World Terrorism: News, History and Research Of A Changing World #4.

Tehran & Damascus Move to Lebanon Lebanon-born Walid Phares is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Author of the recent book Future Jihad, he was also one of the architects of 2004’s United Nations resolution 1559, which called for the disarming of Hezbollah. NRO editor Kathryn Lopez recently talked to Phares about what’s going on in the Mideast, what happened to the Cedar Revolution, and this war we’re all in.

Kathryn Jean Lopez: What is “Future Jihad”? Are we seeing it in the Mideast now?

Walid Phares: “Future Jihad,” which has already begun, refers to a new and potent form of Islamic terrorism, characterized by a Khumeinist-Baathist axis. These are the two trees of jihadism, so to speak — the Salafism and Wahabism embodied in al Qaeda and the sort of jihadism led by Iran and also including Syria, Hezbollah, and their allies in Lebanon.

The alliance has not been in entire agreement as to strategy. The al Qaeda branch began its “Future Jihad” in the 1990s; its efforts culminated on 9/11 and have continued explosively since then. The international “Salafists” aimed at the U.S. in the past decade in order to strengthen their jihads on various battlefields (Chechnya, India, Sudan, Algeria, Indonesia, Palestine, etc.). “Weaken the resolve of America,” their ideologues said, “and the jihadists would overwhelm all the regional battlefields.”

As I argue in Future Jihad, bin Laden and his colleagues miscalculated on the timing of the massive attack against the U.S. in 2001. While they wounded America, they didn’t kill its will to fight (as was the case, for instance, in the Madrid 3/11 attacks). I have heard many jihadi cadres online, and have seen al Jazeera commentators on television, offering hints of criticism about the timing. They were blaming al Qaeda for shooting its imagined “silver bullet” before insuring a strategic follow up. But bin Laden and Zawahiri believe 9/11 served them well, and has put a global mobilization into motion. Perhaps it has, but the U.S. counter strategy in the Middle East, chaotic as the region currently appears, has unleashed counter jihadi forces. The jury is still out as to the time factor: when these forces will begin to weaken the jihadists depends on our perseverance and the public understanding of the whole conflict.

The other “tree” of jihadism, with its roots in Iran, withheld fire after 9/11. They were content to watch the Salafists fight it out with the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan and Iraq, not to mention within the West, as terror cells were hunted down. Ahmedinejad, Assad, and Nasrallah were analyzing how far the US would go, and how far the Sunnis and Salafis would go as well.

The fall of the Taliban and of the Baath in Iraq, however, changed Iran and Syria’s patient plans. The political changes in the neighborhood, regardless of their immediate instability, were strongly felt in Tehran and Damascus (but unfortunately not in the U.S., judging from the political debate here), and pushed the Khumeinists and the Syrian Baathists to enter the dance, but carefully. Assad opened his borders to the jihadists in an attempt to crumble the U.S. role in Iraq, while Iran articulated al Sadr’s ideology for Iraq’s Shiia majority.

A U.S.-led response came swiftly in 2004 with the voting of UNSCR 1559, smashing Syria’s role in Lebanon and forcing Assad to withdraw his troops by April 2005. In response, the “axis” prepared for a counter attack on the Lebanese battlefield by assassinating a number of the Cedar Revolution leaders, including MP Jebran Tueni. In short, the attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah and the kidnappings of soldiers were the tip of an offensive aimed at drawing attention away from Iran’s nuclear weapons programs and Syria’s assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri. Hezbollah was awaiting its moment for revenge against the Cedar Revolution too.

What we see now is 1) a Syro-Iranian sponsored offensive aimed at all democracies in the region and fought in Lebanon; 2) Israel’s counter offensive (which it seems to have prepared earlier); and 3) an attempt by Hezbollah to take over or crumble the Lebanese government.

Phares: Actually, it would be more accurate to say that the Cedar Revolution was failed. The masses in Lebanon responded courageously in March 2005 by putting 1.5 million people on the streets of Beirut. They did it without “no-fly-zones,” expeditionary forces, or any weapons at all, for that matter, and against the power of three regimes, Iran, Syria, and pro-Syrian Lebanon, in addition to Hezbollah terror. The “revolution” was for a time astoundingly successful; since then it has been horribly failed, and first of all by Lebanon’s politicians themselves. One of their leaders, General Michel Aoun, shifted his allegiances to Syria and signed a document with Hezbollah. Other politicians from the “March 14 Movement” then stopped the demonstrations, leaving them with the support of God knows what. They failed in removing the pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud and brought back a pro-Syrian politician to serve as a speaker of the house, Nabih Berri. Meanwhile, even as they were elected by the faithful Cedar Revolution masses, they engaged in a round table dialogue with Hezbollah, a clear trap set by Hassan Nasrallah: “Let’s talk about the future,” he said — with the implication, of course, that they forget about the Cedar Revolution and the militia’s disarming. While political leaders sat for months, enjoying the photo ops with Hassan Nasrallah, he was preparing his counter offensive, which he unleashed just a few days before the Security Council would discuss the future of Iran’s nuclear programs.

