Israel And US Prepare To Attack Iran: Russia bares its military teeth:

From:"GRAHAM JUKES"
Israel And US Prepare To Attack Iran: Russia bares its military teeth:

************************September 11 and the Origins of the ‘War on Terrorism’
********************************************************************************
**********************
A Revisionist Account
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1024.htm

Israel And US Prepare To Attack Iran:
Goal is forcing capitulation or risking regional war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4907.htm

Syria backed by UN, blamed by US:
UN members have lined up in the Security Council to condemn Israel after its
deepest air raid into Syria in 30 years, with one predictable exception - the
United States.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4906.htm

Israel could launch new attacks on Syria: Sharon spokesman
http://tinyurl.com/pwa8

Will Syria reply via Lebanon?:
"If they continue this policy of unjustified aggression, Israel will have to
face the consequences. Syria is not in a mood of aggression but it will not sit
quietly."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1006/p05s01-wome.html

Robert Fisk: Israel's attack is a lethal step towards war in Middle East:
Israel received the Green Light. It came from what is called the Syria
Accountability Act, moving through the United States Congress with the help of
Israel's supporters.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4904.htm

Lebanon: Israel Troops Fire Across Border
Israeli soldiers fired automatic rifles across the Lebanese-Israeli border
Monday, hitting two cars and a house in this southern village, Lebanese security
officials said.
http://tinyurl.com/px6n
OR
Russia bares its military teeth:
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov has said his country does not rule out a
pre-emptive military strike anywhere in the world if the national interest
demands it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4900.htm

Putin Beefs Up ICBM Capacity:
President Vladimir Putin told top military commanders Thursday that Russia will
put dozens of multi-warhead SS-19 intercontinental ballistic missiles on combat
duty.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4893.htm

Putin Says US Faces Big Risks In Efforts In Iraq:
Putin, says the United States now faces in Iraq the possibility of a prolonged,
violent and ultimately futile war like the one that mired the Soviet Union in
Afghanistan.
http://tinyurl.com/px7d

$600 Million More for P.R. in Iraq?:
The American taxpayer is already paying through the nose for post-war Iraq
without spending money on administration spin and electioneering.
http://www.independent.org/tii/news/031003Eland.html

Poor nations pay dearly for peacekeeping:
"The financial burden is carried by richer countries while the physical burden
is carried by poorer countries,"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4908.htm

4,000 U.S. non-combat evacuations in Iraq:
With more than one in five of those for psychiatric or neurological problems,
according to Pentagon data.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4895.htm

Saddam's nuclear arsenal? :
Villagers sell deadly uranium to the US army at $3 a barrel.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1056468,00.html

Document shows Navy has been aware problems associated with DU since 14 May
1984:
See the documents received via a Freedom of Information Act
http://www.traprockpeace.org/depleted_uranium_milner.html

Afghanistan Grappling with Ever Escalating Instability:
"The security situation in Afghanistan has really sharply deteriorated in the
last year," said Pat Carey, senior vice president of the relief organisation
CARE.
http://jang.com.pk/thenews/oct2003-daily/06-10-2003/world/w14.htm

White House to Overhaul Iraq and Afghan Missions:
The White House has ordered a major reorganization of American efforts to quell
violence in Iraq and Afghanistan and to speed the reconstruction of both
countries, according to senior administration officials.
http://tinyurl.com/puna

Police flee as Saddam loyalists fuel city revolt:
About a thousand people, some holding pictures of Saddam Hussein, were in a
stand-off with American troops last night.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=450367

No uranium, no munitions, no missiles, no programmes:
As the first progress report from the Iraq Survey Group is released, Cambridge
WMD expert Dr Glen Rangwala finds that even the diluted claims made for Saddam
Hussein's arsenal don't stand up.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=450121

More On "Dr Glen Rangwala"
http://tinyurl.com/pr2x

Blair ' knew Iraq threat limited' :
Before the war started Mr Blair privately admitted that Saddam Hussein had no
weapons posing a "real and present danger"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4898.htm

More on this topic
http://tinyurl.com/pr8y

Blair ' not welcome' at war service:
"I think he's a war criminal, it's as simple as that. The man, elected to go to
war with this scabby little friend in Texas [President Bush], and killed 51 of
our men unnecessarily," he said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4897.htm

Why isn't the truth out there?:
The willingness of journalists to accepts the establishment's view of the events
of, and after, 9/11 is truly staggering. John Pilger and Noam Chomsky have
consistently exposed the truth and put the sequence of events of the past two
years in context.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4891.htm

More On "John Pilger" -
http://tinyurl.com/pqz4

More On "Noam Chomsky"
http://tinyurl.com/pqz9

Panorama uncovers the true picture of this new system of arrest, detention,
interrogation and eventual trial by military commission, a key part of America's
war against terror following the events of 9/11.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4905.htm

Briton held as terror suspect says CIA threatened torture:
First account of US methods from UK detainee.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4902.htm

A MUST SEE
Inside Guantanamo

September 11 and the Origins of the ‘War on Terrorism’:
A Revisionist Account
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1024.htm

Direct Deposit:
"This is the worst government the US has ever had in its more than 200 years of
history. This is not normal government policy. …this is a form of looting." -
George A. Akerlof, 2001 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4899.htm
________________________________________________________________________________
________________

Now if only they would protect our own borders with the same dedication :)
Snipe

US snipers to defend Iraq oil pipeline
From: dapra dapra1@comcast.net
Message-id:

I wonder how this works. Do the snipers shoot any warm body within a
mile of the pipelines?
We do need to educate the people there, that we are there to liberate
them and to give them democracy, not for the oil. They may get the wrong
idea.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s960297.htm
Last Update: Sunday, October 5, 2003. 11:03pm (AEST)
US snipers to defend Iraq oil pipeline

The United States military has deployed five teams of 10 airborne
snipers to defend Iraq's northern oil pipelines from acts of sabotage by
forces loyal to ousted president Saddam Hussein.

