Editor's Note: Here is a collection of news items, related to the
War on Terrorism, which did not fall into one of the many
other categories of
war-related articles.
Some of the events of September 11, 2001, were under-reported because a lot of things happened
that day and the news media focused on the biggest story and let the rest fall into one-sentence
headlines. But since then, there have been several other terrorist attacks (apparently)
that have been downplayed in the mainstream news media and passed off as "isolated
incidents," misunderstandings, or misinterpretation of the evidence. Three under-scrutinized
events are discussed in subsections below.
Post-9/11 terrorist attacks -- which are routinely being passed off as "isolated incidents" -- are
discussed here.
The Mystery of Flight 77 and the Pentagon Impact
Flight 77 – Where is the plane? I'm not
sure what this proves, but it is rather strange. In all the photographs of the Pentagon after the 9/11/01
explosion, have you ever seen a picture that includes pieces of an airplane?
Editor's Note:
A 757-200 is
124 feet wide and 155 feet long.
Documentary:
911 In Plane Sight. Contrary to the video
footage shown to the American public, photographs taken only moments after the impact show no wreckage on the
lawn of the Pentagon. Where is the plane? Where are the wings, the tail, the luggage, the seats,
the landing gear, and the engines? Most importantly, what happened to the passengers who were aboard
that plane?
Pentagon Attack: Some of the
clearest proof that 9/11 was an act of United States Sponsored Terrorism comes from a close examination
of the Pentagon Attack. In the above picture by Daryl Donley taken minutes after the attack at the
Pentagon, the intense fireball is seen as coming from inside the building, and no wreckage of an airline
crash is apparent.
Did
Flight 77 Hit the Pentagon? There is controversy over the question of whether
AA Flight 77 actually did hit the Pentagon on Sept 11. It centers around a large
amount of photographic evidence that the damage to the Pentagon is neither big enough, nor
of the right shape to have been caused by a 757 jet, that there is insufficient sign of
wreckage or bodies, and that power poles which apparently should have been in the path of
the jet are still standing. The damage appears to be more consistent with having been
caused by a bomb and/or a missile or small jet.
Flight
77 — So where is the plane? I have never seen an aircraft accident
where the aircraft evaporated upon impact [into] water, land or buildings.
Independent
Flight 77 - Pentagon Event Investigation.
9-11 and the
Impossible. The harsh truth of 9-11 is that the "official
version" just doesn't stand up, against even elementary scrutiny. Despite
the "official" denials, there were overwhelming warnings of suicide hijackers; but
no warnings to the public or airline pilots.
The Five-Sided Fantasy
Island. Earliest reports from the Pentagon indicated that a
helicopter explosion or attack took place. However, during the course of the
day, two legends were put into place — the first, that the Pentagon was
struck by an airliner; and also an alternative hoax, that a missile was
responsible. But no tangible, verifiable evidence of an airliner
crash at the Pentagon has ever been produced.
Update:
Department of Defense Responds to Judicial Watch
FOIA Request and Related Lawsuit. The Department of Defense released a videotape that
allegedly shows American Airlines Flight 77 striking the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
See the video.
The video shows nothing that looks like an airplane. It was allegedly "part of an ongoing
investigation involving Zacarias Moussaoui." But after seeing the newly released video, it
is difficult to imagine the logic of that explanation. In my opinion, it was kept from public
view simply because the government thrives on secrecy. The government has had several
years to find or manufacture at least one believable frame of video that shows an airplane
hitting the Pentagon, and that still hasn't been done.
New Tape Stirs Up 9/11 Conspiracy
Theories. With Tuesday's release of video footage of American Airlines Flight 77 crashing
into the Pentagon building, an attack that killed 184 people on Sept. 11, questions rage
again. "It doesn't clarify anything — I don't see a plane in that image," said Michael
Berger, spokesman for 911Truth.org. "In fact, I thought that was underwhelming."
[He's right.]
Photos from the Pentagon Crash Site.
No evidence of a Boeing 757, but the damage is certainly consistent with a cruise missile strike.
On the other hand... this opposing viewpoint is presented as a public service.
