Court told U.S. urged RI to arrest terror suspect in Bali bombings

JAKARTA (AP): A former U.S. State Department interpreter testified on Thursday that one month before the 2002 Bali bombings, Washington urged Indonesia to arrest and send to America the Islamic cleric accused of inspiring his followers to carry out the attack.

The witness, Fred Burks, told a court that a U.S. envoy made the appeal in a meeting with former President Megawati Soekarnoputri, who took a breath and thought for a moment before saying, "I cannot fulfill the request of the U.S. president."

Burks said the envoy, who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, later warned that if the cleric, Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, weren't handed over to U.S. authorities, "then there will be a problem."

The U.S. witness spoke in the trial for Ba'asyir, accused of leading the al-Qaeda-linked regional terror network Jamaah Islamiyah. Ba'asyir, whose trial began in November, is charged with inspiring followers to carry out the Bali bombings on Oct. 12, 2002 that killed 202 people, and the 2003 attack on Jakarta's J.W. Marriott hotel, which killed 12.

Ba'asyir has insisted he is innocent and that he's being prosecuted for his critical views of the United States.

The U.S. witness told the South Jakarta District Court that he was the interpreter for the American delegation that met Megawati at her home on Sept. 16, 2002. Burks said the meeting also included then U.S. Ambassador Ralph Boyce, U.S. National SecurityCouncil official Karen Drook and the CIA envoy, whom he declined to identify. (**)

>Who is this guy?

Some of his writings:

Matrix Realizations. Along the lines of personal and global transformation, I'd like to share with you a realization I had recently about the movie "The Matrix." For those who haven't seen it, this thought-provoking movie depicts a future where the entire population of the Earth has become hooked up to a gigantic supercomputer called the Matrix.

While everyone's bodies are in reality held in pods still and unmoving, enslaved by this master computer which feeds upon their energy, their brains are busy experiencing what is perceived to be a completely normal life. Their minds are responding to and living out a highly sophisticated computer program run and controlled by the Matrix. A few brave people in the move take the "red pill" and manage to escape this computer-generated reality to do battle with this all-powerful machine. Below is something that recently came to me about this movie while I was on a beautiful run up in the Berkeley hills.

Transforming the Matrix

You remember the movie “The Matrix”?
Well, guess what. We do live in the Matrix.
It is a matrix constructed of our own fears,
both individual and collective.

Acknowledging and exploring the roots of the matrix,
the roots of the fears inside of ourselves,
frees us from this controlling matrix
and allows us to more consciously create our reality.

By opening to acceptance and understanding of all parts of ourselves,

both the fear and the love, the light and the dark,
we can transform the matrix;

we can transform our fears into a web of interconnection made of our love, both individual and collective.
By choosing to recognize fear as an invitation to growth,
We can transform the Matrix into a Web of Love.

An Email with Fascinating Intellignece Information. Along the lines of this matrix and the potential for transformation, I recently received an email confirming something I had suspected for quite a while. As background, I know that in every organization around the world, there are both those who are focused on helping others and doing what's best for all, and those who are focused on serving their own needs and desires, often at the expense of others. We all have these two tendencies within us. Whether we fall more on the self-serving or the service to others portion of this spectrum is largely a matter of where we choose to focus our attention and intention.

In my research of the major cover-ups going on in the world, I've found that intelligence agencies around the world play a decisive role in political and economic developments through their secret manipulations and a wide variety of clandestine operations. As in any organization, some of the agents in these intelligence agencies are acting largely out of selfish or deluded motives, while others are truly doing what they believe to be best for their respective countries.

Over many decades, the self-serving intelligence agents have often succeeded in manipulating the unsuspecting public into unnecessary wars and a variety of other activities that benefit the power elite at the expense of those below them in the power hierarchy. Yet other intelligence agents who are deeply committed to serving their respective countries have witnessed these self-serving manipulations by their colleagues over the years and have done what they could to prevent them.

If the email I recently received is correct, a small, but powerful group of influential intelligence agents in service of the greater good from around the world long ago formed a group called the Library. Over many decades, members of the Library have collected and archived key information on all of the secret manipulations committed by the self-serving group and the resulting effects on global politics and economics. When the self-serving group occasionally gets out of control, Library members leak certain information to the appropriate sources to prevent some really ugly things from happening.

The email I received relayed information from someone calling himself "the German guy," who claimed to be a member of the Library. His communication was designed to prevent a purported major attack on Dec. 27th. I chose not to send this email out before the 27th, as the information was not from a reliable source, and I didn't want to induce fear. I was also fairly certain that the attack he mentioned would be averted, as I know his information got into the hands of the people who could do something about it.

Even so, the information this gentleman provided in his communications about the Library and intelligence services was most revealing, and even inspiring. Though I know of no way to verify this information, for those interested in these kinds of things, you may find the link below to be most interesting and inspiring.

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2601 - six pages of communications from "The German Guy"

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This guy has three strikes agaisnt him:

1. He lives in Berkeley
2. He probably buys his LSD by price alone
3. The Mother Ship is picking him up next week.

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