WHAT ABOUT IRAN?
Something brewing we don't know about????
compiled by Dee Finney
NEWS
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| 4-18-03 - DREAM: I was managing an apartment building
somewhere in Milwaukee, WI. A better opportunity came up for me so I moved
up the street about a block to a different building. I was so much liked
by the people in my building, half of them moved to the new building with
me.
I hadn't yet picked up the 'media' mail for the new building, so
I got the key, which was a large round key - not a normal key and opened
the box - it was empty.
While I was standing there, I overheard a Geraldo Rivera look-alike
talking to two painters as they walked by. He said that three Cong (Kong?)
men, who were sleeping around with some white women and so they endangered
a Tulghur operation, they were taken out by the C.I.A.
NOTE: DID HE MEAN CONGRESSIONAL
GUYS???
When I got to my office, I told this bit of news to a psychologist
friend. She said there was no way anyone could have known information like
that.
As I was talking to her, the radio was on with the news and the announcer
began talking about the Tulghur area and some war operation that happened
25 years earlier.
I said to the psychologist, "How could I know such information, even
if I dreamed it? Even if I sat in front of the TV day and night 25
years ago?
She couldn't answer the question. She had no clue.
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Here is the first mail for the media mailbox. Didn't take long to come
in either.
Hi, I was dreaming words I didn't know also, reminded me to search for
them. On TV after I dreamed I saw the big city burning we saw red tracer
fires of some kind in Baghdad. But I know that dreams have to "dry" most
of the time and I dreamed about laundry that was still dripping that belonged
to a UFO a few days ago also.
Love, Sheila
here is an article on Media & the Medes --
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10117a.htm |
| The Iranian Revolution 1978-1979
State Entry Exit Combat
Forces Population
Losses
Iran 1979 1987
305000 43000000
70000
Rebels 1979 1987 50000
10000000
20000
The Islamic republic... Revolution of 1978-79... The sense that in both
the agricultural and industrial spheres too much had been attempted too rapidly
and that mistakes had been made and expectations disappointed was manifested
in demonstrations against the government in 1978; many people were killed,
and martial law was imposed in the major cities in September. This ended
the relaxation of government controls, begun in 1977, that had encouraged
protests and that had led to the emergence of religious activists allied
with extremist "Dedicated Fighter" groups, the Mujahedin; these groups were
opposed to the influx of foreigners, particularly Americans, and to a
westernization they saw as threatening to those traditional values subsumed
under the cloak of Shi'ite Islam.
During his exile, Khomeini coordinated an upsurge of opposition--first
from Iraq and then from France, after 1978--demanding the Shah's abdication.
On January 16, 1979, in what was officially described as a "vacation," the
Shah fled Iran.
The Regency and Supreme Army Councils established for the Shah's absence
proved unable to function, and Prime Minister Shahpur Bakhtiar was unable
to effect compromise with his former National Front colleagues or with Khomeini.
Crowds in excess of 1,000,000 demonstrated in Tehran, proving the wide appeal
of Khomeini, who arrived in Iran amid wild rejoicing on February 1, 1979.
Ten days later Bakhtiar went into hiding, eventually to find exile in
Paris.
The republic ... On April 1, after a landslide victory in a national
referendum (in which only one choice was offered and the balloting was not
secret), Khomeini declared an Islamic republic, subsequently invested with
a new constitution reflecting his ideals of Islamic government. Fundamentalist
measures followed, and revolutionary committees patrolled the streets enforcing
Islamic codes of behaviour and dress. Efforts were made to suppress Western
influence, and many of the Western-educated elite fled the country.
Anti-American sentiment was strong, and the Shah's admission to the United
States for medical treatment touched off a huge demonstration in Tehran demanding
his extradition. On November 4, 1979, supporters of the revolution took control
of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, seized 66 U.S. citizens there and at the foreign
ministry, and, with the exception of 14 who were granted early release and
despite the death of the Shah on July 27, 1980, held them hostage until January
20, 1981. Also in November 1979, the republic's first prime minister, Mehdi
Bazargan, resigned. The republic's first president, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr,
opposed the holding of the U.S. embassy. He was impeached by the Majles and
forced to flee to France, together with opposition leader Massoud Rajavi
of the outlawed Mujahedin-e Khalq (Fighters for the People) faction, with
whom he formed the National Council of Resistance for the overthrow of the
Khomeini regime. The Mujahedin stepped up a campaign of sporadic and highly
demoralizing bombing throughout the country that killed many clerics and
government leaders, including the bombing on June 28, 1981, of the headquarters
of the ruling Islamic Republican Party, in which 73 people were killed.
Bani-Sadr's successor, former prime minister Mohammad Ali Rajai, and his
prime minister were killed in another bombing on August 30. Hojatolislam
Sayyed Ali Khamenei was elected to succeed him in October and was reelected
in 1985. The early years of the revolutionary government were marked by the
virtual elimination of political opposition and the consolidation and
regularization of revolutionary organizations. Unrelenting executions on
sometimes trivial allegations, rumours of torture, persecution of Baha'is,
arbitrary arrests, bad prison conditions, and the denial of basic rights
tarnished the reputation of the republic's leaders...
The cease-fire redirected attention to long-standing factional conflicts
within the government between "conservatives," "pragmatists," and "leftists"
over economic, social, and foreign policy objectives. These conflicts were
underscored in November 1986 when, denunciations of the "Great Satan" aside,
it was revealed that, with Khomeini's consent, Iran had accepted arms shipments
from the United States in exchange for Iranian assistance in the release
of American hostages held in Lebanon by Shi'ite extremists. The factionalism
only served to further increase disillusionment among the Iranian population,
whose decimated numbers suffered high unemployment, inflation, and shortages
brought on primarily by the war.
Ayatollah Khomeini died of a heart attack on June 3, 1989. The transition
of power was surprisingly smooth, orderly, and quick. The Assembly of Experts
met in emergency session on June 4 and elected President Khamenei the new
faqih, or spiritual leader, simultaneously promoting him to the status of
ayatollah. Presidential elections and a referendum on constitutional amendments
were moved up to July 28, and Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani,
speaker of the Majles since 1980, was elected with 95 percent of the vote;
he ran virtually unopposed.
