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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (1186)	12/9/2001 12:06:11 PM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

If you want to trace the History of the Egyptian Israeli conflict, you have to go all the way to Moses having the Queen of Egypt and rejecting her to lead an entire Nation of Hebrews out of Egypt; TAKING WITH THEM ALL THEIR WEALTH. The Romans came long after that ultimate humililation. Mosses brougt force the mighty nation; the Children of Israel. Egyptians will never forget, and the entire arab nations were on the side of the nazi's and axis powers. Hoards of Nazi's escaped to these countries and continued to preach their doctrine's; doesn't arafats and goebells line of propganda ring the same bells?

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (1186)	12/9/2001 2:03:23 PM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

Suicide Bombers Trying Chemical Devices -Officials December 09, 2001 10:02 AM ET Email this article Printer friendly version Reuters Photo JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Health Ministry said on Sunday that hazardous materials were found in a device detonated by Palestinian suicide bombers last week and officials believe it was a crude attempt at a chemical weapon. Boaz Lev, the ministry's director-general, told Reuters there were "traces of a variety of chemical compounds" found in the remains of a bomb tested in a police laboratory after last week's attacks in a Jerusalem cafe district. "Whether this was deliberate or not, we don't know," Lev said. "A variety of materials can be used. Your imagination can lead you to anything you want and unfortunately they (the bombers) have an imagination." An Israeli official confirmed one of the bombs used in the Jerusalem attacks had been "immersed in some kind of chemical such as pesticide." The official said Palestinian bombers had apparently recently experimented with their explosive devices in order "to maximize the effect" by spreading hazardous materials in the vicinity of the blast. A police spokesman said: "Since 1994 we have known of a couple of incidents in which amounts of pesticides were found in the bombs." But he added it was only "very few cases." Eleven people were killed in a double suicide bombing and a car bomb in central Jerusalem last Saturday in attacks claimed by the militant Islamic group Hamas in revenge for Israel's killing of Hamas' military leader. Giving weight to the reports of an attempted chemical attack, hazardous materials experts were sent to the scene of a suicide bombing near Haifa on Sunday, in which at least eight people were hurt. An Israeli security source said because chemical traces were found in the Jerusalem bombing, hazardous materials crews would be sent to all bomb blasts in future to check whether the devices contained chemicals. Lev said, however, that officials were not overly concerned about the possibility of non-conventional bombs. He said the bombs generally used by Palestinian attackers -- which are packed with nails -- were already deadly enough when detonated in crowded places. Scores of people have been killed in suicide bombings in the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation that erupted in September 2000 after peace talks froze. Over the past year, Arafat has repeatedly accused Israel of using depleted uranium weapons and poison gas against Palestinians. Israel has denied the allegations. reuters.com

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (1186)	12/9/2001 6:46:27 PM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