Sergeant Brian Stinson said final modifications were being made to
Blackhawk UH-60 helicopters, before snipers from the elite Tiger Force
could begin patrols along the crucial oil supply lines.
"There is so much area to cover that it requires precision fire, we're
on call for 24-hours a day and can be airborne within 30 minutes," he said.

Protection of Iraq's northern pipelines, which stretch 500 kilometres to
Turkey and almost to Syria, are a major headache for the American
troops, who have devised a series of initiatives to combat sabotage.

This includes the creation of local protection units made-up of the
fledgling Iraqi police forces.

Local tribes have also been hired to protect supplies with mixed success.

Armed with 50-calibre M107s, 308 bolt actions and 308 semi-automatics,
the Tiger Force deployment also marks the return of airborne snipers in
the regular US Army for the first time since the Indochinese wars of the
1960s and 70s.

The 308 bolt is for "personal targets" that limit collateral damage
among civilians, with a medium range of almost one kilometre.

Sergeant Stinson said the 50-calibre is for longer range work, capable
of killing a person from 2.5 kilometres, and the concussion alone from a
round that passes within a close enough distance can kill.

The Tiger Force first won fame in the Vietnam War where it was
established by Colonel David Hackworth, the highest decorated US soldier
in that conflict.
"It's the same system we used in Vietnam and we've brought it out of
retirement," Sergeant Stinson said.

Helicopter pilots from the 101st Airborne Division have trained
specifically for ferrying snipers along the pipelines.

Pilots fly at night without light and must keep the Blackhawk in the air
and position the helicopter behind, between valleys and hills, which
muffles the sound of the rotors while remaining mostly out of view.

However, at the same time, the sniper's sights remain on the target
allowing for "precision fire".
"We can hit a target before it knows we're there," Sergeant Stinson, a
sniper with the 101st Airborne, said.

Iraq's main pipeline runs from oil-rich Kirkuk north to the Dohuk
province and then on westward to the Turkish Mediterranean terminal of
Ceyhan.

-- AFP

________________________________________________________________________________
_________________
Other miscelaneous News
Sunni Leader, Four Others, Gunned Down in Pakistan:
A member of parliament Azam Tariq was among five people killed in an attack on
his car Monday on the outskirts of the capital Islamabad.
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=3564311
Wave the Flag To Deceive:
To avoid culpability for the strategic blunder of the Iraqi invasion, which is
turning into a tar baby of serious dimension, the scoundrel Wolfowitz hides
behind World Trade Center widows and idealistic generals with tears streaming
down their faces.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts10.html

Only In America?:
It began in June when Attorney-General John Ashcroft told lawmakers that the
death penalty needed to be expanded to cover "material supporters" of terrorist
organizations If you give money to al Qaeda then you have to expect a harsh
penalty. But there's a catch. They've changed the definition of terrorist.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4909.htm

Karzai Faces Revolt In Fragile Coalition :
Hamid Karzai, has returned home to confront an open political revolt by powerful
rivals in his fragile coalition government.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47787-2003Oct5.html

School Heads Go Into Hiding After Baghdad Teacher is Killed:
Dozens of Iraqi head teachers were in hiding yesterday as schools reopened for
the new term after they had received death threats for belonging to the former
ruling Ba'ath party, even though membership was compulsory under Saddam Hussein.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/05/wbagh05.xml&sShe
et=/news/2003/10/05/ixworld.html

Poland: French Missile Report Was Wrong:
An aide to the Polish prime minister said an initial report that the Roland
missiles found by Polish troops days ago were produced in 2003 was incorrect.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3226870,00.html

Leak of Agent's Name Causes Exposure of CIA Front Firm:
The leak of a CIA operative's name has also exposed the identity of a CIA front
company, potentially expanding the damage caused by the original disclosure,
Bush administration officials said yesterday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4890.htm

Dubious Intelligence:
For the Bush administration, which has wrapped itself in faux patriotism,
accusations that it revealed the identity of a serving CIA agent are a huge
political embarrassment and another blow to its sinking credibility.
http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/margolis_oct4.html

Florida Guardsmen Probed on Iraqi Marriages:
Two Florida National Guard soldiers who married Iraqi women against their
commander's wishes are being investigated for allegedly defying an order. The
men, both Christians who converted to Islam, had expected to return to Florida
this month.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4892.htm

Beaten, Abused, Chained – One Afghan Woman's 'Liberation':
The Taliban's fall was supposed to bring freedom for women. But for many, life
is still a misery - and for one, jail is the safest place to be.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1056148,00.html
"US Threatened To Downgrade Qatari Ties Over Al-Jazeera":
If Al-Jazeera failed to reconsider its news content, the e-mail reported the
committee as having concluded, the US would in turn have to reconsider its
relations with Qatar.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4896.htm

Threat to expel Arafat grows after holiday suicide bombing:
Palestinian security forces were on high alert at Yasser Arafat's Muqata
headquarters last night for any Israeli attempt to expel the Palestinian leader,
after a horrific suicide bombing in Haifa just before Yom Kippur, the holiest
day in the Jewish calendar.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=450098

More On This Topic
http://tinyurl.com/pr2g