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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (10775)	1/10/2002 10:50:05 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

So what sort of economic system do you prefer? Mixing up capitalism and fraud does not advance your argument. ...The State is the organisation of robbery systematised and writ large. The state is the only legal institution in society that acquires its revenue by the use of coercion, by using violence and threat of violence on its victims. The state is, therefore, a centralized, regularised organisation of theft" (Murray Rothbard 1926-1995) libertarian.nl

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (10775)	1/10/2002 10:56:25 AM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

speaks for itself.. dailynews.yahoo.com In Washington, meanwhile, a senior U.S. official said the Bush administration had ``compelling evidence'' that the Palestinian Authority (news - web sites) and Arafat's Fatah (news - web sites) faction were involved in the weapons smuggling operation. Arafat and his Authority have denied links to the shipment. Based on Israeli briefings, the Bush administration believes Arafat may have been in a position to know about at least some aspects of the operation, the U.S. official said. Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites), in a telephone call to the Palestinian leader, refused to accept Arafat's disavowal of any knowledge of the weapons shipment.

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (10775)	1/10/2002 12:01:57 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

Gus...Once a terrorist always a terrorist....That's bad enough but old arafatty seems to be quite stupid as well :o) Arafat's Implausible Denials By WILLIAM SAFIRE WASHINGTON -- The radical Islamic ayatollahs of Iran were responsible for dispatching the shipload of 62 rockets and antitank missiles, along with 1,400 mortar shells, to their proxy warriors in the Middle East. Included were 3,000 pounds of powerful new C-4 explosives to be used by suicide bombers against civilians. The clear purpose of the 50 tons of Iranian arms, intercepted by Israeli commandos last week, was to help Yasir Arafat's coalition of terror win Iran's undeclared war on Israel. While the U.S. and Israel have for a decade been deluding themselves with a "peace process," Iran and its Palestinian proxies have been gaining ground in their war process. Caught red-handed, Arafat is denying any knowledge of what his chief lieutenants and other terror partners have been doing. His pretense of innocence calls to mind Chico Marx's line to a husband when caught in bed with the man's wife: "Who you gonna believe — me or your own eyes?" The arms were marked in the Iranian language, Farsi, loaded aboard just off Iran's shoreline, packed in watertight containers to be transferred to small boats and floated ashore in Gaza. The ship, the Karine A, was purchased by the Palestinian Authority's chief arms buyer for $400,000 14 months ago, just after Arafat rejected President Bill Clinton's Camp David offer and launched his terror campaign. The Karine A's captain, Omar Akawi, a loyal officer in Arafat's naval smuggling operation, promptly confessed the damning details of the purchase and transport of the weaponry, giving the lie to the terrorists' initial denials. He told reporters he thought the mission would be aborted after Sept. 11, especially after Arafat's "order" last month to end bloody bombings, but when his Palestinian boss last spoke to him from Greece, no such change of orders came. This proves to all but the most determinedly blind that the Iran-Arab terror coalition, even with Osama bin Laden's operation routed, has every intention of winning its war. What brought the radical Persians and Palestinians together? After all, Arafat sided with Saddam Hussein in the long Iran-Iraq war in the 80's, and was Iraq's cheerleader in the short U.S.-Iraq war a decade ago. Following Saddam's Persian Gulf war defeat, Arafat switched his allegiance to Iran. The ayatollahs then armed Arafat's Hezbollah allies in Lebanon and became what the U.S. State Department last year labeled the most active state sponsor of worldwide terrorism. European leaders are embarrassed because they recently gave Palestinians millions to feed the starving — and now find that their money went for C-4 explosive to kill the innocent. (Actually, Europe's diverted funds went a long way; thanks to Iranian subsidy, for only $10 million Arafat received arms valued at nearly five times that.) More central to America's security, however, is the strategic reality revealed by the capture of the Karine A: Tehran has again shown itself to be the world arsenal of terror. Iran's ayatollahs have been escalating their sponsorship of terrorist war — yesterday on the "Great Satan" of America, today on Israeli Jews, tomorrow on the whole non-Islamic world. Iran's Hashemi Rafsanjani reminded us recently of the glorious day "when the Islamic world acquires atomic weapons." He acknowledged that in a nuclear exchange the nations of Islam would suffer damage, but only one great nuclear blast "would destroy Israel completely." Two terrorist-sponsoring nations are racing to acquire nuclear weapons. One is Iraq, whose scientists already have the know-how. The other is Iran, whose nuclear development is being recklessly aided by President Vladimir Putin of Russia, despite feeble American protests. Both Iran and Iraq have restive populations longing for freedom from political and religious repression. In conversations over the years, the Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel Sharon have said they thought radical Iran would be the greater danger; Americans like me consider Saddam's threat more immediate. Iranians and Iraqis require liberation before their dictators gain nuclear superpower. Target practice against terrorists in Yemen or Somalia may buy Washington time, but George Bush's big decisions are (1) how quickly we pre-empt before being forced to retaliate, and (2) which major terrorist sponsor comes first. Saddam is in the lead, but the militant ayatollahs are closing fast. nytimes.com

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (10775)	1/10/2002 8:32:16 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

Gus, your prayers have been answered washtimes.com "We are reverting to the dream of our founding father who envisaged Pakistan as a moderate and progressive Islamic state based on principles of freedom and tolerance," Pakistani Foreign Minister Abdus Sattar said in an interview yesterday. "The subject of his speech will be militancy and extremism." Speaking by telephone from the country's capital, Islamabad, Mr. Sattar said some previous leaders had erred in allowing Islamic militants to build up their power base in the country. "We have governments that did a lot of things they should not have done

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (10775)	1/10/2002 8:54:44 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

Info for your research... abcnews.go.com U.S sources say they have also launched a massive hunt for Palestinian terrorist Zainul al-Abideen Abu Zubaida, in whose guesthouse Ressam stayed after going to Pakistan and Afghanistan from Canada in early 1998 for terrorist training. The United States believes Abu Zubaida — who received a gift of a laptop computer bought by several militants in Canada, including Ressam — was part of the bin Laden team that formulated the plan for the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States. U.S. authorities believe Abu Zubaida was the emir of the Khalden terrorist training camp. Authorities have evidence that most overseas al Qaeda supporters used Abu Zubaida as their liaison man with bin Laden's organization