World Terrorism: News, History and Research Of A Changing World #6 Disinformation, Inc.

VEVAK learned its methodology from the Soviet KGB and many of the Islamist revolutionaries who supported Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini actually studied at Moscow's Patrice Lumumba Friendship University, the Oxford of terrorism. Documented Iranian alumni include the current Supreme Leader (the faqih) Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, under whose Velayat-e Faqih (Rule of the Islamic Jurisprudent) apparatus it has traditionally operated. Its current head is Cabinet Minister Hojatoleslam Gholam-Hussein Mohseni-Ezhei, a graduate of Qom's Haqqani School, noted for its extremist position advocating violence against enemies and strict clerical control of society and government. The Ministry is very well funded and its charge, like that of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (the Pasdaran) is to guard the revolutionary Islamic Iranian regime at all costs and under all contingencies.

From the KGB playbook, VEVAK learned the art of disinformation. It's not so difficult to learn: tell the truth 80% of the time and lie 20%. Depending on how well a VEVAK agent wants to cover his/her tracks, the ratio may go up to 90/10, but it never drops below the 80/20 mark as such would risk suspicion and possible detection. The regime in Teheran has gone to great lengths to place its agents in locations around the world. Many of these operatives have been educated in the West, including the U.K. and the United States. Iranian government agencies such as embassies, consulates, Islamic cultural centers, and airline offices regularly provide cover for the work of VEVAK agents who dress well and are clean shaven, and move comfortably within our society. In this country, because of the severance of diplomatic relations, the principal site of VEVAK activities begins at the offices of Iran's Permanent Mission to the UN in New York.

Teheran has worked diligently to place its operatives in important think tanks and government agencies in the West. Some of its personnel have been recruited while in prison through torture or more often through bribery, or a combination of both. Others are Islamist revolutionaries that have been set up to look like dissidents - often having been arrested and imprisoned, but released for “medical reasons”. The clue to detecting the fake “dissident” is to read carefully what he/she writes, and to ask why this vocal “dissident” was released from prison when other real dissidents have not been released, indeed have been grievously tortured and executed. Other agents have been placed in this country for over twenty-five years to slowly go through the system and rise to positions of academic prominence due to their knowledge of Farsi and Shia Islam or Islamist fundamentalism.

One of the usual tactics of VEVAK is to co-opt academia to its purposes. Using various forms of bribery, academics are bought to defend the Islamic Republic or slander its enemies. Another method is to assign bright students to train for academic posts as specialists in Iranian or Middle East affairs. Once established, such individuals are often consulted by our government as it tries to get a better idea of how it should deal with Iran. These academics then are in a position to skew the information, suggesting the utility of extended dialogue and negotiation, or the danger and futility of confronting a strong Iran or its proxies such as Hizballah (Hezbollah). These academics serve to shield the regime from an aggressive American or Western policy, and thereby buy more time for the regime to attain its goals, especially in regards to its nuclear weaponry and missile programs.

MOIS likes to use the media, especially electronic media, to its advantage. One of VEVAK's favorite tricks is setting up web sites that look like they are opposition sites but which are actually controlled by the regime. These sites often will be multilingual, including Farsi, German, Arabic French, and English. Some are crafted carefully and are very subtle in how they skew their information (e.g., Iran-Interlink, set up and run by Massoud Khodabandeh and his wife Ann Singleton from Leeds, England); others are less subtle, simply providing the regime's point of view on facts and events in the news (e.g., www.mujahedeen.com or www.mojahedin.ws). This latter group is aimed at the more gullible in our open society and unfortunately such a market exists. However, if one begins to do one's homework, asking careful questions, the material on these fake sites generally does not add up.

Let's examine a few examples of VEVAK's work in the United States. In late October, 2005, VEVAK sent three of its agents to Washington to stage a press event in which the principal Iranian resistance movement, the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MeK), was to be slandered. Veteran VEVAK agent Karim Haqi flew from Amsterdam to Canada where he was joined by VEVAK's Ottawa agents Amir-Hossein Kord Rostami and Mahin (Parvin-Mahrokh) Haji, and the three flew from Toronto to Washington. Fortunately the resistance had been tracking these three, informed the FBI of their presence in Washington, and when the three tried to hold a press conference, the resistance had people assigned to ask pointed questions of them so that they ended the interview prematurely and fled back to Canada.

Abolghasem Bayyenet is a member of the Iranian government. He serves as a trade expert for the Ministry of Commerce. But his background of study and service in the Foreign Ministry indicates that Bayyenet is more than just an economist or a suave and savvy businessman. In an article published in Global Politician on April 23, 2006, entitled “Is Regime Change Possible in Iran?”, Bayyenet leads his audience to think that he is a neutral observer, concerned lest the United States make an error in its assessment of Iran similar to the errors of intelligence and judgment that led to our 2003 invasion of Iraq, with its less than successful outcome. However, his carefully crafted bottom line is that the people of Iran are not going to support regime change and that hardliner President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad actually has achieved greater popularity than his predecessors because of his concern for the problems of the poor and his fight for economic and social justice. To the naive, Bayyenet makes Ahmadinejad sound positively saintly. Conveniently overlooked is the occurrence of over four thousand acts of protest, strikes, anti-regime rallies, riots, and even political assassinations by the people of Iran against the government in the year since Ahmadinejad assumed office. So too, the following facts are ignored: the sizeable flight of capital, the increase in unemployment, and the rising two-figure rate of inflation, all within this last year. Bayyenet is a regime apologist, and when one is familiar with the facts, his arguments ring very hollow. However, his English skills are excellent, and so the naОve might be beguiled by his commentary.