Getting the Facts
Straight: A growing number of people have been led to believe that an airliner
did not hit the Pentagon on 9/11. However, in this case the "official version" of
events is irrefutable.
Evidence
That A Boeing 757 Really Did Impact the Pentagon on 9/11. Among
the many questions lingering after the catastrophic events of 9/11/2001 are
the various speculations that the Pentagon attack was by some other means than a
hijacked passenger airliner. This document seeks to put these theories to rest.
Questions about Flight 93
Book
Claims Flight 93 'was shot down'. The absence of any significant debris — including
tailplane and wings — bewildered witnesses, relatives and, more importantly, some crash
experts. They found it hard to believe that an airliner up to 155 feet long, with
two engines each weighing more than six tons, could have penetrated the ground so completely
as to utterly disappear. Had it, in reality, been blown to pieces in mid-air? Certainly
it is unclear how a single piece of fuselage the size of a dining room table could have been recovered
from a marina in Indian Lake, a couple of miles away from the crash site — unless it fell from
the sky during an aerial break-up. But a bigger mystery is why the engines went missing.
The Mysterious and Under-reported Collapse of World Trade Center Building Seven
WTC 7 was a huge office building a few blocks away from the twin towers. WTC 7 was not hit
by an airplane on September 11, 2001, yet it mysteriously collapsed that afternoon, for no apparent
reason. The incident was only briefly mentioned in the news media on September 11 and 12, and
was never mentioned again. It is the most obvious example of a news story going immediately down
the "memory hole" into news media oblivion, with no questions asked.
Web page
about the collapse of WTC Building 7. Very interesting.
Silverstein
Answers WTC Building 7 Charges. Building 7 became only the third steel building in history
before or since 9/11 to collapse from fire damage. The other two were the North and South towers of
the World Trade Center. Any building that was not owned by Silverstein Properties strangely remained
upright.
"Pulling" Building 7: This statement seems to
suggest that the FDNY decided to demolish the building in accordance with [Larry] Silverstein's suggestion,
since the phrase "pull it" in this context seems to mean to demolish the building.
WTC 7 'Pulled' By Silverstein,
FDNY – Were Towers 'Pulled' Too? [There are] disturbing correlations
between the collapse of WTC 7 and the bombing of the Murrah building in Oklahoma City. Both
buildings were constructed using the same bridge beam system that, in WTC 7's case, allegedly
contributed to its demise. But more importantly WTC 7, like the Murrah building, housed
high-level government offices including the FBI, CIA and the Secret Service. WTC 7 was
also the storage facility for millions of files pertaining to active cases involving international
drug dealing, organized crime, terrorism and money laundering.
Editor's Note:
More people are starting to ask questions about Building 7. And if it's true that
Building 7 was imploded, questions arise about the Twin Towers as well. Keep reading.
Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings
Collapse? In this paper, I call for a serious investigation of the hypothesis that WTC 7 and
the Twin Towers were brought down, not just by impact damage and fires, but through the use of pre-positioned
cutter-charges. I consider the official FEMA, NIST, and 9-11 Commission reports that fires plus impact
damage alone caused complete collapses of all three buildings. And I present evidence for the
controlled-demolition hypothesis, which is suggested by the available data, testable and falsifiable,
and yet has not been analyzed in any of the reports funded by the US government.
9/11 We Know is a website that purports to expose how the Twin Towers
and Building 7, which wasn't hit by a plane, were brought down via controlled demolition. Free
downloadable videos lay out the case.
Dam Breaks On 9/11
Truth. Two more major influential Hollywood stars using their fame to attract attention to 9/11
truth proves the dam is breaking and November's election result has failed to stop the momentum of a growing
chorus across the political spectrum demanding answers on inexplicable facets of the 9/11 fraud.
Streisand's hubby publicly questions official
9/11 story. Actor James Brolin, aka, 'Mr. Barbra Streisand', has joined film director David Lynch
in going public with his doubts about the official story behind 9/11. … Brolin offered no reason as to
why he waited five years and three months to publicly question the official story behind 9/11, or why he
followed in the footsteps of Lynch on the same day.
The Top 40 Reasons to Doubt the
Official Story of September 11, 2001..
