| j_r_ewing - Freitag, 21. September 2001 - 01:28 |
| Hoffentlich macht die US-Regierung ihre Schulaufgaben diesmal besser... : http://members.aol.com/bblum6/terror.htm written November 8, 1998 The bombings of the U.S. embassies, Afghanistan and Sudan, and the war on terrorism The U.S. war on terrorism is as doomed to failure as the war on drugs has been. "I think the American people need to know that we live in a world where by virtue of America's leadership to some degree, by virtue of a degree of fanaticism by some people, we will be targeted," declared National Security adviser Sandy Berger after the bombings of two U.S. African embassies and the U.S. bombings of Afghanistan and Sudan in August. When asked "What is it that these terrorists want from the United States?", Richard Haass, head of the foreign policy department at the Brookings Institution, replied: "Well, the answer is it's not anything we're simply doing. It is who we are. It's the fact that we're the most powerful country in the world. It's the fact that we're a secular country. ... It is simply who we are and it is our existence that really bothers them." "Americans are targets of terrorism, in part, because we act to advance peace and democracy and because we stand united against terrorism," said President Clinton. These are some of the platitudes our leaders and policy makers feed us after each terrorist attack against an American installation. What they never let slip is that the terrorists -- whatever else they might be -- might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions; and that the justification is usually retaliation for various American actions. The massive bombing of the Iraqi people; the continuing sanctions against Iraq; the unmitigated support of Israel; the double standard applied to Israeli terrorism, such as the massacre of 106 Lebanese at the UN base at Qana in 1996; the large military and hi-tech presence in Islam's holiest land, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere in the Persian Gulf region; the unceasing persecution of Libya; the shooting down of an Iranian passenger plane ... these are some of the American actions that can turn an Arab or a Muslim into a fanatic, into a terrorist. And their terrorist acts will continue as long as the United States gives them so many reasons for retaliation. If the United States can bomb the Afghanistan headquarters of Osama bin Laden, who allegedly had masterminded terrorist actions against the U.S., then can not Cuba do the same to the offices of Cuban exiles in Miami, guilty of hundreds of terrorist acts against the Castro government? Can not Cuba bomb CIA headquarters? Using the same argument of self-defense that Washington uses of course. As a result of the bombings of Afghanistan and Sudan, Americans are less safe now in much of the world. The camp that the United States bombed in Afghanistan was originally set up by the CIA in the 1980s to train Afghan and other Muslim guerrillas in their war against the Soviet-supported government, which was trying to drag Afghanistan into the 20th century. At that time bin Laden and his men were regarded as "freedom fighters" rather than "terrorists". The veterans of this war have since used their training, experience and weapons to carry out terrorist actions all over the world, including the World Trade Center in New York. U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno urged the White House to delay the raids, in order to give the FBI time to assemble more evidence linking bin Laden to the embassy bombings. Justice Department officials said they understood that Reno warned the White House that it was not clear, based on the information then available, that the United States had enough evidence against bin Laden to meet the standards of international law. The Al Shifa plant in Sudan produced a full range of antibiotics, medicines for malaria, rheumatism, tuberculosis, diabetes, and other ailments. Reportedly one of the biggest and best of its kind in Africa, it was privately owned and had been partly financed by the Eastern and Southern African Preferential Trade Association, a thoroughly respectable body. Was this all a front for a chemical weapons factory? Not that this would justify bombing it, for there are numerous such facilities in the U.S., Europe and Israel, as well as huge stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. Following are some observations from the US and British press about the plant and its function, * Belfast independent film-maker Irwin Armstrong, who visited the plant last year while making a promotional video for the Sudanese ambassador in London, said: "The Americans have got this completely wrong. In other parts of the country I encountered heavy security but not here. I was allowed to wander about quite freely. This is a perfectly normal chemical factory with the things you would expect -- stainless steel vats and technicians." * Tom Carnaffin, of Hexham, Northumberland, worked as a technical manager from 1992 to 1996 for the family who owned the plant. "I have intimate knowledge of that factory and it just does not lend itself to the manufacture of chemical weapons. The Americans claimed that the weapons were being manufactured in the veterinary part of the factory. I have intimate knowledge of that part of the [plant] and unless there have been some radical changes in the last few months, it just isn't equipped to cope with the demands of chemical weapon manufacturing. "You need things like air locks but this factory just has doors leading out onto the street. I have personal knowledge of the need for medicine in Sudan as I almost died while working out there. The loss of this factory is a tragedy for the rural communities who need those medicines." * Al Shifa certainly did not try to hide its existence. Many signs direct you to it long before you get there. After the bombing there was no sign of anyone trying to hide anything either. Access was easy. Much of Khartoum seemed to have come to take a look. * Henry Jobe, the American chemical engineer who designed the plant for a Sudanese businessman, said he was surprised when he saw the footage of the bombing on TV and the official statements that followed because he had designed the plant as a pharmaceuticals factory. Asked whether his design could be used to make chemical weapons, he said: "No, we didn't intend a dual use for it. We didn't design anything extra in there. The design we made was for pharmaceuticals. It's possible it could have been changed. I don't know about it. We never discussed one second about any kind of chemical [weapons] operations." One senior U.S. intelligence source has claimed: "We have no evidence or have seen no products, commercial