Guest Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 Analysis: Reading from al-Qaida's playbook Written by United Press International Thursday June 3, 2004 The terrorists hope that carrying out additional attacks on foreign > workers will eventually scare them away, creating a vacuum in the oil > industry. Such actions will force the Saudi oil companies to start > hiring domestic workers, something that is already happening. > > The "danger" in hiring local workers is that among the hundreds, or > maybe even thousands of new recruits that will fill the various posts > left vacant by departing foreigners, you can bet your bottom > petro-dollar that a few -- and most likely more than a few -- will be > faithful followers of al-Qaida. > > These will infiltrate the oil installations, management offices, > pipeline control centers and every aspect from drilling to shipment in > the main oil centers such as Khobar, Ras Tanura and Abqaiq. It will > put the sensitive oil infrastructures within the reach of al-Qaida and > their affiliates. > > In the first scenario, the terrorists could seriously undermine the > infrastructure, hampering the flow of oil. To take a page from Robert > Baer's book, "Sleeping with the Devil," where Islamist terrorists > sabotage the oil installations, this situation could now become all > too real. > The second scenario could involve the terrorists infiltrating the oil > production and distribution process and positioning themselves in key > jobs where they could control, or possibly interrupt, the flow at a > pre-determined time. It would allow them to be in a position to take > over the system once they felt the time was right. http://www.navyseals.com/community/article...cle.cfm?id=3702 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purdymouth Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 from a looming dark age perspective: LA 'on the road to Falluja'? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/this_world/3771411.stm "We are on the way to a point of no return and we will end up in a Falluja situation. It is already a Falluja situation in some areas. LA is on the road to Falluja." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 Scott Ritter, a former UN chief weapons inspector in Iraq: Tenet leaves CIA's Reputation in Tatters Under his Leadership the Agency Peddled Misinformation that created false Rationales for Bad Decisions by Scott Ritter The irony of this statement by Tenet is that he, of all people, should have known it to be false. During the course of Hussein Kamel's debriefings with the CIA, British MI-6 and with UNSCOM, he repeatedly talked about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs, and his role not only in their manufacture, but also in their destruction following the onset of UN weapons inspections in Iraq in the summer of 1991. "Nothing remained," Kamel told UN inspectors. "I ordered destruction of all chemical weapons. All weapons - biological, chemical, missile, nuclear - were destroyed." Tenet knew this was the case. As deputy director of the CIA in August 1995, he was directly involved with the CIA's debriefing of Hussein Kamel. As director of the CIA in February 2004, he had total access to the debriefing documents in order to refresh his memory. That he chose to misrepresent the defection of Hussein Kamel during his presentation at Georgetown University only underscores the personal culpability that Tenet bears when it comes to deceiving the president, Congress and the people of the United States about the threat posed by Iraq's WMD. Tenet's visually defining moment as director of the CIA came on Feb. 5, 2003, when he was prominently seated behind Secretary of State Colin Powell during Powell's now discredited presentation to the UN Security Council on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Tenet's positioning was deliberate, designed to reinforce the credibility of Secretary Powell's assertions by reminding those viewing the proceedings that the weight of the CIA backed the secretary of state's words. At the time, Powell's presentation was considered a tour de force. Today, sobered by the harsh reality that not only was almost every assertion made by Powell that day wrong, but for the most part drawn from data that many in the U.S. intelligence community at that time knew to be suspect. http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0604-06.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 Published in the June 21, 2004 issue of The Nation Under the Banner of the 'War' on Terror by William Greider "War on terror" is useful for the President, but irrational for the nation. Terrorism is not an enemy; it is a method of using violence to gain political objectives. Its tactics are usually employed by weaker, irregular groups against governments that possess organized armies and the modern means for waging war formally and more destructively (both methods of violence may target and destroy the lives of innocents). Terror campaigns are cruel by nature but in some instances are regarded as righteous, when the violence is used to liberate oppressed peoples from colonial rule, as in Vietnam or Ireland, the creation of Israel or even the United States. Ronald Spiers, a retired diplomat who served as US ambassador to Turkey and Pakistan and as Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence, explained these distinctions in an incisive essay published in Vermont's Rutland Herald. "How do you win a 'war' against a tool that, like war itself, is a method of carrying on politics by other means?" Spiers asked. "A 'war on terrorism' is a war without an end in sight, without an exit strategy, with enemies specified not by their aims but by their tactics. Relying principally on military means is like trying to eliminate a cloud of mosquitoes with a machine gun.... It brings to mind Big Brother's...war in Orwell's 1984. A war on terrorism is a permanent engagement against an always-available tool." http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0604-12.