Upon the approval by the Majles of all of his ministerial nominations
(representing a healthy balance of the factions), Rafsanjani began the process
of rebuilding the war-torn economy. Considered a "pragmatist," or "moderate,"
Rafsanjani favoured a policy of economic liberalization, privatization of
industry, and a rapprochement with the West that would encourage much-needed
foreign investment. A move toward the latter was facilitated with the resumption
of diplomatic ties between Iran and the United Kingdom on September 27, 1990,
despite the fatwa (religious edict) issued by Khomeini 18 months earlier
calling for the death of the British author Salman Rushdie, whose novel The
Satanic Verses (1988) was considered blasphemous to Islam.
FROM:
http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/india/iran1978.htm |
| FROM:
http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_19.shtml
I Persian Gulf War (Iraq-Iran War), 1980-1988
By Tom Cooper & F. Bishop
Jan 10, 2003, 05:25
The Mother of all Build-Ups
During the 1970s, both Iran and Iraq invested heavily on their air forces,
creating not only two of the largest and most powerful air arms in the Middle
East, but also worldwide. The circumstances and the results of these investments
remain largely unnoticed, just like the details about the deployment and
operations of both air forces in the long and bloody war of attrition between
the two countries, fought between 1980 and 1988.
In 1960s and 1970s, Iran was a firm US ally; consequently, the Imperial
Iranian Air Force (IIAF) was developed along the USAF lines, and relied on
US threat perceptions, doctrine, strategies, tactics, purchasing, production,
as well as training policies. Everything in the IIAF, its air power doctrine
and capabilities, was tailored for supporting a joint US-Iranian operation
against a possible Soviet invasion of Iran from the north. Even the traditions
and markings of the IIAF strongly resembled those of the US Air Force (USAF).
A chain of huge air bases and a widespread early warning system were erected
against the USSR. Consequently, the self-sufficient structure of the IIAF
was weak during the 1970s, and was planned to be developed during the 1980s.
Instead, during the 1970s, Iran was turned into a huge forward base for local
as well as the US forces, where huge stocks of spare parts and weapons were
piled. Partially, such a policy was also influenced by the fact that after
learning about Israeli problems in 1973, the Iranians began to order additional
amounts of equipment, spare parts and weapons, which could enable them to
fight an intensive war for many months without any external help. The
IIAF’s strategic stocks, managed by the costly Peacelog automated inventory
system, became so huge that even in 1986 the emerging Islamic Republic of
Iran Air Force (IRIAF) was still using bombs and missiles purchased during
the 1970s – even if expired shelf-lives of most items caused operating
difficulties.
By constantly taking part in joint exercises with the USAF, USN, RAF and
the Turkish and Pakistani air forces, in addition to sending its best crews
and pilots for training courses to the US and Israel, the IIAF honed the
skills of its chain of command, pilots, and technical personnel to highest
possible degrees. Iranian reconnaissance assets were also involved in constant
monitoring operations along the Soviet borders, together with USAF/CIA personnel
and equipment. The IIAF was trained to function as a member of a team with
large and far-reaching objectives, and so had to keep the pace. There were
some problems, like lack of proper EW systems and gaps in radar coverage
of the Iranian airspace, as well as a lack of effective anti-shipping systems,
but they were recognized and measures were taken to rectify them. During
the late 1960s and through 1970s, the IIAF took delivery from the USA up
to 104 Northrop F-5A/Bs Freedom Fighters, and then continued with purchases
of 32 McDonnell Douglas F-4Ds, 177 F-4Es, 165 F-5E/Fs, at least 20 RF-4Es
(only 16 of which were delivered “officially”), and 80 Grumman
F-14As, as well as a large fleet of Boeing 707-3J9C tankers, Lockheed C-130E/H
Hercules transports, and a number of Boeing 747-2J9C strategic transports.
By 1979, up to 300 F-16A/Bs, seven Boeing E-3A AWACS aircraft and other assets
were on order, negotiations for 75 more F-14As were due to start, and the
IIAF was also to build the most comprehensive training installations outside
the USA, very similar to those used for the Red Flag exercises. Training
began with a fast pace, in the US, and young Iranian officers started undergoing
F-16 flying and AWACS control courses.
Despite having only 450 combat aircraft, and planning to get around 400
more by 1982, bases and facilities built in Iran could easily accommodate
and support as many as 3,000 fighter and support aircraft. For comparison,
when the US deployed its forces to the region after the Iraqi invasion of
Kuwait, in late 1990, it stationed around 2,400 aircraft on various air bases
– spread in five countries in the region – as well as on aircraft
carriers, within six months. Interestingly this number peaked at 2,790 aircraft
(very close to the 3,000 number) on February 24, 1991. The infrastructure
for such an operation was not available, however, and had to be hastily
improvised: on most air bases, the US, British, and French aircraft initially
stood exposed to a harsh climate, and even if after several months a large
number of makeshift shelters were built, most of the aircraft were not properly
protected for the duration of their deployment in the area, while most airfields
were simply overtaxed. No such problems would be encountered, if bases in
Iran were available to the Gulf alliance.
Iraq, to the contrary, could not count on any such support. Although the
Iraqi Air Force (IrAF) is the oldest Arab air force (established already
in 1924), the policies of the country’s leadership increasingly isolated
it from the outside world. For more than 30 years, the IrAF was organized,
trained, and equipped by the British, and the British influenced every aspect
of the Iraqi air force structure and operations, including the “air
policing” of Kurdish areas in northern Iraq. After the fall of the monarchy,
in 1958, the IrAF began to increasingly equip itself with Soviet-built aircraft.
To many observers, it was “logical” therefore to describe the
IrAF as an entity “operating according to the Soviet doctrine,”
while the fact was that after purchasing over 60 Hawker Hunters during the
early 1960s, the Iraqis were never satisfied with what they had got from
the Soviets, and tried hard to get more hardware from the West. For different
reasons, however, deals for SEPECAT Jaguars, BAe Hawks, and Dassault Mirage
5s were all spoiled, and it was not before 1977 that Iraq finally ordered
its first large numbers of Western combat aircraft and helicopters - from
France.