Mohsen Sazegara is VEVAK's “reformed revolutionary”. A student supporter of Khomeini before the 1979 revolution, Sazegara joined the “imam” on his return from exile and served in the government for a decade before supposedly growing disillusioned.

He formed several reformist newspapers but ran afoul of the hardliners in 2003 and was arrested and imprisoned by VEVAK. Following “hunger strikes”, Sazegara was released for health reasons and permitted to seek treatment abroad. Although critical of the government and particularly of Ahmadinejad and KhameneМ, Sazegara is yet more critical of opposition groups, leaving the impression that he favors internal regime change but sees no one to lead such a movement for the foreseeable future. His bottom line: no one is capable of doing what needs to be done, so we must bide our time. Very slick, but his shadow shows his likely remaining ties to the MOIS.

French foreign minister calls for stability in Lebanon ahead of key donor's conference

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/06/africa/ME-GEN-Egypt-France.php

French foreign minister calls for stability in Lebanon ahead of key
donor's conference

CAIRO, Egypt: The French foreign minister called on Lebanese political
factions to end their confrontation ahead of an international donors'
conference, saying during his brief Mideast visit Saturday that
stability was key to restoring the country's struggling economy.

The donors' conference is scheduled Jan. 25 in Paris, and Foreign
Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy stopped in to oil-rich Saudi Arabia and
in Egypt to discuss the international forum with both countries'
foreign
ministers Saturday.

"We want Lebanon to overcome its current turmoil," he said in a joint
press conference with his Egyptian counterpart Ahmed Aboul Gheit.

"Egypt and France agree on the ways to achieve this," Douste-Blazy
said,
listing mediation efforts by the Arab League as the way to promote a
political solution to the standoff and prevent "any attempts to
destabilize Lebanon."

Lebanon has been shaken by mass street protests since Dec. 1, after
Hezbollah and allied Cabinet ministers quit the government.

During his earlier stop in Saudi Arabia, the French foreign minister
and
his Saudi counterpart, Prince Saud al-Faisal also discussed the
oil-rich
nation's support the donors' conference. In a joint press conference,
al-Faisal appealed to Lebanese political factions to end weeks of
confrontation for the donors' meeting to succeed.

The foreign ministers also called on Iran to accept international
demands on halting its uranium enrichment program, saying the Mideast
should be free of weapons of mass destruction.

"We discussed the nuclear dossier in the region and its hazards,"
al-Faisal said.

"We agreed on the necessity that the region should be void of weapons
of
mass destruction and that achieving this target will be by dialogue and
diplomacy," he said.

"Israel should not be excluded from the international efforts and
procedures," he added, reflecting regional demands that the Jewish
state
also be scrutinized for its nuclear program.

The foreign ministers' call came as Iran recently stated it would
continue to defy international sanctions aimed at rolling back its
uranium enrichment program.

"Iran has to respond to international demands regarding this issue, and
should have a positive stance," Douste-Blazy was quoted as saying by
the
state-run Saudi Press Agency.

Tehran says its nuclear program is peaceful, but the United States and
Europe fear Iran is trying to develop an atomic bomb.

Arab states near Iran are concerned nuclear accidents could endanger
their citizens or environment, and fear a possible military
confrontation between the Islamic regime and the United States or its
Israeli ally.

Gulf nations hosting U.S. military bases --- Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar
---
also fear Iran could retaliate against them.

UN's Kosovo blueprint in 'final st ages'

http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Rest+of+the+World&month=January2007&file=World_News2007010584748.xml

UN's Kosovo blueprint in 'final stages'
Web posted at: 1/5/2007 8:47:48
Source ::: REUTERS

belgrade . A UN blueprint on the final status of Serbia's UN-run
province of Kosovo, which diplomats say will open the door to
independence, will be ready on January 21, a United Nations spokesman
said yesterday.

"It's in the final stages," said Remi Dourlot, spokesman for UN Kosovo
envoy Martti Ahtisaari. "It has still to be finalised but it will be
ready for the 21st and to be presented any time after then."

Serbia holds a general election on Jan. 21, a snap vote that forced
Ahtisaari to postpone an original deadline of end-2006 for his proposal
on the fate of the majority ethnic Albanian province.

A Western diplomat told the Austrian daily Die Presse yesterday that it
was increasingly likely Ahtisaari's blueprint would recommend
"supervised independence".

Diplomats have said for months that the United States and its major
European allies favour independence, supervised by the European Union
and a Nato force of currently 17,000 soldiers.

But Russian backing for Serbia, which says autonomy is the most it can
offer a region which was once the heart of the medieval Serb kingdom,
is
complicating efforts to decide the issue at the UN Security Council,
where Moscow holds a veto.

Kosovo's 90-per cent Albanian majority has ruled out a return to Serb
rule. Ten thousand died and almost a million were temporarily expelled
in a 1998-99 conflict in which Nato bombed Serbia and occupied the
province. Kosovo has been a ward of the United Nations since.

A UN official told Reuters it was "quite likely" Ahtisaari would brief
the six-member Contact Group steering Balkan diplomacy --- the US,
Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Russia --- on January 26, after
which
he would personally present the document to Serbia and Kosovo.

Financial Times calls for US to stop Turkey from entering Iraq

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&trh=20070107&hn=39734

Financial Times calls for US to stop Turkey from entering Iraq
By Foreign News Desk
Saturday, January 06, 2006
zaman.com

The Financial Times joined calls to the United States to deploy more
troops in an effort to prevent an invasion to northern Iraq by Turkey.

