One thing that seems to be common to all Al Qaeda attacks is that they delight in turning the tools of their enemies to their advantage - they let their enemy train their soldiers, they use their enemy passenger planes as missiles, they use their enemy postal system to distribute biological weapon previously obtaied from their enemy, etc.
How Bin Laden got anthrax spores:
The price for the anthrax spores, al-Najjar said, was $3,685, "plus
shipping costs." http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/32458.htm
How Americans trained Al Qaeda terrorist at the Ft. Bragg:
http://www.newsobserver.com/monday/front/Story/831377p- 821059c.html
It, also, is amazing that the US still had an Al Qaeda member on their military staff payroll, while Lybia and Egypt already had arrest warrants out on Osama and Al Qaeda members! Here is from Interpol: Interpol Chief Hails Arab Cooperation on Terrorism
RTos 22/10/2001 11:38
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TUNIS, Tunisia (Reuters) - Interpol Secretary-General Ronald Noble praised Arab nations Monday for their cooperation in the fight against terrorism.
Noble, addressing a conference of Arab police chiefs in Tunis, said Arab countries had been working closely with the international police organization to combat terrorism long before the attacks last month on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
"You and Interpol member countries have been fighting terrorism long before Sept. 11...The first arrest warrant against (Saudi-born militant Osama) bin Laden did not come from the United States but from Libya in 1998," he said.
"The arrest warrant against (bin Laden lieutenant Ayman) Zawahri first came from Egypt and not the United States."
The United States blames bin Laden and his al Qaeda network for the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington that killed nearly 5,400 people.
Noble told reporters after his speech: "Time and time again since Sept. 11, I've been asked what is the level of cooperation between Arab countries and Interpol. I answer the same wherever I am, that the level of cooperation is the best."
He said Libya was seeking bin Laden's arrest for the killing of two Germans on its soil. He provided no further details.
Zawahri, leader of al-Jihad, a militant group based in Egypt, was
indicted in New York two years ago in connection with the bombing of U.S embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998.
Noble told Arab police chiefs to ignore those who questioned their countries' commitment to cooperate in the fight against terrorism.
"During these difficult times for Interpol and you, you must not be discouraged by these questions. These questions come from people who do not know," he said.
Interpol, based in Lyon, France, has 179 members. It provides a
mechanism for the global exchange of information between national police services. Anti-War dissent around the world is mounting:
Assembled by Tim Slater
Talking Points on Afghanistan
Although the humanitarian "food drops¹ might play favorably at home, they are
mostly symbolic and are a disaster for humanitarian workers in the region who
are at risk if they are not seen to be impartial. On Monday October 8th,
Doctors Without Borders, the Nobel Prize winning relief group, condemned the
food drop on Monday as 'military propaganda' designed to justify the air
strikes. According to Dr. Jean-Herve Bradol of Doctors Without Borders,
airdrops of food and medical aid are of "little real value to the Afghan
people¹, are "Epotentially dangerous¹ and will likely "cause real problems
for truly independent non-governmental aid organizations who are less likely
to be perceived as impartial actors in the future.¹
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/2001/us_10-2001.html.
Before the air strikes, UN agencies and independent relief organizations were
still able to get some food convoys into Afghanistan, where millions are
threatened with starvation. Now the delivery of aid has become nearly
impossible. Many Afghans are in such distress that they are eating grass!
Already the International Committee of the Red Cross has witnessed the
bombing of one of its warehouses in Kabul, injuring one staff member.
Although it has gone largely unreported, Afghanistan is in the grip of a
three-year drought, the worst in decades, affecting over 50% of the
population. Even before the war, much of Afghanistan was on the verge of
starvation. The displacement of people increases this risk.
United Nations humanitarian aid agencies predict as many as 1.5 million
Afghans will seek refuge in Pakistan and other neighboring countries, but
many are more likely to move within the country¹s borders (USA Today,
10/10/01). Can you imagine the fear and pain these refugees are suffering?