The Lebanese government of Prime Minister Seniora also abandoned the Cedar Revolution. His cabinet neither disarmed Hezbollah nor called on the U.N. to help in implementing UNSCR 1559. This omission is baffling. The government was given so much support by the international community and, more importantly, overwhelming popular support inside Lebanon: 80 percent of the people were hoping the Cedar Revolution-backed government would be the one to resume the liberation of the country. Now Hezbollah has an upper hand and the government is on the defensive.

The U.S. and its allies can be accused of certain shortcomings as well. While the speeches by the U.S. president, congressional leaders from both parties, Tony Blair, and Jacques Chirac were right on target regarding Lebanon, and while the U.S. and its counterparts on the Security Council were diligent in their follow up on the Hariri assassination and on implementing UNSCR 1559, there was no policy or plan to support the popular movement in Lebanon. Incredibly, while billions were spent on the war of ideas in the region, Lebanese NGOs that wanted to resume the struggle of the Cedar Revolution and fighting alone for this purpose were not taken seriously at various levels. Policy planners thought they were dealing with the “Cedar Revolution” when they were meeting Lebanon’s government and Lebanese politicians. The difference between the high level speeches on Lebanon and the laissez-faire approach from lower levels is amazing. Simply put, there was no policy on supporting the Cedar Revolution against the three regimes opposing it and the $400 million received by Hezbollah from Iran.

The Cedar Revolution was basically betrayed by its own politicians and is now essentially without a head. Nevertheless, as long as the international support remains, the Revolution will find its way and will face the dangers. The one and a half million ordinary citizens who braved all the dangers didn’t change their minds about Hezbollah’s terror. The resistance and counter-attack was to be expected. Unfortunately, thus far Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah have outmaneuvered the West and are at the throats of the Cedar Revolution. The international community must revise its plans, and, if it is strongly backed by the U.S. and its allies, including France, the situation can be salvaged. The good seeds are still inside the country.

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Hussein bin Mahmoud and the Issue of Usama bin Laden as a Foreign Agent
By SITE Institute

September 27, 2006

Hussein bin Mahmoud, a Muslim scholar who supports the Mujahideen and whose publications are posted to al-Qaeda-affiliated websites, recently posted an article from the website of Asharq Alawsat, which reported a speech of Prince Naif Abdul Aziz, the Saudi Arabia Interior Ministry, calling Usama bin Laden an agent of foreign intelligence. Mahmoud accepts the claim only affirming that the Muslim Nation is foreign to Saudi Arabia and bin Laden, Emir of al-Qaeda, is its agent. However, he is more concerned with the effect of such a statement on the minds of Muslims who are either unaware or do not have confidence in the Mujahideen. A majority of his writing discusses American documentaries, like Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, which seek to expose conspiracies and question leadership and the direction of the U.S.-led War on Terror. These films, the Bush administration’s silence to their content, and their distribution in Muslim countries under the watch of leaders, causes in Mahmoud’s belief credulity in Muslim minds to the possibility of conspiracy.

According to Mahmoud, Naif’s statement is a “well-studied deceit” and “dangerous lie,” which if it is not stopped at an early stage, may flourish and corrupt the minds of many people. He states: “We are not talking about their belief in this idea, but it is enough the doubt of the Muslims to destroy much of what the Mujahideen had built with their body parts and skulls during three decades”. Scholars who speak the “truth,” give people confidence in “Islamic work,” and send sympathy to the family of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi are jailed or killed, and the more supporters of jihad who are removed, the greater the possibility that the Muslim Nation may be on par with America’s current, perceived placement. Mahmoud states:

“Now the military war is in favor of the Islamic nation in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the reason for the American’s defeat is that they don’t have any confidence in their leadership and they have no clear goals… but this war would turn against us also if we lose the war for the hearts and minds of the people. And then we will be equal with the enemy and he will defeat us with his weapons. Then we must deploy the media and the thinking armies to stop the enemy’s attack and invasion mentally and beat him psychologically, and that is what Sheikh Usama did seven years ago...”

Hussein bin Mahmoud concludes that symbols of jihad must be kept sacrosanct and safe from deception and doubt. As Usama bin Laden is human and will not live forever, it is the symbol of his ideology and religion that will carry on to future Mujahideen. Mahmoud accepts that the war with the West is not only a military war, but a war of “doctrine and ideas,” and thus, supporters must dispel such talk as uttered by Prince Naif Abdul Aziz.

A translation of the message is provided to our Intel Service members.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0927/p14s01-ussc.html

Northern border: A long thin line

By Alfredo Sosa | Photo editor of The Christian Science Monitor

America's northern border is twice the length of its southern border,
but it
has only one-tenth the number of agents. If each of them were standing
guard
at the same time, they'd be spaced four miles apart.

The border is the responsibility of the International Boundary
Commission.
The US-Canadian commission uses 5,528 markers to define the line and
keeps
clear a strip of land called the "vista." In North Dakota, that means
dotting the expansive plains with small obelisks.