A Financial Times article written by former Undersecretary of Defense
Dov Zakheim maintained the United States should "stop Iraq from
launching attacks against its neighbors, prevent any invasion by Turkey
in the north and bar Iranian domination in the south."

Pointing out the White House accepts that there has to be a change in
the approach in Iraq, Zakheim said pulling out of Iraq would further
undermine stability in the region as a whole.

Stating Iraq is enmeshed in a bitter civil war, Zakheim maintained up
to
two brigades should be devoted to the north and west of the country.

Zakheim stated the forces to be sent to northern Iraq would help
forestall a Kurdish declaration of independence that would prompt a
Turkish invasion and said troops in western Iraq would help prevent
both
terrorist infiltration into Jordan and serious incursions from Syria.

The Independent also largely covered the developments in Iraq and
described Iraq's former defense minister Ali Allawi's views.

Allawi proposes "No foreign power should be allowed to dictate the
terms
of a possible settlement in the Middle East, the Shias and Kurds must
accept limits to their demands and claims, the Sunni Arab community
must
become convinced that its loss of undivided power will not lead to
marginalization and discrimination and the neighboring states that feel
deeply threatened by the changes there should be recognized and treated
in any lasting deal for Iraq and the area."

'The solution for Syria'

http://www.jordantimes.com/sun/opinion/opinion2.htm

'The solution for Syria'

Musa Keilani

Those who disregarded King Abdullah's wise advice to Syrian President
Bashar Assad in June should not be surprised to hear alarm bells are
ringing in Israel.

Assad and his top aides have repeatedly stated, in recent public
comments, that Syria was ready to enter unconditional negotiations with
Israel with a view to settling their dispute over the Golan Heights and
close the chapter of conflict between them.

The Israeli political establishment is worried. Israeli leaders do not
want to reopen negotiation with Syria that was halted and abandoned in
the late 1990s on the flimsy pretext that Damascus failed to condemn a
militant attack against Israelis. The Israelis have no intention of
ever
giving up the occupied Golan Heights, the source of about 70 per cent
of
water for the Jewish state.

Therefore, stonewalling all Syrian attempts to relaunch negotiations is
a feature of Israeli policy. The given justifications for rejecting
talks are absurd, when seen from an international perspective of
negotiations.

Israel wants Assad to expel Palestinian groups based in Syria, cut off
Syrian support for Lebanon's Hizbollah and sever relations with Iran as
preconditions for negotiations.

There is no doubt that Assad wants to get rid of the Lebanon-linked
pressure applied on him and reinstate his country as a blemishless
member of the international community. He is anticipating more chaos in
the Middle East as a result of the failures of Israeli-dictated US
foreign policy in the region, and is apprehensive that Syria will be
one
of the scapegoats.

However, it makes little sense for him to meet the Israeli
preconditions, let alone for Israel to make those demands, since the
Jewish state is not ready to even acknowledge that the objective of the
negotiations would be the return of the Golan Heights to Syria.

Logic and reason dictate that the Israeli and Syrian demands should be
discussed and negotiated as part of a broad peace agreement between the
two.

Israel wants to bury the fact that Hafez Assad, the present president's
father and predecessor as president, who was one of the toughest
hardliners in the Arab world, had launched peace talks with Israel and
reached a point where an agreement was seen in the horizon. Assad is
now
following up on those lines, but Israel is creating preconditions that
it knows he would not be able to meet.

Taking its cue from Israel, the Bush administration is refusing to
accept Syrian overtures for political dialogue even though the path of
dialogue is recommended by the Iraqi Study Group.

Despite the refusal, Assad has volunteered to help the US contain the
Iraq crisis. He told visiting Republican Senator Arlen Specter in late
December that he was willing to host a conference where all the
factions
of Iraq could seek a consensus on the country's future.

However, that is not the US wants. It demands that Syria assume
responsibility for preventing alleged cross-border infiltration of
"foreign" fighters into Iraq and nothing beyond that in the Iraq
context. This stand contrasts the reality that Damascus could not be
expected to make things easier for the US in Iraq in return for
nothing.
Syria could and would play a key role in checking the worsening Iraq
crisis, but it needs to be reassured that it will be rewarded with
meaningful negotiations with Israel over the Golan Heights.

The signal that Syria is receiving, however, is that it will be the
next
target of "regime change" if the US succeeds in pacifying and
controlling Iraq. How could Assad be expected to contribute to his own
demise?

It has been revealed that the Bush administration is supporting Syrian
dissidents against the Assad regime and is planning to influence the
outcome of the next elections in Syria by funding Assad's rivals.

To that should be added emerging indications that senior Syrian figures
were trapped as key suspects in the 2005 assassination of former
Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri on the basis of doctored evidence.
(According to a senior officer of the French intelligence agency DGSE
---
Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure --- Hariri was killed in a
car bombing arranged by Israel's Mossad in cooperation with other
regional sides. The DGSE officer says that French investigations found
evidence that Mossad and others had played a key role in the
assassination. The reason: Israel and the US wanted to blame Syria for
the assassination of the popular Lebanese leader in order to force the
popular Lebanese revolt that saw the withdrawal of Syrian forces).

Definitely Washington's plans pre-empt any Syrian effort to convince
the
US to open a political dialogue encompassing the whole gamut of issues
of concern to both sides, including Assad's quest to regain the Golan Heights through a peace deal with Israel.

Yet again, the Bush administration is on an illusionary path. Any hope
for peace in the Middle East rests with addressing the fundamental
roots
of the conflict, including the Israeli-Palestinian, Israeli-Syrian and
Israeli-Lebanese fronts. A collective approach may or may not be
possible, but Washington should be ready to make important decisions
and
firm up a mindset that should seek to ensure fairness and justice for
all. No piecemeal approach will work.

