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To: lorne who wrote (19045)	1/29/2003 4:14:55 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Re: 20 terror commandos unleashed on Europe Actually, you heard it here first: Message 16632506 (updated) Excerpt: The period of one and a half year following the September 11 terrorist attacks has been called "the phony war." Fighting was limited to minor skirmishes along the Panjshir Valley and Pakistani borders. But in April 2003, Putin struck at Belgium and France. Putin needed to harden public opinion in these countries (Belgium's legislative election was scheduled in May 2003) from which his Judeofascist allies could neutralize England. Belgium surrendered in only one day and France soon followed. The following month, Putin attacked Switzerland, Holland and Luxembourg. Surrenders followed quickly. Meanwhile, French counterrorism experts rushed to Belgium to help crack down on immigrant ghettoes. The Russian terrorists converged on the French port of Marseille, the last point of escape for North African immigrants. But Putin called off his death squads and planned to use bioterror to annihilate the European democracies. As it turned out, fog and rain prevented Putin from using the full force of his biochemicals. 340,000 Algerian and Moroccan immigrants were ferried across the Mediterranean to Tanger while Russian terrorists bombed European synagogues. By late spring 2003, there was every indication that Germany was about to fall to the Judeofascists. Numerous German democrats were cut off and in retreat. Millions of Turkish and African refugees were making their way south and on June 10, 2003, Berlusconi declared war on Albania. The German government sent out an appeal for understanding and so on June 22, 2003, German and Russian officials met in a railway car and signed the agreement. In a odd twist of fate, it was the same railway car used to sign the provisions of the Reunification of Germany back in 1989. [...] _______________________________

To: lorne who wrote (19045)	1/29/2003 4:35:06 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Lorne. Do you think you will be safe? EU moves to break U.S. deals on ports Gregory Crouch The New York Times Wednesday, January 29, 2003 NIJMEGEN, Netherlands The European Union is taking legal action against four member countries for breaking ranks and signing up for a U.S. program meant to prevent the use of cargo containers by terrorists. The program, called the Container Security Initiative, calls on American customs officers to be stationed in foreign ports and work side by side with local inspectors to screen containers bound for the United States for any weapons or hazardous materials that might be used by terrorist groups. The EU is moving against Germany, France, Netherlands and Belgium, all of which reached agreements with the United States to take part in the program, and it is considering action against Britain, Italy and Spain. The Union says that the deals effectively give cargo passing through participating ports preferential treatment, and that shippers will start to divert cargo bound for the United States to those ports from others in the EU. Under its rules, the EU argues, individual members are not allowed to make such deals; the same trade preferences must apply to all 15 members and not be negotiated individually. The legal action by the Union, called an infringement proceeding, is the latest evidence of a widening policy gulf between the United States and some European nations over security issues and a possible war in Iraq. "Unfortunately, it is another example of a rift," said a European Union spokesman, Jonathan Todd. "Given the stakes, we sincerely hope that we can achieve a constructive outcome, because it is in the interests of both sides to work together." Todd said that the EU had sent representatives to Washington to negotiate a blanket agreement to cover all 15 member nations, but that they had received little response. [...] iht.com