In Washington State,
it
means clearing a swath of forest 20 feet wide.

Despite the border's length, fewer than a third of the people crossing
into
the US by land come from Canada. In 2004, that turned out to be 191,000
a
day, on average, compared with 660,000 entering from Mexico. About the
same
number on each border came by bus. Mexico won hands down in pedestrian
traffic, even when restricted to legal crossings (132,000 vs. 2,300 a
day).

Blaine, in the northwest tip of Washington, is one of the busiest
northern
border crossings, at least in the western US. Hannah, N.D., is one of
the
least active, last year averaging just under 3.2 cars a day from 5 p.m.
to
10 p.m. That's why border agents next month will start closing it at 5
p.m.
daily.

Such lean security is not unusual for a sparsely populated frontier,
especially one known as the world's longest undefended border. But the
war
on terror and rising concerns about illegal immigration are challenging
that
tradition. Next year, Canada will begin arming its border guards, who
until
now have carried only pepper spray and batons. In 2008, US border
guards,
already armed, will begin demanding passports of all drivers crossing
into
the US.

The only terrorist known to be caught entering the US by car was
unmasked in
1999 because a border agent in Port Angeles, Wash., noted his nervous
behavior. Agents found explosives in his car, destined for Los Angeles
International Airport. He is now serving a 22-year prison term.

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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
'Shadow' agency to issue N. American border passes
Mexico, Canada to join U.S. department, government documents show
Posted: September 27, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

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The Department of Transportation, acting through a Security and Prosperity Partnership "working group," is preparing in 2007 to issue North American biometric border passes to Mexican, Canadian, and U.S. "trusted travelers" according to documents released to WND columnist and author Jerome R. Corsi under a Freedom of Information Act request.

"The FOIA documents show the organizational chart and the composition of a 'shadow Department of Transportation' which includes formal membership from Mexico and Canada's Departments of Transportation," asserts Corsi.

"SPP has in effect created a fully-functioning trilateral Department of Transportation which will dictate policy to Mary Peters as soon as she is confirmed to replace Norm Mineta as U.S. secretary of Transportation."

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As WND reported yesterday, the government documents reveal the Bush administration is running a "shadow government" with Mexico and Canada in which the U.S. is crafting a broad range of policy in conjunction with its neighbors to the north and south.

The FOIA documents list the following three administrators from the U.S., Mexico, and Canada as the official contacts for the SPP Transportation Working Group:

Jeffrey N. Shane
Under Secretary for Policy
U.S. Department of Transportation
Phone: 202-366-1815
Jeffrey.Shane@sdit.gov

Kristine Burr
Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy
Transport Canada
Phone 613-998-1880

Aaron Dychter
Deputy Secretary for Transportation
Secretaria de Communicaciones y Transportes
Phone: (52 55) 55595165
adychter@sct.gob.mx

An SPP document entitled "Traveler Security: Develop and Implement Consistent Outcomes with Compatible Processes for Screening Prior to Departure from a Foreign Port and at the First Port of Entry to North America" says a "single, integrated, global enrollment program for North American trusted travelers" will be implemented "within 36 months." No date is indicated on the SPP document.

"Evidently SPP has decided to erase our internal borders with Mexico and Canada," Corsi told WND. "We have no trilateral treaty voted by two-thirds of the Senate that has authorized North American trusted traveler biometric cards to be issued to the citizens of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Yet this is exactly what the shadow administrative branch created within the Bush administration under the auspices of an SPP working group is doing."

The documents released to Corsi under the FOIA request reveal a pattern of e-mails that are regularly sent from within the Bush administration executive branch to a wide range of U.S. administrative-branch personnel with e-mail copies sent equally to administrative branch officers in the governments of Mexico and Canada.

"This would be like President Bush putting partitions in the Oval Office," Corsi argued to WND, "so desks could be set up for Canada's Prime Minister Harper and for Mexico's new President Calderon as soon as he takes office."

The SPP.gov website in the Department of Commerce has added a new "Myth vs. Facts" section which documents that the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is neither a treaty nor a law.

"Where is the constitutional authorization?" Corsi asks WND. "The Bush administration has just decided to restructure the executive branch to include Mexico and Canada without bothering to notify the voting public or the U.S. Congress."

Corsi said the approximately 1,000 pages of SPP documentation received under his FOIA request will be posted "as soon as possible" to the website of the Minuteman Project, of which he is a member.

Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist "and I plan to publish extensively from these documents," Corsi said, "and we want the readers to be able to see for themselves the original documents that evidence the conclusions we are drawing."

Corsi said the FOIA request has only been partially fulfilled.

"There are hundreds of trilateral meetings and agreements referenced in the documents we have, but most of the substantive documents appear to have been intentionally withheld," Corsi said. "In the next few days, our lawyers will be pressing for an honest FOIA document disclosure by the Bush administration."

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Article Launched: 9/29/2006 12:00 AM
Nurse in WWI memorialized
Emily L. Simmonds, long dead, honored by marker in Pomona cemetery
Monica Rodriguez, Staff Writer
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
POMONA -- For years Emily L. Simmonds had been forgotten.