The Investigation of Building 7's Collapse: What
did the government do to investigate the unprecedented collapse of a steel frame building from fires? It
gave FEMA the sole discretion to investigate the collapse, even though FEMA is not an investigative agency.
Building 7. was the third skyscraper to be reduced to rubble
on September 11, 2001. According to the government, fires, primarily, leveled this building, but
fires have never before or since destroyed a steel skyscraper. The team that investigated the collapse
were kept away from the crime scene. By the time they published their inconclusive report in
May, 2002, the evidence had been destroyed.
Five Years After and We Still Don't Know.
There appears to be a very large energy deficit in the official explanation of the collapse of the two WTC
towers, and no explanation for the collapse of WTC 7.
Building 7 Collapse: At
5:22 p.m. on September 11th, 2001, the 47 story building number 7 of the World Trade
Center Plaza came down in slightly over 8 seconds. The building had not been hit by any
plane, nor sustained any significant damage from the "collapse" of the Twin Towers seven hours earlier,
nor was there any major fire in the building at the time. The video clearly show that it was
brought down as result of a synchronized demolition.
WTC 7: Building 7 was the third skyscraper to
collapse into rubble on September 11, 2001. According to the government, small fires leveled
this building, but fires have never before or since destroyed a steel skyscraper.
Indications add up to government
conspiracy. The collapse of steel-frame buildings — such as the World Trade Center
Towers — due to fire is unprecedented. The collapse of Building 7, which was not hit by
a plane, is especially inexplicable. Its collapse late in the afternoon of Sept. 11 exhibited 10
specific features of a controlled demolition, as did the collapse of the Twin Towers. More important,
numerous eyewitnesses attest to hearing multiple explosions at the time. And, Steven Jones, a professor
at Brigham Young University, discovered Thermate, an incendiary compound, in two molten steel samples taken
from the site.
BYU Professor on Paid Leave for 9-11
Theory. Brigham Young University administrators are trying to find out the extent of one
professor's involvement in blaming the September 11th terrorist attacks on the government. According
to a copyrighted Deseret Morning News article, Dr. Steven Jones is on paid leave for suggesting the
government is responsible for the destruction of the World Trade Center.
On the other hand...
The CIA couldn't
have organised this. Five years after the attack on the World Trade Centre, a group of 75
American academics is claiming that the truth about 9/11 has been covered up. The leader of the
group — Steven E. Jones, a physics professor at a university in Utah — has
studied debris from the disaster and concluded that explosives were used to bring down the towers.
Did the Twin Towers Collapse on Demand? When
considering the possibility that the Twin Towers were brought down by explosives there is an interesting
variation which is worth considering: What if the Twin Towers were designed — or
re-engineered — so that they could be destroyed in a controlled demolition if circumstances
required?
Other WTC Building Collapses: WTC 6
and WTC 7. WTC 7, although damaged slightly by falling rubble, stood for about six
hours on September 11th, then around 5 p.m. it suddenly fell. No official explanation for this has
ever been given. This building was completely destroyed, and came down in the manner of a controlled
demolition. … [I]t is the manner in which WTC 7 was destroyed that constitutes one of the proofs that
9/11 was an inside job. Videos of its destruction clearly show that it came down exactly in the manner
of a controlled demolition. This cannot have been the work of 19 Arab hijackers, nor of Osama bin Laden
supervising events from his cave in Afghanistan. The destruction of WTC 7 was brought about by
demolition experts — American demolition experts.
The Mysterious Leveling of
Building 7. At 5:20 PM on 9/11/01 the only building with a World Trade Center address that stood
on a different block from the rest of the complex, 47-story steel-framed 7 World Trade Center, underwent a
sudden total collapse. Officials and all government reports published since the attack that mention
the building blame its collapse on a combination of structural damage and subsequent fires. However,
the available evidence on the condition of Building 7 prior to its collapse fails to document more than
superficial structural damage and small isolated fires.
Silverstein, FDNY Razed WTC 7.
