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Who are you going to believe me or your lying eyes
(famous Groucho Marx joke)
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Obama bows to Saudi king
Greeting called 'most unbecoming for president of the United States'
Posted: April 02, 2009
4:12 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh
President Obama greeted the king of Saudi Arabia with a full bow from
the waist yesterday, a move one commentator described as a violation
of protocol and not worthy of the office he holds.
"I am quite certain that this is not the protocol, and is most
unbecoming a president of the United States ," writes Clarice Feldman
in an American Thinker commentary.
The situation developed as leaders of the world attending the G20
summit in London assembled for a photograph to mark the event.
In this first image, after the king extended his hand while Obama
approached, Obama bends from the waist until his head is nearly at the
monarch's waist:
President Obama's bow to Saudi king
In a second image, Obama has straightened up and is exchanging remarks
with the Saudi leader:
Video by a television crew was posted on YouTube. The bow comes at
about 50 seconds into the video:
The action appeared especially awkward since among the dozens of world
leaders and their spouses, handshakes abounded, but there appeared to
be no other bowing in the room.
The U.S. State Department's office of protocol, in a statement
attributed to acting chief of protocol Gladys Blouda, confirmed the
type of greeting between heads of state depends on the customs of the
countries, but a handshake is the most common form of greeting.
The online Travel Etiquette website for Saudi Arabia said handshakes
are common greetings between members of the same gender
"You should expect to undertake a considerable amount of small talk,
and learning a few Arabic greetings would be well received. Saudis
will stand closer to each other than many westerners are used to, and
members of the same gender will often touch arms when postulating or
emphasizing a point. You should not draw away from this as it would be
considered rude and rejecting. Be aware that due to the conservative
nature of Saudi Arabian society, it is not considered proper etiquette
for men and women to greet each other in public," the site advises.
"It is proper etiquette to refer to a royal as Your Highness, and any
members of the government ministries as Your Excellency," it said.
Learn about the rest of Obama's plans for the United States , in "The
Audacity of Deceit"
Many of the proper procedures for meeting royalty are set by the
British monarchy, since its members carry probably the highest royal
profile around the world today.
The website for the British queen advises men who are from the United
Kingdom to provide a neck bow (from the head only) "whilst women do a
small curtsy. Other people prefer simply to shake hands in the usual
way."
"On presentation to The Queen, the correct formal address is 'Your
Majesty' and subsequently 'Ma'am'," the site advises.
ABC reported Obama and his wife, Michelle, were less formal meeting
Queen Elizabeth II earlier this week, when they exchanged handshakes.
The queen briefly touched Michelle Obama on the back, and she returned
the contact.
Pundits were surprised, since in 1992 Australian Prime Minister Paul
Keating was criticized when he put his arm around the queen in
violation of a general "no-touch" rule regarding royalty.
But the traditional Miss Manners book of etiquette advises: "One does
not bow or curtsy to a foreign monarch because the gesture symbolizes
recognition of her power over her subjects."
Jamie Glazov, the author of "United in Hate," said Obama's act
actually was to be expected.
"And people don't know what's going on here? Are we kidding?" he said.
"This is simply the continuation of fellow traveling. It's to be
totally expected. Leftists have prostrated themselves before despots
throughout history – during the whole Cold War and now vis-à-vis
jihadists in the terror war. 'United in Hate' crystallizes with
precision how and why this dark process occurs."
He cited the Obamas' less formal interaction with the queen earlier.
"Obviously, the queen does not wield totalitarian power and does not
mete out sadistic punishment – with which a believer yearns to
identify. The Saudi king, meanwhile, is a tyrannical entity to which
Obama can subjugate his individuality – and through which he can
vicariously experience a feeling of power and purpose. This is the
process of negative identification that every leftist must practice
and that 'United in Hate' documents is at the heart of every leftist's
main driving force," he said.
OBAMA BOWS TO SAUDI KING CLICK ON LINK BELOW TO SEE IT
http://www.wikio.com/video/obama-bows-saudi-king-979315
Why Is the White House Pretending Obama Didn't Bow?
Sort by Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine
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04/09/2009
The best way to diffuse the non-stories that blogs latch onto and
hyperventilate over from time to time like President Obama's bow to
Saudi royalty at the G20 summit is to simply ignore them and let them
die out on their own. But addressing them with a not-quite-believable
explanation is bound to just make things worse. Yes, Obama did seem to
respectfully duck his head when he greeted Saudi Arabia 's...
White House says Obama didn't bow to the Saudi King
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04/08/2009
Judge for yourself Libelblogger Charles Johnson of the once-worthwhile
site Little Green Footballs, careless with the facts as ever, has
claimed that Bush also bowed to the Islamic supremacist monarch. In
reality, Bush didn't.

The Mansourian Candidate ?
Obama Had Close Ties to Top Saudi Adviser at Early Age
Sept. 4th 2008 c.e. ….(YNET) New evidence has emerged that Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama was closely associated as early as
age 25 to a key adviser to a Saudi billionaire who had mentored the
founding members of the Black Panthers. In a videotaped interview this
year on New York 's all news cable channel NY1, a prominent African-
American businessman and political figure made the curious disclosures
about Obama. Percy Sutton, the former borough president of Manhattan ,
off-handedly revealed the unusual circumstances about his first
encounter with the young Obama. "I was introduced to Obama by a friend
who was raising money for him," Sutton told NY1 city hall reporter
Dominic Carter. "The friend's name is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, from
Texas ," Sutton said. "He is the principal adviser to one of the
world's richest men. He told me about Obama." Sutton, the founder of
Inner City Broadcasting, said al-Mansour contacted him to ask a favor:
Would Sutton write a letter in support of Obama's application to
Harvard Law School ? "He wrote to me about him," Sutton recalled. "And
his introduction was there is a young man that has applied to Harvard.
I know that you have a few friends up there because you used to go up
there to speak. Would you please write a letter in support of him?"
Sutton said he acted on his friend al-Mansour's advice. "I wrote a
letter of support of him to my friends at Harvard, saying to them I
thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I
certainly hoped they would treat him kindly," Sutton told NY1. Sutton
did not say why al-Mansour was helping Obama, how he discovered him,
or from whom he was raising money on Obama's behalf. A Sutton aide
told Newsmax that Sutton, 88, is ailing and is unlikely to do
additional TV interviews in the near future. The aide could not
provide additional comment for this story. As it turned out, Obama did
attend Harvard Law School after graduating from Columbia University in
New York and doing a stint as a community organizer in Chicago . The
New York Times described how transformative his Harvard experience
became for the young Obama: "He arrived there as an unknown, Afro-
wearing community organizer who had spent years searching for his
identity; by the time he left, he had his first national news media
exposure, a book contract and a shot of confidence from running the
most powerful legal journal in the country." The details of Obama's
academic performance are well known: At Harvard, Obama rose to
academic distinction becoming the editor of the Harvard Law Review and
graduating magna cum laude. Less known are the reasons al-Mansour, an
activist African-American Muslim, would be a key backer for a young
man from Hawaii seeking to attend the most Ivy of the Ivy League law
schools.
Khalid al-Mansour a.k.a. Don Warden
In an exclusive interview with Newsmax from his home in San Antonio ,
Texas , al-Mansour said he would not comment specifically on the
statement by Percy Sutton because he was afraid anything he said would
get "distorted." "I was determined I was never going to be in that
situation," he said. "Bloggers are saying this is the new Rev. Wright,
in drag, and he is a nationalist, racist, and worse than Rev. Wright.
So any statement that I made would only further this activity which is
not in the interest of Barack." But in the lengthy interview, al-
Mansour confirmed that he frequently spoke on university campuses,
including Columbia , where Percy Sutton suggested he met Obama in the
late 1980s, and confirmed his close relationship with Prince Alwaleed.
"I am not surprised to learn about this," said Niger Innis, spokesman
of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). "It is clear that Barack
Obama's ties to the left are familial, generational, and have lasted
for several years." Although many Americans have never heard of Khalid
Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour (his full name), he is well known within the
black community as a lawyer, an orthodox Muslim, a black nationalist,
an author, an international deal-maker, an educator, and an outspoken
enemy of Israel. A graduate of Howard University with a law degree
from the University of California , al-Mansour sits on numerous
corporate boards, including the Saudi African Bank and Chicago-based
LaGray Chemical Co. LaGray, which was formed to do business in
Africa , counts former Nigerian President General Abdusalam Abubakar
on its advisory board. He also sits on the board of the non-profit
African Leadership Academy , along with top McCain for President
adviser Carly Fiorina, and organized a tribute to the President of
Ghana at the Clinton White House in 1995, along with pop star Michael
Jackson. But his writings and books are packed with anti-American
rhetoric reminiscent of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's disgraced
former pastor. In a 1995 book, "The Lost Books of Africa
Rediscovered," he alleged that the United States was plotting genocide
against black Americans.
The first "genocide against the black man began 300 years ago," he
told an audience in Harlem at a book-signing, while a second
"genocide" was on the way "to remove 15 million Black people,
considered disposable, of no relevance, value or benefit to the
American society." In the 1960s, when he founded the African American
Association in the San Francisco Bay area, he was known as Donald
Warden. According to the Social Activism Project at the University of
California at Berkley , Warden, a.k.a. Khalid al-Mansour, was the
mentor of Black Panther Party founder Huey Newton and his cohort,
Bobby Seale. Newton later had a falling out with Warden, who was
described in a 1994 book as "the most articulate spokesperson for
black nationalism" at the time. The falling out wasn't purely
political, according to author Hugh Pearson. "Sometimes Newton and the
other members of (Warden's) security detail got into fights with young
whites who didn't like what Warden had to say about whites. Rather
than 'throw down' along with the security detail, Warden refused to
fight," Pearson wrote in "Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the
Price of Black Power in America ." U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee of California
entered an official statement of appreciation of Warden and his Black
Panther colleagues in the African-American Association in the
Congressional Record on April 23, 2007. "Among the founding members
(of the Association) were community leaders such as Khalid Al-Mansour
(known then as Don Warden); future Judges Henry Ramsey and Thelton
Henderson; future Congressman and Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, and
future Black Panthers Huey Newton and Bobby Seale," the Democratic
representative's statement said. Al-Mansour's more recent videotaped
speeches focus on Muslim themes, and abound with anti-Semitic theories
and anti-Israel vitriol. "Today, the Palestinians are being brutalized
like savages," he told an audience in South Africa . "If you protest
you will go to jail, and you may be killed. And they say they are the
only democratic country in the Middle East . ... They are lying on
God." He accused the Jews of "stealing the land the same way the
Christians stole the land from the Indians in America ."
The Saudi Connection
But al-Mansour's sponsorship of Obama as a prospective Harvard law
student is important for another reason beyond his Islamic and anti-
American rhetoric and early Black Panther ties. At the time Percy
Sutton, a former lawyer for Malcolm X and a former business partner of
al-Mansour, says he was raising money for Obama's graduate school
education, al-Mansour was representing top members of the Saudi Royal
family seeking to do business and exert influence in the United
States . In 1989, for example, just one year after Obama entered
Harvard Law School, the Los Angeles Times revealed that al-Mansour had
been advising Saudi billionaires Abdul Aziz and Khalid al-Ibrahim in
their secret effort to acquire a major stake in prime oceanfront
property in Marina del Rey, Calif., through "an elaborate network of
corporate shells in California, the Caribbean and Europe." At the same
time, he was also advising Prince Alwaleed bin Talal in his US
investments, and sits on the board of his premier investment vehicle,
Kingdom Holdings. Prince Alwaleed, 53, is the nephew if King Abdallah
of Saudi Arabia   Forbes magazine ranked him this year as the 19th
richest person on the planet, with a fortune in excess of $23 billion.
He owns large chunks of Citigroup and News Corp., the holding company
that controls Fox News. He is best known in the United States for his
offer to donate $10 million to help rebuild downtown Manhattan after
the 9/11 attacks. But after the prince made a public comment
suggesting that US policies had contributed to causing the attacks,
Mayor Rudy Giuliani handed back his check. "I entirely reject that
statement," Giuliani said. "There is no moral equivalent for this
(terrorist) act. There is no justification for it. The people who did
it lost any right to ask for justification for it when they
slaughtered 4,000 or 5,000 innocent people." Since then, Prince
Alwaleed's Kingdom Foundation has given millions of dollars to Muslim
charities in the United States , including several whose leaders have
been indicted on terrorism-related charges in federal courts. He also
has given tens of millions of dollars to Harvard and other major US
universities, to establish programs in Islamic studies. The casual
statement by Percy Sutton to NY1 is the first time anyone has hinted
at a relationship between Obama and the Saudi royal family. Although
al-Mansour glosses over his ties to the Saudi mega-billionaire in some
of his public talks, he has represented the Saudi's interests in the
United States , in Britain , and in Africa for more than a quarter
century, according to public records. He told Newsmax that he has
personally introduced Prince Alwaleed to "51 of the 53 leaders of
Africa ," traveling from country to country on the Saudi prince's
private jet. He knows virtually every black leader in America , from
the business community, to community activists, to the worlds of
politics and entertainment. When Michael Jackson was on the ropes in
the mid-1990s following a series of lawsuits by the parents of
children accusing him of s--ual abuse, al-Mansour introduced him to
Prince Alwaleed, whose Kingdom Entertainment signed a joint venture
with Jackson in 1996. "Jackson and Alwaleed became pals in 1994, when
a mutual friend from Alwaleed's college days in California arranged a
lunch meeting aboard the prince's yacht in Cannes ," Time magazine
reported about the new partnership in 1997. The mutual friend was al-
Mansour.
