World War III Report, #16

Bill Weinberg, Jan 12, 2002

THE AFGHANISTAN FRONT

1. US in Central Asia for the Long Haul

2. Bombing Continues; Puppet Regime Approves

3. Starvation in Hindu Kush

4. More US Casualties

5. War Captives Face Brutal Conditions

6. Pentagon Censors Photographs

7. Pornographer Challenges Pentagon Censorship

8. US Arms Warring Criminal Factions

9. Afghanistan: An Adventure in Tourism

10. US-Iran Tensions Escalate

11. India "Ready for [Nuclear?] War"



THE MIDDLE EAST

1. US Weighs in on Red Sea Incident

2. Terrorism by Bulldozer



WHO'S NEXT?

1. Somalia?

2. Philippines?

3. ...Indonesia? Yemen?



THE WAR AT HOME

1. New Rights Coalition Protests Terror Sweep

2. Class Apartheid at the Airport

3. Pentagon to Eat Social Security

4. Bush to US: Consume More Oil



NEW YORK CITY

1. Dissent at EPA on WTC Toxic Threat

2. Medical Monitoring for Clean-Up Workers

3. WTC Insurers Use Fuzzy Math

4. More Racist Attacks on Staten Island

5. Good News in Jackson Heights



WATCHING THE SHADOWS

1. US Protects Cuban Terrorist

2. US Protects Haitian Terrorist

3. US Supports Guatemalan Terrorists

4. US Aids Colombian Terrorists

5. NATO Protects Albanian Terrorists

YellowTimes.ORG writes: "
By Sharif Nashashibi

Chairman of Arab Media Watch

www.arabmediawatch.com

(YellowTimes.ORG) – I met Muhammed at the Rashidieh refugee camp in south Lebanon, shortly before the ill-fated Camp David talks. A small man with silver hair and kind blue eyes, he offered to show me around this neglected abyss of sewage and degradation to which he had been exiled since Israel’s creation in 1948, over half a century ago. With traditional Arab hospitality far outweighing his poverty, he invited me to lunch at his home, the size of a living room with a corrugated steel shack piled high with mattresses on which his family of eleven slept. I asked him why the camp was peppered with posters of Yasser Arafat. Brandishing with pride the key to his Israeli-occupied house in the Galilee, he said the Palestinian refugees in south Lebanon, numbering almost 400,000, had faith that Arafat would bring them back home. Not knowing whether to admire Muhammed’s optimism or pity his innocence, I left Rashidieh with a broken, heavy heart.

YellowTimes.ORG writes: "
By Christopher Reilly

YellowTimes.ORG Journalist

(YellowTimes.ORG) – After the Houston-based energy company Enron filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month, the company’s trail of corruption leads directly to the Bush administration’s backyard. The connections between members of the Bush administration and the corporate-giant are too large to ignore, making it hard to imagine that Bush administration members, including the president himself, had no involvement in illegal activity that has resulted in thousands of people losing their jobs, many of those losing their entire life savings.

YellowTimes.ORG writes: "
By Sharif Nashashibi

Chairman of Arab Media Watch

www.arabmediawatch.com

(YellowTimes.ORG) – Two schools of thought emerged after the 1991 Gulf War regarding U.S. motives for ousting Iraqi troops from Kuwait. One accepted the official line: a straightforward, humanitarian desire to liberate an occupied country. The other believed the U.S. wanted political, economic and military dominance of the world’s most oil-rich region. By defeating Saddam Hussein, the US had neutralized a formidable power that may oppose this dominance, and ingratiated the Gulf kingdoms by removing a regional threat. This ensured oil access, political alliances, weapons sales and military bases in the Arabian Peninsula.

World War III, Report #15

By Bill Weinberg, Jan. 5, 2002

SPECIAL ANTHRAX PARANOIA ISSUE!

THE AFGHANISTAN FRONT

1. Bombing Continues; Another Village Wiped Out

2. Refugees Still Flee "Liberated" Afghanistan

3. Starvation in Herat "Slaughterhouse"

4. Unocal Advisor is New US Envoy

5. Brits Back in Afghanistan After 80 Years

6. US Marines Search for Taliban in Afghanistan's South...

7. ...As al-Qaeda Re-groups in Pakistan's Lawless Northwest

8. Green Beret Killed in Ambush

9. US Delegates Torture to Karzai Regime

10. RAWA Charges Women in Karzai Regime with Betrayal

11. US Embroiled in Tribal Warfare

12. Ismaili Uprising Crushed

13. Proxy War in Making

14. Cult of Massoud

NUCLEAR PARANOIA REDUX

1. Rumsfeld Won't "Rule Out" Nuke Attack

2. Nuclear Saber-Rattling on Subcontinent

3. Where (and Who) is Dr. Mahmood?



THE MIDDLE EAST

1. Iraq Attack Planned; US Running Short on Cruise Missiles

2. Israel Buys More Fighter Jets



NEW YORK CITY

1. Firefighters Rap WTC Probe

2. Did Giuliani and FEMA Bottleneck WTC Probe?

3. Osama & the WTC: It was Personal

4. Witnesses Contradict Official Story on Fl. 587

5. Racist Attacks on Staten Island



WATCHING THE SHADOWS

1. Terror Anthrax from Army Stockpile

2. FBI Sees Profit Motive in Anthrax Attacks

3. Drug Companies Make Hay From Terror

4. Beware the Bio-Industrial Complex

5. Bio-Police State Plans Drawn Up

6. Osama's Bio-Arsenal: Real or Hoax?

7. Is Your Mail Radioactive?

8. The Cipro Scam

9. Human Guinea Pigs Line Up for More

10. US Scuttles Bio-War Protocol

Mitchel Cohen writes: "With the President of the United States about to revisit and complete the missions that his father left hanging, we will need more than an oedipal understanding of why the US military is about to be deployed in Somalia nine years after the first go-round, and possibly against Iraq as well.