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjkst27 Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 OK plunger, enough. Go out and spend some money, stimulate the economy. You surf the web too much :grin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWD Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 Plunger; Great stuff. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain's Log Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 Last year, the employment numbers started to include an estimate for the birth and death of new businesses. There is a time lag between the time these businesses are created (or die) and when the Bureau of Labor Statistics finds out about them. So they have created some fairly elaborate models for estimating the numbers of new businesses. While this does attempt to show more realism in the actual final number, it also throws some subjectivity into the numbers. Last month, 195,000 jobs were in that category across the entire spectrum of the employment markets. They estimate over 700,000 new businesses have been created in the last four months alone, or more than double the amount created in the preceding 10 months. Were those 195,000 real, or were they the creation of a government agency desperate to show employment growth? Copyright 2004 John Mauldin. All Rights Reserved If you would like to reproduce any of John Mauldin's E-Letters you must include the source of your quote and an email address ([email protected]) Is that how they base the employment numbers on - new business started ? Hell, I add one in January but still have a full time job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 OK plunger, enough. Go out and spend some money, stimulate the economy. You surf the web too much :grin: Exactly! Time to head back over to the beach with my new German friend and learn more about what it is like to live in a country where everyone has this nagging background guilt about the autrocities committed by their former imperialist leader. The German perspective on the global matters of the day is worth listening to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 Please spare me the quotes from Scott Ritter. The man is totally discredited and definately has an axe to grind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The brown one Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 "How do you win a 'war' against a tool that, like war itself, is a method of carrying on politics by other means?" Spiers asked. "A 'war on terrorism' is a war without an end in sight, without an exit strategy, with enemies specified not by their aims but by their tactics. ... It brings to mind Big Brother's...war in Orwell's 1984. A war on terrorism is a permanent engagement against an always-available tool." http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0604-12.htm Excellent stuff--and that in "The Nation"-cripes. The present incumbent's name will go down in infamy--infamy,infamy they've all got it in for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 Purdy & Plunger......thanks for the links/posts. Indeed the domestic and international scene has gone to hell. Everywhere and everything out of control. What darkness awaits us? Does the Nav accept overage applicants for the Seals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 Hunter65/ Purdymouth, My sympathies and prayers for both of your families. My mother passed away 6 years ago of the same disease. Worked part time helping others until 76 when the disease took over. Its hard to see people of such love and character deteriorate in front of you. I deal with it by remembering who she was when she was in control and not the disease. I'm thankful for how she loved, taught and nurtured her family as I'm sure both of you do to. Best Regards patriot Thanks Patriot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butterfield 8 Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 Scott Ritter has only been discredited by Fox news. Not by any facts one can summon. I completely disagree with your take on him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 Reagan is dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zensmoke Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 Bomb Explodes at Russian Refinery VOA News 05 Jun 2004, 12:12 UTC Authorities in Russia say a bomb ripped through an oil tank at a refinery in the Stavropol area Saturday, causing extensive damage but no casualties. The 5,000-ton oil tank was about one-third full when explosives detonated beneath it, setting off a blaze that took four hours to control. Authorities say a second timebomb was found at the scene, but it failed to explode. The device was planted beneath a second tank at the Neftekumsk refinery, set to explode one hour after the first bomb. There is no information who may have planted the bombs. Russian news agencies said authorities will tighten security measures in the Stavropol area, which borders Russia's Caucasus region. The Neftekumsk refinery is about 120 kilometers north of the separatist Russian republic of Chechnya. Saturday's blast in Stavropol followed a bomb explosion at an outdoor market Friday that killed at least 10 people in the central Russian city of Samara. Authorities have labeled that a terrorist attack. http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectI...87EB87E61CAE703 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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