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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2241)	10/5/2002 9:06:54 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 3959

Talking back to critics and arguing with them is not censorship. Rioting and violence to prevent others from speaking is censorship. Face it. You're in favor of censorship.

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2241)	10/7/2002 5:30:15 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3959

France finds 'zero' al-Qaeda links with Iraq By Mark Huband in Paris Published: October 4 2002 21:59 \| Last Updated: October 4 2002 Years of investigations into radical Islamic groups have not produced a "trace" of evidence of a link between Iraq and Osama bin Laden's (pictured) al-Qaeda terrorist network, France's leading terrorist investigator said on Friday. His remarks come after George W. Bush, US president, Condoleezza Rice, national security adviser, and Donald Rumsfeld, defence secretary, claimed last week that Saddam Hussein's regime and al-Qaeda were tied. But Jean-Louis Bruguière told the Financial Times: "We have not found any link between al-Qaeda and Iraq. Not a trace. There is no foundation, according to our investigations, for the information given by the Americans." Mr Bruguière is an investigative magistrate who has the power to see French domestic and foreign intelligence material - much of which has been shared with the US. His views reflect the conclusions of French investigators, rather than official government thinking. France is resisting US attempts at the United Nations to pass a single, new, tougher resolution governing weapons inspections in Iraq. Rather, it is seeking two UN Security Council resolutions: one laying out new instructions for weapons inspections, and a second, if needed, dealing with the consequences for any Iraqi breaches of the resolutions. "There is no legal precondition for a new resolution to be taken for the inspectors to go to Iraq," the Foreign Ministry said on Friday. The French investigation into al-Qaeda followed a wave of bomb attacks by Algerian Islamic terrorists in Paris 1995. Before last year's September 11 attacks, it was probably more wide-ranging than that of any other country. France has retained a diplomatic presence in Baghdad since the 1991 Gulf war. In an attempt to tie the Iraqi regime with the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks in the US, Mr Rumsfeld said there was "solid evidence" of the presence in Iraq of al-Qaeda members. [...] news.ft.com Who knows.... A coupla more attacks on French tankers might be enough to prompt the French into changing their minds about Iraq/Al-Qaeda --a smoking tanker instead of a smoking teapot.... Owners of French Tanker See Terrorists Behind Blast Sun Oct 6, 3:11 PM ET DUBAI (Reuters) - The owners of a French supertanker ablaze off the coast of Yemen said they thought terrorists in an explosive-laden boat were behind the blast Sunday. "In my opinion this was a terrorist attack," Jacques Moizan, director of Euronav, which owns the tanker Limburg, told Reuters by telephone from France. "The crew saw a high-speed vessel approaching on the starboard side ... an explosion followed," he said. Moizan said Euronav believed there were explosives aboard the small boat as it was not easy to penetrate the supertanker's double hull. [snip] story.news.yahoo.com

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2241)	10/8/2002 7:44:35 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3959

Speaking of censorship, last night I heard Bush gave a major speech supporting his call for removal of Saddam Hussein and the three major networks ignored it. I heard this on the radio this morning - I didn't have the TV on last night so I didn't observe this firsthand. But it sounds like attempted censorship to me. And what is interesting is that the censorship is coming from the major media - which your buddies Emile and Craig Crawford claim is Jewish controlled and pushing us toward war with Iraq. Seems like the major networks are acting exactly the opposite of what you'd expect if their claims were true. Course they make the same claims about Hollywood and the only voices from Hollywood you hear are ones calling on the US to leave Saddam alone.

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2241)	10/9/2002 8:35:04 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

Hey Len, here's another censorship attempt: >>> The Cairo-based Arab Journalists Association is weighing the expulsion of two members for publishing articles on the Israeli Web site, Y-Net, on grounds of 'normalization with the enemy, Israel,' " the Jerusalem Post reports: Yemeni-born Munir al-Mawri is being criticized for supporting a US strike on Iraq, while the other journalist, Imran Salman, from Bahrain, condemned suicide attacks carried out by Palestinians. Both also work for the Web site of Qatari al-Jazeera television. Where's the outrage?<<< opinionjournal.com