The only solution for Assad is to dissociate Syria from sinister
designs
of Shiite domination of the region, play a moderating role vis-à-vis
Hamas and other militant Palestinian leaders in Damascus and forget the
aspiration of hegemony on Lebanon and Jordan under the guise of
irredentist Greater Arab Syria.

Sunday, January 7, 2007

FYI
Was former KGB agent murdered over false-flag terrorism within Russia?

The Alleged Russian False Flag Bombings

Although none of the sources interviewed for this article were able to say too much regarding what is an ongoing investigation into the two murders, several former intelligence sources pointed to alleged false-flag bombings that were carried out in Russia starting in 1999.

A false-flag operation is one in which an attack is carried out by one government or entity and made to seem the work of another. In modern times, the term has become synonymous with Operation Gladio, a series of false-flag bombings inflicted on Italy by certain far right members of elements in the government and military, the aim of which was to frame opposition parties in order to discredit them, as well as to force that nation as a whole to move politically right of center. This method was known as the Strategy of Tension.

The Russian bombings bear all the hallmarks of such operations, including the most well-known of these bombings, in which a car bomb was detonated in front of an apartment building in the city of Buynaksk that served as military housing for Russian soldiers, killing more than sixty residents. The attack was blamed on Chechen separatists and was used to justify attacks on suspected Chechen sympathizers and alleged co-conspirators, as well as on Chechnya itself. Other bombings soon followed, leading to then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin declaring war on the separatist region, which had gained de facto independence following the breakup of the Soviet Union.

But it was not until the failed Rayzan bombing attempt that the suspected role of the Russian government in the bombings began to be alleged publicly. In mid-1999, a group of agents of the Russian Federal Security Service, or Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (FSB), were found placing explosives at an apartment complex in the city of Rayzan. The FSB is the Russian equivalent of the FBI, and it and the SVR are the two arms of what used to be known as the KGB. The materials used in this incident were similar to those found at the other bombings committed throughout 1999, but th FSB denied any involvement in the previous terrorist attacks and described the Rayzan bombing plot as a domestic counter-terrorism exercise.

The Russian Duma -- the lower house of the Federal Assembly -- attempted to investigate the bombings, but the Kremlin would not cooperate or provide requested documentation.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Was_former_KGB_agent_murdered_over_1126.html

FYI All in one place...

The Italian media is reporting on transcripts of phone conversations between Scaramella and two former U.S. intelligence officers. One conversation, reported in La Repubblica, is a January 25, 2006, conversation between Scaramella and a mysterious ex-CIA agent from California who uses the name "Perry." In the conversation, Scaramella stresses to Perry that his activities are not "just my activity, but the activity of the organization.' It is becoming clear that the :organization" to which Scaramella is referring is a private and global intelligence organization involving former members of the KGB and Russian Federal Security Bureau (like Litvinenko), private military and intelligence companies, and ex-CIA and British intelligence officers. Scaramella discussed the political dirty “trick” they are preparing for Italian center-left leader Romano Prodi and it is clear from the conversation that Perry gives Scaramella his orders, though politely. When Scaramella goes into a tangent on his international activities, Perry merely replies, 'You must work on the Italian politics.' When Scaramella presents a list of the possible future options open to him, Perry very curtly suggests, “You could be part of the cabinet of the minister.” But Scaramella is pessimistic when he states, “most probably Prodi will win, even if we will launch our attack . . ."

The "attack" is key to the conversation. WMR was the first media outlet to suggest that the Scaramella-Litvinenko affair was a dirty bomb plot gone bad and that the intelligence services of Russian President Vladimir Putin may have actually derailed the plot.

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Also of interest is another "environmental" link that ties the various Scaramella-Litvinenko players under the cover of an international environmental network. An SEC EDGAR search revealed a stockholders' agreement between Harrison-Kroll Environmental Services, Inc. of Louisiana and Palumbo Partners, a Delaware corporation dated December 31, 1992, in which Kroll acquires Palumbo Partners. A Google search also revealed that former Secret Service Presidential Protective Division agent Jim Holt served as Training Director for Ackerman & Palumbo and was "one of the original directors and consultant partners with Palumbo Partners, Inc., Miami." An office of Harrison-Kroll Environmental Services is listed at 300 S. Grand Avenue, Suite 1300, Los Angeles, CA 90071.

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According to our well-placed source, Ray Steffans (aka diStefano of New Jersey), Jewish mobster Gideon Chern, and Eddie Baker of Vanguard Petroleum met in Houston in September 1983 to discuss, among other items, funding for Kroll. In December 1977, Bernard Taubenfeld, Gideon Chern and Shalom Goldburd, officials of B'nai Torah Institute affiliate, Nutrition for Youth, were convicted of defrauding the government by submitting bills for food that was never served to poor children in the New York City summer lunch program. Chern's other organized crime activity in the 1980s reportedly had an important protector -- former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Rudolph Giuliani. The former New York Mayor and prospective GOP presidential candidate reportedly suppressed a wealth of evidence against Chern.

Two days after the Houston meeting, a Jaguar supposedly with the body of Baker in it was found charred outside of Houston. A fire investigator later revealed that no body was found in the car at the time of the fire. Kroll, after Enron's bankruptcy, purchased Zolfo-Cooper, and thus owned Zolfo-Cooper's Steven Cooper, the attorney appointed by New York bankruptcy Judge Arthur Gonzalez to run Enron in bankruptcy. In July 2004, Marsh-McLennan bought Kroll and Associates. Marsh-McLennan is run by Jeffrey Greenberg, son of Maurice (Hank) Greenberg of AIG. Funny, since Chase and Citibank notes from Kenneth Lay/Enron were purchased in May 2001 by AIG and the MacArthur Foundation.