A group of 15 people came together Thursday at Pomona Valley Memorial Park to remember her and to unveil a marker that will serve to educate others about the Red Cross nurse who helped save thousands of lives in the Balkans during World War I.

Representatives of the San Gabriel Pomona Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross, historians, researchers and others attended the short ceremony.

"It's a step to putting a wrong right," said Louise Miller, a researcher from Edinburgh, Scotland, who traveled to the United States for the event and arranged for the placement of the marker.

Simmonds, who was a resident of Chino at the time of her death in 1966, is buried at the cemetery in an unmarked grave.

Miller first learned of Simmonds in the course of her research on a British woman who fought in World War I and who happened to be friends with Simmonds, she said. The more Miller learned about Simmonds the more her interest grew in the nurse.

Simmonds was a woman who wasn't afraid to go into the most difficult of situations in order to help people, Miller said. Cholera and typhoid epidemics in Serbia and the Balkans didn't deter her -- even when she knew the odds she'd die attempting to help where high against her.

"If there was a crisis to handle Emily would do it," Miller said. "She did anything that needed to be done."

In 1914 Simmonds was a 26-year-old nurse on vacation in Paris when World War I began. She joined the Red Cross as a volunteer, kicking off what would be a decade of relief work in a region that saw huge numbers of deaths due to war, epidemics and famine.

There is a shortage of information on Simmonds' life between the 1920s and the 1950s when she was found living with a friend in Pasadena.

In 1962 Simmonds moved to a home in Chino but so far no one knows what brought her to this area. In 1966 she died of pneumonia at what today is known as Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center.

Simmonds was not married and had no children.

Miller's interest in Simmonds eventually led her to connect with Daily Bulletin history columnist Joe Blackstock, who wrote a column about the nurse in April 2005.

Pasadena resident Patti French read the column and began long-distance communication with Miller. Soon the former teacher and college administrator was out collecting clues and other pieces of information.

While she found some details, "there still may be a little bit of a story left to unfold," French said.

She also became part of the collaborative effort to provide Simmonds with the marker that was placed a short distance from her grave.

During the ceremony on Thursday, the Rev. Petar Jovanovic of St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in San Gabriel burned incense, led a prayer and sprinkled a mixture of wine and oil in front of the marker.

"It's symbolizing Christ's blood and his suffering for humanity," Jovanovic said after the ceremony.

People don't chose family but people do chose what to do with their lives, Jovanovic said.

"When we serve our fellow human beings we serve God," he said.

Simmonds "served the people -- humanity -- and was born with a great heart and love for her fellow human beings," Jovanovic said.

Jovanovic was born in a small town named Ocecina near Valjevo in Serbia -- places where Simmonds is known to have worked so many years before, he said.

The visibly moved cleric thanked Simmonds for her efforts assisting the Serbian people.

"May your life be an example to us to build bridges" much the same way she did, Jovanovic said to the audience.

Miran Sivcovich, of La Verne, is of Serbian ancestry and was among those attending the ceremony. He said he was impressed to learn about her work and of a period in history with which few are familiar.

Jack French, interim executive director of the San Gabriel Pomona Valley chapter of the American Red Cross and Patti French's spouse, said Simmonds might have been alone for many decades in the past but her remains will be alone no more.

Monica Rodriguez can be reached by e-mail at m_rodriguez@dailybulletin.com or by phone at (909) 483-9336.

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Friday, September 29, 2006
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
Mexicans have better claim to U.S. than 'Euro-Americans'
This from student who 'represented' immigration PAC at 'parliament'
Posted: September 29, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

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One of the participants in this year's "model Parliament" in which university students pretended to run a new North American "union" took on a role as a lobbyist for Americans for Legal Immigration, then announced that Mexicans have a more legitimate claim to the land in the U.S. than those "Euro-Americans."

"America was created by Europeans who stole this land (or in some cases traded it for a few bottles of whisky and some shotguns) from its indigineous (sic) peoples whilst plundering, murdering and raping its inhabitants," said a student who identified himself as Tyson Sadler, on a forum at ALI-PAC.

"They set up borders, stole important artifacts and kidnapped people which (sic) were sent back to Europe," he added. "This land belongs to the indigineous (sic) peoples – the very ones you are trying to keep out. Mexicans have more claim to the territorial United States than Euro-Americans do. There are NO illegals.

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"I would love to see ALIPAC dismantled. This organization makes me sick," he said.

Wow, said William Gheen, the director for ALI-PAC.

"I'm flabbergasted," he told WND during an interview on the subject. "I'm blown away by this."

ALI-PAC is Americans for Legal Immigration, a group set up to "address the disparity between the public's desire for more control of illegal immigration and the actions of lawmakers," the group itself says.

The "model Parliament" was a recent event in which students from 10 universities in the U.S., Mexico and Canada participated This year they met in the Mexican Senate for five days in what was called "Triumvirate," with organizers declaring "A North American Parliament is born."

It's sponsored by the Canadian based North American Forum on Integration, and a similar staged event happened in the Canadian Senate in 2005.