Somalia, & the Cynical Manipulation of Hunger

by Mitchel Cohen

"To pull out of Somalia would be] devastating to our hopes for the New World Order ..." - General Colin Powell (now Secretary of State), September 1993

"To give food aid to a country just because they are starving is a pretty weak reason." - Henry Kissinger, 1974

Sept. 11th, 1990: President George Bush, Sr. announces his plan for a "New World Order," as U.S./U.N. troops begin amassing in Saudi Arabia shortly before launching the horrendous bombardment against Iraq. One of Bush’s last decisions before leaving office in the Winter of 1992-3 was a large military operation in Eastern Africa, posing as a massive "humanitarian effort" under the aegis of the United Nations as well as the United States to feed the allegedly starving Somali people.

YellowTimes.ORG writes: "
By Christopher Reilly

YellowTimes.ORG Journalist

(YellowTimes.ORG) – A report that came out of Afghanistan yesterday states that U.S. helicopters chased and killed non-combatant Afghan women and children on December 29, much to the dismay of the United Nations.

Britain’s The Times reported that the United Nations is concerned by recent reports stating that “non-combatant women and children were chased and killed by U.S. helicopters during an attack on an Afghan village that left 52 dead.”

World War III, Report, #14

By Bill Weinberg, Dec. 29, 2001

SPECIAL HOLIDAY NUCLEAR PARANOIA ISSUE!

THE AFGHANISTAN FRONT

1. New Regime Welcomes Foreign Troops; Local Warlords Wary

2. New Regime Pledges Kinder, Gentler Fundamentalism

3. Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss--Literally!

4. RAWA Protests New Regime

5. Pentagon Uses Afghans for Cannon Fodder

6. Smart Bombs Not So Smart

7. New Opium War in Making?

8. Did US Use the Nuke in Afghanistan?

9. Nuclear Flashpoint: Kashmir



NEW YORK CITY

1. City Braces for New Year's Eve Nuke Terror

2. Indian Point Nuke Plant Gives Locals Jitters



THE WAR AT HOME

1. Now: Barefoot at Newark

2. Ashcroft Disses Freedom-Nostalgists

3. Amnesty International Criticizes Terror Laws

4. FBI Unveils "Magic Lantern" Cyber-Snoop Tech

5. NYPD Gets More Firepower

6. Jerry Falwell: Mad Magazine's "Dumbest of the Year"



WATCHING THE SHADOWS

1. Does Osama Have the Nuke?

2. Germans at it Again

3. Nuclear Flashpoint: Jerusalem

THE AFGHANISTAN FRONT



NEW REGIME WELCOMES FOREIGN TROOPS; LOCAL WARLORDS WARY

Struggling to consolidate control over the local militias who have carved up Afghanistan, US-picked interim prime minister Hamid Karzai named Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum--who had threatened to boycott the new government--as deputy defense minister. After hosting his first Cabinet meeting Dec. 23, Karzai said US and other foreign forces should stay in the country "for as long as it takes" to bring stability. (MSNBC, Dec. 24)

World War III Report, #13

By Bill Weinberg, Dec. 22, 2001

THE AFGHANISTAN FRONT

1. Interim Regime Inaugurated; US Bombs Dignitaries?

2. RAWA Gets Cabinet Post

3. US Bombing Casualties Top WTC Victims

4. Al-Qaeda Slips Through Net

5. Back from the Brink of Famine

6. Grisly US Propaganda Leaflets

7. US-UK Divisions Over "Peacekeeping Force"

8. US Blocks War Crimes Court



THE NEW GREAT GAME

1. Indo-Pak Saber-Rattling Gets Scary

2. Who's Side is China On?

3. Who's Side is Iran On?

4. Who's Side is Saudi Arabia On?



WHO'S NEXT?

1. Rumsfeld: "Prepare Now For the Next War"

2. Yemen Front Opens

3. Pentagon Trains Philippine Anti-Terror Unit



NEW YORK CITY

1. Ground Zero Toxic Threat Update

2. Did Giuliani Cause 7 WTC Collapse?

3. Indian Point Nuke Plant Draws Protest



WATCHING THE SHADOWS

1. Book: Oil Interests Blocked Terror Probes

2. Petro-Oligarchs Wage Shadow War

3. Kazakhstan Pitches Powell on Pipeline

4. Exxon Praises Kazakhstan Dictatorship as "Democracy"

5. Uzbek Dissident Imprisoned in Prague

6. Turkmenistan: Aspiring Petro-Tyranny

Anonymous Comrade writes: "Possible Bin Laden "Farewell Message" Posted Online

URL: http://www.ict.org.il/spotlight/det.cfm?id=716

December 9, 2001

A site run by supporters of Osama bin Laden published a letter this
morning, believed by some to be a message of farewell from bin Laden
to his followers. The letter, entitled "Usama bin Laden's Message for
the Youth of the Muslim Ummah" was posted online today on azzam.com, a
known outlet for statements issued by bin Laden's al-Qaida
organization.

The message, addressed to young Muslims, harks back to the defeat of
the USSR in Afghanistan by Muslim fighters, and calls upon Muslims to
rally to the cause of Islam against the only remaining superpower.
However, the letter continues, "We should realise that this life is
temporary and eventually we have to return to Allah...."