World Terrorism: News, History and Research Of A Changing World #5

To: nw_arizona_granny; DAVEY CROCKETT

Thanks to you both for providing the great info. It's been posted.

4,941 posted on 12/15/2006 12:44:53 PM PST by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)

To: All; DAVEY CROCKETT

4,942 posted on 12/15/2006 1:24:02 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Time for the world to wake up and face the fact that there is a war going on, it is world wide!)

You are very welcome.

4,943 posted on 12/15/2006 1:25:21 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Time for the world to wake up and face the fact that there is a war going on, it is world wide!)

To: All; Founding Father; milford421; DAVEY CROCKETT

http://www.dni.gov/nic/NIC_foia_intro.html

THE NIC COLLECTION

The NIC Collection includes hundreds of declassified National Intelligence Estimates and other publications produced by the National Intelligence Council or its predecessor organizations, the Office of National Estimates and the Office of Reports and Estimates. The NIC database, housed within CIA's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Electronic Reading Room, includes some 1100 documents that have been declassified and made available to the public, either partially or in their entirety, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The earliest of these dates back to 1946; several were published as late as the 1990s. Additional items are being added regularly. Collectively, they constitute an important historical record of Intelligence Community analysis at the highest level; individually, many make for fascinating and instructive reading.

http://www.dni.gov/nic/NIC_2020_project.html

MAPPING THE GLOBAL FUTURE:
REPORT OF THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL'S 2020 PROJECT

Mapping the Global Future is the third unclassified report prepared by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in the past seven years that takes a long-term view of the future. The National Intelligence Council, as a center of strategic thinking and over-the-horizon analysis for the US Government, takes this as one of its key challenges. You may contact us with your comments.

As with the earlier NIC efforts—Global Trends 2010 and Global Trends 2015—the project's primary goal is to provide US policymakers with a view of how the world developments could evolve, identifying opportunities and potentially negative developments that might warrant policy action. We also hope this paper stimulates a broader discussion of value to educational and policy institutions at home and abroad.

We consulted experts from around the world in a series of regional conferences to offer a truly global perspective. We organized conferences on five continents to solicit the views of foreign experts on the prospects for their regions over the next 15 years.

Significantly, the NIC 2020 Project employed information technology and analytic tools unavailable in earlier NIC efforts. We created an interactive Web site which contained several tools including a "hands-on" computer simulation that allows novice and expert alike to develop their own scenarios. This "International Futures" model is now available to the public to explore.

The entire process, from start to finish, lasted about a year and involved more than a thousand people. We appreciate the time and effort that each contributed to this innovative project.

http://zhezhe.wordpress.com/2006/12/14/yugoslavia-and-the-ussr-1948-1990/

A Russia news blog.

4,944 posted on 12/15/2006 1:30:53 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Time for the world to wake up and face the fact that there is a war going on, it is world wide!)

SECRET DOCUMENTS OF THE PERIOD OF CHECHENS’ AND INGUSHS’ DEPORTATION

Top secret.

The State Defence Committee (GOKO)

GOKO Resolution # 5074cc of January 31, 1944,

Done in the Kremlin, Moscow

The State Defence Committee hereby resolves:

3. To instruct the USSR People’s Commissariat of Railroads (Comrade Kaganovich) to organize the transportation of special migrants from the North Caucasus to the Kazakh SSR and the Kirghiz SSR by way of forming, for the purpose, special echelons of warm railroad cars equipped to carry humans.

The number of echelons, terms of delivering railroad cars, and embarking and disembarking localities shall be as requested by the USSR People’s Commissariat of the Interior.

Settlements shall be done at tariffs of carrying prison inmates.

The echelons shall travel to their destinations as military echelons do, i.e. their progress shall be specially monitored by dispatchers.

4. To instruct the USSR People’s Commissariat of Trade, Comrade Lyubimov being personally responsible, to ensure the issue of hot food and boiling water to all passing echelons carrying special migrants in line with a schedule of echelons’ progress compiled by the USSR People’s Commissariat of the Interior and the People’s Commissariat of Railroads.

Responsible representatives of the People’s Commissariat of Trade shall be dispatched, no later than February 1, along the echelons’ routes with the purpose of conducting organizational measures and preparations and of inspecting the readiness of eateries and station canteens to serve echelons carrying special migrants.

5. To instruct the USSR People’s Commissariat of Health, Comrade Miterev being personally responsible, to provide each echelon carrying special migrants, for the term to be agreed with the USSR People’s Commissariat of the Interior, with one physician and two nurses and the adequate supply of medicines, as well as to prepare first-aid centres and isolation wards along the echelons’ routes.