"As a black American, I am exceedingly proud at the American people's
response to Barack Obama's candidacy," said CORE's Niger Innis. "But
to deny that he has long-standing ties to left-wing elements in our
polity is to deny reality. If you want to be president of the United
States , it is not racism if you ask these kind of questions, and he
has to come up with an answer, hopefully the truth." Sutton gives no
clues as to why al-Mansour would be raising money to help Obama go to
law school. Obama has said during his campaign that he paid his way
through Harvard with student loans. For Jesse Lee Peterson, founder of
the Los Angeles-based Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny
(BOND), these latest revelations about Obama's ties to Saudi
financiers were an important wake-up call. "To me, this opened up more
questions about Barack Obama and his relationship to the Muslim
world," Peterson told Newsmax. "A lot of people are caught up with the
emotional aspect of Barack Obama, the movie star aspect, the false
promises that he's going to take care of everyone and their Mama." But
when the full story of Obama's ties to radical preachers such as
Wright and to black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan comes out, Peterson
believes that Obama's star power will fade. "I think there's more to
this story and to Barack Obama than we realize," Peterson said. "As
all the truth comes out before the election, I don't think he has a
chance. I can't see American's taking that kind of risk."
http://focusonjerusalem.com/newsroom98.html
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Saudi Aramco CEO Visits Port Arthur Refinery Expansion
Mar 10th, 2010
by John Donovan.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
MARCH 9, 2010
[Dow Jones] While visiting Houston , his "adopted second home," Khalid
Al-Falih, the chief executive of Saudi Aramco, made a trip out to the
Motiva Port Arthur refinery. The refinery, which is jointly owned by
Aramco and Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA) is undergoing a major
expansion project which will make it the largest refinery in the U.S.
with a capacity of 600,000 barrels a day. It will be "the most
sophisticated refinery in the U.S only fitting for Texas ,' Al-Falih
said during a speech at the IHS-CERA Energy Conference in Houston .
Columbia University versus New York City Public Schools
"Since 2002, the government—owned Saudi Aramco has given the Institute
annual grants of $15,000 for unspecified outreach activities. March
11, 2005"
By Richard N. Weltz Columbia University president Lee Bollinger has
made good on his threat and discontinued the university's 10—year
participation in a professional development program for training New
York City K — 12 public school teachers. The dropped training program
guided the teachers in how to teach the tender young minds of New York
's youth about the Middle East . According to a report in yesterday's
New York Sun, Bollinger's action comes in response to the dropping
from the program of Columbia professor Rashid Khalidi, notorious for
his vitriolic diatribes against Israel .
Khalidi was the target of New York Schools chancellor Joel Klein, who
is Jewish, who serves under a Jewish mayor, and works with the
system's huge teacher's union, also headed by a Jew. Not so strangely,
Klein apparently disapproves of indoctrinating city teachers with the
kind of hatred spewed by Khalidi. Bollinger, on the other hand, who is
fast becoming known as the finest university president Arab money can
buy, insisted that Khalidi be allowed to continue propagandizing city
teachers with his oft—stated view that Israel is a 'racist' entity
whose army members may legitimately be murdered by West Bank and Gaza
Arab terrorists.
Under Bollinger's watch, the university's Middle East and Asian
Language And Culture department (MEALAC) has accepted extensive
funding from the United Arab Emirates and various other governmental
and private Arab sources, and has become heavily tilted toward an
outspokenly pro—Palestinian staff. Currently, the department is under
fire, accused of intimidation by its professors of Jewish and Israeli
students; and a non—independent school panel is purportedly
investigating the situation, brought to light by complaints from a
number of university students and highlighted in the documentary film,
Columbia Unbecoming, produced by the David Project of Boston.
Yesterday, Sun investigative reporter Jacob Gershman, also reported
new revelations of Arab money being funneled into Columbia's Middle
East programs:
Saudi Arabia has funneled tens of thousands of dollars into the
"outreach" programs of Columbia University's Middle East Institute,
which until last week was training some of the city's public—school
teachers in how to teach students about Middle East politics.
Since 2002, the government—owned Saudi Aramco has given the Institute
annual grants of $15,000 for unspecified outreach activities. The
Institute's outreach activities have included a 15—week teacher—
training course on Middle East politics led by Columbia faculty
members and graduate students.
Two prominent New York politicians have joined others who have
publicly condemned the goings—on at Morningside Heights . Front—runner
in the Democratic mayoral race, former Bronx Borough President
Fernando Ferrer, urged to university to give the money back to Saudi
Arabia; and
Another mayoral candidate, Rep. Anthony Weiner, who has urged
Columbia's administration to deal harshly with professors accused of
intimidating Jewish students, told the Sun in a telephone interview
yesterday that Columbia should return the Saudi gift.
"The money from the Saudis should have automatically raised strong
concerns in President Bollinger's office, especially when this
controversy erupted in public," Mr. Weiner said. "It should have been
quickly disclosed."
The university has not been fully forthcoming about the nature of the
program its Middle East Institute provides to the NYC teachers, nor
the effect on it of the one—sided funding behind the program:
Ms. Brown [a Columbia spokeswoman] would not disclose how the Middle
East Institute, which is part of Columbia's School of International
and Public Affairs, spent the Aramco money. Other outreach activities
carried out by the institute include a public lecture series and a one—
day educational program in 2002 for New York public—school teachers
that provided participants with a special "sensitivity" curriculum for
teaching issues related to Islam.
However, a faculty member at an Israeli institution in Tel Aviv stated
the obvious:
A research associate at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and
African Studies at Tel Aviv University , Martin Kramer, who has been a
vocal critic of Middle Eastern studies in America , said the Saudi
kingdom is a logical benefactor of the institute.
Chancellor Klein's dismissal of Khalidi from the panel instructing
city teachers and Bollinger's follow—through on his ultimatum to
cancel the program if Khalidi were not allowed to promulgate his anti—
Israel propaganda, are just the latest chapter in an ongoing
controversy over Columbia's approach to hiring faculty to teach about
the Middle East. The 'stardom' accorded by Columbia to the late
professor Edward Said, whose hatred of Israel was legendary, and the
acceptance by the university of millions in funding for that chair
from the UAE and other Arab sources stands in contrast to Harvard,
whose president, Lawrence Summers, refused a similar gift offer.
Unlike Columbia 's president Bollinger, Summers is known for actively
fighting anti—Semitic and anti— Israel movements on Harvard's
Cambridge campus.
Presently, accusations of intimidation, prejudice, stifling of
academic freedom, and harassment of students who disagreed with
professors' extremist views in Columbia 's MEALAC classrooms are being
investigated by a supposedly independent panel headed by the
university provost and composed of university professors, some of whom
have public expressed antipathy toward Israel .
Jewish organizations have expressed fears of a whitewash effort and
are planning to make their voices heard and their influence felt —
especially through the pocketbooks of the many Jewish Columbia alumni
whose contributions are needed to keep Columbia competitive with its
Ivy League competitors — if the panel does not come up with
appropriate conclusions leading to effective university action.
Stay tuned. And watch the New York Sun for further developments, as it
is the only daily newspaper which has been conducting a thorough and
ongoing investigation of the Middle East studies crisis situation at
this once—august educational institution.
on "Columbia University versus New York City Public Schools"
http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/03/columbia_university_versus_new.html
"Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, director of outreach at Dar Al Hijrah
Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., and a board member of the
Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington, said he thought the
issue fit broadly into that of supporting diversity, inclusion, and
engagement as opposed to "Islamophobia, homophobia, day-labor-o-
phobia." And minority communities understand the Democrats are more
inclusive, generally speaking, Abdul-Malik said.
"If you're anti-immigrant, if you're anti-minority if you're anti-
civil rights, you're anti-civil liberties, you're probably anti-
Islam . . . they all wind up in the same boat," he said. "So how it
becomes an issue politically is when you bundle these issues together,
the coalitions and alliances come together."
http://unitedagainstislamicsupremacism.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/islamic-saudi-academy-research-first-blush/
"Leader of Radical Mosque Leads Virginia House in Prayer
By Steve Emerson
Created 03/12/2010 - 21:51
Steve Emerson
Imam Johari Abdul-Malik of Dar al-Hijrah [1] mosque gave the opening
prayer [2] before the Virginia House of Delegates yesterday afternoon.
The effort is part of House of Delegates' desire to reach out to
religious leaders of other faiths. However, selecting Johari Abdul-
Malik, the mosque's outreach director, or any religious leader from
Dar al-Hijrah, is questionable due to their support for radical and
political Islamic issues.
Abdul-Malik issued a statement acknowledging criticism of his
invitation. In it, he dismissed critics as "voices of intolerance and
divisions" that are undermining the interfaith effort of delegates
Kaye Kory and Adam Ebbins:
"We therefore should not allow voices of division and hate to go
unchallenged. We differ on some [of] our basic beliefs and practices
but we hold in common our commitment and love of God, a God of mercy
and compassion."
The record of Abdul-Malik's statements suggests that his beliefs are
more nuanced than he presents here. At a 2001 conference hosted by the
Islamic Association of Palestine, a now defunct propaganda branch of
the Specially Designated Terrorist organization Hamas, he called for
attacks against Israeli infrastructure to show Muslim displeasure with
Israel 's treatment of Palestinians:
"I am gonna teach you now. You can blow up bridges, but you cannot
kill people who are innocent on their way to work. You can blow up
power supplies… the water supply, you can do all forms of sabotage and
let the world know that we are doing it like this because they have a
respect for the lives of innocent people."
This is not his first statement that was devoid of tolerance and
compassion. Abdul-Malik has predicted [3] a Muslim majority in
America , as he did in a November 2004 Friday Khutba, or sermon:
"Alhamdullilah [Praise to Allah] and we will live, will see the day
when Islam, by the grace of Allah, will become the dominant way of
life… I'm telling you don't take it for granted because Allah is
increasing this din [religion] in your lifetime. Alhamdullilah [Praise
to Allah] that soon, soon… before Allah closes our eyes for the last
time, you will see Islam move from being the second largest religion
in America – that's where we are now – to being the first religion in
America."
In addition, Abdul-Malik has openly expressed support for some very
radical individuals.
His defense of convicted [4] terror facilitator Ali Al-Timimi [5], an
extremist [6] cleric who stated "mujahideen killed while fighting
Americans in Afghanistan would die as martyrs," is a prime example.
According to court documents, Timimi recommended that his followers
"obtain jihad training from Lashkar-e-Taiba because its belief system
was good and it focused on combat." Abdul-Malik told the Times Union,
on July 16 2005, that Timimi's conviction was "like being convicted of
murder, even though you haven't killed anyone." He also told [7] the
New York Times about his concern that the conviction would "chill free
speech." As the newspaper reported:
"There is a view many Muslims have when they come to America that you
could not be arrested for something you say," said Imam Johari Abdul
Malik, outreach director at Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls
Church . "But now they have discovered they are not free to speak
their minds. And if our opinions are out of vogue in the current
climate, we feel we are all at risk."
Just last month, the mosque hosted a fundraiser [8] for Sabri
Benkahla, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence for obstruction of
justice and perjury for statements he made before a Virginia grand
jury investigating the "Virginia jihad [9]" terror cell inspired by
Timimi.
Abdul-Malik is on record [10] about the moderation of Anwar al-Awlaki,
a previous spiritual leader at Dar al-Hijrah who went on to become an
al-Qaeda affiliated radical fighting America from Yemen . Abdul-Malik
falsely claimed that Awlaki was not extremist during his time at Dar
al-Hijrah, when he stated [11]:
"Let's be clear when Anwar Al Awlaki was at Dar Al-Hijrah, he was
articulating the same message that I articulate today in Dar Al-
Hijrah, a very open, a very engaging, a very community wise and
contemporary understanding of the faith within the framework of its
traditionalism."
However, while he was a prayer leader at Dar al-Hijrah, Awlaki
declared [10] that Palestinians who killed Israeli civilians were
freedom fighters, claimed that the 9/11 terrorists were actually
"victims not hijackers," and accused the FBI of pinning the blame on
Muslims for the 9/11 attacks.
Abdul-Malik is not the only leader of his mosque to have defended
violence or known terrorists. Several of Dar al-Hijrah's leaders have
themselves been connected to, or convicted for, providing financial
and logistical support to terrorist organizations. A former member of
Dar al-Hijrah's Board of Trustees, Abdulhaleem al-Ashqar [12], brought
together Hamas members and their U.S. contacts at a 1993 meeting in
Philadelphia designed to discuss ways to thwart U.S.-led Middle East
peace efforts. Ashqar also directed the Al Aqsa Educational Fund [13],
a Hamas-linked group. Likewise, Ismail Elbarasse, a Dar Al-Hijrah
founder, worked for Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook [14] and wired
$735,000 [15] to Hamas operative Mohammad Salah.
Mohammed Adam El-Sheikh, Dar Al-Hijrah's imam from August 2003-May
2005, was the Baltimore regional director of the Islamic American
Relief Agency (IARA), a U.S. designated terrorist organization [16].
Mohammed Al-Hanooti, Dar Al-Hijrah's imam from 1995-1999, was the
former director of the Islamic Association for Palestine , which, as
mentioned earlier, was an American front for Hamas.
Even Shaker El-Sayed, the current [17] imam at Dar al-Hijrah, has a
record of support for radical ideologies. He has written admiringly of
Hasan Al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. The terrorist
organization of Hamas was founded [18] as the Palestinian branch of
the Muslim Brotherhood. In the pamphlet, Jihad, Banna states [19]:
"Jihad is an obligation from Allah on every Muslim and cannot be
ignored nor evaded. Allah has ascribed great importance to jihad and
has made the reward of the martyrs and the fighters in His way a
splendid one. Only those who have acted similarly and who have modeled
themselves upon the martyrs in their performance of jihad can join
them in this reward."
Moreover, in 2004, El-Sayed told [20] the Chicago Tribune that Al-
Banna's ideas are "the closest reflection of how Islam should be in
this life."
Johari's statements and Dar al-Hijrah's extremist past run contrary to
the spirit of cooperation which the mosque attempts to express today.
There's nothing wrong with seeking leaders of many faiths to address
the delegates. There certainly are better candidates.
