- The Department of Defense has announced that the US
is now going to begin arming and supplying the so-called "anti-Taliban
factions." And I had to laugh because this is the same policy that's
gotten us into trouble before - arming today's "freedom fighters"
who become tomorrow's "terrorists." That's how we created "Osama
bin Laden" and now we're doing it again. We consistently do this under
some vain hope that we can control these factions. It never happens. Every
faction we have ever armed in the days when they were the "freedom
fighters," later turned around and fought us. The United States fails
to appreciate the fact that this is an area with over two hundred factions,
all of whom are hostile to each other, none of whom have been able to
make an alliance stick for more than three minutes.
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- We're now arming the same groups of people we had formerly
declared to be "terrorists," those who had been fighting with
Russia in Chechnya. But now they're our "friends," so we're
going to arm them. Then when they become a problem (next week), we'll
spend another billion dollars of American taxpayers' money to go after
them -- after we've equipped them with our weapons.
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- The agenda is to keep the whole "intelligence game"
and the whole Military-Industrial Complex going. You arm today's "friends,"
knowing full well that they're going to be tomorrow's "enemies."
So you're going to have to spend billions more in defense expenditures
to go after the very same people the American taxpayers have already paid
for. It's a never-ending cycle.
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- The New Gauleiter of the Beltway -- John Ashcroft
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- Attorney General John Ashcroft has finally admitted that
the Department of Justice is not maintaining any centralized records of
the people that the United States is currently detaining. (See previous
column on "detainees")
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- After the ACLU filed a lawsuit to try to force the Bush
Administration to disclose the names and whereabouts of the people that
are being held, Ashcroft admitted that the Department of Justice was purposely
not maintaining any centralized records, and that in fact he didn't know
how many people were being held or how they were being held. Senator
Patrick Leahy told him that "You're the attorney general and you are
supposed to know where detainees are being held." At that point,
Ashcroft admitted, "I have no idea."
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- Then Ashcroft held up a notebook in a zip-locked baggy
that was supposedly seized from Osama bin Laden's hideout. He held it
up and said. "Here is further proof of Osama bin Laden's involvement."
And Senator Leahy asked him, "How do we know this is further proof,
since you won't allow any members of Congress to look at it?"
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- Leahy then pointed out that when the Department of Justice
first started to leak information to the British about Osama bin Laden's
capability. The British put it out, but then they couldn't back it up
because they weren't given enough information. Then Leahy accused Ashcroft,
the new Gauleiter of the Beltway, of not presenting the American people
one shred of evidence linking Osama bin Laden and all his supposed confederates
to the World Trade Center bombing. It got his gander up, and Ashcroft
said that "the United States Government isn't going to compromise
any potential prosecution." That was after Leahy got his anthrax
envelope, of course. They irradiated it and decided not to open it.
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- Isn't it funny to note that Leahy got his anthrax envelope
and Senator Daschle got one too? All of the most powerful Democrats, the
committee chairmen, are the only ones who seem to be getting these things.
There aren't any Republicans that get them. (After his comments, however,
Dan Burton might be the first one.)
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- By the way, the Republicans have stated that they will
be taking weekends off until the end of the congressional session -- despite
the hearings and legislation that they want to get passed. Congressman
Charles Rangel pointed out that they want to force the Democrats to chair
these committees. Later on, the Bush Administration can say that during
these investigations, of course, they were conducted by Democrats. And
that is the aim of the administration -- to be able to blame it on "Democratically
controlled committees," despite the fact that the committees are
actually Republican controlled.
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- Blackhawk Down Again¬Ö For the Umpteenth Time
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- Another Blackhawk helicopter has crashed in Afghanistan,
the third crash in recent months. Eighteen people were killed, including
very senior members and commanders of the Northern Alliance. The general
who's in charge said that from now on that he has informed Secretary Rumsfeld
that henceforth he will only use Russian helicopters for his own transportation.
He also pointed out that the only American casualties in this war thus
far have been due to the crashes of three Blackhawk helicopters, as well
as the mistaken "friendly fire" bombing.