Organizers make clear their intent:

"The creation of a North American parliament, such as the one being simulated by these young people, should be considered," explained Raymond Chretien, the president of the Triumvirate and the former Canadian ambassador to both Mexico and the U.S.

Participants discuss draft bills on trade corridors, immigration, provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement and produce a daily newspaper called "The TrilatHerald."

American University Professor Robert Pastor

The board of directors of NAFI includes Robert A. Pastor, professor and director of the Center for North American Studies at American University and vice chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on North America. He has testified before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the idea of merging the United States, Mexico and Canada in a North American union stretching from Prudhoe Bay to Guatemala.

The 10 universities taking part include Harvard, American University, Carlton University, Simon Fraser, Universite de Montreal, Ecole nationale d'administration publique, Monterrey TEC, CIDE, Monterrey University and Instituto Mexicano de la Juventud.

NAFI claims the event enjoys the support of the U.S. Embassy in Canada, the Canadian Embassy in Mexico and the North American Development Bank. It also has been supported by at least one U.S. news organization – the Houston Chronicle.

So what was a student doing describing himself as a representative from ALI-PAC when ALI-PAC didn't know anything about it, and the student clearly wasn't in the same philosophical book as ALI-PAC, much less on the same page?

A political move, probably, said Gheen.

"It must have been some sort of clinical observation, a human experiment," he said. "They were testing the political dynamics."

"It looks like they instructed these students to study us and try to replicate us and our message, and put it into the context of a legislative governing system," said Gheen,

He said he found out when the student's signature arrived on the ALI-PAC website forum, where he started out bragging that he'd won an award.

The posting listed the "Final Report 2006" from "The Tirumvirate in La Reforma" and said that Sadler, as "Lobbyist for the organization 'Americans for Legal Immigration'" and member of the delegation from Simon Fraser University, was being honored.

After the initial posting, Gheen simply asked Sadler to clarify.

"Please explain these reports for us. We would like to know why the name of our organization is being used in some Globalist exercise to practice the unlawful merger of the US, Canada, and Mexico," Gheen wrote.

Initially Sadler responded with a terse: "Please direct your questions to INFO@FINA-NAFI.ORG or visit http://www.fina-nafi.org."

But under some prodding from others on the forum, he returned, and unloaded.

"I don't wish to contribute to a thread of an organization I find to be extremely racist, elitist and exclusionary. ALIPAC hurts us all," he wrote.

"I represented your organization at the North American Forum on Integration (a model parliament) this past summer. I won the title of 'Distinguished Delegate' for lobbying on behalf of ALIPAC. I won the award because I represented 'Americans For Legal Immigration' well as I lobbied on their behalf. If you read the final report, you will see that I was successful in persuading legislators from Canada, the US, and Mexico to sympathize with ALIPAC's aims.

"Rest assured that your organization, no matter how dispicable (sic) it is, was represented by myself with the most amount of professionalism and accuracy.

"The name of your organization is not being used to practice the unlawful merger of the US, Canada, and Mexico. We are assuming that the merger has already taken place in a completely lawful and sustainable manner," he wrote.

"Mr. Sadler, I doubt very seriously that an Open Borders advocate like yourself could ever do ALIPAC the slightest justice," responded Gheen. He said Sadler didn't even understand the group's purpose.

"You cannot lawfully reconstruct the United States of America without changing the US Constitution and gaining ratification by the states."

"If you are correct and this is already the case to be prepared for and practiced, then your masters have just set the stage for massive unrest as the side you advocate for has deprived all American, Canadian, and Mexico citizens of their rights," he said.

"How does it feel to be a doll of the devil?"

One other participant in the forum was more direct:

"Tyson, Thank you for … admitting that you defamed and slandered ALIPAC. You showed your real intentions with your post. Guess what, there are 250 million Americans opposed to your ideals."

Pastor is the author of "Toward a North American Community," a book promoting the development of a North American union as a regional government and the adoption of the amero as a common monetary currency to replace the dollar and the peso.

As vice chairman of the May 2005 CFR task force, he is an architect of the Building a North American Community" plan that presents itself as a blueprint for using bureaucratic action within the executive branches of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada to transform the current trilateral Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America into a North American union regional government.

The next Triumvirate model parliament conference will be in the United States – in either New York or Washington, according to a spokeswoman for the North American Forum.

Earlier this month, a high-level, top-secret meeting of the North American Forum took place in Banff, Canada – with topics ranging from "A Vision for North America," "Opportunities for Security Cooperation" and "Demographic and Social Dimensions of North American Integration."

Pastor was listed as a confirmed participant in that meeting, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of State George Shultz, former Central Intelligence Agency Director R. James Woolsey, former Immigration and Naturalization Services Director Doris Meissner, former Defense Secretary William Perry, former Energy Secretary and Defense Secretary James Schlesinger and top officials of both Mexico and Canada.

But there's also been significant opposition. One set of suggestions came from Lou Dobbs of CNN – a frequent critic of President Bush's immigration policies.