Signed: Deputy Chairman of the State Defence Committee

V. Molotov

Top Secret

Attn:

USSR People's Commissar For Internal Affairs Comrade Lavrenty Beria

February 1944

Memorandum

The NKVD has learned from its agents that Khasan Israilov was being concealed by Dzhovatkhan Murtazaliyev with the help of his brother Ayub and his son Khas-Magomed, secretly arresting Dzhovatkhan Murtazaliyev and Ayub Murtazaliyev on February 13. After being interrogated, Ayub Murtazaliyev deposed that Khasan was hiding inside a cave of Bachi-Chu mountain (Dzumsoyevsky village council, Itum-Kale district). In the early hours of February 15 a squad of operatives headed by Comrade Tsereteli surrounded and searched the cave, which was mentioned by Ayub Murtazaliyev, failing to find Khasan Israilov there. The search revealed one Degtyarev light machine-gun in good working condition, as well as three ammunition disks, one British 10-cartridge rifle, one Russian Mosin rifle in good working condition, 200 rifle cartridges, as well as Khasan Israilov's authentic correspondence dealing with his insurgent activities and weighing about 2 kg. Such correspondence lists members of the NSPKB insurgent organization at 20 villages of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic's Itum-Kale, Galanchozhsky, Shatoi and Suburban districts (6,540 people, all told), as well as 35 membership cards of the Caucasian Eagles Nazi organization, which were received by Khasan Israilov from German paratroopers, who had landed on the territory of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic over the 1942-1943 period. Apart from that, we have found a map of the Caucasus in German marking those specific populated localities that contain NSPKB cells and insurgent organizations on the territory of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. Having failed to locate Khasan Israilov inside the cave, we demanded that Ayub Murtazaliyev tell us about Khasan Israilov's new cave and its location. Ayub Murtazaliyev, who was pressured to a small extent, later deposed that Khasan had been taken to another cave by Dzhovatkhan Murtazaliyev's son Khas-Magomed. On February 15 we managed to arrest Khas-Magomed Murtazaliyev, who is now being interrogated by Comrade Tsereteli in Itum-Kale.

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State Defence Committee

Attn: Comrade Stalin, February 17, 1944

Preparations for an operation aiming to deport the Chechen and Ingush populations are currently being completed. All in all, 459,486 people, who are subject to deportation, have been registered. Their list includes people living in Daghestani areas, which border on Checheno-Ingushetia, and in the city of Vladikavkaz. Considering the operation's scale and the specifics of mountainous areas, it has been decided to deport the local populace (including the placement of local residents aboard trains) over an eight-day period. It will take us three days to complete this operation in all low-land areas and foot-hills, as well as in some mountainous areas, and to round up more than 300,000 people. The remaining 150,000 people shall be rounded up and deported within the next four days. ... Mountainous areas shall be sealed off well in advance. ... Considering the serious nature of this operation, I request permission to remain in the region prior to the operation's completion, for the most part, e.g. until the February 26-27, 1944 period.

Signed:

Lavrenty Beria.

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State Defence Committee

Attn: Comrade Stalin, February 22, 1944

In addition to Cheka and army-level measures, we have implemented the following measures in order to successfully complete the entire operation aiming to deport the Chechen and Ingush populations on your orders.

1. Molayev, who chairs the Council Of People's Commissars Government) of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, was informed about the Government's decision to deport Chechen and Ingush populations, as well as about the relevant motives for such a decision. After hearing my report, Molayev quailed, subsequently regaining his composure and promising to fulfil all orders that will be issued to him in connection with the deportation. After that, we conferred with him in Grozny, choosing nine top Chechen and Ingush officials, who were informed about the pace of deporting Chechen and Ingush populations, as well as about the reasons for such a deportation. ... 40 Chechen and Ingush republican party and Soviet officials were attached by us to 24 districts and ordered to choose 2-3 persons from among local activists at every populated locality for conducting subsequent agitprop campaigns. We talked to the most influential clergymen in the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, namely, Arsanov, Yandarov and Gaisumov, who were exhorted to assist us through mullahs and other influential local persons. ... The deportation shall commence at dawn February 23, 1944. It was intended to cordon off local districts for the purpose of preventing the populace from leaving territory of populated localities. The populace shall be invited to attend a rally, with some people receiving time for collecting their belongings. The rest shall be disarmed and taken to marshalling areas. As I see it, the deportation of Chechen and Ingush populations will prove to be successful.

Signed:

Lavrenty Beria.

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State Defence Committee

Attn: Comrade Stalin, February 26, 1944

The deportation of Chechen and Ingush populations is proceeding normally. As of the evening of February 25, we have placed 342,647 people aboard trains. 86 trains have left the overall marshalling area for their new final destinations.

Signed:

Lavrenty Beria.

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Excerpts from a report to USSR People's Commissar For Internal Affairs Lavrenty Beria

February 29, 1944

From Alma-Ata.

Preparations for receiving and resettling displaced persons in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic were mostly completed on February 25. 309,000 displaced persons are being settled at local collective farms. 42,000 people are being settled at state farms. Another 49,000 people are being accommodated at Kazakh enterprises. They are being transported aboard 1,590 motor vehicles, 57,000 horse-drawn carts and 103 tractors. 145 district-level and 375 village-level special NKVD commandants' offices comprising 1,358 operatives have been established in the vicinity of settlements.