Kroll was responsible for the security of the World Trade Center on 9/11, The firm had hired FBI top counter-terrorism agent John O'Neill as director of World Trade Center security upon his retirement from the FBI. O'Neill died in the 9/11 attacks. Kroll also markets Identity Theft Shield, the first time Kroll has offered its services to individuals as opposed to governments and companies. As of June 30, 2006, Kroll had amassed over 560,000 customers for its Identity Theft Shield program.

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http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070107/APN/701072973

Authorities detain 3 men trying to enter Port of Miami

BY KELLI KENNEDY

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
MIAMI -- Three men were caught trying to slip past a checkpoint in a cargo truck Sunday at the Port of Miami, said authorities, who increased security at the busy trade hub.

A port security officer became suspicious when the truck driver could not produce proper paperwork to enter the port about 8 a.m., Miami-Dade Police Detective Richard Williams said. The driver also indicated he was alone in the truck.

Officers searched the truck and found two men in the cab trying to hide, Williams said.

The three men - two Iraqis and one Lebanese national who are legal permanent U.S. residents - were taken into custody for questioning. They had not been arrested or charged by Sunday afternoon.

The men do not appear on any terrorist watch list, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez.

A preliminary check of the truck showed its contents did not match the manifest, Gonzalez said. She declined to say what was in the truck, citing the investigation.

The Miami-Dade bomb squad moved the truck away from public areas of the port and X-rayed it.

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security were also on scene. The port's cargo area was shut down all day Sunday.

"Of course we're on a heightened sense of security out here," Williams said.

The Port of Miami is among the nation's busiest. More than 3.6 million cruise ship passengers traveled through the port in 2005, and its seaport services more than 30 ocean carriers, which delivered more than 1 million cargo containers there in 2005.

Passengers in the normally busy cruise ship area of the port were unaware of the official bustle in the cargo area. When told of the situation, some said they thought it probably made boarding lines longer. But officials said Sunday's long lines were normal.

"I feel freaked out," said Connecticut resident Allie Tetreault, 23, who was waiting to board a Caribbean cruise when she heard about the security alert. "That's not good to hear right before you are going on vacation."

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Associated Press writer Phil Davis in Tampa, Fla., contributed to this report.

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Sunday, January 7, 2007

THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
Pizza chain: We don't need no stinkin' dollars
Mexican pesos to be accepted currency at American eateries

Posted: January 7, 2007
4:33 p.m. Eastern

© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Pizza lovers who don't happen to have American currency on them can still purchase their favorite pies with Mexican pesos, thanks to a Texas-based restaurant chain.

Starting this week, Pizza Patrón outlets, which caters heavily to Mexicans, will offer the alternative form of payment.

"We're trying to reach out to our core customer," Antonio Swad, president of Pizza Patrón Inc., told the Dallas Morning News.

"We know they come back [from Mexico] and have pesos left over. We want to be a convenient place for them to spend their pesos."

It's believed no other food chain operating so far from the Mexican border is allowing customers to pay with foreign currency.

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Swad said he's prepared to take criticism from American consumers possibly offended by the bypassing of greenbacks.

"We're not really interested in finding the safest spot on the board," he told the paper. "We know the purity of our intention, and we're willing to take the heat when there is heat."

About 60 percent of Pizza Patrón customers and 45 percent of its franchisees are Hispanic.

"If you're not in a border town, I don't see the functional benefit," said Juan Faura, president and chief executive of Cultura, a Dallas-based marketing and advertising firm. "I would see it as a move by the chain to communicate unequivocally to the Hispanic market that they are for them."

"I don't see any other reason for it," Faura added.

Andrew Gamm, Pizza Patrón's director of brand development, said the company has already seen customers spending "a couple hundred pesos" without any advertisement of the service during a test in a Mesquite location.

Founded in 1986, Pizza Patrón has gone from four locations to 59 and more than 40 under development across the American Southwest.

[I would love to know who is behind this group? Soros?]

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Friday, January 5, 2007
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
Residents of planned union
to be 'North Americanists'
Arizona State University teaches
how continent to be integrated
Posted: January 5, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Arizona State University is teaching that the U.S., Mexico and Canada need to be integrated into a unified superstate, where U.S. citizens of the future will be known as "North Americanists," according to the taxpayer-funded "Building North America" program.

The program openly advocates for the integration of economic issues across the continent, and in many places goes further – such as the call for a common North American currency.

One teaching module made available online for professors to integrate into their teachings was written by George Haynal, senior fellow at the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, and implied a joint military is required. Since the security of the continent "is a joint need; it should be supplied as a common enterprise."

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"Given the nature of the threats against our security in the current environment, the first task is to reinvent 'borders.' We must exercise the responsibility for protecting our society against external threats where we can do so most effectively, not where infrastructures happens to be in place," he added. "Multilateral cooperation is going to be essential among governments."

"It is clear, to me at least, that we must … move beyond NAFTA and do so with a purposeful determination," he wrote.

Another teaching paper advocates the adoption of a unified North American currency, the "amero," modeled after the euro currency of the European Union.

The programming the university is providing for help in teaching the new North American focus is just the latest evidence of the mounting campaign for a de facto North American Union. Although most in the establishment press are not covering the controversy, it has earned the opposition of a number of high-level voices including congressmen like Tom Tancredo, Virgil Goode and Ron Paul, and newsmen like CNN's Lou Dobbs who has described the U.S. government's actions in this effort as "Orwellian."

