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

To: Ben Wa who wrote (5635)	12/4/2002 9:20:17 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Target of Gaza attack identified as mastermind of mine attacks on Israeli tanks (UPDATE) The Jerusalem Post Internet Staff Dec. 4, 2002 Israeli radio stations identified the target of today's missile strikes on Gaza City as Mustafa Sabah, 35, the mastermind of a number of mine attacks on Israeli Merkava tanks in Gaza. Sabah, a leading figure on Israel's most wanted list, was killed in a missile attack by Israeli helicopters this afternoon on a Palestinian Authority office building in Gaza City, the reports said. Five other people were wounded in the attack.

To: Ben Wa who wrote (5635)	12/4/2002 10:17:52 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Saddam to defy Bush ultimatum By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor and Toby Harnden in Washington (Filed: 04/12/2002) Saddam Hussein began a new round of brinkmanship yesterday when his lieutenants said they would tell the United Nations on Saturday that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction. Tony Blair said such a claim would be a blatant lie. He warned the Iraqi dictator that if he refused to co-operate in any way "he must be disarmed by force". But British and American officials believe privately that Iraq will try to divide the international community by issuing a detailed and ambiguous declaration. In the latest sign of the escalating tensions, Turkey said yesterday that it would open its airbases to US warplanes mounting military operations against Iraq. George W Bush, the US president, told Saddam on Monday that he would be inviting war if he did not provide a complete list of his weapons of mass destruction. Speaking in Louisiana yesterday, he said he had little patience for drawn out inspections and would consider a false declaration a justification for war. "He says he won't have weapons of mass destruction," he said. "He's not only got them, he's used them. The issue is whether or not Mr Saddam Hussein will disarm like he said he would." UN Security Council resolution 1441 demands that Iraq should provide by Sunday a complete declaration of its nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programmes, as well as ballistic missiles. The White House is concerned that an incomplete declaration could still be hailed in Europe as a breakthrough. news.telegraph.co.uk

To: Ben Wa who wrote (5635)	12/4/2002 3:21:27 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

TERRORISTS AMONG US How sleeper cells, freelancers and organized jihadists have infiltrated America December 3, 2002 Despite America's 9-11 wake-up call, international terrorists – from al-Qaida and Hamas to sleeper cells and "freelancer" jihadists, bent on inflicting maximum horror and destruction on Americans – continue to infiltrate this nation, and the U.S. government has been unable or unwilling to effectively combat the threat. The December 2002 edition of WND's monthly Whistleblower magazine, titled "TERRORISTS AMONG US," shows dramatically how terrorists, their supporters and fund-raisers have taken advantage of America's open society, civil rights and religious freedom to hide a sophisticated and wide-ranging support network for international terrorism. Employing religious and charitable organizations, they have fooled the public, news media and government long conditioned to embrace radical anti-Americanism in the name of tolerance, multiculturalism and diversity. At the same time, the growing incidence of "freelance" Islamic terror across America is regarded officially as the work of "criminals" or "deranged individuals," and not jihadists. Sniper suspect John Muhammad praised the Sept. 11 hijackers and threatened to perpetrate major terror attacks himself before October's three-week shooting spree – but jihad is rarely discussed as a motive. Egyptian cab driver Hesham Hadayet went on a murderous terror spree July 4 at Los Angeles International Airport's El Al (Israeli) ticket counter – investigators said he was "overstressed." Egyptian pilot Gameel El-Batouty, calmly and repeatedly chanting "I rely on Allah," intentionally crashed EgyptAir Flight 990 into the Atlantic shortly after takeoff from New York in October 1999, killing all 217 on board, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. But the NTSB couldn't identify any motive, other than "suicide." The post-911 anthrax terror investigation has featured the FBI's year-long, unsuccessful pursuit of a supposed lone, "homegrown" terrorist, despite recent reports that state-sponsorship is far more likely given the cost and complexity of producing the particular weaponized anthrax used. There is substantial and compelling evidence of a Mideast connection to the Oklahoma City bombing, although the FBI long ago closed the door to such a conclusion. Multiple eyewitness claims that a missile shot down TWA Flight 800 became chillingly more credible recently after the near-miss of an Israeli passenger jet by two terrorist-deployed shoulder-fired missiles in Kenya. As expert Mideast analyst Daniel Pipes notes in this explosive issue of Whistleblower: "A virtual taboo exists in official circles about Islam's role in the violence; in the words of one senior State Department official, this subject 'has to be tiptoed around.' As a result, the violence is treated as though it comes out of nowhere, the work of (in Bush's description) 'a bunch of cold-blooded killers.'" The problem, adds Pipes, is that without truly confronting the enemy that has declared war on America, the all-important goal of defeating the ideology of radical Islamism – which is currently growing like a virus worldwide – will not be addressed effectively. Similarly, without a forthright policy of identifying and explaining what radical Islamism is – and differentiating it from Islam's more moderate forms – terrorism's supporters, funders, apologists and lobbyists go on working unnoticed and unfettered. worldnetdaily.com