Signed:

Nasedkin

Bogdanov

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State Defence Committee

Attn: Comrade Stalin, March 1, 1944

I'd like to inform you about the results of an operation aiming to deport Chechen and Ingush populations. Their deportation began inside most districts, with the exception of highland populated localities, on February 23. 478,479 people, including 91,250 Ingush nationals, were deported and placed aboard trains by February 29. 180 trains have already been filled to capacity, with 159 of them leaving for their new final destinations. Trains containing former administrative officials and religious authorities of Checheno-Ingushetia, whose services were enlisted during the operation, have left the republic today. Owing to heavy snow-falls and rutty roads, 6,000 Chechens still remain to be resettled from some populated localities in Galanchozhsky district. They shall be rounded up and resettled within the next two days. The entire operation was conducted in a well-organized manner; nor was it marked by any serious cases of resistance and other incidents. ... We continue to comb forest areas, temporarily retaining an NKVD-force garrison, as well as an NKVD-operative squad, there. 2,016 anti-Soviet elements from among Chechen and Ingush populations were arrested during preparations for this operation and in its course. We have confiscated 20,072 fire-arms, including 4,868 rifles, as well as 479 machine-guns and sub-machine guns.

Signed:

Lavrenty Beria.

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Excerpts from Lavrenty Beria's memorandum to Comrades Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov (Council Of People's Commissars) and Comrade Georgy Malenkov (Central Committee Of The Soviet Communist Party -- Bolsheviks)

July 1944

Aiming to fulfil the resolution of the State Defence Committee, the NKVD has resettled 602,193 North Caucasian residents to the Kazakh and Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republics over the February-March 1944 period. Their list includes 496,460 Chechen and Ingush nationals, 68,327 Karachais and 37,406 Balkars. The resettlement of this contingent from the North Caucasus to new residential areas was implemented in a satisfactory manner. 428,948 people were settled at local collective farms, with another 64,703 people settling down at state farms. 908,542 people have been allotted for the purposes of industrial labour. Most displaced persons (477,809 people, all told) were resettled to the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. However, republican agencies of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic have failed to pay due attention to various issues as regards the job placement and economic activities of North Caucasian displaced persons. As a result, their everyday life, as well as their subsequent involvement in socially useful labour, were not satisfactory. The families of displaced persons, who were settled at local collective farms, were not admitted into agricultural artels (teams). The allocation of personal holdings and truck gardens to the families of displaced persons also left a lot to be desired. Those particular displaced persons, who were settled at state farms, and who were allotted for the purposes of industrial labour, didn't take a very active part in production. We have registered typhoid outbreaks, shortcomings in the organization of their economic and everyday activities, as well as thefts and felonies. In May 1944 Deputy People's Commissar For Internal Affairs Kruglov and a group of administrators were sent to the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic for the purpose of re-establishing law and order there. In July 1944 2,196 displaced persons were arrested for committing various crimes. All cases were examined by the Special Conference. 429 special NKVD commandants' offices responsible for monitoring the life of displaced persons, for preventing attempted escapes, for rendering Cheka-and-police services and for facilitating the fastest possible resumption of economic activities on the part of displaced persons' families have been established. The economic standing of displaced persons has been improved. Of 70,296 families, which were settled at collective farms, 56,800 families, or 81 percent, have joined local agricultural artels. 83,303 families, or 74.3 percent, have received personal holdings and truck gardens. 12,683 families used to live in their own homes. Child-labour colonies have also been established, accommodating 1,268 children in June 1944. The employment situation has improved, as well. For example, 16,396 out of 16,927 active persons were engaged in physical labour on the territory of Dzhambul region.

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Excerpts from a report dealing with the activities of the USSR NKVD's displaced-persons department, which was established on March 17, 1944.

September 5, 1944

... And now a few words about Chechen and Ingush nationals. In the early 1930s a real threat of involving considerable masses in an insurgent adventure became imminent on the region's territory. Various excesses and provocations tended to fuel all-out discontent. Therefore the kulaks took advantage of such developments in order to stage open uprisings, as they enlisted the services of numerous middle-of-the-roader peasants. In a bid to crush this counter-revolutionary movement, a number of serious Cheka-level and combat operations involving artillery barrages and air strikes were staged over the March-April 1930 period. In 1932 an armed uprising involving more than 3,000 people was organized, engulfing all auls (mountain villages) in Nozhai-Yurt district, as well as a number of other auls. In late January 1941 an anti-Soviet uprising was provoked in the village of Khilda-Kharoi, Itum-Kale district, also involving local residents. At that time, Chechen and Ingush nationals began to desert en masse from the Red Army. More than 1,500 conscripts had deserted from the Red Army and labour battalions over the July 1941 - April 1942 period. The number of draft-dodgers stood at over 2,200. 850 men had deserted from one national cavalry division alone.

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Top Secret

For your information

December 29, 1944, No. 494

Comrades Kakuchaya and Drozdov have informed USSR People's Commissar For Internal Affairs Comrade Kruglov that his orders have been fulfilled. Khasan Israilov has been killed; his body has been identified and photographed. NKVD agents have now been ordered to eliminate all remaining gangs.

Comrade Leontyev orders Comrade Barannikov to request a detailed report.

