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OH! THE HORROR! THE HORROR!!


"Auntie_Al" <Auntie_Al@techemail.com> wrote in message
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> Antediluvian Patriarch wrote:
> >
> > "Winston Smith, American Patriot" wrote:
> > >
> > > Bush Persona Non Grata
> > > 11/17/2003 12:43
> > > 60% of Britons consider Bush threat to world peace
> > <snip>
> > > John ASHTEAD
> > > LONDON   UNITED KINGDOM
> > > http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/365/11283_bushblair.html
> >
> > <> It is the posession of mere gherkins that is the source of their
> > <> humiliation.
> >
> > http://web.bham.ac.uk/s.m.stocks.cen/Gherkins/Woman.jpg
> > Pickled Gherkins
> >
> >    Considered by many to be absolutely inedible,
> >    gherkins represent a major dietary constituent
> >    to many central or eastern European countries.
> >    If you ever go to the Czech republic and order
> >    "meat and two veg", what you will be served with
> >    is a slice of cow and two pickled gherkins.
> > http://web.bham.ac.uk/s.m.stocks.cen/Gherkins/Woman.jpg
> >    You will also notice how variable the quality of
> >    gherkins is, and that some are, in fact, quite
> >    sexy like the one in the above picture.
> >
> >    Factors affecting the quality of gherkins are:
> >    Crunchiness, Sourness, Sweetness, and Bitterness.
> >    Top quality gherkins are all of the first three
> >    and not at all bitter or soggy.
> > http://web.bham.ac.uk/s.m.stocks.cen/Gherkins/GherkinNav.htm
> >
> > > > QUESTION: "...the dust of humiliation and disgrace." ?
> > > >
> > > > Now that the ongoing war in Iraq is officially regarded
> > > > as a "Bring It On" front-line attack against terrorism,
> > > > doesn't this send a confusing message to the innocent,
> > > > law abiding, and peace-loving average citizen of Iraq,
> > > > that our, 'coalition of the willing' forces, having
> > > > once been set on "liberating" the people of Iraq from
> > > > daily fear and oppression, are now intentionally
> > > > transforming their embattled country into a magnet for
> > > > all sorts of violent extremist elements and terrorists?
> > > > How is the value of 'quality of life' measured and rated
> > > > according to this evolving, geopolitical "new world
> > > > order" standard?! [How Do *YOU* Feel?]
> >
> > "In January 2003, the U.S. Army and Defense
> > Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
> > selected United Defense (UDI) to team with General
> > Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) and the Lead
> > Systems Integrator (Boeing/SAIC) in the
> > design of the ground vehicles portion of
> > Future Combat Systems (FCS), a critical
> > component of the Army's planned force
> > transformation."
> > http://www.uniteddefense.com/index.htm
> >
> > QUESTION: Who owns 'United Defense (UDI)'?
> > ANSWER: "... The Carlyle Group purchased
> > a majority stake..."
> >
> > The Carlyle Group:
> > http://www.thecarlylegroup.com/eng/index.html
> >
> > Bechtel
> > http://www.bechtel.com/
> >
> > Bechtel's "Iraq Infrastructure Reconstruction Program"
> > http://www.bechtel.com/iraq.html
> >
> > Halliburton
> > http://www.halliburton.com/index.jsp
> >
> > Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR), a subsidiary of Halliburton
> > http://www.halliburton.com/news/archive/2000/kbrnws_050800.jsp
> >
> >  "Those who do not understand the new tactics of
> >  the opposition in Iraq should ask John Poindexter
> >  and Oliver North about the tactics they used to
> >  bring Nicaragua to its knees in the 1980's.
> >  The Us-backed Contras sabotaged every effort
> >  the Sandinistas made to rebuild the Nicaraguan
> >  infrastructure. Dick Cheney was around then,
> >  too. They even had a nice name for it:
> >  'Low intensity conflict.'" --Editors Note:
> > http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/081903D.shtml
> >
> > Tao Te Ching
> > http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/ttcmerel.htm
> >
> > http://www.conspiracydigest.com/carlyle_group.html
> > "... The Chairman Emeritus of Carlyle Group is
> > Frank C. Carlucci, whose claim to fame was Deputy
> > Secretary of Defense (1981-1982) and National
> > Security Adviser (1987-1989). After his government
> > stint, he headed the Sears/ Coldwell Banker scam.