The isolation from the outside was felt also in training, operations,
and capabilities of the IrAF. Under constant observation and heavy pressure
by the ruling regimes, the IrAF became at least as much a victim of the usual
tendency of its officers to mix into the politics, as it suffered from being
equipped with second-class hardware supplied by the USSR, which simply would
not make it more capable of defending the huge Iraqi airspace. This was one
of the reasons why the IrAF leaned heavily on Indian Air Force (IAF) –
instead on the Soviets – for training during the 1970s and a better
part of 1980s. This changed only to a slight degree in 1979, when a massive
contract was signed with Moscow, covering delivery of over 200 combat aircraft
and helicopters, including the first Mi-25 Hinds and MiG-25 Foxbats. The
purchase of the latter, namely, was conditioned by the Soviets on the presence
of a large number of their advisors, which were to keep the Foxbats –
stationed at the Shoaibah AB, near Basrah – under control for a number
of years to come.
The IrAF had also some limited combat experiences from a few wars against
Israel, and the continuous low intensity fighting against the Kurdish insurgency.
The Iraqis barely learned any important lessons from the war in 1967, but
very closely observed the October War of 1973, in which several IrAF squadrons
took part as well. The Iraqis understood very well that under given
circumstances, they did not have any choice but to form an air defense command
along the Soviet lines, equipped with almost 100 Mikoyan MiG-21s, over two
hundred SA-2, SA-3 and SA-6 SAM sites, and a large number of anti aircraft
guns. Despite the size of their country, and the long borders with their
neighbors, however, the Iraqis could merely concentrate their SAM sites and
point defense interceptors around the vital installations: between such areas,
over 90% of the Iraqi airspace was not permanently defended. The rest of
the air force, was equipped with MiG-23s – which were a huge disappointment
for the Iraqis – limited-capability Sukhoi Su-7s (mainly used for training)
and Su-20/-22 attack planes, while a single bomber wing flew Ilyushin Il-28s,
and Tupolev Tu-16s and Tu-22s.
Thus, while by 1979 the IIAF was an excellent force on the verge of becoming
a power of strategic proportions equipped with first-class weapons and systems,
the IrAF was still a small tactical asset, the most modern combat aircraft
of which was MiG-23.
The Iraqi Invasion
The chain of events, which finally led to the Iraqi invasion of its eastern
neighbor, was directly initiated by the Islamic revolution in Iran, in February
1979, which followed a series of unrests throughout the country, starting
in 1978. The demise of the Shah’s regime had tremendous consequences
for the IIAF, which not only lost its name, but also its whole command staff.
Constant purges through 1979 and 1980, and plans by the new regime to
“cleanse” the air force – suspected of being
“royalist” and “disloyal to Islam” – not only caused
hundreds of the air force officers to be purged, imprisoned or executed,
but finally threatened even the bare existence of the whole service. This
was certainly one of the most influential reasons for the Iraqis to attack
Iran; it was clear, namely, that the IrAF had no chances against an intact
and fully operational Iranian air force.
Although the combat operations during the First Persian Gulf War were
“officially” started on the afternoon of September 22, 1980, intensive
fighting along the central sector of the Iraqi-Iranian border erupted already
on September 4, and until today, Iraqis consider this date as the starting
point of the war. During most of September, both the IrAF and the IRIAF supported
ground forces with a large number of reconnaissance and combat sorties. Far
better equipped and trained Iranians caused extensive losses to the Iraqis,
even if their operations were hampered by technical problems, and also by
the need to simultaneously fight an Iraqi-supported Kurdish revolt in the
northwest Iran – which was costly in terms of helicopters, aircraft,
and crews lost. Despite losses, the lack of any powerful Iranian response
during early skirmishes, the reports on the dreadful condition of the Iranian
armed forces, and the clandestine support from the US (which delivered blueprints
of the Iranian air defense system to Baghdad), Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait,
ensured Iraqis that a war against Iran could be successfully initiated and
quickly concluded probably with the crushing of the new regime in Tehran
itself.
Therefore, on the afternoon of September 22, 1980, the Iraqis initiated
a war against Iran with a massive armored onslaught into the southwestern
province of Khuzestan, and a simultaneous two-wave attack by the IrAF against
most important IRIAF air bases in western and central Iran. The air offensive
– flown by heavily armed aircraft but lacking the needed capabilities,
and pilots who lacked proper training – turned into a complete failure,
and not even another try, on the following morning, could preclude the IRIAF
to respond in full power. Only four hours after the first Iraqi attack, namely,
four Iranian F-4 Phantoms bombed the Rashid AB, in southern Baghdad, and
– utilizing IIAF-era contingency plans – on the morning of September
23, no less than 140 Iranian F-4D/E Phantoms, F-5E/Fs and F-14s – responded
by an aerial onslaught against Iraq. Thus a relative “aerial siege”
of Iraq was initiated, which was to last for almost a week, and during which
the IRIAF continued to put large formations of fighter-bombers over Iraq
each morning, systematically destroying Iraqi oil-production and war-fighting
capabilities, and also forcing most of the IrAF into exile, in Jordan and
Saudi Arabia. Equipped with ECM pods, BL.755 CBUs, and the Mk.80 series of
bombs, and using specially reconnoitered ingress corridors, the Iranians
had not much problems in flying almost completely undisturbed deep into Iraq.
If the IrAF managed to intercept any formation, its fighters were usually
detected in time, and shot down in large numbers. On September 25, for example,
no less than five MiG-21s and MiG-23s were shot down in a single air combat
near Baghdad, in exchange for two damaged Phantoms
When the IrAF tried to attack deep into Iran, even if flying along
„blind spots“ of the Iranian early warning radar system - the Iraqi
formations were frequently intercepted, and several times shot down to the
last plane. Especially units equipped with the MiG-23s suffered severely.
After almost a week of intensive attacks against Iraqi targets, the IRIAF
had to change its strategy, as the Iraqi Army was now driving almost 60km
deep into southern Iran putting several Iranian cities and important air
bases under threat, while the list of the targets in Iraq was almost exhausted,
and bad weather hampered many of the operations. Consequently, the Iranians
threw the whole power of their air force to stop the Iraqis. This task was
completed by late October 1980, albeit at a very heavy price, as a lack of
proper EW systems, and even chaff and flare dispensers, became evident. The
Iraqi invasion, however, saved the lives of numerous Iranian unattached officers,
who were released from Islamic regime’s prisons, in order to help in
the fighting. Together with other skilled personnel, these pilots were to
become the most important asset at the hands of the IRIAF for the rest of
the war.