FamilySecurityMatters.org [21] Contributing Editor Steven Emerson,
executive director [22] of the Investigative Project on Terrorism
[23], is the author of six books on national security and Middle
Eastern terrorism.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/print/7809
"Central figure in New York/Colorado bomb plot is an imam… He became
religious in high school, and preached at the Masjid Hazrat Abu Bakr
Islamic Center, New York's largest Afghan mosque, until 2007…"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/09/central-figure-in-new-yorkcolorado-bomb-plot-is-an-imam-who-worked-both-sides.html
Alleged shooter tied to mosque of 9/11 hijackers
Daily Record - Morristown , N.J.
Date:    Nov 8, 2009
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Abstract (Document Summary)
The family of the alleged Fort Hood shooter held his mother's funeral
at the same Virginia mosque that two Sept. 11 hijackers attended in
2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there.
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/dailyrecord/access/1896777071.html?FMT=ABS&date=Nov+08%2C+2009
Fort Hood shooter, Virginia mosque links probed
Investigators are looking into links between suspected Fort Hood
shooter Nidal Malik Hasan and a Virginia mosque that was visited by a
radical prayer leader and two of the 9/11 hijackers.
By Jonathan Adams / November 9, 2009 The probe into suspected Fort
Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan took another turn early Monday, as an
official said that investigators were now looking into Hasan's
connection with a Virginia mosque visited by two of the 9/11
attackers.
Hasan, a military psychiatrist tasked with counseling US personnel
returning from war, is accused of killing 13 soldiers and wounding 29
more in Fort Hood , Texas last Thursday. Survivors said he yelled
"Allahu Akhbar" ("God is great") before opening fire.
Since that massacre, military officials are probing Hasan's possible
motive. He was reportedly disturbed over an impending deployment to
Afghanistan . Hasan, 39, is the only suspect in the shootings, but has
not yet been charged.
The British Telegraph first reported the link between Hasan and the
Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls , Virginia . The mosque was
attended by two hijackers who carried out the September 11, 2001
attacks and its prayer leader at the time was Anwar al-Awlaki, who the
Telegraph said was accused of supporting attacks on British troops and
backing terrorist organizations.
Al-Awlaki moved to Dar al-Hijrah as imam in January 2001 from the west
coast and three months later the September 11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hamzi
and Hani Hanjour began attending his services. A third hijacker
attended his services in California .
Hasan was praying at Dar al-Hijrah at about the same time and the FBI
will now want to investigate whether he met the two terrorists.
The Los Angeles Times reported Monday that an unnamed law enforcement
official confirmed that the FBI and Army were investigating links
between Hasan and the mosque.
[A]uthorities are still scouring "voluminous" hard drives, multiple e-
mail accounts and website trails "to see what's out there, and to see
what it all means," said the official, who spoke on condition of
anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. "There's a lot of work
being done." ...
The mosque is one of the biggest in the United States , and the
official cautioned that thousands of people go there for prayer
services and other events.
The Los Angeles Times said that investigators are also looking into
whether Hasan had recently been following Anwar al-Awlaki's online
sermons. Awlaki, a US citizen, left America in 2002 and is believed to
be in Yemen , the Times said.
In a blog on his website a post today attributed to Awlaki read:
Nidal Hassan is a hero. He is a man of conscience who could not bear
living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that
is fighting against his own people. ...
The US is leading the war against terrorism which in reality is a war
against Islam. Its army is directly invading two Muslim countries and
indirectly occupying the rest through its stooges.
On the Sunday talk shows, an army official warned against jumping to
conclusions about Hasan, as one prominent senator said he would probe
what the Army knew about the accused shooter before the massacre.
According to the Associated Press, Army Chief of Staff George Casey
said investigators needed time to fully probe the attacks. "I think
the speculation (on Hasan's Islamic roots) could potentially heighten
backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers," he said on ABC's "This
Week," according to the AP.
On Fox New Sunday, Senator Joseph Lieberman said he would launch a
probe, the AP reported.
A day earlier, classmates who participated in a 2007-2008 master's
program at a military college said they complained to faculty about
what they considered to be Hasan's anti-American views, which included
his giving a presentation that justified suicide bombing and telling
classmates that Islamic law trumped the U.S. Constitution.
"If Hasan was showing signs, saying to people that he had become an
Islamist extremist, the U.S. Army has to have zero tolerance,"
Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, said on "Fox News Sunday."
"He should have been gone."
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2009/1109/p99s01-duts.html
"The law says you have to have teacher training seminars on campuses,
and these have a radical anti-American bent. There is a place in New
Mexico called Dar el Islam, a giant 1,300-acre complex that has a
mosque, a madrassa [Islamic theological school], a summer camp, a
teacher training workshop, and a publishing house that publishes some
of the most virulent translations of the Quran, as well as the
materials for their teacher-training that are used all over the
country – and all stamped with the fancy blue-green-white star emblem
of ARAMCO, the state-owned national oil company of Saudi Arabia"
http://nocompromisemedia.com/tag/terrorism/
Imam Linked to Zazi Ordered to Leave U.S.
by Ailsa Chang
NEW YORK, NY April 15, 2010 —Queens imam Ahmad Afzali has been ordered
to leave the country in 90 days after pleading guilty to lying to the
FBI.
Afzali, who was born in Afghanistan , was linked last September to
Najibullah Zazi, the Denver airport driver who plotted to blow up
bombs on New York subways. Specifically, Afzali admitted he lied to
the FBI when he told federal authorities he never told Zazi the FBI
were looking for him. Afzali now says he did in fact tell Zazi federal
authorities were searching for him. Afzali had faced up to six months
in prison.
In a remorseful statement in federal court in Brooklyn today, Afzali
said he never intended to help Zazi and other suspects in the case. He
said all he had wanted to do was help the FBI. He said "the
psychological, emotional, and physical burden" of being a convicted
felon now is the greatest punishment he could have faced.
"Honest to God," he said in front of Judge Frederic Block, "it was not
my intention to help those idiots."
His lawyer, Ron Kuby, says Afzali was trapped by the FBI into lying.
Kuby maintains that it was the FBI, ultimately, that tipped off Zazi
that there was an ongoing investigation. Kuby says Zazi abandoned his
bomb plans when the FBI stopped him on his way into the city.
Zazi and other plotters allegedly hoped to detonate bombs on trains at
the two biggest subway stations— Times Square and Grand Central
Terminal. Zazi admitted he tested bomb-making materials in a Denver
subrub before driving to New York intending to blow up subway trains.
Two other men—Adis Medunjanin and Zarein Ahmedzay—have pleaded not
guilty to charges that they sought join Zazi in "three coordinated
suicide bombing attacks" on Manhattan subway lines. The alleged
attacks were scheduled to take place days after the eighth anniversary
of 9/11.
Although Afzali avoided jail time, he will never be able to return to
the U.S. again. http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/153524
Zazi, Al Qaeda pals planned rush-hour attack on Grand Central, Times
Square subway stations BY John Marzulli
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, April 12th 2010, 4:00 AM
Chilling new details about the foiled Al Qaeda plot to blow up the
city's busiest subways have emerged as a fourth suspect was quietly
arrested in Pakistan, the Daily News has learned.
The unidentified man, who helped plan the plot, is expected to be
extradited to the U.S. to betried in Brooklyn Federal Court with Adis
Medunjanin and Zarein Ahmedzay of Flushing, Queens , sources said.
The cooperation of would-be lead bomber Najibullah Zazi has helped law
enforcement officials piece together a fuller picture of the evil plan
to kill innocent straphangers around the 9/11 anniversary last year.
Zazi and his two Queens friends allegedly planned to strap explosives
to their bodies and split up, heading for the Grand Central and Times
Square stations - the two busiest subway stations in New York City .
They would board trains on the 1, 2, 3 and 6 lines at rush hour and
planned to position themselves in the middle of the packed trains to
ensure the maximum carnage when they blew themselves up, sources said.
During Zazi's brief visit to Queens from his home in Denver last
September, he rode the subway multiple times to the Grand Central and
Wall St. stations, scouting where to best spread death and mayhem, the
sources said.
Zazi has confessed that he, Medunjanin and Ahmedzay - all buddies from
Flushing High School - traveled to Pakistan in August 2008 to fight
with the Taliban against U.S. forces in Afghanistan .
There they were recruited by Al Qaeda for the Manhattan "martyrdom"
mission.
They received military training at a terror camp in the Waziristan
region, and Zazi was taken aside and given special bomb-making
training because of his knowledge of the subway system.
The attack was to take place on Sept. 14, 15 or 16 - as soon as the
bombs had been assembled - with Sept. 14 the most likely date, sources
said.
Zazi acknowledged in court that the plan was aborted when he became
aware that the FBI and the NYPD were on to him.
He discarded the bomb-making equipment and explosives he had gathered
and flew back to Denver , where he was arrested a few days later. He
began cooperating this year.
Zazi, scheduled to be sentenced June 25, has been moved out of the
Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to a secret location.
New Yorkers on the 1, 2, and 3 lines were disturbed to learn that the
bombers had picked their trains to be Ground Zero for the most serious
terrorist plot in America since the World Trade Center attacks.
"You hear about such things every day, and I guess this is closer and
a little bit more scary," said Abraham (Ace) Bouchard, 21, of
Brooklyn .
But others said they felt confident the NYPD was doing a good job of
keeping the system safe.
"I don't worry about it [terrorism] because I trust our security and
the Police Department," said Jeff Kasper 19, a student at the Art
Institute of New York City.
"In my opinion, I always see the police here," said Eddie Borukhov,
66, who rides the train to his shoe repair shop in the Clark St.
station in Brooklyn Heights . "In Russia , I was scared more."
Two female suicide bombers attacked the Moscow subways last month,
killing 40 people and wounding scores of others in the Russian
capital.
jmarzulli@nydailynews.com
Official: Times Square suspect had Taliban ties
By the CNN Wire Staff
"after he left the smoking Pathfinder on West 45th Street just west of
Broadway and walked to the Isuzu, he realized he didn't have the Isuzu
keys, the source said. So he headed to Grand Central Terminal and
boarded a train to Connecticut "
May 6, 2010 8:01 p.m. EDT Washington (CNN) -- Investigators believe
that Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad had ties to TTP, a
Pakistani Taliban group, a senior law enforcement official and a U.S.
intelligence official said Thursday.
The law enforcement official said the extent of Shahzad's involvement
with TTP has not been determined and could range from communications
to training, and does not necessarily mean that TTP directed the
attack.
TTP released a video making a claim of responsibility for the attack
on a website established the day before the failed bombing attempt,
but a spokesman for TTP has denied any connection with the 30-year-old
Pakistani-American.
A U.S. official said earlier in the day that connections to TTP were
"plausible," but noted that numerous connections among insurgent
groups in Pakistan made it difficult to zero in on a single
responsible group.
The advance came shortly after a senior U.S. official said that new
leads developed from the Pakistani end of the investigation show
Shahzad likely had training in Pakistan from extremists. The official
has direct knowledge of discussions between senior U.S. and Pakistani
officials about the case.
"Did he receive help in Pakistan ? Yes he did," said the official. The
official said Shahzad is believed to have received training of some
sort but would not say if the training was specific to the Times
Square bombing attempt.
The official and another U.S. official said investigators had not
concluded from which group Shahzad may have received help.
Also Thursday, a high-level team of U.S. and Pakistani investigators
grilled Shahzad's father and interrogated four people linked to a
notorious Pakistani militant group, intelligence officials said.
The interrogators questioned Bahar Ul Haq in the northwestern Pakistan
city of Peshawar . The retired senior Pakistani air force officer is
the father of Shahzad.
Ul Haq—who lives in the Peshawar suburb of Hayatabad—was neither
detained nor arrested, the source said.
Another official said the team was also questioning four men suspected
of having links to the militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed.
Banned in Pakistan , the group's aim is to unite the disputed
territory of Kashmir with Pakistan and to expel foreign troops from
Afghanistan , according to the National Counterterrorism Center . It
is also close to al Qaeda and the Pakistani Taliban. India and
Pakistan have had disputes over Kashmir for decades.
Shahzad told investigators he recently received bomb-making training
in the Waziristan area of Pakistan , sources said. North and South
Waziristan are regions in Pakistan 's Federally Administered Tribal
Areas; both border Afghanistan .
Officials said they suspect that Shahzad may be part of the Pakistani
Taliban, a militant group fighting Pakistani forces. While the
Pakistani Taliban has praised Shahzad in the wake of the failed
bombing, it has denied a link to the man.
In recent days, authorities in Pakistan have rounded up a number of
people for questioning.
One was Muhammed Rehan, an alleged associate of Shahzad who allegedly
has links to Jaish-e-Mohammed, a senior Pakistani official said. Rehan
allegedly was instrumental in making possible a meeting between
Shahzad and at least one senior Taliban official, the official said.
The official said that Rehan drove Shahzad on July 7 to Peshawar . At
some point, they headed to the Waziristan region, where they met with
one or more senior Taliban leaders, the official said.
Several officials in Karachi said Rehan was picked up in Karachi 's
North Nazimabad district. They said others were taken into custody for
questioning on Wednesday, but they could not say how many, who they
were or where they were seized.
It was not clear if Rehan was one of the four with alleged Jaish links
being questioned on Thursday.
Others taken in for questioning include Iftikhar Mian, the father-in-
law of the suspect, and Tauseef Ahmed, a friend of Shahzad. They were
picked up in Karachi on Tuesday, two intelligence officials said.
Meanwhile, efforts to determine what may have motivated the suspect
continued. An official familiar with the investigation said Wednesday
that Shahzad felt Islam was under attack.
Any grudge Shahzad may have held against the United States appears to
have developed recently, according to a senior U.S. official who is
familiar with the investigation but not authorized to speak publicly.
The investigation has found nothing to indicate that Shahzad had any
long-standing grudge or anger toward the United States , the official
said.
In Connecticut , where Shahzad was living, a prominent member of the
Pakistani-American community said Thursday that he had maintained a
low profile and appeared to have become more religious over the past
year.