> >
> > "The current chairman of Carlyle Group is Lou Gerstner,
> > the former Chairman of IBM.
> >
> > "Sir James Baker III, Chief of Staff (1981 -'85), and
> > Secretary of Treasury (1985-'89) under Reagan; and
> > Secretary of State (1989 - 1993) under
> > George H. W. Bush Sr., is a 'Senior Advisor.'
> >
> > "Sir George Herbert Walker Bush, Director of CIA
> > (1976-'77) under Ford; Vice-President (1981-'89)
> > under Reagan; and President (1989 - '93), acts as
> > a broker and also senior advisor.
> >
> > "Other name brand politicos connected to Carlyle
> > include, former British prime minister John Major
> > (Chairman of Carlyle Europe), Dick Darman, the
> > former Reagan-Bush director of the Office of
> > Management and Budget, and Arthur Levitt, former
> > chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
> > and Carlyle Senior Advisor. ..."
> > http://www.conspiracydigest.com/carlyle_group.html
>
> New ambassador to Saudi Arabia is
> another Bush/Carlyle Group crony.
>
> http://www.truthout.org/docs_01/0662.Bush.Saudi.htm
>
> By Jonathan Ashley, Eyes On American
>
> Dallas attorney Robert Jordan was confirmed
> Wednesday [2001] by the United States Senate to serve
> as ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
>
> Jordan has no diplomatic experience. However, his
> connections leave no doubt as to why he was named
> to the post. He defended George W. Bush in a probe
> of insider trading allegations in 1990.
> The allegations involved the sale by Bush of 60%
> of his Harken Energy Corp. stocks two months before
> a 25% drop in the stock's price. According to a
> 7 Sep 2000 article by the Associated Press,
> "At the time of the investigation, Bush's father
> was president of the United States and the SEC was
> run by one of his biggest political supporters,
> Richard Breeden. The SEC's then-general counsel,
> James R. Doty, was another staunch presidential
> supporter who as a private attorney was George
> W. Bush's lawyer when he purchased his share of
> the Texas Rangers baseball team."
>
> This is not Jordan's only connection to the Bush
> family. Jordan is a corporate lawyer in the Dallas
> office of Houston-based Baker Botts. Baker Botts
> has an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The client
> list at Baker Botts includes "more than half of
> the Fortune 100 companies". The client list also
> includes The Carlyle Group. On the board of
> directors for Carlyle is former President George
> Herbert Walker Bush.
>
> James A. Baker III is the current Baker in Baker
> Botts. Baker was Secretary of State under the first
> President Bush. He is currently senior counsel to
> The Carlyle Group. Baker was a classmate of
> Donald H. Rumsfeld at Yale University. Rumsfeld,
> the current Secretary of Defense, was the
> roommate of Frank C. Carlucci at Yale.
>
> Carlucci, who was head of the National Security
> Counsel under President Ronald Reagan, is
> currently chairman of The Carlyle Group.
>
> The current President Bush was a director of
> Caterair during the years 1990-1994. Caterair is
> owned by The Carlyle Group.
>
> The board of directors of The Carlyle Group also
> includes: former Phillipines President, Fidel
> V. Ramos; former director of the U.S. Office of
> Management & Budget, Richard Darman; former
> Assistant to the President (Bush I), Robert Grady;
> former Prime Minister of South Korea, Park Tae Joon;
> former SEC chairman, Arthur Levitt; former Prime
> Minister of Great Britain, John Major; former
> general director of the World Health Organization,
> Michael Orloff; retired U.S. Army General,
> J. H. Binford Peay; former president of Deutsche
> Bundesbank, Karl Otto Pohl; and former chairman of
> the Joint Chief's of Staff, John Shalikashvili.
>
> Two-thirds of Carlyle's holdings are in defense
> and telecommunications companies.
>
> At leaset $2 million of Carlyle funding has come
> from the bin Laden family of Saudi Arabia.
