http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nicosia/ en-us Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:20:12 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666954/posts Arrival in Cyprus of the first evacuated Americans of Lebanon NICOSIE - a score of Americans, first natives of the United States to being evacuated of Lebanon, arrived Monday at Cyprus on board a helicopter. A ferry chartered by France for its part left the island bound for Beirut. American nationals arrived on the tarmac of the airport of Cyprus after being evacuated by a helicopter of the American Navy. "Some were under medical treatment, in particular a dialysis", specified a spokesman of the army. France also will evacuate its nationals who wish to flee the bombardment Israelis. A... AFP via Babelfish translation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666954/posts#comment Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:20:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092781/posts <p>Bobby Muller, the paraplegic Vietnam veteran and former Marine lieutenant who founded Vietnam Veterans of America and later won a Nobel Prize for the campaign to eliminate land mines, once told me that he had asked thousands of Vietnam vets about their views about the war.</p> San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092781/posts#comment Sun, 7 Mar 2004 23:51:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1211053/posts 1. Prior to “Dewey Canyon III” Mike Thelan East Coast Coordinator for the VVAW tells a gathering of possible attendants that the VVAW’s official position is not to encourage anyone to commit acts of violence, but that VVAW activists are not “discouraging someone from “doing it”. VVAW activists are not “discouraging someone from committing acts of violence, pg 4 2. FBI files indicate that “VVAW is under active investigation in view of indications of communist and other subversive infiltration”. indications of communist and other subversive infiltration, pg 24 3. Speaker at VVAW antiwar rally Carl Moore makes following statements, “President... FBI Files on Vietnam Veterans Against the War VVAW and John Kerry http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1211053/posts#comment Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:49:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202883/posts FBI files indicate that VVAW leader Al Hubbard reported to the VVAW Executive Committee meeting upon returning from Paris the following, “Hubbard indicated that VVAW as an organization had received commitments of support from Leftists throughout the world. He indicated that following the conference he had private discussions with individuals from Laos and Cambodia, the primary topic discussed were tactics in the United States anti-war movement. In his opinion these discussions turned out to be the most important part of the conference for him. He said that during these talks he was able to confirm the fact that a seven... FBI Files on Vietnam Veterans Against the War and John Kerry http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202883/posts#comment Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:53:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202872/posts Recently I have read that John Kerry has told the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that he was not referring to them in his senate speech in 1971, but to all the other Vietnam War veterans. Well, we should apply the same standard to this that Kerry and his news pals have used, that is; That Kerry did not serve in their tent, unit, team, foxhole, aircraft, patrol unit, or squad so therefore he cannot know what these men were doing or not doing. Therefore, because by his own admission that by these standards the SBVT could not have known... Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202872/posts#comment Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:27:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1202584/posts One more brick in the Kerry wall...... http://teamhouse.tni.net/Misc/Kerry/ChungKerry.htm SF-List Team House http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1202584/posts#comment Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:14:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1199397/posts Nov. 3, 2004: Vietnam vets - finally, you heroes have come home You were spit on. You were called war criminals. You were called baby killers. You served your country and came home to abuse and to be shunned by your countrymen. Many never came home at all. There were lost limbs, broken lives, broken families, alcoholism, drugs, homelessness, despair, and even suicide. You could not understand why you were so hated. There was no parade welcoming you home. There was nobody to offer you their seat on a full airplane. There was no one wanting to shake your hand... Doug from Upland http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1199397/posts#comment Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:51:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202231/posts To: stockpirate I am not sure this is the proper place to put this...but here goes... To All The Vets of Viet Nam, I was born in 1955, a baby boomer...into an alcoholic and abusive family. I was 14 years old when Woodstock rocked this nation. I remember standing in front of a 12" black and white set watching it unfold on the 6 o'clock news. I also remember my father using the term..".long haired hippie pukes" and being totally disgusted with the whole mess. Being 14 with a father who like to use his fists..I naturally rejected anything he... Free Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202231/posts#comment Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:44:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201934/posts "...I can cite many, many instances, sir, as in combat when these men refused to fight with us, when they shot with their guns over tin this area like this and their heads turned facing the other way. When we were taken under fire we Americans, supposedly fighting with them, and pinned down in a ditch, and I was in the Navy and this was pretty unconventional, but when we were pinned down in a ditch recovering