Those who argue that the towers were vulnerable in their top-heaviness and verticality cannot then explain the
collapse due to fire of WTC 7, a broad-based, 47-story steel-framed building. … In addition,
WTC 7 suffered a strangely thorough and complete collapse, leaving only a leveled lot where it
once stood. … There [are] also disturbing correlations between the collapse of WTC 7 and the
bombing of the Murrah building in Oklahoma City. … WTC 7 was also the storage facility for
millions of files pertaining to active cases involving international drug dealing, organized crime,
terrorism and money laundering.
9/11 Controlled Demolitions of
September 11, 2001. A 36-minute documentary that's well worth watching.
Robert Fisk: Even I question the 'truth'
about 9/11. What about the third tower — the so-called World Trade Centre Building 7 (or
the Salmon Brothers Building) — which collapsed in 6.6 seconds in its own footprint at 5.20pm on
11 September? Why did it so neatly fall to the ground when no aircraft had hit it? The
American National Institute of Standards and Technology was instructed to analyse the cause of the
destruction of all three buildings. They have not yet reported on WTC 7.
BBC
adds fuel to 9/11 conspiracy theories. The investigation into the "mysterious" collapse of the
third tower of the World Trade Centre will re-examine questions which an official inquiry was designed to
answer. The 47-storey tower collapsed seven hours after the Twin Towers and has become the subject of
heated speculation and a host of conspiracy theories which suggest it was brought down by a controlled
demolition. … A BBC investigation points out that this would be the first and only skyscraper in the
world to collapse solely due to fire.
Bush economist doubts 9-11 story.
Ex-Labor Dept. hand says towers brought down by explosive.
Report
Says Fire, Not Explosion, Felled 7 W.T.C.. The collapse of 7 World Trade Center — home
at the time to branch offices of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Secret Service and the Giuliani
administration's emergency operations center — is cited in hundreds of Web sites and books
as perhaps the most compelling evidence that an insider secretly planted explosives, intentionally
destroying the tower.
Feds:
Fires took down building next to twin towers. The building has been the subject of a wide range
of conspiracy theories for the last seven years, partly because the collapse occurred about seven hours after
the twin towers came down. That fueled suspicion that someone intentionally blew up the building in a
controlled demolition. Critics like Mike Berger of the group 9/11 Truth said he wasn't buying the
government's explanation. "Their explanation simply isn't sufficient. We're being lied to," he
said, arguing that there is other evidence suggesting explosives were used on the building.
Improbable Collapse: On September 11, 2001
the World Trade Center Twin Towers disintegrated in a manner that scientists say resembled deliberately
calculated implosions. The facts open for discussion include: at 5:20 p.m. that same day
another building, the 47 story WTC 7, completely collapsed within 70 feet of its footprint
in 6.6 seconds. These three buildings became the first such structures to ever suffer complete
collapse due to fire and damage.
The Top 40 Reasons to doubt the
official story of September 11th, 2001. [Reason #14] All the Signs of a Systematic
9/11 Cover-up: (a.) Airplane black boxes were found at Ground Zero, according to two first
responders and an unnamed NTSB official, but they were "disappeared" and their existence is denied in
The 9/11 Commission Report. (b.) US officials consistently suppressed and destroyed evidence
(like the tapes recorded by air traffic controllers who handled the New York flights).
(c.) Whistleblowers (like Sibel Edmonds and Anthony Shaffer) were intimidated, gagged and
sanctioned, sending a clear signal to others who might be thinking about speaking out.
New
An attack on American 612: The TWA 800 scenario
almost happened again! How many "isolated incidents" can the news media downplay?
What really happened to AA Flight
612. What makes the evidence particularly compelling is that the
pilots apparently saw what the radar was reporting:
ATC: Flare or a rocket?
AA 612: It looked more like a rocket.
ATC: American 612, how far away was it from your position?
AA 612: It was about half way between us and the coastline
when we first called that last center guy.
More on Possible Surface to
Air Missile Attempt Against Passenger Aircraft. Just as suddenly as
the story was broadcast, it seemed to have disappeared from the media.
September 11 Analysis: Numerous
articles about unexplained aspects of the events of September 11.
Unanswered questions of
September 11: The killing of nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001, is not
a "cold case." But it also is not a closed case, and despite the huge body of evidence collected,
unanswered questions remain. Among them: … What was the Washington target of United Flight 93,
which crashed near Shanksville, Pa.? What motivated 19 relatively well-off Arab men, all Muslims,
to become such horrific suicide bombers?