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- The general of the Northern Alliance also pointed out
that though the American media has said that the US has taken 24 casualties
in this campaign so far, none of them have been due to the Taliban. These
casualties have not been in the field. They have taken place either due
to American bombing mistakes or faulty equipment that caused the helicopters
to crash (See previous column on US military spare parts scam)
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- The media called the previous mistake "an errant
bomb," as if it didn't know where to fall. The bomb in question was
not truly a "smart bomb." It was a two thousand pound old conventional
iron bomb that had been fitted with a JDM-31 guidance device, which is
a laser guidance device to make old munitions "smart." The problem
with them is that they don't work. This isn't the first time that the
media has reported the failure of a JDM-31 conversion kit. They're supposedly
made by Honeywell, but they're actually made by some shadowy offshore
company controlled by the Chinese Army.
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- And what nobody is pointing out in all this (and this
is what gets me) is that the problem with the spare parts for the helicopters
which keeps them grounded or crashing is that the spare parts are made
by offshore companies often controlled by the Chinese People's Liberation
Army.
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- What vested interest would China (a country which maintains
an openly hostile military posture toward the United States) have to make
spare parts, which actually work for a potential enemy?
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- Why isn't anyone pointing this out?
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- From the "Terrorist" Front
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- Last week it was reported that one of the huge food shipments
full of MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat), weighing 1200 pounds, was dropped
on some poor Afghan villager's adobe hut - and killed two people inside.
Then I thought to myself - we're even killing the people we're trying
to feed.
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- What they do is they eat the little biscuits, then they
try to feed the rest of them to their animals -- but the camels and the
goats refuse to eat them.
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- Then when the children of the American soldiers ask,
"What did you do in the war, daddy?" they can read the Al Martin
Raw columns and find out that they dropped 1200 pounds of mush on adobe
shacks and killed people, trying to feed them. That's called trying to
ram the food down their throats. We'll feed you, even if we have to smash
your houses. The Afghans don't even know what saltine crackers are.
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- Rumsfeld also admitted that the problem they've been
having in dropping all these MRE's. Only half of them are actually getting
to hungry Afghans. The other half are being collected by these tribal
chieftains, then being sold on the black market in Afghanistan. Also the
State Department has announced that, because of our incursion in Afghanistan,
we have created another two million Afghan refugees -- in addition to
the million that already existed. The State Department has issued an urgent
alert that one and a half million of them are close to starvation because
we have no mechanism to feed them and all the food we give them is being
siphoned off by "sympathetic tribal chieftains." These are the
ones who have huge flows of money going into their Swiss bank accounts,
and we never even bother to touch it. The State Department actually said
it will require "fresh billions" of the American taxpayers'
money to prevent massive starvation in Afghanistan this winter.
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- In the meantime, half of all the food we've shipped over
there has been stolen, and we've allowed the theft to happen because it's
being stolen by tribal chieftains who are "anti-Taliban" and
"pro-American," but they're really not. The only thing they're
interested in is getting as much American materiel that they can resell
on the black market.
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- This policy is so ludicrous. We spend billions trying
to get Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. Then we spend billions more surreptitiously
in arming these various factions, then billions more in bringing in food
supplies, half of which are stolen and we don't do anything about it because
it's being stolen by our "friends." Then we'll spend billions
more trying to keep alive the refugees our original policy created.
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- And it's all to keep "the game" going.
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- The Latest ABM Scam
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- Now that they have the ABM (Anti Ballistic Missile)
System up to a 40% operating success rate, the Bush Administration feels
fully justified into going into a full, $200 billion production scheme.
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- That is the average for all the missiles that we have
in our inventory. Insofar as 40% is the average successful operational
rate is 40%, then 40% becomes 100%.
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- We have already wasted over a trillion dollars in the
last 26 years in research and development on this ABM system - and still
can't get it to work.
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- Imagine - a trillion dollars to build a missile system
up to a 40% success rate -and now were going to spend another 200 billion.
As General Downing said, if 40% of the systems work, we only have to fire
two and a half times as many missiles to do the job that one missile is
supposed to do.
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- That's the Department of Defense's mathematics.
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- Who's a "Friend" and Who's a "Foe"?
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- The Al Martin Raw website has scored another coup in
predicting the future. The Department of Defense has admitted that a lack
of "friend or foe" recognition training has been a substantial
problem for American forces on the ground in Afghanistan. (See previous
article)
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- The Department of Defense has said, "All people
in turbans look alike to the American troops," and this has resulted
in "costly" reimbursement expenses submitted by Afghans for
equipment destroyed by the Americans.