> http://www.truthout.org/docs_01/0662.Bush.Saudi.htm
> > > >
> > > > *****************************************************************
> > > >
> > > > MEMRI: The Middle East Media Research Institute
> > > > http://memri.org/
> > > >
> > > > Nov 14 SR# 22 - 2003 Palestinian Authority Textbook
> > > >  Calls for Jihad and Martyrdom
> > > >  http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SR2203
> > > >
> > > > Nov 14 SD# 609 - Al-Qa'ida Commander in Iraq: 'A Terror
> > > >   Attack Against the U.S. With 100,000 Deaths
> > > >   is Imminent; We Ordered the Riyadh Bombing' **
> > > >   http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD60903
> > > >
> > > > Nov 13 SD# 608 - Three Fatah Leaders Visit Washington, D.C.
> > > >   http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD60803
> > > >
> > > > Nov 12 SD# 607 - Arafat's National Security Advisor Jibril Rjoub:
> > > >   'The U.S. Administration is a Fascist
> > > >   Administration,' 'The Iraqi Opposition to the
> > > >   American Occupation Must be Increased'
> > > >   http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD60703
> > <snip>
> >
> > GIAT Industries:
> > http://www.giat-industries.fr/us_index.asp
> >
> > Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
> > http://enterprise.spawar.navy.mil
> >
> > National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
> > http://www.nro.gov
> >
> > Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
> > http://www.darpa.mil
> >
> > The Security Council
> > http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/index.htm
> >
> > Confirmed coalition deaths:
> > http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/
> >
> > *Rebuilding Iraq Conference* Arlington, Virginia
> > GET IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR!
> > IRAQ IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS!!!
> > http://www.new-fields.com/Iraq/
> >
> > AL QAEDA'S AGENDA FOR IRAQ
> > By AMIR TAHERI
> >
> > September 4, 2003 -- 'IT is not the American war machine
> > that should be of the utmost concern to Muslims.
> > What threatens the future of Islam, in fact its very
> > survival, is American democracy." This is the message of
> > a new book, just published by al Qaeda in several Arab
> > countries. The author of "The Future of Iraq and The
> > Arabian Peninsula After The Fall of Baghdad" is Yussuf
> > al-Ayyeri, one of Osama bin Laden's closest associates
> > since the early '90s. A Saudi citizen also known by the
> > nom de guerre Abu Muhammad, he was killed in a gun battle
> > with security forces in Riyadh last June.
> > The book is published by The Centre for Islamic Research
> > and Studies, a company set up by bin Laden in 1995 with
> > branches in New York and London (now closed). Over the
> > past eight years, it has published more than 40 books by
> > al Qaeda "thinkers and researchers" including militants
> > such as Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's No. 2.
> > Al-Ayyeri first made his name in the mid '90s as a
> > commander of the Farouq camp in eastern Afghanistan,
> > where al Qaeda and the Taliban trained thousands of
> > "volunteers for martyrdom."
> > Al-Ayyeri argues that the history of mankind is the
> > story of "perpetual war between belief and unbelief."
> > Over the millennia, both have appeared in different
> > guises. As far as belief is concerned, the absolutely
> > final version is represented by Islam, which "annuls all
> > other religions and creeds." Thus, Muslims can have only
> > one goal: converting all humanity to Islam and "effacing
> > the final traces of all other religions, creeds and
> > ideologies."  Unbelief (kufr) has come in numerous forms
> > and shapes, but with a single objective: to destroy faith
> > in God. In the West, unbelief has succeeded in making a
> > majority of people forget God and worship the world.
> > Islam, however, is resisting the trend because Allah
> > means to give it final victory.
> > Al-Ayyeri then shows how various forms of unbelief
> > attacked the world of Islam in the past century or so,
> > to be defeated in one way or another.
> >
> > The first form of unbelief to attack was "modernism"
> > (hidatha), which led to the caliphate's destruction
> > and the emergence in the lands of Islam of states
> > based on ethnic identities and territorial dimensions
> > rather than religious faith.
> > The second was nationalism, which, imported from Europe,
> > divided Muslims into Arabs, Persians, Turks and others.
> > Al-Ayyeri claims that nationalism has now been crushed
> > in almost all Muslim lands. He claims that a true Muslim
> > is not loyal to any particular nation-state.