CNNMoney: Faisal Shahzad's $65,000 home equity piggy bank
"He was somebody who was under the radar; he was never a part of our
community, never a part of our events or meetings," said Dr. Saud
Anwar, founder and past president of the Pakistani American
Association of Connecticut.
After news broke about the suspect, the pulmonologist sent out e-mails
to others in the community to dredge up what he could about Shahzad.
"As a physician, I look at it as a disease," Anwar said of Shahzad's
apparent radical turn. "I try to understand what led to the
disease ... how we can prevent a disease like this."
Anwar said his e-mails turned up a man who studied with Shahzad at the
University of Bridgeport and had stayed in touch with him since then,
but does not want to be identified publicly.
"He recalled him as a regular individual, outgoing, interacting with
people, interested to learn, not isolated," Anwar said.
But, in the past year or so, "he felt there was a change in his
personality," Anwar said, explaining that Shahzad appeared to become
introverted, asocial and "a little bit more religious."
Anwar added, "There was a little anger in there. [The friend] felt
[Shahzad] was looking at things as true black and white."
Returning to his disease analogy, the physician said that, after
Shahzad returned from Pakistan early this year, "The disease became a
little bit more progressive, much stronger."
Shahzad told his friend that, as a Pakistani-American, he was looking
for work in the Middle East "because he was having challenges with his
job over here," Anwar said.
"He just mentioned that he was seeking something. I don't know if he
found anything or not."
Shahzad has admitted he drove a Nissan Pathfinder into Times Square on
Saturday night and attempted to detonate the vehicle, which was packed
with gasoline, propane tanks, fireworks and fertilizer, according to a
complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New York .
The previous day, he carried out a dry run, parking his Isuzu SUV on
West 38th Street between 9th and 10th avenues a few blocks from Times
Square to be used the following day as a getaway car, a law
enforcement source briefed on the investigation told said.
But on Saturday, after he left the smoking Pathfinder on West 45th
Street just west of Broadway and walked to the Isuzu, he realized he
didn't have the Isuzu keys, the source said. So he headed to Grand
Central Terminal and boarded a train to Connecticut .
Two store owners on West 38th Street said they had turned over
surveillance tapes to authorities at their request.
After a 53-hour police manhunt, Shahzad was arrested late Monday at
New York 's John F. Kennedy International Airport after boarding a
flight bound for Dubai , United Arab Emirates . His final destination
was to have been in Pakistan .
Read complaint filed in federal court Tuesday (PDF)
He has been charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass
destruction, acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries, and
three other counts in connection with the incident. If convicted, he
faces up to life in prison.
CNN's Susan Candiotti, Jeanne Meserve, Elise Labott, Deb Feyerick,
Reza Sayah, Samson Desta, Mary Snow, Jennifer Rizzo, Jill Dougherty
and Fran Townsend contributed to this story."
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/05/06/times.square.probe/index.html


Nominee for Spy Post Opposed More Clout
June 8, 2010
By ERIC SCHMITT
WASHINGTON — The man President Obama chose last week to be director of
national
intelligence, Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr., argued in April against
increasing
the authority of the office as envisioned in pending legislation,
Congressional
aides said Tuesday.
In an April 28 memorandum to members of the House and Senate Armed
Services
Committees, General Clapper listed several reasons, Congressional and
administration aides said.
General Clapper's views are likely to be a major flashpoint during his
confirmation hearings before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Senators Dianne Feinstein of California and Christopher S. Bond of
Missouri, the
committee's top Democrat and Republican, have repeatedly said the
national
intelligence director needs greater authority to effectively oversee
the
nation's 16 intelligence agencies.
The two senators have challenged General Clapper's commitment to
strengthening
the office.
Mrs. Feinstein said in a statement Tuesday that the committee was
preparing
questions for General Clapper to answer in advance of any hearings.
"I am particularly interested in his views on the powers of the
D.N.I., the
appropriate role of the D.N.I. with respect to agencies within the
Department of
Defense, and his views on the importance and appropriate role of
Congressional
oversight of intelligence," Mrs. Feinstein said.
"I believe that any D.N.I. will be effective only if he has the
authority — both
on paper and in practice — to oversee and have strategic direction
over the 16
agencies that make up the intelligence community," she said.
Mr. Bond voiced much sharper criticism of General Clapper's selection.
"The
president has made clear he expects Clapper to be little more than a
figurehead
when it comes to our nation's terror-fighting policies, choosing a man
who has
actively worked to undermine the authority of the D.N.I. is just one
example,"
Mr. Bond said in a statement.
Mr. Bond, in a conversation with General Clapper on Tuesday, raised
his concerns
about the memorandum that argued against provisions to strengthen the
intelligence director's office included in a bipartisan intelligence
authorization bill, according to a Congressional official who had been
briefed
on the conversation.
General Clapper, 69, who retired from active duty in 1995 after 32
years in the
Air Force, wrote the memorandum in his capacity as under secretary of
defense
for intelligence, overseeing all military spy operations.
The memo was written at the request of the House Armed Services
Committee, and
was eventually shared with both House and Senate armed forces panels,
which
oversee military matters, a senior administration official said.
Empowering the national intelligence director's office would be likely
to cut
into the budgetary and personnel authorities of the intelligence
agencies now
largely controlled by the Pentagon.
General Clapper's critics say he is too close to the military and
would not
institute necessary changes to the overall intelligence community, an
accusation
his proponents say is unfounded.
One of General Clapper's biggest supporters in the Obama
administration is
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, a former C.I.A. director who
brought the
general back into government after he was forced out after clashing
with former
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
"He's very independent minded," Mr. Gates said Sunday. "But he is the
consummate
intelligence professional who has the respect of virtually everybody
in the
community."
The contents of General Clapper's memorandum were reported Tuesday
afternoon on
the Web site Foreignpolicy.com.
A senior administration official on Tuesday played down the
significance of
General Clapper's memorandum in terms of his ability to lead the
intelligence
community and work collaboratively with its senior leaders, and
pointed to Mr.
Obama's praise for the nominee.
Cool Wars Does Life Imitate Art
The Cool War (novel)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cool War is a science fiction novel by Frederick Pohl
Like many of Pohl's novels, this opens in a world reduced by a crisis,
in this case the loss of fossil fuels….
The Rev. H. Hornswell "Horny" Hake becomes embroiled in "the Cool
War", in which each country tries to sabotage the economies of its
rivals, even if politically they are allies…. the War has produced a
group of people who profit by its continuation and can suppress
technologies that might solve humanity's problems. In particular a new
form of solar energy collection relies on bio-engineered "sunflowers"
which, while technically plants, have extremely reflective petals and
can be trained to focus light from a wide area on a furnace or power
generator. The Team is determined to destroy the technology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cool_War_(novel)
'The Cool War compliments another book by Frederik Pohl, The
Merchant's War, and both depict versions of the future with weak
governments help less to contain forces of exploitation. This one
anticipates how future wars will be undertaken through attacks that
cannot be traced back to their source. The lack of accountability
prevents retaliation on any tit-for-tat basis, but soon enough
everyone adopts that method and is undermining the stability and
economy of every other power.
Although none of the events depicted in The Cool War have happened
yet, author Frederik Pohl nicely anticipates our escalation of
terrorism, and he gives a wry fantasy about what the Mideast may do
with all their money when the oil starts to run out.
In the years since The Cool War was written, it has shown prescience,
and it is valuable as a cautionary tale."
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0394293835/top100
Dr Anthony Hayward CCMI (born 1957) is the Chief Executive of oil and
energy company BP Group, taking over from John Browne, Baron Browne of
Madingley on 1 May 2007. Hayward gained a first class geology degree
from Aston University in Birmingham[1] followed by a PhD from
Edinburgh University.[2] Joining BP in 1982, with his first job as a
rig geologist in Aberdeen,[3] he quickly rose through the ranks in a
series of technical and commercial roles in BP Exploration in London,
Aberdeen, France, China and Glasgow. Hayward first came to Lord
Browne's attention during a leadership conference in 1990 in Phoenix ,
Arizona . As a result he was made Browne's executive assistant.[4] In
1992, Hayward moved to Colombia as exploration manager and became
president of BP's operations in Venezuela in 1995. In August 1997 he
returned to London as a director of BP Exploration. He became group
vice president of BP Amoco Exploration and Production as well as a
member of the BP group's Upstream executive committee in 1999.
Hayward was appointed BP group treasurer in September 2000 where his
responsibilities included global treasury operations, foreign exchange
dealing, corporate finance, project finance and mergers and
acquisitions. Hayward became an executive vice president in April
2002, and Chief Executive of exploration and production in January
2003.
In 2009, Hayward was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science
from Edinburgh University .
Replacement of Lord Browne
In light of safety and resultant production issues in Alaska and the
report in to the explosion at the Texas City refinery, Peter
Sutherland, BP's non-executive chairman, accelerated the process for
replacing Lord Browne, bringing the timetable forward from end-2008
(when Browne would be 60, and nominally forced to retire under BP's
rules), to July 2007. Hayward, having been termed CEO designate by
both internal and media commentators, came to the fore amid the
competition[5], including Robert Dudley, chief executive of TNK-BP,
the company's Russian joint venture, and John Manzoni, head of
refining and marketing[6][7].
On 12 January 2007 it was announced that Hayward would replace Lord
Browne as BP Chief Executive[10]. In preparation for Hayward's take up
as Group CEO, on 2 February Andy Inglis was appointed managing
director of the BP Group, and succeeds Hayward as chief executive of
BP's Exploration & Production (E&P) business[11].
Hayward was appointed to the Chief Executive position with immediate
effect on 1 May 2007, after Lord Browne resigned following the lifting
of a legal injunction preventing Associated Newspapers from publishing
details about his private life.[12][13]
BP pays Hayward an annual salary of £998,000 and in 2008 his bonus was
£1,496,000.
Hayward was a member of the Citibank advisory board, from 2000 to
2003[16]. Hayward is presently senior independent non-executive
director of Corus Group, Corus is a subsidiary of Tata Steel, part of
India's Tata Group, one of the worlds largest steel producer's, with
headquarters in London, England.
The Company was formed from the merger of Koninklijke Hoogovens N.V.
with British Steel Plc on 6 October 1999. It was once a constituent of
the FTSE 100 Index, but was taken over by Tata in 2007.
appointed in April 2002, and a non-executive director of Tata Steel.
Hayward is a committee member of Audit, Nominations and Health, Safety
and Environment[17]. Hayward was appointed a Companion of the
Chartered Management Institute in September 2005[18].
Edmund John Philip Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley, FRS FREng (born
20 February 1948) is President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and
was group Chief Executive of BP until his resignation on 1 May 2007.
Since 2001, he has been a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
Browne was born in Hamburg , Germany , to a British Army officer
father and a Hungarian Auschwitz survivor mother. His father also
worked in civilian life for Anglo-Persian Oil, which later became
British Petroleum. He was educated at the King's School, Ely and St
John's College , Cambridge , where he earned a First Class Bachelor's
degree in Physics.
He holds a degree in Physics from Cambridge University and an MS in
Business from Stanford University , California . He has also been
awarded Honorary Doctorates from Heriot Watt University (D.Eng) and
Robert Gordon University (D.Tech), Dundee University (LLD), Warwick
University (D.Sc), Hull University (D.Sc), Cranfield University
(D.Sc), Sheffield Hallam University (Hon. D Univ), University of
Buckingham (D.Sc), University of Belfast (Hon DSc 0 Eng) and the
University of Surrey (Hon D. Univ), Imperial College, London (Hon
D.Sc), (Leuven University, Belgium (D.Sc), Thunderbird (LLD),
University of Notre Dame (LLD), Colorado School of Mines (D.Eng), D
Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Arizona State
University (DHLitt). He is an Honorary Fellow of St John's College,
Cambridge and a Senior Member of St Antony's College, Oxford .
He is a Fellow and President of The Royal Academy of Engineering, a
Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Materials,
Minerals and Mining, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Fellow of
the Institute of Petroleum, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts &
Sciences, a Companion of the Institute of Management, an Honorary
Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, an Honorary Fellow of
the Geological Society, an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of
Mechanical Engineers and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of
Chemistry. At the suggestion of his father, Browne joined BP as an
apprentice in 1966 while still at university and remained with the
corporation throughout his career.
Between 1969 and 1983, he held a variety of exploration and production
posts in Anchorage , Alaska [1] , New York , San Francisco , London
and Canada .
In 1984 he became Group Treasurer and Chief Executive of BP Finance
International.
In April 1986, he took up the position of Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer of The Standard Oil Company in Cleveland ,
Ohio . In 1987, following the BP/Standard merger, in addition to his
position as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of BP
America, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Standard Oil
Production Company.
In 1989, he became Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of BP
Exploration based in London . In September 1991, he joined the Board
of The British Petroleum Company plc. as a Managing Director. He was
appointed Group Chief Executive on 10 June 1995. Following the merger
of BP and Amoco, he became Group Chief Executive of the combined group
on 31 December 1998 until 1 May 2007.
A chapter length study of Browne's career and his leadership style,
including views on life, business and leadership, is included in Steve
Tappin's book The Secrets of CEOs.[2]
He was one of the most highly paid executives in the UK with a
remuneration package of approximately £5.7 million in 2004.
 Green issues promoted by Browne
From 1997, Browne sought to recreate BP as a "green" energy company.
The company linked itself in its corporate communications with green
issues by the overt link of its BP initials with the phrase "Beyond
Petroleum". Browne stated that the right to self determination is
crucial for people everywhere, and that he sees his company's mission
as to find ways to meet current needs without excessive harm to the
environment, while developing future, more sustainable sources of
energy. He promised that BP would cut its production of CO2 by 10% by
2010, although it is as yet unclear whether BP will meet this in the
wake of his departure.
 Resignation
It was announced on 25 July 2006 that Browne would stand down as chief
executive of BP in December 2008, 10 months after his 60th birthday.
There had been press speculation that he had wished to continue beyond
this date, but he made it clear that he did not wish to do so.