See More about this war and photos at:
http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_19.shtml |
Tulghur, Iran
| Latitude |
36.8167 |
Longitude |
59.4000 |
Altitude (feet) |
5748 |
| Lat (DMS) |
36° 49' 0N |
Long (DMS) |
59° 23' 60E |
Altitude (meters) |
1751 |
| Weather |
| Location:
Middle East, bordering the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian
Sea, between Iraq and Pakistan
| AVN based WAPF forecast for Tulghur. Not valid for navigation. |
| Time |
Cloud Cover |
Altimeter |
Rain or Snow |
Winds & Temperature |
| Surface (5748') |
| 1415Z (now) |
Overcast |
1020.3/30.21" |
Lots (3.2 cm) |
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331@11 -4°C |
| 215Z (+12h) |
Scattered |
1023.6/30.31" |
None |
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332@15 -5°C |
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| 1415Z (+24h) |
Scattered |
1018.5/30.16" |
None |
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303@5 1°C |
| 215Z (+36h) |
Scattered |
1017.5/30.13" |
None |
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238@9 2°C |
| 1415Z (+48h) |
Scattered |
1008.8/29.87" |
Some |
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216@10 13°C |
| 215Z (+60h) |
Overcast |
1009.0/29.88" |
Some |
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225@18 9°C |
| 1415Z (+72h) |
Overcast |
1006.7/29.81" |
Lots (1.3 cm) |
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256@12 16°C |
| 215Z (+84h) |
Overcast |
1010.9/29.93" |
Lots (3.8 cm) |
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17@0 10°C |
| 1415Z (+96h) |
Overcast |
1010.4/29.92" |
Lots (4.7 cm) |
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210@14 12°C |
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IRAN DAILY NEWSPAPER
NETIRAN
IRAN CULTURAL CENTER
MEDIA AND
MEDES
Facts taken from the CIA page on Iran:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ir.html
Known as Persia until 1935, Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979 after
the ruling shah was forced into exile. Conservative clerical forces subsequently
crushed westernizing liberal elements. Militant Iranian students seized the
US Embassy in Tehran on 4 November 1979 and held it until 20 January 1981.
During 1980-88, Iran fought a bloody, indecisive war with Iraq over disputed
territory. Key current issues affecting the country include the pace of accepting
outside modernizing influences and reconciliation between clerical control
of the regime and popular government participation and widespread demands
for reform.
Population:
66,622,704 (July 2002 est.)
Area:
total: 1.648 million sq km
land: 1.636 million sq km
water: 12,000 sq km
Area - comparative: slightly larger than Alaska
Land boundaries:
total: 5,440 km
Border countries: Afghanistan 936 km, Armenia 35 km, Azerbaijan-proper
432 km, Azerbaijan-Naxcivan exclave 179 km, Iraq 1,458 km, Pakistan 909 km,
Turkey 499 km, Turkmenistan 992 km
Coastline : 2,440 km; note - Iran also borders the Caspian
Sea (740 km)
Terrain: rugged, mountainous rim; high, central basin with deserts,
mountains; small, discontinuous plains along both coasts
Elevation extremes: lowest point: Caspian Sea -28 m
highest point: Kuh-e Damavand 5,671 m
Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, coal, chromium, copper,
iron ore, lead, manganese, zinc, sulfur
Land use: arable land: 10.17% permanent crops: 1.16%
other: 88.67% (1998 est.)
Irrigated land: 75,620 sq km (1998 est.)
Natural hazards: periodic droughts, floods; dust storms, sandstorms;
earthquakes along western border and in the northeast
Environment - current issues:
air pollution, especially in urban areas, from vehicle emissions, refinery
operations, and industrial effluents; deforestation; overgrazing;
desertification; oil pollution in the Persian Gulf; wetland losses from drought;
soil degradation (salination); inadequate supplies of potable water; water
pollution from raw sewage and industrial waste; urbanization
Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity,
Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Marine
Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: Environmental Modification, Law of the Sea,
Marine Life Conservation
Geography - note: strategic location on the Persian Gulf and Strait of
Hormuz, which are vital maritime pathways for crude oil transport
NEWS
FROM:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=134677184&zsection_id=268774049&slug=iran17&date=20030417
Thursday, April 17, 2003, 12:00 a.m. Pacific
Iran to oppose any U.S. effort to rule in Iraq
By Ali Akbar Dareini
The Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said yesterday his country
will not recognize a U.S.-installed interim administration in Iraq and will
support Syria if it is attacked.
It was the first time a senior official had defined Iran's already well-known
stance on a postwar Iraq.
"We will not recognize any administration other than an all-Iraqi government.
However, we are not seeking tension or confrontation with anybody," Khatami
told reporters after a Cabinet meeting.
On Tuesday, retired U.S. Gen. Jay Garner, chosen by the United States
to lead the interim administration, opened a conference in Ur, Iraq, with
the goal of shaping Iraq's postwar government.
"The Iraqi nation will not accept any foreign rule," Khatami said. "It
is in the interests of morality, civility and international law that an
administration representing all Iraqi ethnic, religious groups take over
in Iraq, and in the long term a government is elected on the basis of one
vote for each Iraqi citizen."
In the first official Iranian comment on U.S. claims that Syria was hosting
officials of Saddam Hussein's regime, Khatami said the rhetoric was a "bluff"
and that Iran would support Syria if attacked.
"Syria is on the front line against Zionist pressures, defending the cause
of the Palestinian nation, freedom and peace in the region," he said. "We
will defend Syria, but it doesn't mean we will engage in military
confrontation.
"We have big problems with America," he said. "But we don't welcome tensions
either. If we feel they are changing their behavior, then a new situation
may emerge (in our relations)."
Meanwhile, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the failure
of the Iraqi Republican Guards in defending their country against U.S.-led
coalition forces would remain "an eternal disgrace."
"The world always pays tribute to defenders who resist, even if they are
defeated by the enemy, but is ashamed of their humiliating surrender," state-run
Tehran television quoted Khamenei as saying.
Iran is reportedly developing a nuclear-weapons program and still supports
terrorist groups. But Iran is no Iraq: It is not dominated by a single, brutal
dictator. It has held elections. And while the country is ruled by Islamic
clerics, it has a strong reformist element that openly challenges
authority.