"What in the world are these people thinking about? You know, I was asked the other day about whether or not I really thought the American people had the stomach to stand up and stop this nonsense, this direction from a group of elites, an absolute contravention of our law, of our Constitution, every national value. And I hope, I pray that I'm right when I said yes. But this is – I mean, this is beyond belief," he said.

Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. and the chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus as well as author of the new book, "In Mortal Danger," may be the only elected official to challenge openly the plans for the new superstate.

Responding to a WND report, Tancredo is demanding the Bush administration fully disclose the activities of the government office implementing the trilateral agreement that has no authorization from Congress.

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Friday, September 29, 2006
between the lines Joseph Farah Iranian Hitlers laughing at us

Posted: September 29, 2006

1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Joseph Farah
© 2006

What makes today special?

It's the last business day in September.

Which means it's been a month since the expiration of the United Nations Security Council deadline for Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment. Needless to say, Iran did not stop preparing its nuclear weapons production.

So how do we handle such important matters in the world of international diplomacy?

Why, we set a new deadline, of course.

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That's what we did last week when the five permanent members of the Security Council – Britain, China, France, Russia and the U.S. – plus Italy and Germany agreed to give European negotiators more time to persuade Iran to give up its uranium enrichment program.

No sanctions. No threats. No action. Just set a new deadline.

What's the new deadline? Well, it's not really stated. It seems European Union foreign policy guru Javier Solana had more pressing matters to deal with than the end of the world as we know it. He could not meet with Iranian negotiators until at least next week. Maybe some time in October. Who knows?

A senior European diplomat told reporters the new deadline would stretch to early next month, in the hope that new talks between Solana and Iranian negotiator Ali Larijani would bear fruit.

Har-har-hardy-har-har!

I don't know how you spell that in Farsi, but the Aryan supremacists in Tehran must be yucking it up. They have not only learned the art of Jew-hating from the fuhrer, they have also mastered the art of selling the West a bill of goods. History has repeated itself. Neville Chamberlain lives, again. We're still certain we can achieve peace in our time through talk and scraps of paper.

Keep in mind, had sanctions been imposed after Iran missed its Aug. 31 deadline, the penalties would have been the most mild forms initially – slaps on the wrist from the U.N. Yet they were not imposed, despite the fact that Iran is flagrantly ignoring us – running out the clock as it inches closer to the production of nuclear weapons.

"I'm concerned that Iran is trying to stall, and to try to buy time, and therefore it seems like a smart policy is to push this issue along as hard as we can, and we are," Bush said.

We are?

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declined to confirm the new deadline but also warned diplomacy couldn't stretch on indefinitely.

It can't?

You could have fooled the Iranians. That is exactly the message they are getting from the fools in the U.N.

"Everyone wants to resolve this through negotiations, and everyone wants to solve this thing quickly," said Rice.

Does she really believe that? Does she really think the Iranians want to settle this matter through negotiations? Does she really think they want to solve it quickly?

Last week, Rice backed away from the long-standing U.S. position that Iran should face sanctions immediately for failing to meet the Aug. 31 U.N. deadline. With all due respect, the U.S. has become part of the problem. If deadlines are not taken seriously in matters of life and death, then they will never be respected again.

Rather, it seems Iran believes the status of negotiations is just where it wants them. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mattaki said talks (which are not even taking place) are right "on track."

"Iran really wants to negotiate, but they don't want to conclude negotiations," explained Jon Alterman, head of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "They want to negotiate negotiations."

Of course, he is exactly right. For those who believe that negotiations and diplomacy can solve every crisis, they are about to get yet another history lesson to the contrary. Don't expect them to learn this time, either.

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Thursday, September 28, 2006
FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Red Cross to help flood Golan Heights with Syrians?
Assad decree urges immigration to territory with help of international group
Posted: September 28, 2006
11:16 a.m. Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

(BBC)

JERUSALEM – Syrian President Bashar Assad yesterday issued a decree urging his citizens to move to the Golan Heights, claiming the International Committee of the Red Cross would help flood the Golan with Syrians.

Assad said the Golan Heights would soon be returned to Syria.

The decree follows reports, first detailed by WND, and later confirmed by Israel's military intelligence chief, Syria is seeking to create a Hezbollah-like guerrilla organization to launch attacks against the Jewish state in hopes of prompting an Israeli retreat from the Golan.

The Golan Heights is mountainous territory captured by the Jewish state after Syria used the terrain to attack Israel in 1967 and again in 1973. The Heights looks down on major Israeli and Syrian population centers. It borders Israel, Syria and Lebanon and is claimed by Damascus.

Military officials say returning the Golan Heights to Syria would grant Damascus the ability to mount an effective ground invasion of the Jewish state.

(Story continues below)

Assad's decree urges Syrian officials, humanitarian workers, public service providers and their families to move to the Golan with the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross, or ICRC. His signed statement said Syrians who wish to move to the Golan will be granted approval by "all the relevant authorities."

The decree affirmed the "right of the Syrian people's resistance" aimed at ensuring the return of the Golan Heights.