He is Managing Director and Managing Partner ( Europe ) of Riverstone
Holdings LLC.
He became President of the Royal Academy of Engineering in July 2006.
He took over from Frances Cairncross as President of the British
Association for the Advancement of Science in September 2006, and was
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006. In 1998, he was
knighted[14] by Queen Elizabeth II and in 2001 named by the House of
Lords Appointments Commission[15] as one of the "people's peers"
taking the title Baron Browne of Madingley, of Cambridge in the County
of Cambridgeshire,[16][17] and becoming a crossbencher in the House of
Lords. In 2000 he was the recipient of the FIRST Responsible
Capitalism Award [18].
He was appointed a Trustee of the Tate Gallery on 1 August 2007 and
Chair of the Trustees in January 2009 [19].
In November 2009 it was announced that Lord Browne will chair a
government committee into university tuition fees due to report in
2010.[20]. In December 2009 this committee revised the estimate of the
graduate premium, the increase in lifetime salary of a degree compared
to 2 A levels, down to £100,000 (before debt) [21].
Lord Browne lists 17th- and 18th-century illustrated Italian books,
pre-Columbian art, contemporary Art, music, opera and the theatre
among his interests.


The Long Term Outlook: The Challenges for Business
Speaker: Lord Browne
Speech date: 28 October 2004
Venue: Weizmann Institute, Israel
Title: Group Chief Executive
Thank you for that very kind introduction. It is a pleasure and a
privilege to be here. It's almost exactly five years now since I went
to speak at the Weizmann Institute and I can still remember every
minute of that visit very vividly. I wouldn't say it was the most
comfortable trip because my mother and I were seeing Israel for the
first time and that made us think about members of our family, and
their history, and all the things which happened to them. But the
visit was inspiring because despite all the problems, it was possible
to see the strength of the commitment of Israel , symbolised by the
Weizmann Institute, to knowledge and science. The fact that this
commitment has been sustained over the last half century, through many
troubling times, is a mark both of the vision of those who founded the
state of Israel and the Institute, and the continued optimism of those
who work there – an optimism which is both rare and precious.
Education - in particular as represented by universities and research
institutes – is about investment in the future: in human capital and
in the belief that knowledge can improve the human condition. That is
true everywhere in the world but I think it is especially true in
countries which are still shaping their destiny.
So it is a privilege to be here, and to be able to acknowledge all
those who have done so much to sustain and build the Weizmann
Institute. You have asked me to talk this morning about the future –
from a business perspective. I think the fundamental challenge –
reaching well beyond business - is about how we can all sustain the
sense of human progress. To demonstrate that tomorrow can be better
than today – not through a naïve expression of optimism but through
the systematic resolution of challenges and the determined application
of knowledge to transcend barriers and trade offs. I'm going to talk
about energy, not just because that is my special subject, but also
because energy is at heart of so much else. Energy is the foundation
of human activity. It provides heat, light, food, mobility, health,
the capacity to develop and accumulate knowledge, as well as the
ability to live in comfort and to enjoy the pleasures of life. A world
without energy would be cold and dark and ignorant. I see the
provision of energy as a precondition of progress. So when people
start to say there is an energy crisis and start to worry about the
price and the security of supply it is important to go to the facts
and to focus on the reality. There is no energy crisis at the moment.
There is no shortage of oil or gas. There is, however, a legitimate
concern about the security of supply because demand has grown so
strongly over the last year that the amount of spare capacity has
shrunk. By spare capacity I mean the gap between what is actually
produced and what could be produced immediately and without
difficulty.
The amount of spare capacity at the moment is one third of the normal
level and is less in absolute terms than the amounts produced in a
number of countries, where continuity of supply has been threatened by
disruption – including Iraq , Nigeria and Venezuela . That is the
reason for the recent rise in prices. Not a shortage – but the fear of
shortage. We believe that fear can be mitigated over the next few
years because more capacity is coming on-stream around the world, from
Russia and Angola and the Caspian and because there are some signs
that the recent growth in demand, particularly in China , has been
exceptional and will not be sustained. That is a view, not a
prediction, and of course prices could stay high if there is continued
instability in any of the major producing areas. The concern about
energy security is not just a short term issue. There are two longer
term concerns. First, there is concern that the environmental issues,
including the impact of human activity and increasing energy
consumption on the earth's climate, have not been resolved. The
emissions of the so-called greenhouse gases are increasing. The
concentration of carbon in the atmosphere is now at around 370 ppm.
That level of concentration has increased rapidly over the last few
decades and is advancing steadily towards the figure of 500 to 550 ppm
which many of the world's leading scientists have concluded is the
level of sustainability. That is the level beyond which they fear that
global warming could begin to have serious effects on our ecosystems.
The second concern is that the steady growth in demand for energy in
general, and for oil in particular, won't be matched by available
supplies.
On the best available independent figures, energy demand worldwide
will rise by up to one-third over the next decade, and most of that
demand growth will be supplied by oil and gas. Some countries will use
more coal, but that simply reinforces the environmental concerns. Some
will use nuclear, but that raises multiple problems of safety, costs,
proliferation and waste disposal. One day, alternative and renewable
fuels will have a major role but that day may still be a long way off.
The forecasts suggest that in a decade's time they will provide little
more than 3 per cent of world demand. The world will therefore rely on
oil and gas. Oil is a traded commodity. Oil-producing areas such as
the North Sea and Alaska will be producing only small amounts by then
and the four major economic players in the world – the US , Europe,
China and Japan - will all be significant oil importers. Across the
world almost 70 per cent of daily demand will be imported. And those
imports will come from a very limited number of suppliers. The
countries of the Persian Gulf along with West Africa and Russia will
be providing up to 80 per cent of traded oil, and, therefore, more
than half of total world demand. On this forecast, which comes from an
independent and authoritative source - the International Energy Agency
- more than 15 million barrels of oil per day will need to come from
Saudi Arabia – and that is assuming that all the other suppliers
including Iran and Iraq are producing and exporting significant
volumes. Those are the reasons why there is a sense of insecurity and
anxiety around the issue of energy. What is the role of business in
managing these challenges and sustaining human progress? I think there
are four elements, each of which will contribute to the continued
security of energy supply. In each case business can only do its job
if we work hand in hand with science. The two go together in
sustaining progress.
First, we have to maximise the diversity of supply through investment
in different places and through the application of technology to keep
costs down. That is why BP is investing in Russia and Angola , and the
Caspian and Indonesia . These investments will help to reduce the risk
of undue reliance on the Persian Gulf . And it is why we are investing
in the technology which allows us to produce from very deep water –
from depths of up 10,000 ft in the Gulf of Mexico and off West
Africa . Secondly, we have to mitigate the impact of climate change to
avoid long run environmental damage. That means using technology to
improve efficiency, working with the car manufacturers, for instance,
to improve the mileage per gallon of new vehicles. It means using
science to develop new clean products free of lead, sulphur or
benzene. And it means exploring new ways of capturing and storing the
carbon which would otherwise be emitted into the atmosphere. Each of
those elements is important. There is no single solution to the
challenge of climate change and there isn't likely to be. But there
are a series of strands each of which could help mitigate a part of
the problem. Thirdly, we have to pursue the long term research which
will produce the alternative and renewable fuels of the future – such
as photovoltaics and solar power. Some of the alternatives are
beginning to look promising, but none yet are fully commercial at the
scale which would make a difference to the world's energy balance. We
have to work to reduce costs and then to bring those nascent
technologies to the market.
And fourthly, we have to use our global reach to spread the
application of knowledge. BP works in a hundred different countries
around the world. If we make a breakthrough in any one of our areas of
activity we can take that breakthrough and apply it on a global basis
very quickly. That is what we've done with clean fuels and with the
technology which allows us to eliminate the flaring of surplus natural
gas. That capacity to spread knowledge is one of the great benefits of
globalisation. In all these cases, science and business have to work
together. Science advances knowledge, as exemplified by the work of
the Weizmann Institute. And business applies that knowledge. The roles
are complimentary and mutually dependent. Without the advance of
science we could make no progress. Without business, scientific
advances would remain in the laboratory – unused and largely unknown.
The global energy scene is complex and clouded. It would be easy to
conclude that the current situation is unsustainable. Perhaps at any
one moment in time the forward projection of current trends always
looks unsustainable. I am sure that was true half a century ago when
the Weizmann Institute was established. But there always is change,
and change comes through science and its application by business. The
two together are essential to the continual renewal of human progress.
They both are universal. Both business and science now work on a
genuinely international basis. They both are symbols of human
potential and aspiration. They both look forward not back. And it is
on that basis, without in any way diminishing the challenges we all
face, that I'm an optimist about the future. When we went to Israel we
were told about the spirit and the drive of those who had taken the
enormous step of creating a new country.
That spirit was summed up for me in a line written by Chaim Weizmann
himself – a line which I think is very moving even for those of us who
are not religious by nature. Dr Weizmann wrote:
" God will look down benignly on his Children who after a long
wandering have come home to serve Him with a psalm on their lips and a
spade in their hands, reviving their old country and making a centre
of human civilization."
Thank you very much.
http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=98&contentId=7001714



 Left Off Holder's List
by Gerald Posner
November 13, 2009 | 9:06am
As Attorney General Eric Holder brings a group of suspected 9/11
terrorists to
trial, Gerald Posner reports on why Abu Zubaydah—poster child for
enhanced
interrogation techniques—is not among them.
Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that five leading
Guantánamo Bay
detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal
courtroom. Included in the group are the self-proclaimed 9/11
mastermind, Khalid
Sheik Mohammed and four others who helped orchestrate the attacks.
Conspicuously missing from the group of high-value terror suspects is
Abu
Zubaydah. For those who have been following Zubaydah's case, his
exclusion isn't
surprising. A senior intelligence analyst who spoke to The Daily Beast
on the
condition of anonymity said that Zubaydah was omitted from the group
to be tried
in New York because the Obama administration wanted to prosecute in
civilian
court only those terrorists with direct ties to the 9/11 operation.
Zubaydah did
not have operational ties to 9/11, the analyst told me. But in 2003,
that same
analyst told me that Zubaydah, during the course of his interrogation,
had
provided the "Rosetta Stone" of what really happened in the run-up to
the 9/11
terror attacks. The backpedaling he's doing now is part of a campaign
of leaks
from the U.S. intelligence community in an effort to downplay
Zubayday's
significance.
With the announcement this morning that Zubaydah will be left off
Holder's list,
the Obama administration follows in the footsteps of its predecessor
in burying
the Zubaydah leads.
There may be another reason why Zubaydah will not be part of Holder's
press
conference. Owing to his treatment following his March 2002 capture by
Pakistani
and U.S. special forces and intelligence operatives, he is considered
a key test
case of "enhanced interrogation" techniques that neither the Bush nor
Obama
administration want to disclose. Zubaydah's revelations about another
American
ally, Saudi Arabia—and that country's insistence that Zubaydah's
allegations not
get a public hearing—might also have influenced today's decision not
to bring
him to New York. ( U.S. authorities have not yet indicated what legal
fate
Zubaydah might face).
This past March, the Obama administration announced that the CIA had
destroyed
92 videotapes of the agency's interrogation sessions with high-ranking
captured
al Qaeda suspects. Most were of Zubaydah's early sessions. In my 2003
book, Why
America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11, I disclosed how Zubaydah
initially
refused to help his American captors. Summing up my findings in The
Huffington
Post in 2007, I wrote: "I also set forth how U.S. intelligence
established a
'fake flag' operation, in which the wounded Zubaydah was transferred
to
Afghanistan under the ruse that he had actually been turned over to
the Saudis.
The Saudis had him on a wanted list, and the Americans believed that
Zubaydah,
fearful of torture and death at the hands of the Saudis, would start
talking
when confronted by U.S. agents playing the role of Saudi intelligence
officers.
"But Zubaydah showed no fear when confronted by his 'Saudi'
interrogators.
Instead, according to the two U.S. intelligence sources who separately
gave me
the detailed account, he seemed relieved. The man who had refused even
to
confirm his identity to his U.S. captors began talking animatedly to
his 'Saudi'
captors. He was happy to see them, he said, because he feared the
Americans
would kill him. He then asked them to call a senior member of the
Saudi royal
family and from memory he gave them a private home number and a cell
phone
number. 'He will tell you what to do,' Zubaydah assured them.
"Those numbers belonged to Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdul-Aziz, one
of King
Fahd's nephews, and the chairman of the largest Saudi publishing
empire. Later,
American investigators would determine that Prince Ahmed had been in
the U.S. on
9/11 and his chartered jet was the first to leave the country only
five days
after the attack on America .
"In the days after his capture, wounded and still in great pain,
Zubaydah would
be subjected by his American interrogators to techniques used with no
other
detainee. They used painkillers to induce Zubaydah to talk—they gave
him the
meds when he cooperated, and withdrew them when he was quiet. They
also utilized
a thiopental sodium drip (a so-called truth serum). Several hours
after he first
fingered Prince Ahmed, his 'Saudi' captors challenged him, saying he
had
disparaged the royal family and he would be executed. It was then that
some of
the secrets of 9/11 came pouring out. Zubaydah laid out details of how
he and
the al Qaeda hierarchy had been supported at high levels inside the
Saudi and
Pakistan governments."
He named two other Saudi princes, and also the chief of Pakistan 's
air force, as
his key contacts. Moreover, he stunned his interrogators by charging
that two of
the men, the king's nephew and the Pakistani air-force chief, had
advance
knowledge that a major terror operation was planned for America on
9/11.
(Zubaydah would also be waterboarded 83 times).
