Wednesday, March 14, 2007

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was no surprise to the USA. His status was known for a long time before 911. More reason to believe, actions against these known terrorists before they could act on September 11th was possible.

Mohammed says responsible for 9/11 (click on)

Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:22 PM EDT

By Andrew Gray
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top al Qaeda suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has claimed he organized the September 11 attacks on the United States and other major attacks, according to the transcript of a hearing released on Wednesday.

"I was responsible for the 9/11 Operation, from A to Z," Mohammed, speaking through a personal representative, said according to the transcript of the hearing on Saturday at the U.S. military's Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba.

Mohammed, a Pakistani national, also said he was responsible for a 1993 attack on New York's World Trade Center, the bombing of a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia, and an attempt to down two American airplanes using shoe bombs.

U.S. officials have said Mohammed, who was arrested in Pakistan in March 2003 and handed over to U.S. custody, was the mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks which destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon.

"I was the operational director for Sheikh Usama (Osama) Bin Laden for the organizing, planning, follow-up, and execution of the 9/11 operation," he said through his representative, a member of the U.S. military.


IT IS AMAZING THE DEGREE people like Laura What's Her Name will believe in order to tow 'the patry line' - "The President can fire anyone he wants to." "W"rong. US Attorneys aren't part of the Cabinet. There has to be good reason to fire US Attorneys. Neer before in the history of this country has there been eight US Attorneys fired. Never.

Andy is simply trying to provide more blind and bland stenography to the RNC.


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Federal agents join New Orleans police to target offenders

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/police/6455597.html

NEW ORLEANS — Forty-six suspects have been charged with federal felony offenses since federal agents joined local police in patrolling crime-prone parts of the city starting in late January, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said Monday.

All but one of the 46 suspects have been arrested, and 44 of them remain in federal custody.

Twenty of the 46 suspects were charged with illegal possession of firearms, and some face drug charges.

Federal grand juries have indicted 35 people.

Letten and New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley said the arrests are evidence the new partnership between federal and local officials is yielding results in New Orleans, which has been racked by a wave of violent crime in recent months.

THE AMERICAN MEDIA would have the nation full of propaganda before the fourth anniversary of the illegal invasion into Iraq.

http://www.icasualties.org/oif/

It sincerely doesn't look that way.

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, March 14
14 Mar 2007 22:27:28 GMT

* BAGHDAD - Three U.S. soldiers died as a result of injuries sustained during combat operations in Diyala province on Wednesday, the U.S. military said. Nine soldiers were wounded.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi troops raided a complex in eastern Baghdad occupied by Palestinian refugees after receiving information that a car bomb was inside the compound, Interior Ministry spokesman Brigadier Abdul Karim Khalaf said. Khalaf said shooting broke out and three men gunmen were killed and 25 others were arrested, including Iraqis and Palestianians.

FALLUJA - A U.S. Marine was killed in combat on Tuesday in Anbar province, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.

BAQUBA - Police found four decapitated heads in the insurgent stronghold of Baquba, officers said. It was not clear who the victims were.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed Mudhafer al-Ubaidi, the leader of Baghdad's Adhamiya Municipality, and one of his guards, an aide to Ubaidi said. Ubaidi's son was wounded in the attack.

NEAR HILLA - Gunmen killed three off-duty policemen just south of Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, a hospital source said.

TUZ KHURMATO - A suicide bomber killed 10 people and wounded 15 in a market in Tuz Khurmato, south of Kirkuk, police said.

MOSUL - Several mortar rounds landed on a residential district in Mosul killing a man and his child and wounding four, a hospital source said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded near an Iraqi army checkpoint, killing one person and wounding four in Baghdad's western Yarmouk district, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed two policemen in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Gunmen killed one civilian in his store and kidnapped his brother in the northern city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

NEAR KIRKUK - A motorist was killed when a roadside bomb blew up next to his vehicle on a main road south of the city of Kirkuk, police said.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army found 1,600 litres of nitric acid in 64 small containers prepared as roadside bombs in Baghdad's northern district of Adhamiya, police said.

NEAR FALLUJA - The bodies of two men were found, with gunshot wounds and signs of torture, near the Sunni Arab stronghold of Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

DIWANIYA - Gunmen killed two police officers and wounded another on Tuesday night in a drive-by shooting in the southern city of Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

ISKANDARIYA - A Sunni mosque was badly damaged on Tuesday when militants planted bombs inside it in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO460349.htm

THE OTHER ISSUES OF THE HOUR, surrounded the escalation of violence in the USA, which is easily seen in a gun BATTLE in Manhatten

4 Dead in Manhattan Gunfight (click on)

Two unarmed auxiliary police officers were fatally shot last night during a chase with a gunman on a busy stretch of bars and restaurants in the heart of Greenwich Village, the authorities said....

...It was the second night in a row that city officers were attacked in the line of duty. On Tuesday night, one police officer was shot in a Harlem restaurant only 90 minutes before another was stabbed in the head at a Brooklyn subway station. Both survived....

THE VIOLENCE of the nation is directly related to the number of guns returned to the street by the Bush White House and the promotion of violence by his administration in the way of war, confrontational police force that freely uses barrage of bullets in reaction to crime at any indication (There recently was a killing of several Black Men at a night club on the Eve of his wedding.) as well as the deprivation of Civil Rights across the board at a federal level.

The 'Police State' of the Bush Administration is sparking violence and not preventing it.

Then there was a focus on a soldier that actually committed suicide while waiting for services at the VA. That is directly related to the lack of funding by the Bush White House of the VA. Just another lack of support the troops actually get.

ON the other hand, this is a lesson to families in that 'waiting' for treatment is deadly. They need to act to contain the threats of suicide with motions of commitment. While held in less optimal facilities possibly, the veterans are still alive and when they are moved to the top of the VA list, they will then be able to be transferred to those facilities for treatment.

THAT problem solving lacked on this program, so much as simply complaining to spark action through embarrassement of the federal government. The federal government is incompetent, embarrassing them doesn't accomplish higher competency so much as simply throwing money 'at the problem' in hopes someone will find that enough of an answer. The money needed by the VA also needs competent practitioners within it's administration so that it translates into 'state of the art' care of our veterans.

There is now a child without a father due to the high incompentency of committment by the VA in pursuing 'state of the art' care. A father that survived the war. And a lack of committment which needs to include public oversight with recommendations to a House and Senate willing to find answers for those surviving the war. A war that has many more casualities when realizing very few returning soldiers are actually untouched by the rigors of survival in Iraq.

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