Iran's Shiite majority does not see eye to eye with those in Iraq, who
are less supportive of the Iranian model of rule by an Islamic council and
may participate in an Iraqi government that is more democratic than Iran's.
Such division among Shiites makes the Iranian rulers particularly nervous.
Iraq's regime change and the presence of U.S. troops could cause a greater
relaxation of control by the clerics in Iran, said Juan Cole, an Iranian
expert and political-science professor at the University of Michigan. That
would give the reform movement more clout.
Religious scholars are talking openly about the prospect of an invigorated,
more moderate center of Shiite Islam developing in Najaf, an ancient center
of Shiism in Iraq, that would vie with Qom, the current center of authority
in the Shiite world.
Arab Shiites have gone to Qom in recent decades because Najaf was isolated
by Saddam and tainted by association with his regime. But many are tired
of seeing their faith dominated by Iranians, a majority of whom are Persian
rather than Arab.
Information from The Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times is included
in this report.
Copyright ? 2003 The Seattle Times Company
Latest earthquake
CNN.com
- Death toll rising in northern Iran quake - June 22, 2002.
... CNN's Lisa Mirando has more on a powerful earthquake that hit Northwestern
Iran and has caused hundreds of deaths
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/06/22/quake.iran/
Death toll rising in northern Iran quake
June 22, 2002
Villagers look on and pray for the wrapped body of a victim following
an earthquake that destroyed the Iranian village of Changoleh.
From Journalist Shirzad Bozorgmehr
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Hundreds of people were killed or injured as an
earthquake and a series of aftershocks rocked northern Iran Saturday, Iranian
media reports said.
In Boinzahra, a town in Qazvin province, at least 500 people have been
killed and at least 1,500 have been injured, according to Islamic Republic
of Iran Broadcasting, a TV network.
IRNA said some 60 villages around Avaj had been razed to the ground or
lost at least half of their buildings, with a pair of early strong aftershocks
inflicting more damage.
The Red Crescent, which mobilized to aid the residents of the region,
expects more casualties, news reports said.
The National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado, said the
quake's magnitude was 6.3.
Don Blakeman, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center
in Colorado in the United States said the quake took place at 7:28 a.m. local
time.
He said the epicenter of the quake was between the cities of Hamadan and
Qazvin, around 220 kilometers (140 miles) west of Tehran, and that the terrain
in the region is mountainous and has many villages.
Major aftershocks, infrastructure devastated
Major aftershocks were reported for hours after the main quake.
Bou'in-Zahra Gov. Ali Mousavi said the quake devastated the villages'
water and power infrastructure, IRNA reported, according to The Associated
Press.
Buildings in the region are made of mud and are very susceptible to this
type of natural catastrophe.
"Usually with this kind of building we lose a lot of people," Professor
Fariborz Nateghi, a government advisor on earthquake engineering, told the
Reuters news agency. "You lose the walls and the ceiling collapses. They
are major killers."
IRNA was quoted by Reuters as saying 80 people had been killed in one
village alone near Avaj, a town of 3,600 people close to the top of a high
pass through the rugged Nobaran Mountains.
Iranian military forces have airdropped blankets, food, and medicine to
people in the region and are helping residents set up shelters.
Iran lies on a major seismic line and is prone to quakes. Moderate tremors
are reported in various parts of the country almost daily.
President Bush, in a written statement Saturday, said he was "saddened"
to learn about the "tragic event" and sent his condolences to the families
of the victims.
"Human suffering knows no political boundaries," Bush said, extending
a hand to a country he has labeled part of an "axis of evil."
A woman carries supplies in Abdareh village, which was destroyed by an
earthquake that killed more than 50 in the village.
"We stand ready to assist the people of Iran as needed and as desired,"
the president said.
Earthquakes in northern Iran -- where the Arabian tectonic plate, pushed
northward by the African plate, collides with the Eurasian plate -- tend
to be especially strong.
A June 1990, magnitude 7.7 earthquake centered near the Caspian Sea, destroyed
three cities and more than 700 villages, killing 40,000 people. Another quake
of about the same magnitude in the same area nearly 30 years earlier killed
12,000 people.
President Mohammad Khatami issued a message of condolence to the Iranian
nation, AP reports, quoting local television.
Khatami also instructed the Interior Ministry to cooperate with other
agencies to act quickly in offering assistance to the victims. Three days
of mourning have also been declared in the provinces, according to the same
report.
Over
500 Dead, 1,200 Injured in Iran Earthquake
... Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Sunday, June 23, 2002. Over 500
Dead,
1,200 Injured in Iran Earthquake. More than 500 people were ...
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200206/ 23/eng20020623_98369.shtml -
Over 500 Dead, 1,200 Injured in Iran Earthquake
More than 500 people were killed andat least 1,200 others injured in a
strong earthquake early Saturdayin Iran, the state IRNA news agency
reported.
More than 500 people were killed andat least 1,200 others injured in a
strong earthquake early Saturdayin Iran, the state IRNA news agency
reported.
The quake, which hit Iran's northern, central and western provinces of
Gilan, Tehran, Kurdestan, Qazvin, Zanjan and Hamedan at around local time
7:30 a.m. (0300 GMT), was succeeded by several aftershocks between 8:10 a.m.
(0340 GMT) and 15:11 p.m. (1041 GMT) with the magnitudes between 4.1 and
5.2 degrees on the open-ended Richard scale.
The Seismological Institute of Geophysics Center of the Tehran University
said the tremor was of 6.0 degrees on the open-ended Richard scale. It located
the epicenter of the tremor at Bouin Zahra in Qazvin Province.
Majid Shalviri, head of the Red Crescent Society of the Qazvin province,
said that "in the village of Kisse-Jin only, 80 people have been killed."
Following the devastating tremor, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami ordered
Interior Minister Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari to personally take "the grave
responsibilities" in this tragic event.
The Iranian president asked Lari to use all means of the country with
the coordination of other state apparatus to rapidly assist those affected
by the quake.
Iran embraces a number of quake-prone zones. Tens of thousands of people
were killed in Bouin Zahra in a strong earthquake in September, 1984.
In 1990, a seven plus Richter-degree earthquake hit northern provinces
of Zanjan and Gilan, in which tens of thousands of people lost their lives.