Unfortunately, the four men identified by Zubaydah cannot be
investigated
because they are now dead. As for the three Saudi princes, the king's
43-year-old nephew, Prince Ahmed, died of either a heart attack or
blood clot,
depending on which report you believe, after having liposuction in a
top Riyadh
hospital. The second, 41-year-old Prince Sultan bin Faisal bin Turki
al-Saud,
died the following day in a one-car accident, on his way to the
funeral of
Prince Ahmed. And a week later, the third Saudi prince named by
Zubaydah,
25-year-old Prince Fahd bin Turki bin Saud al-Kabir, died, according
to the
Saudi Royal Court , "of thirst." He passed away outside the Saudi
capital, in his
Rolls Royce, of dehydration. "The head of Pakistan 's air force,
Mushaf Ali Mir,
was the last to go," I wrote in my 2007 Huffington Post story. "He
died,
together with his wife and 15 of his top aides, when his plane blew up—
in a
suspected act of sabotage—in February 2003. Pakistan 's investigation
of the
explosion—if one was even done—has never been made public." I have
made more
than a dozen requests to the Pakistani government for additional
information;
they have all been ignored.
Zubaydah is the only top al Qaeda operative who has linked two of
America's
closest allies in the war on terror—Saudi Arabia and Pakistan—to the
9/11
attacks. .... With the announcement
this morning that Zubaydah will be left off Holder's list—the only
leading al
Qaeda detainee absent from the tally of those to be tried in a federal
courtroom—the Obama administration follows in the footsteps of its
predecessor
in burying the Zubaydah leads and ensuring they do not have a public
hearing.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's
the
award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers,
ranging from
political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to
terrorism. His
latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from
the Beach,
was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the
author
Trisha Posner.
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Network - Arabs are simply buying us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDXTEtZ-G2o
above is a link to a clip from the Movie "Network"
Network is a 1976 American satirical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer about
a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System (UBS), and
its
struggle with poor ratings. The film was written by Paddy Chayefsky
and directed
by Sidney Lumet, and stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
and Robert
Duvall and features Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty and Beatrice Straight.
The film won four Academy Awards, including Best Actor, Best Actress,
Best
Supporting Actress and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for
the Screen.
Network has continued to receive recognition, decades after its
initial release.
In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the United States
National
Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally,
historically, or
aesthetically significant". In 2002, it was inducted into the
Producers Guild of
America Hall of Fame as a film that has "set an enduring standard for
U.S.
American entertainment."[1] In 2006, Chayefsky's script was voted one
of the top
ten movie scripts of all-time by the Writers Guild of America, East.
In 2007,
the film was 64th among the Top 100 Greatest U.S. American Films as
chosen by
the American Film Institute, a ranking slightly higher than the one
AFI gave it
ten years earlier. It is also one of the top 250 films of all time at
number 210
on the influential film website the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).[2]
When Beale discovers that CCA, the conglomerate that owns UBS, will be
bought
out by an even larger Saudi Arabian conglomerate, he launches an on-
screen
tirade against it, encouraging viewers to send telegrams to the White
House
telling them, "I want the CCA deal stopped now!" This throws the top
network
brass into a state of panic because the company's debt load has made
merger
essential for survival. Beale is then taken to meet with CCA chairman
Arthur
Jensen, who explicates his own "corporate cosmology" to the attentive
Beale.
Jensen delivers a tirade of his own in an "appropriate setting," the
dramatically darkened CCA boardroom, that suggests to the docile Beale
that
Jensen may himself be some higher power — describing the
interrelatedness of the
participants in the international economy, and the illusory nature of
nationality distinctions.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(film)
The Golden Who's Who of the Lebanese Emigrants in the World
Gold Archive
Most immigrants in this book have achieved and earned the honor of
being listed
in their corresponding cities.
This golden page is dedicated to those Lebanese emigrants who have
superior
achievement in their newly found countries, and truly earned a
distinct
appreciations.
Thomas, Helen UPI White House News Bureau Chief
Helen Thomas has spent the past 50 years covering the White House and
providing
a unique insight into the power and politics of the United States
presidency.
Helen is considered by the World Almanac to be one of the 25 most
influential
women in America today.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lbnwgw/whoiswho/cities/golden5.htm
Arab Americans: Making a Difference
Posted on Friday April 21, 2006
A brochure by Casey Kasem and published by the Arab American Institute
Foundation. Updated in 2005
Feisty Helen Thomas, who served for 57 years as a correspondent for
United Press
International and was dean of the White House press corps, is a Hearst
newspaper
syndicated columnist.
http://www.aaiusa.org/arab-americans/357/making-a-difference
Thomas was born in Winchester, Kentucky.[4] Her parents, Mary (née
Rowady) and
George Thomas, were Lebanese immigrants from Tripoli, Lebanon
On May 17, 2000, after 57 years with the organization, Thomas resigned
from UPI
the day after the announcement of its acquisition by News World
Communications
Inc., a company founded and controlled by Unification Church leader
Reverend Sun
Myung Moon.[21] She later described the change in ownership as "a
bridge too
far".[22][21]
Less than two months later, she joined Hearst Newspapers as a
columnist, writing
on national affairs and the White House.[23]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Thomas
"Calling Helen Thomas" in Saudi Aramco World (Vol. 57, No. 2), which
discusses
Thomas impact on younger Arab-American journalists. Written and
photographed by
David Chambers
"How many Arab–American journalists are there in the United States ?
The
National Arab American Journalists Association reached almost 150
members in its
first three years, according to its founder, nationally syndicated
columnist Ray
Hanania. About half of them work in mainstream, non-Arab–American
media. In
comparison, the national Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) has
some 9000
members.
If pressed to name a single Arab–American journalist, most people
could probably
only reply, "Helen Thomas." Now a senior columnist, Thomas has been a
White
House reporter since President John F. Kennedy's day. She was the
first woman
officer of the National Press Club, first woman president of the White
House
Correspondents' Association, first woman member of the Gridiron Club
and, for
decades, entitled to ask the first or second question during
presidential press
conferences. In 2000, the SPJ created an annual Lifetime Achievement
Award—and
named it after Thomas.
For Arab–American journalists, she set the bar high. The trouble is,
how many
Helen Thomases can there be in the future? Where is the next Helen
Thomas coming
from?"
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200602/calling.helen.thomas.htm
Saudi owned upi massive debt { April 24 1999 }
Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)
http://www.auburn.edu/~lowrygr/ep.html
http://www.auburn.edu/~lowrygr/ep.html
'UPI Looks for Way out of Massive Debt'
Here is a story from the April 24, 1999, edition of Editor & Publisher
on UPI's
continuing struggles:
United Press International officials are searching for U.S. investors
while
their six Saudi Arabian owners debate how to finance the wire
service's massive
debt.
The Saudis wired $3 million to UPI's Washington headquarters, on April
16, to
pay off a fraction of the $18.8 million the Saudis had pledged by the
close of
the 1998 calendar year. The $3 million payment is the first since a
Feb. 1
emergency meeting between Arnaud de Borchgrave, UPI's CEO and
president, and the
wire service's principal Saudi owners. The Saudis now say they will
wire
bimonthly payments to UPI until the wire service can make it on its
own, a
promise it made and reneged on last year. The financial debacle is
convincing de
Borchgrave to sound out U.S. investors about purchasing shares of UPI,
a
privately held news organization.
"We hope to meet with groups in the United States who might be
interested in
investing in UPI," says de Borchgrave.
The money crunch became so severe UPI switched two consecutive
biweekly payrolls
to paper checks from direct deposits to gain an extra 24 hours of
breathing
room, according to UPI employees. The Saudi owners, UPI's Board of
Directors,
and shareholders will meet next month in Paris with de Borchgrave to
try and
work out the various internal disputes.
De Borchgrave became UPI's CEO last December just as the Middle East
Broadcasting Centre, a Saudi-owned television network, was divesting
itself of
most of its holdings in the wire service.
UPI is becoming World Wide Holding, a London-based organization which
is
controlled by a variety of Saudi industrialists and bankers, according
to
officials.
Sources say the group includes Shafiq bin Laden, mohammed H. Al
Amoudi, Sheik
Abdullah Alireza, Sheik Omar al Isia, Sheik Mari'e Abdullah Bugshan,
and Ahmed
H. Badeeb, chairman of the board of World Wide.
The names of the new board are so secret that UPI's public relations
office
still lists Middle East Broadcasting as UPI's parent company.
Badeeb replaced Sheik Waleed Al Ibrahim as chairman of the UPI board.
Ibrahim,
whose sister is married to King Fahd, remains on the UPI board and
retains a
small financial position at World Wide.
The internal dispute that cost Al Ibrahim control of UPI also ends the
reigh of
Dr. Abdallah H. Masry, of ARA Group International, the umbrella
organization of
the Arabic News Service, MBC and UPI/World Wide News.
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"THE same morning as American Airlines Flight 11 roared towards the
north tower of the World Trade Center the Carlyle Group was holding
its annual investor conference. Among those who gathered in the plush
setting of the Ritz Carlton hotel in Washington were former world
leaders, former defence experts and wealthy Arabs from the Middle
East .
There with them, looking after the investments of his family, was
Shafiq bin Laden, Osama bin Laden's estranged half-brother. George
Bush Sr. was also at the conference, but left before the terror
attacks."
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article881598.ece
"ON the day Osama bin Laden's men attacked America , Shafiq bin Laden,
described as an estranged brother of the terrorist, was at an
investment conference in ...
www.economist.com/diversions/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1875084

Adolf Eichmann
(1906-1962)

SS Lieutenant-Colonel who was Chief of the Jewish Office of the
Gestapo during
World War II and implemented the 'Final Solution' which aimed at the
total
extermination of European Jewry, Adolf Eichmann was born in Solingen
on
 19 March
1906.
The declasse son of a solid middle-class Protestant family which had
moved to
Linz , Austria , where Eichmann spent his youth, he failed to complete
his
engineering studies. After working briefly as an ordinary labourer in
his
father's small mining enterprise and then in the sales department of
an
 Upper
Austrian electrical construction company, Eichmann became a traveling
salesman
for the Vacuum Oil Company between 1927 and 1933.
On April 1, 1932 he joined the Austrian Nazi Party at the suggestion
of his
compatriot Ernst
 Kaltenbrunner. Having lost his job he sought employment across
the border in Bavaria in July 1933, joining the exiled Austrian legion
and
undergoing fourteen months' military training.
In September 1934 he found an opening in Himmler's Security Service
(SD) which
provided him with an outlet for his bureaucratic talents. By the
beginning of
1935 he was the official
 responsible for 'Jewish questions' at the Berlin head
office of the SD, specializing in the Zionist movement. He acquired a
smattering
of Hebrew and Yiddish, and briefly visited Palestine in 1937 to
explore the
possibilities of Jewish emigration from Nazi Germany to Palestine .
Appointed assistant to the SD leader of the SS main region,
 Danube , Eichmann's
first big opportunity came after he was sent to Vienna by the Gestapo
to prepare
the ground for the Anschluss.
From August 1938 he was in charge of the Office for Jewish Emigration
in Vienna
set up by the SS as the sole Nazi agency authorized to issue exit
permits for
Jews from Austria , then Czechoslovakia and later the old German
Reich.
Eichmann's acquired expertise in
 forced emigration—in less than eighteen months
approximately 150,000 Jews left Austria —and extortion was to prove an
ideal
training-ground for his later efficiency in forced evacuation, i.e.,
the
registering, assembly and deportation of Jews to extermination centres
in the
East. By March 1939 he was already handling forced deportations to
Poland and,
in October of the same year, he was appointed special adviser on the
evacuation
of Jews and Poles.
In December 1939 Eichmann was transferred to Amt IV (Gestapo) of the
Reich Main
Security
 Office (RSHA) where he took over Referat IV B4 dealing with Jewish
affairs and evacuation. For the next six years Eichmann's office was
the
headquarters for the implementation of the 'Final Solution'; though it
was not
until the summer of 1941 that his 'resettlement' department began the
task of
creating death camps, developing gassing techniques and organizing the
system of
convoys that were to take European Jewry to their
 deaths.
It was in 1941 that Eichmann first visited Auschwitz and in November
of the same
year he was promoted to SS Lieutenant-Colonel. He had already begun to
organize
the mass deportation of Jews from Germany and Bohemia , in accordance
with
Hitler's order to make the Reich free of Jews as rapidly as possible.
The Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942 consolidated Eichmann's
position as
the Jewish specialist of the RSHA and Heydrich now formally entrusted
him with
implementing the Final Solution. In this task Eichmann proved to be a
model of
bureaucratic industriousness and icy determination even though he had
never been
a fanatical anti-semite and always claimed that personally he had
nothing
against
 Jews. His zeal expressed itself in his constant complaints about
obstacles in the fulfilment of death-camp quotas, his impatience with
the
existence of loopholes such as the free zone in Vichy France or the
unco-
operativeness of the Italians and other German allies in expediting
their Jews.
When even Himmler became more moderate towards the end of the war,
Eichmann
ignored his 'no gassing' order, as long as he was covered by immediate
superiors
like Heinrich Muller and his old friend, Kaltenbrunner. Only in
Budapest after
March 1944 did the desk-murderer become a public personality, working
in the
open and playing a leading role in the massacre of Hungarian Jewry. In
August
1944 the 'Grand Inquisitor' of European Jewry could report to Himmler
 that
approximately four million Jews had died in the death camps and that
another two
million had been killed by mobile extermination units. Though arrested
at the
end of the war, Eichmann's name was not yet widely known and he was
able to
escape from an American internment camp in 1946 and flee to
Argentina . He was
eventually tracked down by
 Israeli secret agents on May 2, 1960, living under an
assumed name in a suburb of Buenos Aires . Nine days later he was
secretly
abducted to Israel , to be publicly tried in Jerusalem . The trial,
which
aroused enormous international interest and some controversy, took
place between
April 2 and August 14, 1961. On December 2, 1961 Eichmann was
sentenced to
 death
for crimes against the Jewish people and crimes against humanity. On
May 31,
1962 he was executed in Ramleh prison.
Source: Wistrich, Robert S. Who's Who in Nazi Germany , Routledge,
1997. USHMM
photo.