Paul, a maverick Republican from Texas, has denounced such integration plans and warns that most members of Congress aren't aware of the situation, and that he is opposing any transnational "superhighway" projects such as the "Trans-Texas Corridor" project in his home state.

Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas

Why? The ultimate goal, he said, is not simply a superhighway, "but an integrated North American Union – complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy and virtually borderless travel within the union. Like the European Union, a North American Union would represent another step toward the abolition of national sovereignty altogether."

Rep. Goode, R-Va., already has introduced a resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the U.S. should not engage in further NAFTA advances.

But progress already is significant down the road to a joint government, evidenced by confirmation that the U.S. government is planning to provide full Social Security benefits to Mexicans as well as a report by the powerful Council on Foreign Relations, considered by many to be something of a "shadow government," that calls for the transfer of massive amounts of wealth from the U.S. to Mexico and the setup of a "security perimeter" around North America.

A Canadian website set up by those who fear the loss of their Canadian national sovereignty already has established a timeline for the program.

The Arizona State contribution to the move towards a one-government continent was launched because of "the notion that economic integration in the NAFTA Triad (Canada-U.S.-Mexico) was advancing despite the lack of press and public attention it received …" and a new website would allow "those of us in the Triad" to link up with the growing body of research about "how businesses, governments, and organizations were shaping, and adapting to, the evolution of a shared economic space."

"We are now bringing together the fruits of this research endeavor in a new, updated and redesigned 'Building North America' website…" the group said. "We are betting on the continued existence of scholars and policy practitioners who would benefit from a site which would consolidate the research and data we are all generating, and thereby build community among us."

A telephone number for the managers of the site was unavailable, and a WND e-mail to the site did not generate a response.

But the goal is clear: "The links, documents, and other materials on this site have been selected, organized, and in some cases designed to advance teaching and research on North American regional integration. … At the same time the site also aims to benefit the broader community of North Americanists, within the academy and beyond, by putting at our collective fingertips – or mouse-reach – the kinds of current and historical material that will benefit research into, and understanding of, North American integration – past, present and future."

The site cross-references and links to organizations and university centers such as the Center for North American Studies at American University in Washington, D.C., institutional home for Robert Pastor.

American University Professor Robert Pastor

Pastor has been described as a leading intellectual force in the move to create an EU-style North American Community, and recently told WND he believes a new 9/11 crisis could be the catalyst to merge the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

Pastor said that in such a case the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP – launched in 2005 by the heads of the three countries at a summit in Waco, Texas – could be developed into a continental union, complete with a new currency, the amero, that would replace the U.S. dollar.

In May 2005, Pastor was co-chairman the Council on Foreign Relations task force that produced a report entitled "Toward a North American Community," which he has claimed is the blueprint behind the SSP declared by President Bush, Mexico's then-President Vicente Fox, and Canada's then-Prime Minister Paul Martin.

At American University, Pastor directs the Center for North American Studies where he teaches a course entitled "North America: A Union, A Community, or Just Three Nations?" As WND previously has reported, Pastor is on the board of the North American Forum on Integration, the NAFI, a non-profit organization that annually holds a mock trilateral parliament for 100 selected students drawn from 10 universities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Arizona State also lists government agencies in support of the merging of various functions that historically have been handled by each government, such as the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, "the U.S. Department of Commerce, and others.

The website's archive contains "influential papers and articles which have shaped the debate on 'North America,'" including the 2005 document from the Council on Foreign Relations called "Building a North American Community: Report of the Independent Task Force on the Future of North America."

Also available is a series of "Teaching Modules," where Haynal's instructions are available. "The section leads off with an introductory guide to Building North America Into Your Course, as well as a more structured 'Matrix' offering sample units by theme and subfield … Each of these TMs either has, or will have in the near future, an accompanying Teaching Note with more detailed suggestions for incorporation into a variety of courses."

Among the organizations being promoted are the Council of The Americas, the free market thinktank Fraser Institute, North America Works, North American Integration and Development Center, North America's Super Corridor Coalition, North American Integration and Development Center at UCLA, the Mexican Embassy, NORAD, North American Development Bank, NAFTA Secretariat, North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation and North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation,

One of the teaching notes lists Earl Fry's work titled: "The Role of Subnational Governments in the governance of North America."

Subtitled "Mapping the New North American Reality," that paper argues that provinces in Canada and states in the United States and Mexico are quite efficiently setting up their own integrated North America with or without their "federal" governments' participation.

It even warns against renegade states like South Dakota, which has undermined "treaties and agreements signed by national governments" with its requirements for inspections of Canadian cattle, hogs and wheat.

The North American Union plans were cited by WorldNetDaily editors as the Number One story on the news site's list of 10 most underreported stories for 2006.

The January 2007 edition of WND's monthly Whistleblower magazine, which explores this topic in-depth, is titled "PREMEDITATED MERGER: How our leaders are stealthily transforming the U.S.A. into the North American Union."

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Tuesday, January 2, 2007
WHISTLEBLOWER MAGAZINE
PREMEDITATED MERGER
How leaders are stealthily transforming USA into North American Union
Posted: January 2, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

It seems unthinkable. But then, so did 9/11 before it happened.

Can it really be possible that Americans are witnessing a governmental program designed to merge – slowly but surely – the United States, Mexico and Canada?