Israel officially annexed the Golan in 1981 and controls the territory. A United Nations contingent monitors border zones. The ICRC has authority to operate in the area purportedly to facilitate civilian crossings into and out of Syria in humanitarian cases. Israel must approve all cases of Syrian residents moving to the Golan.

The Red Cross can petition for entry for Syrian aid workers assisting its programs. The organization reportedly is building a new medical facility in the Golan.

The Heights has a population of about 35,000 – approximately 18,000 Jewish residents and 17,000 Arabs, mostly Druze. The Arab residents retain their Syrian citizenship but under Israeli law can also sue for Israeli citizenship.

Dorothia Krimitsas, a spokeswoman for the ICRC, told WND her organization is "neutral" and only seeks to help Syrians in "humanitarian cases."

"We are aware of Assad's decree (for Syrians to move to the Golan via the Red Cross) but we are a nonpolitical organization. We help facilitate movement between Syria and the Golan in humanitarian cases, like weddings and important unions," said Krimitsas, speaking from Geneva.

Red Cross bias?

But officials here have long accused the ICRC of anti-Israel bias. The organization for nearly 60 years refused membership to Israel purportedly because the Jewish state wanted to use its own emblem – a star of David – instead of the traditional cross. Israel finally was admitted this past June after intensive lobbying efforts by the American Red Cross.

The ICRC treated Hezbollah militants on the battlefield during confrontations with Israel that ended last month.

Some Israeli military officials accused Red Cross ambulances of helping transport some Hezbollah fighters.

"The moment a Hezbollah fighter is injured, he is considered a non-combatant, so we must take care of him," said ICRC spokeswoman Carla Haddad.

During a major Israeli anti-terror raid in the northern Samaria city of Jenin in 2002, the ICRC along with the Palestinian Authority and the U.N. accused the Jewish state of attacking civilians and denying medical treatment for injured Palestinians for six days. The charges later were disproved.

The Palestinian Authority claimed 500 civilians were "massacred" in the Jenin battle but it was later determined 42 people, mostly combatants, were killed. The Israeli military lost 23 soldiers in the operation.

Syria to form its own Hezbollah

Assad's decree for Syrians to move to the Golan follows a recent WND report that top members of Assad's Baath Party were advised in a private briefing to purchase real estate in the Golan Heights because, they were told, the strategic territory will "very soon" be returned to Syria.

Previously, WND broke the story Syria is in the process of forming what a Baath Party official called the Front for the Liberation of the Golan Heights, a new "resistance" group that models itself after Hezbollah.

The official told WND Syria learned from Hezbollah's military campaign against Israel that "fighting" is more effective than peace negotiations with regard to gaining territory.

Hezbollah claims its goal is to liberate the Shebaa Farms, a small, 125-square-mile bloc situated between Syria, Lebanon and Israel. The cease-fire resolution accepted by Israel to end its military campaign in Lebanon calls for negotiations leading to Israel's relinquishing of the Shebaa Farms.

The Baath official told WND the Front for the Liberation of the Golan Heights was formed in June and that the group currently consists of Syrian volunteers, many from the Syrian border with Turkey and from Palestinian refugee camps near Damascus. He said Syria held registration for volunteers to join the Front in June.

One week after the WND story, state-run Al-Alam Iranian television featured an interview with a man who identified himself as the leader of the new Front for the Liberation of the Golan Heights.

The man, whose features were blocked out, said his new group consists of "hundreds" of fighters who are training for guerrilla-like raids against Israeli positions in and near the Golan. He claimed the Front has opened several training camps inside Syria.

Sept.12, Amos Yadlin, chief of military intelligence for the Israeli Defense Forces, announced the Jewish state has indications Syria is in the initial stages of forming a Hezbollah copycat group to attack Israeli positions in the Golan.

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Monday, September 11, 2006
FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
'Syria will form own Hezbollah'
Israeli intel chief says Damascus seeking to copy Lebanese group
Posted: September 11, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Aaron Klein
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JERUSALEM – Syria is considering forming its own Hezbollah-like guerrilla organization to fight Israel in hopes of "liberating" the Golan Heights, the chief of intelligence for the Israeli Defense Forces announced yesterday.

Speaking at a government meeting, the IDF's Major General Amos Yadlin said Syria is in the initial stages of developing the concept for the copycat Hezbollah group, which he said would launch attacks aimed at pressuring Israel into vacating the Golan Heights, strategic mountainous territory captured by the Jewish state after Syria used the terrain to attack Israel in 1967 and again in 1973. The Heights borders Israel, Syria and Lebanon and is claimed by Damascus.

Yadlin's announcement comes one month after WND broke the story that following its estimation Hezbollah was victorious during military confrontations with the Jewish state, Syria is in the process of forming what an official from Syrian President Bashar Assad's Baath Party called the Front for the Liberation of the Golan Heights, a new "resistance" group that models itself after Hezbollah.

The official told WND the Front will attempt attacks to force Israel from the Golan.

Military officials here have long maintained returning the Golan Heights to Syria would grant Damascus the ability to mount an effective ground invasion of the Jewish state. The territory looks down on major Israeli and Syrian population centers.