Signed:

State Security Captain Malyshev, section chief, USSR NKVD's Main Anti-Banditry Department.

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Attn: Comrade Stalin

Comrade Molotov

Comrade Beria

Comrade Malenkov

January 31, 1946

... Chechen national Magomed Khutuyev, who works for the Tenth October Anniversary collective farm in the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic's Dzhalal-Abad region, has addressed a rally of collective farmers, noting that he wanted to thank Comrade Stalin for displaying great care toward displaced persons. We are considered to be one Soviet family. We'll take part in these elections, voting for our dear Communist Party's candidates ... Mullah Aliyev, who lives at a collective farm in Dzhambul region's Sverdlovsk district, called on displaced persons not to take part in the vote, explaining his opinion by the fact that no representatives of Chechen and Ingush populations had been nominated for the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament)...

Signed:

USSR People's Commissar For Internal Affairs

S. KRUGLOV.

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Attn: Comrade Stalin

THE COUNCIL OF USSR PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS

RESOLUTION No. 1,927 dated July 28, 1945

Moscow, the Kremlin.

ON GRANTING PRIVILEGES TO DISPLACED PERSONS

The Council Of USSR People's Commissars hereby resolves:

1. North Caucasian displaced persons, as well as those from the Crimea, the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kalmyks, shall be exempted from fulfilling the following tasks at their new settlements:

a) they shall be exempted from delivering agricultural produce to the state on a mandatory basis;

b) they shall be exempted from paying agricultural tax, income tax, as well as the relevant tax being levied on agricultural incomes at townships. 2. The afore-said displaced persons shall have the relevant debts being owed by them within the framework of agricultural tax, income tax being levied on agricultural incomes at townships, as well as within the framework of mandatory agricultural-produce deliveries to the state (at their new places of residence) written off.

Signed:

Deputy Chairman Of The Council Of USSR People's Commissars

N. VOZNESENSKY

Chief Of The Business Department Of The Council Of USSR People's Commissars

Y. CHADAYEV

Not to be published by the press. No. 139/19

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Decree Of The Presidium Of The USSR Supreme Soviet

ON LIFTING ALL DISPLACED-PERSON RESTRICTIONS WITH RESPECT TO CHECHEN, INGUSH AND KARACHAI NATIONALS AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS, WHO HAD BEEN DEPORTED DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR.

Considering the fact that present-day restrictions of the legal status of displaced persons, e.g. Chechen, Ingush and Karachai nationals, as well as that of members of their families, who had been deported from the North Caucasus during the Great Patriotic War, are no longer required, the Presidium Of The USSR Supreme Soviet hereby resolves:

1. To abolish the displaced-person status of Chechen, Ingush and Karachai nationals, as well as that of members of their families, who had been deported from the North Caucasus during the Great Patriotic War, and to stop subjecting them to administrative surveillance. 2. Stipulating that the decision to lift the relevant restrictions as regards displaced persons listed in article 1 of this Decree shall not entail the return of their property, which had been confiscated during deportation. Apart from that, such persons shall have no right to return to those specific places, from where they had been deported.

Signed:

Chairman Of The Presidium Of The USSR Supreme Soviet

K. VOROSHILOV

Secretary Of The Presidium Of The USSR Supreme Soviet

N. PEGOV

Moscow, the Kremlin

July 16, 1956

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For your information:

ON THE SITUATION OF CHECHEN AND INGUSH POPULATIONS

In February 1944 more than 496,000 Chechen and Ingush nationals had been deported from the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Of that number, 411,000 people (85,000 families) had been deported to the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. Another 85,500 people (20,000 families) had been deported to the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist republic. As of today, 315,000 Chechen and Ingush nationals live in Kazakhstan; about 80,000 people now live in Kirghizia. The majority of the Chechen-Ingush population are employed, working in a conscientious manner. Of 244,000 adults, 155,000, or 63.5 percent, have jobs. 38,300 people are employed at industrial enterprises, with 91,600 people working within the framework of the agricultural sector. Another 25,000 people work for various organizations and agencies. An on-site check has revealed that an overwhelming majority of all Chechen and Ingush nationals fare just about as well, as they used to, while staying in the North Caucasus. They have their own homes, cows and poultry. However, quite a few Chechen and Ingush nationals, who have talked to us, voiced their discontent over the fact that they are not allowed to return to the places of their previous residence, insistently requesting permission to leave for the North Caucasus. More than 6,000 people have returned to the former autonomous republic's territory after the abolition of their displaced-person status. The Grozny, Daghestani and North Ossetian regional committees of the CPSU (Communist Party Of The Soviet Union) react negatively to the possible return of Chechen and Ingush nationals to the places of their previous residence, explaining their position by the fact that the economic potential of the former Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic makes it impossible to employ them and to resettle them accordingly. Party and Soviet officials explain the undesirability of resettling Chechen and Ingush nationals by the fact that some of them had earned a bad reputation for themselves in the past, also retaining such a reputation at this stage.

Signed:

Y. GROMOV

V. CHURAYEV.

November 14, 1956.

from:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2000/04/white/part02.htm

4,945 posted on 12/15/2006 2:01:39 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Time for the world to wake up and face the fact that there is a war going on, it is world wide!)