Bin Laden Said to Be Cornered, Fighting Fiercely December 09, 2001 06:13 PM ET Email this article Printer friendly version Reuters Photo By Sayed Salahuddin and Anton Ferreira KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden was said to be staging what could be his last stand in rugged eastern Afghanistan on Sunday and the United States insisted he be handed over if he was taken alive. Vice President Dick Cheney and other U.S. officials said a videotape of Saudi-born bin Laden, made after the Sept. 11 attacks on America and found somewhere in Afghanistan, proved beyond doubt his involvement in the hijackings that killed nearly 3,900 people. The final nail was hammered into the coffin of Taliban rule when the hard-line Islamists surrendered their last redoubt in Zulam province, the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press reported. "The rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan has totally ended," AIP said. The Taliban had controlled 90 percent of Afghanistan and provided sanctuary for bin Laden and his al Qaeda network until the United States launched an offensive two months ago in retaliation for the September attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center twin towers. A spokesman for the Northern Alliance, which has taken advantage of U.S. air strikes to seize control of much of the country, said bin Laden was leading the defense of his mountain hideouts in Tora Bora in person. "Osama himself has taken the command of the fighting," Mohammad Amin told Reuters by satellite phone from Jalalabad. "He, along with around 1,000 of his people ... have now dug themselves into the forests of Spin Ghar after we overran all their bases in Tora Bora. He is here for sure," Amin said. "American planes have been carrying out regular and severe bombings to kill him." CNN reported from Tora Bora that waves of U.S. B-52 heavy bombers and smaller planes pounded the area from daybreak on Sunday. Both Amin and Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, described the fighting as intense. FIGHTING FOR SURVIVAL "Our latest information is ... that he (bin Laden) is in this area, the so-called Tora Bora area," Myers said on television. "And they're in the hills with some other al Qaeda fighters, and they are fighting fiercely against opposition forces, some of our forces and some of our air attacks, trying to survive. "The al Qaeda forces that we think are ensconced up there, in some respects trapped up there, are fighting for their lives," the general said. Myers and Cheney said that even if bin Laden was captured or killed soon, the war against al Qaeda -- suspected by Washington of operating in up to 60 countries -- would go on. "Certainly the military operation would be pretty well wrapped up at that point, but we've had some other missions that we've wanted to accomplish," Cheney said on a television talk show. He said the Arabic-language videotape found in Afghanistan was a kind of smoking gun in which bin Laden showed "significant knowledge of what happened (on Sept. 11) and there's no doubt about his responsibility." A U.S. official familiar with the tape, speaking on condition he was not named, said it showed bin Laden looking "amused" that some of the hijackers did not realize they were on a suicide mission. The videotape was shot last month and showed bin Laden describing to dinner companions how he listened to news coverage of the attacks, the official said. "It is very clear that he knew all about it before it happened." The whereabouts of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, his forces now routed, were still unknown. Various reports have had the one-eyed Omar about to be seized, fleeing to Pakistan or wounded in a Kandahar firefight. Cheney said Washington wanted bin Laden and Mullah Omar turned over to U.S. authorities if they are captured alive. "We made it very clear that we want Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar and their senior leadership, and if they're taken alive we expect to take custody of them," Cheney said. MILITARY COURTS Omar and bin Laden would be leading candidates for trial by military tribunals authorized by President Bush, Cheney said. "They're exactly the kind of people the military tribunals were established for," he said. Cheney ruled out a trial in international court for either bin Laden or Omar, but Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz suggested Omar at least could be tried in Afghanistan. "We would want to be sure that the kind of justice they would get in Afghanistan would be very similar to what they would get here," Wolfowitz said. Asked if that included the death penalty, he said, "It might mean something quite similar. ... The Afghans are not known for kindness to people who have abused them." In Moscow, a senior U.S. official traveling with Secretary of State Colin Powell told reporters that anti-Taliban warlord Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum had told U.S. officials he would cooperate with Kabul's new interim government. Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek and part of the Northern Alliance, dominates most of northern Afghanistan. He had said several days ago he would boycott the new administration because it was not balanced. Kandahar, the southern city regarded as the Taliban's stronghold, has been the scene of days of feuding by tribal factions who helped sweep the movement from power. But they apparently reached accord on Sunday, with Afghan Prime Minister-designate Hamid Karzai saying they had agreed to select Gul Agha as interim governor. Gul Agha, a former governor, had complained about the surrender deal Karzai had struck with the Taliban, under which the Islamic militia handed the city to Naqibullah, a former Mujahideen leader whom Gul Agha considers close to the Taliban. Several Taliban officials, including their U.N. representative, surfaced in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Sunday to announce the formation of a new political party to help in bringing peace to Afghanistan. In Rome, the grandson of the ex-king of Afghanistan said the monarch would probably return home in March to play his part in the reconstruction of his country, ending almost 30 years of exile in Italy. "This is not official, but I think March 21 is a good target date. It is the first day of spring. It's a national holiday in Afghanistan that was banned by the previous regime," Mostapha Zahir told reporters. Gen. Myers said the 20-year-old American John Walker, who was captured while fighting for the Taliban, was providing information to U.S. Marines at a desert base south of Kandahar. With the Bush administration still determining how to handle the case, Myers said "the evidence is pretty strong that he was right in the middle of it."