Pressing for the Truth on 9/11: Within the limits of
its 85-minute time frame, 9/11 Press for Truth does an admirable job of effectively presenting some of
the most glaring discrepancies, lies, and coverups concerning the deadliest terrorist attack on American
soil. ... [It] asks, for instance, why NORAD fighter jets weren't scrambled on that fateful
morning. ... The 9/11 Commission Report's explanation, which contradicts four previous explanations by federal
officials on this matter (all four of which also contradict each other), is fraught with discrepancies, errors,
omissions, and contradictions.
Eye Witness Testimony Is
Conclusive That North Tower Collapsed From Controlled Demolition. William Rodriguez the morning
of 9/11 is a miracle. What happened to his story after-the-fact is a tragedy. ... Declared a hero for
saving numerous lives at Ground Zero, he was the janitor on duty the morning of 9/11 who heard and felt
explosions rock the basement sub-levels of the north tower just seconds before the jetliner struck the top
floors.
9/11 Survivors and Family Members
Question the 9/11 Commission Report. Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions
throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and
bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its
conclusions.
9/11 Widows Keep on Asking the Tough
Questions. The widows had high hopes for the 9/11 Commission Report, but when it was published
in July of 2004 they were bitterly disappointed. ... "It was a pathetic excuse of a report," says
Lorie Van Auken, whose husband Kenneth was killed in WTC I. "Seventy percent of our questions went
unanswered. ... Anyone who appeared for questioning, from Rudy Guliani to George Tenet, was handled with kid
gloves and lauded with accolades. The Commissioners would say, 'You're fabulous, you did a fantastic job
on 9/11,' and they would run out the clock. We couldn't understand what the point was in having a
hearing if no substantive questions were being asked or answered."
Read this if you vote or fly.
These documents are documentary proof of a very suspicious long-term relationship between former high-level
officials in the federal aviation agencies and an extremely dodgy Israeli company specializing in accessing
aircraft computer systems — while in flight. One needs to remember that the Vigilant Guardian
drill that was being run on 9-11 involved computer simulations and false "injects" on the radar monitors of
the air traffic controllers at NEADS, NORAD, and the FAA. When 9-11 happened, the air traffic monitors
were thoroughly confused if the attacks were real — or part of the game.
See also 9/11 War Games No
Coincidence.
Forewarning: Willie
Brown, former Mayor of San Francisco received a warning about 10 PM on the evening of September 10
to be cautious about air travel. He was scheduled to fly to into New York City. Brown refuses to
say exactly who gave him the prescient warning, citing only "my security people at the airport."
Other material about the aftermath of 9/11
9/11
Conspiracy Theorists Gather in N.Y.. Polls show that many Americans distrust the government on
the subject of Sept. 11. A Zogby International poll taken in May found that 42% believed the
government concealed evidence that contradicts official accounts.
Charges Dropped Against Yee.
Citing national security concerns, the Army on Friday [3/19/2004] dropped all charges against a Muslim chaplain
accused of mishandling classified documents at Guantanamo Bay, which houses suspected terrorists.
Editor's Note: Because
of "national security concerns"? That's why he was arrested!
'Terrorism'
disconnect: Two international conferences last month wrangled over definitions of
terrorism. The conference in Europe, the Barcelona Euro-Mediterranean Summit, promised to
fight terrorism, but couldn't agree on what "terrorism" was.
Propaganda
and the eye of the beholder. Propaganda is sometimes true. It can be used to
advance a policy that is workable, or not, depending on the intent of the one engaging in
it. Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke at the National
Defense University last week. Using truthful propaganda, Gen. Pace said our enemies
declared war on us years before September 11, 2001, and have said unequivocally their
goal is to "destroy our way of life."
House of God, House of War. The only way to
protect Americans — and, coincidentally, good Iraqis — is to bomb the Najaf mosque into a
parking lot, and to announce that any building used for such purposes gets the same treatment.
Nation's Elite AWOL From
Military. A new book expands on a familiar subject: the absence of America's elite and
its governing class — and their children — from the ranks of our nation's military.