That question is generating a major amount of below-the-media-radar buzz. In recent months, e-mails and telephone calls have poured into radio talk shows and congressional offices asking: Is there a plan to create a "North American Union"? Will a new currency, the "amero," replace the dollar? Is it true that Mexicans will now get Social Security?

Yet Congress (except for a few representatives like Tom Tancredo and Ron Paul) as well as the establishment press (with notable exceptions like CNN's Lou Dobbs) turn a blind eye – despite major evidence mounting daily.

Just recently, for example, confirmation surfaced that the U.S. government is indeed planning on providing full Social Security benefits to Mexicans – which critics predict will bankrupt the already-shaky system. And a report by the powerful Council on Foreign Relations, regarded by many as something of a "shadow government," has called for a massive transfer of wealth from the U.S. to Mexico and the establishment of a "security perimeter" around North America – rather than securing America's borders with Mexico and Canada.

So, while many dismiss plans to integrate the three North American countries as wild Internet "conspiracy theories," the January edition of WND's acclaimed Whistleblower magazine – titled "PREMEDITATED MERGER" – boldly lays out the disturbing evidence for all to see.

"The idea that our own government could be engaged in compromising U.S. sovereignty in such a radical way is hard for people to contemplate," said WND Managing Editor David Kupelian. "After all, Americans are already reeling from a stunning immigration problem – stunning not only because of the effect 12-20 million illegals have on America's economy, values and crime rate, but also because of the government's refusal to do anything about it. And now they're hearing that perhaps their government has a secret globalist agenda that actually encourages an invasion from the south."

Veteran newsman Lou Dobbs described the merger controversy this way in a recent CNN broadcast: "For any American to think that it is acceptable for the president of the United States and … our government, to proceed without the approval of Congress or a dialogue and a debate and a public voice from the people of this country is absolutely unconscionable. … What they're doing is creating a brave new world, an Orwellian world, in which the will of the people is absolutely irrelevant."

So take a deep breath, and then fasten your seat belt for this guided tour of what the U.S., Mexican and Canadian governments, as well as behind-the-scenes power brokers, have planned for America. Your Whistleblower "tour guides" will be Joseph Farah, Jerome Corsi Ph.D., Lou Dobbs, Rep. Tom Tancredo, Rep. Ron Paul, Patrick Buchanan, Joe Kovacs and David Kupelian.

Highlights of "PREMEDITATED MERGER" include:

* "Merger with Mexico" by Joseph Farah

* "U.S.-Mexico merger opposition intensifies" by Joseph Farah, who surveys congressmen, newscasters and others aghast at secret efforts to scrap the dollar, end U.S. sovereignty and combine nations.

* "A North American United Nations?" by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul

* "Lou Dobbs: 'What they're doing is creating a brave new world'"

* "The North American Union: How close are we?" by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., who lays out the troubling evidence for a multi-government plan to merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico

* "Mexico ambassador: We need North American Union in 8 years"

* "Documents reveal 'shadow government,'" on how a Freedom of Information request resulted in 1,000 pages of confirming documentation

* "The NAFTA superhighway: Coming soon" by Patrick Buchanan, on why Mexico seeks 'complete integration' with the U.S.

* "Texas congressman: Superhighway all about North American Union," on U.S. Rep. Ron Paul's concern over a common currency, borderless travel and even bigger bureaucracy

* "Why China dominates NAFTA" by Jerome R. Corsi

* "How to survive the NAFTA dollar crisis," by Jerome R. Corsi, including economic advice in the age of the "amero"

* "The CFR's vision for a new North America," revealing excerpts from the Council on Foreign Relations' radical 59-page blueprint for "North American community"

* "Mexican drug cartels take over U.S. cities" by Joseph Farah, in which U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo reveals how Mexican gangs buy businesses, politicians, power and police departments

* "It's the drugs, stupid" by Joseph Farah, on the profound impact Mexico's multi-billion-dollar drug trade exerts on America's immigration crisis

* "'Bush doesn't think America should be an actual place,'" by Joe Kovacs, whose interview with Rep. Tom Tancredo reveals that the president believes the U.S. should be merely an 'idea' without borders

* "North American students trained for 'merger,'" on why 10 universities are participating in a "model parliament" in Mexico to simulate the "integration" of the three nations

* "North American Union major '08 issue?" – a look at a new coalition that is mobilizing grass roots support and targeting Washington lawmakers

* "Are globalists evil?" by David Kupelian, on why so many apparently "good people" are so attracted to global government

"As bad as this North American Union plan is," said WND founder and Editor Joseph Farah, "it does succeed in making much more understandable exactly why our government isn't stopping illegal immigration. It doesn't really want to."

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YES I am still beating this dead horse. Much tin foil needed LOL New phase for puppet master "a global crime, disinformation, and terrorism network"

I know this writer is a right wing hater, but I think he has some truth in his hate. When he says right wingers replace with left wingers.

There is no way Marc Rich can be connected to anyone on the right, yet here he shows up which connects this poisoning to Clintoon and Soros by association.

The Rumpsfield and Libby tries are false, probley because they want them out of the way or they know to much.

U.S. link to Litvinenko affair
By Wayne Madsen
Dec 18, 2006, 00:42
(WMR) -- Mario Scaramella, the Italian liaison for polonium-210 poisoned ex-Russian KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, is connected to an array of companies, smuggling operations, and right-wing politicians, according to press reports in Italy.

Scaramella ran an organization called the Environmental Crime Prevention Program (ECCP) from his base in Naples in the Campania Region. He is politically connected to Campania officials, his uncle having once served as the president of Campania. He has also been linked to activities of the powerful Camorra criminal syndicate in Naples.

