Guest guest Posted July 5, 2002 Report Share Posted July 5, 2002 A Terrorist Manifesto? Ed Quillen Denver Post Columnist Tuesday, July 03, 2002 - As Americans prepare to celebrate a rare Thursday holiday, high-ranking officials in the Bush administration announced their discovery of a major new terrorism threat. " This rates at least a bright orange, and it could turn red in an instant, " according to George Hanover, an official in the Propaganda Ministry of the Thirdate of the Department of Homeland Security. Hanover explained that the alert was based on the FBI's discovery of a document that had been circulating on the Internet, and perhaps in other places. " The document is quite specific, " he said, " and it could be construed to call for violent action on this continent, and it might also involve suicide bombers backed by a well-financed organization with international connections. " Pressed for details, Hanover said that the originators of the document had " pledged their lives, " which indicated a self-destructive willingness to die for their cause, as well as " their fortunes, " which FBI analysts interpret as " signifying that they are people of some means, or else they would be talking about something other than their fortunes. " Hanover said he would not reveal other specific wording from the document, at the request of Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney's request, which was also passed on to press associations and the broadcast and cable news channels, came about because he feared that terrorists might use some of the precise phrases in the document as " triggers to activate some of their sleeper cells. " However, the Attorney General's Office of Counter-Terrorism Investigation did release some details when Attorney General John Ashcroft held a news conference yesterday. Displaying portions of the document on a screen, Ashcroft pointed out that " in this place, where a good American would say " endowed by God,' the author or authors of this terrorist manifesto says " endowed by their Creator.' And toward the end, they say they have a " Reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence,' rather than following the official American motto of " In God We trust.' " Ashcroft said that his experts had parsed and analyzed the document, and felt confident that they could identify some of its authors and supporters. For instance, he said, " we know that some of them have grown hemp - that's just a code word for marijuana, and it is currently used only by the advocates of legalization who would doom future generations of American children - which means that these criminals are very likely using illegal drug money to finance their terrorism campaign. " Another drug connection, Ashcroft said, lay in an unusual phrase in the document: " the pursuit of happiness. " Some names associated with the document, the attorney general said, were suspected of involvement in smuggling, as well as of participation in an attack by terrorists in disguise on a ship in Boston harbor which resulted in the destruction of much of its cargo. " The similarities with the U.S.S. Cole attack are too significant to ignore, " Ashcroft said, " and we all know what other terrible things started beneath the lax security system operated by the Port Authority of Boston. " The attorney general said there were other Boston connections. " I don't want to give out this party's name, because we could be closing in on him, " he said, " but he is an attorney from the Boston area who has defended unpopular clients before, and his name is associated with the document. " In fact, " Ashcroft continued, " he may have assisted in writing it, and with our new Patriot Act Domestic Communications Surveillance System, we have found several other messages which he either sent to his fellow conspirators or attempted to present to the general public. In one, he wrote that " the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,' and in another, he wrote that " this would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.' " While most media representatives were content to take notes or prepare their hair for their soon-to-come standup shots outside the Justice Department offices, one unkempt print reporter asked the attorney general if the terrorist suspect was John Adams, second president of the United States, and whether the terrorist manifesto was the Declaration of Independence, issued on July 4, 1776. Ashcroft said he could not dignify such an impudent question with an answer, and ordered security personnel to remove the troublemaker to a special counter-terrorism prison where he would be held incommunicado before appearing at a closed military tribunal. The attorney general closed by reminding patriotic Americans that, to stand up against the security threats posed by terrorists, they should go shopping on July 4, rather than attend any public celebrations. Ed Quillen of Salida (ed ) is a former newspaper editor whose column appears Tuesday and Sunday Declaration of Independence: http://www.usconstitution.net/declar.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 5, 2002 Report Share Posted July 5, 2002 Well .... speechless.. Jo > A Terrorist Manifesto? > > Ed Quillen > Denver Post Columnist --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.372 / Virus Database: 207 - Release 20/06/02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 5, 2002 Report Share Posted July 5, 2002 From another list:- Jo Japan minister blames whales for starving millions 2002-07-04 14:33:03 GMT (Reuters) http://www.agriculture.com/worldwide/IDS/2002-07-04T143303Z_01_T99088_RTRIDS T_0_JAPAN-WHALING.html TOKYO, July 4 (Reuters) - Japan's farm minister, defending his country's controversial scientific whaling programme, suggested on Thursday the giant ocean mammals were taking food from the mouths of millions of starving people worldwide. " I wonder whether you know that whales consume more than three to five times the maritime resources (that humans do), or in terms of fish, 300 million to 450 million tonnes of fish, " Agriculture Minister Tsutomu Takebe told a news conference. " I also have to point out that on the earth there are 800 million human beings who are undernourished. " Takebe later qualified his remark, saying he was merely pointing out the necessity of exploiting natural resources on a sustainable basis and not arguing that whales were actually to blame for global hunger. It was not the first time he has drawn fire -- or stirred bewilderment -- by citing a threat to world fisheries resources to argue in favour of whaling. At the the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting in May, he drew parallels with damage to life and limb caused by an rise in the number of African elephants trampling on people. " People say the hunting of elephants is for ivory, but that is not true, " domestic media quoted him as saying. " For those concerned, it's a matter of life and death. " Japan abandoned commercial whaling in 1986 in line with a global moratorium, but began what it calls scientific research whaling the following year. It lobbied for a resumption of commercial whaling at the latest IWC gathering, but its quest was thwarted at a meeting distinguished by days of bitter battles. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.372 / Virus Database: 207 - Release 20/06/02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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