"Where terror and the bomb could meet"

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Where terror and the bomb could meet

by Amir Mir

July 7 2005

In May 1999, a Saudi Arabian defense team, headed by Defense Minister Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, visited Pakistan's highly restricted uranium enrichment and missile assembly factory. The prince toured the Kahuta uranium enrichment plant and an adjacent factory where the Ghauri missile is assembled with then Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif, and was briefed by Khan. A few months later, Khan traveled to Saudi Arabia (in November 1999) ....

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Interestingly, Saudi defector Mohammed Khilevi, who was first secretary of the Saudi mission to the United Nations until July 1994, testified before the IAEA that Riyadh had sought a bomb since 1975. In late June 1994, Khilevi abandoned his UN post to join the opposition. After his defection, Khilevi distributed more than 10,000 documents he obtained from the Saudi Arabian Embassy. These documents show that between 1985 and 1990, the Saudi government paid up to US$5 billion to Saddam Hussein to build a nuclear weapon. Khilevi further alleged that Saudis had provided financial contributions to the Pakistani nuclear program, and had signed a secret agreement that obligated Islamabad to respond against an aggressor with its nuclear arsenal if Saudi Arabia was attacked with nuclear weapons.

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Following Khan's first admission of proliferation to Iran, Libya and North Korea in January 2004, the Saudi authorities pulled out more than 80 ambassador-rank and senior diplomats from its missions around the world, mainly in Europe and Asia. The pullout is widely thought to have been meant to plug any likely leak of the Pakistani-Saudi nuclear link.

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Before September 11, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan were the only countries that recognized and aided Afghanistan's Taliban regime, which had been educated in Pakistan's religious schools (madrassas). Despite the fall of the Taliban regime in late 2001, the Saudis continue to fund these seminaries that are a substitute for Pakistan's non-existent national education system and largely produce Wahhabi extremists and Islamist terrorists. Also, a substantial proportion of their curricula, including the sections which preach hatred, has also emerged from Saudi Arabia.

Much more at the link:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GG07Df05.html

For starters, the extensive report by Pakastani reporter, Amir Mir, appeared on July 6 2005 and, to date, the only recognition in the American press that I can find is a brief blog in the Huffington Post by Harry Shearer.

I am not surprised; I'm sure most folk reading this are not surprised either. We know how to find information and, more importantly, we are all aware that it is our responsibility to spread it because the corporate media in America is defunct, derelict, duplicitous and worse.

To return to Amir Mir's report, it is worthy of a full read as I hope the few segments I've excerpted convey.

Ample evidence exists that Saudi Arabia has had extensive interactions with the Pakastani nuclear establishment and ample evidence exists that Saudi riyals support indoctrination of students to hate and to act accordingly.

From the perspective of a neocon corporatist the market opportunity couldn't be better. Purchase vasts amounts of oil to fuel the ultra-expensive war craft. Oil merchants finance the training of low-tech, highly dispersed, highly motivated - to the point of being suicidal - killers. Create situations that provoke the actions of the killers (the list is very long). Acts of 'terror' occur. Citizens are frightened. Fear-mongering media keep them frightened and thereby enable the corporatist's servants in the government to appropriate ever larger sums for the creation of even more expensive war craft.

The neocon corporatist business plan is not sustainable. We all know that.

We know that each cycle of their perpetual war machine leads to more instability, more hatred, and more attacks. The business fails when: 1. A war cycle is so deadly as to destroy the neocon corporatist war industry and probably much of the population of the host nation; or, 2. A war cycle is sufficient to enrage the citizens to change their government and halt the neocon war industry.

I think we citizens of the world have already witnessed enough to be enraged sufficiently to make # 2 happen, before the increasingly inevitable # 1 happens.

We do not have much time.

WATCH IT; SPREAD IT http://www.bushflash.com/right.html

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists their cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

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1. MSNBC: Experts fear 'endless' terror war

Experts fear 'endless' terror war: Analysts say al-Qaida is mutating into a global insurgency

July 9, 2005

An Associated Press survey of longtime students of international terrorism finds them ever more convinced, in the aftermath of London’s bloody Thursday, that the world has entered a long siege in a new kind of war. They believe that al-Qaida is mutating into a global insurgency, a possible prototype for other 21st-century movements, technologically astute, almost leaderless. And the way out is far from clear.

In fact, says Michael Scheuer, the ex-CIA analyst, rather than move toward solutions, the United States took a big step backward by invading Iraq.

More at the link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8524679/

I firmly disagree with the statement "And the way out is far from clear."

For starters, the 'way out' begins by not writing and speaking rubbish.

The 'way out' begins by changing a few specific policies and practices:

1. No wars of aggression, preemption, prevention (Abe Lincoln made in clear over 150 years ago why leaders should not be allowed to make war as they please);

2. No illegal occupation of any territory;

3. Extensive decrease in appropriations for armaments of any kind;

4. Full participation and cooperation with the International Criminal Court by all Nations;

5. Food, clean water, immunization, birth-control and literacy for every person on the planet.

6. NO MORE EXCUSES.

7. ONLY ELECT LEADERS WHO COMMIT TO 1 through 6.

Related post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4067177&mesg_id=4067177

http://www.peacecandy.com/gwbush/remindus
REMIND US

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - STOP THE ATROCITIES; INDICT AND PROSECUTE BU$H AND ALL THE OTHER NEOCONSTER WAR CRIMINALS

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2. Toronto Star: Bush's war on terror is a colossal failure

Bush's war on terror is a colossal failure

by Haroon Siddiqui

July 10, 2005


Breathless reporters, anchors and "security experts" spout scary scenarios, pontificate about the latest terrorist group about which they know nothing, and recycle such vacuous phrases as the "vertical vs. horizontal command structure" of Al Qaeda and its "metastasizing" cells. Islam bashers renew their racist demand as to what Muslims are going to do about the horror.

But once we get past all that, and the empty editorials, what are we left with? This: The war on terror has been a monumental failure. In fact, it has made matters worse.

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Fear still rules America. Even after waging a war on false pretences, Bush can find refuge from low approval ratings by continuing to link Iraq to 9/11, as he did the other day before — where else? — military cadets.

Our own governments are invading our privacy, suspending civil liberties, criminalizing entire communities and repeatedly exhorting us to be "vigilant," thereby risking vigilantism, the anti-thesis of the rule of law.

More insights at the link:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1120859414342&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795

The solution is clear.

Break the cycle of fear and hatred by:

1. Announcing a logistically responsible, timely withdrawal of EVERY American and British national from Iraq - six months or less;

2. Commit to transfer of at least 25 % of the proposed 2006 fiscal year 'defense appropriations' to a trust fund to enable the creation of programs to provide clean water, electricity, food and medical care to every Iraqi citizen and to expand aid to Africa and to nuclear non-proliferation endeavors;

3. Announce the creation of an independent tribunal to indict and prosecute those responsible for the torture at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and other sites used in the rendition programs;

4. Host an international conference, in conjunction with the UN in September 2005, to define precise programs for delivery of nutrition, immunizations and literacy to every citizen on the planet. Make this goal America's Peace Program for the 21st Century.

Let's get started, my fellow citizens.

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Some one please explain to me how the 10 Commandments authorize torture, murder, deception and destruction of civilization.