U.S.
Military Secrets for Sale at Afghan Bazaar. No more than 200 yards from the main gate of the
sprawling U.S. base here, stolen computer drives containing classified military assessments of enemy targets,
names of corrupt Afghan officials and descriptions of American defenses are on sale in the local bazaar.
Shop owners at the bazaar say Afghan cleaners, garbage collectors and other workers from the base arrive each
day offering purloined goods, including knives, watches, refrigerators, packets of Viagra and flash memory
drives taken from military laptops. The drives, smaller than a pack of chewing gum, are sold as used
equipment.
France
helped Iraqis escape. The French government secretly supplied fleeing
Iraqi officials with passports in Syria that allowed them to escape to Europe, The
Washington Times has learned.
Supplemental information:
French Products and Companies to Boycott
Update:
French
bashing alive and well in parts of America. Two years after relations
between the US and France soured over the Iraq war, French-bashing in America appears
alive and well in light of a recent ad campaign by a fast-food chain linking France
and cowardice.
ACLJ Letter to
the National Education Association: The purpose of this letter is to
formally object to your recommendations to parents and teachers regarding the anniversary
of the terrorist attacks of one year ago included on your "Remember September 11th"
website. In particular, we take issue with your advice for parents and
teachers: "Do not suggest any group is responsible." The problem with this
advice is that there is a group responsible, and we know who that group is - an
organization of radical Islamic terrorists called al-Qaeda. By advising
teachers not to suggest that any group is responsible, you both shortchange our children's
education and risk undermining our nation's effort to eradicate terrorists and prevent
further terrorist attacks.
Fear and Lockdown in
America: Concerned about potential cyber attacks, business executives and politicians are
pushing for more control over information distribution. In a survey conducted by Business Software
Alliance, 82 percent of information technology professionals believe American businesses are
ill-equipped to deal with cyber-terrorism.
How
to Really Secure the Homeland: Other than liberating Afghanistan
from the Taliban, what has the war accomplished so far? The routing of the criminal
government in Kabul was an excellent thing, but has the threat of a massive terror
attack been lessened even slightly? The Bush administration keeps warning that
another September 11 can happen at any time.
We
May Not Win This War: Most people who possess even a moderate degree of
political savvy are aware of the axiom that no great civilization was ever defeated
from without, unless it was first defeated from within. In light of this, just
how does the United States measure up as it approaches the first anniversary
of September 11? A consideration of U.S. responses to the attacks yields
some very disturbing answers.
America Is NOT Winning the War: To
wage a war in self-defense you must know who your enemy is. But our enemy remains unidentified and,
therefore, untargeted. Ours is a war against "terrorism" — a form of violence, not an
ideological opponent intent on killing us. Our enemies, however, are dedicated to a fundamentalist
interpretation of Islam, which extols faith, mindless obedience, sacrifice to state and God,
primitivism, theocracy.
In Washington, Hindsight is 20/400:
In this context, the current media fetish over "What did Bush know and when did he know it?" back on 9/11
shows neither a left-wing nor a right-wing bias. Instead, it merely dramatizes the existence of an
empty-headed media culture in which our intellectuals and leaders have simply run out of ideas.
Thinking The Unthinkable
About Bush: The media should investigate and report on the seriously flawed intelligence
apparatus that could have, and possibly should have prevented 9/11 from happening. But to suggest,
to hint that the President (Bush or Clinton, doesn't matter) allowed it to happen is an outrage of the
highest order.
Mailboxes
Vanish: If you've noticed that mailboxes seem harder to find than ever,
it's true: The government has removed almost 7,000 of them since September 11.
U.S. Could Deny GPS
to Taliban: The Defense Department could take steps to limit the usefulness of
GPS receivers in the hands of Taliban forces without affecting North American users.
Anti-Radiation
Pill In Short Supply: Here's one bottle of pills you may want to add to your
medicine chest — potassium iodide (KI). If you can find the over the counter drug,
it's your only weapon against radiation-induced thyroid cancer should a nuclear explosion
or meltdown occur in your city or town.
The Red Cross drifts to the left
... Seems to have slipped out of neutral.