Vacuum Oil Company
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to:navigation, search
Vacuum Oil Company was an American oil company known for their
Gargoyle 600-W
Steam Cylinder Oil. Vacuum Oil merged with Socony Oil to form Socony-
Vacuum Oil
Company, and is now a part of ExxonMobil.
History
Vacuum Oil was founded in 1866 by Matthew Ewing and Hiram Bond
Everest, of
Rochester , NY . The lubrication oil was an accidental discovery while
attempting to distill kerosene. Everest noted that the residue from
the
extraction was suitable as a lubricant. Soon after, the product became
popular
for use by steam engines and the internal-combustion engines. Ewing
sold
 his
interest to Everest, who carried on the company.[1]
Vacuum Oil and Standard Oil of New York (Socony) merged in 1931, after
the
government gave up their attempts to prevent it. Their union, creating
Socony-Vacuum Corp. made them the third largest (at the time) world
oil company.
Everest was given a salary job as President and remained with the
company. [2]
In 1931, Socony and Vacuum Oil
 merged, and in 1955, the company became Socony
Mobil Oil Company. In World War II, the Tschechowitz I & II subcamps
of
Auschwitz in Czechowice-Dziedzice provided forced labor for Vacuum Oil
Company
facilities in Nazi Germany.[3] In 1963 it became Mobilgas then just
Mobil.
Legal Problems
In 1887, founder Hiram Bond Everest and son Charles M. Everest were
charged with
conspiracy to destroy competitor Buffalo Lubricating Oil Co. It is
said that
they were attempting to destroy the buildings, preventing them from
manufacturing petroleum products, as well as acquiring their skillful
employees.
One said employee included Albert A. Miller who was being bribed to
construct
defective
 machinery so that it would explode. Hiram Everest and Charles Everest
were both found guilty. [4]
In 1907 the Vacuum Oil, Standard Oil, New York Central Railroad, and
Pennsylvania Railroad were all indicted for violations in Inter-State
Commerce
laws. Vacuum Oil was charged for shipping 228 cars of petroleum and
petroleum
products to Standard Oil at unlawful rates via
 the New York Central RR and
Pennsylvania RR. [5]
References
Vacuum Standardized (html). Time Magazine, 1930.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,738772,00.html.
Retrieved
2009-12-01.
Business & Finance: Socony-Vacuum Corp.. Time Magazine, 1931.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,882045,00.html.
Retrieved
2009-12-01.
Sub-Camps of Auschwitz Concentration Camp (html). Auschwitz-Birkenau:
 Memorial
and Museum. auschwitz.org.pl.
http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/h/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid\
3. Retrieved
 2009-05-21.
^ The Everests Convicted. New York Times, 1887.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9404E6DD1730E633A25755C1A9639C\
94669FD7CF. Retrieved
 2009-12-01.
^ Standard Indicted By New York Jury. New York Times, 1907.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D05E0DD1F30E233A25753C1A96E9C\
946697D6CF. Retrieved 2009-12-01.

M. Frances Keeth     Return to VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC
Executive Vice President of Shell Chemicals, Royal Dutch Shell plc
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Age Total Annual Compensation This person is connected to 65 board
members in 4
different organizations across 7 different industries.
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BACKGROUND*
M. Frances Keeth serves as
 the Chief Executive Officer and President of Verizon
Communications Inc. Ms. Keeth serves as an Executive Vice President of
Shell
Chemicals UK Ltd. She has a wealth of international energy and
business
experience. She served as an Executive Vice President of Chemicals at
Shell Oil
Company from January 2005 to July 2006. Ms. Keeth served as an
Executive Vice
President of Shell Chemicals from January 2005 to July 2006. She
served as an
Executive Vice President of Shell Chemicals at Royal Dutch Shell plc
from
January 2005 to December 2006. She joined Shell Oil Company in 1970
where she
held positions of increasing responsibility in the Head Office Finance
and Tax
departments. In 1988, she
 assumed the position of Assistant General Counsel of
Litigation & Research. She served as the General Manager of Auditing
since 1989
and General Manager of Products Finance since 1991. In 1992, she moved
to London
to handle a series of assignments in Shell International Petroleum
Company as
Deputy Group Controller, Area Coordinator for the Far East and Finance
Manager
of Oil Products. In 1996, Ms. Keeth left Shell to join Mobil
Corporation as
Controller and Principal Accounting Officer. A year later, she
returned to Shell
and assumed the position of Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice
President
of Finance and Business Systems for Shell Chemicals Limited. She
served as Chief
Executive Officer and President of Shell Chemicals Limited. She served
as Deputy
Chief Executive Officer of Shell Chemicals Limited at
 Shell Oil Company since
2001 and also as its Executive Vice President, Customer Fulfillment.
She served
as Executive Vice President of Customer Fulfillment and Product
Business Units
at Shell Oil Company since 2001 and served as President and Chief
Executive
Officer of Shell Chemical LP, a US operating company, from July 2001
to July
2006. Ms. Keeth has been a Director of Verizon Communications Inc.
since
December 7, 2006 and also serves as its Member of Advisory Board. She
has been a
Director of Arrow Electronics, Inc. and Peabody Energy Corp. since
August 2004
and March 2, 2009 respectively. Ms. Keeth serves on the board of the
International Council of Chemical Associations. Ms. Keeth serves as a
Member of
Executive
 Advisory Board at C.T. Bauer College of Business. Ms. Keeth is on the
Board of the American Chemistry Council. Ms. Keeth holds a Bachelor's
Degree in
Business Administration, an MBA and a JD degree from the University of
Houston
in Texas
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Iraq and bin Laden
"The Iraqis proposed a cooperation and support of Osama bin Laden"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/terrorism/interviews/mus
awi.html Make no mistake about it bin Laden and his son-in-law
Mullah Omar are Saddam's henchmen. Osama bin Laden's original claim to
fame was opposition to the presence of US forces in Saudi Arabia
during the Gulf War when Iraq was threatening to go beyond Kuwait and
take over Saudi Arabia . The 1993 World Trade Center bombers managed
to vaporize President Clinton's limo. More than likely, like the
attempt on the life of Al Haig when he was at NATO some years back, or
the hit on some important Russians in Chechnya , the World Trade
Center bomb was remote controlled. The presumed presence of numerous
walkie talkies, perhaps cell phones,etc. used by people, perhaps
agents of the American government in the World Trade Center involved
in security for that limo and other vehicles kept there may have
accidentally hit the detonating frequency for that bomb. The van used
to bring the bomb into the Trade Center was brought in on that Friday.
Clinton was scheduled for an appearance at Rutgers University in New
Brunswick , New Jersey the following Monday. The weekend would have
little traffic so bringing the bomb in that Friday with the cover of
normal week-day traffic would make more sense than looking out of
place bringing it in on the weekend. New Brunswick , New Jersey is a
long drive but a short helicopter ride from the World Trade Center in
Manhattan which had a heliport . Clinton would have presumably taken
a chopper to that heliport,gone down to the basement, gotten into his
limo and then someone on site would have detonated the van blowing the
limo up with Clinton inside it. Iraq may well have had a hand in
this as another key member of that gang is said to have escaped to
Iraq using documents provided by Iraq . During the Gulf War the same
gang killed the Speaker of the Egyptian Parliament when Egypt broke
ranks with Iraq over the invasion of Kuwait . The same gang is alleged
to have assassinated Sadat. They do heads of state and Parliament
Speakers, they don't do parking lots, unless there is a Presidential
limo in them, and unless there Is a President inside the limo. Please
read 2 very important books on Iraq: REPUBLIC OF FEAR: THE INSIDE
STORY OF SADDAM'S IRAQ by SAMIR AL-KHALIL Paperback (1991) DIANE
Publishing Co; ISBN: 0091751713 SPIDER'S WEB : THE SECRET HISTORY OF
HOW THE WHITE HOUSE ILLEGALLY ARMED IRAQ by Alan Friedman ASIN:
0553096508 http://www.v-2.org/infowar.html "The first battle of
the first war of the twenty-first century began and ended in under 30
seconds sometime after 12:18 on the afternoon of Friday, February
26th, 1993, with the detonation of a relatively small explosive
device that took out four levels of parking garage beneath New York
City's World Trade Center- some people made note of the fact that the
limousine President Clinton uses when in New York was berthed in the
garage where the bomb was detonated. OSAMA BIN LADEN BIDES HIS TIME;
TO STRIKE THE USA AGAIN? US airmen. There is also evidence that bin
Laden may had been connected to the February 1993 bombing of the World
Trade Center in New York City that killed six.
"http://www.v-2.org/infowar.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/terrorism/interviews/mus
awi.html "(They) don't understand the mentality Saddam Hussein
possesses, and the mentality of the Iraqi regime. Saddam Hussein
neither forgives nor forgets. He was humiliated by the United States
and the coalition back in 1991. He kept telling the Iraqi people and
the world for the past ten years that there is one more war. If you
follow his speeches for the past ten years, it's always been
indicating one more war to avenge the honor.*** what I can tell you is
that the connection between the Iraqi regime and Saddam Hussein and
Osama bin Laden and Taliban, *** the intelligence connection is there.
We knew of its existence three years ago. We issued a press release at
the time of the meeting between Farouk Hijazi and Osama bin Laden in
Afghanistan . Let's go one step at a time. Three years ago, you say
there was contact between bin Laden and an Iraqi security official?
Yes, the special security service. We know some of the details in the
meeting. The Iraqis proposed a cooperation and support of Osama bin
Laden and his organization. They even offered him a home in Baghdad if
he wanted to move, because they felt that they could accommodate him
over there. He declined to take them up on their offer of the to move
to Iraq . But he accepted the support. They offered financial [and]
logistical training. We got hold of the information through a security
source inside Baghdad . We issued a press release at the time, even
naming the individual who heads the Iraqi team. Now, we know
cooperation and liaison continued after that. The nature of that, we
are not sure about. But we know it's on the special security level in
Iraq . And this is under the data control of Qusay, Saddam's younger
son. Qusay is the younger one who's deputizing for his father. He's in
charge of the special security service and the Republican Guards.
Basically, he's the effective ruler of Iraq now. And Farouk Hijazi
went to Afghanistan ... with two [Iraqi security officials] in a
private jet. They met Osama bin Laden. They stayed there for a couple
of days, and went back. ***The fact that we're talking about the
possibilities of chemical and biological terrorist attacks somewhere
in the West or in the United States is an indication of the Iraqi
connection. They are the only regime that possesses the know-how, and
[is] sick enough to allow a terrorist organization like Osama bin
Laden access to it. They are the only regime in the world that
possesses chemical and biological weapons and used them many times.
And they are willing to use it again. Do they have the people in
place who can do it, who are not even in Iraq or in the Middle East ?
Of course. Over the past few years, many infiltrators from Iraq came
over to the West, asked for political asylum, and they settled here.
We know for a fact that they continue to have their intelligence
connection with the Iraqis and intelligence connections with others
pro-Iraq. ***don't think people will shy away from taking this a step
further and use chemical or biological weapons. ***They took on
America . It's done. I believe they will do it again and again, ***
the
nature of any terrorist operation is the difficulty of pinpointing one
person or one organization as directly linked to such an attack,
especially if you have individuals who are willing to commit suicide
in the process of the operation. *** As I said earlier, Saddam Hussein
is someone who neither forgives, nor forgets. The fact that the Arabs
now, for example, that the Egyptians and the Saudis, are setting
preconditions on the United States in order to cooperate with the
coalition, that they should leave Arabic countries out of it, meaning,
"No bombing of Iraq. Don't link us to this." ***" Our government is
pointing towards a private network run by Osama bin Laden. Some
people, yourself, former CIA director Jim Woolsey, are saying, "Hey,
wait a minute. Take a look at Iraq ."*** "So bin Laden chose to follow
the same path very successfully, and married his daughter to Mullah
Omar, the so-called effective ruler of Afghanistan . So he has one
daughter married to the ruler of Afghanistan ? That's right. But bin
Laden himself is married to a niece of Hassan al-Turabi, the effective
ruler of Sudan for many years, and very well known throughout the
Middle East for his very close ties to Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi
regime. And so the tribal connection, the personal connection or the
bond, the strong bond, is there. to expect, for example, Mullah Omar
or Taliban to give up Osama bin Laden is nuts. It will never happen."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/terrorism/interviews/mus
awi.html "October 16, 2001 Four Iraqi citizens were detained in
Playas de Rosarito were they were living in a hotel while planning to
illegally enter the US ."
http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/Tijuananews.html "Iraqi reportedly
smuggled hundreds from Middle East across Mexican border New York
Times News Service Oct. 25, 2001
http://www.arizonarepublic.com/special03/articles/1025iraquismuggler-O
N.html "since the Gulf War, the Detroit area alone has served as
the point of entry into the US for over 3,000 Iraqis a
year."http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/553/fe3.htm "tens of
thousands of Iraqis whom Saddam sent to obtain post-graduate degrees
in the West," http://www.ngwrc.org/news/content/FriSep070753422001.asp
"Inside Saddam's secret nuclear program A senior Iraqi scientist
tells how Saddam Hussein, in a decades-long quest for the bomb,
systematically hoodwinked the IAEA. By Khidhir Hamza In the
early 1970s, Saddam Hussein, then Iraq 's vice president and vice
chairman of the ruling Revolutionary Council, ordered the development
of a clandestine nuclear weapons program. I was one of those who
initiated the
program."http://www.bullatomsci.org/issues/1998/so98/so98hamza.html
 "October 1,
1995 One of the defendants, El Sayyid Nosair, also was found guilty
of the 1991 killing of Rabbi Meir Kahane. Nosair and Abdel-Rahman both
face the possibility of life in prison.The convictions by a federal
jury involve a plot to blow up the United Nations, kill Egypt 's
president and bomb vital highway tunnels and FBI offices in New York .
The verdicts followed 37 hours of deliberations stretching over seven
days. Prosecutors charged that Abdel-Rahman and his co-defendants
plotted a war of terrorism against the United States .*** The jury
found the sheik guilty of trying to arrange the assassination of
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and of suggesting that the U.S. Army
be targeted for bombings.