To: All; DAVEY CROCKETT; Velveeta; little jeremiah; Donna Lee Nardo; LucyT; Founding Father; ...

The above is where I started in the report, it goes back much further.

As I read it, I could not help thinking of all the areas we have been moved out of, BLM, UN and National Parks, any choice area, and then an 'Elite ' moves in.

We are loosing control of our country in much the same way, except that they move or zone us out in smaller numbers.
granny

See post #4945

4,946 posted on 12/15/2006 2:07:47 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Time for the world to wake up and face the fact that there is a war going on, it is world wide!)

[dated 12-12-06]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan_1

[end of article]

In a rare video message, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a renegade Afghan warlord allied with the Taliban, claimed that American troops will be forced out of
Afghanistan like the Soviets before them.

The leader of the Hezb-e-Islami militant group also touted the Republican Party defeat in last month's midterm elections as a victory for militants fighting in Afghanistan and
Iraq.

"It seems that every bullet that mujahedeen had fired toward the Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan has turned into a vote against Bush," Hekmatyar said in the undated video statement received by AP Television News in Pakistan.

"There is no doubt that is a great victory and success for Afghan and Iraqi mujahedeen," he said. "I am convinced that the fate Soviet Union faced is awaiting America as well."

The bespectacled and bearded Hekmatyar, who wore a neat black turban, spoke in an undisclosed location in front of a rattan backdrop. He was wrapped in a light gray shawl.

It was not clear where or when the three-minute video was made.

Hezb-e-Islami is active in eastern Afghanistan along the Pakistan border where U.S. forces are deployed. Western security officials suspect Hekmatyar is hiding in the border area.

"Very soon we will see that, God willing, American troops will leave Afghanistan and Iraq with their heads bowed down," Hekmatyar said in the video.

Hekmatyar was a leader of the mujahedeen that fought the Soviet occupation of the 1980s and was briefly Afghan prime minister during the civil war of the early 1990s that cost tens of thousands of lives.

4,947 posted on 12/15/2006 2:28:09 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Time for the world to wake up and face the fact that there is a war going on, it is world wide!)

To: All; DAVEY CROCKETT; Calpernia; Velveeta; Founding Father; LucyT; milford421

[Take a quick look at the small photo with this article, note that it looks like a scene out of a wild west 'B' grade movie.

And it is what will be on America's streets, if we do not stop it in time.
granny]

http://clarityandresolve.com/

Uncivil Society

The inevitable outcome of combining a backward and violent medieval mindset with modern weaponry. Fighting erupts between Gaza rivals

continued...........

Caption on photo:

A Palestinian man protects two children as they take cover during a gunbattle between Fatah-loyalist security forces and Hamas supporters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Friday, Dec.

4,948 posted on 12/15/2006 2:39:41 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Time for the world to wake up and face the fact that there is a war going on, it is world wide!)

To: All; DAVEY CROCKETT; milford421

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=news4_dec14_2006

Probers rule out faulty wiring in car explosion

By Florante S. Solmerin

POLICE have ruled out faulty wiring as the cause of a blast that destroyed the mini-van of Pasig Rep. Robert Jaworski Jr. on Tuesday afternoon, but are still determining what caused the explosion.

“Something really blew up because the chassis was all wrecked. If it was faulty wiring, the van would have burned but it wouldn’t have exploded,” said a bomb expert who asked not to be named.

Hours after the blast, Jaworski told a press conference he heard a bang and saw thick smoke rising from the right side of the vehicle. They stopped the car and Jaworski, his brother Ryan, and the driver were able to jump out before the van exploded.

Jaworski said he suspected drugs or politics were behind what he described as an assassination attempt.

Pasig City Mayor Vicente Eusebio, whose son faces Jaworski in the race for mayor next year, fumed at being linked to the blast, calling it a political gimmick.

Eusebio said Pasig residents were intelligent enough to see through the situation.

If a bomb were planted under Jaworski’s vehicle, it would have exploded the moment he rode it, Eusebio said.

He also said it would have been very difficult for anyone to plant a bomb under the mini-van because Jaworski had 10 bodyguards with him.

But in a statement, the mayor urged the police to conduct a thorough investigation and assured the Jaworksi family that the city government would get to the bottom of the blast.

“I am deeply saddened [by] what happened to Rep. Robert Jaworski and his brother,” Eusebio’s statement read. “We have all the reason to be thankful for they are all safe and sound.”

An official of Toyota Motor Philippines supported the police view that the blast was not caused by faulty wiring because the gasoline tank remained intact.

“If the electrical wiring had sparked, the only part that would explode there was the compressed gasoline tank,” said Danny Isla, vice president of Toyota Marketing Division, where Jaworski had bought his silver Toyota Innova (ZDA-660). “Nothing else could explode there but the gasoline tank.”

In a press conference Tuesday, Jaworski said he had just come from a wake in Pineda village and was on his way home when the explosion happened.

“I have no known enemies except in politics. It was certainly an assassination attempt against me,” he said without naming names.