In 2004, Scaramella's ECCP established a presence in the tiny Republic of San Marino, known for its tight banking secrecy laws. The ECCP proclaims itself as "permanent intergovernmental conference" with rotating presidencies by such countries as Samoa and Angola. Scaramella concocted a story that "KGB agents" were active in San Marino, but it now appears that he sabotaged an international law enforcement investigation of Russian-Israeli weapons nuclear smugglers that were using San Marino as a base. That weapons smuggling operation involved other Russian-Israeli Mafia agents and operatives in Zurich. Fugitive American-Russian-Israeli Mafia capo Marc Rich (former major client of Vice President Dick Cheney's indicted former Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby) maintains his headquarters near Zurich
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Litvinenko poisoning yet another neocon perverse display parallel intelligence structures
By Wayne Madsen
Dec 14, 2006, 00:25
(WMR) -- The more confusing the Litvinenko poisoning affair becomes, the more it appears to be yet another example of the dangerous neocon global network of spies, weapons smugglers, far right-wing politicians, Russian-Israeli mafia businessmen, and Islamic mujaheddin false flag provocateurs.

Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko's death from polonium-210 radioactive isotope poisoning has actually helped to cast light on this international network, which has its fingerprints on the false intelligence that propelled the United States into an impending military defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan; the false flag operations of the 9/11 attacks on New York City and Washington; and countless other operations, including political operations in Ukraine, Georgia, and Poland, among other nations.

Litvinenko, far from being some sympathetic figure battling the Kremlin, was a central player in a global crime, disinformation, and terrorism network. He had contacts with a right-wing British political party, the United Kingdom Independence Party (which advocates the UK leave the European Union, abolition of the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly, has had past links to the fascist former British National Front, and wants a strong commitment to NATO); the mujaheddin movements of Chechnya, Ingushetia, and Dagestan, including the Georgia Pankisi Gorge-based "Al Qaeda" branch (Al Ansar) led by the Jordanian terrorist Faris Yusef Amirat, aka "Abu Hafs"; the Russian-Israeli criminal syndicate of wanted Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky and his accomplices; and other bad actors involved in a host of illegal and dubious activities around the world. Litvinenko defected to Britain through Turkey, a major hub for the Russian-Israeli Mafia. He has also been linked to Georgia-based Chechen operations in Turkey and Japan. Litvinenko was also reportedly close to the widow of Chechen President Dzhokar Dudayev, killed by an air-to-surface Russian missile attack in 1996. Litvinenko also had close links to exiled and wanted Russian oligarch Leonid Nevzlin, now living in Tel Aviv, and Erinsys, Ltd., a British mercenary firm with ties to Iraqi con man Ahmad Chalabi, whose nephew Salem is a business partner of Jerusalem-based Marc Zell, Douglas Feith's former law partner.

One of Litvinenko's associates, who at first claimed to also have been poisoned by polonium but has now been proven to be a "Curveball"-grade prevaricator, is Mario Scaramella, a self-styled Italian spy who has charged that Italy's current prime minister, Romano Prodi, was a KGB spy. Scaramella has not only been dismissed as a neocon tool by the Russian and Italian governments, but has been criticized as an insignificant "soap bubble" by Oleg Gordievski, the highest-ranking officer to have ever defected from the KGB. Italians, who witnessed Rome being used as a central location for the disinformation used to promote the invasion of Iraq -- including the infamous Niger "yellow cake" documents (involving another dubious Italian information broker named Rocco Martino), know Scaramella as a swindler and a braggart. Scaramella has also been under investigation by Italian authorities in Naples for weapons smuggling.

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Perhaps not surprisingly, FBI agents have been dispatched to London to investigate Litvinenko's death, even though the United States lacks jurisdiction in the case, since no Americans are involved. However, since even before 9/11, the FBI has covered for the international global mafia of terrorists and smugglers, and agents for this network who have been caught in the United States, including Israeli "art students," office and home furniture "movers," and "tourists" photographing sensitive U.S. installations have merely been deported by the FBI back to Israel. Many of the Israelis also possessed passports from Russia and Ukraine. The FBI's interest in the case may be to cover up the United States as a source of the polonium-210.

What is now even more intriguing is where traces of polonium have also been detected in the case. The British embassy in Moscow and two British Airways Boeing 767s used on the Moscow-London route have tested positive for polonium-210. Kotvun and Lugovoi met the deputy British ambassador at the British embassy in Moscow prior to their trip to London and Lugovoi is claiming that someone, perhaps the British government, is now involved in trying to frame him. A car used by Kotvun in Hamburg on October 31, the night before he left for London, has also tested positive for polonium-210. However, traces of polonium-210 were also found on a Finnair plane that traveled to Moscow from Berlin via Helsinki.

If Britain's intelligence service is involved in the plot to set up Putin by using two unsuspecting Russian businessmen, it means that the Russian-Israeli global mafia has as many links and resources inside British intelligence as it does inside the FBI and U.S. intelligence. And that is a problem that would make James Bond tender his resignation.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has cleared Russia as the source of any illegal radioactive materials shipments. No shipments of polonium have been made by Russia to the UK since 2001.

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Lady and his CIA associates are now wanted by Italian authorities in the kidnapping. Lady has ties to CIA contra activities in Central America in the 1980s. Lady has also been linked to the Rocco Martino-Manucher Ghorbanifar bogus Niger "yellowcake" uranium documents used to justify the U.S. attack on Iraq. Martino is an Italian intelligence broker who tried to frame the French in the yellowcake affair and Ghorbanifar, a native of Iran, is a longtime agent of influence and back channel liaison to Iran for the Israeli Mossad.
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