Official reports have said that as of 1991 over 950 earthquakes have jolted
Iran, claiming 17,600 lives and injuring 53,300 others.
FROM:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/10/1/93327.shtml
Muslim Viet Cong
John LeBoutillier
Monday, Oct. 1, 2001
Three weeks ago tomorrow were the attacks on the World Trade Center and
the Pentagon. Since then we have had a torrent of loud rhetoric from
the administration – and no retaliation.
We read that we have an "evolving" plan.
But lost in the 24-7 coverage of this disaster is a subtle – but
huge – change in the goals of this effort.
Originally, President Bush and his War Cabinet all said, "We will target
the terrorists and the states that harbor them."
Colin Powell changed that last week when he was asked about Deputy Defense
Secretary Paul Wolfowitz's urging to go after Saddam Hussein's regime in
Iraq. Powell said, "We will go after terrorism. I'll leave it at that."
Suddenly we are not going after the "states" that harbor the terrorists.
There can be no victory if we leave the very governments that arm, finance
and support Osama bin Laden in power.
Thus, even before our response has been delivered, we have undergone severe
mission creep. The administration had originally ratcheted up the rhetoric
to a fevered pitch, promising that "those who did this will hear from us
soon."
Clearly, what has happened since then is that our so-called coalition
partners have leaned on Powell to back off any thoughts of widespread
bombing/invasion of other countries other than Afghanistan. And even there,
we have resorted to nothing but Special Ops and – hold your breath because
it is right out of our failed Vietnam effort – defoliating the poppy
fields!
Of course the specter of Vietnam hovers over all that we do militarily.
The popular phrase has always been "If we do that, a lot of body bags are
going to be coming home."
On Sept. 11, 6,000 body bags were filled – right here in our back
yard! War was declared that day, and yet many – Powell and this useless
coalition – still want a 'measured response.'
Back in World War II – the last real war the USA won – we didn't
believe in 'measured responses.' We believed in killing the enemy –
all of them.
Korea – fought under U.N. auspices – was a 'tie' precisely because
we did not fight to defeat and kill the enemy.
The situation on the ground in Vietnam in the early 1960s is a perfect
analogy to this post-Sept. 11 world. There we fought against a state-supported
guerrilla organization – the Viet Cong – which disguised its suicidally
devoted followers in civilian clothes and infiltrated them into the everyday
life of South Vietnam. From "inside" these Viet Cong soldiers then waged
a war against soldiers, civilians and the South Vietnamese infrastructure.
We never effectively defeated the Viet Cong for one reason: We never cut
off its support, its supplies and its direction by invading North Vietnam
and taking control of enemy territory. Had we done this, the Viet Cong would
have ceased to be a threat.
In this present-day war we need to define a few things:
1) Who exactly is the enemy here? Is it merely 'fundamental Islam'?
2) Is this a War on Terrorism?
The answers to both questions are simple: No.
The enemy here is more than 'fundamental Islam.' And this is not a War
on Terrorism.
This is a war on all those who declared war on us by killing 6,000 Americans.
That means we must kill everyone in any way involved in waging war on
America. And we'd better kill them soon – before they unleash an even
more horrendous attack on us.
If our enemies are going to use a suitcase nuke or biological/chemical
agents, those weapons do not come from a cave in the mountains of Afghanistan.
They come from secret government research facilities – most likely either
in Iraq or Iran.
These nations have declared war on the USA. Only they have cleverly disguised
it by hiding behind the veil of Osama bin Laden. He is their Viet Cong.
He does the dirty work – but if Saddam and the ayatollahs and their
political parties and supporters are eliminated, then the Osama bin Laden
threat is largely defused.
We'd better be prepared to kill – or be killed.
Listening to 'coalition partners' is a prescription for another Vietnam-like
failure.
Sadly, we can already see the 'mission creep' and lack of clear focus
that have caused us to lose most wars and conflicts since 1945.
Is it going to take yet another, even more horrendous, attack to get the
American government mad enough to kill our enemies – before millions
of American civilians are killed?
War on Terrorism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Immediately following and in response to the September 11, 2001 Terrorist
Attack, the United States government announced its intentions to begin a
"War on Terrorism" (or "War on Terror"), a protracted struggle against terrorists
and states that aid terrorists. US-led military forces invaded both Afghanistan
and Iraq under the rubric of the War on Terrorism.
Many governments have pledged their support for the initiative. The US
has received military help from the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, India
the Netherlands, Spain, Australia, Japan, Pakistan, and France, among others.
The "War on Terrorism" quickly became the dominant framework in which
international relations were analyzed, supplanting the old Cold War and in
some cases the War on Drugs. Many pre-existing disputes were re-cast in terms
of the War on Terrorism, including Plan Colombia and the Colombian civil
war; the United States' diplomatic and military disputes with Iraq, Iran,
and North Korea; the war between Russia and Chechnya; and the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. The two largest campaigns undertaken as part of the War have been
the Afghanistan and Iraq campaigns. Although many countries are involved,
making arrests of suspected terrorists, freezing bank accounts and participating
in military action, the war is overwhelmingly viewed as an American initiative.
Some even view it as George Bush's personal war. There was a previous War
on Terrorism declared during the 1980s, by U.S. President Ronald Reagan,
though that one never gained as widespread support or traction as the later
one.
Overall Strategy
The United States has based its counter-terrorist strategy on several
steps:
Denial of safe havens in which terrorists can train and equip members
Restriction of funding of terrorist organizations
Degradation of terrorist networks by capturing and/or killing intermediate
leaders
Detention of suspected and known terrorists. See the section below for
further details
Obtaining information, through various techniques, allegedly including
torture, from captured terrorists of other members of their organization,
training sites, methods, and funding
Expanding and improving efficiency of intelligence capabilities and foreign
and domestic policing
In doing so, the strategy is not very different from successful
counter-guerrilla operations, such as Malaysia in the 1950s. There is a fine
distinction between guerrilla operations and terrorist operations. Many guerrilla
organizations, such as the Zionist terrorist group known as the Irgun in
British-Mandated Palestine, and the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN)
during the Algerian Civil War, and the Viet Cong, included urban terrorism
as part of their overall strategy.
Denial of safe havens involves a fairly large military force; however,
as in Afghanistan in 2002, once the major safe haven areas are overrun, the
large-scale forces can be withdrawn and special forces, such as U.S. Special
Operations Forces or the British Special Air Service (SAS), operate more
effectively.