Ryan also said his brother had received a number of death threats after the congressman initiated an investigation into a drug “supermarket” near the Pasig City Hall earlier this year.

Eastern Police District Director Chief Supt. Luizo Ticman said investigators were looking into Jaworski’s charges.

The charred mini-van has been sent to the Bomb Data Center in Camp Crame for analysis.

4,949 posted on 12/15/2006 2:43:55 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Time for the world to wake up and face the fact that there is a war going on, it is world wide!)

To: All; DAVEY CROCKETT; milford421

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=news6_dec14_2006

P1m offered for assassins

PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has offered a P1-million bounty for information leading to the arrest of two people who killed assistant Solicitor General Nestor Ballacillo and his son Benedict.

Solicitor General Antonio Eduardo Nachura announced the bounty at a press conference yesterday, saying it added to the Southern Police District’s P200,000 offer for the suspects’ arrest.

“This is an expression that the government is really serious and not afraid to fight crime,” he said.

He said he hoped that information leading to the suspects’ prosecution would hasten the delivery of justice for the Ballacillo family.

“I ask the PNP and the NBI to leave no stone unturned in conducting their investigation. Justice must be served if only to honor the memory of Judge Ballacillo,” Nachura said.

Parañaque Police Chief Ronald Estilles said investigators were convinced that the suspects were professional killers who had been hired for the job.

Ballacillo has been credited for the recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property allegedly amassed by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Michael Caber

4,950 posted on 12/15/2006 2:46:16 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Time for the world to wake up and face the fact that there is a war going on, it is world wide!)

To: All; DAVEY CROCKETT; milford421

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=news1_dec16_2006

Rebel attack on rally ‘confirmed’ by NSC

By Joyce Pangco Pañares

A TOP official yesterday said intelligence reports showed that the New People’s Army planned to infiltrate and bomb the anti-Charter Change prayer rally in Luneta on Sunday, and that small firearms and explosives were now being smuggled into Metro Manila.

National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales said checkpoints manned by police and military personnel would be set up in key thoroughfares leading to Metro Manila to intercept the weapons.

“I received credible intelligence information that communist provocateurs will attempt to sow civil disorder and violent confrontations during the prayer rally scheduled on Sunday,” Gonzales said.

Armed Forces Chief Hermogenes Esperon Jr. ordered troops on red alert starting 5 p.m. yesterday. He said close to 1,000 anti-riot troops would be on standby at Camp Aguinaldo, ready to be deployed as necessary.

“We are going on alert just to be ready,” said Brig. Gen. Muhammed Ben Dolorfino, chief of the National Capital Region Command.

He said troops would augment some 5,000 anti-riot policemen who will secure Metro Manila on Sunday. Earlier, Esperon said the military was validating reports that suspected terrorists and communist groups would use the rally to sow terror this Sunday.

Rally organizers dismissed the warning.

But Gonzales said he had sent a letter to the Department of Education and the Commission on Higher Education to remind authorities of Catholic schools that are requiring their students to attend the event to take extra precautions.

Students should know what to do if trouble erupted, he said.

“I am appealing to the parents to check with Catholic school authorities if their sons and daughters are being required to participate in the Sunday prayer rally,” Gonzales said. “If their children will be attending, I am asking them to request the school authorities to ensure that their children are adequately protected.”

The prayer rally was initiated by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines and the El Shaddai charismatic movement to protest against the government’s efforts to amend the Constitution.

Despite Malacañang’s decision to set aside Charter Change efforts, the Church and militant groups have insisted on pushing through with the rally, which is deemed likely to attract prominent leaders of the opposition and militant anti-government groups.

Earlier, Senators Joker Arroyo and Juan Flavier had called on rally organizers to call off Sunday’s protest, saying the anti-Charter Change campaign had succeeded.

But Senator Ralph Recto yesterday said the bishops should use the rally to collect donations for typhoon victims in Bicol, and urged them to invite those who favored Charter Change in the interest of reconciliation.

“Isn’t that what we want? I don’t think a person should be barred from joining a prayer rally on account of his or her stand on Charter Change. I don’t think there is a religion or a God who discriminates against a pro-Charter Change advocate,” Recto said.

Some rally organizers had earlier suggested that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo would not be welcome at the prayer rally. With Arlie Calalo and Roy Pelovello

4,951 posted on 12/15/2006 2:51:09 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Time for the world to wake up and face the fact that there is a war going on, it is world wide!)

To: All; milford421

http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-12-13T172239Z_01_N13458416_RTRIDST_0_UTILITIES-PG-E-DIABLOCANYON-UPDATE-1.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna

UPDATE 1-PG&E Calif. Diablo 2 reactor shut after explosion
Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:22pm ET139

LOS ANGELES, Dec 13 (Reuters) - PG&E Corp. (PCG.N: Quote, Profile , Research) was investigating an electrical fault that caused an explosion in the intake structure of the 1,087-megawatt Unit 2 at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power station in California that shut down the unit Tuesday afternoon, the company said Wednesday.

In a report to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, PG&E declared an unusual event, the lowest of four NRC emergency classifications.

