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To: Richnorth who wrote (79288)	11/13/2001 8:26:24 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116752

Hizbollah seeks help against US financial grip BEIRUT, Nov 11: Hizbollah called on Arab states on Sunday to resist pressure from the United States to freeze the guerrilla group's financial assets. Ammar al-Moussawi, a senior official, said Washington was seeking to destabilise Lebanon's banking system and put pressure on Syria and Iran, who back Hizbollah's war against Israeli troops occupying a disputed area in the foothills of the Golan Heights. Lebanon last week rejected Washington's request that it seize Hizbollah's assets, raising concern among bankers about financial stability if the United States follows by imposing sanctions on local banks. "There should be a firm Arab position on the necessity of separating resistance from terrorism," Moussawi told Voice of the People, the radio station of the Lebanese Communist Party. Under rules enacted after the September 11 attacks, Washington can block the holdings of foreign banks which refuse to freeze the assets of groups it deems "foreign terrorist organisations". The United States added Hizbollah to a list of 22 such groups on November 2 and said last week it was exploring the possibility of retaliatory financial action against Lebanon. "The address is Hizbollah, but the target is Lebanon, Syria, Iran and regimes that do not take positions agreeing with US policy," Moussawi said.-Reuters dawn.com

To: Richnorth who wrote (79288)	11/13/2001 10:48:05 AM
From: Karl Siemens	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116752

After looking at the Sollog site, it seems to me that this is a propaganda site, possibly sponsored by Bin Ladin or someone who agrees with his twisted point of view. I will agree that Sept. 11 may be viewed in the future as being the start of WWIII, but if the governments of Iraq, Syria, etc don't want their cities going up in a nuclear fire, they had better prevent Bin Ladin from using any nuclear devices he may have or get.

To: Richnorth who wrote (79288)	11/23/2001 11:51:40 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116752

Top Deadly Contagious Virus Harvard Professor Goes Missing From Patricia Doyle, PhD dr_p_doyle@hotmail.com 11-23-1 Hello Jeff - I wonder if this scientist might be a missing link in the Anthrax cases? He might have been blackmailed into providing anthrax. Who knows? Given his expertise in deadly INFECTIOUS viruses, especially flu, I wonder if we are going to be hit with a virulent and deadly flu epidemic? Patricia Harvard Professor Missing By Douglas Belkin - Boston Globe Staff and Jenny Jiang - Globe Correspondent 11-21-1 A world-renowned Harvard scientist and expert in highly contagious and deadly viruses mysteriously disappeared in Tennessee early last Friday, leaving a rental car on a Memphis bridge. Don C. Wiley was in town to visit relatives and attend the annual meeting of the scientific advisory board of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. Police said there were no signs of foul play, just the car with the keys in the ignition on a bridge that spans the Mississippi River. Police found the car five hours after Wiley left a dinner at a posh hotel several blocks from the bridge. ''This is totally unexpected. He was fine on Thursday night,'' said Dr. Joseph Mirro, executive vice president at St. Jude's Hospital. The disappearance of the popular, gregarious scientist has shaken the scientific board and the staff and directors of the hospital, Mirro said. ''This is a terrible event and a great loss to the scientific community,'' he added, assuming the worst. ''He is an extremely brilliant scientist in medicine and understanding biology.'' In Cambridge, Wiley's wife, Katrin Valgeirsdottir, said she was planning to fly down on Friday to meet her 57-year-old husband with their children, ages 7 and 10. He also has two other children, ages 26 and 34, she said. ''He would never vanish. He wouldn't commit suicide,'' she said. ''I have no idea what has happened.'' An award-winning professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Harvard, Wiley built the first model of the structures of influenza viruses and human cells that allow the disease organism to infect humans. In 1985, Wiley began researching how drugs might block the process, using a method called X-ray crystallography, in hopes of conquering maladies ranging from the common cold to HIV. The researcher for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Harvard had flown to Memphis Wednesday evening, police said, and stayed with his father in Germantown, a suburb. Wiley's brother and sister-in-law also live in the area. On Thursday, Wiley met with the other 14 members of the board, and was one of 150 people attending a dinner that evening. Memphis police Lieutenant Joe Scott said that witnesses described him as being in a good mood when he left the dinner. ''No one detected that he was despondent or was having any difficulties in any way,'' Scott said. At 4 a.m. Friday, police found Wiley's rented Mitsubishi Galant on the Hernando DeSoto Bridge, which links Tennessee to Arkansas. Memphis police said the doors were unlocked, the key was in the ignition, and the hazard lights had not been turned on. The car had a full tank of gas. Scott said the bridge is about 100 feet high, and has been the scene of a handful of suicides each year. Sometimes the bodies aren't found for weeks, he said. ''We are investigating every angle we can think of,'' Scott said. Wiley's research focuses on the structure of viruses and proteins in the human immune system. Herman Eisen, an MIT professor emeritus and friend of Wiley's, said suicide ''just doesn't fit.'' Wiley ''was extremely successful at what he did. He seemed stable and outgoing, he ran a large research group very effectively. People held him in very high regard.'' Globe correspondents Fran Riley and Jana Benscoter contributed to this report. This story ran on page B1 of the Boston Globe on 11/21/2001. © Copyright 2001 Globe Newspaper Company. rense.com