By the end of the year, up to 7.5 million Afghan civilians will be entirely
dependent on food aid to survive the winter. By impeding the delivery and
distribution of aid, the U.S. war may cause massive civilian casualties. As
Dominic Nutt, emergency officer for Christian Aid, plainly stated: "It¹s as if
a mass grave has been dug behind millions of people. We can drag them back
from it or push them in. We could be looking at millions of deaths."
Although U.S. Defense officials have said the mission only targets military
assets, civilians are being killed. Last week in Kabul, a U.S. guided missile
destroyed the office of the Afghan Technical Consultants (ATC), the oldest and
largest anti-mine organization funded by the UN in Afghanistan. Four UN mine
disposal workers were killed. Following the attack, the UN Coordinator of
Afghanistan, Mike Seckett, appealed to the international community to meet its
obligation to protect innocent civilians while military strikes were going on.
A New York Times journalist also reported more civilian casualties in a
village in Karam, on the hills of eastern Afghanistan (New York Times,
10/13/01).
What happened on September 11th was a crime against humanity, and when there
is a crime, those who are responsible must be held accountable and brought to
justice, but without harming great numbers of people.
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"I was asked to participate in a podium discussion yesterday on intercultural
life in Munich in the wake of the Sept 11 Tragedy. There were be people there
from Iran, Egypt, and other places in the Islamic world, and they discussed
how their lives as foreigners here in Munich have been affected by the Sept
11th tragedy. One Kurdish writer told me, almost with tears in his eyes, how
a German woman asked where he was from, and then spat at him when he replied.
He has noticed a definite change in the attitude to dark looking foreigners...
I've found a good way to help the starving millions in Afghanistan: Oxfam
Deutschland is feeding and clothing refugees in camps in the border area.
Only 30 marks will provide drinking water for one thousand refugeees for a
day...every little bit counts. Seven and a half million are threatened with
starvation this winter. I'm sending Oxfam a donation now."
E-mail: info@oxfam.de
Web: www.oxfam.de
For the US: www.oxfam.org
Here is the long but very interesting list of resources.
Some Resources for Helping to Create Justice Rather Than Wage War
"A Widow's Plea for Non-Violence" by Amber Amundson --
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0925-06.htm
"Violence Doesn't Work" by Howard Zinn.
http://www.progressive.org/webex/wxzinn091401.html
"A Pure, High Note of Anguish" by Barbara Kingsolver --
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0923-03.htm
"The Challenge of Terror: A Traveling Essay" by John Paul Lederach
(Professor of Conflict Resolution at Eastern Mennonite University,
international mediator). http://www.mediate.com/articles/terror911.cfm
"Iraqis Know What New Yorkers are Suffering" by Stephanie Salter --
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1010-03.htm
"Dissenting Voices" by Jihan Alaily in the Al-Ahram Weekly --
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/554/fall2.htm -- cited by Francis Boyle,
Professor of International Law, University of Illinois College of Law
"In The Valley of The Shadow: A September 11, 2001 Reflection" by Rev. Ken
Sehested and Rev. Kyle Childress of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North
America.
http://www.bpfna.org/shadow.html.
The Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America's website has links to many
resources for information, thought and compassionate action
http://www.bpfna.org/wordsofcondol01.html
such as "Words of Condolence From Around the World" -- "Other Responses &
Emails From Peacemakers" -- "Take Action to bring God's peace in this time of
sorrow."