There was no estimate of when the unit would restart, the company said in a recorded message.

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4,952 posted on 12/15/2006 2:57:01 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Time for the world to wake up and face the fact that there is a war going on, it is world wide!)

To: All; Calpernia; milford421

http://www.nbc10.com/news/10541482/detail.html

[New Jersey School who was sent white powder]

"She has been tested for both small pox and anthrax and the powder is neither of those. We continue to do testing. This hospital is not and has not been quarantined and there is no danger to anyone in the hospital or who needs to come to the hospital."

snipped............

4,953 posted on 12/15/2006 7:22:34 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Time for the world to wake up and face the fact that there is a war going on, it is world wide!)

I f I missed you on my ping, then this will alert you to the thread that Struwwelpeter has formed, for the children ill and also in a Russian Orphanage.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1754105/posts?page=5

4,954 posted on 12/15/2006 8:12:06 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Time for the world to wake up and face the fact that there is a war going on, it is world wide!)

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11084907&PageNum=0

Foreign secret services active in Moscow, regions – FSB chief
15.12.2006, 05.16

MOSCOW, December 15 (Itar-Tass) -- The chief of Russia’s federal
security service FSB, Nikolai Patrushev, has told the Moscow-published
daily Izvestia his service has repeatedly encountered what he described as
“attempts at active operations by the secret services of leading
countries in both Moscow and Russia’s regions.”

“One of their priority activities is to use the newly-acquired NATO
partners to gather intelligence information encompassing a wide range of
themes – the line-up of political forces in Russia, relations between
the central authorities and regions, bodies of power, business
structures, and science, defense industry and armed forces development
prospects. Within the range of their close attention is the situation in the
North Caucasus, including counter-terrorist operations in that region,”
Patrushev told Izvestia.

In 2005-2006, he said the FSB “upset the activity” of about 50
career agents of foreign secret services.

Russian courts found guilty and convicted a number of Russian citizens
– S. Skripal, for passing secret information over to the British
intelligence, V. Norik, for an attempt to hand over classified information
to the Chinese intelligence, and A. Dumenkov, for gathering
defense-related materials for Germany.

A criminal case was opened against V. Khitryuk, a penitentiary system
lieutenant-colonel in the Kaliningrad Region, who is suspected of spying
for Lithuania.

“It is hard to imagine the Lithuanian secret services these days act
only in the interests of their own country, whose priorities are now
determined by NATO policies,” Patrushev said.

© ITAR-TASS. All rights reserved.

4,955 posted on 12/15/2006 9:04:46 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Time for the world to wake up and face the fact that there is a war going on, it is world wide!)

To: All; milford421

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061215/wl_nm/austria_iran_nuclear_dc_1

Austria probes firm over atom-related Iran exports

By Michael Weinmann Fri Dec 15, 4:10 PM ET

GRAZ, Austria (Reuters) - Austrian police have arrested one man and are seeking the head of a firm suspected of exporting to
Iran components that could be used in nuclear weapons, a state prosecutor said on Friday.

Iran covered up sensitive atomic activity from the U.N. nuclear watchdog, IAEA, for almost 20 years and has a history of acquiring components on the black market and other unregulated channels to outwit export curbs, diplomats and analysts say.

Prosecutor Manfred Kammerer said a three-man import-export firm, Daniel Frosch Export, was suspected of having supplied capacitors and accelerators to Iran which can be used in civilian industry but also for atomic weapons.

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4,956 posted on 12/15/2006 9:46:27 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Time for the world to wake up and face the fact that there is a war going on, it is world wide!)

To: All; milford421

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061215/wl_nm/iran_nuclear_larijani_dc_1

Iran warns of painful revenge if sanctions imposed

Fri Dec 15, 12:51 PM ET

TEHRAN (Reuters) -
Iran will exact painful revenge on countries opposed to its nuclear program if the
U.N. Security Council imposes sanctions on Tehran, the country's chief nuclear negotiator said on Friday.

"Imposing sanctions on Iran will not help resolve the issue," Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, told reporters.

"If they want to deprive Iran of its nuclear work they are making a big mistake. If they want to act in a way to decrease our capabilities through sanctions we will be obliged to use painful methods in return," he said without elaborating.

Iran has previously said its retaliation against a punitive U.N. resolution could range from reviewing cooperation with the U.N.'s atomic watchdog to restricting its crude oil exports.

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4,957 posted on 12/15/2006 9:49:28 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Time for the world to wake up and face the fact that there is a war going on, it is world wide!)

To: All; DAVEY CROCKETT; Quix

A nice life in China blog.

http://www.chinalyst.net/

4,958 posted on 12/15/2006 10:03:10 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Time for the world to wake up and face the fact that there is a war going on, it is world wide!)