"CONGRESSIONAL RECORD WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1992 FROM THE WASHINGTON
POST, JAN. 31, 1992 "The Egyptian press has noted in recent months
that the man who in October 1990 assassinated Rifaat Mahgoub, the
speaker of the Egyptian parliament, was trained in Khartoum . And the
Egyptian government was upset when the leader of the Egyptian branch
of Islamic Jihad, Omar Abdel-Rahman, was given sanctuary in Khartoum
about 18 months ago."
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_cr/h920205-terror.htm
"the likes of Erian and Madi turned away from the Gamaa Islamiya
umbrella, and the Brotherhood issued a statement condemning the
assassination of Sadat and rejecting the use of violence. In prison,
an extensive debate began on the future of the Jihad organization.
Conflict centered on three issues: the leadership of the organization
after the execution of Mohammed Abdel Salam Farag, the course of the
revolution the organization would lead and limits of underground
work. Zawaheri and Zomor insisted the organization should adopt the
strategy of military action as the means of change, operate
underground and abandon public work. The Gamaa Islamiya rejected
this and said that only a spiritual figure like Omar Abdel Rahman
could lead them; mosques, they argued, should be regarded as open
and public recruitment grounds. In 1984 the two sides went their
separate ways. The Gamaa Islamiya, operating both publically and
underground, has been the more active organization. It had strong
support in Minya, Assiut and Qena and also the Cairo districts of
Imbaba, Boulaq Al Dakrour and Ain Shams, where Upper Egyptian
culture was reproduced. The group ran social service programs for the
poor, but also enforced a rigorous code of conduct on people. They
also consistently targeted Copts, the only Islamic group to do so.
They assassinated secularist intellectual Farag Foda, speaker of
parliament Rifaat Al Mahgoub and made an attempt on the life of Naguib
Mahfouz and Information Minister Safwat Al Sherif. Whereas both the
Gamaa and Jihad are responsible for violence and assassinations of
senior policemen in Cairo , it is only the Gamaa that has operated in
the south of the country."
http://www.cairotimes.com/content/issues/Islists/puzzle23.html
"Rahman authorized the murder, not only of Sadat, but also of the
Speaker of Egypt's Parliament and of the respected writer Farag Foda."
http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/kurtz100301.shtml
"During the time that he has been in the United States , Sheik Rahman
has, through his fiery sermons on cassette tapes, directed his
followers from afar. His organization, known both as Al-Jiluld (Holy
War) and Al Jama'a al lslamiya the Islamic Group has assassinated
Egyptian government officials such as the late speaker of the
Parliament, Rifat al-Mahjub."
http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/orgs/american/adl/hamas/hamas-islamic-ji
had
Sept. 11th 1990 Dubya's Dad Speaks to Congress on Iraq
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheLoyalOpposition/message/110
Sept. 11th 1990 Dubya's Dad Speaks to Congress on Iraq When ?
September 11th? Yes ! September 11th 1990. Exactly 11 years to the
day before the infamous September 11th 2001 attacks on America .
Saddam's Revenge !!! How clear it is!!! "Address Before a Joint
Session of the Congress on the Persian Gulf Crisis and the Federal
Budget Deficit September 11, 1990 Mr. President and Mr. Speaker and
Members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, fellow
Americans, thank you very much for that warm welcome. We gather
tonight, witness to events in the Persian Gulf as significant as they
are tragic. In the early morning hours of August 2d, following
negotiations and promises by Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein not to use
force, a powerful Iraqi army invaded its trusting and much weaker
neighbor, Kuwait
(READ THE WHOLE OF DUBYA'S DADDY'S SPEECH TO CONGRESS ON SEPTEMBER
11TH, 1990 AT http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/
"Note: The President spoke at 9:09 p.m. in the House Chamber at the
Capitol. He was introduced by Thomas S. Foley, Speaker of the House of
Representatives. The address was broadcast live on nationwide
television and radio."
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/
"try to avoid having the principal travel by commercial airline on
terrorist anniversaries"
from "The Art of Executive Protection"
http://www.securitymanagement.com/library/000450.html
CNN LARRY KING LIVE America 's New War: Laura Bush Discusses the
Impact of September 11 Aired October 2, 2001 - 21:00 LARRY KING: A
couple of other things: Have you spoken to your father-in-law? (Not in
transcript, but the father in law in question is one George Herbert
Walker Bush !!!) LAURA BUSH: I've spoken to my father-in-law. They
were-they had actually spent that Monday night here. (not in
transcript but "here" means at the White House !!!) LARRY KING:
Really? LAURA BUSH: I had just seen them off that morning when I got
in the-got in the car and found out about the first plane. LARRY
KING: Didn't know that. LAURA BUSH: They were-they were on their way
to St. Paul , Minnesota to give a speech, and they were in a private
plane, and their plane was diverted to Minneapolis ."
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/02/lkl.00.html
Iraq Attacks!
" LONDON , Sept 20 (Reuters) - The military journal Jane's has
reported
that Israeli intelligence believes Iraq was a sponsor of the suicide
attacks on the United States last week. Foreign Report, published by
Jane's Information Group, said on its website on Thursday that
officers in Israeli military intelligence believed two of the world's
"foremost terrorist masterminds" had led the attacks. The journal
named them as Imad Moughniyeh of Lebanon , a man it said was head of
special overseas operations for Hizbollah, and Egyptian Ayman Al
Zawahri, a senior member of prime suspect Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda
group. "The Iraqis, who for several years paid smaller groups to do
their dirty work, were quick to discover the advantages of Al-Qaeda,"
Foreign Report said. "We believe that the operational brains behind
the New York attack were Moughniyeh and Zawahri, who were probably
financed and got some logistical support from the Iraqi Intelligence
Service (SSO)," an Israeli intelligence source told Foreign Report.
Foreign Report quoted the Israeli sources as saying that Iraqi
intelligence officers had been shuttling between Baghdad and
Afghanistan , meeting Zawahri, for the past two years. According to
the sources, the Pakistanis captured one of the Iraqi intelligence
officers last October near the border with Afghanistan . "The Iraqis
are also reported to have established strong ties with Imad
Moughniyeh," the report said. It quoted unconfirmed reports in Beirut
as saying that Moughniyeh had undergone plastic surgery and was
unrecognisable while Zawahri, thought to be based in Egypt , could be
bin Laden's chief representative outside Afghanistan . The report
quoted one Israeli intelligence source as saying Israeli military
intelligence had warned Israel's allies six weeks ago that an
"unprecedented, massive terror attack was expected."*** Zawahri was
indicted in New York in 1999 in connection with the bombing of the
U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya on August 7, 1998. 12:50
09-20-01"
Natural Gas Bonanza for Israel , Possible Oil Field as Well
OSAMA'S MENTOR PRINCE TURKI - BROTHER OF PRINCESS HAIFA
FIRST SECTION IMMEDIATELY BELOW IS
EXCERPTED FROM: "CNN CONNIE CHUNG
TONIGHT Aired November 25, 2002 - 20:00
ET
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0211/25/cct.00.html
"SEN. RICHARD SHELBY ®, ALABAMA : We
need to know what kind of ally we
have here. I'm suspicious. ANNOUNCER:
The U.S. government and
relatives of the 9/11 victims want
answers. Could money from the Saudi
government have bankrolled al Qaeda?
*** CHUNG: Prince Turki al-Faisal
from Riyadh is not only former chief of
Saudi intelligence; he's the
brother of the princess, Princess Haifa
al-Faisal, wife of the Saudi
ambassador to Washington, whose checks are now under investigation." (
NOTE, NOT PART OF ARTICLE BEING QUOTED, NOTE THE NAME OF THE SAUDI
PRINCESS: HAIFA AL FAISAL, HAIFA , AS IN THE CITY IN ISRAEL !!!
CLEARLY
SHE WAS NAMED WITH THE INTENT OF NOT RECOGNIZING HAIFA AS BEING AN
ISRAELI CITY !!! HAIFA !!!!) ARTICLE BEING QUOTED CONTINUES: " PRINCE
TURKI AL-FAISAL, FORMER CHIEF OF SAUDI INTELLIGENCE: *** in my view,
ludicrous and unfair media hype on my sister.*** her contributions to
children's welfare and children with educational disabilities are
well-registered and reported in the Washington area.***CHUNG: And
joining me now from Washington is the man who broke this story on
Saudi money; "Newsweek"'s Michael Isikoff. Michael, I'm sure you just
heard what Prince Turki said. He said that your report was ludicrous
and-quote-"unfair media hype." MICHAEL ISIKOFF, "NEWSWEEK": ***And
here's what we know. What we know is, the two individuals who ended up
as the recipient of the money-or at least it was through-or their
families ended up as the recipients of the money-are these two Saudi
students in San Diego , Mr. Omar al-Bayoumi and Mr. Osama Basnan. Now,
they turn out to be not your run-of-the-mill Saudi students. Mr.
Bayoumi, under his own account, just happened to run into the two
hijackers, al-Midhar and al-Hazmi, right after they landed in LAX,
straight from an al Qaeda terrorist summit in Kuala Lumpur in January
2000. By his account, he just happened to overhear them speaking
Arabic at an L.A. restaurant and just happened to offer to take care
of them and bring them to San Diego . He welcomes them in a welcoming
party. He opens up a bank account for them. He arranges for an
apartment right next door to his. And he fronts them two months rent
for the first two months, $1,500. Mr. Basnan, as we report in this
week's "Newsweek," was a known al Qaeda sympathizer, according to a
federal law enforcement official, had openly expressed his admiration
for the events of September 11, and talked about what a wonderful,
glorious day it had been, and, as we further report, according to a
U.S. intelligence source, showed up in Houston earlier last April,
when the Crown Prince Abdullah was in town and met with a high-ranking
member of the crown prince's entourage, who deals with intelligence
matters. And we did find a Houston police report that placed him in
Houston that day, April 25. He was reporting $400 in stolen cash.***
In fact, Mr. Bayoumi left the country two months before September 11.
He was picked up by the British in New Scotland Yard a couple of days
after 9/11, then released after a week, and is now believed back in
Saudi Arabia. I can tell you for a fact that, as we report in
"Newsweek," that witnesses in San Diego have been grilled intensively
in the last couple of weeks about Mr. Bayoumi and his whereabouts and
his activities. And the FBI, which is conducting this investigation,
would not be asking those questions if they were fully satisfied that
all the questions about Mr. Bayoumi's activities had been answered.
CHUNG: The new questions about the role of Saudi Arabian money and the
September 11 attacks are not the first time Saudis have been
implicated. Almost 3,000 September 11 victims and relatives have
joined a massive lawsuit seeking as much as $1 trillion from members
of the Saudi royal family. Kevin Schaeffer is one of those victims.
And Ron Motley is the attorney pursuing this lawsuit. Ron, I'm told
that you have just returned from Kabul , that your investigators were
there looking into links between the hijackers and the Taliban and al
Qaeda. Were they able to find any link to the Saudi royal family? RON
MOTLEY, ATTORNEY FOR 9/11 VICTIMS AND RELATIVES: Yes, ma'am. We were
able to establish, by sworn testimony, the act of participation of
Prince Turki in the facilitation of the funding of al Qaeda directly
in Afghanistan . CHUNG: Are you saying that Prince Turki, with whom I
just spoke and who claims no one in the royal family is in any way
connected to or funding al Qaeda, are you saying that he is indeed not
only a funder, but a facilitator for al Qaeda? MOTLEY: There is
absolutely no question about it. We spoke with senior Taliban
officials who were in the room when he indeed did facilitate the
transfer of large sums of money directly to al Qaeda in Afghanistan .
CHUNG: Who was present and how can you verify that Prince Turki was
involved? MOTLEY: Well, Prince Turki hasn't appeared in the suit yet.
But when he does, if he does, we will be able to take his testimony
under oath. But Prince Turki was in Afghanistan on numerous occasions
facilitating the transfer of funds and equipment to al Qaeda. And the
people who gave us these sworn statements were in the room when it
occurred. And these were senior Taliban, former Taliban officials.
CHUNG: Prince Turki is named in your lawsuit, is he not? MOTLEY: He
indeed is a primary target. CHUNG: Do you have any information that
would suggest that the story today, which involves Princess Haifa, is
an accurate one? MOTLEY: Well, I think the story is accurate. The
conclusions you can draw from that story may not be soundly footed
right now, although my investigator has reported-maybe another
coincidence-but another link between the princess and an al Qaeda
figure who has turned state's evidence and is testifying against three
other al Qaeda members in Michigan ."
END OF CONNIE CHUNG EXCERPT

Published: 06/03/10, 5:45 PM / Last Update: 06/03/10, 6:06 PM
by Maayana Miskin
Follow Israel news
A survey of the natural gas field off the shore of Haifa is to be
released Thursday evening in the United States. According to the
Globes financial journal, the field has been discovered to be even
larger than previously thought.
The field's estimated size has grown several times as more surveys are
conducted. In mid-2009, Yitzchak Teshuva, controlling shareholder who
invested in developing the field, originally said the gas reserves
could allow Israel to be self-sufficient in energy for two decades,
but now it seems that this was a conservative estimate.
Teshuva said Thursday, "The results indicate that in addition to the
gas, there are signs of oil at a greater depth. We have turned Israel
into a great energy power. Today is a holiday for every citizen of
Israel . It's a day of joy,"  He proceeded to say the Shehecheyanu
blessing for new and happy tidings.
Partners in the project plan to make their first deliveries of gas in
2012. Companies involved in the project include Noble Energy, Delek
Drilling, and Isramco.
Globes also stated that Noble Energy is planning to bring another
offshore platform to Israel . The platform will be imported from the
Gulf of Mexico .
A massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has left several companies
unable to operate their drilling platforms in the area. For that
reason, Noble Energy was able to secure a long-term lease deal for the
platform at an unusually low rate. (IsraelNationalNews.com)

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