"Thoughts in the Presence of Fear" by Wendell Berry from Orion Magazine
(September 24, 2001) --
http://www.oriononline.org/pages/oo/sidebars/America/index_America.html
"Why I Opposed the Resolution to Authorize Force" by Rep. Barbara Lee (this
war's Jeannette Rankin)
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0923-04.htm
Lee represents the 9th Congressional District of California
http://www.house.gov/lee/
"A New War or A New World?" by John Judge, Washington Peace Center
http://www.washingtonpeacecenter.org/articles/newworld.html
"Twin Towers" by Uri Avnery http://www.peace-action.org/911r4.htm
"Family members of the attacks speak (against war)"
http://www.peace-action.org/911r3.htm
"The algebra of infinite justice" by Arundahti Roy (author of God of Small
Things)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,559756,00.html
Daily Reflections (Creighton University teachers' reflections)
http://www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
"How to defeat bin Laden" by Michael Klare
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/13/justice/index.html
"A Hymn for Resisters" by Daniel Berrigan
http://www.theotherside.org/archive/may-jun01/berrigan.html
"Bush is Walking Into a Trap" by Robert Fisk --
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0916-06.htm
"Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower" by Bill Blum
http://members.aol.com/superogue/homepage.htm
Blessed are those who mourn (Hebron)
http://www.prairienet.org/cpt/archives/2000/sep00/0007.html
"By the Woods -- Resources for Reflection and Meditation"
http://www.bythewoods.org/features.htm
"Blessed are the Nonviolent" by John Dear
http://www.theotherside.org/archive/jan-feb98/dear.html
"The Other Side" (where peace and justice embrace):
http://www.theotherside.org/
Some Web Resource sites:
Common Dreams News Center (alternative progressive news, commentary):
www.commondreams.org
Z Magazine: http://www.zmag.org/ZNET.htm. Noam Chomsky notes:
http://www.zmag.org/reactionscalam.htm
TFF/The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research:
http://www.transnational.org/
Antiwar.com: http://antiwar.com/
The Dallas Peace Center: http://www.dallaspeacecenter.org/
Independent Media Center:
http://indymedia.org/
IndyPeace
http://www.indymedia.org/peace/
Institute for Public Accuracy News Release and War Analysis:
http://www.accuracy.org/war-releases.htm
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC):
http://www.afsc.org/
http://www.commondreams.org/news2001/1002-07.htm
Mother Jones News and Resources for the Skeptical Citizen:
http://www.motherjones.com/
Study Circle Resource Center:
http://www.studycircles.org/
- many national and international Peace and Justice Campaigns and
Organizations. The Peace Action organization has a lengthy list of these
organizations at their website:
http://www.peace-action.org/friends2.htm
More critical sites:
K A - B O O L !
Just What Is It That Makes Today's World So
Different, So Appealing?
Assembled By Bob Petrovich
The Art of the Possible is:
| > POPULAR (DESIGNED FOR A MASS AUDIENCE);
Supporting Bin Laden's allies, a.k.a. "Humanitarian bombing" of
hospitals,
tv stations, bridges and dwellings was highly popular two years ago.
"United States of America and the Kosovo Liberation Army stand for the
same human values and principles ... Fighting for the KLA is fighting
for
human rights and American values."
(Sen. Lieberman as quoted in the 'Washington Post,' April 28, 1999)
Support of Bin Laden's strategic goal (provoked U.S. retaliation
destabilize
moderate
Muslim regimes) a.k.a. "War on terrorism" is highly effective, so far.
http://www.time.com/time/asia/news/magazine/0,9754,179527,00.ht ml
Who remembers armament, training and diplomatic support given to
radical islamic terrorism, from Afganistan 1979 to Bosnia, Chechnya,
Kosovo and FYROM today?
Brave fly boys destroy targets with surgical precision (e.g. 1500
civilians,
with collateral damage of only 14 tanks (Kosovo War, MEAT assessment ) http://www.balkanpeace.org/rs/archive/may00/rs21.shtml
| > GIMMICKY;
http://www.skfriends.com/bin-laden-terrorist-manual.htm#page%205 Publisher of similar manuals might recognize who wrote it: http://free.freespeech.org/parazite/cia.html
http://www.kimsoft.com/guerilla.htm
| > GLAMOROUS;
Parade of those desperately seeking publicity gladly supports anything for
10 seconds of limelight, regardless of veracity.