American Red Double
Cross: With a Liberty Fund already filled with a staggering $505 million from average
Americans, the ARC has been reluctant to disperse the funds.
Update:
Red Cross caught red-handed. Get a
Refund! If you donated to the Red Cross in hopes it would help the WTC victims… they
didn't get it!
The neutral politics of the Red
Cross: Somewhere along the way, the Red Cross came out of the field to sit at the
table and began taking on the role of rhetoric, seeming no longer content with its long-held
status as trusted and neutral guardian of the Geneva conventions around the world. Indeed,
in its self-styled role as a critic of the United States, the Red Cross is giving plenty of
competition to the anti-American United Nations. Its new role is surely most welcome
among the anti-war contingent.
Red Cross demands Mid-East action.
The International Committee of the Red Cross has called for immediate political action to contain the "deep
crisis" in the West Bank and Gaza. The statement was an unusual departure from its normally non-political
stance. The ICRC said the measures imposed by Israel had denied the Palestinian population the right to
live a normal and dignified life.
Red Cross says global warming
caused record disasters in 2007. Global warming caused a record number of natural disasters
across the world in 2007, up nearly 20 percent from a year earlier, the International Federation of the
Red Cross said on Thursday [12/13/2007]. "As of 10 October 2007, the Federation had already recorded
410 disasters, 56 percent of which were weather-related, which is consistent with the trend of rising
numbers of climate change-related disasters," the IFRC said in its "World Disasters Report".
Red Cross says changing
climate worsens disasters. Climate change is making it harder for many people to access clean
water and food, and widening the spread of malaria and dengue fever, the world's largest humanitarian aid
agency said on Monday [1/21/2008]. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
(IFRC) is asking donors for $292 million per year for 2008 and 2009 to help communities steel themselves
for the threats of global warming.
Note: More information about the Red Cross can be
found here.
Related:
Tsunami Relief: Reconsider the Red
Cross. Laurie Morrow, hostess of a conservative talk radio show in Vermont, cautions
against giving your money to Red Cross. Part of her discontent is with Red Cross's behavior
following 9/11. In November of 2001, "Red Cross officials decided, without the knowledge or
consent of most of the donors, that better use of this money could be made than distributing it among
the victims. Acting as if the $564 million were the Red Cross's money rather than donors' money
entrusted to them for distribution, the officials decided to spend the money as they saw fit, regardless
of the donors' intentions. They planned to distribute only about 1/3 of the Fund to the
victims of September 11th. $264 million of the $564 million would be set
aside for vaguely defined "long-term effects of the disaster."
NRA President's Column by
Charlton Heston, December 2001: "As I write these words, our nation is in a time of great
grief and mourning. A vicious crime, an evil calamity, has been forced upon our union, and the true
magnitude of our loss is only beginning to emerge from the destruction."
Iranians linked to bin Laden
escape? Sources say top al-Qaida figures granted safe passage by Tehran. The
conviction is gaining ground in some Western intelligence agencies that Osama bin Laden, his family,
Ayman al-Zawahiri and thousands of al-Qaida fighters made good their escape from Afghanistan through the
illicit sea route created by Lebanese-Iranian super terrorist Imad Mughniyeh for smuggling operations in
the service of terrorist organizations.
The end of an unserious
decade: On Sept. 11, the frivolous era came to an end. Suddenly, for the first time since
Gen. Jackson drove the British army out of Louisiana, the enemy was inside the gates, slaughtering
thousands.
Hillary Compares Her Critics to
Osama bin Laden: Former first lady, now New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton says she
knows what it's like to be the victim of the kind of maniacal hatred that cost up to 7,000 of her
constituents their lives in the September 11 attacks on Manhattan's Twin Towers.
Senator Clinton's Rhetorical Obscenity:
How Hillary Felt the WTC Pain: Adversaries of Arkansas's junior Senator from New York
should be of good enough cheer. She will never let them live long without reinforcing their
well grounded disdain.
Documentary film: 911: The Road to
Tyranny: The government needed a crisis to convince the people to willingly give up their
liberty in exchange for safety. 911 the Road to Tyranny documents the ruthless
history of governments orchestrating terrorist attacks against their own people to scare them into
total submission.
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