To: All; DAVEY CROCKETT; Founding Father

[first time I have found anyone proud of the Baker report on Iraq]

http://www.csis.org/index.php

The Iraq Study Group report
CSIS was a sponsoring organization of the Iraq Study Group and the report is available on our site. ISG Report | Iraq Resources

Commentary on the Iraq Study Group Report
CSIS scholars have offered a variety of opinion and analysis regarding matters pertaining to the Iraq Study Group. Those views should be understood to be solely those of the authors. More

Amre Moussa of the League of Arab States
Amre Moussa, secretary-general of the League of Arab States, spoke at a Statesmen's Forum at CSIS about a number of issues, including the Middle East peace process and the situation in Iraq. Watch or Listen to the Event | MIDDLE EAST PROGRAM

There are other reports, but I am not in the mood to read them...

granny

4,959 posted on 12/15/2006 10:10:18 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Time for the world to wake up and face the fact that there is a war going on, it is world wide!)

T O D A Y ' S Q U O T E
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Christmas is for children. But it is for
grownups too. Even if it is a headache,
a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of
necessary defrosting of chill and hide-
bound hearts.--Lenora Mattingly Weber
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T O D A Y ' S R E C I P E S
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I'm sorry this is late--we've had a sick kid since Thursday
and it was a long night! Today I have some more recipes
that are perfect for the holidays.

Christmas Granola

4 cups Quaker® Oats (Quick or Old Fashioned, uncooked)
1/2 cup shredded coconut
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup honey
1/4 cup raw, unsalted sunflower seeds (optional)
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter or margarine, melted
2 teaspoons grated orange peel
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt (optional)
One 6-ounce package dried cranberries (about 1-1/3 cups)

Heat oven to 350°F. Combine all ingredients except cranberries
in large bowl; mix well. Spread evenly in 15 x 10-inch jelly roll
pan. Bake 40 minutes or until golden brown, stirring every 10
minutes. Remove granola from oven; stir in cranberries. Cool
completely in pan. Store tightly covered up to 2 weeks. Recipe
Yields 2 dozen bars.

AN HERB DIP FOR COMPANY
Here is a great dip for parties or to keep your energy up
before and after shopping! (Artichoke hearts are number
seven on the top 20 antioxidant foods!) ~Catherine
The Herb Lady www.herbs2u.net

ARTICHOKE HUMMUS

Ingredients:
2 tablespoons sesame seed, ground
2 cans garbanzo beans (15 oz.), drained
13 3/4 oz. artichoke hearts (not marinated), liquid reserved
1 teaspoon capers
Juice of one lemon
1/2 cup packed, fresh parsley, rinsed

Also use 1 plus teaspoon RosemaryPlus (one of my private
blends) or use your own combination of rosemary, garlic and
black pepper In a processor pulse all ingredients, using liquid
from artichokes to create the desired consistency. This tasty
dish can be a dip or a spread. Serve in hollowed-out cucumber
boats or cucumber cubes, mushroom caps, in a hollowed-out
roll, with crackers or chips.

FUDGE GOODNESS
Cookies ´n Cream Fudge
From eaglebrand.com Newsletter

Ingredients
3 (6-ounce) packages white chocolate baking squares
1 (14-ounce) can EAGLE BRAND Sweetened Condensed Milk
1/8 teaspoon salt
3 cups crushed chocolate creme-filled sandwich cookies

In heavy saucepan, over low heat, melt the white chocolate
squares, EAGLE BRAND® and salt. Remove from heat; stir
in the crushed cookies. Spread evenly into wax-paper-lined
8-inch square pan. Chill 2 hours or until firm. Turn fudge onto
cutting board; peel off paper and cut into squares. Store leftovers
covered in refrigerator. NOTE: You can use 3 cups of any
cookie you wish-- a lot of possibilities come to mind!

COOKIE GIFT MIX
Half the fun of cookies is baking them, so why not give this
merry making mix as a gift. ~Lina, OFL Holiday Moderator

Cowboy Cookie Mix:

1-1/3 cups quick cooking oats
1-1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
1 cup (6 ounce) semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
Additional ingredients:
1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Pour oats into a wide-mouth 1-quart jar or glass container
with a tight fitting lid. Combine the flour, baking powder,
baking soda and salt; place on top of oats. Layer with the
pecans, chocolate chips, brown sugar and sugar, packing
each layer tightly (to pack I use a skinny plastic glass with
cellophane on it) but do not mix. Cover and store in a cool
dry place for up to 6 months. (if there is space left at the
top-- there should not be much--you can use cellophane to
crunch up and put on top. I used the colored cellophane for
the holidays.)

To prepare cookies: Pour cookie mix into a large mixing bowl;
stir to combine ingredients. Beat in the butter, egg, and vanilla.
Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Roll into 1-inch balls. Place
2 inches apart on greased baking sheets. Bake at 350 degrees
for 11 to 13 minutes or until set. Remove to wire racks to cool.
Yield: about 3-1/2 dozen

NOTE: Decorate jars with raffia, I punch hole in directions and
put raffia through it and tie to Jar or container. Decorative jars
and bottles that many products are sold in can be reused for
this and also come in handy in the kitchen after it's empty.

MORE: Try these dainty, delicious holiay cookie recipes:
http://www.oldfashionedliving.com/holidays/cmascookies.html

4,960 posted on 12/15/2006 10:13:55 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Time for the world to wake up and face the fact that there is a war going on, it is world wide!)

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