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- The problem has occurred because the DoD itself doesn't
really know the differences in the groups fighting in Afghanistan. That's
how little "intelligence" they had regarding this war.
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- Scams Make the World Go Round
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- The new special agent in charge of the Huntsville, Alabama
FBI satellite office is a guy named Red. He's 5 feet 8 inches tall and
5 feet 8 inches around. He weighs about 320 pounds. And he's as chrome
dome as you can get. He wears all kinds of hats all the time to hide the
fact that he's a chrome dome. Every morning he goes out to Denny's for
breakfast. He has two Grand Slams.
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- Evidently the Huntsville satellite office is becoming
the new FBI punishment field office. If you screw up somewhere else, you
get sent to Huntsville. It's becoming what the Provo, Utah office used
to be. Red evidently mouthed off to the wrong people in Washington --
and he can't wait to get out. He says he doesn't care if they put him
at the North Pole, because anything's better than being assigned to the
Huntsville office.
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- Every incident like the World Trade Center bombing brings
out the scamscateers. One of the scams is a group of ex-Navy Seal retired
guys and ex-Special Forces commando types who have formed some sort of
company in Huntsville seeking investors to go after Osama bin Laden. It's
$2,500 per unit to get your piece of the $25 million reward. These guys
are saying they have the expertise, but we have to buy the "right
sophisticated electronics" and to bribe the right people in Afghanistan,
so it's almost like an illegal limited partnership in a way - or like
a "bounty syndicate." Of course, these guys have no intention
of going to get Osama bin Laden. It's a complete scam, but they're targeting
retired veterans in Florida, Alabama, and Georgia. Not only are you in
an investment for a shot at a hundred to one return, but you're being
"patriotic" at the same time. The FBI figures they've probably
taken in at least a half a million dollars already. So far the FBI has
identified 110 victims of this scam, but they suspect there are many more.
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- The FBI guy's attitude, however, is that anybody who
gets suckered into this deal deserves to lose their money.
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- The second scam relates to the food dropped in Afghanistan.
Only half has gotten to the people. The tribal chieftains take the other
half and since they maintain their own websites under fraudulent corporate
names, they've been selling the MRE's back to survivalist food outlets
in the United States for twenty-five cents on the dollar. All you have
to do is wire the money to their Swiss bank accounts and they'll make
delivery. They're also letting their customers know that as soon as they
sucker weapons out of the US armed forces under the guise of being their
allies, all that stuff will also be coming on the market.
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- The FBI evidently saw some of these websites from Afghanistan
with pictures of sophisticated weapons systems. These are pictures of
weapons that the tribal chieftains expect to be given to them in exchange
for their "loyalty" and support. It's a pre-sale promotion in
anticipation of a scam. The scam hasn't even taken place yet.
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- These Afghans are very sharp and adroit businessmen.
They walk around in rags, but most of them are every well educated. They
hold masters degrees in business and they know how to commit a good scam.
They're just looking at the US Government as a mark.
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- This entire "war on terrorism" is such a scam.
Of course, the Department of Defense is going to be arming these groups.
Then billions more will be used to prop up a government we know can't
possibly stay in existence for very long. It's depending on the military
support of so-called "friendly" terrorist groups, who will be
taking the weapons we're giving them and selling them out the back door.
And they've already scammed us out of at least $20 million in food.
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- For every billion dollars spent, we create a future
contingent liability of two billion dollars that the American taxpayers
will have to pay. But this is just FAU. That's Fraud as Usual. ___
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- AL MARTIN is America's foremost whistleblower on government
fraud and corruption. A retired US Navy Lt. Commander and former officer
in the Office of Naval Intelligence, he has testified before Congress
(the Kerry Committee and the Alexander Committee) regarding Iran-Contra.
Al Martin is the author of "The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran
Contra Insider" (2001, National Liberty Press, $19.95; Toll FREE
order line: 1-866-317-1390) He lives at an undisclosed location, since
the criminals named in his book have been returned to national power and
prominence. His column "Behind the Scenes in the Beltway" is
published regularly on Al Martin Raw: Criminal Govt Conspiracy. http://www.almartinraw.com/column43.html
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