products, that are sold out of this facility." Mr Jobe, who worked as a consultant in Indonesia, Egypt and Jordan after retiring from the giant American pharmaceuticals corporation, Merck, said he was surprised by the statement. "That is misinformation, because it was designed for it." Subsequently, a State Department spokesman conceded that the plant "very well may have been producing pharmaceuticals." * In the Jordanian capital, Amman, an engineer involved in the construction of al Shifa also challenged Washington's claims. Ahmad Salem, who supervised the building of the plant between 1993 and 1997, said: "There is no chance that this factory could be used to produce chemical weapons, it was designed to produce medicine for people and animals." * Germany's Ambassador to Sudan disputes the United States as well. Just hours after U.S. missiles destroyed the plant, Ambassador Werner Daum sent a letter to superiors in Bonn disputing the American justification for the attack, the reports said. "One can't, even if one wants to, describe the Shifa firm as a chemical [weapons] factory," Daum wrote. * The only proof provided so far by the United States to justify its attack is based on a soil sample allegedly collected from near the plant. American officials, who have refused to make the sample available to a wider body of international experts, say traces of a VX nerve gas precursor called Empta found in the soil amount to "irrefutable" evidence that the nerve agent was being manufactured there. Sudan's Interior Minister has raised questions about the source of the soil sample. He said most of the area around al Shifa was paved with only a tiny amount of open land used for the cultivation of rose bushes. "The American claim is totally unfounded," the Minister said. "If you look around, you will not see any soil in the immediate vicinity of our factory premises." Sudan and other countries have requested a United Nations investigation. This has been resisted by the United States. The U.S. allegation has further been put into question by Western scientists who have pointed out that the same ingredients are used for chemical weapons and beer, that mustard gas is similar in make-up to the anti-clogging agent in ballpoint-pen ink, and that the cherry flavoring in sweets is one of the constituent parts of the gas used in combat. Moreover, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has stated that Empta could be used for legitimate commercial purposes, including the manufacture of fungicides and microbial agents. Experts add that the chemical structure of Empta also closely resembles Fonofos, an insecticide on sale in Africa. Finally, there is the testimony of a senior inspector in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (The Hague). The inspector has pointed out that Empta was unlikely to be found, unaltered, in the ground for the simple reason that it is highly reactive and, once in the earth, would react with other chemicals and begin to break down. * At first, the U.S. said that al Shifa was part of bin Laden's economic network. But in the face of denials from the plant's Sudanese owner, administration officials then stated that they were unsure of bin Laden's financial interest in the plant. * Before the bombing, British Foreign Office minister Tony Lloyd gave an assurance to Parliament that there was no evidence linking the Sudanese regime to the manufacture of poison gas agents. * The United States, before the bombing, reportedly flew a reconnaissance mission over the plant to test for traces of gas and failed to find any. * A New York Times analysis a month after the bombing concluded that "within days of the attack, some of the Administration's explanations for destroying the factory in the Sudan proved inaccurate. Many people inside and outside the American government began to ask whether questionable intelligence had prompted the United States to blow up the wrong building." The article went on to examine "how an act of war was approved on the basis of shards of evidence gleaned from telephone intercepts, spies and scientific analyis." In light of all this uncertainty, why did the United States bomb the plant? In addition to the perceived political need for an act -- some act -- of retaliation, one possible explanation is the "madman theory". In March 1998, an internal 1995 study, "Essentials of Post-Cold War Deterrence," by the Strategic Command, the headquarters responsible for the U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal, was brought to light. The study, released under a Freedom of Information Act request, said that the U.S. may be able to deter its adversaries by presenting an "irrational and vindictive" demeanor. "Because of the value that comes from the ambiguity of what the U.S. may do to an adversary if the acts we seek to deter are carried out, it hurts to portray ourselves as too fully rational and cool-headed. ... That the U.S. may become irrational and vindictive if its vital interests are attacked should be a part of the national persona we project to all adversaries." "Our target was terror," said President Clinton. But so was his solution. |
| j_r_ewing - Freitag, 21. September 2001 - 17:48 |
| ...anscheinend nicht (ich kann für die Meldung aber natürlich keinerlei Garantie übernehmen !): -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Carola Warnecke <zzzz@stod.de> An: zzzz@stod.de <zzzz@stod.de> Datum: Donnerstag, 20. September 2001 22:17 Betreff: WG: cnn Betreff: cnn Subject: Die traurige Wahrheit! Betreff: Die traurige Wahrheit CNN hat palästinenser in den nachrichten gezeigt, die nach dem terrorakt in amerika auf den strassen gefeiert haben. nun stellt sich aber heraus, dass das filmmaterial aus dem jahre 1991 ist. dies sind bilder feiernder palästinenser nach der invasision der amerikaner in kuwait. ein lehrer aus brasilien hat videoaufnahmen, welche exakt die gleichen bilder zeigen. ich bitte euch inbruenstig allen leuten die ihr kennt dieses mail weiterzuleiten, damit die welt erfahren kann, wieviel dreck hinter den medien versteckt ist. -- alex brunner .start AG alte jakobstraße 85/86 10179 berlin fon +49 (0)30 257 62 120 Fax +49 (0)30 257 62 555 mobile +49 (0)172 64 122 02 alex.brunner@start.ag http://www.start.ag |
| mib - Freitag, 21. September 2001 - 17:54 |
| wenn DAS stimmt, ... |
| j_r_ewing - Freitag, 21. September 2001 - 18:22 |
| Der "Scientific AMerican" widmet sich speziell dem Thema Rüstungstechnologie : (etwas gekürzt) (Die Themen Bilderkennung, Sensoren, und Mikroroboter sind mit Sicherheit börsenmößig extrem interessant !!) (...wobei auch hier wieder die Behauptung von der angeblichen Giftgasfabrik im Sudan aufgetischt wird... 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