Re: [A-List] US Imperialism: how the world has changed since S11

["Tariq" <tariq200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brother Sabri Oncu,

A good article.
"Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned
 today that terrorist states will inevitably be able to
attack the  United States with weapons of mass
destruction."

Now when the cat is getting out of the bag, the
def. sec. wishes to lull the people into another
trance by scaring them of yet another assault.

"With the power and reach of weapons today,
we have little margin for error and we need
defenses that can deter and defend against
such attacks."

Sure, we must not take chances this time. In
order to be prepared we need to change the
guards who failed us last time. Better fire
Bush, Dick and Rumsfeld before they do it
again.

the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
warned that suicide bombings like those that
have left hundreds dead in Israel are "inevitable"
on American soil.

How do we trust the FBI? Those who squander
$ 30 billion annually and fail to deliver.

 "I think we will see that in the future - I think it's
 inevitable," said the director [FBI], Robert S.
Mueller III.

Who will trust him again?

 Mr. Mueller suggested that the F.B.I. and other
agencies would not be able to stop new terrorism
attacks in the United States or against American
targets overseas because of the difficulty of
 recruiting informers who had penetrated the
inner circle of terrorist groups.

Naturally not, when informers recruited for
security also become partners in business deals
with people at the top most level.

Once in an Indian village a house was broken
and some valuables stolen. The desi police
arrived and started an investigation, questioning
people left, right and center. Like others the village
clown also got sick. He asked the policeman if
he is heard in privacy, will tell the name of the culprit.
The clown was readily taken into a room and the
excited policeman asked, "Yes, who has done it."
The clown going up to him, whispered in his ear said,
"I guess it is the work of some thief". This how the
US administration is investigating these days.

Tariq

Sabri Oncu <soncu@xxxxxxxxxxx> on Wednesday, May 22, 2002 wrote:


> The New York Times
>
> May 21, 2002
> Rumsfeld Says Terrorists Will Use Weapons of Mass Destruction
> By PHILIP SHENON and DAVID STOUT
>
> WASHINGTON, May 21 - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned
> today that terrorist states will inevitably be able to attack the
> United States with weapons of mass destruction.
>
> "Let there be no doubt, it is only a matter of time before
> terrorist states armed with weapons of mass destruction develop
> the capability to deliver those weapons to U.S. cities, giving
> them the ability to try to hold America hostage to nuclear
> blackmail," Mr. Rumsfeld told senators at a hearing on the
> Pentagon budget. "With the power and reach of weapons today, we
> have little margin for error and we need defenses that can deter
> and defend against such attacks."
>
> Mr. Rumsfeld's warning, while not surprising, was nevertheless
> sobering. It was the second statement of concern about national
> security in two days from a high official. On Monday, the
> director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned that
> suicide bombings like those that have left hundreds dead in
> Israel are "inevitable" on American soil.
>
> "I think we will see that in the future - I think it's
> inevitable," said the director, Robert S. Mueller III, whose
> agency is under siege by critics in Congress and elsewhere who
> contend that the bureau failed to follow up on clues that might
> have prevented the Sept. 11 terrorism attacks.
>
> Mr. Rumsfeld told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee that Iraq,
> Iran, Syria, Libya and North Korea are working on weapons of mass
> destruction and can be expected to supply them to terrorists to
> which they are linked. Terrorists, Mr. Rumsfeld said, "inevitably
> will get their hands on them and they will not hesitate to use them."
>
> Mr. Rumsfeld's remarks were not startling in view of the Bush
> administration's often-expressed concerns about terrorists, but
> they served as another reminder of how the world has changed
> since the days of the cold war and, more specifically, since 911.
>
> Mr. Mueller, who spoke on Monday to a conference of the nation's
> district attorneys, did not identify which terrorist groups might
> be considering such attacks in the United States, nor did he
> provide any specific time frame when they might occur.
>
> His comments came a day after Vice President Dick Cheney issued a
> similarly vague public warning about the likelihood of new
> terrorist strikes, saying that another attack by Al Qaeda was
> "almost certain" but that it could happen "tomorrow or next week
> or next year." Mr. Cheney made no reference to the possibility of
> suicide bombings here.
>
> Mr. Mueller apparently did not know that his warnings would be
> made public. Administration officials said that his remarks and
> those of Mr. Cheney, coupled with warnings last weekend from
> intelligence agencies that they had detected terrorist
> communications suggesting a new attack was being planned, were
> not part of any campaign by the White House to raise public alarm.
>
> Nor, they said, were the warnings intended to deflect criticism
> over intelligence failures before Sept. 11. The F.B.I. has been
> the target of intense criticism after the disclosure that an
> agent in the bureau's Phoenix office warned last July that Al
> Qaeda terrorists might be training in American flight schools.
>
> Mr. Mueller suggested that the F.B.I. and other agencies would
> not be able to stop new terrorism attacks in the United States or
> against American targets overseas because of the difficulty of
> recruiting informers who had penetrated the inner circle of
> terrorist groups.
>
> His warnings came as the chairman of the Senate Intelligence
> Committee confirmed news reports that a group of "extremists" may
> have entered the United States in recent weeks aboard container
> ships that docked in American ports.
>
> "We had an instance in which 25 extremists, as they were
> described, jumped on ships outside of the United States, hid in
> the container cargoes until they got to the United States and
> then disembarked," the lawmaker, Senator Bob Graham, a Florida
> Democrat, said in an interview on CNN. "And they've been lost in
> the American population."
>
> Mr. Graham offered no other details on the search for the men,
> but Congressional aides said the senator was referring to
> information gathered from the Coast Guard and intelligence
> agencies about a group of Middle Eastern men who had apparently
> jumped ship between late March and May 15 in ports in Miami, Port
> Everglades, Fla., Long Beach, Calif., and Savannah, Ga.
>
> One Congressional aide stressed that the information had not been
> confirmed. A Coast Guard spokesman had no comment about Mr.
> Graham's account.
>
> Government analysts and private counterterrorism specialists have
> long worried that militant Islamic groups like Hamas or Islamic
> Jihad might someday unleash a wave of suicide bombings in this
> country in an effort to pressure the United States to limit its
> support for Israel.
>
> Their concerns have grown in the wake of the dozens of suicide
> bombings in Israel in the last 18 months in which Palestinians,
> many only teenagers, have strapped explosives to their bodies and
> walked into pizzerias, discos, malls and other places where
> Israeli civilians gathered.
>
> Law-enforcement officials believe that an embittered Palestinian
> immigrant came within hours of detonating a nail-studded bomb in
> the New York City subway system in 1997, in what would have been
> the first such attack. The suspect, Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Maizar, was
> convicted of the plot two years later, though it was never clear
> if he was acting at the suggestion or behest of a terrorist group.
>
> During the trial, which Mr. Abu Maizar clearly saw as a chance to
> publicize the plight of Palestinians, he testified he had
> intended the bomb to kill as many Jews as possible.
>
> "I lived under the Israeli Army occupation for 20 years, facing
> all kinds of suffering from the aggression of the Israeli Army,"
> he testified in explaining his actions. Law-enforcement officials
> in New York say that Mr. Abu Maizar had planned to detonate the
> bomb in a subway station or on a subway line in a Brooklyn
> neighborhood where large numbers of Orthodox Jews live.
>
> Mr. Mueller's warnings came during a question-and-answer session
> with the National Association of District Attorneys, which is
> meeting this week in Alexandria, Va., outside Washington. Aides
> said that Mr. Mueller did not realize that a reporter from The
> Associated Press was in the audience. F.B.I. officials later
> confirmed the accuracy of the quotations cited by the A.P.
>
> On Capitol Hill, the debate continues to center on how to
> investigate previous warnings and the government's responses to
> them in the months and years before Sept. 11.
>
> There was new concern among lawmakers over how the Bush
> administration had responded to the arrest in Minnesota last
> August of Zacarias Moussaoui, who has since been described as the
> "20th hijacker" in the Sept. 11 attacks.
>
> Confirming reports in The Star Tribune of Minneapolis and The
> Wall Street Journal, the Federal Aviation Administration
> acknowledged on Monday it had received a warning in August from
> the F.B.I. about Mr. Moussaoui's arrest. But the agency said it
> issued no warning to airlines because there was no evidence to
> suggest he was part of a terrorist plot.
>
> Rallying behind the White House, House Republican leaders said
> they opposed creating an independent commission to investigate
> how the government dealt with terrorism warnings before Sept. 11.
>
> The Republican opposition made it unlikely that a proposal for an
> outside group to scrutinize the performance of the government
> would soon be approved by the House, leaving the House and Senate
> intelligence committees to make their own investigation.
>
> Representative Dick Armey of Texas, the House majority leader,
> said he opposed an outside inquiry. Last weekend, he said, "This
> is a professional matter of national security, utmost national
> security importance."
>
> "It should be handled professionally, it should be handled
> carefully, and it should be handled quietly," he said.
>
> Other lawmakers, led by Senators Joseph I. Lieberman and John
> McCain, are pushing to create a 14-member independent commission.
> Mr. Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat, and Mr. McCain, an Arizona
> Republican often at odds with the administration, have said they
> may try to push legislation through shortly after Memorial Day.
>
> Full at:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/21/politics/21CND-TERROR.html