In addition, the U.S. Army is involved in increasingly large civil affairs
programs in Afghanistan to provide employment for Afghans and to reduce sympathy
in the civilian population for parties the United States has designated as
terrorist.
The U.S. strategy faces several obstacles:
Terrorist groups can continue to operate, albeit at a less-sophisticated
scale
The strengths of American intelligence gathering are signal intelligence
and photo intelligence gathering. Organizations that avoid use of cellular
phones and radios and rely on couriers have a lower profile. On the other
hand, such organizations also have a slower planning and reaction time.
Political opposition to American policies inside countries in which terrorists
operate, as in Pakistan, where al Queda and the Taliban have supporters who
share religious or ethnic affiliations.
Legal opposition to American methods of detaining suspected terrorists.
Interrogation methods
A Washington Post investigation published on December 26, 2002 quotes
anonymous CIA and other government officials who claim that US military and
CIA personnel employ physical coercion during their interrogation of suspects
and that US officials believe these practices are necessary and unavoidable
in light of the September 11th terrorist attacks. They state that CIA is
using "stress and duress" techniques at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, a base
leased from Britain at Diego Garcia Island in the Indian Ocean, and numerous
other secret facilities worldwide.
The CIA reportedly transfers suspects, along with a list of questions,
to foreign intelligence services of countries routinely criticized by the
US Department of State for torturing suspects, where they are alleged to
be severely tortured with the assent and encouragement of the United States.
These countries include Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Syria. One official stated,
"We don't kick the [expletive] out of them. We send them to other countries
so they can kick the [expletive] out of them."
Anonymous sources quoted in the Washington Post article have stated that
those held in the CIA detention center "are sometimes kept standing or kneeling
for hours, in black hoods or spray-painted goggles," and are duct-taped to
stretchers for transport. The Post continues that according to Americans
with direct knowledge and others who have witnessed the treatment, that suspects
are often beat-up and confined in tiny rooms and are also blindfolded and
handcuffed following arrest. Later, suspects are sometimes "held in awkward,
painful positions and deprived of sleep with a 24-hour bombardment of lights"
and loud noises. The Post article goes on to say that national security officials
suggested that pain killers, on at least one occasion, were "used selectively"
to treat a detainee that was shot in the groin during apprehension.
Nevertheless, the Post admits that there is no direct evidence that the
US government is mistreating prisoners. Additionally, as reported by Reuters,
the U.S. military denied these allegations and stated that the Post's article
was "false on several points".
National security officials interviewed for the investigation defended
the use of such techniques as necessary to prevent further terrorist attacks.
As one official put it, "If you don't violate someone's human rights some
of the time, you probably aren't doing your job."
The human rights organization Human Rights Watch called on the United
States to respond to these reports by publicly denouncing the use of torture.
In response to reports that some of the evidence that Colin Powell intended
to present against Iraq to the United Nations was derived from torture, Human
Rights Watch sent a letter to Powell, asking him to use that speech as an
opportunity to condemn any use of torture to gather intelligence.
The techniques reported to be used are similar to techniques that have
been used by the Soviet Union on captured CIA operatives, according to accounts
by retired CIA agents. In addition, similar techniques were used by French
security services in the Algerian War of Independence and in the suppression
of the Secret Army Organization in the 1960s. Ethically, such techniques
are seen by human rights advocates as deplorable, but interrogators see them
as necessary when information must be gained from a reluctant subject.
Article taken from the cached copy of
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terrorism
which was not responding.
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... politicsandprotest.org/. BOMBING OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER - 9-11-2001
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RED LINE - BLUE LINE
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...
EARTHQUAKE IN INDIA -
1-26-2001
... The other was in 1990 in Iran. Perhaps ... bonding. Dee had a dream
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Net Talk
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...
11 Eleven Theme
in September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack
... See also
GreatDreams.com >
Terrorism - World Trade Center - list of elevens and discussion of ...
The country code for Iraq and Iran is 119; New York was the 11th ...
FLIGHT 111 - PLANE CRASH
- NOVA SCOTIA
... Others were from Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy, Greece, Saudi Arabia,
Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iran, Spain, St. Kitts and Russia. ...
A PROPHET IN OUR OWN
TIME - DR. JOHN COLEMAN
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Transcript
of President Bush's Speech
... Dozens of Pakistanis, more than 130 Israelis, more than 250 citizens
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Freedom Activist
Network's Guide To Conspiracies
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www.greatdreams.com/consp.htm#ILLUMINATI
Project
X Newsletter, 16th issue - June the 5th, 1999
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City, the British Isles, central Europe, the Iraq-Iran border, Pakistan ...
SOLAR ECLIPSE 1999 - FINAL
QUEST FOR THE HOLY GRAIL
... major upheavals. Perhaps Iraq will be revisited, but Iran and the
Pan-Islamic movement should likewise be on the march. And within ...
THE DARK SIDE OF
THE MOON
... to the court testimony, the meetings were to sabotage President Jimmy
Carter's reelection campaign
by delaying the release of American hostages in Iran. ...
THE KOREAN LEADER - ATTACK
ON AMERICA?
... Dick Cheney repeated the promise to prevent Iraq, Iran and North Korea
from threatening America ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/dreams_and_prophecy_of_iraq.htm.
...
UFO Links
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... Area51/Nova/8874
UFOs and Extraterrestrials (20000918)
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...
World
War 3
... when the Medo-Persian empire took over(persia is modern day Iran).
...
Disaster;
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http://www.greatdreams.com/poleshift.htm
...
! Gerardus' Grist ! Numbers
and Numerology !
119 is the area code to Iraq/Iran. ... Gerardus =====
For more see:
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http://www.iran-embassy.org.uk/stoppress/130602khatami.htm.
RAYELAN:...***TWO
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... Many people have speculated that Iran was behind the bombing. If Argentina
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BOMB DOWNED EGYPTAIR SAY
CRASH INVESTIGATORS
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responsible. ... Donaldson. "Iran is a very tough nut to screw with. ...
MORE ON EGYPTAIR
'Smoke Gets
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... Within two days suspicions focused on Saudi dissidents funded by Iran
.... ... FLIGHT 990 - EGYPTAIR - OCTOBER 31, 1999.
http://www.greatdreams.com/plane990.htm.