The Baath party official told WND Syria learned from Hezbollah's military campaign against Israel the past month that "fighting" is more effective than peace negotiations with regard to gaining territory.

Hezbollah claims its goal is to liberate the Shebaa Farms, a small, 125-square-mile bloc situated between Syria, Lebanon and Israel. The cease-fire resolution accepted by Israel to end its military campaign in Lebanon calls for negotiations leading to Israel's relinquishing of the Shebaa Farms.

The Baath official told WND the Front for the Liberation of the Golan Heights was formed in June and that the group currently consists of Syrian volunteers, many from the Syrian border with Turkey and from Palestinian refugee camps near Damascus. He said Syria held registration for volunteers to join the Front in June.

One week after the WND article detailing the claimed group was published, state-run Al-Alam Iranian television featured an interview with a man who identified himself as the leader of the new Front for the Liberation of the Golan Heights.

The man, whose features were blocked out, said his new group consists of "hundreds" of fighters who are training for guerrilla-like raids against Israeli positions in and near the Golan. He claimed the Front has opened several training camps inside Syria.

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News Release: NORAD intercepts Russian aircraft
DND/Canadian Forces ^ | 2006-09-29 | (press release)

Posted on 09/29/2006 6:14:53 PM PDT by Clive

News Release

NORAD intercepts Russian aircraft

NORAD - September 29, 2006

WINNIPEG, MAN. –
North American Aerospace Defense Command launched three pairs of fighters Thursday evening from the command's Canadian NORAD Region (CANR) and the Alaskan NORAD Region (ANR) in response to Russian aircraft that penetrated North America’s Air Defense Identification Zone, according to NORAD officials.

“While the Russian air assets at no time violated Canadian or U.S. airspace, integrated air defense assets in and around CANR and ANR were able to detect, intercept and identify a number of the Russian Tu-95 Bear heavy bombers participating in an annual Russian air force exercise near the coast of Alaska and Canada,” said Maj. Gen. Brett Cairns, NORAD director of operations. “F-15s launched out of ANR intercepted the bombers off the west coast of Alaska. CF-18 fighters also launched out of CANR, but did not intercept any of the bombers,” said Cairns.

NORAD is a bi-national Canadian and United States organization charged with the missions of aerospace warning and aerospace control for North America. Aerospace warning includes the monitoring of man-made objects in space, and the detection, validation, and warning of attack against North America whether by aircraft, missiles, or space vehicles, utilizing mutual support arrangements with other commands. Aerospace control includes ensuring air sovereignty and air defense of the airspace of Canada and the United States.

While this response to the Russian bombers shows how NORAD continues to monitor the air approaches to North America, NORAD’s mission also focuses on airspace within North America. Since Sept. 11, 2001, NORAD has scrambled or diverted more than 2,200 times to execute its aerospace control mission for North America.

wpost.com
Iran seen borrowing nuclear strategy from Israel
By Bernd Debusmann, Special Correspondent
Reuters
Wednesday, September 27, 2006; 11:36 AM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092700921.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In developing its nuclear
program Iran is using strategies that allowed its
enemy Israel to assemble the Middle East's only atomic
arsenal without admitting it had one, according to a
leading expert on the Israeli program.

"Whether deliberately or inadvertently, there are
elements of resemblance between the way Iran is
pursuing its nuclear program today and the way Israel
was pursuing its own program in the 1960s," Avner
Cohen, author of a landmark study entitled "Israel and
the Bomb," in a telephone interview.

"This is a great irony of history but Iranian
policymakers and nuclear technocrats may be
strategically mimicking the Israeli model," said
Cohen, senior research scholar at the University of
Maryland's Center for International and Security
Studies.

As Cohen sees it, the elements the Israeli and Iranian
nuclear programs have in common are secrecy,
concealment, ambiguity, double talk and denial.

Iran's probable strategy, he says, is to create the
perception of having a secret weapons program, or
being close to it, without actually testing a bomb or
declaring its possession or impending possession.

That echoes the Israeli program, which began in the
late 1950s at the Dimona nuclear complex in the Negev
Desert. Since then, Israel has declined to confirm or
deny it has nuclear weapons, saying only it would not
be the first to "introduce" them into the Middle East.

Over the decades, Israel's attitude has been "let the
world guess" or as former Prime Minister Shimon Peres
called it, "deterrence by uncertainty."

INTELLIGENCE GAPS

Intelligence agencies are guessing again. The current
Washington debate on Iran features widely varying
estimates of how close the Islamic state might be to a
nuclear weapon.

Iran has consistently denied it is working on a
weapons program and the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA), the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, has found
no evidence of one. Last month, the IAEA disputed a
U.S. congressional report saying Iran was already
producing weapons-grade uranium.

The Central Intelligence Agency and the 15 other U.S.
intelligence agencies use equipment from spy
satellites and supercomputers to subterranean
listening devices. But there are few spies on the
ground in Iran, where Washington has had no official
presence for more than a quarter of a century.

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