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (1186)	12/9/2001 11:28:13 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

Courtesy of www.memri.org -- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion on Egyptian TV Posted: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 Special Dispatch No. 309: Arab Antisemitism - Ramadan TV Special: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Ramadan TV Special: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion During the second half of Ramadan, a number of television stations, including Egyptian stations, will be screening the thirty-part series "Horseman Without a Horse," starring the well-known Egyptian actor Muhammad Subhi and a cast of 400 others from Egypt, Syria, and France. The series, whose budget ran six to eight million Egyptian pounds, was produced by Arab Radio and Television (ART), established in 1993, which broadcasts to the Middle East, North America, Latin America, Australia, and Africa.(1) In a report on the series, the Egyptian weekly Roz Al-Youssuf(2) described it as the "first of its kind" – both artistically, as it is the first time a single actor plays 14 different characters, and in the way in which it deals with the issues it raises. The following are excerpts from a report on the series: "For the first time, the series' writer courageously tackles the 24 Protocols of the Elders of Zion, revealing them and clarifying that they are the central line that still, to this very day, dominates Israel's policy, political aspirations, and racism... The series' first scene is set in 1948, after the retreat of the four Arab armies and the Zionist invasion of the land of Palestine. From this point, there is a flashback to the mid-19th century." The newspaper states that the idea of exposing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in a drama series took shape in Subhi's mind as the result of two events. The first of these was the "London Convention" [sic], which he considered the greatest single calamity ever to affect the Arab region. This agreement, Subhi claimed, was the work of three Zionist rabbis, promoters of the Zionist idea, who concocted an elaborate plot according to which Palestine would be annexed to Egypt, and Britain would subsequently conquer Egypt and hand Palestine over to the Zionists. Subhi stated that this is what sparked his desire to investigate the Zionist idea, which existed years before the "London Convention," but emerged only at the first Zionist conference in Basle Switzerland, at which the Jews began to appear as a Zionist organization; previously, they had been active only in associations and large institutions throughout the world. Also motivating him, he said, was a book by the Egyptian author Abbas Mahmoud Al-'Aqqad on the Zionist movement. Al-'Aqqad said that, "[In order to examine] whether the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are an invention – as [the Jews] claim – all we have to do is to trace the [implementation of the] 24 protocols; if we find that some of them have come to pass, we must expect that the rest also will." Subhi followed Al-'Aqqad's advice, and found that 19 of the 24 protocols had [already] been put into practice. "By means of the series," Subhi adds, "I am exposing all the Protocols of the Elders of Zion that have been implemented to date, in a dramatic, comic, historic, national, tragic, and romantic manner." The weekly also offered quotes from the Protocols that the series addresses: "We will act to establish a state to be a superpower that will rule the world"; "[When we rule the world], we will damage its morality with pornography, prostitution, and drugs, and we will corrupt the world of the Gentiles"; "We must choose someone corrupt [for the presidency of the superpower] and when he resists us - we will expose him." In this context, Subhi noted, "We all remember what happened to President Clinton and to other presidents throughout history." The series will also reveal "advice" reportedly taken from the Protocols, such as: "Feed a dog, [but] not a Muslim or a Christian" and "Kill a Muslim or a Christian and take his house as your house and his lands as your lands." He also raises such questions as, "How can a country like America collaborate with the Jews when it is familiar with the Protocols' directives against it [America]?" Endnotes: (1) Al-Alam Al-Youm (Egypt), October 4, 2001. (2) Roz Al-Youssuf (Egypt), November 17, 2001.