...
IS THE INTERNET BEING
DISABLE OR DESTROYED FROM OUTSIDE THE U.S....
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AND THE MARBLE GAME
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the Safavi dynasty in Iran and the ...
1999
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... In a clear warning to countries such as Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and
Libya, he said that those who harboured or helped terrorists ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/prophecy.htm
. ...
Phenomenon
100 villages flattened by 6.0 earthquake in Iran ..... ...
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MAGNETISM--http://www.greatdreams.com/motion.htm
...
6 Seals of
Revelation
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War ...
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COINCIDENCE AND 11:11
- PART III
... I covered a few of them here:
http://www.greatdreams.com/hallfire.htm.
...
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PEACE
... provided additional US-origin food assistance for displaced persons
in Afghanistan and refugees in neighboring countries,
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gilnotes.HTML
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www.greatdreams.com/gil1.htm.
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"they can be ...
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SHIFT
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(http://www.greatdreams.com/eclipse.htm
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Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Black Sea, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan
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... NUMBERS.
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A CALL TO ACTION
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NOTES 19
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HEZBOLLAH
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...
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the massive exploitation of Reaganomics,
the dominance of the corporate greed mentality
KENT STATE - PROTEST - A
DREAM
... The State of the Union address, in which Bush called Iran, Iraq, and
North Korea an ''axis of evil'' that was threatening to the United States,
seemed to ...
Star Wars: The Next
Generation
... The 1998 report asserted that, within five years of deciding to do
so, a rogue state such as North Korea or Iran
could acquire a ballistic missile capable of ...
DREAMS, VISIONS, PROPHECY
AND COINCIDENCES ABOUT PRINCESS DIANA
... Dodi Fayed, beloved of Lady Diana, is a cousin of Adnan Khashoggi,
a CIA asset involved in sales of arms to Iran -- he and Oliver North. ...
MINNIE MOUSE
& MICKEY MOUSE - DREAMS, CROP CIRCLES AND SYMBOLISM
Famous Sheep: Mohd. Ali, The Shah of Iran, Barbara Walters, Billy Jean
King and King George IV. monkey Year ...
WJKM AM 1090 / CMR -
BLASTED OFF THE AIR
... The phenomenon was seen from two aircraft approaching Mehrabad Airport
in Teheran, Iran on June 17, 1966
and reported by their pilots. ...
THE HORRORS OF WAR
- PEACE AT ANY PRICE?
... We have never seen anything like it. Not in eight years of war with
Iran," she said as she tried to console her son, Rami, who was crying
uncontrollably. ...
PORTENTS IN THE SKY
... called it ``clearly the most urgent threat to US interests.'' It has
a strong presence in Pakistan and Afghanistan and is
developing a presence in Iran and Iraq ...
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/rad-green/2001-October.txt
... various manifestoes, including PLO, Al Fatah, armed struggle in Iran
The Globalization ... Michael Pugliese
http://www.greatdreams.com/nwo.htm
THE NEW WORLD ORDER ...
THE NEW WORLD ORDER
- A GOOD THING?
H. Irano-Afghan race (predominant in Iran and Afghanistan, primary element
in Iraq, common [25%] in Turkey). ...
DEATH CALLS ON THE
PHONE - THE POPE?
... the assassin's trail to Rome, beginning with his dramatic escape from
prison in Turkey in November 1979,
and following his passage through Iran,, Bulgaria
THE BLUE
MAN
... About 15,000 BC increasing population pressure throughout Turkestan
and Iran occasioned
the first really extensive Andite movement toward India. ...
THE PRESIDENTIAL CABINET
- HILARY CLINTON VS CLONING - THE DREAM ...
... He recently headed a panel that concluded countries such as North
Korea and Iran
could eventually have the capacity to launch ballistic missiles at the
United
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- JAIR FARM
... Since 1996, she has been saying that several nations, including Iraq
and Iran,
were helping plan a major terrorist attack in lower Manhattan, specifically
...
DIASPORA and RACE
RIOTS
... The Iranians were not an urban people, and the way of life which these
expatriates followed appears to have
reflected that of Iran itself, with the nobles ...
POPULATION EXPLOSION
- A PROBLEM TO SURVIVAL OF HUMAN EXISTENCE
... Anderson, United States (pollution) Ilyas Bayar, Turkey (agriculture)
William W.Behrens III,
United States (resources) Farhad Hakimzadeh, Iran (population)
CAT FACTS AND WHAT
FAMOUS PEOPLE SAY ABOUT CATS
... throughout Europe. (Long-haired cats came considerably later from
Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan.),
SEKHMET. THE CAT GODDESS BAST. ...
Baffling Lunar
Illusion
... [Vedic, also Vedism; ancient Indo-European speaking peoples who entered
India 1500BC from the Persian/Iran region;
the name was taken from sacred texts known ...
THE WAR WE WATCHED ON
TV - THE FACTS AND MORE
... In 1979 the president, Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr, was replaced by Saddam
Hussein,
and once more the political situation flared into hostilities with Iran.
...
DEES DREAMS AND VISIONS
- MARCH, 2002
... Iran and Iraq suffer large, deadly quakes every few years. Iran had
a 7.7 magnitude quake in 1990. For more than 1,000 years Iran ...
THE UNITED NATIONS -
A VISION AND THE REALITY
... United Nations Member Flags - M - R United Nations Member Flags -
S - Z. China, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Korea North, Korea Sourth, Libya,
Pakistan, ...
RELIGIONS AND
CULTURES OF MOON WORSHIP
... keep their souls alive. Discs are clearly depicted in the 2,500 year
old palace of Darius at Perseopolis in Iran.
HOW THE GOVERNMENT
BLEW UP MANHATTAN - 9-11-2001
... Will it be Iran, Iraq, the Red Chinese (fat chance, the Government
is setting us up to be attacked
by them at a latter date via Nuclear weapons)
TERRORISM AROUND
THE GLOBE 2002
... He said he believed Palestinian militants have been trying to get
shoulder-held missiles from Iran
and the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah. ...
THE WACO FIRE
INVESTIGATION
... Department in recent days were two former Republican senators, Warren
Rudman of New Hampshire
and Jack Danforth of Missouri, and former Iran-Contra prosecutor ...
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