of our
politicians against the ultimate attack bear both propaganda and
truth.
The Al-Qaeda Phantom
Osama bin Laden’s notorious organisation is an invention of US foreign
policy. Leading figures, including the alleged second man Ayman
al-Zawahiri, are in fact double agents.
Operation Gladio
In the Cold War era, NATO installed secret units which were also
involved in attacks in Italy (Bologna, Brescia) and Germany
(Oktoberfest in Munich).
Operation Balkans
In the wars following the disintegration of Yugoslavia, US
intelligence and Jihadists joined their forces against the Serbs. The
“holy warriors” of this joint venture were involved in almost every
attack or attempted attack on European soil.
Hamburg: Double Atta
The September 11, 2001 attacks were allegedly planned in Hamburg. At
that point, however, the terrorist cell in the city’s Harburg district
had already been under observation for years. Here, the group’s
alleged leader, Muhammed Atta, had a look-alike before 9/11.
Madrid: Traces of Dynamite
Veterans of the Bosnian war played an essential role in the train
bombings on March 11, 2004. Spies of the Spanish secret service had
contributed the dynamite.
London: MI6 and Dr. No
The man pulling the strings behind the attack on London’s public
transport network on July 7, 2005 was Haroon Rashid Aswat. In the
1990s he supported the Kosovo-Albanian guerrilla group UCK on behalf
of MI6.
Milan: An Agent Quits
At the beginning of 2003, the CIA kidnapped radical Imam Abu Omar in
broad daylight and deported him to the Ramstein military base in
Germany and from there to a torture prison in Afghanistan - an act of
revenge in an ugly war among allies. The preacher had been spying for
the US in Albania and wanted to quit. In arresting him the US secret
service also prevented the Italian police from accessing a bigger
Islamist underground network.
Cologne: The Ballack Bomber
In the summer of 2006 police found a bomb suitcase at Cologne main
station. The two alleged assassins were from Lebanon, which was about
to become the next place of action in the German Bundeswehr’s fight
against international terrorism. The two assassin’s mentor was a
member of US-funded Sunni group Fatah al-Islam; he was killed by the
Lebanese army before the suitcase bomber trial began.
Ulm: The German 9/11?
An alleged mega-attack could be thwarted in September 2007. The three
terrorists were led by a convert from the German city of Ulm who had
been trained in praying and bomb constructing by an agent of the
German State Security.
Istanbul: Whisky and Koran
Louai Sakra is said to have been involved in attacks on Western
institutions in Istanbul. He confessed to haive trained the 9/11
suicide bombers. After his arrest, he admitted to enjoying alcohol,
pork meat - and working for three secret services.
Vienna: All Beginnings Are Difficult
Construing something like an “Austrian branch of Al-Qaeda” is a tough
task. Some public servants still try their best.
Digital Fascism
Increasingly radical suggestions for the protection of countries
(complete video surveillance, access to private computers for
authorities, secret data police, internment camps, preventive killing)
are a serious threat to democracy. They way to this hell is paved by
inside jobs of the secret services.
The author
Jürgen Elsässer wrote more than a dozen books, mainly on geopolitcs.
Licensed editions available in French, Italian, Japanese, Serbian,
Turkish and Polish.
His book “How Jihad came to Europe. Jihadists and intelligence on the
Balkans” (published in 2005 by NP-Buch, St. Pölten) also came out in
France, Poland, Turkey and Serbia. A critic of Deutschlandfunk stated:
“Such revelations really get under your skin. Thanks to Jürgen
Elsässer, who researched into this topic for almost ten years, all
these facts are now collected in a comprehensible, clear book. It
should really make international headlines and cause a big stir. And
most of all it should encourage us to question our sacrosanct
political networks and taboos.” France’s minister of the interior
Jean-Pierre Chevenement called this book a ” gold mine full of
disclosures”.
The extensive insights and contacts the author gathered while working
for the parliamentary control commission for the intelligence service
BND also helped him in the writing of this book. Moreover, lawyers and
other parties involved in the German Islamist trials contributed
valuable information.
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