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To: Abner Hosmer who wrote (7992)	2/16/2003 12:30:54 AM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10157

Andrew Sullivan: It’s over. andrewsullivan.com Fischer is an incredibly strange character: February 14, 2003, 9:00 a.m. Berlin’s New Anti-American Axis Fischerism spreads. By Ion Mihai Pacepa n February 10, 2003, the government of Germany began building a new, anti-American Berlin-Moscow-Paris Axis. As one of the former Soviet bloc experts on German matters (and chief of a bloc intelligence station in West Germany), I had been waiting for something like that to happen ever since October 1998, when Joschka Fischer became Germany's foreign minister. Fischer is an indirect product of the old anti-American intelligence community to which I once belonged. In 1975 Libya's dictator, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, informed Romania's tyrant, Nicolae Ceausescu — through me — that he was preparing a terrorist attack against the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and asked my boss to provide him with blueprints of OPEC's temporary headquarters in Vienna. Ceausescu agreed, and the Romanian espionage service (the DIE) complied. The December 1975 takeover of OPEC's headquarters in Vienna resulted in the seizure of 60 OPEC officials and staff members as hostages. The kidnapping was organized by Qaddafi and the infamous Ilich Ramírez Sánchez — "Carlos" or "the Jackal Twenty-two years later, Carlos was arrested in Khartoum, Sudan, by the French counterintelligence service (DST), with whose director, Yves Bonnet, I had earlier cooperated after leaving Romania. Carlos was immediately taken to Paris, where he was charged with killing two French police officers in 1979; he was sentenced to life in prison. During interrogation, Carlos asserted that his deputy for the OPEC operation had been German terrorist Hans Joachim Klein, codenamed "Angie," who had killed an OPEC security man and an Austrian policeman during that attack. Carlos also testified that the weapons used for the OPEC operation had been kept in an apartment in Frankfurt/Main, where Klein was then living with two other "red revolutionaries" of those days, Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Joschka Fischer. Read on... nationalreview.com And one more... The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris city-journal.org

To: Abner Hosmer who wrote (7992)	2/16/2003 12:36:01 AM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10157

Went tonight to a party in Manhattan. Had conversations with some friends – all highly educated and intelligent people. Here we are, in an apartment maybe half a mile away from what used to be the WTC and is now a mass grave to thousands of our people, and almost everyone speaks... against the war. They don't talk about what has to be done to prevent such tragedies in the future... they prefer to give legalistic arguments against attacking an "independent country" - Iraq. It would, you see, create the wrong precedent. Others, surprisingly unthinkingly, just repeat the remarkably meaningless argument that the war is "about oil". In the meantime, the "jury of our peers" – the majority of the US population – firmly believes that the regime in Iraq is too dangerous. Why do they refuse to give up their WMD's? Who is threatening them? Who are they likely to use those weapons against? Think poker: If you look around the table and do not see the mark, guess who it is...