Zayed was installed by the British. And so it goes. They're openly pushing the Bush administration not to backpedal on the war against terror and compromise or cave in to the internationalists. That's why Bush was installed in the first place. To be a compliant idiot. And, why I believe they waited until Clinton was out of office. By the time they decided, it was too late.
The saga of a lost chance. An electromagnetic pulse is old technology, and is part of the effect of nuclear and some near-nuclear weapons. A strange laser ray was used in the invasion of the Phillipines to cut cars in half, for instance.
Wars are always used to test weapons. Microwaves can be used to heat human bodies and to send messages directly into the brain from what I have read, for instance. Wars are laboratories. Peace is hell. Interesting if accurate.
Firefighters Vote to Boycott Bush Sept. Pentagon has objections, State Department too, allies abroad and now inside the Republican Party. This is a part of how the war in Vietnam ended. Purdum and Patrick E. I am wary of blaming a lone-nut, who if involved was probably following orders, but otherwise they seem good. Ochs, 16 August anthraxLQs.
Ochs, 16 August biowepsWL. A rash of good articles in here. Geoffrey Gray, VillageVoice. Does the list of unwitting "host governments" include the US perhaps? This is from an interesting intelligence source that now has a daily posting. Peter Dale Scott subsribes to the full service. Active since the 50s are dentention camps for times of war or national emergency that do not require habeus corpus rulings for citizens interred.
Pretty scary! But in any case the rationale extends to both citizens and non-citizens alike. Recognition of Patriot Act Urged U. It will be interesting to watch this one play out.
Oliver North's covert operations company TCI was actually selling weapons to Nidal by way of a subsidiary. Nidal clearly worked for many intelligence agencies and always worked to undermine peace agreements in the Middle East. Whose interest was that in, do you suppose? Some sources say Nidal's death was "suspicious" and his own party says he committed suicide. If there was an arrangement for new leadership, then that would follow. Is this really who we should be most afraid of? Attacks 25 Aug If they find out who it is, we should give them a medal.
Two items on C-SPAN this week had more details, including two journalists at the command centers of American and United who reveal some of the confusion and response and more on the radar tracking of the planes.
One journalist called me this week and said that NORAD times the Pentagon hit at , a good five to seven minutes before my timing from hearing the boom and looking at the clock around However the other journalists put the timing closer to as well in their version.
His statements self-contradict about Flight 77 being lost to radar and when it was regained, but he also speaks about planes being scrambled very early after and the first knowledge of the plots, and speculating that they hit sonic speed coming into New York City. However, the timing of takeoff and the speeds they can travel belie that notion unless they only sped up after the event. Timing and distance still point to subsonic speed responses, as does this article if read closely.
Who is Abu Nidal in Fatah? Abu Nidal. Abu Nidal - Wikipedia en. He split with the PLO in after it proposed the creation of a national authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a step toward Palestinian statehood. Who is Abubakar Nidal? Searches related to Who is the leader of the Abu Nidal Organization? People also search for. The PLO adopted a new strategy of moderation, announcing it was ready to set up a provisional "national authority" on something less than the whole of historic Palestine as a first step towards a final, negotiated settlement, the establishment of a Palestinian state coexistent with Israel.
The move was anathema to the rejectionists, who clung to a belief in "total liberation". Abu Nidal warned of a Palestinian civil war - and did his best to provoke it. He was the only rejectionist not merely to oppose the moderates, but to set about killing them.
So it was that this outwardly most fanatical of Israel's foes hardly bothered with Israeli targets at all. His operations were now directed, almost exclusively, against Arafat and the "capitulationists".
He had been meeting secretly with Israeli doves; elsewhere, Egypt's President Sadat had just concluded the Camp David peace agreement, the first of its kind between Israel and an Arab state. The murder of the PLO's best and brightest spokesmen in the west was Abu Nidal's way of stopping the rot.
Of course, this turn of events suited Israel down to the ground. A rightwing expansionist and founding father of middle-eastern terrorism, Menachem Begin, had just come to power in Jerusalem. Like all extremists, what he feared most was the moderation of the other side. So, even more obsessively than before, it was Israel's policy to destroy the PLO, to fix it indelibly in the international mind as the terrorist organisation it had never wholly been and was so less and less.
No one helped this strategy like Abu Nidal. Even though the PLO was his victim, that made little difference to international opinion unschooled in the niceties of intra-Palestinian politics; it seemed only to bear out what Israel said about the essentially murderous nature of the whole gang.
In the early s, Saddam Hussein, hitherto the most rejectionist of Arab leaders, sought a new role as regional strongman, and protector of western interests against Ayatollah Khomeini and the fundamentalist peril emanating from Iran.
Abu Nidal did not fit this respectable image, so he was driven from Baghdad. But the mercenary in him had no qualms about finding a new home in Ba'athist Syria, whose once "treacherous, Alawite, sectarian regime" now became the "citadel of Arabism" standing against the "fascist dictator" Saddam. Damascus had one task for Abu Nidal: to shoot Jordanian diplomats wherever he could, Jordan, with its peace overtures to Israel, being Syria's chief enemy of the moment.
After two years of that, Abu Nidal moved, in , to Libya, his most congenial home. He and Colonel Gadafy were instant buddies - Abu Nidal called Gadafy "the latter-day Saladin", and, in return, was showered with favours of all kinds, the use of planes, embassies, diplomatic pouches, free apartments, and even a couple of farms to remind him of the orange groves of his youth.
Once again, he loyally performed his mercenary chores. He helped kill "stray dogs", as Gadafy called his opponents in exile; in one particularly horrible exploit, in , Abu Nidal hijacked an Egyptian airliner - the Colonel had it in for President Mubarak at the time - and 61 passengers died when Egyptian commandos stormed the plane in Malta. Pure extortion accounted for a goodly portion of the or so exploits in 20 countries that his career encompassed. Abu Nidal's international notoriety reached its apogee in the late s, with such activities as the machine-gun and grenade attack on a synagogue in Istanbul and the onslaught on the El Al counters at Rome and Vienna airports.
Astonishingly, aside from the shooting of the Israeli ambassador in London, which triggered Begin's invasion of Lebanon, these were the first, and virtually the only, attacks he mounted on Jewish or Israeli targets. But they did no less disservice to the Palestine cause. They disgraced it in western eyes. Indeed, Rome and Vienna were chosen because Italy and Austria were, at the time, showing such sympathy for that cause, and seeking to legitimise the PLO. It was all the more outrageous in that Abu Nidal never even bothered to prove his patriotic credentials in the way that others, moderate or rejectionist, always had.
He had many followers in south Lebanon, but not once did they mount a conventional guerrilla raid into Israel. When, in , the first Palestinian intifada broke out in the occupied territories, his men did not throw a single stone. He persisted in random atrocities whose only conceivable purpose, if purpose they had, was to alienate the very countries where Palestine was most in favour. In the end, it became so outrageous that, in the late s, his own best men rebelled against it.
Their leader, Atif Abu Bakr, wanted to end all foreign operations, rejoin the PLO, participate in conventional armed struggle and back the intifada. But Abu Nidal was too smart and ruthless for them; he regained control with a purge, carried out by his committee for revolutionary justice, in which some men, almost a third of his org- anisation, were murdered in Lebanon and Libya.
He would order executions in the middle of the night when, after a heavy bout of whisky-drinking, his paranoia and vindictiveness were at their worst.
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