bodies or something and they refused to come in and help us, point blank refused. I don't believe they want to fight, sir..." JOHN KERRY TESTIMONY April 22, 1971 United States Senate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201934/posts#comment Sat, 28 Aug 2004 22:32:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201299/posts Go to page 21 read to 25 "[redacted] that on April four, one nie seven two, a representive of the North Vietanese Government at the Paris Peace talks telephoned the 'movement' in the United States to be ready to take action, presumably demostrations, to counter expected escalation of bombing by American air forces in South Vietnam as a result of the increased military action of North Vietnamese forces in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam. FBI Files on Vietnam Veterans Against the War and John Kerry http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201299/posts#comment Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:25:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1200950/posts What the FBI files and history of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, (VVAW) reveal about, VVAW and John Kerry: 1. VVAW Plan to assassinate seven US senators. 2. VVAW was training to execute a Phoenix plan to decapitate the leaders of the US Government. 3. Member of VVAW arrested in-route to VP Agnew speech with an explosive device (BOMB). 4. VVAW running guns to a black militant group in Cairo IL. Use link 12 page 131, also same as link 10.. 5. VVAW funded by Communist party of America. 6. VVAW receiving funds from the Communist Party of a country... FBI Files on Vietnam Veterans Against the War and John Kerry http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1200950/posts#comment Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:40:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1200846/posts It only shows Kerry for a second (at around 1:15) but you can get a feel for the radical nature of the event and organization. Listen carefully near the end and you will hear a VVAW member state that the next time he fights will be to take these steps. Referring to the steps at the US Capitol or the WH. The Winter Soldier http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1200846/posts#comment Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:50:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1198088/posts WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Were John Kerry and the veterans organization he led the real reason the Republicans broke into Watergate in 1972, with information on them the target of the espionage? Was doing so an early onset of Republican political paranoia against his work, a harbinger of the pending campaign against him in 2004? Bob Weiner, the 1971-72 Youth Voter Registration director for the Young Democrats office at the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and recently a Clinton White House staffer for six years, is asking these questions after doing a little research to refresh... US Newswire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1198088/posts#comment Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:17:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1199050/posts Recently I have read that John Kerry has told the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that he was not referring to them in his senate speech in 1971, but to all the other Vietnam War veterans. Well, we should apply the same standard to this that Kerry and his news pals used, that is; That he did not serve in their tent, unit, team, foxhole, aircraft, patrol unit, or squad so therefore he cannot know what these men were doing or not doing. Therefore, because by his own admission that by these rules above the SBVT couldnot have known, he... Vanitiy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1199050/posts#comment Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:53:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1200373/posts There appears to be concern here about the safty of President Nixon while he is visiting his compound in Fla. The FBI report is from the Miami office of the FBI. Start on page 10 read until bottom of page 13 http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/fbifiles/100-HQ-448092/Section%2013/Section%2013.pdf FBI Files on Vietnam Veterans Against the War and John Kerry http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1200373/posts#comment Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:47:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1193146/posts A document from the FBI files covering the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) and John Kerry, dated November 16,1971 (FBI file record number ID; 100-448092-483), indicates that local supporters of the VVAW became dissatisfied with the VVAW. As a result of Mr. Kerry’s speech in Gaston Hall at George Washington University, the head office of the VVAW in New York withdrew support for the Washington DC office and for John Kerry. The following is a verbatim transcript of the FBI document: FBI Files on Cietnam Veterans Against the War and John Kerry http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1193146/posts#comment Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:34:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201804/posts This is a long article, but it's full of news I never thought I'd see printed in the Washington Post. It's devastating. It depicts Kerry as duplicitous and calculating. Snip:According to FBI records first released to Nicosia, Kerry sometimes expressed fairly radical points of view. For example, he described North Vietnamese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh as "the George Washington of Vietnam." He also noted with some bitterness that out "of 234 congressmen's sons eligible for service in Vietnam, only 24 went there, and only one of them was wounded." The FBI kept careful tabs on the protesters through a... WashPost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201804/posts#comment Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:05:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1192084/posts LOS ANGELES, CA (PRWEB) June 10, 2004 -- Paperless Archives (www.paperlessarchives.com) has announced the publishing of 20,000 pages of FBI Files related to Senator John Kerry. These FBI files include coverage of John Kerry's activity as a leader of the anti-Vietnam War group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War. These FBI files have been the subject of great discussion and news coverage recently, yet few have actually ever seen a single page of the documents. Paperless Archives (www.paperlessarchives.com) has now made it possible for everyone to obtain and review copies of these files. Most of this material was originally released in... Paperless Archives http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1192084/posts#comment Sun, 15 Aug 2004 20:23:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1116533/posts In a very emotional 52 minute speech the President called on people to say a loud NO NICOSIA.- Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos called on the people of Cyprus to say a ''loud no'' in the referendum of April 24 to be held in the Greek Cypriot side, simultaneously with a referendum in the Turkish Cypriot side, on a Cyprus settlement plan proposed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. President Papadopoulos gave his position Wednesday night, in a live televised proclamation, during which he explained that the consequences of accepting the Annan plan would be ''heavier and more oppressive'' than those... http://www.greeknewsonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1253 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1116533/posts#comment Tue, 13 Apr 2004 04:37:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1115809/posts Theft of FBI files 'has makings of Kerry Watergate' By Julian Coman in Washington (Filed: 11/04/2004) It has, according to the victim of a burglary in California, all the makings of a "west coast Watergate". When Gerald Nicosia, a respected author and historian, returned to his home in the town of Corte Madera on March 25, it became clear that he had been the victim of an unusual break-in. Doors were ajar and there was evidence of a hurried departure, but no valuables had been taken: a Canon camera was still lying on the kitchen table. The Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1115809/posts#comment Mon, 12 Apr 2004 05:20:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1115749/posts FBI files stolen from the home of Vietnam war historian Gerald Nicosia detail at least one secret 1970 meeting in Paris between future Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and representatives of the communist government of North Vietnam during the height of the Vietnam War. In an interview last week with California's Marin County Independent Journal, Nicosia said the FBI files contained information on Kerry's May 1970 trip to Paris, where he spoke to Hanoi negotiators who were beginning peace talks with the Nixon administration. Kerry revealed his secret meeting with then-enemy negotiators during a little noticed question and answer session... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1115749/posts#comment Mon, 12 Apr 2004 02:25:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1115339/posts It has, according to the victim of a burglary in California, all the makings of a "west coast Watergate". When Gerald Nicosia, a respected author and historian, returned to his home in the town of Corte Madera on March 25, it became clear that he had been the victim of an unusual break-in. Doors were ajar and there was evidence of a hurried departure, but no valuables had been taken: a Canon camera was still lying on the kitchen table. The only items missing, Mr Nicosia realised, were three box files of politically-charged documents. They looked unexceptional but were filled... Electronic Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1115339/posts#comment Sun, 11 Apr 2004 03:54:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1111062/posts Vietnam War historian Gerald Nicosia said Friday that burglars who broke into his house a week ago Thursday and removed thousands of documents from Sen. John Kerry's FBI files were most likely Republican operatives. "I would say that the Republicans had the largest motivation because there definitely is . . . a heck of a lot of explosive stuff about Kerry in there," Nicosia told MSNBC's "Scarborough Country." The author, who has unabashedly proclaimed his support for Kerry's presidential bid, obtained the FBI files while working on his 1999 book "Home to War," filing a Freedom of Information Act... NewsMax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1111062/posts#comment Sun, 4 Apr 2004 12:17:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1114930/posts Breaking from NewsMax.com Vietnam War historian Gerald Nicosia said Friday that burglars who broke into his house a week ago Thursday and removed thousands of documents from Sen. John Kerry's FBI files were most likely Republican operatives. "I would say that the Republicans had the largest motivation because there definitely is... a heck of a lot of explosive stuff about Kerry in there," Nicosia told MSNBC's "Scarborough Country." The author, who has unabashedly proclaimed his support for Kerry's presidential bid, obtained the FBI files while working on his 1999 book "Home to War," filing a Freedom of Information Act request... NewsMax.com, CNSNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1114930/posts#comment Sat, 10 Apr 2004 06:03:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1114342/posts (CNSNews.com) - The author who alleges that three boxes of FBI files dealing with Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's anti-war group were stolen from his home last month, did not allow police officers the opportunity to process the crime scene. The police report of the incident also neglects to mention that the Kerry campaign dispatched a messenger to the home of author Gerald Nicosia to pick up copies of the FBI files a week before the alleged theft of the documents. CNSNews.com has obtained a copy of the police report related to the alleged theft of three of the 14... CNSNEWS.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1114342/posts#comment Fri, 9 Apr 2004 12:41:58 GMT