> > The third form of unbelief is socialism, which includes
> > communism. That, too, has been defeated and eliminated
> > from the Muslim world, Al-Ayyeri asserts. He presents
> > Ba'athism, the Iraqi ruling party's ideology under
> > Saddam Hussein, as the fourth form of unbelief to afflict
> > Muslims, especially Arabs. Ba'athism (also the official
> > ideology of the Syrian regime) offers Arabs a mixture of
> > pan-Arabism and socialism as an alternative to Islam.
> > Al-Ayyeri says Muslims "should welcome the destruction
> > of Ba'athism in Iraq."
> > "The end of Ba'ath rule in Iraq is good for Islam and
> > Muslims," he writes. "Where the banner of Ba'ath has
> > fallen, shall rise the banner of Islam."
> > The author notes as "a paradox" the fact that all the
> > various forms of unbelief that threatened Islam were
> > defeated with the help of the Western powers, and more
> > specifically the United States.
> > The "modernizing" movement in the Muslim world was
> > ultimately discredited when European imperial powers
> > forced their domination on Muslim lands, turning the
> > Westernized elite into their "hired lackeys."
> > The nationalists were defeated and discredited in wars
> > led against them by various Western powers or, in the
> > case of Nasserism in Egypt, by Israel.
> > The West also gave a hand in defeating socialism and
> > communism in the Muslim world. The most dramatic example
> > of this came when America helped the Afghan mujaheeden
> > destroy the Soviet-backed communist regime in Kabul.
> > And now the United States and its British allies have
> > destroyed Ba'athism in Iraq and may have fatally
> > undermined it in Syria as well.
> > What Al-Ayyeri sees now is a "clean battlefield" in
> > which Islam faces a new form of unbelief. This, he
> > labels "secularist democracy." This threat is "far
> > more dangerous to Islam" than all its predecessors
> > combined. The reasons, he explains in a whole chapter,
> > must be sought in democracy's "seductive capacities."
> > This form of "unbelief" persuades the people that they
> > are in charge of their destiny and that, using their
> > collective reasoning, they can shape policies and pass
> > laws as they see fit. That leads them into ignoring
> > the "unalterable laws" promulgated by God for the whole
> > of mankind, and codified in the Islamic shariah
> > (jurisprudence) until the end of time.
> > The goal of democracy, according to Al-Ayyeri, is to
> > "make Muslims love this world, forget the next world
> > and abandon jihad." If established in any Muslim
> > country for a reasonably long time, democracy could
> > lead to economic prosperity, which, in turn, would
> > make Muslims "reluctant to die in martyrdom" in
> > defense of their faith.
> > He says that it is vital to prevent any normalization
> > and stabilization in Iraq. Muslim militants should make
> > sure that the United States does not succeed in holding
> > elections in Iraq and creating a democratic government.
> > "If democracy comes to Iraq, the next target [for
> > democratization] would be the whole of the Muslim
> > world," Al-Ayyeri writes.
> > The al Qaeda ideologist claims that the only Muslim
> > country already affected by "the beginning of
> > democratization" and thus in "mortal danger" is Turkey.
> > "Do we want what happened in Turkey to happen to all
> > Muslim countries?" he asks. "Do we want Muslims to
> > refuse taking part in jihad and submit to secularism,
> > which is a Zionist-Crusader concoction?"
> > Al-Ayyeri says Iraq would become the graveyard of
> > secular democracy, just as Afghanistan became the
> > graveyard of communism. The idea is that the Americans,
> > faced with mounting casualties in Iraq, will "just run
> > away," as did the Soviets in Afghanistan. This is
> > because the Americans love this world and are concerned
> > about nothing but their own comfort, while Muslims
> > dream of the pleasures that martyrdom offers in paradise.
> > "In Iraq today, there are only two sides," Al-Ayyeri
> > asserts. "Here we have a clash of two visions of the
> > world and the future of mankind. The side prepared to
> > accept more sacrifices will win."
> > Al-Ayyeri's analysis may sound naive; he also gets most
> > of his facts wrong. But he is right in reminding the
> > world that what happens in Iraq could affect other Arab
> > countries - in fact, the whole of the Muslim world.
> > AL QAEDA'S AGENDA FOR IRAQ
> > E-mail: amirtaheri@benadorassociates.com
> >
> > [<http://www.yaislah.org/englishnew.htm>]
> > The Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia
>